Chapter Three:
The days passed and with each day Yami, as everyone soon came to call him, and Anzu became closer. She shortly moved into the palace. Weeks passed, then months. Pharaoh Yami became known to his people as the kindest and most down to Earth Pharaoh Egypt had ever had, much to his fathers disconsertment, he once commented. One day though, a tragedy came down upon Anzu and the only man she loved. It is during this tragedy that I am going to begin this chapter...It tells so much and may help you understand what happens after. Do not forget what you have learned before.
Yami ran to Anzu's room as fast as his legs could carry him. He had been in a meeting with his advisors when a slave came to the door and told him. He opened the door hastily and ran to his loves side. Her eyes were closed and her breathing was ragged. "Yami." she rasped. Atemu choked on the tears when he responded. "I'm here, my love. Sh..."
"Hearse...hearse...it's coming..." she said in a hoarse voice that Yami didn't believe belonged to her. He watched as her large blue eyes shot open in terror, her bottom lip trembled, and a shiver ran down her spine.
"Hearse, no. You must be mistaken."
"They're coming for me...Yami...help." she called out to him. He began to back away from the bed, fear of what may happen controling his thoughts. He ran from the room to his, three rooms down, and collapsed on his knees. "WHY HER! WHY? IS IT BECAUSE I LOVED HER!? RE! WHY HER? SHE DOESN'T DESERVE IT! YOU WILL NOT TAKE HER FROM ME! DO YOU HEAR ME RE?! YOU WILL NOT TAKE HER FROM ME LIKE YOU TOOK MY MOTHER!!" He shouted to the sky. 'I told you love wasn't worth the risk. But did you believe me? No. You're ignorant to fact, just like you're mother. Haven't you learned yet, anyone you love will die by the flame, simply because you love them. And they will die at the moment that you love them most.' his fathers voice said in his head. 'It's my fault shes dying...if I had gone with my instincts...she would be living a happy life, void of me." he whispered to himself. The deep voice of his father answered him, 'Yes, it is your fault. You were careless. You forgot what I taught you and went with what you're mother said. She died because I loved her, and now Anzu will die because you love her. We are a cursed family, Atemu. We can love no one, ever. Not genuine love. And wasn't I right, it's not worth the risk.' "Yes it is...if she dies she will die knowing I love her, and I know I will see her again...did mom know you loved her when she died? I bet she didn't" he said angrily. His father made no reply.
There were footsteps outside his door and then rapid knocking. "Pharaoh, my lord, it's Anzu!" Atemu's head shot up.'NO...' "What is it!?" he asked, not bothering to try and keep calm.
"It's a miracle! Shes alive. She just went stable!" Yami let out a laugh of relief and opened his door to hear the news again. Once again he laughed and ran to Anzu's room. She was lying peaceful on her bed, her head slightly tilted. Slowly and silently he walked to her bed. Sitting down beside her he began to stroke her face. "You are more beautiful everyday." he said to her; he watched as her eyes fluttered open and she smiled. This made Atemu smile. It was said around Egypt that one smile from her could melt even the coldest heart, and it had."How are you feeling?" he asked gently, beginning to run his hand through her hair.
"Never better." she said, and patted the bed beside her. He smiled and lay down next to her, pulling her close to him.
"You know I love you more than life itself, right?" he asked with concern,
"No, I couldn't tell." she said sarcasticaly, laughing. Just then Jou walked in the room and whistled.
"Well I cam to say hi, but I see you're a little busy so I'll go." he said, and made to turn.
"Get over here, punk." Atemu said.
"Well! I don't know that I want to know. I believe you've wounded me, Yami."
"What part of this am I supposed to care about?" he asked; he grunted when Anzu hit him in the stomache.
"Be nice!" she told him. He looked at her innocently and smiled, "I am always nice." he said. Both her and Jou rolled their eyes in unison. Yami grabbed his heart and dropped his head on the pillow, "OUCH! That hurts! My girlfriend and my best friend are ganging up against me!" he shouted before laughing. Jou started walking over to join the two on the bed while saying, "Yeah, about that. Theres something you need to know, Atemu....Atem...Anzu and I are lovers now...guess you worked too slowly. Sorry bud." he said and jumped back as Atemu made to kick him. Anzu hushed him and said "Jou, Yami wasn't supposed to know about that!" Yami did a growl in the back of his throat and rolled so he was on top of Anzu. "Hm..." he said and smiled as Anzu laughed. He had been doing alot of that lately.
