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Shine on You Crazy Diamond (Part 1) - PrologueCome on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter,
you piper, you prisoner, and shine!
Seto
Of course he doesn't want to die.
Not now.
Not now that he and Yami have finally made it official. Sure they'd been together for more than 10 years, but the commitment ceremony with all of their friends and family only happened last week. He had plans to spend the rest of his life with Yami by his side. So he didn't want to die now.
Not now that Mokuba had finally figured out that he didn't care that Mokuba, Shuzuka and Otogi had been together as a 'family' for more than three years. Seto had discovered his 24-year-old brother's secret a year ago, but waited for Mokuba to confide in him about it. He hated having secrets between them. Otogi finally convinced Mokuba to 'come clean' and his brother had told him everything a few months ago.
That's why they're in the Blue Eyes' jet flying back early from their honeymoon, Shizuka went into premature labor and Seto wanted to be their for the birth of his brother's first child and to offer moral support.
But the storm had come out of nowhere. Lightning struck them many times, seemingly drawn to the Blue Eyes as though paying homage to their master.
Had he thought to bring his deck along, Yami could have used shadow magic to call forth two of the real Blue Eyes' to guide them down safely like they did during that DOMA fiasco all those years ago.
Had he thought they stood a chance in hell of getting a chute to open in this maelstrom, they'd have strapped them on and he'd have popped open the cockpit for them to escape.
Had he thought his end would come like this…
"Yami," he calls to his beloved, whose eyes burn with fury. He understands his koi's rage, but he can't allow himself to be overcome in the same way.
"Give me your hand, Yami," he reaches out, his heart aching as he realizes he'll never touch his Pharaoh again.
Suppressing his grief, he calmly placed their matching bands and a handwritten farewell into the indestructible black box equipped with a Kaiba Corp. beacon before cradling a shaking Yami in his arms as they rapidly descend. His last thought a wish for Yami to be by his side in the afterlife.
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Come on you target for faraway laughter, come on you stranger,
you legend, you martyr, and shine!
Yami
He couldn't stop shaking and felt completely useless because of it.
They'd just had the one of happiest weeks of their lives and for everything to end like this…
Seto would never see Mokuba's baby. Mokuba would never see his beloved brother again.
He'd never see his aibou again.
That last thought only made him shake harder. No tears. He doesn't feel the need to cry. Truthfully, he's more angry than sad.
Why now? After all they've been through, after all the danger they'd been in as high schoolers and in their early twenties, why the hell did they have to die now?
"Yami," Seto's voice calls to him, dimming his rage somewhat.
"Give me your hand, Yami," his koi reaches out calmly.
Yami responds without thinking, knowing that whatever Seto asks of him would never be harmful in any way. His koi takes his left hand, kissing each finger lightly and reverently before sliding the solid platinum band from his third finger.
"Seto, what are you doing?"
"For the box," he replies in that equally calm voice. "So they can have something of ours for the memorial."
That's his Seto, practical and sentimental all in one. He watches him write the short note before placing it inside the box with their rings on top before sealing it.
He almost breaks with the overwhelming realization that gesture brings. There will be no last minute save by his Dark Magician or Seto's dragons. Neither he nor Seto had a way out of this situation. His shaking gets worse as the finality of the moment hits him.
"Come here," Seto entreats.
Gratefully, he climbs into Seto's warm lap, cradled in his koi's strong, sure arms. At the light kiss applied to his forehead, he prays to every god he's ever known that he spend the rest of eternity in Seto's loving embrace.
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Now there's a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky.
A.D.
Of all of them, Shizuka seemed the most shattered.
Everyone expected Mokuba and Yugi to require sedatives to make it through the service, but they remained relatively stable.
'Shi-chan' had to be held up by her brother and Otogi for the portion of the service she actually made it through. She and Otogi missed most of it because she fell into hysterical sobs and had to be taken outside. Deciding not to tempt fate once she'd calmed some, Otogi took her back to the mansion and lay her down in a guest room where she stayed for the rest of the day.
Several weeks passed before she could explain feeling so guilty that Seto hadn't had the chance to meet his nephew because it had been her decision to wait to have a baby. Jou, Otogi and Mokuba comforted her as best they could, but she never quite recovered.
Emotionally, she became much more distant and for nearly a year barely let Otogi and Mokuba near her. Her first-born became the center of her world and she'd often disappear with him for days at a time, especially frightening Mokuba as Seth was his child by blood. Only the comfort of Otogi's arms kept Mokuba from going crazy himself.
Eventually, Otogi and Mokuba forced Shizuka into therapy, returning some sense of normalcy to their lives. She had one more child five years later, a girl they named Yamiko with Otogi's green eyes and black hair, who she saw only once before death claimed her.
When she again opens her eyes, she sees Yami smiling down at her, an unknown blonde standing behind him, and promptly faints.
