Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Anything For You ❯ Good Night, Sweet Prince ( Chapter 23 )

Vampire Huntress D: I'm glad you liked my stories! It means a lot to me. Those are some good torture ideas…I'll have to use them now or later.

Esper: I'll try to make it so.

Ryou's Mistress: Don't worry. You didn't bitch. You've been with me for a long time. I appreciate that. The will die one by one…don't worry.

Lunara Moonbeam: I just really like that song….thanks for not laughing at me.

Mystical Dragon: hehe…this is gonna be fun.

Dragondreamer: OOOO…hey, Yami Dragon, who do I have to pay first for making Dragondreamer cry??? You or her……or another person who shall remain nameless????? *laughs and holds up Jello bowl.*

Heather: Here's a yaoi equation: Two angry, sad, lonely yamis + camping in the woods = LEMON later….

Lupusdragon: I never said Ryou was rescued…nor did I say who was gonna die…..*hands baseball bat * You can use that on me after the chappie.

Ryou was woken by the sound of helicopters flying above the house. He leaned under the bed, keeping his arms around his sleeping chibi, and reached for the heart medication. The medication was not helping him and was quite surprised that Aten was still healthy. Ryou broke the pill in half and swallowed it. If there was a chance that Aten could survive on the pills, Ryou didn't want to jeopardize his son's life. It was doubtful that Steven would buy Ryou his own medication let alone one for Aten, so he had to make these pills last as long as possible.

Ryou heard footsteps run down the staircase and Ryou tensed up. The lock on the door was picked and the door opened. Steven pushed through the door.

"Ryou, we are moving."

"What?"

Steven panted. "We are moving. We're getting out of here. We found a nice isolated cabin where we can stay. Aten! Boy! Wake up! Now!"

Aten opened his eyes slowly and yawned.

"Daddy here yet?"

Steven entered the room and reached for Ryou's shirt and threw it at him. "Get up and get dressed now!"

Ryou watched Steven loom above him. Ryou held Aten closer to him.

"Ryou, get up! If we stay here, the cops might come again, and I'm not losing you again to them!"

The son shook his head.

"Get up!" Steven grabbed Ryou's wrist and tried to pull him out of bed. Aten let out a shriek and dug his nails into his mother. Ryou refused to leave Aten.

"If the cops are coming back, I wanna stay!"

Steven growled. "Forget it, boy! You are coming with me!"

"I'm NOT GOING!"

Steven growled and swung his fist connecting it to Ryou's jaw. His head twisted as red dotted the wall by the bed. His body covered Aten as the chibi began to panic.

"I said get up and get dressed…not to argue with me! Have you forgotten what will happen if you disobey me?"

Ryou closed his eyes tightly as Steven reiterated his threat. He whispered in Aten's ear, "It's ok, baby. It's ok."

"Get up, Ryou. We have to get out of here."

Ryou threw the covers off of him and slowly got out of bed. Steven glared at him.

Aten squirmed closer to Ryou.

"We don't have time for this foolishness," Steven growled taking Ryou's arm and pulling him.

"Wait! I have to get Aten's medication! Give me five minutes to get my child dressed at least!"

Steven grunted. "Hurry up!" Steven closed the door loudly.

Ryou gave Aten his shirt. "Put your shirt, shoes, and socks on, angel. We're going away."

"Yeah! I no wike it down here. Too dark."

Ryou looked at the wall spattered with his blood. He touched his bleeding lip looking at the wall. He watched Aten gather his toys. Ryou stepped on the cot and write "CABIN" on the wall in his blood.

"Mommy, what are you doing?"

Ryou looked down at Aten looking at the word on the wall. "Letting daddy know where we are in case he's looking for us."

Aten grabbed his stuffed animals and looked at the wall. "Do you weawwy tink daddy is wooking for us?"

Ryou leaned down and took Aten in his arms. "I hope so, Aten. I truly hope so."

Steven burst in again. "You done yet, boy? Come on!" Steven grabbed Ryou's arm as he did not have time to put his shirt on. Steven dragged Ryou upstairs nervously.

"Are you ready, Tim? We don't have much time!"

Jessica ran down the stairs with three bags in her hand. Steven put Ryou in the living room with Ryan.

"Watch him while we get our stuff packed for the cabin."

Ryou looked out the window hoping to see Bakura and Marik standing in front of the door or running from the nearby woods.

Ryan came up to Ryou. "How did you sleep last night?"

Aten turned to Ryan. "You a bad man!"

"I cannot call you my uncle. You are no better than my father….a common rat."

Ryan's lip curled and he turned Ryou around on his heels. "You say that to my face, kid. You better watch it or Tim and Jessica will pound your ass….oh wait….they already did."

