A/n: XD you gotta love the way advanced technology on YGO! If this was possible in the real world I'd be living in one room for the rest of my life.

Forever in Light: A night at Seto's part two

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Later that night Seto tore down the hall as a scream pierced the silence, his heart pounding.

He found her only half awake and in such a panic she could hardly breathe.

"Anzu! Wake up!"

He grabbed a hold of her by the shoulders and she looked at him for a second.

"Seto?"

He nodded but she began to back away.

"Turn the light on, let me see your eyes!"

By this point several of his servants had gathered by the door and he snapped at them.

"The light!"

She began to calm as she saw that his eyes were blue like they should be, and let him hold her as he leaned closer.

He pulled her head down onto his shoulder and gently stroked her hair.

"It's okay, it was just a dream. What in hell scared you so bad?"

She furiously whipped away her tears as she tried to regain her breath.

"Pharaoh succeeded in killing me with a dagger. He set up the trap like yesterday, only he'd taken over your body to do it."

Seto looked into her eyes for a moment and without warning, kissed her softly.

"No one has taken over my body, I promise."

She pulled away from him and stood, walking over to one of the many tall windows and stared out at the clear sky.

"I don't want to go through this anymore."

He walked up behind her and wrapped his arms around her waist, holding her closely to him.

"You lied didn't you?"

She turned to him and stared into his eyes.

"What do you mean?"

He brushed his finger softly over her hair.

"The dreams. They haven't gotten better have they?"

She looked down and tried to turn from him but he held tightly to her.

"It's not that I don't dream about you every night, it's just that some nights are worse than others but...it's just not fair to Ryou. He hasn't gotten a descent night's sleep since we came home from Egypt."

He tipped her chin up, gently forcing her to look into his eyes.

"What do you dream about?"

She shook her head and quickly backed as far away as she could but still he persisted to hold her to him.

She closed her eyes, feeling ready to fall and whispered in a broken voice.

"Don't make me relive them Seto. If you feel anything at all for me, don't make me tell you."

He let go of her and watched her fall to her knees.

"It's because I feel that I love you that I have to know."

She looked up at him, hurt showing in her eyes.

"You already know Seto, don't play games with me."

He knelt down in front of her and forcefully took her wrists.

"Tell me Anzu! If you don't talk, I have ways of making you that I don't want to deploy."

Cold fear began to settle in as he spoke those words.

She stared into his eyes, tears beginning to form in her own.

"What do you care anyway?"

She was startled to see tears forming in his eyes as he spoke.

"Do you know what I dream about every night Anzu? I see your tortured face, down to every tear you shed when I had you tied up in the dueling rink. I relive that same damn scene night after night and I wake up crying from it!"

She stared at him in silence until he let go of her and stood.

"Seto?"

He stared down at her and spoke so quietly she almost didn't hear him.

"I just keep hoping that if you share it with me, our dreams will end. Just tell me and maybe we'll be able to move on."

She was silent for a long moment, until he gave up and turned to leave.

"It's not always bad."

He stopped but didn't turn.

"Go on."

She stood slowly and sat on the couch again, hugging the pillow closely.

"In the bad ones you do all kinds of things to me. The most disturbing one I had was just a few weeks ago. Those dreams are less frequent now. But then I dream about that summer we spent together right after I found out about Pharaoh and his girlfriend."

He turned to her.

"Why would you dream about that?"

She shook her head.

"I don't know. Maybe it's my way of dealing with what happened. I guess it was then that I made up my mind that you weren't such a horrible person after all."

He sat beside her.

"I kissed you then too."

She nodded.

"I know. I even know what you said to me...that you knew I was with him but you just wanted to kiss me once...I wasn't asleep Seto."

He looked down.

"So that's why you left the next day?"

She nodded.

"I didn't want you to think there was anything between us."

He sighed deeply.

"It was then that I tried to fool myself. I wasn't in love with you. How could I be? But then on the flight to Egypt, I had my hope. A small hope that you loved me too."

He pulled her into his arms and kissed her forehead.

"Go back to sleep. We have a long day tomorrow."

He picked her up and began walking.

"Where are you taking me?"

He smiled softly.

"Third floor, sky dome. We'll both sleep there and if you need anything at all, I'll be right there."

His bare feet stepped lightly onto the warm carpet of the sky dome and he set her down for a moment.

She stepped back as the room suddenly went black and he smirked, wrapping an arm around her waist.

"Just wait. It's not called the sky dome for nothing. I haven't been in here in a while actually so you'll forgive me if I take a moment to decide which section of the sky I want to sleep in."

Had she been able to see she'd have stared at him, however it was literally black in the room.

Finally a small green light appeared on the wall and an automated voice spoke as Seto pressed his finger against the doorframe.

"Scanning retina. Acknowledged user Seto Kaiba. Please state sector."

"Sea Horse nebula."

"Telescope scanning. Scanning complete. Please stand by for holographic system manager."

Suddenly the room exploded into a holographic image of the Sea Horse nebula and many surrounding stars.

