Prologue:
I will carry this empire/With these hands.
A baby would fit inside the computer monitor.
He must be tired, to be thinking about stuffing babies' inanimate bodies into his computer. Seto Kaiba eyed the monitor with a critical eye. A newborn to maybe a twelve month old, he was guessing, but wasn't a specialist in natal care. Of course, that might also be speaking to him that it was time to upgrade his home computer. For a moment he had the vague delusion that if he put his hand over the pie charts on the screen he might fall through.
Like Alice and the Looking Glass.
He thought with somewhat bitter amusement. He'd already fallen through, it seemed, being surrounded by oddities only an author on herione could conjure up. For one there was a Pharaoh in residence of a midget's body, not to mention several people had suddenly aquired a taste for gaudy jewelry.
Seto was far more bitter and sarcastic at the world at three in the morning. This fact became apparent to him only after he had finished his mental ramblings and reached for the umpteenth cup of coffee. Some people called him a workaholic, others, a 'control freak', as true as either of them were he was just 'really fuckin' tired' at the moment. He would have gone to bed, the plush pillow called out to him from the bedroom just four doors down. If he wanted to Seto could imagine the haze of sleep just off in his peripheral. Except that when he slept, he dreamed. He had never been fond of dreaming, maybe that was the control freak part of him talking, since he had never learned to lucid dream. Or maybe its what he saw when he dreamed.
...I hope you never wake up.
And then he'd just remember that the past was unpleasent enough to forget.
There it is. My 'triumphant' return to the YGO fandom. I've been out of it for a while. I used to be 'Unintentional Nightmare'. But this is, hopefully, my more mature and better version of myself.
This fic will be BakuraxSeto, so if you don't like, I'm not all that terribly sorry. A bit of AU elements as well, I think.
I hope you enjoy.
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