I know I didn't mention any other friend than Joey, but in the first place they didn't know where Yami and Joey were in Tokyo. After the two returned from Tokyo I partly forgot them and partly didn't know what to do with them so I just let them out. Let's just say that they had own family business going on or helped Yami and Joey as good as they could.
@ Yami-Yugi: Here is more ^____^
@ Wolfspeaker: *blush* whoa, domo arigatou for the compliment and I'm really hurrying to get it finished ;)
@ Xanda: Thank you for reviewing and I hope you enjoy the rest of the story too.
@ The Insane Otaku AKA Caterfree: I know I'm cruel with the cliffhangers (and I admit that I love that *evilgrin*) And I think I'm going to out myself right now, but who is Wufei?
@ Si'ver: I'm sorry to hear that you won't have a computer in the next time; I know I wouldn't survive this.
@ cloud-1-3-5: I got your email and searched for some more information about this. The information you gave me made me curious and after I read some things about that powder I got some ideas for the sequel. Hey, I think I'm declaring you being my official inspiration ^___^ I had trouble to write a beginning so far your information helped a great deal, so thank you *glomb*. I already started working on the sequel since my mother used my computer and I couldn't continue typing T.T
//…..// Yami to Yugi
/.…./ Yugi to Yami
"..…" direct speech
'…..' thoughts or stressing something
Losing you
Chapter 14
~~~1 day prior ~evening~ ~~~
John was sitting in his old car, waiting for the traffic light to switch to green. He glanced at the passenger seat where he had placed Yugi's 'corpse' tightly wrapped in a white blanket so that not even his hair was showing. He thought back to everything that happened the evening before.
~~~ memories ~~~
It had taken him over an hour to convince his boss that he wanted to take the corpse back to his family. The boss had agreed to it after some time, but not without reminding Smith that his wife would be dead if he tried to warn her. After that he had returned to the hospital wing.
There he found Tom slightly shaking Yugi so that he was a few centimetres off of the bed, begging him to wake up and that this wasn't funny anymore. In the background he could still hear the heart monitor showing nothing else than the flat line. Since there was a guard with them in the room, John couldn't tell Tom how Yugi really was and tried his best to get Tom off his friend, who refused to let go.
"You have to do something, John. You're the doctor, you have to save Yugi." John tried his best to comfort him.
"Tom, please calm down."
"Calm down? Why aren't you doing anything? There has to be some way." Jonathan shook his head. He hated himself for what he was going to do.
"No, I can't do anything. It's too late." That was enough for Tom and he immediately let go of Yugi's upper arms, which caused Yugi to flop lifelessly down onto the bed. The guard, who had enough of this, left the hospital and John was just about to start his explanation, when his temporary help, who would look after the children while he was away, entered the hospital wing. So Jonathan just shook his head and left Tom in the other man's care. That man was rather cold towards the children, but took good care of the children's injuries. While he took care of Tom, John cleaned Yugi up and found some second hand clothes - which they had in store for emergencies - which even resembled Yugi's own clothing before they got torn and bloody. After that he wrapped Yugi in one of the blankets which were usually used to transport corpses and carried Yugi out of the hospital and out of the mines.
A blaring horn from the car behind him snapped him out of his thoughts. He glanced at the clock and drove on. With his current speed and including breaks he would arrive at the Mutous in the morning. If everything went alright, Yugi would wake up a few hours before they got there and only be asleep again due to the side effects of the drug which could take days to wear off.
If Joey had thought that Yami had been depressed a few days ago, he had been mistaken. While Yami had responded at least with gestures before, he now didn't react to anything. He was almost constantly silently crying now and sometimes sobbing openly. Joey refused to break down too. Yami needed him; he couldn't and wouldn't let him down now. Grandpa had gone out earlier to warn the woman Yami had been talking about, especially after Yami had mentioned that it was Yugi's wish. He had returned an hour after he had gone out, had gone into his bedroom and hadn't come out since then.
Joey waited for the right moment to talk to Yami, knowing that one wrong word at the wrong time would upset him even further. He needed to speak to Yami, or rather Yami needed to talk to someone since he was falling apart quickly.
