Scrib!Fic - YGO - A Song I Think I Heard Before: Ch3 (Jounouchi/Mai)
Author: Scribbler
Fandom: YGO
Rating: T
Summary: Mai's story, from beginning to end, pre-canon to post-canon, plus all the bits canon itself didn't let us see. Duellist Kingdom wasn't the first time she and Jounouchi met - not that either of them knew it at the time.
Chapter: 3 - Patient
Pairing: Jounouchi/Mai.
Excerpt:
'Out of control'. That was the phrase her aunts and uncles used again when they had her committed to Sunshine House. Mai would spend a long time thinking how inappropriate the description, now she was totally in her relatives' control, and the stupidity of the name 'Sunshine House'. With bars on the windows and locks on the doors, the only sunshine allowed in was weak and latticed with shadows.
The sign at the end of the driveway proclaimed it a 'recovery unit for troubled young adults', which was a politically correct way of saying 'containment pen for crazy teenagers'. All the kids there knew it was really a dumping ground. If your parents couldn't cope with you, or you were a special type of embarrassment, and they had enough money to stash you away, you ended up at Sunshine House.