Princess of Games
Chapter Ten – So… What now?
In the aftermath of what happened, Tollom Devon and his family lost everything, because of what happened, and Tollom would be spending the rest of his life behind bars.
While Petula only got probation for what she did, she lost her queen bee status around the school, which made Yami's last school term bearable for her, it also helped that Yami had a restraining order on her as well.
Tristan got back on the reservation, and was released from the mental ward, but the scars that his dark side left on his friends were too deep, mixed in with the fact that their lives had moved on without him, made Tristan leave Domino to find his place in the world.
Rebecca killed herself in prison not long after she was sent there, in her suicide note she blamed Tea for stealing Yugi from her and ruining her life… The Motou's were never told the contents of the note.
Seto decided to take his family away from Domino on business for a few month's, where he kept Pete busy and out of contact with Yami, to give him some time without her and to think about his options, Serenity was not a fan of the idea, and warned her husband if he kept him from her that they could lose Pete for good.
When Pete finally found out what Seto was doing, there was a big fight which only ended when Serenity gave Pete Yami's new phone number, which Joey had given her, to give to Pete when he found out Seto was blocking him, it was obvious that Joey wasn't a fan of the idea.
Pete rang Yami as soon as he got the number, but she hung up on him, before he could get a word in, Pete tried again – serval times – but to no avail.
Things were icy between Pete and Seto since then, and they still were when the Kaiba family got back to Domino.
Yami finished her senior year at the top of the class as usual, but at the graduation she was hiding a secret. She tried to contact Pete repeatedly before she finally broke down and told her shocked mother everything.
Tea told Yugi, and Yugi called Joey to ask him to tell his older nephew to get into contact with Yami, while wondering why Pete hadn't answered any of her calls.
When Pete finally called Yami, it had been nearly five month's since that night in the Motel room, and the heart broken Yami refused to speak to him.
Pete did not give up trying to talk to Yami, it actually got to the point that Yami had begun to block out Pete's calls – and Paige's as well because she tried to get Yami to talk to her twin.
6 months after Rebecca's attack on Tea…
Pete tried to call Yami again to tell her that he was back in Domino and that he wanted to see her, only to find that she was still blocking his number.
Pete was still furious with his father for what he had done, it had now gotten to the point where they only talked if they had to, and if Yami was mentioned a fight would always break out between the two of them, Pete knew his mother hated it and wanted them to make up, but there was no way of making that happen until he had spoken to Yami, and Yami wasn't talking to him.
Pete put in a call to his uncle Joey, knowing that he probably knew where Yami was…
Yami and Reyna were in the park enjoying the early autumn day watching Atemu and Mai-Lee playing with a Frisbee.
"I heard Pete's back in town." Reyna said to Yami as they sat down on a park bench.
Yami glanced at Reyna, "And I would care about that, why?" she replied, as she put her hand on her swollen belly. "He doesn't care about me anymore… That's for sure."
"He's been trying to call you for weeks." Reyna pointed out, "Something tells me he wouldn't try to contact you if he didn't care."
Yami snorted, "If he cared, he would have answered some of my calls when I was trying to tell him that I was pregnant with his baby." She said bitterly, "He probably found another woman and only started calling me when she dumped him."
Then Mai-Lee started waving, "Hey dad! Hey Pete!" she called out.
Yami looked where Mai-Lee was waving and sure enough she saw Joey and Pete make their way towards them.
Feeling overwhelmed, Yami panicked and fled before Pete could catch her, leaving Reyna on the park bench, Yami swore she heard Pete call out her name as she escaped.
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Pete saw Yami running away from him and started to give chase, when Reyna got in his way.
"Get out of my way, Reyna!" Pete snapped, he looked past her, to the retreating from of Yami – was it his imagination or was she a little bigger around the middle? "Yami!" he called out to her. "Yami, come back!"
"She doesn't want to see you, Pete." Reyna growled back.
"Move Reyna!" Pete snarled in response.
"Hey! Easy Pete, don't attack Reyna," Joey cut in before Pete could do anything to Reyna. "Yami's gone, chasing her down isn't going to do her any good."
Pete kicked a drink can that was on the ground, and screamed in frustration.
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Yami stormed home and locked herself in the spare bedroom that was now being turned into a nursery for her baby.
Tea knocked on the door soon after, Yugi was out on business, "Yami, what's wrong?" she asked, "I thought you were at the park with Reyna."
"I was," Yami wailed though the door. "But Joey turned up with Pete!"
"You spoke to Pete?" Tea asked.
"No! I left before useless jackass could get anywhere near me!" Yami shot back, "I don't want to talk to him, not now, not ever."
"Yami you are going to have to talk to him sooner or later." Yami heard Tea sigh though the door, "That baby you're carrying is his as well."
"He doesn't care about me anymore, Mum!" Yami screamed back, "He won't care about our baby."
"Yami -" Tea started, but Yami cut her off.
"Go away, Mum!" She screamed at Tea though the door, "Just go!"
Yami sank down to the floor sobbing after her Mother left.
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When Pete got to the game shop, Tea didn't say or do anything to stop him from finding Yami. Actually, she told him that she was upstairs.
He looked in Yami's bedroom first and found that she wasn't there. He then checked both bathrooms, then the other bedrooms until he got to the locked spare bedroom.
He knocked on the door, and when he got no answer he forced the door open.
Yami had cried herself to sleep on the floor and he could see the tell tale bump in her belly that said she was pregnant. A wave of guilt passed though Pete as he gently picked Yami of the floor and took her back to her room and laid her down on her bed.
Then Pete grabbed a chair and moved it next to the bed, sat down on it and there he stayed until Yami woke up.
Yami woke to find someone was holding her hand - she looked for its owner and found it was Pete's hand.