Ryou looked at Aten and put him on the floor. Aten backed away from his mother who clenched his fist and Ryan who stood chest to chest with his nephew. "I am sorry, Uncle Ryan. What I meant to say, was that you are no better than my father….you are nothing….just as he is."

Ryan gripped Ryou's shoulder and raised his fist. Ryou growled and swung his fist to connect with Ryan's jaw. Aten gasped and ran under a chair with his stuffed animals. Ryou grabbed Ryan's shirt and pushed him into a lamp and table making the glass splinter all over the floor. Aten screamed as Ryan punched Ryou's cheek already cut from Steven.

"You ungrateful little whelp!" Ryan hissed as he turned Ryou on his back. Aten ran from his hiding space when he saw his mother being punched. Aten jumped on the guy's shoulder and bit down on his ear hard making the man scream. The nephew watched Aten's fingers wedge into Ryan's chest.

"Aten, run, baby! Go!"

Aten released Ryan to fun for the door, but Ryan grabbed Aten's leg making him fall and let out a cry. Ryou rolled over and gripped his uncle's head tightly making him release the boy.

Aten looked at his hand covered in red from the shattered glass. "Mommy!" The boy kicked Ryan and held his hand whimpering. Ryou stood up, his lip bleeding from Ryan's punches. Ryou picked out the piece of glass from Aten's hand and quickly bandaged it after ripping part of the bottom part of his pants. Ryou picked up Aten and Steven and Tim were standing there watching them.

"RYOU! WHAT DID YOU DO?"

Broken glass, blood, and overturned furniture littered the room.

"I was protecting my son and trying to get away from YOU!"

Steven grabbed Ryou's wrist. "You are in for some serious punishment for this, my boy."

Jessica walked into the room and gasped. "What happened here?"

"My son decided to be brave…big mistake for you."

Jessica helped Ryan onto his feet.

"That boy should be locked up for the rest of his days, Steve! What is the matter with that kid?"

Ryou clutched Aten tightly and kicked Steven's knee making Steven let go of him. Ryou darted for the door as Tim grabbed Aten. Ryou struggled to remove Aten from Tim's grip when Jessica grabbed Ryou.

"Put them in the van!" Steven bellowed as he regained his bearings.

Steven grabbed Ryou and Aten and threw them in the van. "Those helicopters will be back soon. We can't be around when that happens. We have to get to the cabin."

Steven and Jessica returned back inside. "Ryan, you ok?"

"Yeah. I'm fine. You really have to do something drastic with that kid, Steven! I think your son is beyond all help."

"You won't tell anyone where we are going?"

Ryan shook his head.

Steven sighed and grabbed the last bag. "I think you're right, though. I have to do something. Rather….have someone else do it for me."

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Bakura and Marik rode through the woods until they came to a single white home. It was just outside the edge of the woods. Bakura got out of the car and gave a savage growl.

"This is where the scent is coming from, Marik. I feel it in every fiber of my body."

"I hope you're right."

As Bakura walked towards the door, he felt his mouth salivating almost. He had to wipe the corners of his mouth. The coppery smell…the smell was different…the smell….was tainted. This blood was not just ordinary blood.

There were one van parked by the side of the house. Bakura looked in, but saw nothing to point to Ryou or Aten being in there.

Bakura ran to the front door and banged on it. Marik's nose began to twitch and Bakura noticed it.

"You're twitching, too. Can you smell that, too?"

"I can, but probably not as keen as you do."

Ryan opened the door for Bakura and Marik. As soon as the door opened, the smell of blood flooded his senses. Bakura grabbed Ryan's shirt tightly and bearing his teeth at the man.

"Where is Ryou and Aten?"

Ryan shook nervously as his gaze switched between the two boys holding him to the wall.

"Where is my son, mortal??!" Marik bellowed removing the dagger from the Millenium Rod.

Bakura inhaled deeply and his eyes widened. "I can't tell me my lover was not here! I can smell him!"

"You missed him….he's gone."

Marik put the dagger to Ryan's thumb. "Where is my son?"

"I'm not saying anything!"

Marik growled and stuck the finger through the bone of the thumb and piercing the thumb straight through. "Now will you talk??"
The man shook his head. "Never! They're gone…and you will never see them again."

Marik took the next finger and pierced it through the skin and bone. Bakura gripped tighter on the shirt as the scent wafted through his senses.

"You either bleed to death slowly or I end it for you quickly! Where are they?" Marik said taking the next finger.

"They are….going somewhere you will never see them again."

