Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Loves a Mystery w/the YuGiOh Cast ❯ Critical Pain ( Chapter 16 )

Disclaimer: I'll try to make this very interesting: I don't own yugioh!

Chapter 16: Critical Pain

I finally came to a conclusion. I'd choose death over life anytime, if it's saving someone!

"NO!" I started running towards Amy as fast as I could while the man pulled the trigger. Everything seem to go in slow motion: Seto opened the door with everyone standing there, Amy was in shock and didn't seem to know how to move her legs, I turned my head a little and I saw a flash of light as the bullet shimmered off the sunlight. I ran faster towards Amy, and blocked her.

I felt excruciating pain filled my lower body. The bullet hit my stomach; it felt like I was being hit by a car. My knees buckled and I fell on them. More pain entered my body through my legs. Everything was spinning as I fell to the ground. I could barely hear what was going on inside the room.

Blood was draining from the hole in my stomach as the police burst through the entrance doors of my office. I rolled onto my back as I gulped for air. My lunges felt like they were frozen for 100 years and were trying to figure out how to work.

"TAMRA!" Seto supported my upper body and torso in his lap; I focused on his voice which was above my head. "No…Tami you can't leave me again….please don't leave me again." Paramedics exploded into the room and ran to my side. They watched as I laid in Seto's lap slightly breathing. "You can't do this to me….this never should have happened…..it wasn't suppose to happen then and not now. Come on Tam you can get through this."

"Seto…………….I………. .can't wait till w-we meet a-again."

The paramedics ignored Seto and put me on the stretcher. Seto watched as they ran out of the room and to the elevator. He followed right behind them along with the rest of the cast. The limo followed the paramedics to the hospital and watched as they sent me through the emergency entrance.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Seto's POV

In the waiting room………….

"I should have saved her?" I was walking back and fourth in front of everyone sitting in chairs.

"How can you, Kaiba? She was farther away from you then the closest exit."

"She told me to not open the door; I shouldn't have listened to her."

"Kaiba you have no control over what she says or does."

"Because of me, she is in an operating room fighting for her life, while I stand here and hope for the best."

"Kaiba! Tamra is alive because she wants to be. She is fighting for you……….she is fighting to be with you, she is fighting for the love that you both have for each other!" Tea was yelling at the moping Seto Kaiba now sitting down.

"She's right big bro. and it's not your fault that she is here. She made the decision to save the little girl."

"You mean Amy? The little girl's name it Amy…."

"How do you kno-?"

The doctor walked into the waiting room. I stood up and faced the man.

"We have operated on her, and she is very lucky she is even alive. The bullet missed her appendicitis about a centimeter, if the bullet got that target she would have died instantly from the poison being released." The doctor paused for a moment, "You can see her now in room seven." He finished while walking away.

We all headed towards the seventh room and opened the door silently. I walked in first; Tamra was lying in a slanted-sitting-up hospital bed with wires and tubes coming in and out of both arms. One of them was IV and the other was blood. She was colorless pale white from the loss of blood. Three layers of blankets covered her waist down. Her blond hair was in her face; I walked over to her bedside and moved a strand out of her face. She looked peaceful to me, yet her face showed little pain, but her body was tense.

"She's on anesthetic, so don't worry about her feeling the pain for a while." A nurse walked in and started checking the machines she was hooked up to.

"She's going to be alright?" My voice quavered.

"She'll be fine….but that was close though. I am sure the doctor already told you about the bullet. Man……….. I am just glad that the CEO is alive. Without her the world would be in chaos; she owns almost every major company in the world. She also gives millions of money to orphanages, the homeless and hunger; she is a miracle to humankind.

"When I saw the accident on the TV this morning I was astounded. But I wasn't surprised that she stood in front of the bullet; I swear it's in her nature to help people." She finished her speech while finishing the check. She walked out with a goodbye and wave.

"Of course………it's her nature to help people because she was a queen in her past life." Yami was first to speak since the nurse.

"That does make sense." Mokuba was agreeing.

I turned towards the young teenager in the bed and grabbed a chair to sit down next to her. I held her hand and nestled my head on the bed. Everyone else took their seat somewhere else in the room, while Joey and Tristan went roaming the hospital.