"What?" Anzu asked.
"Nothing, I've just never seen your face from this angle. You really are beautiful my love. Why you would ever want Jou is beyond me!" he laughed as Anzu began to giggle and kick him off of her.
"Ah, that's so cute." Jou said in a cooing voice. I'm going to go so you love birds can..um...how to word this... he put a finger to his chin; while he was very slowly figuring things out Anzu leaned over and whispered to Yami, "What do you say, on three we attack him, you know what we usualy do." Yami nodded and both people began to stand and head towards Jou."
"My love?" Atemu said.
"Three." Anzu nodded and in a split second both were on top of the unsuspecting Jou, tickling him in every place they knew to be ticklish. Giggling and laughing followed suit, by now the people of the palace were so used to it that they just laughed as they passed by, thinking, 'How wonderful it is to see Yami happy again.'
Anzu, Atemu and Jou all collapse, both men on either side of Anzu. All were panting. Finaly Jou stood up and said, "Okay, you two going to let me go now?" Everyone nodded. "Good." he said, and left, fully aware of what Atemu was about to do, and risk.
"That was fun." Anzu said climbing on top of Atemu to look into his glittering eyes, for once with laughter, and not tears.
"Yes...Love, can I ask you something?"
"Of course."
"Do you love me?" there was no laughter in his voice and that made Anzu glare.
"Yami! What is wrong with you!? Of course I love you."
"I just needed that reassurance for what I am about to do. You have to promise not to run away, or scream, or laugh, or cry, okay?"
"Okay."Anzu said seriously, propping her elbows ontop of Yami's chest and beneath her chin.
"Will you..uh...be my queen?" he asked, with a nervous laugh. It was then Anzu broke one of her promises. She laughed.
"Yes yes yes!" she squealed, wrapping her arms around her now future husbands neck. Atemu laughed as well, this wasso perfect something had to go wrong. And it did, but that is for later.
"You know I don't deserve you, right? You could do so much better."
"Yeah, I know." she said, "But I have you, and I love you so much that sometimes it drives me nuts. So of course I will marry you my love and forever and ever we shall live, happily." she squealed even more.
"Thankyou Anzu." Yami said, dropping his voice tone.
"For what?"
"Loving me, no one has ever done for me before. Thankyou."
"Always." she said, leaning forward to kiss him, he, of course, immediatly surrendered.
That night a celebration was held in honor of the twos engagement. Anzu noticed something wrong with Yami but decided it was for the best not to bring it up. So she and the Pharaoh sat, talked and watched as the people of Egypt danced. "Would you like to dance?" Yami asked hastily. She looked over at him and smiled before declining, she couldn't dance if she wanted to. He looked somewhat relieved. Suddenly Atemu put his head in his hands and began to rock back and forth. The orchestra stopped;the people of Egypt stared and Jou, Seth and Mahaado ran to his side just as he collapsed in Jou's arms.
Anzu waited in her room as people bussled in and out of Yami's murmuring, slaves girls were crying. She began hugging her pillow as she waited for some news of how Atemu was doing. She regretted not bringing it up. Anzu didn't know how long she waited in silence, listening to the sobs, and talking of the people outside before Seth, Jou, and Isis came into her room, none of them looked happy. Seth spoke first.
"Anzu, Yami isn't doing well. We don't know how long he'll live, if he'll live..." Seth trailed off, leaving the way open for anyone who could complete what he was saying without crying, which is what Seth did now. Jou picked up."He has severe internal bleeding, we can't stop it. We don't know where it came from, or how long hes had it. It doesn't look like he'll make it through the summer." Jou hung his head. Isis finished. "Mahaado is confused. He walked in one day and saw it as you two getting together and you getting murdered."
