-1Fallen Angel

Chapter 7. First meeting for the second time.

Okay. I almost forgot to update this chapter. Thank you BookNerd-1 for reminding me! Anyway, I love the name for this chapter. I sware I've heard it somewhere before. Ni! Anyway, on with the chapter then...

And now … the continuation!


Last night they had a pretty late night. Well everyone but grandpa, who decided to go to bed an hour or two earlier than the others.

When grandpa went to bed, Joey, Tristan, Tea and Atem sat up talking about events that happened during the past year. After that, somehow the conversation came to Joey challenging Tea to a duel, so they duelled, but they duelled the old way with the mat and no holograms. Probably because they were in an enclosed area and grandpa was sleeping.

Joey and Tea duelled about five times, Tea wining them all. Joey simply said that he's better with holograms, but Tea just saw it as an excuse. Tristan gave him heaps for losing to Tea, especially when she's not even a beginner and he's an experienced duellist. After wards they went to bed. Tea slept on the lounge while Joey and Tristan slept inside sleeping bags on the carpet. Atem slept in the spare room putting his new clothes away in the drawers before going to bed.


It was morning, which meant that Yugi could come home today. This excited everyone at Yugi's house. Normally Tristan, Tea and Joey would have school today but there was an all day teachers strike on today, so they decided not to go. It didn't really matter, hardly anyone else was going anyway, and this way they got to spend the day with Yugi.

At the moment, Grandpa was downstairs cleaning, while Atem, Tea, Tristan and Joey was outside, waiting for Mai to show up.

They figured that Atem and grandpa should stay, while Tea, Joey, Tristan and Mai picks up Yugi. This way there would be enough room in the car and Atem could be kept a surprise. Until Yugi came home.

Momentarily Mai pulled up and beeped her horn. She wasn't told the plan and it surprised her that Tristan, Joey and Tea were outside.

"We'll be back soon." called Joey.

"Drive safely." called back grandpa.

Joey, Tristan and Tea got in the car and Mai drove off. They told her what was going on, on the way. Grandpa walked and stood outside, watching as they turned the corner. After they were out of sight, Atem and grandpa looked at each other and went back inside.


"How do you think Yugi will react when he finds out Atem's back?" asked Tea.

"Dunno. D'you think he'll notice he's back? I mean, when we get him home, he might be too tired to notice and he might have to go straight to bed." said Tristan.

"Then he'll find out later on then won't he?" Mai said as she pulled into the car park of the hospital.

They walked inside the hospital, went directly to the counter and asked one of the people where Yugi's room was, reassuring them that they were there to take him home.

"His doctor is with him now, you can see him but if the door is shut, I'll advise you to stay outside until your instructed that its ok to enter. I'll show you to his room." said the lady at the counter.

The four followed the lady around a corner and through a door and down a few corridors until they reached his room. The door was shut so they were told to wait outside. The lady that showed them the room then left. Luckily for the four of them, the walls had windows so they could see inside, and they saw Yugi sitting up on his bed, his back toward them, his doctor checking his blood pressure while he had a thermometer in his mouth.

He didn't know they were there so he continued to watch the birds outside. The four of them watched, only guessing what was happening and how long they were going to be.

"Last minute tests!" said Tristan.

"Then we can take him home." said Mai.

His doctor looked up toward him and took the thermometer from him, checking it as she did so. She smiled at him before putting it in the autoclave. A machine that sterilizes equipment. She stopped checking his blood pressure and started talking to him.

"Probably telling him the results." said Tea.

"C'mon doc, we wanna take him home." Joey said impatiently.

It was almost as though she could here them, because when Joey finished, she looked up and saw them waiting so she smiled at them before helping Yugi up and walking with him to the door. Yugi noticed they were there and smiled at them.

"It doesn't look like they've cleaned him up." said Tea referring to the fact that Yugi still had a bit of ash on his face and clothes.

"Knowing Yug' he probably refused to let them." said Joey.

