Chapter 3: They Come Out
"Joey we need the sofa, please," Tristan said with his lover cradled in his arms.
"Of course, what happen to Ryo?" asked Joey.
"Some a-hole slammed into Ryo's car and when he got out he knocked Ryo out."
"Oh my, gosh!" responded Serenity.
"Duke, can you help get some of the pillows out of the car?" asked Yugi.
"Certainly," said Duke as he was heading to the door.
"Wait, the sofa changes into a bed. Tristan, do you want to sleep with Ryo because if you wish I can get a temporary bed for you?" insisted Seto.
"I will."
Once Ryo was on the bed with a couple of pillows behind his head, Tristan sat by him and gave a worried kiss on the forehead. To this sight, Joey said:
"So you finally decided to come out."
"Finally? You knew we were seeing each other?"
"Well, didn't you send me a letter where you were admitting you were?" asked Joey.
"No, I never sent a letter."
"But you even sent me a piece of the Millennium Puzzle to give to Serenity, didn't you?"
"The Millennium Puzzle disappeared along with Yami, but never reappeared, even after Yami did," corrected Yugi.
"But I have the letter right here, see."
"That's my journal paper," corrected Serenity.
"But it had Tristan's name on it. Serenity, show Yugi the piece of the Millennium Puzzle."
When Yugi saw the piece he was amazed, but didn't understand where it came from.
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"But I don't want to leave Ryo!" persisted Tristan.
"I'll stay here, don't worry! Besides, I don't want to be left with Serenity with Duke and you can keep up with them better than me," argued Joey.
"Seto's with them."
"Yeah, but he always gets distracted with work."
"How can he get into work this far from headquarters?"
"Are you going to make me fight you?"
"We're already fighting," retorted Tristan, actually starting to get in good mood since Ryo was hurt.
"Tristan!"
"Okay, okay, I'm going! Just, please, take good care of Ryo."
"Don't worry, I will," said Joey, sounding the most sincere he's ever been.
After Tristan was gone, Joey sat in the large chaise lounge and fell asleep not five minutes afterwards.
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When Seto walked in, Joey was so fast asleep, that he took a shower and was dressing when Ryo started convulsing… then stopped breathing…
"Stop standing there and help me!" yelled Joey, who was trying to do CPR on Ryo.
"Oh, right!" said Seto who was still disoriented from how fast all of this was happening.
"I'll pump the heart, you jumpstart the lungs," commanded Joey.
"Okay," agreed Seto, who was amazed by how quickly Joey responded to the situation.
"Man, Seto's hot when he's half-naked. I shouldn't be thinking that, Ryo's in danger, besides I'm a guy. I'm not gay, am I? Even if I was, I wouldn't be attracted to Seto, would I?" thought Joey through all this.
"He is hot when he is so under control of things. I just hope when I come out to him, he doesn't think that I'm crazy," hoped Seto.
After about five minutes of CPR, they stopped and to their amazement, Ryo started breathing. They were glad they didn't have to break any bad news to Tristan.
"Man, I almost started crying for Tristan, for a minute there," remarked Joey.
"Yeah, me too. Joey, listen I… I…"
Instead of stuttering his way through his sentence, Seto decided to take Joey, and kiss him right on the lips hoping Joey wouldn't freak out. Seto was actually surprised when Joey not only accepted the kiss, but started kissing back, with maybe even more passion than him...
"Well, it's about time!" announced Duke when Serenity, Tristan, Yami, Yugi, and he walked in, "I thought y'all would never admit it to each other."