Disclaimer: IF they were mine, which they're not, I would be throwing a
huge party every day. I would be singing. I would be dancing. I would be
creating life-size dolls of Yami and Seto. So if you see those in stores
anytime soon, then you can be sure that Yu-Gi-Oh belongs to me. If not,
then it's not mine.
Yami: And what exactly would you be doing with these life-size dolls?
Seto: You already have us. What do you want with dolls?
Me: I'd take them to school and make all the people jealous.
Seto: Don't you do that already?
Me: Oh, yeah...
Yami: rolls eyes You are so weird.
Me: I know. Ain't life grand?
Seto: groan
Yami: groan
Author's Notes: This chapter is dedicated to all the people who actually bothered to review chapter one: Diomira, Elvish Violinist of Ra, lily22, Akumu*Draka, Angel Reaper, waterfall, Katarik, JK, KAylen, Lil-Pink-Mew, and FOG. This is dedicated to you guys because, even though angst is not my style and the first chapter was probably really crappy, you still reviewed! And they were fairly GOOD reviews, too! I feel so special.
Anyway, I'd especially like to say thank you to Fire Tears. It was such an honor, getting a review from the Queen of Seto Introspectives for my own little introspective! I recommend that everyone go check out one of hers after you finish reading this. Goodness knows they're much better than mine.
That said, here's Part Two of "Isolation!"
~*~
It's so strange, being back to myself. That terrible, horrible experience in that soul card has really made me stop and think. I guess now is the time that I start thinking about all the "what ifs" that have turned my world upside down.
When you're locked away someplace, someplace where there's absolutely nothing around except you, you find a lot of time to think. And after a while, you find yourself questioning things you'd never have thought of before. For me, it was different. Most people, when they're locked away, at least have their vocal cords. They can talk to themselves, keeping away the horrifying silence. But I was in that card, with nothing but my mind. So I guess it was natural to think. What else could I have done?
Besides die, I mean.
I thought a lot about the "what ifs" when I was in there, too. Like, what if Yugi had never drawn the last piece of Exodia? I suppose I never would have gotten into this mess. I'd still be the world champion, I'd still be with Mokuba, I'd still have my company...
And I'd still have that dark presence haunting me. Guess that doesn't work out the way I'd hoped.
What if, during Yugi's duel with the freak I've come to know as Phantom Kaiba, I wasn't able to get to my computer? What if Phantom Kaiba had attacked instead of throwing his "sure" victory in Yugi's face? And while I'm at it, what if the Heart of the Cards was all a big fake and the attack had gone through?
Um...my company would be gone, Yugi's grandpa would be dead, and Mokuba and I would still be trapped in those soul cards. Gee, that's even peachier than the first "what if".
Suppose Yugi hadn't been able to control Yami during the Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon duel...what would have happened to me? I'd have fallen off the castle wall, fallen to my doom. I wonder if Yami knew about the parachute under my trench coat? He-he-he, that's right, Seto. Keep joking, keep laughing. It's funny, everything's funny...
Would I have died? Most likely. Would I have welcomed it? ...I can't answer that question. Not now. I don't even want to think about that time.
They let me out. I'm free. I have a body. Just the thought of it sends my mind reeling. How strange that such a simple thing like having a body could be so magical. That and seeing my brother...oh, man, I would have gladly stayed in that card if, even just for a few seconds, it meant I could have seen Mokuba restored.
I don't think anyone would care to know where I was when I woke up. Talking to yourself again, Seto? So strange, when for so long, you've been the only person to talk to, and now that you have people to say things to and lips to say them with, you're still talking to yourself.
When I came to, I almost threw up. My coat was gone and I was sitting, chained, in a corner of a murky cell. My coat gone...I had no way of getting free. And then, on my wrist, a gold bracelet with the initials "M.P."? What had Pegasus done with me? And how in the heck was I going to get out of there?
