Bridging the Void
Note: Hello again everyone! Once again, I bring you a long awaited chapter of Bridging the Void, sequel to my very first fanfiction, When Worlds Collide. I'm sorry it's taken so long, and I hope that some of you are still reading this story, and sticking with me as I try to bring it to a close. This should be our final chapter, so please review and tell me how you liked this story.
In time, I healed from most of my burns, although I will carry the scars for the rest of my life, or so the doctors tell me. Steph and I picked up the shattered pieces of our friendship and found new ways to spend time together and bond like the sisters we had always thought ourselves to be. We had never really lost our strongest bond; the past we shared, and the events that no one else could ever believe had taken place. It has become my duty to share with you, the public, what occurred at that time and after, as the author of our duo. Or rather, our quartet, because that it what we have become.
Seto and I spent the first few years learning more about one another, visiting through my little TV and sharing the past and our hopes for the future. I returned to writing with renewed gusto, the romance even more believeable now that I had experienced it all first hand, and started eating actual food again, and not living on ice cream and diet Sprite.
When the time was right, and Seto had passed his company to his little brother, he proposed. It was a bit of a funny time, really, because it wasn't at all like I'd imagined it would be. He took me on a motorcycle ride down to a bowling alley, and proposed there, in front of the old lady at the counter, not to mention Steph and Marik, who had a surprise of his own that night. Like the leading lady she was, it was Steph who asked him to marry her, and not the other way around. She never was very patient, and well, it probably would have been a while if she hadn't took control of things.
We had a joint wedding, fabulous and luxurious, with a few mystery guests who my parents and Steph's had never even seen before. Nonetheless, Ishizu, Odion and Mokuba had a great time, as did we all. The two of us were truly stunning in white, and our hubbies looked fabulous, although in my opinion, Seto looks much better in a suit that Marik.
With Seto's help, I got the bug all fixed up, and it's a regular dream come true, which does not smell like pizza anymore. Steph finally bought her dream car, and we bought our dream home, a mansion big enough for the both of us, not to mention our husbands. It wasn't the haven for single girls we'd always fantasized about, but much, much better.
Steph still has a few inner scars from Chris's long term abuse, but she uses them to her advantage, as a reason to fight all the harder to prosecute against like cases, as a lawyer. She's making quite a difference, just like I always knew she would.
Seto, meanwhile, now has his own company right here, in my world, which he manages with the same iron fist as he did the original Kaiba Corp. He can have the pride of saying his is the first business to have offices in two different dimensions.
Marik's doing pretty well, I guess, although he doesn't bring in quite as much money as the rest of us. He works in the museum, telling people all about ancient Egypt and what not, giving very realistic descriptions of tombs.
I guess the only real downside to falling in love is that I now owe Steph five dollars, as of the day that my daughter is born. It' a bit sad, really, that I couldn't even hold on to that most prominent part of the girl I was before meeting Seto, but then, perhaps it's better to be a mother than a single author who dreams of love. Still, I'm overjoyed at the thought of how wonderful our little girl is sure to be. I just hope that she's fairer tempered than her parents.
Steph, meanwhile, won't let the doctors tell her if her child is a boy or a girl. Of course, we're both banking on it being a boy so our children can fall in love, but that's a bit silly of old friends, isn't it? Marik and Seto have slightly different opinions, but we don't listen.
And the thing that made all of this possible is long forgotten in all hearts except our own. We have all volumes of Yu-gi-oh on DVD (partly because they're making a movie out of my first novel and partly because of Seto) and we plan on raising our children with the same ridiculous love of the show. Of course, for them, it will be a far different experience, for they learn not about people who they think are fictional, nor about those they would come to love, but their fathers and their lives before meeting the crazy girls from another world.
Some day, when they're ready, we'll take both of them to the world of their fathers, and we'll let them understand that nothing is impossible, and that their really is a chance for even the most eccentric or cold-hearted of people to find love. And we will tell them, too, of Chris, and the battle that we fought against him and against our own stubborn hearts. Maybe they'll have great adventures, defeat crazy villains, and find their own love, like their parents. Or maybe they'll live a quiet life, secluded and safe. I doubt it, though. Now if you don't mind, I have to find my wallet, because it's about time that this baby was born.
End note: I guess that about sums it up, doesn't it? I hope you enjoyed this story, and I hope that you'll review and tell me what you think. It's been fun! Also, if anyone would like to see a story written about their children, just tell me and I'll be happy to do so.
