Shut up!

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Hmm... *pokes her fic* Not enough humour... or Tea bashing o.O Ah well, who says it has to be good? Or in character for that matter? o.o

Disclaimer: I own erm... Two Micheal Jackson CD's, a teddy bear and an account on Fanfiction.net called "Yugified". But I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh. Nope.

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Tea lay in bed, asleep. She was having a nightmare again. Someone was chasing her, across a long, unsturdy bridge. The bridge broke just before Tea could get across it. She leaped, feeling relief, sure she would make it to the other side. Beyond the bridge was safety, the monster would fall and she'd be rid of it and never have a nightmare again. Almost there... and then she fell. No, she was wrong, she'd jumped too soon and estimated her landing wrong. She was falling, to the cold, silent river below, to be pulled under by the monster...

She woke up and sat upright in bed, her heart beating rapidly, her eyes wide in the night. She looked at the clock. Six AM. She'd been having this dream for a week now. Each time she was given a chance to jump, each time she fell... she wondered what it meant. It made her feel scared and it creeped her out.

Tea got out of bed and went downstairs for a glass of warm milk. It didn't do much to calm her down, but it helped her think.

"Now, what can I do about this dream... I need something to soothe me... ah, I know... I think I'll call Yugi!"

Tea completely forgot(or ignored) the fact that two hours ago Yugi had told her to "shut up". She picked up the phone and dialed his number. The keys included in Yugi's number were worn out on her phone. Tea waited for Yugi to pick up.

(Yugi's)

The phone woke Yugi up. He looked up at the digital clock. "Six AM... Ugh." He pulled the covers over his head. Yami stirred in the bed next to Yugi's. "Don't bother answering it," he mumbled, as tired as Yugi. The phone rang persistantly before Yugi kicked back the covers and answered it. "Yugi, thank God you picked up, I'm having this recurring nightmare an-" a high voice poured out of the phone in a rush of words. "Teeeeaaaaaa?" Yugi asked groggily, slurring his words together as if he'd misplaced them. "Whaa you phoning me au' thi' hour?" Tea sighed into the phone.

"I'm having this nightmare, Yugi, and it's freaking me out! It's this dream where this monster's chasing me," Tea's words were still fast and annoying, "and I have to jump off this bridge and I fall and die every time! And I can never get back to sleep and I just need someone to soothe me and tell me it's going to be okay and this dream doesn't mean anything like someone's trying to kill me! Tell me it's going to be okay, Yugi." Tea cuddled the phone under her ear as if it were a baby and waited for Yugi's reasurring voice. Instead she got a heavy sigh.

"Tea..." "Yeah Yugi?" "Shut up."

Yugi proceeded to tell her he didn't need anyone phoning him at this hour, that he needed his rest if he was going to succeed at Duel Monsters OR school, and that Tea was totally obsessing over here and why she decided to phone *him*, of all people, when she had a nightmare. Once he was finished Yugi could practically hear Tea's face fall on the floor with a loud clatter. "But Yugi," she said, sounding upset and whiney, "I'm always there for you when you're Duelling, I'm always cheering *you* on and making *you* feel loved, and that there's someone there when you need them, why can't you do the same for me, Yugi?"

Yugi rolled his eyes. "Do you really need someone there for you at six in the morning?"

Tea's bottom lip quivered. "Well, yes!" Yugi heaved a heavy, tired sigh. "Shut up, Tea. Just... shut up." Tea began blabbering about friendship very fast while Yugi repeated "Shut up... shut up... shut up..." and finally slammed down the phone. He stalked back upstairs and climbed into the bed next to Yami's. "Who was it?" Yami mumbled. Yugi sighed. "Some bitch from another time zone trying to sell me insurance."