Joey and Yugi had just been sitting there in bewildered silence as they watched Tea taunting Kaiba. Was she insane? Or was she actually teasing him? They continued sitting in their chairs just staring at Kaiba. Yugi looked aimlessly around the room trying to think about what Tea was thinking. Joey was blinking and staring at the young executive sitting in the hospital bed as he was thoroughly confused. Kaiba just stared back daggers at the both of them. He knew they didn’t like him, and he didn’t like them either. They were only here in the first place because of Tea...

Speaking of which, she was talking to Kaiba’s doctor about getting him out of the hospital. She knew why Kaiba hated the hospital so much, he hated people fussing over him, he liked his solitude. She’d noticed this when she had been at his house. He was always running up to his room, or up to his office, he never hung around with people for very long unless he had to. She knew it would’ve been pure torture for Kaiba to be stuck in a bed for a couple of weeks with people checking in on him all the time.

It had taken a lot of convincing before the doctor would let Kaiba leave. Tea promised that somebody would take care of him 24-7 and that he would just be sitting in the bed like he was now. The doctor agreed, however reluctantly, and gave Tea a wheel chair to take Kaiba with.

Tea walked into the room pushing the wheel chair in front of her. Kaiba’s eyes bugged out of his head as his right eye began to twitch.

“I am NOT riding in that!”

Tea grinned evilly at him, “Yes you are Kaiba.”

Tea pulled Joey up, “I’ll take his feet, you take his arms...” and they both latched onto a struggling Kaiba. He tried kicking and punching, but his legs weren’t of much use and Joey had pinned his arms behind his back so all he could do was squirm. Joey and Tea didn’t take long getting the CEO into the wheel chair.

Tea started pushing him out of the room, but Kaiba grabbed onto either side of the door frame. He didn’t want to go, it was too embarrassing to be pushed around in a wheel chair. It was bad enough having people hanging over him, but not being able to walk and go unnoticed, that was humiliating. Tea wouldn’t let him stay in the room though, but he didn’t want to stay there either... Joey pried his fingers off of the door and Tea quickly pushed him through. ‘At least there aren’t that many people are hospitals...’ But Kaiba was wrong... As soon as they got into the waiting room there were a TON of people. Kaiba closed his eyes and groaned, ‘I want to die, I want to curl up and die, right here, right now...’

Kaiba’s torture didn’t last that long though. After he was out of the actual hospital he still had to go through being pushed down the street. Luckily for Kaiba it didn’t take that long to get to his house. Tea and Joey grabbed him up again and took him upstairs into his bedroom. He still wasn’t happy with being carried. Part way up the stairs he managed to get them to drop him. He had started crawling up away from them when they locked onto him again. Kaiba got them to drop him again once they got to the top of the staircase. This time he managed to get up and limp into his office. He ignored the throbbing in his legs, he just wanted to get away from these people. Once he got into his office he locked the door and collapsed to the floor leaning against the door with his head spinning. So he wasn’t quite ready to do any big movement, but he didn’t want people taking care of him...

When Kaiba had run off Tea told Yugi to go call Tristan and tell him where they were. Joey had started banging on the door and shouting, “Come on Kaiba, get you ass out here!”

Tea pulled Joey away from the door, “Come on Joey, leave Kaiba alone...”

Joey turned to look at her and then shoved his hands in his pockets before walking off, “Fine Tea, leave him to take care of himself. Not like I care... heh, I‘m goin‘ home.”

Yugi came up a couple of minutes later, “Hey Tea, Tristan told me that grandpa needs some help at the shop. I’m gonna go...” Then he ran back downstairs and out the door.

That left Tea standing in front of the door. She knocked on it lightly, “Kaiba?”

An agitated reply came from behind the door, “What do you want?”

“Are you going to come out of there?”

“........No.”

She crossed her arms and stared at the door. Why was Kaiba being so childish? He should just let people help him... She tapped on the door again, “Are you gonna let me in there?”

“...............No.”

She banged the door with her fist this time, “Kaiba, you jerk, get out here!”

Kaiba crawled to the side and opened the door an inch, “Go away...”

Seeing her window of opportunity Tea ripped the door open and grabbed Kaiba’s shirt and started dragging him down the hall, “Kaiba, your going to bed...NOW!”

Kicking and screaming death threats Kaiba was dragged down the hall into his room. Maybe he was acting immature, but he just wanted people to LEAVE HIM ALONE!

Tea had managed to shove him onto his bed and was half tempted to tie him down, but once he got there Kaiba just folded his arms and glared at her. She went over to his desk and pulled out some scissors. He looked around the room, acting like he wasn’t worried...”What are you gonna do with those?”

She didn’t say anything, she just sat next to Kaiba and lifted his leg onto her lap. He eyed her warily but she just put the scissors near his legs and opened them. As soon as she did that Kaiba yanked both his legs up to his chest and backed up against the headboard.

“What are you doing?!”

Tea yanked his leg back down, none to gently I might add, and she opened the scissors again. With a wary Kaiba staring at her she started snipping off his torn pants right above the knee. He sat there patiently with his eyes glaring at anything except his torn limbs.

After Tea was done she took the spare cloth and chucked it into the wastebasket. She looked at Kaiba’s legs with the deep gashes in them from his car door cutting into him when it was smashed and she shook her head. Taking out the first aid kit Tea got some tissues and ran into the bathroom to get them wet. She came back and started cleaning off Kaiba’s legs patiently. He didn’t say anything, just sat there with his arms folded. Tea got out bandages and started wrapping them around his legs. With the added pressure Tea could feel Kaiba tensing up but he didn’t say anything so Tea just kept wrapping until she was done with both legs.

Kaiba didn’t know why he was tolerating this, but he was, and he just sat there while Tea bandaged him up. After she was done Kaiba watched her start to leave the room and he looked out the window, “Uh... thanks Tea...”

She looked back at him a little surprised and then smiled, “No problem.”

Tea was about to leave again and turned to face the door when a sudden mental string pulled at her. Turning back to face Kaiba she went back over to sit on his bed next to him and she smiled as he looked at her, “Well, ya know Kaiba... since you probably aren’t going to be up and about that much for a while... I was just wondering if, well... you might want me to... stay with you... just to make sure your alright and everything...”

Kaiba blinked at her surprised, “Well, I guess you could, if you really want to. There’s no reason why you couldn’t...”