"We did get together and it is possible that after he dies I will be murdered." Anzu said quietly, contemplating that Yami was going to die so soon.
"Have faith, maybe he will make it." Isis comforted.
"But it doesn't look good. The best doctors in Egypt have examined him and said this, what makes you think that he'll live...and even if he does that he will even be able to move! Why couldn't we tell this was happening before!? Why did it just show up now!? He should have been weak long before he collapsed!" Anzu cried, hot tears falling dowin her cheeks and hitting her hands.
"We don't know." Seth said.
"I did..." everyone turned to look at Jou,"Or at least I thought I did, for all the sun he gets he has been turning awefully white lately, and I walked in on him once coughing up blood." Jou hung his head as Seth turned on him. "You knew this was happening and you did nothing! You knew our Pharaoh was dying and still you kept silent so now he is in the other room fighting for his life without much chance of winning and no one can help him when, had you said something, we could have save his life! What is wrong with you!?" Seth shouted.
"Seth, please keep your voice down. The slaves will hear!" Isis said in an urgent whisper.
"That is the least of our problems. Answer me Jou!"
"He made me swear!"
"I thought you were his friend! Hm...his friend! Friends break promises if it will save the others life! If he knew you were dying do you think he would have gotton someone to help, regaurdless of what you made him promise or swear?"
"Yes."Jou said quietly.
"Seth that is enough! He feels bad enough without you making it worse!"
"Isis, look what he has done! Our King is dying, why? Because Jou didn't let anyone know what was happening!" Seth roared standing up. Isis followed.
"Get out!,"she yelled,"if you are going to throw a hissy fit then get out! It is to late to make ammends so we will deal with what is happening now! The fact is Yami is dying, there is nothing we can do about it, so you can accept that fact and calm down or get out!" Isis shouted,something no one was accusomed to her doing.
"Can I go see Yami?" Anzu said in a child like manner from the shadows of the bed. Isis looked at her as a mother would look at a child who had just had a nightmare. "Of course."she said. Anzu smiled and walked out of the now dead silent room.
When Anzu walked into Atemu's room it was worse then she ever could have imagined and she suddenly felt the pain he must have gone through that afternoon. Yami had various tubes hooked up to different parts of his body, Anzu could see the stitches they had put in his chest. Yami's breathing was ragged and uneven, like he couldn't get enough oxygen. She noticed his lips were turning blue.
"Yami?" she reached out and touched his hand. His head turned from side to side looking for her, but not seeing her.
"His condition gets worse by the passing second."Mahaado said from a corner. "He is holding on for you, you know."
"Me?"
"Yes, he won't die until you let him go, with your heart and mind." Mahaado said, placing a hand on Anzu's shoulder. "He'll just remain comotose, and in a great deal of pain." He said regretfully. He turned on his heel and walked out.
"You don't see me do you?" she asked. Yami couldn't respond. Anzu held back her tears and walked to Yami's bed. "No, you can't. Love...I want you to do me a favor...this is Anzu...in case you couldn't tell...Do me the favor and let go. Go join your mother. Please. I hate to see you like this...let go...I'm begging you..." she started crying burying her head in the sheets.
All of a sudden she felt a hand on top of her head and heard a almost un hearable sound coming from Yami. "Anzu." he said, and began running his fingers through her soft brown hair. "I...love...you..." he continued.
"Shh...save your strength." she said, her hope of his survival rekindling. "Do you want me to stay with you tonight?" she asked. Finaly his eyes fixed on her and he nodded. In her heart...she knew things would be okay.
The weeks past and with each day Yami grew stronger until, 7 months after his attack, he was able to leave his room, in what an inventor in Egypt called a wheel chair. He would live, but the doctors feared he would never walk again; not that Anzu believed them anymore. Yami was a fighter, he would walk again and everything would be allright. 5months after he was able to leave his room on the eve of their engagement, Anzu and Yami were married. Yami did walk again and soon rejoined his people. Everyone cheered, genuinely happy he was allright. They had never loved a Pharaoh, a man, as much as they loved him. Anzu had to agree with that.