I fell asleep with my head by Tamra's s left side. Yami and the rest found a couple of blankets and put them on the open ground by the wall and laid down with Tea, Yugi and Ryou. Bakura sat away from the group by the window. Mokuba was by my side on another chair; Joey and Tristan were still roaming inside the halls.

I woke up from the same nightmare a couple of days ago. Sweat drenched my face as I remembered the sword leaving Tamra's chest. Raising my head I remembered where I was. I looked at my surroundings; Mokuba was asleep with his head on the bed by Tamra's feet. He was sitting in a chair next to mine. Joey and Tristan were asleep by the three sleeping figures on the blankets. Bakura was gone. I turned to look at Tamra's sleeping face, but the thing was: she wasn't asleep.

She was watching me intently and smiled.

~*~*~*~*~* Tamra's POV/reader's POV

I slowly opened my eyes to face the ceiling/wall of a hospital room. The last thing I remembered was Seto hugging me in his lap while blood was escaping my lesion. I looked at my left hand; it was clutched by a sleeping Seto with another Kaiba by my feet sleeping. I looked around and saw everyone asleep on the floor. (I don't want to go into details cuz you already know where they are in the room, besides Bakura.)

My hand jerked as Seto awoke from his slumber; he looked around the room and then faced me. I smiled down at him and raised my right hand to move a strand of hair out of his face. It was filled with worry until his eyes hit mine. They calmed and went into an intent look.

"I am fine you know….it was just, as I have said before, a flesh wound." I whispered leaning forward, but I stopped once pain ran through my body, "I guess the pain killers wore off." I sat back down closing my eyes.

"You scared me Tamra." Seto stood up from the chair. Every one was stirring as Bakura walked through the closed door. All of them got up and walked towards me and stood around my bed to look at me. Seto cupped my chin and made me look into his eyes. "Never do that again."

"Never do what again?" I was trying to be funny, but I could tell no one was in a laughing mood.

"Scare me…."

"Scare us…." Mokuba was now awake and was staring at me from the chair. A few seconds passed before Mokuba stood up or anyone else spoke.

I broke the silence, "Anyone know how long I will be here?" Everyone shook their head a `no'. "Well I guess that we could aska-."

"Nurse? My name is Carly and I will be your nurse while your here. Oh did I interrupt you?" A woman was standing at the doorframe.

"Well no….I guess not….Do you know when I can go home?"

"That is up to the doctor….but I would be guessing for a day or two."

I rolled my eyes, "Great…"

"Oh the food is not so bad."

"We'll eat it for you!" Joey and Tristan gave me salute.

"That's fine with me….I'll just send someone to get me subway or something."

"Actually you can't………we will be feeding you hospital food, because most of the food out there will make it noxious for you."

I muttered under my breath, "Dang it." I accidentally said it too loud and everyone laughed. "Do you have any cable?"

"I am sorry, we don't. All we have is regular TV."

"Do you have yugioh on anyone of your channels?"

"Yugi- what?"

"I guess not." I muttered again. "Do you have any portable computers or laptops?"

The nurse laughed, "You may have a lot of money for those things, but I am afraid we don't have that either."

"Do you have anything?"

"We have checkers."

"Oh…ok….I guess that will do."

"Oh come on Tamra, why look so disappointed?" Joey was being sarcastic…

"Well if you haven't noticed I am stuck in a hospital bed for the next couple of days with nothing to do, but eat gross food and sleep…………oh and go to the bathroom."

"You do have a point." Ryou was trying to stifle back a laugh.

I looked at him with a saddened look, then turned my attention to the nurse that was checking my IV, "May I use the bathroom?"

"Yes you may. Do you need help?"

"I think I can manage." I looked and swung my covers off me. I moved my legs to swing over the side, but a gust of pain was thrown at me from my stomach. I squinted my face and tried to hide it.

"You sure aren't doing that well of hiding the pain."

"Shut up Bakura….I don't see you trying to walk with pain in the way."

He quieted. "Bakura I am not mad at you…..it just came out."

"It's fine." I have never seen him so emotional.

Seto moved so I could get down; I sat on the edge with my eyes closed. The nurse was watching me, "You know I could go get you some more painkillers."