Yami was sitting on the sofa his arms wrapped around his legs which he had pulled up to his chest, while he leant his chin on his knees. His cheeks were still wet, but the flow of tears had stopped for once.
'Now or never.' With that thought Joey sat down beside Yami, wrapping an arm around the other boy.
Yami sighed slightly when he felt an arm around his shoulder.
'Please just leave me alone.' He didn't react in any other way to Joey's touch.
"Yami, come on mate, we need to talk."
'I don't want to, don't you understand?'
"I know that you're hurt, but you don't have to deal with this alone."
'Just shut up and leave me alone.'
"If you don't want to speak to me then please talk at least to Grandpa."
"Why do you care?" Yami's voice was just above a whisper. He could tell that Joey was taken aback by that but he couldn't bring himself to care for the moment. Yugi was gone, that was all that currently ruled his mind and he didn't think about the fact that his behaviour was hurting his friend.
"You're my friend as well as Yugi is...was. Yugi wouldn't have wanted you to get down like that. Especially not when your Grandpa needs you."
That triggered something in Yami's mind. He stood up, surprising Joey, and went to Salomon's room but stopped just outside the door.
"Yami, what's-"
"Shush." Yami thought that he had heard something from within the room. He listened closely and heard it again. Puzzled he tried to make out what it was until he recognized the noise as muffled sobs.
He gasped and wondered how he could have been so stupid and selfish. True Yugi had been his other half and not feeling him anymore made him feel so incomplete and empty. But nevertheless he wasn't the only who was hurt because of everything. Yami knocked on the door and entered when he didn't get a response. Joey followed him but stayed in the doorway. Yami approached the bed where Salomon was sitting. He saw his bloodshot eyes and kneeled beside him onto the bed. He took Grandpa in his arms trying to comfort him and also searching comfort for himself.
Joey watched the scene from the doorway. He had finally reached Yami after almost 24 hours of trying. He knew that the following time was going to be really hard for everyone. Joey left the bedroom to give Yami and Salomon some time alone. He closed the door and leant against it. He could feel how tears were welling up in his eyes, but forced them back. He heard the door bell ring, pushed himself from the door and went to answer it. There in front of it were Tea, Tristan, Ryou and Bakura. Joey let them in and they headed into the living room. Tea was the first one to speak.
"So are there any news...have you been crying, Joey?"
'They don't know yet!' Joey tried to say something but the words refused to leave his mouth. He shook his head, fighting against the new tears, but slowly losing the battle. Tea gasped when she saw the tears running Joey's cheeks down.
"Oh God, it's Yugi, isn't it? He..." Tea gulped audibly before she whispered the last word.
"...died?" Joey just nodded and closed his eyes. He felt someone putting an arm around his shoulder and he leant into the touch.
"No, it can't be...how do you know anyway?" Tristan wasn't ready to believe that one of his friends had past away.
"I felt it." Joey's eyes snapped open and he tried to jerk out of Yami's arms. He hadn't noticed that Yami had come out of Salomon's room or that it had been Yami who was embracing him. Yami refused to let go of Joey silently giving and seeking the comfort both of them needed. Joey felt another hand, worn from time, on his arm and when he looked up he saw Grandpa sitting on his other side. He also noticed that Tea was leaning crying against Tristan whose face had blanched several shades. Ryou and Bakura were just standing there, not knowing what to do or how to react. Joey had expected Bakura to make a nasty remark, but Bakura just stood there watching the whole scene while Ryou took on of Bakura's hands in his own. Joey gave his small struggles to get out of Yami's arms up and just leant against Yami, soaking his shirt with his tears, while Yami started rubbing his back.
'No, I have to be strong for Yami and Grandpa. It hurts them worse than me. I have lost a good -no- my best friend, but Yami has lost the other half of his soul and his love and Grandpa his only grandchild and living relative. I can't and mustn't break down like this.' He tensed and tried to stop his flow of tears until Yami spoke soothingly to him.
"Sshh, I realize now that I'm not the only one hurting. Just let it out." Joey tried to fight it, but soon gave up and sobbed into Yami's chest.
"That's unfair. Yugi had been too young to die. He had always been nice to other people, sometimes even too naïve for his own good. Yugi just doesn't deserve to die like this." His voice broke and he just let the tears flow.