Every day they were together Yami loved Anzu more, and it was apparent. She had stayed by his side during one of the worst times he had ever had in his life. He told Jou that, as bad as things had seemed, just because Anzu was there by his side everyday, he felt everything would be allright. Jou had laughed at him, but he understood what Yami meant, and how good it felt because 2 months prior to the royals marriage he and Mai had gotton married and were now expecting their first child. Everything seemed so perfect, but that only meant that the worst was yet to come.
Anzu lay on her and Yami's bed, reading over some scrolls she was supposed to go over. She had under estimated how horrible being queen would be. She figured it would be bad because of how miserable Yami was, she just didn't realize how miserable.
"Boring isn't it?" Yami said, laying next to her.
"Unmistakeably so. And you do more of this in a day than I do in a week, no wonder you are so miserable." Yami nodded in agreement.
"Yep...only I actualy have to deal with people. Paper doesn't talk back, people do."
"I would imagine people wouldn't talk back to you either."
"Yeah, funny huh? My advisors think that they are higher than me, and that, my dear, is why they talk back." he said, placing a hand on his stomache.
"Hm...come on...lets go."Yami said finaly.
"Where? It's the middle of the night."
"And there never has been a more perfect time...come." he said, placing a hand out to her. She was amazed that he had only been able to walk for about 3 weeks and it seemed like he had never lost the ability.{If you know someone who has lost the ability to walk you know that it takes a while for them to walk without people and then even longer to stop wobbling} She laughed and placed her hand in his. He smiled and led her out of the palace to the first place they had ever met, a little past where she used to live, to the Nile.
"Look into the water and tell me what you see?" Yami said.
"Huh."
"Just do it."{a/n:sounding strangely familiar} he laughed and she did as he told."What do you see?" he asked.
"Just...me. I don't see anythng special."
"You see you don't you?" he said, smiling. She looked at him like he was nuts{there may be a reason for that}
"Yes." she said slowly, he laughed.
"Then you do see something special."
"You're crazy."
"I'm crazy? Hm...that explains alot about you then." he said. Anzu laughed.
"Come on, lets go inside." she said.
"Do you know that when ever you smile my heart jumps out of my chest?" he said, not moving.
"You need rest. Come on."
"Don't believe me?" he asked.
"Last time a guy said that to me he turned out to be a jackass."
"He may have been, but he wasn't lying."
"Come on. You're still a little weak. You need rest."
"All right." he said,not believing she didn't believe he truly loved her.
Back at the palace, Atemu woke up from a nightmare, screaming. It had awakened Anzu and Seth, Isis, and Mahaado had immediatly been by his side. 'He doesn't look right, he looks like he did the night he collapsed.' Anzu thought, paniking.
"Yami, look at me. Are you allright? What happened?" she asked, fighting to control the urge to shout. Yami slowly turned his head toward his wife, tears in his eyes."You..." he whispered. Seth immediatly started in.
"What is it? What happened? Did she hurt you? Did you dream she hurt you? Dreams are a good indication of the future...tell us." Seth said, not breathing. Isis shook her head.
"Let him tell us when hes ready, Seth." she said calmly.
"If you hurt him at all..." Seth said, ignoring Isis' comment and turning on Anzu.
"I wouldn't...not on purpose..."
"On purpose?"
"She didn't hurt me Seth so calm down." Yami said, hoarsely,"She was murdered, by the tomb thief, Bakura. That's all. If you would all quit fussing over me then maybe we could all finish our night in peace." Atemu stated, impatiently.
"The Pharaoh is right," Mahaado said, "Lets all just sleep out the rest of the night. Pharaoh has Anzu now, he doesn't need us running to his aid any time WE think hes in trouble. If he is then either he or Anzu will come and get one of us." He stood up and started out the door, the other two following close behind him. Seth glared at Anzu as he walked out. He never trusted her again.
A/N:Hey Y'all. In spite of it being fathers day and me being at my fathers all day I'm still updating. However, due to it's lateness, you may not get the next chapter for two or three days, maybe more, I'm going to be updating other fics and I have to be with my dad sometime this week so...I don't know. THANKYOU TO ALL MY REVIEWERS! You rock! Okay...I'm going now.
