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Fandom: Yu-Gi-Oh GX
Title: Enchantment: Chapter 4: Wanting, Not Having (Yet)
Romance: Yubel x Juudai x Johan
Word Count: chapter: 1,705||story: 6,739
Genre: Romance, SupernaturalRated: PG-13
Challenge: Written for the Diversity Writing Challenge, section I, #12, a multichap with exactly 10 chapters; Written for the Valentine's to White Day Advent, day 24, write about a brainwashing/trickery.
Summary: On Johan's wedding day, he goes for a breath of fresh air in the forest, and encounters a creature he's never seen before. He will still marry this day. But not who he expected. For who would expect to marry the King of the Fae?

"Juudai. Calm yourself." Yubel's voice did not change its stern tone at all. Juudai pouted regardless. He didn't like being told 'no', especially when it was something that he really, truly wanted.

And he really, truly wanted Johan.

Yubel would not be moved. A stern look bent down from all three eyes as Yubel folded muscled arms, firm and unmovable.

"Not until after the wedding. You know that. And you know why."

"We didn't have to wait." Juudai didn't care that pouting didn't become a king, let alone the king of the fae. It was just Yubel and the two of them had known one another since they were little more than children. A thousand years, perhaps even two thousand. He'd lost track.

Yubel sighed. "Neither of us was mortal, though. And Johan is. At least for now."

Juudai's eyes lit up at those last words. "But once he's one of us..." Oh, he so looked forward to that. He licked his lips. "How much longer until midnight?"

"Another few hours still. And don't terrify him. He'll try to get back to mortal lands."

The king did not pace. He turned toward the wall where a large mirror hung and waved one hand ostentatiously. Johan's image appeared there, the young human looking out one of the library windows. Misawa sat behind him, reading out loud, though without the extra twist to add sound, Juudai couldn't tell what he was reading.

He didn't care right now, though. Misawa knew better than to do anything that would anger his king. Even more he wouldn't do anything that would anger Taniya, and disobeying Juudai would anger Taniya.

Juudai's gaze rested possessively on Johan. Yubel's hand rested on his shoulder and he glanced upward.

"Should we tell him?" It was a question he'd wrestled with for as long as he'd known Johan: in this life, at least. In Johan's life.

Yubel did not answer right away. Instead, a thoughtful frown creased demonic features. Juudai waited; he knew that he'd get his answer sooner or later.

"Not yet. He is barely ready to accept us at all, much less everything else."

Juudai nodded; he'd expected that much. It was the same answer Yubel always gave to the question. Let Johan become used to them, to the idea of magic and that he was not, and had never been, a normal human being.

He looked down into his lap and his fingers blurred. When they could be seen again, a necklace appeared there, set with seven gemstones. "He needs the betrothal necklace, at least."

"They've been warned?"

Juudai's lips quirked upward this time. "Many times." He'd lost count, in fact. But the Gem Beasts knew well what they could and could not tell Johan and when they could. He'd told Sapphire Pegasus that he expected them all at the wedding and they would be there: because of this.

They would also be there because one could not have Johan Andersen without the Gem Beasts, and likewise. So long as he existed in some form in some world, they would exist, and vice versa.

He rose to his feet, Yubel taking a step back as he did. "I think now is the best time." If he could keep himself under control once he was so close to Johan again. But being near him made every part of Juudai tingle and thrill and he just had to kiss him and from there…

"I'll come with you." Yubel's tone did not offer room for argument. There were not many people who could question his whims and ways, but Yubel not only was one of them, but was one of those he expected to do so. He wasn't always good at being a leader, but with Yubel by his side, and Johan in the near future, he knew that he did well enough.

Which meant that he trusted Yubel to do what he knew needed doing and keep him from kissing Johan until they both lost all focus and ended up in a tangle of arms, legs, and bodies.

At least not until the wedding ceremony ended and Johan belonged to both of them again and they could indulge themselves as much as they wanted.

And they would. Oh, indeed they would. Juudai looked forward to it as he had few things in his immortal life.

It only took a few moments to get to the library. Juudai could go anywhere he wanted in his palace in the space of a dozen heartbeats, which could be very convenient. It certainly was right now.