"I know, Joey, I know." Joey calmed down after some time, sitting up properly and nodding his thanks to Yami. A tense and sad silence had settled between the friends, showing how greatly every single person was affected that Yugi was gone and would never return.
Jonathan kept glancing between the street, his watch and the still unmoving form of Yugi. It was just a few minutes after the 48 hours mark. He knew that there was a tolerance time of approximately 30 minutes and when these pasted it was really over. He nearly caused an accident because he kept glancing to Yugi.
After the 30 minutes were over, John stopped and removed the blanket a bit Yugi until he could feel for a pulse on the boy's neck. His hand trembled slightly before he touched the cold skin. He searched for a heartbeat, but found none.
'No! I killed him. I never should have suggested this. If it hadn't been for me, Yugi would still be alive.' He slowly put the blanket back in place. He leant his arms onto the steering wheel and let his forehead rest on his arms. He had known Yugi when the boy had only been five and John had adored him at that time. Now, ten years later he was amazed of what became of the young man and how Yugi could still be like this after the way he had suffered from the loss of his parents.
He sighed and started the car again. It was time to tell his old friend the truth about how he had killed his grandchild.
~~~ around one hour prior ~~~
It was in the early morning when everyone was up again. The whole group had stayed at the Mutous home, since they had talked about Yugi, how they all had first met him and how they were going to miss him, until late at night. It had hurt Yami to relive all these memories, but sharing these with his friends made it slightly less painful than always replaying them in his mind.
When he had passed a mirror on his way to the living room, he had been shocked when he saw his own reflection. He didn't need any food and therefore normally couldn't lose or gain any weight, but somehow his worries had made his face become thinner. He had bags and black rings under his eyes while his eyes were almost as red as his normal eye color, evidence that he had cried himself to sleep. His pale face stood in a big contrast to his eyes.
He shook his head and went into the living room where everyone else was, except for Ryou who had gone to open the door. Ryou returned with a man behind him who carried a bundle in his arms. Grandpa immediately recognized his old friend.
"Jonathan? What are you doing in Domino again?" He asked the man who tried to say something, but didn't find the words for it. Yami was meanwhile concentrating in the bundle. There at the very top of it was a tip of hair coming out of the blankets; a red tip which resembled his own hair. He didn't pay attention to the man when he slowly walked in some kind of trance towards him. Everything seemed surreal to Yami while time was almost standing still. Jonathan had stopped trying to explain what happened and was watching Yami now standing in front of him, looking with wide fear filled eyes onto the bundle. Yami's hand shook intensely when he reached out and removed the blanket to reveal the familiar head of his aibou. Yami didn't take his eyes from Yugi's face when he gently took Yugi's body in his arms. His legs suddenly refused to support his weight any longer and he dropped to his knees. Yami noticed drops on Yugi's face and realized that they were his tears.
He was holding his aibou's head on his shoulder his body resting in his lap. Yugi didn't respond to his pleads to wake up nor to the shaking he got while Yami wept on the floor never releasing him. Yami looked at Yugi's pale - almost white - face and brought a hand up to touch his aibou's cheek. He withdrew it quickly after feeling the cold skin beneath his fingers and just cried harder. He couldn't believe it. He couldn't believe that after searching for the last weeks for Yugi he now returned home unmoving and cold carried by a stranger who knew his grandfather. This stranger and grandfather were currently talking in low voices, but Yami wasn't paying attention. It had just been two damn weeks his aibou had been missing. Yami knew that he had failed to protect him. He already knew it two weeks before when Yugi had been kidnapped.
The man was now explaining the situation to them, but Yami only listened half heartily, sitting there crying on the floor, rocking Yugi's corpse in his arms like he used to do when Yugi had had nightmares. When Jonathan turned to the point where he had suggested and later injected the drug, after explaining all the consequences and risks to Yugi, Yami started to listen.
"How much time has past since then?" Yami asked, but his voice, though sounding thick from crying, held suddenly a cold tone while he tried to control his anger. Jonathan quickly checked his watch.
"Over 50 hours. And the drug wasn't supposed to work longer than 48 hours."
