A/N: This is a really short chapter sorry!! The next one is going to be longer though I promise :P gah… my cat keeps randomly runnning across my keyboard and makes things randomly delete themselves and disappear… >o

Disclaimer and warnings are the same old, same old.

I'm writing this in the middle of the night, so I finally have time to reply to all my reviewers XD

angelical nightmare: lol yes he does

astalder27: yup joey sure does… and I'm glad too J

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mandapandabug: thank you for being such a supportive reviewer XD I really appreciate all your comments (and threats lol XP) Kenji will be back insert mysterious music but not in this chapter lol. Thank you very, very much for your reviews

Killian: I hope so too lol and thanks!

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Essenity: blushes sorry it's so short!! Lol you can come down to the South Island if you want :P but look- I updated more quickly, see? looks proud Lol, I'm slaving away at the next chapter as we speak :P

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If I missed anyone out I'm really really sorry… o blame it on my cat lol :P she's currently sitting on my neck but before she was trying to eat my internet cord o.O;;

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Chapter 6

Joey awoke the next morning to find icy blue eyes fixed on him. He blinked several times, trying to clear the fuzziness in his head, and rolled onto his side so that he was facing Seto.

"Hey..." he yawned and stretched. "How long have you been awake?"

Seto shrugged. "A few hours."

"What? Why didn't you wake me?" Joey asked, frowning slightly.

Seto merely shrugged again. He didn't want to admit that he had been watching Joey sleep for the last 3 hours- it would be far too embarrassing for him to let that slip.

"So... what are we going to do today?" Joey asked, slowly inching over to the brunette.

Seto foiled Joey's plans for a morning snog fest by climbing out of bed, a blanket wrapped around his otherwise naked body. "I might take another day of work."

"Really?" Joey asked excitedly, his spirits perking up again. "So we can do whatever we want today?"

"Hn." Seto picked up his clothes off the ground and pulled on a pair of jeans and a casual t-shirt.

"What, no trenchcoat today?" Joey asked, unable to hide a grin.

"Iie." Seto sat down on the bed to pull on some socks.

Joey draped his arms around Seto's slim frame and nuzzled his lover's neck.

Seto leaned into the embrace, letting out a small sound of satisfaction. Joey continued to nip and lick at the CEO's neck, his hands running over Seto's body.

"You could have done this before I got dressed." Seto murmured, his voice husky with desire.

"But where's the fun in that?" Joey asked, winking cheekily.

Seto kissed him fiercely, pushing the blond onto his back. Seto had only just begun to remove his shirt when the phone rang.

Groaning, Seto reached over and picked it up.

"What do you want?" he snapped.

He hardly let the person on the other line explain before he hung up and pulled the phone out of its socket.

"They can call back." he said and shrugged.

Joey grinned and pulled Seto back down onto the bed. "So where were we?"

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Days turned into weeks, and weeks into months, and Joey realised that for once in his life he was perfectly happy with everything- Seto was far better than he could've imagined.

The CEO had found him a job as an assistant production manager in Kaiba Corp, Honda had forgiven him -kind of- and his mental scars from Kenji's attack were almost completely healed- they would never completely go away but he was able to sleep alone at night without recurring nightmares of being attacked by the man.

Seto always took time off work to be with him, taking Joey out for dates every second day- sometimes to see a movie, sometimes going out to have a candlelight dinner at an expensive restaurant.

Joey rolled over in bed to look at his lover. Everything was so perfect- but surely it couldn't last for much longer?

"Why are you staring at me?" Seto muttered, cracking open one eye.

Joey smiled and leaned over, planting a kiss on the brunette's lips. "No reason. Just thinking, that's all."

"Well stop it. It's disturbing." Seto drifted back to sleep again.

Joey smiled and lay back down, burying his face into his pillow. He hoped that nothing would change- he hoped that Seto would always be so caring and passionate, and that nothing would ever come between them.

Joey tried to go back to sleep, but he couldn't get his mind to settle. Finally he gave up and carefully slipped out of bed, and pulled on his clothes.

He silently climbed downstairs and entered the kitchen. Joey helped himself to some juice and toast, glancing at the clock as he did so.

It's only 4am! Joey wailed silently. What am I going to do? I have heaps and heaps of spare time before work starts!

"Pup? You're awake?" came Seto's incredulous voice from the doorway.

Joey turned around and grinned at his lover. "I couldn't go back to sleep. Why are you awake? You don't have to be up for another hour."

Seto shrugged. "The bed got cold."

Joey laughed and held out a piece of toast. "Want some?"

Seto shook his head. "I'll have breakfast later. Are you alright?"

Joey cocked an eyebrow. "Why do you ask?"

Seto shrugged again, not comfortable with asking such intimate questions. He had never really cared about someone so much before, and it scared him slightly.

"Well I'm fine." Joey walked over and slipped his arms around Seto's waist.

The brunette flinched, still not used to all the physical contact- he was so used to being alone, both mentally and physically, it was still odd to him to have someone who wanted to be near him, both mentally and physically.

Joey yawned and pulled away. "I'm going to go have a shower. You have some breakfast, got that?"

Seto rolled his eyes. "Yes mother." he muttered under his breath.

"I heard that."

"Inu no baka."

"I heard that too!" Joey mock punched Seto, who simply smirked and walked off.

Joey couldn't help but grin as he walked back upstairs and entered the shower.

Everything was so damn perfect.

But how long is it going to last...?

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Next chapter is gonna be kinda angsty… and the one after that too… just a warning ;; next chapter is going to be longer… and I'm going away on holiday (to the land of the computerless…) for a couple of days. And I might disappear sometime in January (it's explained in my journal on my DA page: so yeah…) I'm really sorry if there's a long wait for an update… >o