I about chopped off my wrist, trying to get that sickening piece of jewelry off. Must have been the added boost of adrenaline, because it snapped with one swift yank. Fortunately, one of the fragments was thin and I was able to pick the lock with it. The same went for the door.
Running, running through those dank halls, faster than I've ever run before, trying to find my coat and briefcase. If Pegasus had stolen my new technology, he was going to pay and pay dearly.but I never found him. My stuff was stashed haphazardly behind a suit of armor. But where was Mokuba?
Figured I'd go out to the gates. There was only one way into Pegasus's castle; therefore there was only one way out. If Yugi or Mokuba came out, I'd be waiting. And come they did. The doors opened, and there he was, running to me.but even as I embraced my little brother, I couldn't help but wonder where Yami was. I was surprised; Yugi actually had control. I was expecting Yami to come out and claw my eyes out or something for everything I'd put him and Yugi through. But he didn't.
I can't say I was disappointed, but I can't say I was thrilled, either. And then there was Joey, that stupid puppy dog, staring at me with tears in his eyes...what was he thinking? That after all the insults I'd made towards him (and still completely agreed with, thank you very much), I'd suddenly fall in love with him the first time I saw him again? I don't think so, puppy dog.
Well, there's one good thing, at least. Tea didn't start preaching about friendship again.
Good grief, if she had, I think I would have just gone back in that stupid card. Does she actually believe that ANYONE listens to those sermons?! I'm surprised they haven't just taken out a roll of duct tape and taped her big fat mouth shut. Actually, I have a roll in one of the hidden pockets in my trench coat...
But knowing Yugi, he'd probably give me that stupid pout and tell me that wasn't nice. Heaven forbid anyone does ANYTHING bad to his precious girlfriend. It almost makes me wonder what Yami thinks about all that...he's much too smart to even consider liking her, right? I'm still mystified as to how Yugi could think she's even remotely cute...
To be honest, taking all seven of us home in my helicopter was not easy. Yami and Yugi almost split into two people, which would make eight. And if Ryou's got the Millennium Ring, wouldn't he have a Yami, too? Nine?! No way nine people would fit. Guess we'd have to throw a few overboard. A certain brunette comes to mind...
It ended up that Yami just took control. He said he was sick of hanging around in his soul room and that Yugi could just go play with his toys or something. (Didn't understand a word of that, but what the heck? At least now I have one semi-intelligent person to talk to on the way home.) Actually, we didn't have too bad of a time. Strangely enough, Yami understood most of the gripes I had about Duel Monsters. Of course, when he tried to assure me that the Heart of the Cards could cure all of them, I almost threw the copter into neutral and told him he could get out and walk the rest of the way home.
And yes, we were still over the ocean.
But here's the neat part: Yami was cool with that. He just shrugged and was like, "Please don't. Wet leather is not fun." I laughed, really I did. If you can believe that. It wasn't so much what he said, but the way he said it. He just had this perfectly innocent, completely straight face, but his eyes were laughing. So I just started up the copter again and we kept going for home.
Scared the crap out of me, though, when Joey decided to see if he could turn on the radio. Stupid chihuahua. He hit the autopilot, completely disengaging it. We almost took a swim in fifty-degree water. It would have been funny, if we all hadn't been so terrified. Seriously, the control stick lurched forward and the copter suddenly did a nosedive right towards the waves...let's just say it was rather unpleasant.
I don't remember exactly who started screaming first. Tea, screaming out of sheer terror; Joey, screaming out of shock; Mokuba, screaming like a giddy kid on a roller coaster; or me, screaming about stupid chihuahuas that are trying to kill us all. Ryou just sort of smirked at us, observing the scene through angular brown eyes. Strange...there's something going on with that kid. One minute he's totally nice, and the next he's cruel and sadistic. His Yami, maybe?
Anyway, back to the story, we SOMEHOW managed to get home (after I whipped out aforementioned duct tape and taped Joey's wrists to the armrests of his chair) without further incident. Then I called a limo to take me and Mokuba home. Of course, it wasn't just me and Mokuba who rode in the limo. When I attempted to get Mokuba in before anyone said anything, Tea opened her big fat mouth and started preaching about how it was cruel to leave them all in the cold and true friends help each other. Okay, who said I was their friend?