"But you knew the risk, didn't you? You could, no, should have denied this drug to Yugi. What was Yugi to you; another test object?! A lab rat which could be used to experiment new drugs with?! That was totally irresponsible of you!" Yami was shouting at John while his anger was rapidly flaring up and with it the Eye of Horus started to burn brightly on his forehead. Jonathan took a step back while Joey hurried to get beside Yami. He grabbed Yami's shoulders and shook him firmly.
"Yami stop it. You don't know what you're doing!"
"I don't know what I am doing? No, I know exactly what I'm doing. I'm going to punish that stupid excuse of a doctor!"
"No, don't do it. I had been Yugi's decision and he knew what he was getting into. And Yugi wouldn't want you to do this." Yami looked down onto Yugi's face. Seeing the peaceful expression on it he calmed down and held Yugi even tighter in his arms. More calmly he spoke into Yugi's hair.
"You said that the drug was affecting everyone differently, right? So there is still a chance that he'll wake up."
"Yami, he-"
"No, he'll wake up. He wouldn't leave me." Joey shook sadly his head at Yami's false hope. Memories were churning in Yami's head. He saw Yugi smiling at him when he just entered the room...Yugi being distressed after waking up from a nightmare...Yugi's glee after winning a duel... Yugi being beaten by some bullies before he took control of Yugi's body...Yugi's cheerful self when he was with him and/or his friend...Yugi's dead eyes from his recent nightmares.
Yami's mind was in a big mess, which explained his sudden mood swings from angry to sadness to sudden hope. Grandpa spoke from where he was standing beside his friend with a voice that didn't sound like his.
"Yami, please let go of Yugi." Yami shook his head still holding onto the cold body of his aibou.
"Yami, it's over." Grandpa was now coming towards him and Yugi.
"Yami." Yami just shook his head. He wouldn't give up now.
"Yami, it's too late. Yugi knew the risk." He nearly choked on his own words.
"No."
"You need to let go, Yami." Yami just tightened his grip on Yugi and shook his head.
"Please Yami be sensible." Yami looked shortly up at Grandpa, before he buried his face into Yugi's hair, his body shaking due to his sobs. He couldn't live without his other half.
To be concluded.......
I can't believe I actually wrote that *going into hiding*
Now the last chapter needs only some editing due to some unexpected twist the story had made since I wrote the last chapter.
Serendipity.
@ Yami-Yugi: Here is more ^____^
@ Wolfspeaker: *blush* whoa, domo arigatou for the compliment and I'm really hurrying to get it finished ;)
@ Xanda: Thank you for reviewing and I hope you enjoy the rest of the story too.
@ The Insane Otaku AKA Caterfree: I know I'm cruel with the cliffhangers (and I admit that I love that *evilgrin*) And I think I'm going to out myself right now, but who is Wufei?
@ Si'ver: I'm sorry to hear that you won't have a computer in the next time; I know I wouldn't survive this.
@ cloud-1-3-5: I got your email and searched for some more information about this. The information you gave me made me curious and after I read some things about that powder I got some ideas for the sequel. Hey, I think I'm declaring you being my official inspiration ^___^ I had trouble to write a beginning so far your information helped a great deal, so thank you *glomb*. I already started working on the sequel since my mother used my computer and I couldn't continue typing T.T
//…..// Yami to Yugi
/.…./ Yugi to Yami
"..…" direct speech
'…..' thoughts or stressing something
Losing you
Chapter 14
~~~1 day prior ~evening~ ~~~
John was sitting in his old car, waiting for the traffic light to switch to green. He glanced at the passenger seat where he had placed Yugi's 'corpse' tightly wrapped in a white blanket so that not even his hair was showing. He thought back to everything that happened the evening before.
~~~ memories ~~~
It had taken him over an hour to convince his boss that he wanted to take the corpse back to his family. The boss had agreed to it after some time, but not without reminding Smith that his wife would be dead if he tried to warn her. After that he had returned to the hospital wing.
There he found Tom slightly shaking Yugi so that he was a few centimetres off of the bed, begging him to wake up and that this wasn't funny anymore. In the background he could still hear the heart monitor showing nothing else than the flat line. Since there was a guard with them in the room, John couldn't tell Tom how Yugi really was and tried his best to get Tom off his friend, who refused to let go.