The days passed and with each day Yami, as everyone soon came to call him, and Anzu became closer. She shortly moved into the palace. Weeks passed, then months. Pharaoh Yami became known to his people as the kindest and most down to Earth Pharaoh Egypt had ever had, much to his fathers disconsertment, he once commented. One day though, a tragedy came down upon Anzu and the only man she loved. It is during this tragedy that I am going to begin this chapter...It tells so much and may help you understand what happens after. Do not forget what you have learned before.
Yami ran to Anzu's room as fast as his legs could carry him. He had been in a meeting with his advisors when a slave came to the door and told him. He opened the door hastily and ran to his loves side. Her eyes were closed and her breathing was ragged. "Yami." she rasped. Atemu choked on the tears when he responded. "I'm here, my love. Sh..."
"Hearse...hearse...it's coming..." she said in a hoarse voice that Yami didn't believe belonged to her. He watched as her large blue eyes shot open in terror, her bottom lip trembled, and a shiver ran down her spine.
"Hearse, no. You must be mistaken."
"They're coming for me...Yami...help." she called out to him. He began to back away from the bed, fear of what may happen controling his thoughts. He ran from the room to his, three rooms down, and collapsed on his knees. "WHY HER! WHY? IS IT BECAUSE I LOVED HER!? RE! WHY HER? SHE DOESN'T DESERVE IT! YOU WILL NOT TAKE HER FROM ME! DO YOU HEAR ME RE?! YOU WILL NOT TAKE HER FROM ME LIKE YOU TOOK MY MOTHER!!" He shouted to the sky. 'I told you love wasn't worth the risk. But did you believe me? No. You're ignorant to fact, just like you're mother. Haven't you learned yet, anyone you love will die by the flame, simply because you love them. And they will die at the moment that you love them most.' his fathers voice said in his head. 'It's my fault shes dying...if I had gone with my instincts...she would be living a happy life, void of me." he whispered to himself. The deep voice of his father answered him, 'Yes, it is your fault. You were careless. You forgot what I taught you and went with what you're mother said. She died because I loved her, and now Anzu will die because you love her. We are a cursed family, Atemu. We can love no one, ever. Not genuine love. And wasn't I right, it's not worth the risk.' "Yes it is...if she dies she will die knowing I love her, and I know I will see her again...did mom know you loved her when she died? I bet she didn't" he said angrily. His father made no reply.
There were footsteps outside his door and then rapid knocking. "Pharaoh, my lord, it's Anzu!" Atemu's head shot up.'NO...' "What is it!?" he asked, not bothering to try and keep calm.
"It's a miracle! Shes alive. She just went stable!" Yami let out a laugh of relief and opened his door to hear the news again. Once again he laughed and ran to Anzu's room. She was lying peaceful on her bed, her head slightly tilted. Slowly and silently he walked to her bed. Sitting down beside her he began to stroke her face. "You are more beautiful everyday." he said to her; he watched as her eyes fluttered open and she smiled. This made Atemu smile. It was said around Egypt that one smile from her could melt even the coldest heart, and it had."How are you feeling?" he asked gently, beginning to run his hand through her hair.
"Never better." she said, and patted the bed beside her. He smiled and lay down next to her, pulling her close to him.
"You know I love you more than life itself, right?" he asked with concern,
"No, I couldn't tell." she said sarcasticaly, laughing. Just then Jou walked in the room and whistled.
"Well I cam to say hi, but I see you're a little busy so I'll go." he said, and made to turn.
"Get over here, punk." Atemu said.
"Well! I don't know that I want to know. I believe you've wounded me, Yami."
"What part of this am I supposed to care about?" he asked; he grunted when Anzu hit him in the stomache.
"Be nice!" she told him. He looked at her innocently and smiled, "I am always nice." he said. Both her and Jou rolled their eyes in unison. Yami grabbed his heart and dropped his head on the pillow, "OUCH! That hurts! My girlfriend and my best friend are ganging up against me!" he shouted before laughing. Jou started walking over to join the two on the bed while saying, "Yeah, about that. Theres something you need to know, Atemu....Atem...Anzu and I are lovers now...guess you worked too slowly. Sorry bud." he said and jumped back as Atemu made to kick him. Anzu hushed him and said "Jou, Yami wasn't supposed to know about that!" Yami did a growl in the back of his throat and rolled so he was on top of Anzu. "Hm..." he said and smiled as Anzu laughed. He had been doing alot of that lately.