It ended up, though, that they all piled into the limo before I could say anything. Then Mokuba just fixed me with the most adorable little face anyone ever saw and said, "But Seto, it's cold out. Can't we please give them a ride?"
Yugi lives four blocks from where we landed. Heaven forbid he be forced to walk four whole blocks in the 65-degree weather. Wearing pants and a jacket. Cold, heck. Mokuba just wanted more time with his new friends.
Anyway, we loaded them all into the back of the limo. Personally, I wanted to stuff Joey into the trunk, but the others wouldn't let me. And then, of course, Tea opened her big fat mouth AGAIN and started preaching about how I should be nicer to them considering how they saved Mokuba and blah, blah, blah. Honestly, I actually pulled my duct tape out of my pocket that time. But fortunately for Tea, Yami managed to shut her up with some talk about going home to take a shower because her hair looked like a rat's nest.
I have never seen a more perfectly timed insult. I mean, her mouth was hanging open for a full ten seconds before she got all ticked off at him. I wonder if she realizes that her precious Yugi is actually two people in one? Or am I the only one to figure it out?
If they haven't yet, they're dumber than they look. Hello, people! Never mind that Yami is something like a foot taller than Yugi, his eyes are different, his voice is lower, he wears different clothes, different shoes, and his hair is different! No, they're the same person! Morons.
Anyway, we took them all home. Mokuba insisted that we take Yugi and Yami home last, because he wanted to chat with his new friend longer. The last I heard, they were discussing something along the lines of, "My big brother is the best duelist ever!" "Nuh-uh! Yami's the best!" "Is not!" "Is too!" "Is NOT!" "Is TOO!" "Is not times infinity!" "Is too times infinity squared!"
Okay, so that wasn't technically what they said, but it should have been. Seriously, being in that card did something to my mind. I'm developing a really twisted sense of humor...this is not good.
Now that I'm free, though, I've realized something else: when you're alone, isolated, with no chance of survival, you start to think about all the things you've done in your life and start regretting them. For that short time, I regretted tearing up Yugi's Blue Eyes. I regretted being nasty to them all the time. I even regretted calling Joey a chihuahua. I didn't regret that one as much as the others, but I still kind of felt sorry about it. Just a tad.
Anyway, that got me to thinking about some of the things I was wondering while I was in that card...the major thing I regretted in my life was not having anyone other than Mokuba in my life. In complete and utter desperation, I grasped at threads to hold on to, trying to find something to trust in to survive.
The human mind is strange like that. Survival is everything, yet only in the most desperate of situations can you really tap into true instinct. When things are hopeless, that's when the mind kicks in. The will to survive becomes so strong, ordinary, rational thought seems to take a backseat.
The last thing I detected with physical senses, before my soul was brutally torn from my body, was Yugi's cry of horror. Somehow, when things became desperate in the losing battle against insanity, my mind turned the image of Yugi into the ideal hero. I knew Yugi was the only one who could save me, therefore he became the perfect soldier in the battle against Pegasus. He could do no wrong; he was not A duelist, he was THE duelist. The ONLY duelist.
And with that thought mixed the knowledge that there were two Yugis. Somehow, Yami became the one I put my trust in. I needed him to win so badly that he was all I thought about. My conscious wanted to find some sort of connection with him, but all I could think of was how I tortured him and he hated me. There could never be a connection. But without a connection of some kind, there was no hope at all.
And thus, love was bred in desperation.
But now that I'm free and I can see both him and Yugi with my own eyes and senses, I'm not sure if that thought was a flash of true feelings or a tug of insanity. They're certainly not as perfect as I was imagining them.