"You have to do something, John. You're the doctor, you have to save Yugi." John tried his best to comfort him.
"Tom, please calm down."
"Calm down? Why aren't you doing anything? There has to be some way." Jonathan shook his head. He hated himself for what he was going to do.
"No, I can't do anything. It's too late." That was enough for Tom and he immediately let go of Yugi's upper arms, which caused Yugi to flop lifelessly down onto the bed. The guard, who had enough of this, left the hospital and John was just about to start his explanation, when his temporary help, who would look after the children while he was away, entered the hospital wing. So Jonathan just shook his head and left Tom in the other man's care. That man was rather cold towards the children, but took good care of the children's injuries. While he took care of Tom, John cleaned Yugi up and found some second hand clothes - which they had in store for emergencies - which even resembled Yugi's own clothing before they got torn and bloody. After that he wrapped Yugi in one of the blankets which were usually used to transport corpses and carried Yugi out of the hospital and out of the mines.
A blaring horn from the car behind him snapped him out of his thoughts. He glanced at the clock and drove on. With his current speed and including breaks he would arrive at the Mutous in the morning. If everything went alright, Yugi would wake up a few hours before they got there and only be asleep again due to the side effects of the drug which could take days to wear off.
If Joey had thought that Yami had been depressed a few days ago, he had been mistaken. While Yami had responded at least with gestures before, he now didn't react to anything. He was almost constantly silently crying now and sometimes sobbing openly. Joey refused to break down too. Yami needed him; he couldn't and wouldn't let him down now. Grandpa had gone out earlier to warn the woman Yami had been talking about, especially after Yami had mentioned that it was Yugi's wish. He had returned an hour after he had gone out, had gone into his bedroom and hadn't come out since then.
Joey waited for the right moment to talk to Yami, knowing that one wrong word at the wrong time would upset him even further. He needed to speak to Yami, or rather Yami needed to talk to someone since he was falling apart quickly.
Yami was sitting on the sofa his arms wrapped around his legs which he had pulled up to his chest, while he leant his chin on his knees. His cheeks were still wet, but the flow of tears had stopped for once.
'Now or never.' With that thought Joey sat down beside Yami, wrapping an arm around the other boy.
Yami sighed slightly when he felt an arm around his shoulder.
'Please just leave me alone.' He didn't react in any other way to Joey's touch.
"Yami, come on mate, we need to talk."
'I don't want to, don't you understand?'
"I know that you're hurt, but you don't have to deal with this alone."
'Just shut up and leave me alone.'
"If you don't want to speak to me then please talk at least to Grandpa."
"Why do you care?" Yami's voice was just above a whisper. He could tell that Joey was taken aback by that but he couldn't bring himself to care for the moment. Yugi was gone, that was all that currently ruled his mind and he didn't think about the fact that his behaviour was hurting his friend.
"You're my friend as well as Yugi is...was. Yugi wouldn't have wanted you to get down like that. Especially not when your Grandpa needs you."
That triggered something in Yami's mind. He stood up, surprising Joey, and went to Salomon's room but stopped just outside the door.
"Yami, what's-"
"Shush." Yami thought that he had heard something from within the room. He listened closely and heard it again. Puzzled he tried to make out what it was until he recognized the noise as muffled sobs.
He gasped and wondered how he could have been so stupid and selfish. True Yugi had been his other half and not feeling him anymore made him feel so incomplete and empty. But nevertheless he wasn't the only who was hurt because of everything. Yami knocked on the door and entered when he didn't get a response. Joey followed him but stayed in the doorway. Yami approached the bed where Salomon was sitting. He saw his bloodshot eyes and kneeled beside him onto the bed. He took Grandpa in his arms trying to comfort him and also searching comfort for himself.
Joey watched the scene from the doorway. He had finally reached Yami after almost 24 hours of trying. He knew that the following time was going to be really hard for everyone. Joey left the bedroom to give Yami and Salomon some time alone. He closed the door and leant against it. He could feel how tears were welling up in his eyes, but forced them back. He heard the door bell ring, pushed himself from the door and went to answer it. There in front of it were Tea, Tristan, Ryou and Bakura. Joey let them in and they headed into the living room. Tea was the first one to speak.
"So are there any news...have you been crying, Joey?"
