Taimi could feel the anger coming off of Bakura but she would not stop him. This man had done so much for her and now he wanted to defend her. The man who had taken her had done a great evil and Taimi didn’t feel bad for what was to come. She jumped only a little at his voice but took a breath as he told Markus how it truly was.

Things would only get stickier with the involvement of both Life and Death. They were good friends and Taimi knew that Dalanesca would not let this go… Nor would her mother for that matter. Things became a little colder as Bakura slowly left her side. Gold eyes watched him just to see what he would do. However, what she wasn’t expecting was Bakura to practically jump Markus. She watched in utter awe of this man who normally was so cool and collected. He was angry that she had been taken.

Taimi went to move and she winced as her leg wouldn’t let her. Luckily Jarmyr pulled his son off of Markus. “Bakura,” his name came from her lips in barely a whisper as she listened in. He was willing to kill for her even. “I…” She didn’t know how to reply back to Jarmyr about how much Bakura liked her. Her mind went off of the fate of Markus. It no longer mattered as her eyes met with Bakura’s. Gently she reached up and hugged him to her. “It’s alright.” She knew it wasn’t but she pressed her lips to his forehead and held him close. “You didn’t mean for it to.” She snuggled her head into his. “It’s all his fault it happened.” Her voice was so quiet now almost like a mouse.

Watching them Markus let out a scream as he seen it. “NO, she is mine.”

The room shook just a bit as Angela stepped out from the earth. “Hardly, she belongs to no one.” Angela took the liberty of hitting the man as hard as she could with her own fist. “I would say I would be dishing out the punishment but I was let out with the condition that I don’t rip you to pieces and put you back together.” It left her lips like a hiss. The normally warm gaze of the Mother was glaring and scorned as she watched Markus. “If I had it my way… You would be tortured before I handed you over to Dalanesca myself but Dalanesca said it's not right for someone in my stead to do the torturing. If only to preserve my name.” She was much more like a mother bear in that moment.

She was like a violent earthquake as the grounds were the epicenter of all her rage. Slowly though it stopped and Angela turned her gaze back to Jarmyr now warm. “Oh you are gorgeous… I can see why Dalanesca favors you so. Dalanesca asked for him to be delivered… Of course, it doesn’t matter in how many pieces he won’t be dying until she gets her hands on him.” She gave a warm smile but there was malice laced as she moved over to Bakura and Taimi. “This leg.” She lifted it up and Taimi winced even more.

“Sorry that I worried you Mother,” Taimi frowned and Angela waved her hand a bit.

“I can heal it a bit but it would be better if it healed on it’s own. All the magic in the world can’t make up for what the body can do on its own.” Angela sighed a bit and looked at her daughter with concern. “The next time something like this even starts to hint please tell someone. It’s never harmless my dear.” Taimi frowned but she nodded as she leaned into Bakura. “I can’t treat her here… It would be better if we go to her home… Get her set up in bed because she will be there for a while.”

She snapped her fingers and all of them appeared outside of the house. "Whoops," the entire house collapsed. "I was barely holding it together because I was so mad." The goddess waved her hand. "Silly me… Imagine if I didn't care about the people in that house." It was more of a little comment to Markus as she smiled towards the others. "We should get them home… If you plan on staying around Dalanesca I suppose we will be seeing each other a lot Jarmyr…" She narrowed her eyes at him and chuckled a bit. It was clear she was masking the anger she had now but she was doing a good job if it hadn't been for what happened earlier. Perhaps no one would have known. "Come Bakura, we must get her some clothes and in bed."

Despite the warning, the fool decided to reinforce his claims to Taimi. All Jarmyr could do was shrug it off and sigh, it couldn’t be helped. The mad could not find any other reason than their own to follow and believe. That sort of behavior would hardly help Markus though, especially with his son now threatening to spill his blood. Taimi was trying her best to quell his volatile temper, which appeared to be working as Bakura was slowly calming himself down now that she wasn’t in any further danger.