What I do know, however, is that I can't go on like this. After being alone in that card for so long, the thought of isolating myself in the real world is unbearable. I need someone else in my life, besides my little brother. And whether it's someone I love or someone I'm just good friends with doesn't matter. I need someone. Badly.
Who knows? It could be Yami. It could be Yugi. Heck, I guess it could even be Joey. Maybe it's Ryou, or Mai, or the next person I meet walking though the park. But it has to be someone, and it's definitely not going to be Tea. I think I'd go back in the card before I agreed to date her. At least in the card there was silence.
Finally we pulled up to Yugi's house, and he and Yami got out. Then Yugi immediately invited us over for dinner, as a thank-you present for getting them all home. Mokuba was thrilled, of course. He and Yugi bolted inside before I could even say yes or no. For a few moments, Yami and I just looked at each other. Then, slowly, he smiled.
And I smiled back.
~*~
There you go. I know it doesn't really fit with the show as much as the first part did, but I wanted poor Seto to have some closure after that terrible ordeal Pegasus put him though. What did you think? Good? Bad? Do another one? Leave it at that? I'll never know if you don't review!
Yami: I like the way you did this one.
Seto: Yup. The open-ended thing was very nice. Now no matter what pairing the people support, it can potentially happen!
Yami: Although the one that WILL NOT happen is the one with you and Tea.
Seto: shudder Don't even joke about that, Yami.
Yami: Heck no. I've been stuck with her enough. I couldn't do that to you, too.
Me: What about me?
Seto: Fat chance. You know you hate Tea.
Me: Crap. How'd you guess?
Yami: rolls eyes Oh, I don't know.just the fact that in EVERY SINGLE STORY you write, she gets bashed. And that's if she's even in it at all.
Oh, one more thing before I finish up: in case you haven't noticed, my E- mail has changed! It is now MCMacavity@aol.com. If you've sent me an E-mail before, I probably didn't get it (my old address was all screwed up and wouldn't deliver anything), so please send me another one to this new address!
Anywho, Joey the Flame Swordsman and Flamina, the angel minion of fire are going to torch all mean, nasty reviews. You don't like it, you don't review. You DO like it, leave a nice, encouraging note! At any rate, PLEASE READ AND REVIEW!
Yami: And what exactly would you be doing with these life-size dolls?
Seto: You already have us. What do you want with dolls?
Me: I'd take them to school and make all the people jealous.
Seto: Don't you do that already?
Me: Oh, yeah...
Yami: rolls eyes You are so weird.
Me: I know. Ain't life grand?
Seto: groan
Yami: groan
Author's Notes: This chapter is dedicated to all the people who actually bothered to review chapter one: Diomira, Elvish Violinist of Ra, lily22, Akumu*Draka, Angel Reaper, waterfall, Katarik, JK, KAylen, Lil-Pink-Mew, and FOG. This is dedicated to you guys because, even though angst is not my style and the first chapter was probably really crappy, you still reviewed! And they were fairly GOOD reviews, too! I feel so special.
Anyway, I'd especially like to say thank you to Fire Tears. It was such an honor, getting a review from the Queen of Seto Introspectives for my own little introspective! I recommend that everyone go check out one of hers after you finish reading this. Goodness knows they're much better than mine.
That said, here's Part Two of "Isolation!"
~*~
It's so strange, being back to myself. That terrible, horrible experience in that soul card has really made me stop and think. I guess now is the time that I start thinking about all the "what ifs" that have turned my world upside down.
When you're locked away someplace, someplace where there's absolutely nothing around except you, you find a lot of time to think. And after a while, you find yourself questioning things you'd never have thought of before. For me, it was different. Most people, when they're locked away, at least have their vocal cords. They can talk to themselves, keeping away the horrifying silence. But I was in that card, with nothing but my mind. So I guess it was natural to think. What else could I have done?
Besides die, I mean.
I thought a lot about the "what ifs" when I was in there, too. Like, what if Yugi had never drawn the last piece of Exodia? I suppose I never would have gotten into this mess. I'd still be the world champion, I'd still be with Mokuba, I'd still have my company...