'They don't know yet!' Joey tried to say something but the words refused to leave his mouth. He shook his head, fighting against the new tears, but slowly losing the battle. Tea gasped when she saw the tears running Joey's cheeks down.
"Oh God, it's Yugi, isn't it? He..." Tea gulped audibly before she whispered the last word.
"...died?" Joey just nodded and closed his eyes. He felt someone putting an arm around his shoulder and he leant into the touch.
"No, it can't be...how do you know anyway?" Tristan wasn't ready to believe that one of his friends had past away.
"I felt it." Joey's eyes snapped open and he tried to jerk out of Yami's arms. He hadn't noticed that Yami had come out of Salomon's room or that it had been Yami who was embracing him. Yami refused to let go of Joey silently giving and seeking the comfort both of them needed. Joey felt another hand, worn from time, on his arm and when he looked up he saw Grandpa sitting on his other side. He also noticed that Tea was leaning crying against Tristan whose face had blanched several shades. Ryou and Bakura were just standing there, not knowing what to do or how to react. Joey had expected Bakura to make a nasty remark, but Bakura just stood there watching the whole scene while Ryou took on of Bakura's hands in his own. Joey gave his small struggles to get out of Yami's arms up and just leant against Yami, soaking his shirt with his tears, while Yami started rubbing his back.
'No, I have to be strong for Yami and Grandpa. It hurts them worse than me. I have lost a good -no- my best friend, but Yami has lost the other half of his soul and his love and Grandpa his only grandchild and living relative. I can't and mustn't break down like this.' He tensed and tried to stop his flow of tears until Yami spoke soothingly to him.
"Sshh, I realize now that I'm not the only one hurting. Just let it out." Joey tried to fight it, but soon gave up and sobbed into Yami's chest.
"That's unfair. Yugi had been too young to die. He had always been nice to other people, sometimes even too naïve for his own good. Yugi just doesn't deserve to die like this." His voice broke and he just let the tears flow.
"I know, Joey, I know." Joey calmed down after some time, sitting up properly and nodding his thanks to Yami. A tense and sad silence had settled between the friends, showing how greatly every single person was affected that Yugi was gone and would never return.
Jonathan kept glancing between the street, his watch and the still unmoving form of Yugi. It was just a few minutes after the 48 hours mark. He knew that there was a tolerance time of approximately 30 minutes and when these pasted it was really over. He nearly caused an accident because he kept glancing to Yugi.
After the 30 minutes were over, John stopped and removed the blanket a bit Yugi until he could feel for a pulse on the boy's neck. His hand trembled slightly before he touched the cold skin. He searched for a heartbeat, but found none.
'No! I killed him. I never should have suggested this. If it hadn't been for me, Yugi would still be alive.' He slowly put the blanket back in place. He leant his arms onto the steering wheel and let his forehead rest on his arms. He had known Yugi when the boy had only been five and John had adored him at that time. Now, ten years later he was amazed of what became of the young man and how Yugi could still be like this after the way he had suffered from the loss of his parents.
He sighed and started the car again. It was time to tell his old friend the truth about how he had killed his grandchild.
~~~ around one hour prior ~~~
It was in the early morning when everyone was up again. The whole group had stayed at the Mutous home, since they had talked about Yugi, how they all had first met him and how they were going to miss him, until late at night. It had hurt Yami to relive all these memories, but sharing these with his friends made it slightly less painful than always replaying them in his mind.
When he had passed a mirror on his way to the living room, he had been shocked when he saw his own reflection. He didn't need any food and therefore normally couldn't lose or gain any weight, but somehow his worries had made his face become thinner. He had bags and black rings under his eyes while his eyes were almost as red as his normal eye color, evidence that he had cried himself to sleep. His pale face stood in a big contrast to his eyes.
He shook his head and went into the living room where everyone else was, except for Ryou who had gone to open the door. Ryou returned with a man behind him who carried a bundle in his arms. Grandpa immediately recognized his old friend.