"What?" Anzu asked.
"Nothing, I've just never seen your face from this angle. You really are beautiful my love. Why you would ever want Jou is beyond me!" he laughed as Anzu began to giggle and kick him off of her.
"Ah, that's so cute." Jou said in a cooing voice. I'm going to go so you love birds can..um...how to word this... he put a finger to his chin; while he was very slowly figuring things out Anzu leaned over and whispered to Yami, "What do you say, on three we attack him, you know what we usualy do." Yami nodded and both people began to stand and head towards Jou."
"My love?" Atemu said.
"Three." Anzu nodded and in a split second both were on top of the unsuspecting Jou, tickling him in every place they knew to be ticklish. Giggling and laughing followed suit, by now the people of the palace were so used to it that they just laughed as they passed by, thinking, 'How wonderful it is to see Yami happy again.'
Anzu, Atemu and Jou all collapse, both men on either side of Anzu. All were panting. Finaly Jou stood up and said, "Okay, you two going to let me go now?" Everyone nodded. "Good." he said, and left, fully aware of what Atemu was about to do, and risk.
"That was fun." Anzu said climbing on top of Atemu to look into his glittering eyes, for once with laughter, and not tears.
"Yes...Love, can I ask you something?"
"Of course."
"Do you love me?" there was no laughter in his voice and that made Anzu glare.
"Yami! What is wrong with you!? Of course I love you."
"I just needed that reassurance for what I am about to do. You have to promise not to run away, or scream, or laugh, or cry, okay?"
"Okay."Anzu said seriously, propping her elbows ontop of Yami's chest and beneath her chin.
"Will you..uh...be my queen?" he asked, with a nervous laugh. It was then Anzu broke one of her promises. She laughed.
"Yes yes yes!" she squealed, wrapping her arms around her now future husbands neck. Atemu laughed as well, this wasso perfect something had to go wrong. And it did, but that is for later.
"You know I don't deserve you, right? You could do so much better."
"Yeah, I know." she said, "But I have you, and I love you so much that sometimes it drives me nuts. So of course I will marry you my love and forever and ever we shall live, happily." she squealed even more.
"Thankyou Anzu." Yami said, dropping his voice tone.
"For what?"
"Loving me, no one has ever done for me before. Thankyou."
"Always." she said, leaning forward to kiss him, he, of course, immediatly surrendered.
That night a celebration was held in honor of the twos engagement. Anzu noticed something wrong with Yami but decided it was for the best not to bring it up. So she and the Pharaoh sat, talked and watched as the people of Egypt danced. "Would you like to dance?" Yami asked hastily. She looked over at him and smiled before declining, she couldn't dance if she wanted to. He looked somewhat relieved. Suddenly Atemu put his head in his hands and began to rock back and forth. The orchestra stopped;the people of Egypt stared and Jou, Seth and Mahaado ran to his side just as he collapsed in Jou's arms.
Anzu waited in her room as people bussled in and out of Yami's murmuring, slaves girls were crying. She began hugging her pillow as she waited for some news of how Atemu was doing. She regretted not bringing it up. Anzu didn't know how long she waited in silence, listening to the sobs, and talking of the people outside before Seth, Jou, and Isis came into her room, none of them looked happy. Seth spoke first.
"Anzu, Yami isn't doing well. We don't know how long he'll live, if he'll live..." Seth trailed off, leaving the way open for anyone who could complete what he was saying without crying, which is what Seth did now. Jou picked up."He has severe internal bleeding, we can't stop it. We don't know where it came from, or how long hes had it. It doesn't look like he'll make it through the summer." Jou hung his head. Isis finished. "Mahaado is confused. He walked in one day and saw it as you two getting together and you getting murdered."