But soon all of that was thrown out of the window as the earth quivered beneath them and another woman appeared. From the resemble between her and Taimi, both men suspected that she was her mother. Markus, on the other hand, he suspected that the professor already knew who she was. The demon prince winced a bit when the goddess got some revenge on the fool, but it was better Markus than him. Ah, the beautiful ones were almost always the most dangerous. With her anger somewhat subsided for the time being, he threw her a dashing grin as the grapevine spoken kindly of him. His lady already had plans for Markus and he was determined to see that it was him that made the delivery for her . “I can only imagine the things your friend have spoken of me, dear lady”, he spoke so humbly.

Meanwhile Bakura held onto to Taimi as she was inspected. It would be some time before she was back on both feet and obviously she couldn’t do it here. So the son of the demon picked her up with care, ignoring Markus’ pleads and shouts for now. He was insignificant now, his fate was sealed now matter what insults he’d threw at the time. Jarmyr grabbed him by the back of the collar, letting his nails dig faintly into his skin right before the group was transported out. The collapse of the house seemed like a foreshadow of its master’s soon to be fate. Such dark humor made Jarmyr chuckle as his grip deeped. “Oh, I’m looking forward to it. After all, we have recently become family., he responded to Angela, already knowing the union between her nieces and his nephews. It would make for interesting times since now the Roses had Lust, Anger and Envy among them.

“Well, I suppose that we will be off then”, he said with a happy smile as he dragged the screaming and kicking fool with him while waving his other hand at them. “I’ll tell Dalanesca that you wished him a bon voyage. Now come with me, little man…” The two and the hellhound ventured further into the darkness until they weren’t seen again. Bakura watched in silence, but his attention was really on Taimi as she resided in his arms. He glanced over to her mother and nodded. The cold night wouldn’t bold fairly for the barely covered Rosenite and he wanted her to get away from this place of nightmares. “It’s will be okay now…”, he softly whispered as he took her away from here and headed back to her manor.

Once there, he plotted her up onto the couch and immediately went to fetch her some clothes to wear. Returning to her, he made sure to avoid the tiger should he had been there to see her went to make her some food as quickly as possible. She would need her energy and plenty of rest and he wasn’t about to leave her side any time soon.

Angela studied Jarmyr’s smile and she tilted her head if only for a moment. What was going through the goddess’s mind at a time like this? Who knew. She didn’t want to spoil the atmosphere with her playfulness after all she was barely keeping her anger contained as she chuckled towards Jarmyr. “What has Dalanesca told me indeed… We are best friends after all… We do tell each other everything.”

The goddess moved to Taimi’s leg and she got that all situated before they warped out of the house. She looked back up to Jarmyr and put a finger to her lips. “Aye, the bonding between our families is strong but there is one more coming into the midst of it. Ties are strong between Xunatar and I even if we are at the opposite ends of the spectrum.” Taking a look at Taimi and Bakura. “I would dare say that we will have ties sometime in the future.” It was more of a whisper as Taimi and Bakura were too caught up in themselves. “Make sure to give her my love as always,” Angela gave a thoughtful wave.

Taimi was resting in Bakura’s arms. Her redhead was snuggled into his chest as she had her gold eyes closed. “It’s been okay since you found me,” Taimi’s voice was soft as she whispered back to him. Her hands gripped his shoulder and his clothes as she held herself to him. He was her light in the darkness and it didn’t matter if he was a demon or not.

Once back at the house Angela took her time with Taimi once she was dressed as she inspected the leg more thoroughly. Her fingers pressed against the broken bits and Taimi winced and let out tiny noises of pain. Kashii was pacing outside the room’s door as he knew he wasn’t allowed in to check on his master. He made impatient noises but tried to keep his voice low.

“This will be difficult.” Angela propped her leg up and wiped her brow a bit. If the Goddess could sweat she wasn’t showing it but it was clear even she hadn’t lost some of the things she did from when she was mortal. Even though that had been long ago. “Her leg is broken in several areas… and not to mention he’s splintered the bone. I’ll fix the bone but the break will have to completely heal on its own. I’m only doing this so we don’t have to go in and remove the fragments.” Her hands glowed a bright green as she put pressure on Taimi’s leg.

The alchemy professor let out a scream as Angela fixed the leg. Heavy breaths left her lips as she leaned her head back once Angela was done. The goddess set up a splint and tied it tightly. “She needs to keep elevated and keep the leg in this splint. I’ll check back every few days and make sure it’s healing properly but other than that it will take a month or so for her body to heal completely. It would have been longer but I had to heal the splinters and put them back together with her bone… So that took a lot of the time off my initial prediction.” Angela spoke to Bakura once he was back in the room.

