When the new museum wing opened to the public, Cerise was there. She stayed near the back of the crowd, and out of Ishizu's site. When she was explaining about the sarcophagus, Cerise asked a question. She put up her hand and Ishizu saw her.
"Yes, you at the back." She said.
"How old is the sarcophagus?" she asked.
"Approximately 5000 years old."
"And the name of the Pharaoh?" she challenged her.
She looked at her as if wanting to say 'stop'.
"His name was Pharaoh Atemu." She said.
"Now, Mike will take over from me, and you can all proceed into the Jurassic section." Cerise pushed herself to the front of the crowd and when everyone left, she called Ishizu.
"Please. Don't go. I have to talk to you." She shouted.
"I have to get back to the mummy, excuse me." Ishizu said, blowing her off.
"Please." She said walking behind her.
"Atemu is gone." Cerise said, causing Ishizu to stop in her tracks.
She turned around in disbelief.
"Excuse me?" she asked.
"He's gone. We can't call him out of the puzzle." She said.
She looked into the sarcophagus room, and saw that the mummy was still there.
"So he is still alive." Cerise begged.
Ishizu nodded.
"He must be." Ishizu said.
"Do you think he would have gone back?" Cerise asked.
"Not without you. Both of you have to take the trip together or it won't work." She said.
"So he is still here?"
"I don't know. You just have to wait and see." She said.

Cerise went back to her apartment and stayed up for three days, so she wouldn't miss him coming home. She watched TV until her eyes hurt; they were so heavy...
Maybe, just a little nap, just for a little while...

She woke up and heard someone knocking on the door.
"Atem." She got up and ran for the door.
When she opened it, it was Joey and the others.
"Hey." Joey said.
"Oh, it's you. Hi." She let them in and closed the door.
It was sunset and they had brought her something to eat. They hadn't seen her since she came home from the museum opening.
"Nothing?" Yugi asked.
She shook her head.
"He'll come back." Tristan said.
"Thanks." She started crying.
She went to the bathroom and got a tissue. She came back and sat on the couch.
"Would you like some company?" Yugi asked.
"Thanks." She said.
Joey dished up and the pizza. They all grabbed their plates and Yugi brought Cerise her plate. At eight they left and Cerise felt a bit better. She thought that she would go and sleep just for an hour. She crawled into bed and fell asleep.

She woke up at ten, and felt an icy breeze blowing. She looked into the living room and saw that a window was open and the curtain was flapping in the breeze. She got up, stumbled half asleep toward it and closed it. She stumbled back to bed, flopping into it and lay her head down on the pillow. Then she smelt something. She sat up in her bed and looked around the room.
"Atem." She said.
"Hi." He said.
"Where are you?" she reached for the nightlight.
She flipped the switch and the dim light filled her room and a small amount faded into the living room. He was standing close to the window that he had just closed.
"Where have you been?" she asked as she got out of bed and walked towards him.
He walked closer to her and she threw her arms around him. He smelt her scent on her neck, but resisted kissing her neck.
"Egypt." He said.
"I went to Egypt. Where were you?" she asked and he shook his head.
"I don't exactly know where." He said, rubbing his head.
"What were you doing in Egypt? Wait a minute, you're taller." She said.
He was the same height as her last time they hugged, but now he was a few inches taller than her.
"It comes with the perks." He smiled.
"Perks? It, what are you talking about?" she said.
"For all the good work I've done, the gods and millennium items granted me a wish." He said.
"When I touched the mummy, I felt myself being pulled away. Away from the puzzle and Yugi. I was then taken to the chamber of the gods, where they, with the magic of the millennium items, granted me one wish." He explained.
"Really? What did you wish for?" she smiled at him.
The result was obvious.
"My own body." He said.
"So, that's why you disappeared from the puzzle?" she asked him and he nodded. Then it hit her.
"So you don't have to live in the puzzle anymore. You can be with the living." She asked.
"Yes." He smiled.
She was so happy, that she was crying. She hugged him tightly and cried into his shoulder. He hugged her tighter and they stood embracing for a minute before she realised he must be starving.
"Are you hungry?" she rushed to the kitchen.
"Why are you crying?" he asked.