And I'd still have that dark presence haunting me. Guess that doesn't work out the way I'd hoped.
What if, during Yugi's duel with the freak I've come to know as Phantom Kaiba, I wasn't able to get to my computer? What if Phantom Kaiba had attacked instead of throwing his "sure" victory in Yugi's face? And while I'm at it, what if the Heart of the Cards was all a big fake and the attack had gone through?
Um...my company would be gone, Yugi's grandpa would be dead, and Mokuba and I would still be trapped in those soul cards. Gee, that's even peachier than the first "what if".
Suppose Yugi hadn't been able to control Yami during the Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon duel...what would have happened to me? I'd have fallen off the castle wall, fallen to my doom. I wonder if Yami knew about the parachute under my trench coat? He-he-he, that's right, Seto. Keep joking, keep laughing. It's funny, everything's funny...
Would I have died? Most likely. Would I have welcomed it? ...I can't answer that question. Not now. I don't even want to think about that time.
They let me out. I'm free. I have a body. Just the thought of it sends my mind reeling. How strange that such a simple thing like having a body could be so magical. That and seeing my brother...oh, man, I would have gladly stayed in that card if, even just for a few seconds, it meant I could have seen Mokuba restored.
I don't think anyone would care to know where I was when I woke up. Talking to yourself again, Seto? So strange, when for so long, you've been the only person to talk to, and now that you have people to say things to and lips to say them with, you're still talking to yourself.
When I came to, I almost threw up. My coat was gone and I was sitting, chained, in a corner of a murky cell. My coat gone...I had no way of getting free. And then, on my wrist, a gold bracelet with the initials "M.P."? What had Pegasus done with me? And how in the heck was I going to get out of there?
I about chopped off my wrist, trying to get that sickening piece of jewelry off. Must have been the added boost of adrenaline, because it snapped with one swift yank. Fortunately, one of the fragments was thin and I was able to pick the lock with it. The same went for the door.
Running, running through those dank halls, faster than I've ever run before, trying to find my coat and briefcase. If Pegasus had stolen my new technology, he was going to pay and pay dearly.but I never found him. My stuff was stashed haphazardly behind a suit of armor. But where was Mokuba?
Figured I'd go out to the gates. There was only one way into Pegasus's castle; therefore there was only one way out. If Yugi or Mokuba came out, I'd be waiting. And come they did. The doors opened, and there he was, running to me.but even as I embraced my little brother, I couldn't help but wonder where Yami was. I was surprised; Yugi actually had control. I was expecting Yami to come out and claw my eyes out or something for everything I'd put him and Yugi through. But he didn't.
I can't say I was disappointed, but I can't say I was thrilled, either. And then there was Joey, that stupid puppy dog, staring at me with tears in his eyes...what was he thinking? That after all the insults I'd made towards him (and still completely agreed with, thank you very much), I'd suddenly fall in love with him the first time I saw him again? I don't think so, puppy dog.
Well, there's one good thing, at least. Tea didn't start preaching about friendship again.
Good grief, if she had, I think I would have just gone back in that stupid card. Does she actually believe that ANYONE listens to those sermons?! I'm surprised they haven't just taken out a roll of duct tape and taped her big fat mouth shut. Actually, I have a roll in one of the hidden pockets in my trench coat...
But knowing Yugi, he'd probably give me that stupid pout and tell me that wasn't nice. Heaven forbid anyone does ANYTHING bad to his precious girlfriend. It almost makes me wonder what Yami thinks about all that...he's much too smart to even consider liking her, right? I'm still mystified as to how Yugi could think she's even remotely cute...
To be honest, taking all seven of us home in my helicopter was not easy. Yami and Yugi almost split into two people, which would make eight. And if Ryou's got the Millennium Ring, wouldn't he have a Yami, too? Nine?! No way nine people would fit. Guess we'd have to throw a few overboard. A certain brunette comes to mind...