“She’s going to need constant care and I doubt she is going to let you talk her out of teaching… so the very least I can do is get her to and from the Academy easily. You can use my carriage and horse while I’m not here. That should help her get back on her feet. She will also need practice walking so that will help her out greatly even if it is in the splint. Lots of water, food, rest, and relaxation…” Angela waggled her finger at the two of them. “I don’t know much about your life and would rather not learn too much but for the next month and a half no rough sex either…”

“MOTHER!” Taimi went red in the face and put a pillow over it. “We could have figured that out on our own…”

Angela smiled at them both and stood up. “I’ll leave you both alone now since I can’t do anything more. I’m sure I’ve scared everyone with how angry I’ve gotten.” She gave a smirk now as she waved and disappeared.”

Taimi threw the pillow to the side and looked up at Bakura. “She doesn’t know when not to say something…” The redhead laughed a bit as she finally released the tension she had in her body. “I could use a bath… and food..” After a small bit of silence she tilted her head, "Is it weird if I add snuggling in there and never getting out of your sight? Because I want to add that to the list of things I could use right about now." Then she frowned a bit as she tried to adjust herself towards him. "I should have let you know I was back in town immediately after I got in… I'm sorry I didn't."

Bakura could have rolled his eyes at their little banter- the last thing he had hoped the goddess do was to stoke his father’s ever growing ego even more. But it looked like that was a failure, not that he was really concerned about that. What was important to him was the woman that was now residing in his arms. Angela was right about something though- whether members of both families liked it or not, they were now intertwined and he and Taimi served to only close that narrowing gap. By now she would have learned that she wasn’t the only one related to a deity, though he had to admit that he hadn’t seen his uncle in so long. And he kinda preferred it that way- his children were already bothersome enough for the demon.

They made it back to the house and while he busied himself to make her more comfortable, her mother further inspected her leg. With each yelp that came from her daughter’s mouth, he wished that he could of had Markus all to himself. But it was dangerous to let himself be fueled by such emotions, even if the bastard did deserve it. The next few moments were agony for him as he awaited for her to mend what she needed to of Taimi’s before she finished up and he held onto her hand, not wanting for her to go through it alone. “I see. I’ll be sure to be here and look over her until she is fully healed.” He looked to Taimi, knowing her mother’s words were true. Like him, she was a professor beyond anything else and it was a passion that led them together in the first place. As much as he would detest, she wouldn’t yield and simply stay home.

Towards the list of demands, he nodded and accepted each one until she got down to the last one. His face was immediately flushed and grew pale as she was so blunt with the ruling. Not to mention Taimi’s reaction didn’t help matters either. “I…I’m sure that we would do no such thing…” At least while she was healing anyway. “Thank you for your help. I’ll make sure to pull my weight in all of this.” Bakura watched her disappear and left the two to their own devices. He turned and glanced to her and shook his head. “I can relate. I have Dante, after all.”

He kneeled over towards her and wrapped an arm behind her and placed his lips on top of her head. “In what particular order do you wish for those things?” Bakura let a small smile slip out towards the snuggling. “Don’t think I have a problem with that at all.”

The cheerful mood did die a little but he stopped her before she fell into the despair of what happened. He never blamed her for any of this, it was all Markus’ fault. There was no convincing him otherwise. “No, you don’t need to blame yourself for this. He was craft and took advantage of you and your mother. You do not need my forgiveness because you didn’t do anything but be yourself Taimi. I don’t want you to change anything about that.”

“Well, at least you are responsible…” Angela gave a wink as she finished up giving instructions and making sure that Taimi was alright. “It’s not a problem. What kind of Mother would I be if I couldn’t help my children once in a while? Thank you for taking care of her Bakura. I can see a great amount of love for her in your actions.” Angela kissed the top of Taimi’s head before leaving.

When he knelt towards her she grinned at him a bit and laughed as she realized her mother’s instructions were clear enough. “Bath… then food and cuddling with the food… If that’s not weird enough.” She chuckled more kissing his forehead. Though she frowned a bit about Markus. “I still should have done something about it sooner but I can’t do anything about it now… I am just glad that you are you Bakura.” She cupped his face and kissed him softly. “I won’t change if you don’t.” She let a chuckle leave her lips.

