CK: Hey, you guys, it's me again! Sorry I took so long to update, but I have to write this friggin' paper for my AP Global History class, and let's just say that a certain educator at my high school will be shot by the new year. Or at least I'll pretend to shoot him. In my head. Yup. But I'm babbling, once again, so I'll just go straight to the responses.

Oh, yeah, and my Kaiba song-fic is UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yggdrasil's 3rd Root: Yeah, doesn't Ryou have it bad? He's got a creepy Yami, looks like a girl, and now no-one will listen to him. (('Cept Yugi- kun.....^ ^ 3)) And, erm.......about the whole 'Pegasus wouldn't kill anyone' thing.......well, I hate to be the bearer of bad news.....but, erm, he DID technically kill Yugi in their duel in the Shadow Realm. But then Yugi somehow came back to life. Hey, maybe Pegasus should ask Yugi how he came back, then he wouldn't have needed to be all evil and bug Kaiba and Yugi during Season 1!!! WE GOT OURSELVES A HAPPY ENDING FOLKS!!!!!!!!!!! ((Hehe, sorry, my iced tea just kicked in.....)) In any case, thanks for the review!!!

Chromefox: YAY!!!!! New reader!!!! Welcome aboard!!! ((Once again, sorry, iced tea makes me high and hyper.....)) Anyway, thanks for the review and the compliment!!! Hope I see you around!

Okay, done with that! I better get to the story already.......

Disclaimer: I don't own Yugioh. If I did, then I would round up all my friends and we would dub Yugioh so that it actually sounds GOOD. But I don't. Which sux. I could have played MAI!!!!!!!!!! *sob sob*

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Chapter 12: Nothing Gold Can Stay

Nature's first green is gold Her hardest hue to hold Her early leaf's a flower But only so an hour So leaf subsides to leaf And Eden sank to grief And dawn goes down to day Nothing gold can stay -'Nothing Gold Can Stay' by Robert Frost

The hospital staff had been shocked, to say the least, when they came to check on Mr. Pegasus. And here they were, ready to tell Mrs. Pegasus the bad news about Mr. Pegasus's coma!!!!! Well, at least this would make their jobs a little easier.......still, they'd run tests and....well, HOW could a man in such a serious coma wake up so frigging QUICK????????????????????????
In any case, after Pegasus had a good chuckle at the doctors' expense when one nurse began screaming about ghosts, there seemed to be no point in keeping him at the hospital much longer. After they ran some tests to be absolutely POSITIVE that nothing was wrong, they officially released Pegasus that evening. By this time, Cecilia was awake again, and, well, although she was overjoyed, there was that slight awkward problem of explaining why some of his worst enemies were out in the lobby. Especially when Kaiba walked in on him in the lobby after being released in a cast at about the same time. Fun discussion, no da?
To make things even more awkward, there was a small matter of everyone staying at Pegasus's that night. By this point, it was about five o'clock in the afternoon, and they were all starving, except Kaiba and Pegasus, who had been on IVs this whole time. Not to mention that the hospital was a two hour boat ride from Duelist Kingdom, where Kaiba's jet and Ryou's helicopter were. And it would take several more hours to fly from Duelist Kingdom to Japan. And everyone there was exhausted. So, with very few other reasonable options, it was decided (mostly by Cecilia, who was the only one there who hadn't had any life-or-death situations with anyone else there) that they would all stay at Duelist Kingdom that night.

Needless to say, there was some.......erm.....'grumbling'. Especially from the Kaiba brothers, though they did take the liberty of excusing themselves to the hospital restroom before doing so.

((A/N: Can you blame them?))

Yugi recalled all this to himself as he lay quietly in one of the Duelist Kingdom guest rooms. Although he wasn't exactly happy staying at Pegasus's again, at least this time he wasn't about to face any life-or-death situations. How optimistic.
And though he hated to admit it, Yugi was glad about one thing. It did give him much more of an opportunity to look into Tea's death. Once he and his friends had proof that Pegasus had a killing machine lurking in the dungeons ((hey, he'd be happy enough to get the police to notice merely the DUNGEONS)), then maybe Tea's death wouldn't be for nothing. At least then, Pegasus would be locked away somewhere where he couldn't hurt any more people. But he still needed to prove it.... Hmmm....... Yugi pictured himself smoking a pipe and wearing a deer-stalker hat. "Elementary, my dear Watson."

He heard a snigger coming from behind him. Yugi sighed. "I really have to learn to lock my soul room." Yami's voice replied. "What, and prevent me from having some fun?" "Yes. What're you doing awake?"

"Watching you. I just want to make sure you take care of yourself, Yugi. I admire you, but you do have to know when you're going in over your head."

"What do you mean?"

"I just mean be careful. After all, Duelist Kingdom isn't exactly filled with happy memories for anyone here."

Yugi nodded. "I'll be careful, Yami, I always am. Why are you so worried, anyway?"

Yami sighed. "I'm sensing things again......sensing emotions from the future, like before Tea died."

"What do you feel?"

Yami lowered his head. "It's strange.....I sense.....I sense tears..."

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Cecilia sat up in bed with a start. She looked around and realized that it had all been a dream. Just some horrific nightmare. Nothing had happened.
Cecilia put her hand on her forehead and sighed. She turned to face her husband, who was sound asleep, smiling childishly.
She grinned. I love him......he's a dope sometimes, but I love him......She lay down again, facing him, her arm wrapping itself around his chest. She shut her eyes, remembering her dream.
It was odd......and it frightened her more than it probably should have. And it was a very weird dream in any case.
She saw it clearly in her mind......she was in a field with Max......when all of a sudden she had turned into a river. She flowed across the field, and people saw her and were happy, because they thought she was so beautiful. And Cecilia was happy being a river......she loved it, and she flowed in a circle around the field until she came back to where she had left Max.
When he saw her......he screamed. The second he screamed, he turned into lightning. He stayed in a cloud for what seemed to be years, until he unleashed a storm......all the people Cecilia had seen by her banks were struck, and they writhed in agony on the ground when he hit them. She was screaming............she just wanted him to leave them alone......and then the clouds seemed to calm down..........but one small, accidental bolt came..... It hit the river, and....... Sizzle. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CK: Okay, so what'd you think???????? I kinda threw that dream sequence together at the last minute, and it was only for fun, so it probably wasn't that good. But anyway, I am really sorry that I haven't been getting this out every week like normal. It's just that I have this paper due about a week and a half before school starts, and let's just say that I've got some work to do. Plus, I thought I'd switch off the weeks that I was working, so I wrote a new chapter for my humor fic two weeks ago. I was planning on posting this last week, but my birthday was Wednesday ((go me!!)), then on Thursday was the Great Blackout of 2003, so I had no electricity for almost 24 hours ((me, almost all of New York, and large chunks of the East Coast)), then Friday night me and my family drove up to visit friends until Saturday night, then on Sunday we went to go see relatives. So now ya know. Okay, so R & R and I'll post later.