Chapter 2: Time
Joey turned around in the big king size bed, feeling a strong arm around himself and grabbed his phone to quickly turn the alarm off. He didn't want to wake up Seto just because he had to get up early. He tried to stand up and get ready for his work when the grip of the arm around him tightened. Joey chuckled a little and turned around in his boyfriends arms. "I need to go." He whispered into his dragons ear.
"Why?" Seto asked and started to nibble on Joey's neck. "I much rather cuddle a little. You sure you don't have 5 minutes to spare?"
"Well," Joey said with a quiet moan "I guess I can stay for another 5 minutes. But I'll really have to go then."
"Why do you have to go?" Seto mumbled "You could stay in bed all day for all I care."
Seto just got another moan as a response from Joey and soon both guys where lost in a heated kiss and touched the heated skin of the other. Joey had forgotten all about his work and stayed much longer in bed than the 5 minutes he had intended to stay. He had missed Seto far too long while he had been abroad and the night before hadn't been enough to make up for all the lost time. About an hour and a half after Joey's alarm had been turned off his phone rang.
Joey reached out to take it but Seto moved his hand into Joey's and whispered, "Ignore it." in a seductive way.
Joey shivered from the tone in Seto's voice but still freed himself from Seto too reached out for his phone and answered it. He just managed to say his name when the furious voice of his tour manager was heard, "Joey, where the hell are you? You were supposed to be here 10 minutes ago."
"What?" Joey answered in surprised and looked at the time. He had been so lost in Seto's touches, kisses and all the other things he loved to do with his dragon, that he had completely lost track of time. "I'm so sorry I got distracted."
"You better get over here fast, you have a lot of work ahead of you." The tour manager said and Joey gave a sigh after he heard the click that came when the other ended the call.
"I'm sorry dragon." Joey mumbled "But I gotta go."
"Why?" Seto asked again in the seductive whispered voice that drove Joey crazy. "You could stay in bed with me, couldn't you? Just forget that stupid job."
Joey gave a sigh. It was a tempting offer. "Could you even stay in bed with me?" He asked instead of considering the offer seriously "I mean, don't you have some business meeting today?"
This time Seto gave a sigh. Joey was right, he did indeed have an important meeting and needed to get ready himself to make it on time. "I guess I do have a meeting." He said regretfully. "What time will you be back?"
"Don't know, how about you?" Joey asked who really didn't know how long it would take to get everything ready that he needed to do today. They had a timetable of what he needed to decide or learn during every day for the next few weeks and it would only go on that way after that and the amount of work depended on the choices for songs and stuff they did during this first week. On top of that Joey really wanted to go over to Yugi's place to see that he's fine again for himself and also to look some more into those strange magical songs. The little jingle that was nothing more but three repeating words didn't leave his head for long. He wanted to figure out how to properly use that light magic for longer. It would be so cool if he could do that in one of his shows as a 'magic trick'. He wanted to test if it mattered what words he sang or if the frequency was all that mattered. He wanted to know if he could use a higher version for people that couldn't hit those lower notes. He wanted to know if he could make the card light up much longer and how long and what he had to do and most of all, he wanted to know what other kind of 'tricks' he could do by simply singing a few words.
"The last meeting is at seven and I guess I'll be done after about half an hour." Seto said.
"Great," Joey said hoping that he could be done with his work fast to stop by at Yugi's without wasting too much time with his dragon. "I try to be back by eight latest."
"Great," Seto said, "I'll be waiting for you with dinner."
"Dinner sounds great." Joey answered and gave him one last kiss before leaving the bed and getting ready for the day.
He left in his sports car shortly before Seto was ready to leave for work and already missed him but the thought of the new and strange music Solomon had found written down was on his mind too and Joey drove faster to be at work a few minutes earlier, hoping to leave a little sooner too. Unfortunately his mind was so distracted that he actually needed a little longer than planned but he still left at seven sharp. Just about done with his work.
