AN - Final chapter people! It's quite long compared to the others, but it is the end! Read and Review Please!

The girl woke to the sound of rain slashing against the windowpane. Sitting up she looked around. The room was bare and unfamiliar. Outside the wind blew fiercely and the rain tapped a loud tune against the clear glass of the window. Softly the girl slipped out of bed and walked, barefoot, to the door. A mirror hung on the back of it. In the moonlight she saw her reflection, pale and thin, dressed in a strange white dress. It was long, reaching her floor, but was slit up the left side to her mid thigh. It was cut away at the front, revealing her bare midriff. The dress continued up her body into a halter neck cut, leaving her arms and shoulders bare. At the back of the dress two long lengths of white fabric reached from her wrists to the back of the dress, giving the illusion of wings. Her light blonde hair hung loosely down her back, to just below the waist. She surveyed herself closely in the mirror. She had lost weight, this much she could tell, and her hair was slightly longer than it had been before IT happened. She hadn't aged much though; she looked about seventeen at the most. Shivering slightly she opened the door and looked around. Moonlight shone through a sky light in the corridor, letting her see where she should go.

As quietly as she could she crept down the stairs until she reached a second landing. Here a night-light lit the way as she found another set of stairs and began to descend them. She winced as a floorboard creaked until her weight, and she quickly took her weight off of it. She listened hard but could not hear anyone stirring in the rooms around her. She continued on her way, missing out the creaking stair.

The lounge was bathed in darkness, save for the embers in the fire burning low. Now the girl did not know which way to go. Looking through a window she saw that she was still one floor above the street, too far to jump. 'There must be another set of stairs.' Thought the girl as she looked around her. There were no more stairs to be seen. Crossing to the nearest door, she found the kitchen. Confused by strange sights such as a toaster and a microwave she backed out of this weird room, right into something solid behind her.

The girl tried to scream as she felt a pair of strong arms wrap around her, preventing her from moving. A hand clamped over her mouth stopped her from making any noise. She struggled to escape, but her captor was bigger that her in stature and far too strong.

"Don't make a sound!" Ordered the captor. It was a male voice. Silently the girl let herself be led into the lounge.

"I'm going to turn on a light." Whispered the man. "But you will not try to escape, or I will hurt you." Nodding the girl felt the grip around her loosen, but a hand still covered her mouth. She heard him fumble with a light switch and the girl shielded her eyes from the glare that followed. She felt the hand on her mouth being removed suddenly, but she did not move or turn around. She sensed that her captor was shocked however.

"Oh, I'm sorry! I thought you were a burglar, I didn't realise you were the girl from upstairs. I." The girl turned round and found herself face to face with none other than Yami, dressed in his nightgown.

Each of them let out a gasp, looking at each other in shock.

"Y-Y-Yami?" Stuttered the girl.

"Lara!" Whispered Yami. Suddenly the girl threw her arms around him and began to cry unrestrainedly on his shoulder. Yami wrapped his arms around her tightly and rested his head on hers, muttering, "It's OK, I'm here now. It will all be alright."

In an instant the room was illuminated by more light as Yugi, Bakura and Ryou stood at the top of the stairs, bleary eyed.

"What is going on?" Yawned Yugi. "It is three o'clock in the morning and."

He stopped as he took in the sight in front of him.

"Yami, what's wrong with her?" Asked Ryou worriedly.

"It's OK. She is just very happy, that is all. Guys, I would like to introduce you to Lara, a friend of mine from Egypt." Yami said, as he brought Lara forwards, his arm around her.

Yugi looked at the two before saying, "I don't understand."

"Neither do I actually!" Confessed Yami.

"Well for goodness sake lets not go into it now." Moaned Bakura.

"You!" Whispered Lara, seeing Bakura for the first time. "What are you doing here?"

"It's alright Lara, he is a friend.now!" Soothed Yami.

"Yes, well it is nice to see you too Lara!" Said Bakura sarcastically. "However I think that I would rather go to sleep for now a have our little reunion in the morning, when everyone is here to see it!" With that Bakura stomped back to his room, Ryou following him.

"Good idea." Said Yami. "Come on Lara, let's discuss this in the morning. Maybe it will make more sense then!"

The three returned to bed, two of them confused at the nights events, the other happy that she had found her friend.

