EnsTren: alright then, hello setotes, did you miss me?
Edmondia: *giggle*
Edmondia: Seth is complaining of boredom
EnsTren: *truely evil grin, has not been online since sometime wendesday*
Edmondia: ...and now he's looking a little freaked.
EnsTren: hey! Seto! you want any diseases?
Edmondia: "NO!"
EnsTren: hmn
EnsTren: there's an intresting idea
EnsTren: okkie, seth got it from the bandits, seto got it from seth
EnsTren: but seth's natural healing ability keeps it completely dormante
Edmondia: except his body is made of magic now
Edmondia: so why would it have any diseases?
EnsTren: complete replication
Edmondia: hmn
EnsTren: (say his body was still in the process of detroying all the disease)
Edmondia: (mmkay)
EnsTren: (now then, is his healing ability enough to keep seto from getting it, showing he has it, or not?)
Edmondia: (hmn, probably enough to keep seto from getting it)
EnsTren: (...but what if he doesn't?)
EnsTren: (what if in Seto's anual doctor check up he comes up positive for...something like..I dunno, AIDS?)
EnsTren: (herpes Seth would have gotton rid of easier, simply because it's concentrated in one place, HIV...)
Edmondia: (it's been a long time since that incident)
Edmondia: (more than ten years)
Edmondia: (so his system would've killed it)
EnsTren: (stop trying to ruin my fun!)
Edmondia: (logic is so deadly)
EnsTren: (maybe ten years wasn't enough)
EnsTren: (you got a variety of things he could have gotten from them)
EnsTren: (and his system kept him from showing it much, and healed MUCH slower than usual for a while)
EnsTren: (they would have gotton rid of the easy things first)
Edmondia: (...too much melodrama @_@)
EnsTren: (since seto's now known to be female her primary care physicion insisted on a full check up)
EnsTren: (hell, seth's magic could be keeping her from suffering anything)
EnsTren: and!
EnsTren: it could fight it off completely later in both of them
Edmondia: *snicker* she's going to beat him severely when she realizes he could probably magic away her cramps
EnsTren: possibly, unlikely, since the reason why it's happening is muscle movement and things bursting
Edmondia: true
Edmondia: still, he'd be handy-dandy to have around whenever mokuba caught one of those zillion childhood colds
EnsTren: yup
EnsTren: hmn, thought
EnsTren: his healing gift isn't exactly weak, but it's limited primarily to blood relations (and hikaris)
Edmondia: hmn
EnsTren: (specifically his hikari)
EnsTren: very useful to have for the pharaoh, ne?
Edmondia: mmhmm
EnsTren: thus keeping healing ryou's purview
Edmondia: mmhmm
EnsTren: but please, imagine seto getting called on his emergancy cellphone line to find out he has aids?
Edmondia: what a lovely shade of white he's turned
EnsTren: "M... Miss Kaiba, uhm, I'm sorry to say your blood test came positive."
"For what?"
"Erm. Ms. Kaiba, You have the HIV virus."
EnsTren: all on a cellphone...hmn do it in school?
Edmondia: are we that evil?
Edmondia: and is the HIV virus that old?
EnsTren: just because it was "discovered" doesn't mean it wasn't around from then
EnsTren: I mean, the americas were there before leif erikson saw them
Edmondia: so basically we're bullshitting?
EnsTren: when don't we?
Edmondia: good point
Edmondia: okay, so in school or nay?
EnsTren: in school so everyone can see she got bad news but not know what it is
EnsTren: and sparks much anger of seto to seth
EnsTren: and rejection
Edmondia: mmhmm
EnsTren: much yelling of "GET AWAY FROM ME!"
EnsTren: while sitting on the floor and crying
EnsTren: cause the japanese fear and hate disease
Edmondia: and of course, he's bewildered
EnsTren: and she's this close to having a nervous breakdown
Edmondia: that's not nice
EnsTren: since when am I?
Edmondia: seth's confuuuuuuuuuuuuuused
EnsTren: Seto's sobbing and rocking back and forth.
