Chapter 7

When she reached Yugi's Game shop Emma was out of breath as she had ran most of the way. She couldn't wait to see her brother as it had been months since they last saw each other. She walked in through the doors and saw her brother resting his weight on the shop counter talking casually to Yugi.

"Max!" She shouted before running at her brother and wrapping her arms around him so tightly as though she was never going to let go of him ever again. She shed tears of joy as she spoke to him. "I was told that you were in the hospital with pneumonia."

"I was." Pegasus replied as he hugged his sister back. "But I discharged myself to come for you."

Emma pushed away from the embrace to look at her brother. "Come for me, why?" she asked as she saw that he still looked a little off colour.

"Shadi told me that you were in great danger." he explained.

"You've seen Shadi!" Emma said in surprise, and slight relief to know that he was alive.

"Yes." Pegasus confirmed also with surprise from Emma's reaction. "He told me all about the dark and dangerous power that you had been sent here to fight, and warned me not to interfere as I'd be putting you in more danger. That was around the same time that I fell ill, but I had to come and get you as I couldn't bear the thought of losing you too."

"Well the danger's past now, and I'm still here." Emma told her brother as she wondered if Shadi had anything to do with her brother's illness. "I just wish you had more faith in me." she joked.

"Since when did it become a crime for me to worry about my darling little sister?" Pegasus teased as he began to cough and splutter.

"You're still not well." Emma told her brother with concern in her voice. "I have to get you back home resting."

Emma broke away from Pegasus to retrieve her bag that she had previously left in the store room. She stopped to talk to Yugi on her way back. "Will you say good-bye to the rest of the gang for me?"

"I will." Yugi replied smiling up at her.

"Thank you." Emma hugged him good-bye before helping her brother leave the shop.

"So long Yugi-boy." Pegasus waved as they left.

Once outside Emma pulled her cell phone from her jacket pocket. "I just have to make a call." She told her brother.

"What's in the bag?" Pegasus asked as he heard a jingling sound coming from Emma's bag.

"Just some things to go in my vault." Emma replied as she waited for her call to be answered.

"Kaiba Corp. Good morning, how may I help you?" came a cheery voice.

"I'd like you to pass a message on to Seto Kaiba please." Emma said knowing that Kaiba would still be talking to Mokuba and wouldn't receive the message until later. "Can you tell him that Emma called to say that I'm leaving this evening and that I just wanted to say good-bye."

Emma and Pegasus had been waiting in the departure lounge at the airport for almost five hours to board the plane for their flight home. Finally people were being allowed to board and the two of them made their way to the boarding tunnel.

"So, you're leaving?" came a voice from behind them, and they both turned to see Kaiba and Mokuba standing together. Kaiba's face showed signs of disgust as he saw Pegasus.

Emma motioned to her brother to continue to board the plane without her as she made her way to the two Kaiba brothers to say good-bye. "He needs me, and I can't leave him the way he is right now." she tried to explain.

"Why didn't you tell me he was your brother?" Kaiba asked with no emotion in his voice.

"First of all; it never came up in conversation." Emma explained as though it had been some kind of awful secret that she had been keeping to herself. "And secondly; I know how you feel about him and I didn't want it to affect our friendship."

"It's true that I hate your brother beyond the point of all explanation," Kaiba began to share his thoughts on the situation. "But you once told me that you like to make your own opinion of people, so it's only fair that I return the same view towards you."

Emma felt relieved that their friendship wasn't going to be affected by the fact that she was the sister of a person Kaiba hated, and smiled back at him in thanks.

"Miss, it's your last chance to board the plane." A flight attendant told Emma.

"Thank you for helping my brother and I to understand each other better." Mokuba told her as he hugged Emma good-bye.

"It's okay." Emma replied returning the hug and then spoke to both of them. "Just remember to confine in each other more."

Emma broke free from Mokuba's hug and went to shake Kaiba's hand that he was offering only to find herself pulled right in to another hug from him. "Remember that you still owe me a rematch." he told her before letting go.

"I haven't forgotten." Emma replied as she made her way onto the plane.

She joined her brother in first class and sat opposite him, looking out of the window to see that the two brothers had moved away from the boarding tunnel to the building's windows to watch the plane take off. She felt sad at the thought of leaving them both so soon with everything that they were going through together, and wished that she could stay longer, but she had her own brother who needed her too.

Pegasus followed his sister's sad gaze out of the window to see the two Kaiba brothers waiting. "Do you love him?" he asked her.

"More than he'll ever know." Emma replied quietly still staring out of the window. She realised what she had just said and felt herself turning red as she faced her brother. "But not in the way you're suggesting."

Pegasus smiled warmly and didn't attempt to make any kind of joke about her blushing. "Then go, he needs you more than I."

"No!" Emma answered abruptly. "I won't leave you, not until you're well again."

"I've almost made a full recovery, a few more days rest and I'll be fine." Pegasus assured her.

"I won't leave you unhappy and alone." Emma told him once more as she began to cry at the very though of her brother returning to how he had been just after his wife's death.

Pegasus took his little sister's hands in his. "Despite my loses it doesn't mean that I'm unhappy. And even if you're not by my side, as long as I know you're in this world I know that I'm not alone. You said that I have to have more faith in you, so here's your chance to live your life how you want to."

Emma looked from between her brother on the plane and out the window to where Kaiba stood. She couldn't believe that she was having to make the hardest decision of her life. She looked at her brother once more.

He smiled back at her. "I just want you to be happy, and I'm sure Cecelia would want you to be too."

Together Kaiba and Mokuba watched the plane take off, taking Emma with it back to where she had come from. Both of them seemed quite sad but neither having to explain to each other what they were feeling.

"Come on Mokuba, lets go." Said Kaiba as he turned and began to walk away slowly.

Mokuba looked out of the window for one last time before he followed his brother's footsteps.

As they passed back through the departure lounge they saw Emma standing there waiting for them. "Hey!" she smiled raising her arm which now had the dueldisk on that she had won from beating Kaiba once before. "Fancy that rematch that I owe you."

A tear fell down the side of her face as she knew that she would miss her brother dearly, but he had been right. Even though they weren't together, she knew that she was never alone and that he would always be there whenever she needed him.

The End