"We did get together and it is possible that after he dies I will be murdered." Anzu said quietly, contemplating that Yami was going to die so soon.
"Have faith, maybe he will make it." Isis comforted.
"But it doesn't look good. The best doctors in Egypt have examined him and said this, what makes you think that he'll live...and even if he does that he will even be able to move! Why couldn't we tell this was happening before!? Why did it just show up now!? He should have been weak long before he collapsed!" Anzu cried, hot tears falling dowin her cheeks and hitting her hands.
"We don't know." Seth said.
"I did..." everyone turned to look at Jou,"Or at least I thought I did, for all the sun he gets he has been turning awefully white lately, and I walked in on him once coughing up blood." Jou hung his head as Seth turned on him. "You knew this was happening and you did nothing! You knew our Pharaoh was dying and still you kept silent so now he is in the other room fighting for his life without much chance of winning and no one can help him when, had you said something, we could have save his life! What is wrong with you!?" Seth shouted.
"Seth, please keep your voice down. The slaves will hear!" Isis said in an urgent whisper.
"That is the least of our problems. Answer me Jou!"
"He made me swear!"
"I thought you were his friend! Hm...his friend! Friends break promises if it will save the others life! If he knew you were dying do you think he would have gotton someone to help, regaurdless of what you made him promise or swear?"
"Yes."Jou said quietly.
"Seth that is enough! He feels bad enough without you making it worse!"
"Isis, look what he has done! Our King is dying, why? Because Jou didn't let anyone know what was happening!" Seth roared standing up. Isis followed.
"Get out!,"she yelled,"if you are going to throw a hissy fit then get out! It is to late to make ammends so we will deal with what is happening now! The fact is Yami is dying, there is nothing we can do about it, so you can accept that fact and calm down or get out!" Isis shouted,something no one was accusomed to her doing.
"Can I go see Yami?" Anzu said in a child like manner from the shadows of the bed. Isis looked at her as a mother would look at a child who had just had a nightmare. "Of course."she said. Anzu smiled and walked out of the now dead silent room.
When Anzu walked into Atemu's room it was worse then she ever could have imagined and she suddenly felt the pain he must have gone through that afternoon. Yami had various tubes hooked up to different parts of his body, Anzu could see the stitches they had put in his chest. Yami's breathing was ragged and uneven, like he couldn't get enough oxygen. She noticed his lips were turning blue.
"Yami?" she reached out and touched his hand. His head turned from side to side looking for her, but not seeing her.
"His condition gets worse by the passing second."Mahaado said from a corner. "He is holding on for you, you know."
"Me?"
"Yes, he won't die until you let him go, with your heart and mind." Mahaado said, placing a hand on Anzu's shoulder. "He'll just remain comotose, and in a great deal of pain." He said regretfully. He turned on his heel and walked out.
"You don't see me do you?" she asked. Yami couldn't respond. Anzu held back her tears and walked to Yami's bed. "No, you can't. Love...I want you to do me a favor...this is Anzu...in case you couldn't tell...Do me the favor and let go. Go join your mother. Please. I hate to see you like this...let go...I'm begging you..." she started crying burying her head in the sheets.
All of a sudden she felt a hand on top of her head and heard a almost un hearable sound coming from Yami. "Anzu." he said, and began running his fingers through her soft brown hair. "I...love...you..." he continued.
"Shh...save your strength." she said, her hope of his survival rekindling. "Do you want me to stay with you tonight?" she asked. Finaly his eyes fixed on her and he nodded. In her heart...she knew things would be okay.
The weeks past and with each day Yami grew stronger until, 7 months after his attack, he was able to leave his room, in what an inventor in Egypt called a wheel chair. He would live, but the doctors feared he would never walk again; not that Anzu believed them anymore. Yami was a fighter, he would walk again and everything would be allright. 5months after he was able to leave his room on the eve of their engagement, Anzu and Yami were married. Yami did walk again and soon rejoined his people. Everyone cheered, genuinely happy he was allright. They had never loved a Pharaoh, a man, as much as they loved him. Anzu had to agree with that.