Edmondia: Seth's hovering just out of touching range and looking... confused as all hell.
EnsTren: And Seto's sobbing and the wall is there and kind of flustered cause she's not telling them what is wrong.
Edmondia: and he's all, "Is it me?"
EnsTren: And she's launched into a wailing.
Edmondia: He's gone o.o and rushed over to hold her but stopped just in time.
EnsTren: And she's scooted away from him.
Edmondia: And he's all "What is it? What's wrong, what'd I do?"
EnsTren: And she's sniffling and trying to calm herself.
Edmondia: He's offered her a hanky.
EnsTren: She's sidling away on her bottom.
Edmondia: He's drawn back, looking stung.
EnsTren: She won't look at him (she's allowed to be irrational.)
Edmondia: "...what's wrong?"
EnsTren: She won't talk.
EnsTren: She's clammed up and drawn in.
Edmondia: He doesn't know what to do.
EnsTren: And she's trying to clean up and go back to work, cold icedark shell.
Edmondia: He's tackled her.
EnsTren: She's struggling and kicking him trying to get away.
Edmondia: He's just snapped, "There's nothing physically wrong with you so tell me what's wrong!" and let her go.
EnsTren: And she's flinched from his raised voice and is pulling herself away from him, shivering.
Edmondia: "What's wrong?"
EnsTren: She refused to speak.
Edmondia: "Seto, please tell me what's wrong?"
EnsTren: She shook her head and fled from him.
Edmondia: Hikari!
EnsTren: His outcry was swallowed in darkness.
Edmondia: He snarled and stalked out of the house.
EnsTren: She was shaking trembling, it was hard to dial the numbers on her cell phone. She had to leave, now.
Edmondia: ...hikari?
EnsTren: Whispers came up from the darkness, thoughts in her mind that weren't directed to him. She was talking to someone.
EnsTren: Concord...'rica...no......get...jet...possible.
Edmondia: ...Seto?
EnsTren: ...hour?! A shaking quavering tone, frightened? ...Abou...thirty? A slight tremor, edge of desperation.)
Edmondia: Seto? A-are you l-leaving me?
EnsTren: ...ne moment. Attention was turned to him, far away and nervous. No words to him.
Edmondia: ...Seto... He chased after her.
EnsTren: She didn't like that, she started talking to the other again while running away.
Edmondia: "Seto at least give me a reason why you're leaving me!"
EnsTren: They came face to face and she looked... older, lines of stress appeared in the few moments they were separate. All her energy, mental and physical, seemed drained.
Edmondia: "Seto... are you divorcing me?"
EnsTren: A head shake, staring at his stomach.
Edmondia: "Are you leaving me?"
EnsTren: Slight shrug.
Edmondia: "...Seto will you please tell me what I've done before you go?"
EnsTren: She went pale. "I-I just need to be... alone for a while."
EnsTren: Her voice was a whisper.
Edmondia: "Why?"
EnsTren: She was shaking.
Edmondia: "Seto please tell me what's wrong so I can help you."
EnsTren: He can't.
Edmondia: "If there's something physically wrong with you I can fix it?"
EnsTren: She gave him a despairing look, blue eyes going forever into bleakness.
Edmondia: "Seto, please tell me what's wrong."
EnsTren: She lowered her eyes.
Edmondia: "Seto? Baby, please tell me, I love you."
EnsTren: "It's your fault," she mumbled, looking down.
Edmondia: "What did I do?"
EnsTren: She looked as if she were about to burst into tears.
Edmondia: "Seto," he murmured gently, "Please tell me."
EnsTren: She started crying again, as if mourning a life passed on.
Edmondia: "Baby, what's wrong?"
EnsTren: She wouldn't talk.
Edmondia: Seto, please talk to me.
EnsTren: She wept.
Edmondia: Can I touch you?
EnsTren: Shaking nod, she feels so alone and small and tied and cold.
Edmondia: He wrapped his arms around her and tucked her against his chest, resting his cheek against her hair. I wish you'd talk to me, pretty lover, tell me what's wrong, please?
