House of Cards: Part Much Later Again

Yugi opened his eyes slowly, grogginess overwhelming his mind, which was why he didn’t notice that he was handcuffed to the bed until he tried to reach for the chain of his Millennium Puzzle with his right hand and was surprised by the clang of the handcuffs against the rails and the cuff cutting into his flesh.

His eyes widened as he remembered what had happened, he’d been caught by the police, brought back to the hospital, where Dr Cuddy and a team had been waiting, and then for some reason he’d fallen unconscious.

They had to have drugged him and were obviously afraid that he’d run off again.

Tea was watching him through the glass as he sat up slowly, trying to shake the grogginess, her eyes wide as his head sank onto his chest, his shoulders sinking.

She got up and tapped on the glass between their room, making him jump. “You ok?” She tried to ask.

Yugi frowned, attempting to get up and glaring at the handcuffs, “What did you say?” He asked, or at least that was what it looked like.

“Are you alright?”

Yugi frowned again and Tea rolled her eyes, the idea that the rooms were sound proof hitting both of them at the same time, pointing at Yugi and then signing okay with her hands.

Yugi shrugged.

She pointed at Yugi then indicated drawing from a Duel Disk and tilted her head so he’d understand it was a question.

Yugi shook his head, looking depressed. He brought his hands together as best he could, making the shape of an upside down pyramid.

She drew a house in the air, noting that the security guards were watching them and nodded towards them.

Yugi looked towards the one at his door. He was easily the biggest of the four guards, and if Yugi was right, reading the guard’s posture and actions, was actually treating his position as a joke. The teen guessed that he didn’t expect much trouble out of someone whose right wrist was handcuffed to a bed.

Yugi indicated himself, gestured sleep and then tapped his wrist as if indicating a watch.

Tea indicated two. This wasn’t particularly helpful since it could be two hours, two days or two minutes.

Yugi slumped back onto his bed, irritated. He did not want to be here. He wanted to be out there before the bad guy came looking. Hospitals were no place to instigate a battle. Too many hostages or victims… He needed to speak to House, but how to get their attention?

Tea who had been trying to work out how to sign what she wanted to ask next, tapped on the glass again, making Yugi look over.

He tilted his head at her, making her smile. She pointed at him, moved her hand away from her mouth to indicate talking, then drew a house again.

Yugi paused to think about how to reply.

This was cruel. Tea decided they didn’t need to be separated like this; they weren’t infectious and even if they had been, it was too late to stop the infection from spreading between them.

Yugi looked up and Tea snapped out of her train of thoughts to pay attention as Yugi shook his head, gestured walking and falling over and then pointed to his handcuffs.

Tea responded instantly, hitting her hand on the nurse call button.

The security guards wheeled around instantly as a nurse hurried through the cleaning process and hurried into Tea’s room.

“Are you alright?” She asked, examining the teen quickly.

“My friend needs to talk to Dr House.” Tea replied, looking at Yugi, who was looking surprised by her actions. “And I know we’re not allowed out of our rooms.”

The nurse scowled at her but nodded. Tea led back on her bed as House and Foreman came down. She watched as Yugi got frustrated and tried to explain exactly why being in here was a bad thing, spending around ten minutes trying to reason with them to either let him go or let him have the Puzzle.

His shoulders sank as the pair walked away and Tea tapped on the glass once the pair had gone, tilting her head to get Yugi talking, or rather signing.

Yugi looked really irritated.

Tea frowned and pointed at him before making an upside down pyramid with her hands.

Yugi shook his head, making the sign that was the universal sign for explosion.

Tea’s eyes widened. Signing the Puzzle again and then gesturing an explosion, guessing that Yugi meant that it had broken since she’d last seen it.

What the teen meant was that the Puzzle would have to be broken to go through the cleaning process to be allowed into his room but he didn’t know how to sign that and led back on his bed.

House hadn’t promised anything, but he had said that he would try, and this was House. He’d broken the rules once for them already, Yugi couldn’t help wondering if he’d do it again.