He arrived just behind Johan and stood there for a few moments, just breathing in the other's mortal scent. It wouldn't last much longer; once the wedding and the bedding, Johan would be one of them, as immortal as any born fae.

Misawa saw him and started to open his mouth. Juudai silenced him with a shake of his head and waved one hand in dismissal. The former human had accomplished his task and now Juudai wanted to play.

At least what little he could until tonight.

I'm going to marry the King of the Fae and the - Johan didn't know what the right pronoun was for Yubel. From what he'd seen, the fae consort took aspects from both male and female. Maybe there was a special fae word he could use?

He knew he was using that only as a distraction to avoid thinking about the main part of the problem: the fae king wanted him and he apparently had no choice at all in the matter. He didn't know how to get back to mortal lands. Perhaps if he could find Sapphire Pegasus, he could persuade the flying unicorn to take him home again?

"But you are home, Johan," the Fae King's voice said from behind him. Johan jumped, startled, whirling around to see Juudai standing behind him, lips curved up into a flash of a smile, and amusement written all over his cool features.

"How did you – did you read my mind?" He didn't think he liked that idea very much, especially if he couldn't return the favor somehow.

Juudai only shrugged. "It's not that difficult. I'll teach you how to do it. Maybe next week." A lascivious gleam lit his eyes. "If we've moved on from celebrating our marriage by then. We probably won't have."

Johan hadn't blushed one tenth as often before he met Juudai as he had afterward. He ducked his head and twisted around to stare out the window again. "What if I said I don't want to marry you?"

"You can say all that you like, but we are going to be married at sunset. I've told you already, you belong to me. It was a fair bargain. I fulfilled my end of it and now it's time for you to fulfill yours." Juudai's voice didn't allow for a single bit of wiggle room.

Johan's fingers clenched. "It wasn't a bargain that I made. I wasn't even consulted about it. My parents tried to keep me completely ignorant of it!"

Slim fingers brushed across Johan's cheek in a gesture becoming rapidly familiar. "But it's a bargain all the same. They gave you to me and I can choose how I use you. Life could be so much worse than simply being my consort. There are some of my people who would enslave you forever, use you for pleasure and nothing more. Their pleasure, not yours, mind you."

Before Johan could answer that, a hot tongue darted against the lobe of his ear. "Yubel and I intend to make certain that you enjoy every moment with us. You'll never regret anything." Juudai's voice hung right in his ear, whispering deep into his mind. "You will never want for anything, either. Anything that you could imagine that you want will be yours. Just tell me you want it and you'll have it."

Johan tried hard to breathe but he couldn't seem to get enough air into his lungs, not with Juudai so close. Words swam around in his mind. He wanted to say that he wanted to go back home, to see his family again, but the words got lost somewhere in between his brain and his lips.

His legs shook as Juudai's arms wrapped around him, pulling him even closer.

"I can't take you just yet. But you need to rest. And there are others you need to meet."

Something rested against his throat without warning. His eyes were closed - when had that happened? He didn't remember – and try as he might, he couldn't seem to open them. Juudai's arms supported him, but he wasn't on his feet anymore. He leaned his head to the side and realized afterward that he'd nestled into Juudai's arms, against his chest.

He could hear Juudai's heart beating. He smiled; it sounded so human. He knew the other wasn't, but it sounded like that.

Another hand traced across his forehead. It took him a few moments and what seemed like a lifetime of effort to crack one eyelid enough to see Yubel hovering over him, tracing across his face with long fingers that seemed more demon than anything else.

Maybe I should ask now... He wanted to. The words tried to form. Instead, his eyes closed and he let himself slip away into a deep sleep.

Juudai nodded his thanks to Yubel; Johan needed more time to adjust to his fate, and a good rest would help with that.

"He'll wake up in time for the ceremony," Yubel promised him. Juudai wasn't surprised; Yubel knew just how to judge the effects of magic to within the finest degrees.

But for now, as much as he wanted to, he couldn't hold onto Johan forever. He had his own preparations to make for the wedding. The guest rooms of the palace were already full of people looking forward to seeing their king take his second consort.

A ripple of effort brought him to the rooms that would become Johan's private quarters after the wedding. He carefully laid Johan on the bed and stared down for a few seconds. If only...if only.

"Soon, my love," Yubel assured him. "Soon."

To Be Continued