He looked at the time and decided to see Yugi for half an hour and maybe have a quick look into the papers Solomon had.
Once he reached Yugi's place and started to talk to him he already forgot about the time. He still didn't look at his watch when Yugi left because he had to go to a part time job as a bar tender. Once he was gone Solomon got out the papers with the music. Joey hadn't thought about them after seeing Yugi's slightly depressed look. He didn't sound as bad as on the phone the other day but not as happy and cheerful as he usually is. "You said he was fine." Joey said.
"He is." Solomon said "Give him a few days and look at those with me. I want to show you this one in particular."
Joey looked at the paper that had a much longer melody on it and not just stars, there where moons on it too, as well as some symbols that didn't look like hieroglyphs to him. Joey had no idea what they meant. "What is this about?" Joey asked curious.
"It's a very powerful spell that back in the day could only be used by the pharaoh, if he found a voice that could manage it, or by the High priest Set who already had a voice that could do this with him. His voice was said to be even more powerful then the one of the Pharaoh, which is why Set had one monster only for the voices protection. That monster wasn't even sealed so it could always walk next to the voice." Solomon started to explain.
"One second." Joey interrupted him. "If he could find a voice that could manage it? You mean if he himself could learn to sing that high or low? And how can a monster walk next to a voice? Did Set always have a monster walking next to him? I hadn't seen one in that memory thing."
"To be honest, I haven't been able to make much sense of it yet." Solomon admits. "But it also said that if this is used properly it can bring back a spirit and create a new body for it. But it was only done once by the goddess Isis in order to return her husband Osiris from the dead."
"Cool," Joey said and looked at it more closely already trying to figure out what frequencies he would have to sing to do something like this. "That means we can bring Yami back, doesn't it?"
"Yes, if you can do it." Solomon said "But you'll need to practice first because it also said that if it's done improperly it can go terribly wrong and start some dangerous magic that could kill a voice and it's owner."
"You mean if I do it wrong I could die?" Joey asked slightly afraid and decided not to try until he knew that he could hit all the notes and that he knew everything about the notation system. "Are there other ones that are dangerous? And how many are there that I can try things out with?" Joey asked wondering if he even could figure it all out if he had only the one little thing from the previous day.
"I have a few that seemed to be safe, at least they don't state anything else." Solomon said and put five of them apart from the other. Joey looked them over, happy to see some moons in one of them. Maybe that way he could find out what they meant too. He looked it over some more, watching for more details and tried to play with the words and the frequencies of the first one again and managed to light the card up a few times but so far he had no luck with prolonging that effect it never lasted longer than singing the words twice.
Around eleven pm, Joey was still trying to play with the frequencies to prolong the light when his phone rang. He looked at the display and saw a picture of Seto's blue eyes before he looked at the time with a bad feeling. "Hey sweetie." Joey said slightly timid since he was so late and hadn't even looked at the time yet. "I'm sorry I'm so late but I'm nearly done. I'll be with you shortly."
"Are you still at work?" Seto asked sounding grumpy.
"Define the word work." Joey said and tried to sound nonchalant.
"You know what I mean." Seto sounded really angry and already knew that it wasn't work that had kept his boyfriend busy.
"Well I'm sort of working." Joey answered. "I'm at Yugi's place helping Solomon with the papers from last night." Joey waited for a reply but only heard a click for the second time that day. "I guess that means that I gotta go back to the dragons lair."
"Did I keep you too long?" Solomon asked looking at the time. "I'm sorry I didn't notice that it got so late."
"No worries old man." Joey said with a smile "I should have watched the time myself, but you can do me a favour, you could translate those that are safe to experiment with for me so I can try them tomorrow, that is if Seto leaves me alive and out of the mansion on my own." Joey grabbed his coat with a laugh and got ready to leave.
"Sure," Solomon said "And next time you'll stop by I'm going to set an alarm to make sure your dragon gets his time with his puppy."