Once her bath was ready Bakura helped her hobble up to it. She eased herself into the water with his help. He gently helped her by washing her back and her hair even. “Your baths are just as good as your massages by the way.” She teased him as she lounged in the tub for a bit. Getting all the grime and dirt off of her they got her out of the tub and into a nightgown.

They decided to eat in bed and she was left to her own devices while he cooked. Though once he was there she pulled him in once the food was set down. Cuddling into him she smirked up. “I like how warm you are… Seriously.” Getting their plates of food she ate a bite here or there. It was nice and she wouldn’t force herself to eat more than she could. “I do love you though.” She spoke as she thought about it more. “I can’t say it enough Bakura. Without you, I might have been dead tonight…” She nuzzled her face into his and kissed his cheek. “It’s going to be a long few weeks of recovery. I hate not being able to move.”

Bakura blushed hard when Angela spoke highly of him, especially when it came to the bit about the love he had for Taimi. He cared deeply for her but to hear those words, it was something that the half-demon wasn’t used to at all. But she was right- he was going to take care of her properly. Right now, she needed him and he’d be there for her.

“Oh stop that. It’s in the past now. He’s history and we can move on.” There was no love lost for Markus, that pathetic little worm. It was fortunate that he was being whisked away by his father, otherwise, he might have torn him apart himself. But he couldn’t lose himself in his anger- not for her sake. He took in her lips with his briefly before he started on his long and difficult task of taking good care of her, starting with the bath. He didn’t mind it, of course. He had gone too long without her company and as long as her tiger didn’t try and get in the way, this would go smoothly.

Rolling up his sleeves, Bakura eased her into the water and gently washed her. “I’d surely hoped so”, he mused as he continued to bathe her. It was actually too amusing for him to consider it a task.

Afterward, he got her out of the tub and got her into a nightgown before whisking her into her bed while whipped up something to eat and joined her side. She fell against him and he wrapped himself around her as well. It was so hard to deal with the previous nights where she’d disappeared. It had been lonely and rough while he was worried about her. Having her there now was comforting to him as if it had been years since. He carefully observed her eating while taking in some for himself but then stopped when she admitted that she loved him. Blinking for a few moments, he grinned at her, probably one similar to the one his father was known for.

“I love you too, Taimi. I’d think I would be lost in the world without you.” Before she came into his life, he was simply a teacher that delved deep into his studies and nothing else. “It’s nothing but natural for me to protect you, even if you don’t need it. And don’t worry too much about it- it just means that you are stuck with me until then is all. You’ll be in okay hands, I promise.”

Taimi let out a relaxed sigh as she was eased into the hot water. Her arms went out on either side of the tub as she leaned her head back and looked up at Bakura. She chuckled at his answer and smirked as she closed her eyes. Letting him work uninterrupted was probably a good idea in the long run as he ran the water over her skin with the soap rushing off.

Getting out of the tub was more interesting but she tried her best not to get him wet as he hoisted her out. The fresh clean nightgown felt soft against her skin as she settled into the plush bed. The plants looked well kept while she had been gone probably her family. They were delicate little things… Easy to damage if one wasn’t diligent in their care.

As he got her food and she ate she smiled towards his remark. It was nice to be loved. He honestly didn’t even need to say it for her to know how he felt. Every action he took spoke for him. “I’d be lost without you too…” Her voice was soft as she leaned over and pressed her lips to his cheek. He was warm to her despite how she had just gotten out of the water. Her body still recovering from being down in the cold cellar. “I’d rather be stuck with you all the time… Hopefully, I don’t need to be hurt for that to happen though.” Her hand took his as she stroked his fingers with her thumb.

A yawn left her lips as she moved to set the tray of food on the side table next to her side of the bed. “So, I suppose that leaves me with being stubborn with you. I want to teach classes while in recovery.” Taimi said it promptly as she laid her hands on her lap and watched her lover. “It would keep me busy and I’m sure you would feel much better if I was right there with you… Handling class by yourself all the time might prove to be a pain. It’s only for a few weeks that I’ll have to have this thing on my leg.” She motioned to her broken leg as she tilted her head. “It’s the only thing I’m not willing to budge on.”