"He probably refused to get dressed into the hospital dresses too." said Tristan.

"That's a good thing." said Mai.

Seconds later, the door opened and out came Yugi and his doctor.

"Hey Yugi, how you feeling?" asked Tea.

"I'm fine." said Yugi, happily. He was lying of coarse, but Yugi didn't want them to worry about him anymore than he knew they were so he thought that it would be better to say that he was fine rather than admit that he was weak, tired, his arm still killed but thankfully not as much as before, he had a slight headache and felt a little light headed.

"Hey, ya know what. Apparently I'm over my cold so I can go back to school now." said Yugi giving a small smile.

Shiane, Yugi's doctor suddenly looked uncomfortable but she shook off the feeling as she started to walk with Yugi and his friends back to the front of the hospital.

"Oh by the way. Happy Birthday for yesterday." said Tristan.

"Thanks. Some birthday huh?" asked Yugi, not exactly expecting an answer.

"Yeah, some birthday." said Joey, half feeling bad for him but half feeling excited that it wouldn't be long before Yugi would get the surprise of his life.

"Here." said Tea as she gave the lady at the counter, grandpa's medi-care card he had given her this morning.

The lady took it and did a few things on the computer, looking at the card a few times before placing a pen and a form on the counter.

"Mr Moto? If I could get you to sign this, it will be all done and you can go home." she said happily.

Yugi took the pen and signed his name on the form and gave it back. Luckily for him he was right handed and it was his left arm that was injured.. The lady took it and gave back the medi-care card and allowed them to leave.

Mai, unlocked the car and she and Tea got in the front while Joey and Tristan sat on either side of Yugi on the backseat. By now, Yugi felt more tired than he was before but he tried his best not to show it, unfortunately it didn't work and he rested against Joey's shoulder. Joey moved his arm and Yugi fell closer to Joey so Joey put his arm around him, careful not to hurt his arm, and soon Yugi was sleeping. He wasn't for long though, because about 10 minutes later, Mai pulled up in front of Yugi's house and Yugi was forced to wake up.

"C'mon Yug, we're home." said Joey as he started to get up, waking him up in the process.

"Mmm… what?" asked Yugi as he rubbed eyes sleepily.

"We're home." said Tristan, lifting Yugi up from underneath his arms an putting him on the ground, but not taking his arms fully away in case Yugi's legs gave way because he just woke up. He didn't fall and the five of them slowly walked inside the house.

Grandpa was currently upstairs with Atem. They heard the door open so they stopped talking and grandpa got up and started to walk down the stairs where he saw Joey, Tea, Mai and Tristan walk in with his grandson, who looked pretty tired now.

'Yugi. Thank heavens.' thought Grandpa at the sight of his grandson.

"Thank you so much." he said to Mai, who gave small smile. "He's upstairs." continued grandpa.

"Gramps." whispered Joey.

"Who's upstairs?" Yugi asked , looking up at grandpa before slipping past him and quickly walking up the stairs. Well as quick as his legs would allow him anyway.

"You didn't tell him?" whispered Grandpa.

"No, we wanted it to be a surprise." answered Tristan.

"Well, it will still be one, just Yugi now expects someone to be up there." whispered Mai as she and the others reached Yugi.

Joey reached Yugi first and walked up the stairs next to him. When they reached the lounge room, straight away Yugi spotted Atem, sitting on the couch. Atem looked up and saw Yugi so he stood up and held an excited breath.

"Hi Yugi." he said as he got up and gave a small smile, not really wanting to show that he was absolutely excited that for almost the first time he was seeing Yugi awake. Yugi seemed speechless. He seemed to be having trouble finding the right response to Atem's greeting. For that matter he couldn't even think. He looked as though he was paused with a shocked expression on his face. Soon he moved but still seemed incapable of talking. He looked as though he was going to say something like "what." or "when." but nothing came out, he just sort of mouthed the "wh" bit.