"HEY." Joey said not really managing to sound as outraged with the old man as he usually did with others. "I'm no puppy."
"Sure." Solomon said with a giggle. "You're the wolf that your fans love, who goes running to his dragon after one angry call."
"Only because he's right to be angry." Joey admitted. "I said I'd be home at around eight and he promised to wait with dinner for me."
"Bad Joey." Solomon said with another giggle.
"Oh shut it." Joey simply said and left.
Joey drove back to the mansion together with a surprise he had organised during his lunch break. Joey walked into the dark mansion and wondered why most of the lights where already turned off. He walked into the dinning room and saw that his dinner was still standing there but Seto's plate was gone. Joey gave a sigh and just grabbed one piece of the meat and left to look for his dragon, certain that he was grumpy. After Joey found him in his king size bed he gave another sigh. "Hey sleepyhead." Joey climbed into bed and cuddled against his dragon, still fully dressed. "It's not even midnight how comes that you´re in bed already?"
"I have an early start tomorrow, so let me sleep." Seto said and Joey knew from his tone that he was in a foul mood.
"I'm soooooooo sorry that I'm late." Joey said and started to gently nibble on Seto's neck.
"Stop it." Seto ordered to Joey's surprise. "If you just think about sex you might as well go."
"Excuse me?" now Joey was getting annoyed. "Who said I'm just thinking about sex, you jerk."
"That's all we do!" Seto pointed out. "We don't even see each other apart from the night time and now we have a chance to have dinner together for the first time in months and you're at Yugi's to look into some ancient music papers."
"I said I'm sorry. And let me remind you that it isn't only me who's busy and it also doesn't mean that I just want sex." Joey said upset and got out of bed again to pack a few things.
"What are you doing?" Seto asked.
"If you think I only want sex then fuck off. I go back to dad's place." Joey answered and kept packing while Seto looked at him surprised.
"Why are you packing?" Seto wondered, "You still got some stuff at your place."
"You said my Dad's place, I signed the place over to him and got the last of my stuff packed and in the car during my lunch break. But I don't want to leave anything here to bother you since I only want sex anyway." Joey said sounding sarcastic at the end.
"You what?" Seto asked and got out of bed to take hold of Joey and stop him from packing.
"Ya heard me and now let go you jerk." Joey said but instead of letting him go, Seto gave him a kiss.
At first Joey tried to stop him but Seto was just way too talented to be stopped and soon Joey leaned against him and returned the kiss. "I'm sorry I said that." Seto said after he stopped to kiss his puppy for a moment and just held him close. "I was just upset because I have to miss you so often, please don't go."
"I'm sorry I'm late." Joey said and cuddled more against his dragon. "It won't happen again."
"Yeah, right." And it was clear in Seto's voice that he didn't believe it at all. "I bet it will happen much more often until your done playing with those papers from Solomon."
"I'm not playing." Joey was upset all over again. "I'm working on them and help him and Yugi with it. And ya can't say that it wasn't cool when my card lit up last night."
"Fine." Seto rolled his eyes "It was sort of cool, but it would have been nicer to have you home with me instead."
"Man, I'm sorry, how many times do I have to say it until you forgive me?" Joey complained.
"You don't have to say it at all," Seto pointed out, "I just don't want it to happen again."
"I told ya I won't happen again." Joey promised, "I'll set an alarm the next time I go over to Yugi's and then I can't forget the time."
"We'll see." Seto answered but smiled a little again and gave him another kiss. He had known that Joey loved his music for a while and known that he wouldn't be able to stop him from singing and even loved to listen to his voice. He secretly had all of his CD's stacked in his room and listened to them all night long when Joey was gone. He loved to listen to his voice and he loved the way his face glows when he's on stage, proud and completely happy it simply was the most beautiful sight for Seto. The only problem was that he had to share all of that with the whole world.
Authors Note: Thanks to dancing elf for the review.