"I am fine…without it." I opened my eyes and got down very slowly. The pain burst through my body, I shut my eyes tight as my feet hit the ground. Opening my left eye I took a step towards the bathroom. I opened my right eye and took another step; I lean forwards and ran to the bathroom. The pain was unbearable but I made it without any harm falling on my butt.

I ran inside the bathroom, closed the door and looked in the mirror. To me I looked like a came back from the dead. I had huge black circles underneath my eyes, my hair was messed up, and my skin on my face looked like I had white paint all over it. I looked around and found a brush and combed my hair.

I couldn't ignore the pain anymore. I sat down on the floor of the bathroom and leaned against the wall. I took big gulps of air and looked down at my side. I pulled the nightgown away from my body and looked at the incision on my stomach. "This little thing is what is causing me great pain?" I was whispering to myself.

"Miss Knox are you alright in there?" The nurse was knocking on the door. I looked down at the floor, the tube of IV was sticking out from underneath it.

"Fine…just great and dandy." I stood back up; I didn't really have to go to the bathroom. All I really wanted to see was the cut on my stomach, and with everyone in the room I couldn't really do that. I opened the door and faced a whole group of people in front of the door. I widened my eyes, "I said I was fine."

The nurse took my hand and led me to the bed. She mostly carried me; I was leaning on her for support to the bed. I got in it, "I will be back with the painkillers." While the nurse was gone, Joey turned on the TV.

"The life story of Tamra Knox will begin in a moment." The TV went into a whole bunch of commercials.

The nurse walked back into the room before anyone could say a word or comment about the TV. "Here you go." She handed me some patient pants and shirt. She then grabbed my IV and pumped the anesthetic into the tube. "Take the clothes and put them on in the bathroom; if you need any help just holler."

I nodded and came out of the bathroom five minutes later; I actually went to the bathroom that time too. I walked over to the bed and got in; everyone's eyes were glued onto the TV that supposedly knew the life story of me.

"Tamra Knox grew up to be one of the most intelligent teenagers in the world. Her life was and is filled with sorrow -"

"Oh please turn that thing off. That is nothing but lies and deceit and they know nothing of how I feel or how I felt."

Everyone turned to look at me, they were surprised it took me very little time get dressed.

"Just turn if off, Ryou." I rolled my eyes and looked down at my lap. `I hate when the TV people mess up the truth and they get everything wrong……..They have no idea how much sorrow filled my life.'

"Tamra? Are you ok?" I looked to come face to face with Seto.

"I'm fine; it's just that I don't feel like listening to my life, when I already went through it twice." Ryou did what I said and turned off the TV.

I turned towards the nurse that wouldn't leave and was glued to the now turned off TV, "I would like to speak to my doctor alone." I emphasized alone with much coldness in my voice. She nodded and left to go get the man. The doctor came into my hospital room with in three minutes time.

"Please leave us." I looked at Joey, Yugi and the rest of them, they all left the room to stand outside in the hall and watch through the closed blind windows.

The doctor turned to me, "It there anything you need?"

"No….All I need is to go home. I have a certified nurse working at my house, and if anything happens to me, I will surely come back." I paused and watched the man's face.

"Miss Knox you cannot leave -"

"I can and I will…I have power and a lot of money. I can fire you with no hesitation. Now if you just prescribe some medication for me, I would appreciate it."

"B-But…"

"There is not but, now please I want my clothes back so I can leave." The doctor left the room while I sat in the bed and closed my eyes. `I hope I am doing the right thing.'

"Tamra you cannot leave." Mokuba burst through the door. "You can't leave, you do…………. and you might die."

"I highly doubt it, Mokie. I just want to get out of here……..I hate hospitals…" I shuttered.

"So this is what it's all about, the princess hates hospitals." Bakura came through the door next.

"Yes…ok, you now know what I am afraid of." I stopped and looked at Bakura's smirk. "Now I'd close your mouth tomb-robber before I do it for you." I don't know why I was getting angry, but it just appeared out of nowhere. I guess I wanted to get back at Bakura for what he did to me the day before.