EnsTren: She cried into his chest.
Edmondia: He rocked her and rubbed her back and pressed kisses against her hair. Beloved, baby, what's wrong?! You're scaring me, love...
EnsTren: There was no answer, because she sobbed herself to sleep.
Edmondia: He picked her up and carried her to bed, but he didn't dare call Mokuba.
EnsTren: What was wrong with hikari?
Edmondia: What had he done?
EnsTren: What should he do?
Edmondia: He just didn't know!
EnsTren: Call Mai-chan? But she was in the US visiting her family.
Edmondia: Call... who?
EnsTren: ...Cousin!
Edmondia: So he did.
EnsTren: Cousin and Cousin's Hikari would know.
Edmondia: ...right?
EnsTren: Or could help.
Edmondia: Maybe.
EnsTren: It couldn't hurt.
Edmondia: So he sat by her side and called them.
EnsTren: What was wrong with hikari?
Edmondia: Yugi asked about bad news.
EnsTren: He didn't know, only that it upset hikari and she said it was his fault.
Edmondia: And he asked what they had done that could have been his fault.
EnsTren: Seth didn't know.
Edmondia: Yugi didn't know either.
EnsTren: Would Yugi come over?
Edmondia: He would.
EnsTren: He said that he would tell the staff to let them in, but he wasn't leaving his hikari's side--because she tried to fly away.
Edmondia: Yugi said he would be there soon. And he was.
EnsTren: Hikari was crying again.
Edmondia: He wrapped his arms around her and buried his face in her hair.
EnsTren: What did he do?
Edmondia: He asked her again.
EnsTren: She would not speak.
Edmondia: Pretty baby, please talk to me?
EnsTren: Would she ever talk to him again?
Edmondia: He nudged her cheek with his nose. Baby?
EnsTren: She was crying, crying crying.
Edmondia: I love you, he whispered, kissing her cheek. I don't know what I've done to upset you but whatever it is I'm sorry...
EnsTren: 'Ami? There was an odd sense of hope in her.
Edmondia: Yes?
EnsTren: We're immortal, right?
Edmondia: More or less, I think.
EnsTren: ...Wounds and sickness can still kill us? A note of despair.
Edmondia: Sickness, no - sickness only hurts, but baby, we've got two healers, we'll be fine.
EnsTren: You sure? Even... even....
Edmondia: Even what?
EnsTren: She clammed up again.
Edmondia: Baby if there's something physically wrong with you we can fix it, you know that, don't you?
EnsTren: ...you're sure?
Edmondia: I'm sure.
Edmondia: He kissed her forehead.
EnsTren: Even if it's a killer?
Edmondia: I'm sure.
EnsTren: Even if there's no cure?
Edmondia: Magic, baby, is not limited by science. Yes.
Edmondia: I am sure.
EnsTren: You're sure?!
Edmondia: Yes.
EnsTren: ...I... but... What if...
EnsTren: She was going to keep on getting it!
Edmondia: What if what?
EnsTren: ...I keep getting it?
Edmondia: ...how?
EnsTren: No... No you can't cure it, I know you can't. Don't get my hopes up like that.
Edmondia: Baby, I am the strongest healer that the royal family has ever known. Tell me what it is and I'll make it better. Your body knows me, knows my magic, it will accept my aid. You I can heal best of all.
EnsTren: ...But you have it. That's how I got it.
Edmondia: He gave himself a quick magical scan, frowning. I have no physical ills, my love.
EnsTren: Then how did I get it!?
Edmondia: Baby, if you got it from me, it's something that has yet to be purged from my system, but it's not causing any harm, either.
EnsTren: ...People are dying from it right now!
Edmondia: Baby, if it's not causing me any physical harm, how could it hurt you?
EnsTren: ...I'm filthy now.
Edmondia: ?!?
Edmondia: What are you talking about? There's nothing wrong with you, I checked, you're healthy!
EnsTren: She was quiet quiet.
