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Ch. 3 Change

All around me darkness gathers
Fading is the sun that shone
We must speak of other matters
You can be me when I'm gone.

"Wha…What?" stuttered Yoh.

"I said that I want you to be the next Corinthian."

"Why me? You could have chosen anybody, but why me of all people?" he replied.

"I told you it's because you're a good person, I want to save you're life, but I need something in return. I know what happened to you alright. You and I know that there's nothing worth living for in you're life now, is there?"

There was a long silence.

"I have my friends," replied Yoh.

Taking his eyes off of Yoh and tilting his head upwards, Dream replied, "Yes, but will that mend your broken heart? Will that stop you from taking drastic actions? What you had for Anna was true love Yoh. True love does not act kindly to betrayal, for Love belongs to my sibling Desire, and Desire is always cruel."

"I…" Yoh could only blurt out one word before he was cut off.

Dream extended his right arm forward.

"Yoh…Please take my hand."

It is at that moment that time flew. How long had they been in that position? Hours? Minutes? The dreaming does not acknowledge the concept of time and space. There was a moment of hesitation and tenseness in the air, before it was finally met.

In the Waking World

It's been several days since Yoh was hospitalized. His friends and loved ones visited at every opportunity. He laid on the hospital bed with wires and Iv's hooked up to him checking his pulse and breathing, keeping him alive basically. Anna had stayed besides him the entire time since she had gotten the call from the hospital. She felt bad for what she did, but she just couldn't help it, lust had overtaken her. She took out the years of sexual repression on Hao, her fiancées brother, the man she hated with a passion. How did it all happen? It was just one single kiss and she found herself in bed with him, she just didn't understand.

She put all away all the thoughts for now. All she wanted was Yoh to wake up. Anna suddenly felt pain in her stomach and quickly rushed to the bathroom. She had been having these constant pains in her stomach for days now. Her first thought that it must be something she ate, but with the frequency of the pain and her trips to the bathroom increasing daily, she had come, with great dread to a conclusion. She was pregnant…with Hao's child.