After breakfast the next morning, Yugi, Ryou, Bakura, Yami and Lara set out extra chairs in the living room in order to fir everyone in there comfortably. Lara was not much help. She was still getting used to living in the modern world. Little things like the TV fascinated her and she asked endless questions that Yugi had to answer. She was astounded at the telephone when she was able to speak to Tea, but Tea wasn't in the room! She also found the clothes that everyone was wearing extremely strange, and everyone found her clothing strange too. Luckily, when they had called the others and asked them to come around so that Lara could explain everything to everyone, Mai and come up trumps saying that she had some clothes that Lara could have.

Eventually Mai arrived with Joey and Serenity, slightly earlier than they had planned so that Mai could get Lara changed.

"Wow Mai!" Said Serenity as she pulled out some brand new jeans from a large bag. "Did you buy these just for Lara?"

"Heck no!" Said Mai. "These were from my Gran last Christmas. They are too small for me, and plus they clash with my highlights!"

The girls returned downstairs where everyone had now assembled. No one except Lara noticed that Tea stood apart from Bakura, on the other side of the room, and nervously glanced at him every so often. When everyone had been introduced they all sat down to hear this explanation from Lara, who sat close to Yami, who occasionally squeezed her hand in support.

"Well, I don't know where to begin." She started.

"I do." Said Yami. "When I was the Pharaoh, five thousand years ago, Lara and I were close friends. I was only eighteen and she was sixteen. We knew each other for a year or so when the shadow games reached their power. Luckily I managed to lock the power away but I knew that they would be released again. I found a way to trap my spirit inside the millennium puzzle, for someone to find one day. Some one pure of spirit, that was you Yugi!" Yugi blushed but Yami continued. "I didn't want to leave Lara in Egypt without me, so I spoke to my most powerful sorcerer. He found a way for Lara to be with me in the future. A special ritual was performed so that Lara no longer existed in Egypt; she had not yet been born. Sixteen years before the shadow games would start again she would be born into a new family, not knowing about her past until she was seventeen, when my sorcerer would find her and perform a spell to restore her memories. We would then be reunited to fight the shadow games once again. However when the millennium puzzle was completed my sorcerer came to me and told me that something had gone wrong. A thousand years ago the shadow games almost restarted, and so Lara was reborn. However they never returned at that time. As far as my sorcerer knew Lara had been born early. He found her and returned her memory to her, but she was then confined to living alone without me. We would never see each other again." Yami looked around at the stunned faces around him. "That much I know, the rest is Lara's to tell."

All eyes fell on Lara as she began her side of the story. "I was born into a English family who lived in the countryside. I grew up with two brothers and a sister, but I often wondered why I looked nothing like my family. On my sixteenth birthday Yami's sorcerer restored my memory. At once I understood everything. However he also explained that something had gone wrong, and I had been born a thousand years to early. He tried to recast the spell but he was unable to. I was left to live my life alone, not knowing Yami's fate. However less than a year later someone you may all know visited me. The Dark Magician." There were gasps from Yugi and Tea but Lara went on. "I don't know how he did it, but he managed to go back in time. Pegasus created him and somehow he was a reincarnation of the sorcerer who put the spell on me. Having seen the future he travelled to the past and locked my nearly seventeen-year-old self inside a duel monsters card. I would only be released when a combination of dragons attack me in a duel. The Dark Magician also found a young man called Mr Quinn, whom he told about my secret. He cast a spell on Mr Quinn so that he would be able to give my card to Yugi when the time was right. When Yugi duelled Mark the spell was broken and I was released. I am not the same as I was before however. My time in the duel monsters card had prevented me from staying totally human. The duel monsters card that I was trapped in can never be destroyed, and I will always be bound to it. I can be called on to duel whenever Yugi plays that card in a duel. When I die, the card will disappear."

Lara finished and looked around at her listeners. None of them spoke. The truth was beginning to sink in, how their fates were intertwined, how somehow Lara had been able to join them in the present day, and how the Dark Magician was more than just a duel monster.

Eventually Bakura stood up saying, "Well, that is all lovely, but I am really quite bored now! So if you don't mind, I think we should wrap up this little chin-wag for today, maybe some other time, when the world is about to end, we can hear the rest of this charming fairytale!"

"Come on guys, we have things to do you know!" Said Joey.

"And things to consider!" Tea put in. "I mean, is Lara going to stay here? And Yugi, should you be in the shop, it is Saturday after all, and your grandpa will kill you if he finds out that you left the shop closed on a Saturday!"

"OK, here is what we will do." Said Yugi. "Lara, you should stay here with us, so why don't you and Mai take those clothes up to your room and then sort out what else you are going to need. It is nearly lunchtime, so Joey and Tristan can go to the takeaway and get us some food. Serenity, you should help Lara and Mai. Ryou, can you open up the shop? And Yami, I need some help to carry some new stock up from the basement!" With that everyone left the room, leaving Tea and Bakura alone.