Edmondia: Baby, talk to me, why would you think something like that?
EnsTren: Sickness.
EnsTren: Filth.
Edmondia: He kissed her forehead. Baby? You're not sick.
EnsTren: I am.
Edmondia: Do you feel ill? What are your symptoms? What is wrong with me?
EnsTren: She shivered, she did not want to even say the name of the disease.
EnsTren: She started crying again. Where was cousin?
Edmondia: Ssh, baby, ssh... he rocked her gently and reached out and tugged.
EnsTren: She barely noticed.
Edmondia: Yugi took that moment to pad silently into the room and sit beside her. "Hi, Seto-chan..."
EnsTren: She didn't even try to stop crying.
Edmondia: Yugi wrapped both arms around her waist and kissed her cheek. "What's wrong?"
EnsTren: She grabbed him and hugged him like a stuffed animal.
Edmondia: He took over rubbing her back, adjusting himself so he could press his cheek against hers and slide a hand into her hair. "Ssh... it's okay, Seto-chan, it's okay..."
EnsTren: She shook her head sobbing, "N-nno it's not!"
Edmondia: "Ssh, ssh..." he murmured gently, "Tell me what's wrong and we can make it better, ne?"
EnsTren: She pulled Yugi close and whispered it into his ear.
Edmondia: His eyes widened, fell upon Seth, widened more, and then closed. "Oh... Seto-chan, I'm sorry... but..." he kissed her cheek, "I think you'll be all right."
EnsTren: People made really disgusting noises when they were crying.
Edmondia: Yugi nuzzled her. "Ssh, ssh... he might carry the disease, but he's healthy, and has suffered no ill effects from it. You'll be all right, Seto-chan, I promise."
EnsTren: She was really squeezing him too tight.
Edmondia: "Ah, Seto-chan? Can you be a little more careful with my spine?"
EnsTren: She quickly and completely withdrew from him to cry without touching any of them.
Edmondia: "Seto-chan..." he sighed softly, and slid his arms around her waist again, "It's okay, you can touch me, I won't break." He brushed another kiss against her cheek. "And Seth can hold you too, would you like that?"
EnsTren: She shook her head.
Edmondia: "Because he did this to you?"
EnsTren: She shook her head, no, it was because she was like this.
Edmondia: "Seto-chan, tell me, is there anything physically wrong with you?"
EnsTren: She shrugged.
EnsTren: (really, it's a shock cause she didn't have sex and now she has aids)
Edmondia: (mmhmm)
Edmondia: He kissed her cheek again. "If he's fine, why shouldn't you be fine too?"
EnsTren: Because I don't have healing ability, he does.
Edmondia: His healing ability is made for you, he pointed out, Just ask, and he'll take care of you.
EnsTren: Has to touch me, be near me, for it to work on me.
Edmondia: Does that matter? He's your husband.
EnsTren: She was shivering. I'mavirgin,avirgin!!!
Edmondia: I know, Seto-chan, I know... He kissed her cheek. But there are other ways to get sick like this, and that's okay too, especially for you.
EnsTren: IhaveaSTD! She cried, dragging it out and rocking back and forth.
Edmondia: And nobody knows it but you and me. Seto-chan, everything you did - neither one of you knew he had anything wrong with him, did you? It's all right...
EnsTren: She hugged herself.
Edmondia: Let him make you feel better, pretty sister, won't you?
EnsTren: She shook her head.
Edmondia: He's your husband. He didn't know he was making you sick. He can heal you. He loves you, let him make it better.
EnsTren: But he hasn't healed himself!
Edmondia: Seto-chan, think about it. He's obviously healed himself enough that it hasn't caused him any damage for the past ten years. And... if he caught this from them, how many other diseases do you think he might have had? Even he needs time to heal...
EnsTren: How do you know it hasn't caused him harm? That it hasn't weakened him.
Edmondia: Seto-chan, look at him. Does that look like an unhealthy man to you?
EnsTren: I don't know.
