Chapter 2 Out of the darkness and into the light

In no way, in this dimension or the next, do I own the awesome show that is Yugi-Oh. (no matter how much I wish)

Serenity Wheeler opened her eyes, but shut them again immediately with a gasp. After all the years of darkness, the sudden burst of light was a shock, but it was more than she could've ever asked for. Putting her hand over her eyes, she shielded them from the almost blinding lights overhead as she sat up and opened her eyes slowly.

Joey was at her side the instant he saw she was awake. "Serenity!" he said, putting his arm around her. "Are you okay?"

Slowly, Serenity removed her hand and then opened her eyes, allowing herself to adjust to the lighting. She turned and looked at Joey…yes, she actually looked at him. "Joey…" she breathed "I can see you…"

"What?!" Everyone was beside her in a second. .

"Can you guess who I am?" Yugi asked, sitting by her. She smiled.

"Yugi. I can tell by your soft voice…hmm…I always pictured you with black hair…and taller." She said, grinning.

"Yeah, well…" He shrugged.

"Hi Serenity." Tea said. "It's me, Tea. Are you feeling okay?"

"Well, actually, I'm a little woozy, but other than that, I'm fine."

"That's understandable. You're probably on a lot of medicine. Do you want to open your gifts now" Tristen asked.

"Oh! You got me gifts! You didn't have to!" she said as Tea handed a bag to her.

"Nah, it was nothing. We all got you something."

"So go ahead, open it already!" Tristen said eagerly. She dug through the paper and pulled out a soft, rainbow, plushie teddy bear that was holding a little heart with chocolates inside.

"Oh Tea!" she said, smiling at her. "It's so sweet! I love it! Thank you!"

"Here's mine." Tristen said, setting a flat box on her lap. She opened it and had to close her eyes to keep from crying when she lifted the paint set up to show everyone, fully realizing how much more she would be able to do now.

"Tristen," she said, trying not to cry "thank you. This means so much to me." he walked into her embrace, his face turning red.

"This is from me." Yugi said, placing a bag on her bed. It turned out to be a sketch diary to draw in. She smiled and hugged him.

"Thank you, Yugi." she said, letting him go. "These things mean a lot to me."

"Don't forget this." Joey said, placing a smallish box in front of her. She opened it. It was a beautiful book with a gold cover and, in curvy writing, it had Serenity etched into it. "It's a diary," He explained, "and on each page is a picture of us together when we were younger. I had it made myself from this guy at the book store."

"Joey…" she hugged him "Thank you, everyone. You really didn't have to do this."

"Yes we did." They all said smiling.

"Oh my God!" Mai ran in, out of breath. "Did you hear?…Oh, hello Serenity."

"What? Hear what?"

"They admitted a guy last night who was in a car accident!"

"So…I'm sure they get that all the time…"

"It was Kaiba!"

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Seto groaned and opened his eyes. "What…What happened?" he asked, putting his hand to his pounding head. "Where am I?"

"Big Brother!" Mokuba ran to him.

"Mokuba? Where are we? What am I doing here?"

"You don't remember?" He asked, astonished. "You were in a limo accident."

"You know…now that I think about it, I do remember…God, I'm going to fire that driver when I get out of here. Are we in the hospital?"

"Yes. But the driver…" Mokuba looked at the ground. "…he didn't make it. You hit a semi truck and he died."

"Huh?" Seto tried to sit up, but the pain was so bad that he fell back, dizzy and nauseous. "He's dead? Ugh…" closed his eyes. "What time is it?"

"It's three in the afternoon. You've been sleeping all day."

"What?!" Seto's heart jumped. "I've got to get to work!" A nurse walked in, carrying a needle.

"Well, good morning Mr. Kaiba, or should I say, good afternoon. I'm glad to see you're awake. We weren't sure if you were going to make it for a while there. Now, I've got to give you this medicine. She went over to him. "This might hurt a little."

"No duh." he said under his breath.

"Excuse me?"

"Nothing." he said as she poked the needle in his arm. His bit his lip, feeling the medicine actually run up into his arm, almost numbing it but not quite. (for all those who have never had an I.V before, this is what it actually feels like. *shudders at the thought*)The nurse taped the needle down and started to walk out.

"Wait! You're going to just leave it in there?" Seto cried out.

"Yes, that's how an I.V works, Mr. Kaiba." Just as she was about to open the door, it was flung open, and three people (Yugi Mai, and Tea) rushed in, almost knocking the nurse over.

"Yugi!" Mokuba cried, running to him.

"Hey, Mokuba." he said, smiling at him, but then his face turned grim at the sight of the older Kaiba. His face was almost completely blanched of color, and his face was badly bruised. (aw, poor Seto! Sorry, girls, I had to make him pitiful.) "Kaiba, are you okay?"

"Well it depends on your definition of okay."

"Well, how do you feel?"

"Hmm…my head hurts, my brother's worried sick, I'm stuck in a hospital instead of being at work, there's still a ton of things to be done, especially since all the work I did yesterday was saved in a file on the computer that was destroyed along with the car, my driver's dead, but even if he wasn't, that wouldn't matter because my limo's crashed, so I'd have to say…bad."

"Oh…"

"Well, uh." Tea looked at the floor. "At least you get a break from working."

"Yeah, and I'm really enjoying it. If I wanted a vacation, I would go to Jamaica, not to a hospital."

"Excuse me, but you really shouldn't be bothering Mr. Kaiba right now. He's just woken up, and…he's a little irritable."

"I heard that." Kaiba said. Yugi smiled at the nurse and whispered back:

"He's always irritable."

"Heard that too!" Kaiba said, closing his eyes.

"Don't worry, Kaiba, we're leaving. We just came to make sure you're okay. Let's go." Tea said. They walked out of his room, leaving Seto, Mokuba and the nurse.

Now then, do you see that little button right below this message that says "submit review"? Well, since you've finished chapter 2, press it and tell me what you think. Thanx to "The six of Hearts" and "DarkMagicianGurl524" for reviewing my last chap, you made my day (seriously!)