Tea shrank back into the couch as Bakura walked over and sat by her.

"Tea?"

"Leave me alone Bakura. If you lay one finger on me I will scream, and there are people in the house this time so you can't hurt me without someone hearing you!"

"Tea."

"You are lucky I didn't tell anyone about what you did, but next time I will tell someone, so you had better not do anything."

"Tea."

"Everyone was concerned about me you know, especially when I turned up all bruised and battered. The only person who wasn't worried about me was Ryou, because he was too busy worrying about what would happen to him if you got hurt, but I'm sure that deep down he was."

"I'm sorry."

"I'm sure he was worried about me really and.what did you say?" Asked Tea, suddenly interrupted from her flow.

"I said I'm sorry. The other day, I was angry with myself more than you. I just."

"Sorry doesn't quite cut it Bakura!" Snapped Tea. "What you did was abuse. You could have seriously hurt me, or worse!"

"I know. But please just hear me out Tea! I really like you. You are the person who has treated me with respect and trust for a long time, and I know that that is partly my fault. I just took your friendship the wrong way, I thought that perhaps you wanted to be more than friends. When you said that you were using me to get closer to Ryou I just snapped. I was angry at you for using me Tea, and you can't deny that you used me. I was angry at myself for letting myself get caught up with you. Most of all I was angry at Ryou because I knew that he didn't return your feelings and you would only get hurt by him. When I beat you, it wasn't me doing it. It was like someone else took over me, the old Bakura that was the tomb robber in Egypt. That is not the Bakura that I am now. Being with you has changed me, Tea. I want to be a better person and start afresh here. Not many people get the chance to start over and I welcome this chance. After I left you I felt so guilty about what I did. I didn't know how to make things all right again. I wanted to kill myself for what I did. I even hurt myself as a punishment for my actions. I don't know how I can make it up to you, and it's probably too late now. I know that sorry isn't enough but it is all that I have." Bakura looked stunned at himself after this little outburst. Tea sat on the couch, looking curiously at Bakura. Finally she spoke.

"I believe you."

"What?"

"I believe that you didn't mean what you did. I accept your apology."

"Then we can be friends again?"

Tea went to say yes, but stopped herself. She liked this new side to Bakura. She had realised in the last day that what she had seen in Ryou was just her fantasy; up close he was nothing like her dreams of him. He wasn't anything special to her. But now.

"No." Bakura looked startled when she refused his friendship.

"But I thought." He began.

"No." She interrupted. "I want us to be more than friends!" With that she leaned forward and kissed Bakura's cheek lightly.

Yami knocked on the door to Lara's room before entering. Lara, Mai and Serenity were sorting through a pile of clothes and making a list of what else Lara would need. Lara was wearing some of Mai's old clothes. A nice pair of jeans and a pretty, floral gypsy top. Her hair was tied half up with a flower clip that, in Yami's opinion, made her look even more beautiful.

"Sorry girls, could I just have a quick word with Lara?"

"Sure." Said Serenity.

"Umm, alone." Prompted Yami.

"Oh! Sorry!" Said Mai and Serenity as they stood up and left the two alone.

Yami walked over to where Lara was standing and took both her hands in his, standing with her at arms length so that he could look at her.

"Well, don't you look lovely!" He commented.

She giggled as he twirled her in a circle so he could see her attire. He smiled as he finally saw the smile cross his loved one's face. Gently he put his arms around her waist and pulled her closer to him. She rested her arms on his shoulders and they stood there, looking into each other's eyes.

"I never thought I would see you again." Yami said.

"I felt the same, once I remembered you I couldn't believe that I had forgotten you."

"But The Bark Magician brought us back together." Said Yami. "Do you think you will like it here?"

"Once I get used to it." She said, then leaning closer to him she whispered, "I know that I will like it, as long as you are here with me."

"I will never let you go again." Promised Yami, as he kissed his lost love.

The End

AN - Sorry if it got a bit lovey-dovey at the end folks! But an end is an end! What do you think then? I'm gonna take a bit of a break now from writing, but the next fanfic will be Yami and Lara in Egypt, the parts that I didn't have time to tell in this fanfic. They knew each other for a year before they were separated, and plenty can happen in a year! So any extra ideas will be welcome. All of the YuGiOh characters will be in Egypt so any storyline will do. And I can add some more own characters so there will be more coming soon. Please review this story so that I know what you all thought and I can make improvements next time! Ciao for now!