Edmondia: Yugi gave her a small smile and patted her cheek. He's strong, and he's healthy, and he's in perfect shape. He's not weakening in any way, his immune systems are fine, and he's just as mentally fit as he is physically. He's fine, and you will be too.
EnsTren: ...What if his healing ability is being drained by it?
Edmondia: He fixed yami-chan's broken arm without any trouble when they were fourteen, he pointed out, He would've been more sick back then.
Edmondia: He's fine.
EnsTren: We don't know how much energy it takes.
Edmondia: Seto-chan... he'll happily put himself into a coma for you. And we don't you're right - but what can it hurt to try?
EnsTren: He doesn't even know he has it! She was panicky, and honestly, Yugi couldn't blame her.
Edmondia: Breathe, Seto-chan, breathe... we'll figure this out, okay? We'll figure this out...
EnsTren: She quieted and forced herself into a shaky breathing pattern.
Edmondia: That's it, keep it up... we'll figure this out, Seto-chan, we will. He kissed her lightly. It'll work itself out somehow.
EnsTren: She stopped and just stared at him, strange things in her eyes.
Edmondia: He blinked inquisitively at her. What's wrong?
EnsTren: W-why... you kissed me, and... you called me sister... Even... you're not my brother-in-law.
Edmondia: Oh... I'm sorry, does that bother you?
EnsTren: She didn't know, she didn't know and she was frightened.
Edmondia: ...of me? I won't do it again, if you don't want me to...
EnsTren: She didn't know! She didn't know! She was frightened and she felt all alone.
Edmondia: Ssh, Seto-chan, it's all right, you're home and we're here, we're all here, don't worry, it's just us, you're safe.
Edmondia: You're not alone anymore.
Edmondia: Let us take care of you, please?
EnsTren: She sniffled.
Edmondia: We're a family now, he said gently, We support each other, we care for each other. Let us make you feel better?
EnsTren: How?
Edmondia: Let your husband touch you again?
EnsTren: ...Why?
Edmondia: Because you've scared him deeply.
EnsTren: ...?
Edmondia: Seto-chan, he freaked out when you freaked out on him.
EnsTren: I'msorryI'msorryI'msorry, she whimpered and closed her eyes tight to keep from crying.
Edmondia: Ssh, don't worry, just touch him and let him know you're okay, will you do that, pretty sister, for him, for you?
EnsTren: ...It's okay?
Edmondia: It's okay.
EnsTren: She timidly uncurled, glancing at purple eyes for reassurance.
Edmondia: He smiled gently at her and kissed her cheek. He's right here, it's okay.
Edmondia: Give him a little reassurance.
EnsTren: She crawled over to him, because she didn't think her legs would work and her hands were shaking. She kept looking at Yugi though.
Edmondia: Yugi kept smiling in gentle encouragement.
EnsTren: She laid back down next to him, curled up with her head in his lap.
Edmondia: Hi there, pretty baby, he murmured, and threaded his hands in her hair.
EnsTren: I have AIDS. IhaveAIDS! She started shaking again and her chest felt crushed as if she couldn't breathe.
Edmondia: Then so must I, pretty love. He leaned over and kissed her, upside-down. I'm sorry I didn't know, beloved.
EnsTren: Her shakes died down slightly. AmIgoingtodiesufferdie?
Edmondia: No. I won't let that happen to you. He kissed her again, softly, lingering, still upside-down. I'll take care of you and make sure that doesn't happen.
EnsTren: I'm sick.
Edmondia: I'll make you better.
EnsTren: You're not better.
Edmondia: I'm not sick, either.
EnsTren: I'm a carrier then, I can't donate blood anymore if Mokuba gets sick...
Edmondia: If Mokuba gets sick we can heal him.
Edmondia: He's in our family, I can keep him safe.
EnsTren: What about blood transfusions?
Edmondia: Surely these hospitals of yours can provide them?
Edmondia: We will have to make do as the mortals, if it comes to that.
EnsTren: She worried.
Edmondia: May I have a kiss, my beloved?
Edmondia: (bed)