She sat up as fast as her sore body would let her and slapped Pete hard, "Get out!" she snapped at him.
"I am not going anywhere, Yami," Pete replied. "Not until you let me explain what happened."
"Explain why you ignored me for five month's." Yami shot back, "I think it's pretty obvious why you ignored me."
"I didn't ignore you Yami, I didn't know your new mobile number and I couldn't get though to your home phone, so I sent you emails almost every day, only my father had them blocked, he had your emails blocked as well as well as your phone calls." Pete explained.
"Why the hell would your father do that?" Yami said, not quite believing Pete.
"I think he freaked out when I told him that we were destined to have a kid," Pete reached out and touched Yami's tummy. "I think he wanted us to spend some apart before we completed that prediction." He rubbed her belly gently, "I bit of a waste of time really, since you already knew you were going to have this one, no matter what happened to me after that night in the motel."
Yami watched his hand and then she nodded as she reached out for him to take her into a hug and quietly let out her pain as he held her in his arms.
Pete didn't leave her side, and no matter what got said he wouldn't lose contact with her again. That he was sure of.
Seto wasn't in a good mood - Pete didn't come home that night and he had his phone and comlink switched off.
Serenity appeared at the door of his home office, "Joey just called to say that he, Mai-Lee and the Motou's are having a picnic in the park, and we are all invited."
"You did tell him Pete's gone missing." Seto replied.
"Pete's fine," Was the response from his wife. "Joey said that Pete was with him."
"What?" Seto yelled. "Pete was with your brother last night?"
"Apparently," Serenity replied. "Oh and we are all going to this picnic, Joey also said if you refused to go he will get Mokuba and Yugi, and they will take you down there in the boot of Tea's car."
Seto snorted, "I like to see your brother try." was the amused reply.
"He's not going get the chance because you're coming now." Serenity turned and left his office.
Seto followed her out - he had been in her bad books since he cut Pete off from Yami. That was a mistake, he was willing to admit to that, but being Seto Kaiba meant that he sucked at apologies and he owed both Pete and Yami one, he sighed – sometime's life wasn't fair.
Yami was sitting on a picnic blanket while Pete sat behind her and nuzzled her neck.
They were watching Joey and Yugi chase Atemu and Mai-Lee around the park after, after the younger kids dumped a bucket of water on both of them. Tea was sitting across from Yami, laughing at her husband and son.
Mokuba was the first member of the Kaiba family, other than Pete, to arrive. "Hey Tea," He said, as he said as he walked up to them, "Look's like Yugi and Joey are having fun, with the younger kids."
Tea nodded, "They dumped a bucket of water on them." She said.
"It's a pity they couldn't have waited for dad and Seth to get here," Pete added, looking up at his uncle. "It would've made things more interesting."
Mokuba looked down at Pete, "And where were you last night, Pete?" he asked.
"I was doing some catching up and some relationship repairs." Pete replied, as he nuzzled Yami again.
Mokuba now looked at Yami and she saw his jaw drop, "Yami are you?" he asked.
Yami nodded, "Have been for six month's." she replied, "Pete is the father if you want to know."
"I think I need to sit down." Mokuba said and did so.
Paige was the next person to arrive and she nearly crushed Yami and Pete in a bear hug when she saw Yami, she then went over to Tea and they started talking about a baby shower.
"Your Uncle Joey is going to be disappointed," Yami said quietly to Pete a little while later - Pete had a hand on Yami's tummy. "He won't get to stuff your father into the back of my mother's car."
As if the baby could sense his or her grandfather coming, it kicked Pete's hand, "I think the little one knows he's coming to." Pete murmured back to her.
Seth ran ahead of his parents to meet up with Atemu and Mai-Lee, who immediately snuck off with a few buckets in hand.
Kaiba and Serenity were taking their time looking at the park and commenting to each other on several things.
"You look like you have just been though the dog wash, Wheeler." Kaiba said when he saw his brother-in-law.
"Just wait Kaiba," Joey snapped back. "I think the Kids have gone for more ammo."
Serenity went to talk to Yugi, Tea, Paige and a now wet Mokuba, while Kaiba and Joey had their usual argument – they didn't see the brat pack come up behind them with buckets of water.
Kaiba caught most of it and, as Joey started to chase after the kid's again, the now wet CEO decided to look for his elder son, "I see you two didn't waste too much time patching things up." He said as he approached Pete and Yami.
"They wouldn't have needed to be patched up if you didn't block us off from each other." Pete replied, as his arms tightened around Yami.
"Why didn't you come home last night?" Kaiba asked his son.
"I was needed elsewhere," Pete answered. "And besides, if I went home last night we would've had another fight… A big one."
Kaiba's eyes narrowed at Pete then he turned his glare at Yami, who shifted in Pete's arms and struggled to her feet, she then turned Kaiba's glare back on him.
Yami heard Serenity gasp, from where her parents were, "Well," Yami said, to her baby's paternal grandfather. "Have you got anything to say?"
Kaiba looked like an animal that had just been dazed by a car's headlights, and it took him a while to find his voice, "When did this happen?" he finally asked.
Pete then told him everything.
1 month later…
Thing's have happened pretty fast since that day we told dad in the park, Pete thought as he climbed into his bed, next to Yami - he was going to ask her to marry him soon. Yami and I are now living together in a new apartment and we are going to have a baby within two months, to boot!
Yami rolled over and snuggled up to him. Sure we are going to have our fair share of challenges in the future but I'm sure we are going to be able to face them, as long as we are together.
Pete then wrapped his arms around his future wife and fell asleep.
The End.
Extra Notes: Thanks for the Reviews. The next story in this series will be The Coming of Hope. I hope to post it soon.