The nurse and doctor came into the room. Handing the prescription to me, the doctor walked away after that. The nurse gave me back my clothes. They were washed and dried.

I got dressed in the Bathroom. As I looked into the mirror you could see the hole in my shirt from the bullet; if you looked closely you could see my slash underneath it from the surgery.

All of us left the hospital, leaving in my black limo. I sat in the back with Seto supporting my head on his chest. I was really tired from the loss of blood, but I didn't really want fall asleep on Seto.

He cradled me as my eyelids drooped farther and farther down my eyes, hiding my green eyes. The limo pulled us up to my driveway as I almost fell asleep. I jerked up and headed for the car door handle, but the limo driver beat me to it. He opened it and led me out. I took a step forward as arms wrapped around my waist. They lifted me up and held me in bridal-style while walking towards the door.

I could smell the cologne that Seto wore. I breathed in deeply taking the sweet smell in into my lungs. "Why didn't you tell me you were sleepy?"

"I didn't want to bother you." I had my eyes closed as I could feel Seto walking up the stairs to our rooms. `Man he walks fast.'

"You can bother me with anything and I won't get mad, Tam."

"I'll try to keep that in mind." He laid me on my bed as opened my eyes. He was sitting on the edge of it looking at my stomach. I closed my eyes again trying to relax on my soft bed; I saw Seto move his arms before I closed them. He reached down and started lifting my shirt; I was too tired to stop him and do it myself. Feeling the cool air on my stomach from the room, Seto stopped lifting my shirt. I flinched as his warm touch gently swept over my incision. My eyes were still closed when I felt heat along with movement slowly go over my whole body and stop on top of me. I opened my eyes to look into Seto's. He was on top of me with his hands moving up and down my arms that were by my side. He stopped rubbing and pulled down my shirt and cupped my chin with his left hand as his right supported my head. He pulled me into a kiss that I thought would never stop. He lips intertwined mine as I felt the same warm sensation that I felt this morning. He stopped as I as my breathing went faster.

He let go of my chin and head and moved his hands down my arms and onto my stomach. He again pulled up shirt showing my abdomen and rubbed my wound. But the thin slice that was in my skin was gone; nothing was left but smooth tan skin that was there before the bullet inched it's way into my body.

With my hands I moved them up Seto's chest and took off the trench coat he was wearing. I sat up and pushed him down, so he was lying on the bed. I sat on top of him and looked him in the eyes. He was calm and wanted me to kiss him; I could tell by the way he was looking at me.

"Your wish is my command." I held his hands down above his head and started kissing his lips as he kissed back. I still held his hands above his head on the bed as my kisses started inching down his neck. He skin was smooth as silk. I let my guard down as he escaped from my grasp; with his strong arms he grabbed my mine and pushed me onto my pillows. He did the same thing I did to him; he held my arms above my head as he started kissing my neck. Between each kiss that inched further down my neck he spoke with a gentle and soothing voice, "Your wish is my command."

"That was my line." He stopped and looked me in the eyes, I couldn't move because he still held my hands and he was sitting on my lower half.

"Oh really?"

I nodded as he leaned into my ear, "Well you better find another line cuz this one is now mine." He nibbled my ear and started licking down it to my neck.

"Ah hem…" We both stopped and looked at the door way. The door was wide open with Joey, Tristan, Mokuba, Tea, Ryou, Yugi, Bakura, and Yami standing there.

~!~!~!~!~!~!~

Tamra: Alright I just came back from my vacation in the Bahamas with Maura and Mokie. We had the greatest time! Plus Maura told Mokie that she loved him. And guess what Mokie said back?! The same thing!! Isn't that cute…

Mokie: Tami, you don't have to tell them that!

Tamra: Nonsense, I had to.

Mokie: Says who?

Tamra: Me! MUWHAHAHAHAHA

Mokie: whatever *walks away*

Tamra: Well I guess that everyone knows about Maura and Mokie I guess we can celebrate!!!

Yamifanner: Yea!!! I'll go get the decorations!

Tamra: where did you come from?

Yamifanner: Um…welllllllll…

Tamra: Oh well, go get the decorations!

Was the cast watching them the whole time? Why didn't they say anything from the beginning? And was the accident really the big decision that Tamra had to make?