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Chapter Ten - Epilogue
The evening had well and truly set in, the moonlight was shining through the windows of the unoccupied rooms. But in the living room a few lamps were the source of light. On the sofa, Yugi sat with Atem leaning against him, he was still unconscious. Grandpa was in the kitchen heating up some warm water to attend to Atem's various wounds, having no attended to them yet to give Atem some time just to sleep. The most serve was the stab wound which Grandpa was quiet concerned about, he had suggested getting it looked at Yugi was not so sure given how Atem's mental state had been before he'd burnt up. The others had all gone home, or to find their families, leaving he and Grandpa with Atem.
Yugi had been trying to locate the mind link to see if he could try and rouse Atem but there was no sign. Maybe because Atem was unconscious, at the moment, meant that the mind link was cut off. It had been so long since they had last had a mind link, Yugi couldn't remember what it was like before. He would just have to wait until Atem awoke, which hopefully would be soon. That last statement was true as when Grandpa returned with various bandages and a bowl of warm water, Atem's eyelids flickered and slowly opened. As he awoke Yugi could felt Atem's emotions the link had defiantly returned. He also felt Atem's confusion.
"Told you that I wouldn't let anything happened to you." Yugi said, softly, stroking Atem's cheek in a comforting manner.
Grandpa drew up a chair next to the pair, placed the bowl of warm water and the bandages on the table next to him. Grandpa gently moved Atem's shirt to reveal the stab wound, he felt Atem flinch slightly but he gave him a reassuring look. The wound was still bleeding but much slower, so Grandpa cleaned the wound and covered it. He then, gently, took hold of one of Atem's wrists. Gently, Grandpa removed the blood soaked bandage and sighed as he saw the bloody mess underneath. He then set to work cleaned and covering the wrist, repeating the process with the other wrist.
Atem couldn't suppress a flinch as his wrists stung. But he 'snuggled' into Yugi and tried his best to ignore the stinging sensation. Once Grandpa had finished his work he stood up and took the bowl away. Yugi wrapped his arms fully around Atem in a very brotherly manner.
"Yugi, Atem there's some food in here. I think you two should eat something."
Yugi helped Atem into the kitchen where there was toast and soup waiting for them. Yugi ate both but Atem could only managed the toast. Looking at Atem, he looked pale and also fragile. Yugi eyed him, before Grandpa came back and told him that he'd made up the spare room. Turning to Atem,
"Would you like to sleep?"
The former pharaoh nodded slowly before Grandpa and Yugi helped him up the stairs and into the spare room. Yugi and Grandpa let him have some privacy whilst he changed into clothes suitable for sleeping in before they came in again. Yugi sat at the end of the bed, knowing that it would help Atem settle off to sleep. Grandpa came over and planted a gently kiss on Atem's forehead before exiting the room.
For a few minutes Atem lay there under the covers enjoying the warm that the covers offered, then a sad thought crossed his mind.
"I'm never going to see my father again, am I?"
Yugi looked over at Atem, before crawling up the bed and lying down next to him.
"No.. but you might someday." Tears rolled down Atem's face, "Hey, Atem I'm not going anywhere you will always have me."
Yugi wrapped an arm over his 'brother' and held him closer. For a long time he held Atem until he calmed and fell asleep. Having confirmed for definite that Atem really was sleeping, Yugi slipped out of the room. Back in the living room he found Grandpa sitting on the sofa.
"He's asleep."
"Good, he needs to sleep."
Yugi sighed, "I hope we can help him recover from all this."
Grandpa wrapped an arm around his grandson, "We'll help him, together."
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The city of Domino recovered as quickly as possible and normal life broke out again fairly quickly. Atem grew physically stronger but his various wounds took a long time. In fact Grandpa and Yugi were becoming so concerned about the stab wound and the wounds around his wrists that they took Atem to hospital. There the doctors turned Atem over to surgeons to check for internal damage in the stab wound and properly close it. The two wounds around his wrists are cleaned and bandaged.
His physical strength may be returning slowly, but his mental state wasn't. The once confident pharaoh was now very timid. He was always very quiet and nervous around anyone who was not Yugi or Grandpa. Hopefully, he would pull through it but that seemed that he would not. What Bakura had done to him had left a scar and that scar was the fact that his personality was forever changed. He would never be exactly same as before this whole ordeal started but that didn't matter to Yugi. Atem was safe and Bakura was long gone, never to threaten the world again.
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