Atem reached out to squeeze Téa's hand. Téa stared at it for a second and that looked up in anticipation at the doctor.

The doctor sighed. "You've been in a coma for 5 months Ms. Gardner." Téa gasped, covering her mouth. The doctor went on. "You had some injuries from your accident, nothing too serious... a couple of broken bones, scratches, burns, you needed some stitches here and there, but nothing life threatening physically, thankfully.

"You healed considerably since then and the scars have mostly diminished. You are very lucky to be alive Ms. Gardner." He paused, a lump forming in his throat. "I'll leave Mr. Mutou here to tell you the rest." He said, and not wanting to say any longer, he left quickly.

Téa now looked to Atem. "Atem..." she squeezed his hand back. "What...more is...there? How did I even get hurt?"

Atem pressed his lips together in a sorrowful expression. "Téa..." He breathed. "Five months ago, we were going to fly over to Cairo to take a boat so Yugi and I could duel to see if I would leave for the afterlife. Something happened..." He looked down and back up searching for something in Téa's cerulean eyes.

"There was a plane crash. I'm not sure what happened, but there was bad weather and we ended up crashing." He stopped to try to read her expression.

"Oh. Oh... So you never left did you? I thought you did..." She said in a tiny voice.

"No, Téa." He took a deep sigh. "They said that you might remember some things that might have never happened... because you were in a coma for so long. Your brain might have fabricated some events to keep your brain activity going."

"Ok... So I remember some things that didn't happen. That's no big deal. I mean this whole thing is not that bad. I'm ok, we're all ok. I mean it's not a big deal that your duel was postponed a little. Is Yugi going to duel you sometime in the future?"

"Téa." Atem bent down his head and squeezed Téa's hand tighter. He looked at her eyes again and Téa wasn't sure what to think. She never saw so much sorrow in Atem's amethyst eyes before. "Yugi is gone...so is everyone else...Joey, Tristan, Bakura,...they're all gone. They didn't survive the crash..."

She momentarily froze trying to process Atem's words.

Yugi is gone...

So is everyone else...

Joey, Tristan, Bakura...

They're all gone.

They didn't survive the crash...

"What?! STOP LYING TO ME! THEY'RE NOT GONE! THEY CAN'T BE GONE! YUGI CAN'T BE GONE! YOU'RE RIGHT HERE!"

"Téa." Atem said gently, patting her hand. "Yugi died immediately in the crash, somehow...I stayed alive taking over for him... I don't know how...but..."

"STOP!" She yanked her hand away and threw a pillow at him. "SWITCH WITH YUGI! HE'S NOT DEAD! THEY CAN'T ALL BE DEAD! HE CAN'T BE DEAD! I WAS JUST GOING TO TELL HIM I LOVE HIM! HE CAN'T BE DEAD! SWITCH WITH HIM!" She threw another pillow at him, as Atem started backing away. "SWITCH WITH HIM NOW! YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE DEAD INSTEAD OF HIM!"

At this point Téa didn't care. She was throwing all her pillows at him while hysterically sobbing and she threw her blankets. She didn't care that she was hitting him at all. She didn't care. All she knew was that here best friends were dead. Yugi, Joey, Tristan...even Bakura, they were all dead.

The nurses barged in to calm her down and that point some sense was knocked into her as she just realized what the last thing she just said to Atem.

Oh God.

How could she have said that to him?

She froze and then immediately resumed crying. She lost all her best friends and then to make it worst she treated him like that. He lost his friends too. Téa hated her life and she hated herself for saying that to him.

Welp. I bet you didn't expect that coming from me out of all writers, huh? Told you: experimental writing. Looks like the ceremonial duel never happened, Atem never passed on to the afterlife and all of Téa's closest friends are dead. Ooooooh. The part where the accident happened is right before the gang goes to Cairo's Port and meet up with Solomon, Duke, and Mokuba to go on the boat to travel to where the ceremonial duel will take place.To make things worse, Téa told Atem he should've been the one who was dead, not Yugi. In Téa's world, Atem was the one who was dead so she had gotten used to it. But Yugi and everyone else dying? Nope, that is a completely devastating surprise.

Also, next update will take longer probably. Encourageshipping Week (YamixAnzuxYugi) starts this weekend and I will be participating it in. I'll be posting a new fic titled 'A Collection of Enourageshipping Drabbles' most likely on Sunday, so if you're interested please check it out when I post!

I'd love to hear your thoughts about this chapter in a review!

~Startistica