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.