"He came back Yugi! Can you believe it? He came back yesterday." said Tea, walking next to Yugi.

"By the look on his face I don't think he does believe it." laughed Atem.

"H-how?" was the only word that managed to escape Yugi's mouth. Due to the shock and excitement, his voice wavered a bit, but it wasn't as though he was about to cry.

"I woke up in the spirit world and I saw the millennium door, so I walked through it and found myself in Egypt. Where we duelled. I found Cairo and then Ishizu, Marik and Odion found me and let me come with them here. I hitched a ride until I came to a familiar street and walked the rest of the way, until I … heard an explosion. I ran and found you with Tristan, Tea and Joey." answered Atem, hesitating when he came to the explosion, not sure that the mention of it would be wise around Yugi right now, but there was no other way to continue with his story otherwise.

"We then took you to the hospital and well, wanted to keep Atem as sort of a surprise." finished Tristan.

"Surprise!" said Atem, Joey, Tea and Tristan at the same time.

Yugi gave a small smile at that last comment and went to talk but had no idea what to say so instead he closed his mouth and smiled.

'He seems a little shocked.' thought Atem sarcastically.

"Y-you're actually here?" asked Yugi in disbelief.

'I don't believe it. He's back. He came back. He's really back. Ok Yugi you get it he's back.' Yugi thought to himself.

"Yeah I'm actually here." replied Atem happily.

"I don't believe it." said Yugi as he ran over to him and jumped on him, attaching himself around his neck, nearly making Atem fall back as he did so.

"Whoa. Yugi!" said Atem as he regained his balance.

"Ow." whispered Yugi as he slowly let go of Atem. Atem also let go of Yugi.

"That hurt." Yugi said quietly, holding his left arm.

"Sorry." said Atem.

"No it wasn't your fault, it was more of mine." said Yugi, letting go of his arm. "S-so, you've been here since yesterday?" asked Yugi.

"Yeah." answered Atem.

"Then why didn't I see you?" asked Yugi.

"Because I arrived a few seconds before you passed out. You didn't have time to notice." answered Atem.

"Oh." said Yugi, kind of looking away.

"Oh by the way Yug'. Umm, what happened?" asked Joey.

"Joey!" said Tea, elbowing him in the ribs.

"Ow!" said Joey.

"What happened? U-um, uhh…" started Yugi, his widening at the question. He knew Joey was talking about the incident, and he would've given him a straight answer but for some reason he felt like something was holding him back. He remembered what happened and suddenly he felt really weak. This everyone noticed since his legs started to give way.

"Yugi!" said Atem as he caught Yugi and steering him over to the couch.

"Yugi!" said the others as they rushed over to see of he was ok.

"Maybe he came home to early." grandpa said worryingly.

"No, grandpa, I'm fine." said Yugi as Atem sat next to him, eyeing him carefully.

"Well, that's obvious." Mai said sarcastically.

"You alright man?" asked Tristan.

"I'm fine really. I'm just a little tired you know?" Yugi said reassuringly.

"Well. In that case, Yugi, I want you to go to bed." said grandpa.

"Huh? But grandpa, I just got back." started Yugi turning around in his seat to face Mr Moto. "Atem just got back. There's heaps we need to catch up on and figure out and, and, uhh," continued Yugi.

"Well, he's going to be here when you wake up so c'mon, up, up." interrupted grandpa lightly tapping Yugi on his injured shoulder, knowing he would get up but thankfully not hurting him badly. Yugi got up and was forced to go to bed due to grandpa following him to his room.

"G'night Yug'." called Joey.

"Its not night time Joey." called Yugi.

"Atem, you should go with him. Maybe he'll talk to you. He'll want to talk to you anyway." said Tea as she sat down where Yugi had been sitting. Atem smiled before nodding and going to follow Grandpa and Yugi.

Quietly the four left in the lounge room talked, mainly about Yugi, while Atem reached Grandpa and Yugi. He folded his arms and leant on the wall, watching as Yugi argued with Mr Moto about going to bed.

