Yugi: About time Yami Seirei! I'm hanging in suspense here!
Everyone: No daft convos just write!
Yami Seirei: I'm on it!
Jii Chan sat beside his grandson's bed and stroked his face as he waited for him to come round from his operation. In the bed next to him lay another boy also recovering from an operation. Jii Chan had been on the phone for much of Yugi's op, wanting to know why he had not been told that Atemu's guardians had been killed in a car crash. He had discovered that the couple had been returning from visiting friends when their car had come off the road. Neither had survived and Atemu had been sent to live with a foster family until he had come of age, which had been a few months ago.
Jii Chan had never forgiven himself for separating the twins at birth but he was alone and the shop hadn't been doing well at the time. He had given Atemu up for adoption but kept Yugi with him, as he couldn't bear the thought of not having either of them. He had even betrayed his own daughter. She died shortly after the twins were born but her dying wish was for them not to be separated but at the time he had felt as though he must. He had spent the last sixteen years regretting that decision but feeling glad that now they could be a family again. He knew the two of them would probably be very angry about not knowing the other existed but he would have to live with that.
Yugi stirred and opened his eyes. Jii Chan smiled at him.
"How are you feeling?"
Yugi tried to swallow and found his mouth was too dry.
"Water please." He croaked and Jii Chan poured him some. Yugi drank a little and enjoyed the coolness of the water over his tongue. Feeling a bit better he looked at his grandfather his eyes full of unanswered questions but feeling too drowsy to put them into words. With a sigh he closed his eyes again.
"So tired." He mumbled before falling asleep again. Jii Chan smiled in spite of himself. Yugi would likely feel like this for quite a while and so his confession could be put off at least, for a few more hours. He made sure Yugi was asleep properly before leaving the room in search of the coffee machine.
Not long after the old man had left, Atemu opened his sleepy eyes and looked round. He turned his head to the side and looked at the boy in the bed next to him.
"Yugi." He mouthed silently and wondered for the millionth time why he looked exactly like him not to mention a perfect bone marrow match and wasn't it normal policy not to allow donors and patients to know each other? Why then were their beds next to each other?
Then there had been that dream he had had. It had felt so real and yet it couldn't have been could it? He had seen Yugi's picture on the appeal and had been undecided when he went to bed but after he'd had the dream he had been certain. It was probably his subconscious helping him make his mind up. When Yugi woke up he thought as he drifted back off to sleep again, they could have a chat.
It was a few hours later when Yugi woke up again. He looked around and saw that it was night time. He looked over to where Jii Chan's put up bed was and saw the old man fast asleep on there. Yugi didn't know whether it was just the light but he looked as if he'd aged ten years in just a few hours. In fact ever since Atemu had come on the scene offering his bone marrow, Jii Chan had first been shocked and then run off to make phone calls and when he had come back he had looked older then, and he also looked sad with his shoulders sagging as if he had a huge weight on them. He had tried his best to look cheerful and optimistic for Yugi's sake but the teen could read his Jii Chan like a book and knew something serious was bothering him but he also knew that it wasn't because of the op. No it had to be something else. Well he knew he would find out later.
He looked over to where his look-alike lay on his bed sleeping. There was some sort of connection between them he knew it and it felt like much more than just a bone marrow transplant. No it felt like there was a link between then though for the life of him he couldn't figure it out.
As he watched, Atemu stirred and opened his eyes.
"Hello sleepyhead." Yugi said and Atemu grinned at him sleepily.
"Same to you." He murmured.
"You doing ok?" Yugi whispered as he didn't want to disturb Jii Chan.
"Yeah I feel ok how about you?"
"Still tired but that's the anaesthetic I think. But I feel different, strange, like I can feel you." Atemu nodded.
"Yeah I feel the same."
Yugi wanted to thank Atemu for saving his life but didn't have the energy to move much, not that he could considering all the wires that were feeding him liquids etc so he held out his hand.
"I want to thank you Atemu." He said and Atemu reached out and took hold of the proffered hand.
Yugi immediately felt a rush of something he couldn't explain rushing through his body like a wave of energy and he gasped. Atemu could feel it too and his grip on Yugi's hand tightened.
'It was the least I could do Yugi.'
Yugi's mouth fell open in surprise as he had heard the words but hadn't seen Atemu move his mouth.
"Did you say that out loud?" Yugi asked still in shock.
"Say what?" Atemu asked looking puzzled. He had just been about to say what he had been thinking but Yugi had cut in.
"That it was the least you could do. I heard you but your mouth didn't move. What happened just then? I felt a rush just before you spoke."
"I was thinking it Yugi and I was about to say it out loud when you asked me! Well if you heard me maybe I can hear you too, try it."
Yugi concentrated and asked 'Did you have a dream before you came forward as my donor?'
Atemu nodded 'You had the same dream?' he asked in his mind and Yugi nodded in return.
'How are we able to do this? Do you think it's just because of the op?'
'No I think there's more to this than meets the eye Yugi. If we both had the same dream then I am certain of it.'
'I agree I think Jii Chan knows something he hasn't told me yet and when he wakes I am going to ask him about it.'
'Ok, I think I need more sleep.' Atemu said yawning at the same time and making Yugi giggle but soon yawning himself.
'Night Atemu.' He said through their strange mind link that would be explained tomorrow when they were more awake and could question Jii Chan about it.
The two released their hands and settled back down to sleep both hoping that answers would come their way tomorrow.
Yami Seirei: There ya go another chapter done allbeit a short one!
Yugi: Ooooh I am liking a twin brother!
Atemu: Me too aibou
Yami Seirei: Worry not everyone I plan on updating much more regularly than I have been so watch this space
Yugi and Atemu both stare at Yami Seirei's comp very closely We're watching!
Yami Seirei: Very funny!