Every day they were together Yami loved Anzu more, and it was apparent. She had stayed by his side during one of the worst times he had ever had in his life. He told Jou that, as bad as things had seemed, just because Anzu was there by his side everyday, he felt everything would be allright. Jou had laughed at him, but he understood what Yami meant, and how good it felt because 2 months prior to the royals marriage he and Mai had gotton married and were now expecting their first child. Everything seemed so perfect, but that only meant that the worst was yet to come.
Anzu lay on her and Yami's bed, reading over some scrolls she was supposed to go over. She had under estimated how horrible being queen would be. She figured it would be bad because of how miserable Yami was, she just didn't realize how miserable.
"Boring isn't it?" Yami said, laying next to her.
"Unmistakeably so. And you do more of this in a day than I do in a week, no wonder you are so miserable." Yami nodded in agreement.
"Yep...only I actualy have to deal with people. Paper doesn't talk back, people do."
"I would imagine people wouldn't talk back to you either."
"Yeah, funny huh? My advisors think that they are higher than me, and that, my dear, is why they talk back." he said, placing a hand on his stomache.
"Hm...come on...lets go."Yami said finaly.
"Where? It's the middle of the night."
"And there never has been a more perfect time...come." he said, placing a hand out to her. She was amazed that he had only been able to walk for about 3 weeks and it seemed like he had never lost the ability.{If you know someone who has lost the ability to walk you know that it takes a while for them to walk without people and then even longer to stop wobbling} She laughed and placed her hand in his. He smiled and led her out of the palace to the first place they had ever met, a little past where she used to live, to the Nile.
"Look into the water and tell me what you see?" Yami said.
"Huh."
"Just do it."{a/n:sounding strangely familiar} he laughed and she did as he told."What do you see?" he asked.
"Just...me. I don't see anythng special."
"You see you don't you?" he said, smiling. She looked at him like he was nuts{there may be a reason for that}
"Yes." she said slowly, he laughed.
"Then you do see something special."
"You're crazy."
"I'm crazy? Hm...that explains alot about you then." he said. Anzu laughed.
"Come on, lets go inside." she said.
"Do you know that when ever you smile my heart jumps out of my chest?" he said, not moving.
"You need rest. Come on."
"Don't believe me?" he asked.
"Last time a guy said that to me he turned out to be a jackass."
"He may have been, but he wasn't lying."
"Come on. You're still a little weak. You need rest."
"All right." he said,not believing she didn't believe he truly loved her.
Back at the palace, Atemu woke up from a nightmare, screaming. It had awakened Anzu and Seth, Isis, and Mahaado had immediatly been by his side. 'He doesn't look right, he looks like he did the night he collapsed.' Anzu thought, paniking.
"Yami, look at me. Are you allright? What happened?" she asked, fighting to control the urge to shout. Yami slowly turned his head toward his wife, tears in his eyes."You..." he whispered. Seth immediatly started in.
"What is it? What happened? Did she hurt you? Did you dream she hurt you? Dreams are a good indication of the future...tell us." Seth said, not breathing. Isis shook her head.
"Let him tell us when hes ready, Seth." she said calmly.
"If you hurt him at all..." Seth said, ignoring Isis' comment and turning on Anzu.
"I wouldn't...not on purpose..."
"On purpose?"
"She didn't hurt me Seth so calm down." Yami said, hoarsely,"She was murdered, by the tomb thief, Bakura. That's all. If you would all quit fussing over me then maybe we could all finish our night in peace." Atemu stated, impatiently.
"The Pharaoh is right," Mahaado said, "Lets all just sleep out the rest of the night. Pharaoh has Anzu now, he doesn't need us running to his aid any time WE think hes in trouble. If he is then either he or Anzu will come and get one of us." He stood up and started out the door, the other two following close behind him. Seth glared at Anzu as he walked out. He never trusted her again.
A/N:Hey Y'all. In spite of it being fathers day and me being at my fathers all day I'm still updating. However, due to it's lateness, you may not get the next chapter for two or three days, maybe more, I'm going to be updating other fics and I have to be with my dad sometime this week so...I don't know. THANKYOU TO ALL MY REVIEWERS! You rock! Okay...I'm going now.