Me: And we're back! Back to the story of "Set Me Free"! XD Creature: Last time, Yugi had just figured everything out. Will he forgive Atem? Annabi: They'll just have to wait and find out! Me: Yes! Now please read on! ;)
"I don't know if I can do this."
Atem was nervous as hell. He put the ice pack over his right eye.
Seto and his cousin were waiting outside of a restraint room; Yugi was in there. They put him there, hoping it would calm him down.
"Y'know, after twenty years of not knowing you wouldn't think he'd be so pissed." Seto drawled sarcastically.
Growling, Atem snapped,"Ah shut up Seto! He has every right to be mad!"
"Of course he does, you fucked up his life!" Seto snapped back.
Atem flinched. He knew that. Earlier, Yugi had socked Atem in the eye; that's why he had the icepack.
Afterwards, Keith suggested they shove Yugi in one of the restraint rooms. Probably not the smartest idea, but he was going rampant.
"Anyway," Atem sighed,"I better talk to him about this."
Seto nodded. "Good. Just make this snappy so we can carry out the rest of the plan."
"You can't rush these things Seto." Atem said sourly. He handed his cousin the ice pack.
Atem then unlocked the door, and gingerly stepped inside. The lights were on, and they were very powerful, very bright.
"What do you want." said the most sweetest voice.
Clearing his throat, Atem closed the door. "I just want to talk."
Yugi's back was to him. He sat cross legged on the floor, and his voice had grown cold. Still though, at least he said something.
Atem sighed. "Yugi please look at me."
Yugi did, for only a split second. He turned his head back.
Clearing his thoat again, Atem coughed,"Look. I won't lie to you any more. I... I did know about your case."
Yugi stayed silent.
"I knew everything, after you told me that Pegasus was your boss, and that you worked for him." Atem paused.
Suddenly, Yugi shot up, and slammed his fist in Atem's face.
CRUNCH! Atem wheeled back, and hit the wall. Yugi pounded into Atem with so much force, and an anger that he had built up for over twenty years.
Atem let Yugi smash into him. He knew he deserved it.
Once Yugi finally stopped, Atem murmered,"I'm sorry."
SLAP! Yugi gave Atem one final slap to the face.
It was silent for a good minute.
Atem then slowly got up, his back against the wall. His bangs hid his eyes. He was hurting, but he brushed it off.
Yugi stepped back, huffing out air.
Atem whispered hoarsely,"Yugi listen... I couldn't have felt this way about you. I didn't know. There is no changing it now. What's done is done."
Yugi glared at the floor.
Smiling, Atem said,"Besides, we never would have met each other if I hadn't done that."
"So?" Yugi asked bitterly.
Atem stopped smiling. "So... That means that something good came out of all this. Our love."
Yugi snorted. "Of course. And to get love it costed me my freedom."
"Well, love and freedom are not the same." Atem said ruefully. He was starting to get angry now.
Yugi shook. "You took half of my life away from me! The law fucked me, and so did you!"
"Yeah well I got news for ya!" Atem yelled back. "Life's not fair, and neither is the law!"
"You would know huh!" Yugi screamed,"You are so selfish!"
Atem blinked in surprise. "Selfish? Yugi... Look we never would have met! We never would have found each other! Doesn't that matter to you?"
Yugi was silent.
Feeling a large pit in his stomach Atem whispered painfully,"Y-Yugi... You d-do care right?..."
Looking away Yugi coughed.
"Please." Atem choked tearfully. "Don't tell me, that you don't care."
Yugi then said,"I pray to you, set me free!"
"What?" Atem said confused.
Yugi snapped,"Don't you see Atem? That's all we got! Is that same old song, that same old prayer! And it goes, SET ME FREE!"
Atem, just stood there dumbfounded.
Continueing, Yugi ranted,"I hope you realize that! Now that i'm free, I don't know what I want! Now that I know that it didn't have to be, our love is a lie!"
"IT'S NOT A LIE!" Atem roared. "Yugi! We've been together through thick and thin for over twenty years! That MATTERS!"
Yugi then got up in Atem's face. "What's right matters too! You put an innocent man in jail! That. Is. WRONG!"
"Do you love me!" Atem asked suddenly.
"What?" Yugi asked.
"Do. You. Love me?" Atem asked desperately.
Yugi just stared at Atem for a long time. The minutes went by so slowly. Time sluggishly progressed like a dying snail.
Finally, Yugi said,"Y'know man, when I was young I hated myself for being bi."
Atem blinked the tears out of his eyes. He let Yugi speak.
"I did. Oh I did, I thought it was disgusting," Yugi said quietly. "My mother told me a woman loving a woman, or a man loving a man was not right. So... when I met you..."
Atem held his breath.
"...I figured that she was still right." Yugi paused and stared at Atem.
Slumping, Atem grumbled,"Oh great."
"However...," Yugi stated,"Once you changed, I felt so happy. I didn't care if you were another man. Even when the other inmates would hate us, and try to isolate us, I still held on to our love."
Atem gazed hopefully at Yugi. "Yugi..."
"Still... The fact that I know now, that you are the person who framed me so long ago... It hurts..." Yugi whispered.
Atem then cautiosly lifted his hand to cup Yugis face; he could feel the dreaded tears, the searing pain behind each drop.
The older man then pulled Yugi to him, embracing him in a loving hug.
Atem whispered in Yugi's ear,"Can you still read my thoughts Aibou? Can you still hear the song in my heart?"
They didn't say anything for the longest time.
-Later-
Atem was in a jeep with Shadi driving. Yugi sat in the back with Joey and Seto.
The whole gang drove in Jeeps with the soldiers driving them. All night, they rode through the Sahara Desert, to get to the Valley of the Kings. The Millenium Items were with Atem in a special case.
Now, Yugi still hadn't really forgiven Atem. He was however, still going with them because he had waited a long time for the plan to commence. Seemingly, that was his reason.
To forgive was to be divine, and Yugi was no God. Soon, judgment come, to set them free.
END OF CHAPTER
Me: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Creature: You did not expect the chapter to be this short? Me: Noooooooo. . . . . . I did not. . . . . . Annabi: It's alright. Besides, you still got three chapters left! :D Creature: Exactly, so try to pack them full of stuff okay? Me: . . . . .Right. Look, i'm sorry the chapter was so short guys. It was mostly about Yugi and Atem's fight. And yes, they're only three chapters left to go. They'll be longer, and more full of 'stuff'. Not just drama. ;) So please, review, and vote on the poll! ^^