"Brightness, dim. Sleep mode."

"Dimming brightness, sleep mode on. What track?"

"Music, no. Waves track one. Continuous repeat."

The image dimmed into tiny specks and the sound of gentle waves began to play softly from all around.

She wandered out into the room, looking awestruck as she passed right through them.

He soon followed her and led her to the middle of the room where a swing hung from the twelve-foot ceiling.

He sat down on it and pulled her with him.

He began to lie down but she stopped him.

"Bakura would be so pissed if he found out about this."

He smirked and roughly pulled her down too, kissing her softly.

"We're only sleeping Anzu. Trust me, I have no intension of getting on his bad side. Now close your eyes and go to sleep...or stare at the stars all night."

She lay quietly, staring at the peaceful setting and soon found it hard to stay awake as the swing began to sway gently back and forth.

Seto was quite the magician and for a moment she was sorry she'd turned him down.

''

Dawn broke early and Anzu was a little disappointed to now be staring into a white billowy cloudbank drifting from one wall and disappearing into the other.

It was pretty yes, but nothing compared to the light show.

She suddenly realized she was alone on the swing.

Then she heard two hushed voices.

She couldn't tell what they were saying but they belonged to Seto and Shadi.

Finding her way through the mass of clouds was a little difficult, but she found the door easily enough and emerged from one to find the two aforementioned men standing out in the hallway.

She stared at the tall robed figure for a moment, getting a nervous feeling in her stomach.

"Shadi?"

Seto started and glanced up at her with a sigh.

"I'm afraid we have some bad news."

She took a step back.

"And that would be?"

Shadi sighed heavily, but refused to look anywhere but her eyes.

"We must work quickly. Once we have changed the fight between you and Pharaoh, I will give you as much time as you need to prepare yourself. But Pharaoh is growing stronger by the moment and his bonds won't hold much longer. You must meet us in the museum in no more than an hour."

She and Seto nodded and watched as Shadi disappeared into the floor.

She shivered slightly.

"Does anyone but me find it creepy how he does that?"

Seto chuckled and shook his head.

"Effectively so."

Anzu glanced back into the room just in time to see a flock of geese flying through.

"Um, Seto...What happened to the stars?"

He laughed and pressed the now visible button on the doorframe.

The room went back to normal and he closed the door.

"It's an earth based telescope situated just above us and unfortunately it doesn't reach past the atmosphere during the day so you get crazy things like geese flying across the middle of the room."

Turning serious he sighed.

"We'd better get going. I'll meet you in the kitchen after I get dressed."

She nodded and followed him as far as the kitchen, only to stop dead in her tracks as she saw Mokuba at the table.

Seto could just see where this was going from the look on Mokuba's face.

With a warning tone he spoke to the younger Kaiba.

"She came here last night. Of her own free will."

Anzu looked up at Seto, worried about the look on his face.

A cross between anger and fear.

"He...knows?"

Seto sighed deeply and nodded.

"How could I not tell him Anzu, I went to jail for two days. Who do you think paid my bail?"

She looked away.

"I see. Well I think we can settle this quickly enough by ourselves."

Seto glared at her for a moment but walked away.

She hesitated to enter room but slowly sat across from him.

"Anzu...did you really come here last night?"

She smiled softly and took his hand.

"Seto and I are on a special mission and I really needed to spend time with him for it to work out."

She squeezed his hand as tears welled up in his eyes.

"I was afraid I'd never see you again."

She patted his hand.

"It's okay Mokuba, why didn't you come to the store? You know you and Rebecca are welcome there anytime."

He closed his eyes tightly.

"I was afraid seeing me would remind you of Seto."

She smiled softly.

"Mokuba, can you do me a big favor? Please."

He looked up at her.

"Anything!"

She looked back into his eyes.

"Forget everything you heard last year. Forget that it ever happened...because the secret is that after tomorrow it never will have happened. Not the way it did now."

He pulled his hand out of hers as he looked up to see Seto standing there.

"I'll try. So, what is everyone having for breakfast?"

''

Anzu and Seto were the first to arrive and she was disappointed that neither Ryou nor Bakura were there.

One glance at Shadi told her something was wrong.

"Shadi?"

He shook his head.

"We can't proceed today. At least not until we can find him."

Seto stepped forward.

"Find who?"

"Me"

Everyone turned to the door to see Ryou walking into the room.

"I guess we'll have to do it without Bakura. I can't find him. I'm sorry for being late Shadi...but I'm afraid you'll have to blame my dark."

He walked right past Anzu and stood in front of the tablets, obviously angry.

Anzu took a step but Seto stopped her.

She glanced back at him for a moment and then to Ryou.

"Ryou, what happened?"

He shook his head.

"Not right now."

Shadi seemed to know what was going on and turned to Anzu and Seto.

" He's right, we haven't time to wait for him. He'll be here later I'm sure."

Anzu nodded and watched the portal open.

'Just one more after this and we can all move on.'

She closed her eyes and leapt through, praying this would go better than she thought.

Ryou gave a glance to Shadi before following.