"Grandpa, I'm not that tired anymore." said Yugi.

"I don't care. I spoke to your doctor and she said that you may need your rest." said Grandpa.

"Yeah, that I may need. But I'm fine. C'mon, grandpa, if you were me you wouldn't want to go to bed this early anyway." argued Yugi

"True, but I would go to bed." argued grandpa.

"Ok, but then… umm… well, what about Atem. He's just come back there's heaps we got to catch up on." said Yugi.

"He'll be here when you wake up." said grandpa.

"Well, what about them?" asked Yugi, referring to Joey, Tea, Tristan and Mai.

"Well, you might see them when you wake up and if not, then you might see them tomorrow." answered grandpa.

"What do you mean might? They'll be at school." said Yugi.

"Yes but you wont be." answered grandpa.

"What do you mean "I wont be"?" asked Yugi, a little shocked at this.

"Your doctor also said that she recommends you staying home for a week." replied grandpa.

"You're gonna keep me here for a week? Grandpa, this is an important year, what if there's a test or something." complained Yugi.

"Well, your going to have to do it when you get back. Now come on, bed." said grandpa, turning Yugi around and giving him a slight push into his room.

"But grandpa." said Yugi, turning around to face Mr Moto when he stopped himself from walking in his room any further.

"No buts. Go to bed." said grandpa as he shut Yugi's bedroom door and walked away. Atem continued to wait until grandpa was fully downstairs, then he walked closer to Yugi's bedroom door and knocked once before talking.

"Yugi" he said.

"Atem?" came Yugi's voice before he opened the door to see Atem. Yugi left the door open before walking over to his bed and throwing himself on it. Atem walked in and sat at the end of his bed.

"How're you feeling?" asked Atem.

"Like I said, I'm fine." said Yugi, trying to hide the lie.

"Yugi, I've known you for a long time now, and I can tell …" started Atem.

"It hurts." interrupted Yugi, knowing that Atem could sense his lie and figuring that he was going to have to tell him sooner or later.

"Sorry?" asked Atem.

"My arm. Its hurts. I'll admit, I do feel a bit weak and I am a little tired, but I'm honestly fine." answered Yugi.

"Oh. Yugi don't think that I'm attacking you ok, 'cause I'm not but, you seem more than a bit weak." said Atem, looking over at Yugi for some kind of reaction. Yugi looked away and didn't say anything. So Atem took the opportunity to speak again.

"Yugi. This might be a bit too soon, but what did happen yesterday? I mean, apparently you've quit duelling and we find you in an explosion with your duel disk and deck." said Atem, looking a little more worried than before.

"I didn't quit, by the way. I've just … temporarily stopped." said Yugi.

"Don't mind me asking why?" asked Atem.

"Well. It seems that every time I duel, something bad happens, or something big that leads to something bad happens, you know? I figured that if I didn't duel then nothing bad could happen to my friends and family." answered Yugi.

"But this time you duelled and something bad happened to you. You were duelling right?" asked Atem.

"Yeah." answered Yugi.

"Who were you duelling and if you temporarily stopped, then come you were duelling? And you were sick weren't you, so what were you doing outside in the first place?" asked Atem.

"Well, the phone rang so I took the opportunity to sneak out and meet this guy, who told me to come outside from my window. It seemed important and he wanted me to bring my duel disk, so I did. I was curious and I didn't really want to stay inside anyway. He challenged me to a duel and I hesitantly accepted, and as for who he is. Well, he didn't say. He just said that he was instructed to duel me and if I lost, then his mistress would want a word with me. I figured that I wouldn't lose so I accepted." explained Yugi, after sitting up and resting his elbows on his knees and watching the ground, resting his weight on his arms as he did so.

"So who won?" asked Atem, now more worried about him.

"No one. The duel wasn't decided." replied Yugi.