"Sometimes when your heart is filled with joy, a little may spill from your eyes." she said.
He smiled and walked over to the kitchen counter and leaned over to see what she had eaten for dinner.
"Yes, a bit." He said.
"The guys came over before and brought pizzas with. Would you like some?" she asked him.
"Yes, that would be nice." He said, walking over to the couch.
He sat down, and switched on the TV. She warmed up the pizza in microwave. She noticed that he seemed a bit pale, and distant. Aloof.
"I have to let them know you're here." She picked up the phone and dialled Yugi's number.
"No, it's late. We can tell them tomorrow." He said, looking over his shoulder. She looked at the time and it was past midnight already.
"You're right." She put down the phone.
She got the pizza out of the microwave and gave a plate to Atemu. When they had finished, she cuddled up to him and they talked for a while.
"I went to Egypt, to go ask Marik or Odeon if they had seen you, they hadn't." She said.
"Oh." he said, not looking at her.
"I saw you, at the Colossi of Memnon." He said, looking at her.
"Why did you come to me, I was worried sick. I thought, you had gone back without me." she said looking at him.
"I was very weak. I couldn't call out to you." He said simply, lying.
He never looked at her, but he seemed, different.
"You seem preoccupied." She said.
"I'm just, adjusting." He smiled at her.
"It's going to be so weird." She said.
"What is?" he asked before he kissed her on the top of her head.
"Seeing you and Yugi in the same room at the same time." She said.
"You'll get used to it." He replied.
He thought of telling her, she would notice soon if he didn't. He took a deep breath and got ready to tell her.
"Cerise, there is something I want to tell you." He said.
"Yeah, what?" she smiled up at him.
"I'm not exactly the same as I was." He said to her.
"No, you have your own body." She smiled, thinking of the advantages of him having his own body. She lifted his jacket siding to see what he was working with. It wasn't bad, she smiled to herself.
"Yes, but, I'm not, exactly… human." He said.
She sat up and looked at him in surprise.
"What do you mean?" she asked.
"Remember that Dracula movie we saw, the one you like so much." He smiled at her.
"Yeah, what about it?" she asked him.
"Well, when I came around, and saw that I had a body, I wasn't really in a position to protect myself." He explained.
"What happened?"
"I met this guy, and he well," he stopped.
He wasn't sure how she would accept this information. She put her hand on his thigh, as if to tell him it was okay.
"He was a, blood demon." He said.
"Blood demon, don't you maybe mean vampire."
"No. He could go out during the day, and he could also eat food, not only blood." He said.
"Atem, what about him?" she asked him. She hoped this wasn't going the way she thought it was going.
He looked at her and moved his collar. She gasped at what she saw. Two bruised and blue puncture marks, on his neck.
"He bit you!" she shouted.
"Yes, he knew that I was weak and didn't know how to work my body and he took advantage of that. He also knew who I was. A Pharaoh, I mean." He added.
"But..." she stopped, moving a little bit away from him.
"If he bit you, and you're not dead, then that means…" she got up and walked away from him.
"I'm sorry." He stood up and walked after her.
"I don't believe it." She said.
"It's true. Don't worry, it won't hurt much." He said, walking to her.
"No ways, you are not going to bite me." she pointed at him.
"I have to." He said.
She got to the door, and it was locked. She remembered that the key was next to her bed.
"If I don't, you will die, and I'll live forever, alone." He said.
"You want to kill me, so I can live forever." She edged closer to her room.
But he blocked her way with a hand against the wall. She tried the other way and he blocked that way too. She was trapped, between him and the wall. She turned towards him, and saw that he had bared his fangs.
"No, Atem, you can fight this." she said.
He came closer, but closed his mouth and pulled back his fangs. He looked at her, standing there. She trusted him so much that she wouldn't try and defend herself.
"It doesn't hurt as much as you would expect it." He said, leaning in closer to her neck.
He opened his mouth and his fangs extended. She felt his warm breath on her neck, and his tongue licking her neck. She felt her resolve melting but she had to defend herself, so she pushed him away, and he went back a foot or two, but then came right back. He slammed her against the wall with all his weight behind him and grabbed her wrists tightly and held them up against the wall above her head.