It ended up that Yami just took control. He said he was sick of hanging around in his soul room and that Yugi could just go play with his toys or something. (Didn't understand a word of that, but what the heck? At least now I have one semi-intelligent person to talk to on the way home.) Actually, we didn't have too bad of a time. Strangely enough, Yami understood most of the gripes I had about Duel Monsters. Of course, when he tried to assure me that the Heart of the Cards could cure all of them, I almost threw the copter into neutral and told him he could get out and walk the rest of the way home.
And yes, we were still over the ocean.
But here's the neat part: Yami was cool with that. He just shrugged and was like, "Please don't. Wet leather is not fun." I laughed, really I did. If you can believe that. It wasn't so much what he said, but the way he said it. He just had this perfectly innocent, completely straight face, but his eyes were laughing. So I just started up the copter again and we kept going for home.
Scared the crap out of me, though, when Joey decided to see if he could turn on the radio. Stupid chihuahua. He hit the autopilot, completely disengaging it. We almost took a swim in fifty-degree water. It would have been funny, if we all hadn't been so terrified. Seriously, the control stick lurched forward and the copter suddenly did a nosedive right towards the waves...let's just say it was rather unpleasant.
I don't remember exactly who started screaming first. Tea, screaming out of sheer terror; Joey, screaming out of shock; Mokuba, screaming like a giddy kid on a roller coaster; or me, screaming about stupid chihuahuas that are trying to kill us all. Ryou just sort of smirked at us, observing the scene through angular brown eyes. Strange...there's something going on with that kid. One minute he's totally nice, and the next he's cruel and sadistic. His Yami, maybe?
Anyway, back to the story, we SOMEHOW managed to get home (after I whipped out aforementioned duct tape and taped Joey's wrists to the armrests of his chair) without further incident. Then I called a limo to take me and Mokuba home. Of course, it wasn't just me and Mokuba who rode in the limo. When I attempted to get Mokuba in before anyone said anything, Tea opened her big fat mouth and started preaching about how it was cruel to leave them all in the cold and true friends help each other. Okay, who said I was their friend?
It ended up, though, that they all piled into the limo before I could say anything. Then Mokuba just fixed me with the most adorable little face anyone ever saw and said, "But Seto, it's cold out. Can't we please give them a ride?"
Yugi lives four blocks from where we landed. Heaven forbid he be forced to walk four whole blocks in the 65-degree weather. Wearing pants and a jacket. Cold, heck. Mokuba just wanted more time with his new friends.
Anyway, we loaded them all into the back of the limo. Personally, I wanted to stuff Joey into the trunk, but the others wouldn't let me. And then, of course, Tea opened her big fat mouth AGAIN and started preaching about how I should be nicer to them considering how they saved Mokuba and blah, blah, blah. Honestly, I actually pulled my duct tape out of my pocket that time. But fortunately for Tea, Yami managed to shut her up with some talk about going home to take a shower because her hair looked like a rat's nest.
I have never seen a more perfectly timed insult. I mean, her mouth was hanging open for a full ten seconds before she got all ticked off at him. I wonder if she realizes that her precious Yugi is actually two people in one? Or am I the only one to figure it out?
If they haven't yet, they're dumber than they look. Hello, people! Never mind that Yami is something like a foot taller than Yugi, his eyes are different, his voice is lower, he wears different clothes, different shoes, and his hair is different! No, they're the same person! Morons.
Anyway, we took them all home. Mokuba insisted that we take Yugi and Yami home last, because he wanted to chat with his new friend longer. The last I heard, they were discussing something along the lines of, "My big brother is the best duelist ever!" "Nuh-uh! Yami's the best!" "Is not!" "Is too!" "Is NOT!" "Is TOO!" "Is not times infinity!" "Is too times infinity squared!"
Okay, so that wasn't technically what they said, but it should have been. Seriously, being in that card did something to my mind. I'm developing a really twisted sense of humor...this is not good.
