Pride
Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh!
I know it's been a while, but I do have a reason. Family troubles and all that, and I'm just so ready for this month to be done.
To those who just happened to stumble across this story please read first in this order:
1: Meet the New Girls
2: Fighting for you
3: Sleep Over Fun
4: Date Night
5: Photoshoots and Drama
6: Tender Moments
7: Stress and Anger
On with the story!
3 days later
With the last draft done, Seto was confident in his friends at the auto shop to get them done in a timely manner. However, no matter how accomplished he felt, something always managed to screw it up. Shortly after he had completed says drafts, he had gotten a call from none other than Pegasus. The call hadn't gone over so well, with Pegasus saying that they needed about fourteen patented drafts and products completed in the next month and half, and they only had one half way done and a second starting. Marik and his crew were working as fast as they could, Seto had explained that, but Pegasus said that he needed faster service other than motorcyclists. Seto assured Pegasus that the products would be done on time for the convention, after all, all three of their names were riding on this, and the chance for more customers was what Marik was betting on.
With these thoughts rattling around his head Seto went down to the construction area and saw that Marik's crew was working away at the technology, all of them in separate teams working on now three machines at a steady yet fast pace while Marik and Bakura look over the drafts. And though this should have made him feel uplifted, it did nothing but make him more anxious, though no one would ever know that.
Other than Jetta.
Ah yes, his girlfriend of a little over two months. She could read him like a book by just the tone of his voice, even if his expression was blank and his tone solid, she knew what was up, and something about that both pissed him off and relieved him at the same time. Without Marik or the other mechanics noticing, Seto walks away from the window to the room where, other than the mechanics were, the Kaiba Corp. technicians were working and monitoring. He sent Yugi a text saying he would be leaving early, thirty minutes early. Yugi didn't question him, he just replied with an 'ok, I'll let Mokuba know he's taking the limo' and left it at that, something that Seto was grateful for. Walking out of the building and to his car he texted Jetta and let her know he was stopping by, something that he did every once and a while; in the two months they had been together, he'd done this two times.
Jetta quirks her eyebrow at Seto's text and knew almost immediately something was up. Work wasn't over for another half hour, and Seto never left work early.
"Jasmine, cancel any appointments or calls I have today." Jetta says into her phone.
"Yes ma'am." Jasmine replies. Jetta grabs her purse and her belongings and starts for her door.
Seto enters the building through the front, which he usually didn't do; it was always through the side or back for less conspicuous reasons. The man at the front desk smiles kindly at Seto and his tag read Jasper.
"Good day sir…wait a second, you're Seto Kaiba." Jasper exclaims. Seto nods as he looks around the giant room. Clearly uncomfortable, Jasper backs down as Jetta walks out of the elevator and over to Seto.
"Ok, let's go." Jetta says. They lock eyes for a moment and Jasper could tell that there was clearly something going on, it was just in the way their azure gazes lock with intensity stronger than lightning. They turn for the door and leave the building.
"How did you…" Seto starts as they get in the car.
"I know you Seto. Something is up, you've sounded tense on the phone for the last week or so and the calls are only thirty minutes long, and you never call passed nine, but you have these last few nights." Jetta says as they drive to his home. Once they get to his home and out of the car, take off their shoes at the door, they walk to his room in the silence that follows until reaching his room and closing the door behind them. Jetta looks up at him out of the corner of her eyes and sees a man that looks too tired at such a young age, worn down before his time, and slightly pissed off because of said facts. A man that had been through hell and back three times over.
At first he went for the couch, but she guided him to his bed and practically forces him to sit on his own bed. The man was stubborn that much was certain. Nuzzling into his chest, she manages to get him to lie down, his arm wrapping around her shoulders as hers wrap around his stomach.
"So, what's up?" Jetta asks, not looking up at him. She knew sometimes, he didn't want to look at people when he disclosed personal information.
"Work has been hell." Seto says.
"How so?" Jetta asks as her hand goes up to his shoulder and massages small circles into his tense muscles. Seto begins to explain the deal, the convention, the earlier fiasco, and what Pegasus had said. He had cracked open to her as easily as cracking an egg open. His pride would not let any other emotion but anger and frustration show or be known. Jetta looks up at him after he was done; quirking her head to the side at seeing his lack of emotion on his face but could see it in his breathtaking blue eyes. She leans up and kisses him. Seto's heart thumps erratically as she kisses him before pulling back and looking into his shocked and stunned eyes. The only other kiss they had shared that even compared to that was their first.
"Seto, it's ok to let go for a moment." Jetta says with a smile before Seto kisses her again with the same intensity as before. He poured every emotion he had into the kiss before he releases her swelling lips and holds her. Her fingers comb through his hair in a soothing way as his head rests on her chest.
"You know, you're the only one I can be like this with." Seto snickers. Jetta smiles as finally he starts to loosen up.
"I know." Jetta coos as her hand moves from his head to his shoulder and began to knead hard firm circles into them.
"I feel weak." Seto mutters.
"You're not. You never will be. You're just too proud to show any other emotions. I guess it's to be expected in your line of business, but as you said, you relax with me. I won't judge you Seto; I'll be here to remind you that you're human." Jetta says. Seto smiles at her gesture.
"Thank you." Seto whispers. Jetta was the one woman who could, with a single look or sentence, break through that cold shell he had and make him feel warm, make him feel like an actual person, not a business man, not an orphan, not a jerk, and not a man that had been through too much at his age, but simply just a man, a human, capable of emotions. Remembering back to when they had first met, he realized she always had had that effect on him.
They lay there in the silence of the house for the remaining ten minutes before Mokuba would be home, enjoying each other's company and warmth.
"I'll stay tonight." Jetta says. Seto smiles.
"I'd like that." Seto says. That was another thing that had always captivated him about Jetta, she was a business woman, though in an entirely different line of business, yet she was compassionate and kind, she had a personality that could draw people in, she was by no means bubbly, but she was radiant with her kindness, she had a laugh that could light up a room, and a wit that impressed Seto greatly. She was his equal, his other half, and upon coming to this realization his horrid day became a thing of the past. He felt no need to tell her yet, in due time, he would simply show her, and that was a promise he intended to keep. But for now, he simply enjoyed her company, unaware of the fact that she had also come to the same unspoken realization as he had.
So, hope you enjoyed this. The whole story is going to be posted today, just have to do last minute edits.