Written by: Michirutsunami
Summary: Joey and Claire
relationship gets more serious. Malik sends more minions after Claire.
“ How could this have happened?!” Claire said through her tears, “ Melanie is gone.” “ Its all our fault,” Kathy said through her hands, which were covering up her wet face, “ come on its not your fault,” Kaiba growled, “ yeah we did our best,” Joey added. “ How is it our best if we couldn’t save her?” Kathy said as she lifted her head from hands, “ if we were stronger, we could have, and now Malik had her.” “ Don’t blame yourself,” Yami said, Claire and Kathy looked at him, “ we all tried, and we will get her back.” “ Yami,” Kathy muttered, he turned to look at them, “ till then, you two are in danger, you’re gonna have to stay with one of us.” “ Claire can stay with me,” Joey replied, Yami nodded, “ good, Kathy will stay with Kaiba.” Kathy nodded in means of saying yes, “ now lets go home and get some rest.”
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“ Don’t waste your time Yami,” Malik growled, “ I will get the other two.” “ You obviously don’t know him very well,” some one growled, Malik turned around to see Melanie, ties up and shackles, giving him a deadly glare. Malik laughed in his throat, “ don’t kid yourself,” he said as he walked over to her, “ I will get the other two and I will have Umi.” “ Why do you want her so badly?” Melanie exclaimed, Malik grabbed her chin, “ for power.” Melanie looked at him horror, “ I could kill you in an instant you realize that?” he growled, “ but you wont,” Melanie said cleverly, “ if you do, you wont be able to find the pharaoh.” Malik clenched he teeth, letting go of her chin and walking into the darkness. Melanie was alone; she looked down as her eyes filled with tears, “ Bakura…”
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Melanie, said in his head as he looked out of the window, his fists
tightened. I couldn’t save you, and know
you’re gone, he turned around to see a jacket hung over one of the chairs;
he walked toward it and picked it up. This
was Melanie’s, he thought as his eyes closed half way, he grabbed it’s
sleeve and brought it to his lips, taking in Melanie’s smell that was still on
it. I will save you Mel, and you and me
can finally be together.
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“ Kathy?” Kaiba muttered as he
opened the door. He saw her sitting on the windowsill; just staring at the
sunset like in a trance. “ Kathy?” he said again, this time she slowly turned
her head. Her eyes were like caves and had bags under then, her face all red
from crying. “ You all right?” he asked, she didn’t answer. Kaiba slowly walked
toward her, “ we will save her,” he said to her softly. “ We shouldn’t have to
for a second time Kaiba,” she said softly as her eyes started to water. They
went silent for awhile; then Kathy jumped into Kaiba’s arms. “ Oh Kaiba,” she
sobbed, Kaiba wrapped his arms around her. “ It’s not fair, this shouldn’t have
happened,” she said through her tears, grabbing a bit of his shirt.
Kaiba hated seeing her like
this, they might not have agreed about everything, but he really did care for
her. He started to rock her back and forth, “ I know Katherine, it isn’t fair.”
Did he just call me Katherine, Kathy
thought, her tears started to stop, I
like that. “ We will save her, and we will protect you and Claire,” Kaiba
said, his grip around her tightened, “ I’ll protect you.” Kathy sniffled a bit;
she gave a weak smile, “ thanks Kaiba.”
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“ Hey Claire,” Joey asked as he turned toward Claire who was sitting on the couch, “ you wanna have somethin’ to eat?” Claire turned to look at him, and then she turned her head back. “ I’ll take that as a no,” Joey laughed, he looked at Claire. She had no expression on her face; her beautiful sky blue eyes had gone almost navy colored, and her face streaming with tears. “ Hey come on,” Joey said as he walked over and sat next to her, “ don’t beat yourself up Claire, everythin’ gonna turn out fine.” Claire didn’t say anything; she didn’t even look at him, her eyes starting to water again. “ Hey don’t cry, please it doesn’t sot you,” he said as he cupped her face in his hands. She turned jolted her head out of his grip and turned away.
Now Joey was mad. He grabbed her by her upper arms, his face tightened with anger. “ Stop! Don’t do this to yourself,” he exclaimed as he looked at her, her eyes widened with horror. Joey realized the mistake he made, he couldn’t look at her anymore, he let go of her and left the room, slamming his bedroom door behind him. Claire’s eyes were still widened at Joey’s anger; she crossed her hands as she looked at her feet. What have I done she thought in her head, Joey’s only trying to make me feel better and pushed him away. Claire turned toward his room, I should apologize, she thought as she lifted herself from the couch and walked toward his room.
Claire lightly knocked on the door; no one answered so she lightly opened the door. Joey was lying on his bed, his room was pitch black and had his turned away from her. “ Joey,” she said softly, things went quiet for awhile, and then he turned his body to lay on his back, but his head looked at her. Claire slowly toward him, then sitting on the corner of his bed. He just looked at her, “ I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have been so mean,” she said as she softly caressed his cheek with her hand. “ Claire…” he whispered, but he stopped as she brought her finger to his lips in means of silencing. “ You don’t have to apologize, you were just making sure I was all right,” she replied as a sweet smile spread across her face.
Joey gave her a weak smile, he was glad she was all right now, but he felt that he was still missing something. “ I’m glad you’re okay now,” Joey said as he lifted himself up, “ and don’t worry, we will save Mel, and we will protect you and Kathy.” Claire giggled a bit; “ I know Kathy and I are protected…” she started to say, “ but I just want he protection of one person.” Joey was curious, “ who?” Claire giggled again as she leaned toward him. “ You,” she whispered, Joey laughed inside his throat as he started to stroke her cheek with his fingers. Though he didn’t show it, he was a bit shocked, does this mean she feels the same? He thought in his head as he stared into her eyes, “ I love you Claire,” he whispered to her, she closed her eyes, “ and I love you.”
He slowly brought his lips to hers, taking in her sweet taste and smell. He slowly started to press his body more into hers, wrapping his arms around her waist. Claire softly pushed him back onto his bed as he devoured her lips, her fingers digging into his hair.
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It was now morning; a small ray of light came through and landed on Joey’s eyes, making him stir from his sleep. As he slowly opened his eyes, he saw Claire cuddling up to his bare chest. Her hair was all messy and her clothes ruffled, with a sweet smile on her face. Joey smiled at her; I’m glad she’s smiling again, he thought as he softly caressed her body with his arms. He could hear Claire give a little moan as she slowly started to stretch out her body. “ Hey mornin’,” Joey said quietly as Claire started to open her eyes. “ Morning dear,” she giggled as wrapped her arms around his neck, Joey laughed inside his throat, “ you gonna call me that from now on?” “ Yep,” she giggled as she gave him another big smile, “ don’t ya like it?” “ Its fine with me,” Joey replied as he rested his head on hers.