Now that I'm free, though, I've realized something else: when you're alone, isolated, with no chance of survival, you start to think about all the things you've done in your life and start regretting them. For that short time, I regretted tearing up Yugi's Blue Eyes. I regretted being nasty to them all the time. I even regretted calling Joey a chihuahua. I didn't regret that one as much as the others, but I still kind of felt sorry about it. Just a tad.
Anyway, that got me to thinking about some of the things I was wondering while I was in that card...the major thing I regretted in my life was not having anyone other than Mokuba in my life. In complete and utter desperation, I grasped at threads to hold on to, trying to find something to trust in to survive.
The human mind is strange like that. Survival is everything, yet only in the most desperate of situations can you really tap into true instinct. When things are hopeless, that's when the mind kicks in. The will to survive becomes so strong, ordinary, rational thought seems to take a backseat.
The last thing I detected with physical senses, before my soul was brutally torn from my body, was Yugi's cry of horror. Somehow, when things became desperate in the losing battle against insanity, my mind turned the image of Yugi into the ideal hero. I knew Yugi was the only one who could save me, therefore he became the perfect soldier in the battle against Pegasus. He could do no wrong; he was not A duelist, he was THE duelist. The ONLY duelist.
And with that thought mixed the knowledge that there were two Yugis. Somehow, Yami became the one I put my trust in. I needed him to win so badly that he was all I thought about. My conscious wanted to find some sort of connection with him, but all I could think of was how I tortured him and he hated me. There could never be a connection. But without a connection of some kind, there was no hope at all.
And thus, love was bred in desperation.
But now that I'm free and I can see both him and Yugi with my own eyes and senses, I'm not sure if that thought was a flash of true feelings or a tug of insanity. They're certainly not as perfect as I was imagining them.
What I do know, however, is that I can't go on like this. After being alone in that card for so long, the thought of isolating myself in the real world is unbearable. I need someone else in my life, besides my little brother. And whether it's someone I love or someone I'm just good friends with doesn't matter. I need someone. Badly.
Who knows? It could be Yami. It could be Yugi. Heck, I guess it could even be Joey. Maybe it's Ryou, or Mai, or the next person I meet walking though the park. But it has to be someone, and it's definitely not going to be Tea. I think I'd go back in the card before I agreed to date her. At least in the card there was silence.
Finally we pulled up to Yugi's house, and he and Yami got out. Then Yugi immediately invited us over for dinner, as a thank-you present for getting them all home. Mokuba was thrilled, of course. He and Yugi bolted inside before I could even say yes or no. For a few moments, Yami and I just looked at each other. Then, slowly, he smiled.
And I smiled back.
~*~
There you go. I know it doesn't really fit with the show as much as the first part did, but I wanted poor Seto to have some closure after that terrible ordeal Pegasus put him though. What did you think? Good? Bad? Do another one? Leave it at that? I'll never know if you don't review!
Yami: I like the way you did this one.
Seto: Yup. The open-ended thing was very nice. Now no matter what pairing the people support, it can potentially happen!
Yami: Although the one that WILL NOT happen is the one with you and Tea.
Seto: shudder Don't even joke about that, Yami.
Yami: Heck no. I've been stuck with her enough. I couldn't do that to you, too.
Me: What about me?
Seto: Fat chance. You know you hate Tea.
Me: Crap. How'd you guess?
Yami: rolls eyes Oh, I don't know.just the fact that in EVERY SINGLE STORY you write, she gets bashed. And that's if she's even in it at all.
Oh, one more thing before I finish up: in case you haven't noticed, my E- mail has changed! It is now MCMacavity@aol.com. If you've sent me an E-mail before, I probably didn't get it (my old address was all screwed up and wouldn't deliver anything), so please send me another one to this new address!
Anywho, Joey the Flame Swordsman and Flamina, the angel minion of fire are going to torch all mean, nasty reviews. You don't like it, you don't review. You DO like it, leave a nice, encouraging note! At any rate, PLEASE READ AND REVIEW!