"Jonathan? What are you doing in Domino again?" He asked the man who tried to say something, but didn't find the words for it. Yami was meanwhile concentrating in the bundle. There at the very top of it was a tip of hair coming out of the blankets; a red tip which resembled his own hair. He didn't pay attention to the man when he slowly walked in some kind of trance towards him. Everything seemed surreal to Yami while time was almost standing still. Jonathan had stopped trying to explain what happened and was watching Yami now standing in front of him, looking with wide fear filled eyes onto the bundle. Yami's hand shook intensely when he reached out and removed the blanket to reveal the familiar head of his aibou. Yami didn't take his eyes from Yugi's face when he gently took Yugi's body in his arms. His legs suddenly refused to support his weight any longer and he dropped to his knees. Yami noticed drops on Yugi's face and realized that they were his tears.
He was holding his aibou's head on his shoulder his body resting in his lap. Yugi didn't respond to his pleads to wake up nor to the shaking he got while Yami wept on the floor never releasing him. Yami looked at Yugi's pale - almost white - face and brought a hand up to touch his aibou's cheek. He withdrew it quickly after feeling the cold skin beneath his fingers and just cried harder. He couldn't believe it. He couldn't believe that after searching for the last weeks for Yugi he now returned home unmoving and cold carried by a stranger who knew his grandfather. This stranger and grandfather were currently talking in low voices, but Yami wasn't paying attention. It had just been two damn weeks his aibou had been missing. Yami knew that he had failed to protect him. He already knew it two weeks before when Yugi had been kidnapped.
The man was now explaining the situation to them, but Yami only listened half heartily, sitting there crying on the floor, rocking Yugi's corpse in his arms like he used to do when Yugi had had nightmares. When Jonathan turned to the point where he had suggested and later injected the drug, after explaining all the consequences and risks to Yugi, Yami started to listen.
"How much time has past since then?" Yami asked, but his voice, though sounding thick from crying, held suddenly a cold tone while he tried to control his anger. Jonathan quickly checked his watch.
"Over 50 hours. And the drug wasn't supposed to work longer than 48 hours."
"But you knew the risk, didn't you? You could, no, should have denied this drug to Yugi. What was Yugi to you; another test object?! A lab rat which could be used to experiment new drugs with?! That was totally irresponsible of you!" Yami was shouting at John while his anger was rapidly flaring up and with it the Eye of Horus started to burn brightly on his forehead. Jonathan took a step back while Joey hurried to get beside Yami. He grabbed Yami's shoulders and shook him firmly.
"Yami stop it. You don't know what you're doing!"
"I don't know what I am doing? No, I know exactly what I'm doing. I'm going to punish that stupid excuse of a doctor!"
"No, don't do it. I had been Yugi's decision and he knew what he was getting into. And Yugi wouldn't want you to do this." Yami looked down onto Yugi's face. Seeing the peaceful expression on it he calmed down and held Yugi even tighter in his arms. More calmly he spoke into Yugi's hair.
"You said that the drug was affecting everyone differently, right? So there is still a chance that he'll wake up."
"Yami, he-"
"No, he'll wake up. He wouldn't leave me." Joey shook sadly his head at Yami's false hope. Memories were churning in Yami's head. He saw Yugi smiling at him when he just entered the room...Yugi being distressed after waking up from a nightmare...Yugi's glee after winning a duel... Yugi being beaten by some bullies before he took control of Yugi's body...Yugi's cheerful self when he was with him and/or his friend...Yugi's dead eyes from his recent nightmares.
Yami's mind was in a big mess, which explained his sudden mood swings from angry to sadness to sudden hope. Grandpa spoke from where he was standing beside his friend with a voice that didn't sound like his.
"Yami, please let go of Yugi." Yami shook his head still holding onto the cold body of his aibou.
"Yami, it's over." Grandpa was now coming towards him and Yugi.
"Yami." Yami just shook his head. He wouldn't give up now.
"Yami, it's too late. Yugi knew the risk." He nearly choked on his own words.
"No."
"You need to let go, Yami." Yami just tightened his grip on Yugi and shook his head.
"Please Yami be sensible." Yami looked shortly up at Grandpa, before he buried his face into Yugi's hair, his body shaking due to his sobs. He couldn't live without his other half.
To be concluded.......
I can't believe I actually wrote that *going into hiding*
Now the last chapter needs only some editing due to some unexpected twist the story had made since I wrote the last chapter.
Serendipity.