"Never figured you for a fighter." He smiled his toothy grin.
"There's a lot you don't know about me." she said, wiggling around so that he couldn't get his fangs into her neck.
He knew he would have to use another method to get to her neck. He relaxed his grip on her wrists and held them against the wall tenderly. Her fists relaxed and soon her hands were open.
"I know you love me." he said, brushing his lips against hers.
She leant forward to kiss him, but he pulled back.
"You know I do." She whispered.
He stood up straight and took a step forward. She moved back, into the wall as far as she could. He pushed his body right up to hers. She felt his firm chest and stomach, on her soft, delicate skin.
"Don't you want me?" he whispered into her right ear.
"I do." She whispered back.
He let go of her left hand and slid his hand down her side, to her thigh. He slid his hand up her boxers as far as the material would allow. She intertwined her hand with his free hand.
"You said you know what I want. Do you really?" he said, centimetres from her lips.
She was breathing like she couldn't get air, and the room seemed to be so sweltering.
"I wanted this body for a reason." He added, brushing his lips against hers again.
He took his hand out from the bottom of her boxers. They both looked down at his hand. He brought it up to the top of her boxers and pulled them down slightly, to reveal her left hip and a bit of her stomach. She looked back up at his face. He looked at her and came in closer to her mouth.
"Give yourself to me." he said.
"Atemu." She breathed, wanting to kiss him.
"We had such a beautiful life together, and we can have that again." He whispered.
"But, we…" she tried to say but he put his finger on her lips.
"Do you love me?" he asked running his finger across her lips.
"Yes." She breathed.
She wanted him so much it was driving her crazy.
"You've always wanted to wild, unable to be tamed by anyone." He said, leaning his head to one side, knowing he was right.
"Yes, I want that." She said.
"Let me awaken the untamed spirit in you." He said, leaning in to kiss her.
She watched his lips move closer to hers and she wanted it as much as he did. Their lips touched and it was soft, intimate, gentle. She closed her eyes and kissed him back. He moved her lips apart with his and slid his tongue into her mouth. It was like he had never kissed her before, wild, unbridled, and passionate. He pressed his body even closer to hers, so close that she could feel his heart beating in his chest. He kissed her along her cheek and down her neck. She arched her neck back in pleasure and before she knew it, he had embedded his two long fangs in the right side her neck. She put her hands on his chest and tried to push him away, but he was firmly locked in that stance.
His mouth never left the two holes, not even for a millisecond. She gasped over his shoulder as she realized what was happening, he was killing her. He pushed her up against the wall so she wouldn't move too much.
When he had drained away a lot of her blood, her legs gave way under her. He held her tightly and slowly lowered her to the ground. The sound of him sucking her blood out of her body was the only sound in the apartment. When he ran out of air, he sat back onto his haunches, breathing hard. He looked down at her, unable to move her limbs due to blood loss. She was so pale already, and that exaggerated the red blood on her neck.
"Why are you... doing this?" she said weakly.
"Because I love you." He said, wiping the bit of blood away for around his mouth.
The blood started to run out of the two punctures in her neck onto her wooden floor. He had hit her jugular vein, she knew it. She gasped for air, like she was drowning, unable to move, unable to fight. She was dying. He saw her eye roll back in their sockets before looking back at him.
"Not too long now." he said, leaning forward to put his mouth over the holes again.
"No!" she shouted and pushed him away with all the strength she had left.
He leaned back onto his haunches and looked at her.
"But you'll die." He said.
"I'm already dead." She said.
A little pool of blood was forming on the floor as it ran down her neck.
"Cerise, I have to do this now, or else."
"Or else... what?" she asked.
He leaned closer, and this time he caught he hands, and pinned them down on the floor. He bent down and started sucking again. She was too weak already to fight him and he was a lot stronger than before, so she gave in, relaxed and waited for it to be over. She closed her eyes, and passed out.
When all her blood was gone, Atemu sat back and sighed. He lifted his finger to his fang and punctured it and a drop of blood oozed out the hole. He rubbed his finger against her lips and on her tongue and saw the blood flow down into her throat. Then he picked her up and carried her to her bed, covered her and got in next to her.