Atem sighed before speaking, knowing that Yugi wouldn't want to hear this, especially from him. "Yugi listen. When we found you, you were alone. Tristan, Joey and Tea said that they didn't see anyone when they walked in and when I came in from the other side, I didn't see anyone either. The thing is, is that no one saw anyone come out and the police didn't find anyone in there. Well, they didn't find anything; just a few black marks on the ground."

"What? No he must of escaped then." said Yugi looking up at Atem

"Its true Yug. There was no one there." said Joey from the door. He was standing there with Tea, Tristan, Mai and grandpa.

"So what are you saying? That this is all in my head?" asked Yugi sounding a little too defensive than he intended to, as he looked over to Joey.

"No Yugi, no one's saying that, we're just saying that no one else was found, but that doesn't mean that you weren't duelling anyone." said Tea, coming in and kneeling in front of Yugi to be more level with him.

"I know that all the information right now is explaining that I was the only one in that incident, but I wasn't alone. I was duelling this guy, I didn't cause that explosion." explained Yugi hastily.

"We weren't saying that you caused it Yugi, we're just saying that no one was found." assured Atem.

"Yeah, that doesn't mean that no one was ever there." said Tristan.

"We'll figure this out Yug', don't you worry." assured Joey.

"Mm." was all Yugi could muster up.

'I don't believe it. I know they don't think I caused the explosion but I also know that they think that I was the only one in there. It doesn't make sense. I thought they'd believe me, but now they have me questioning myself on whether this is all in my head or not. There's no way that I could've done this, I mean I did have a cold, but it wasn't bad enough where I'd badly hallucinate and sneak out and cause an explosion. That's just crazy.' thought Yugi, before lying down and facing the wall. His friends were still in the room but he didn't care. He wasn't angry with them but he no longer wanted to talk about the issue. That, and he also knew that grandpa wants him to sleep. He wasn't going to let himself think that he caused it however, if the topic ever rises again, he'd hold his own and defend his side of the story.

"Please don't be angry with us Yugi." said Tea.

'Oh man. Now Tea thinks I'm angry with them.' thought Yugi. "I'm not angry with you, I'm just … tired." said Yugi. He didn't really want them to know that he was tired, but he figured they already knew.

"Ok well. We should go, you know, so you can sleep. Night Yugi." said Tea as she got up and walked towards the door followed by Mai, Tristan and Joey, who also said their good byes. Grandpa decided to walk them out so he left Atem alone to talk with Yugi.

"You didn't lie to them just then did you?" asked Atem worriedly.

"No I told you truth. There was someone there …" started Yugi, tiredly.

"I'm not referring to that." interrupted Atem.

"Oh, you mean when Tea asked me if I was angry with you. No I didn't lie then either. I'm not angry with you. I know you were just telling me what I probably needed to know, and I'm sorry if I sounded like I was annoyed, I'm just tired, its been a rough couple of days you know?" said Yugi, trying to keep his eyes open so he wouldn't fall asleep in case Atem wanted to keep talking to him.

"Yeah! Well you look terrible so I should probably let you rest up. We'll catch up later or tomorrow. When ever you feel up to it. I'm not leaving anytime soon. I seriously don't think so anyway." said Atem happily as he got up and walked towards his door.

"Atem!" said Yugi suddenly, causing Atem to pause at his door.

"Mm."

"Its good to see you again." said Yugi, giving him a small smile. This made Atem smile too.

"You too Yugi. You too." said Atem before he closed Yugi's bedroom door and left to go downstairs.


To be continued...

If I didn't have the pairing thing in the first chapter it would kind of sound like Yugi and Joey were going to get it on later on, the same with Yugi and Atem, thank god I mentioned the pairings. And go how Yugi brings Atem up in the arguments. If I were Atem I would have been like "hey don't bring me into this." anyway, this chapter was average, I reckon. The main highlight was that Yugi came back. Other than that nothing that interesting happened.

Later.

Next chapter: Friend or foe?