Marik impaled the next finger on the hand. Bakura threw Ryan into the banister and heard a crack of the spine. Ryan held his back with tears coming down his face.

Bakura and Marik looked into the living room covered in blood and glass. On the floor near a puddle of blood was a tattered stuffed rabbit. Marik ran up to it with Bakura.

"Who's blood is that?"

Bakura leaned down and lapped once. He recognized it….from the delivery room.

Bakura looked at sweat covered Marik. "That's Aten's blood."

Well, that was enough to set Marik flying to Ryan and picking the whimpering man off the ground.

"YOU SON OF A BITCH! WHAT DID YOU DO WITH MY SON?"

"He left bleeding," Ryan said with a smirk on his face.

Marik slammed Ryan into the wall. "Funny you should mention that….you won't be left breathing…." Marik slammed his fist into the man's chest cavity with such force that the bones snapped under the pressure. Bakura joined Marik who was climbing the stairs with his prey. Bakura climbed the stairs and felt attracted to one of the rooms in particular.

"Marik, there is something behind this door."

Marik held up the breaking man. "What is behind that door?"

The man's breath came in painful gasps as Marik dragged him by his hair. Bakura opened up the door and immediately saw the cause…..bloodied bedsheets.

Marik raised the man's head from the floor. "Whose blood is that?"

Rope was still tied to the bed and was also stained red. The bloodied bedsheets were a testament to something that Bakura feared. A familiar smell from his past invaded his mind…the smell of blood…and sex…nonconsensual.

Bakura turned to the man. "Is this blood Ryou's? Was Ryou raped? Who did it?"

Bakura picked the man off the floor. "WHO RAPED RYOU??"

"Tim…and Jessica….they did it…together."

"What part did Steven play in it?"

Marik's dagger went right through the man's hand tearing and ripping through the tissue.

"Tell us or I swear to Ra that I will eat you alive myself!"

Ryan was losing a lot of blood and his vision began to get dizzy. "Steven…didn't want…to touch Ryou….He told Tim…and Jessica to do it…"

Bakura growled and he turned back to the bedsheets. "Those bastards raped my husband! They raped Ryou! Where was Ryou kept?"

"Basement…..behind…." Ryan's eyes began to glaze over.

Marik growled and dragged Ryan back to the hallway where he hit his head on the railing intentionally to wake him up. "Basement behind what?"

"The Bookcase……."

"Did you touch Ryou?"

Ryan shook his head. And Marik laughed. "I don't believe you…just in case…"

Marik speared the other hand and threw Ryan down the steps. Bakura and Marik walked calmly down the steps and over the body still struggling to get air into its lungs.

"He'll be fine until we get back."

Marik and Bakura went downstairs and shook. "Freezing down here." They found the bookcase and picked the lock with the Millenium Ring. They opened the door and Bakura made the Ring lighten the dark room. The room was crowded with boxes and even the cot had a mild stain of red. On the wall read: CABIN.

"They aren't here. They went to one of the cabins in the woods."

"But there are so few cabins and they aren't marked on the map," Marik whined.

Bakura shrugged. "We have to search every single one. I just hope that they are ok."

Bakura and Marik returned upstairs where the body's gasps for breath continued to be desperate.

"Which cabin did they go to?"

"Not…..telling…."
Marik watched as Ryan's body twitched as his death approached…the body's last feeble attempt at movement. Marik went through the same as he died in ancient Egypt. Ryan's body was desperately trying to get oxygen.

Marik leaned down to the expiring body. "You do not deserve that air you are breathing. When we find Ryou and Aten, Jessica and Steven will join your fate."

Marik ran the Millenium Rod from his belly button to his neck lightly creating a trail of red.

"You picked the wrong people to infuriate, mortal."

Bakura picked up Ryan and lifted him off the ground. Marik left and returned quickly.

"Good night, sweet prince," Marik stabbed Ryan in the chest so angrily, when Bakura released Ryan, Ryan remained pinned to the wall and off the ground by the knife.

A trail of red christened the wall as it fell from the body. Ryan's head fell face forward, a look of horror on his face.

Marik spat on the body and walked away casually. Bakura looked back at the suspended body. "Steven and Jessica, you are going to pay for this. Mark my words, Tim…your days are numbered."

Bakura left the house still smelling the blood and the evidence of Ryou's rape outside.

"We'll have to check every cabin we see in these woods. I don't think they would have taken Ryou out of the area."

"Why not? They brought Ryou here. And it's far from Domino."

"Because Steven and Jessica have a good hideout here…it's secluded…and this man was hoarding them for some reason. So, they have a haven here and isolation in the woods. Besides, I can feel they are near. They are going to pay dearly for what they have done."