Disclaimer: I still don't own it!
To all those who guess that this was based on the movie 'What dreams may come' starring Robin Williams, well you'd be right! There are other movies that I got my ideas for this fic from namely The Ring and City of Angels, can you all spot their influence? Heh let me know!
Chapter 8
Yami walked towards the mud dwelling. His feet sank into the mud and every footstep was a struggle but he plodded on until he was right outside the door. It looked strangely familiar to him but there was no way he could have seen it before was there?
He knocked on the door but there was no answer so he knocked again. Still nothing so he pushed the door and found that it opened. He pushed it all the way open and stepped through.
To his surprise he found that he was standing in a near replica of their apartment as it was when they were alive but something was wrong. The walls were dank and ran with slimy water, there was mud on everything and an oppressive darkness hung over everything giving it a dingy, dirty look. Yami could actually feel the darkness surrounding him and trying to draw him into its clutches. According to Jou, Yami had little time before he was drawn into Yugi's hell and be trapped here forever. He moved through the house looking for Yugi. Where was he? He walked sluggishly through to what would have been the lounge. Sure enough he recognized the furniture but again it was covered in mud, slime and surrounded in darkness and decay.
Then he saw him.
"Yugi!" He cried and rushed up to his koi. He knelt in front of him and looked into his eyes. He reeled in shock.
"Yugi?" He looked at his koi's eyes. Where once they had been shining amethyst glowing with love for Yami, now they were dull lifeless pools of despair. They looked gray without even a fleck of former colour there.
"I'm here, but I don't know why I'm here. Have I done something? Where am I? Why am I here?" Yugi was asking these questions while staring seemingly straight through Yami. He talked on and on sometimes incoherently and Yami knew he was running out of time.
"Yugi listen to me." He said grabbing Yugi's shoulders and trying to shake him out of his trance like state but Yugi's head flopped around and returned to staring straight ahead and talking to himself again.
The darkness edged ever closer to Yami and he could feel it's cold fingers touching him as he sat and stared up at Yugi.
"Please Yugi, you must remember me, I love you."
"Remember you? But I don't, I have been here forever, I don't know why but I have been."
"No you haven't Yugi, remember? We lived together on earth and before we did you were an angel and gave up everything for me."
"I gave up…"
"Yes that's right Yugi, you gave up being an angel for me but I got myself killed and you ended your life. Come back to me Yugi, I need you…I need you so much." Tears rolled down Yami's face as he tried to get through to Yugi but the blank stare was still there and Yugi showed no trace of remembering anything.
This place was so awful that it was going to take a miracle to make him remember who he even was let alone all that had happened to them.
The darkness grew ever closer with each passing minute. Yami wondered if it would be worth carrying on trying to get Yugi to remember, maybe he should just stay here with Yugi and allow himself to become trapped with him, he would probably forget everything too but at least they would be together. As he thought this, he could feel memories slipping away from him. He\leaned forwards and rested his head on Yugi's knee.
"I'll stay with you Yugi, at least we'll be together."
His tears still ran as the time ran out and Yami began to sink into Yugi's depression with him, his memories fading until he began to forget whom he was.
His tears ran and Yugi's knee became wet. Yugi began to stir from his trance like state and blinked. He looked round him then he knew what was happening. Memories flooded his mind like a tsunami. He remembered his life as an angel and as a human and why it had all happened, he remembered loving Yami and his depression after he died.
Looking down, he saw Yami's head resting on his knee and he knew he had to help him.
"Yami… Yami! Wake up! Don't be caught in the depression of this place. I know now, I remember everything, please don't allow yourself to be trapped here."
Was he too late in remembering? Was Yami trapped here now?
"Please Yami, I love you." He cupped Yami's chin and turned it up so Yami was looking at him. His eyes were dulling even as Yugi spoke but there were still flecks of crimson to be seen.
"Please Yami you have to listen to me, I can't stay here now I have broken free from my depression I will have to leave but if you can't break free, you will have to stay here. Yami, please snap out of it!"
Yami stared at Yugi unseeing.
"I love you Yami, you hear me? I LOVE YOU!" Yugi yelled at Yami.
Recognition flashed behind Yami's eyes and slowly he focused on Yugi.
"Y…Yugi?"
"Yes it's me, come on Yami, you have to remember!"
"Remember…"
"Yes come on Yami like me you can beat this place."
Yami's faded memories began to return slowly as Yugi spoke to him. He remembered why he was here and suddenly smiled at Yugi.
"I remember…"
"Yami!" Yugi cried in joy and threw his arms round his love. They hugged tightly before Yami captured Yugi's sweet lips in his own passionately. When the kiss was done, Yami looked thoughtful.
"Now we have to get out of here but the journey here was very difficult but we can help each other."
"Sounds good to me Yami." The other said and they began to make their way towards the 'front door'. Yami went to touch the handle of the door but just before his hand reached it, they were surrounded by a brilliant white light that blinded them. They covered their eyes until it lessened enough for them to see. Yami was the first to open his eyes and he looked round recognizing where they were immediately.
"Yugi, look!" he exclaimed in happiness.
Yugi opened his eyes and looked round him in wonder. Where were they? They had been stuck in that place below hell and now suddenly they were standing on soft springy grass in a meadow.
"Where are we?" He asked.
"This is the place I came to when I died." Yami said. "We have been sent back here."
Jou appeared then and he smiled at them both.
"You passed the final test, congratulations." He said smiling.
"Test? Yugi said.
"Yes, Yami had to find you and bring you out of your hell. You were automatically brought here when you succeeded."
"Thank you." Yami said.
"You deserve to be happy, both of you." Jou said still smiling. "Yami went through tough trials to reach you Yugi and I'm sure it was his love that kept him going."
"It was." Yami said hugging Yugi close to himself.
"I'll leave you alone now to enjoy yourselves but I will not be far away lest you should need me." Jou said before vanishing.
"Come on Yugi, I'll show you the house." Yami said excitedly and taking his koi's hand, they ran to the house.
They spent many happy hours looking round it together, Yami showing Yugi everything he had discovered including the mirror.
"I barely left this mirror Yugi, I was watching over you and there was nothing I could do to help you. I wished I could have spoken to you one last time."
"Forget it now Yami, we have each other and that's all that matters. Thank you for coming to find me, that place was so awful now I think about it, but at the time I didn't know where I was or even who I was let alone who you were. I guess that is why it's hell, you forget the ones you truly love and I didn't think that was possible."
"I'm glad I came for you, I could not bear the thought of eternity without you."
"Me either." Yugi said and snuggled into Yami's arms where they were sitting on the sofa.
They spent many happy hours just enjoying each other. They did not know how long they had been there now, as time had no real meaning in heaven. Yugi sometimes wondered what his old angel friends were doing but he didn't dwell on it too much as he had Yami now and that was all he needed.
Yugi was walking across the meadow one day while Yami rested though it was not really needed, when Jou came to him.
"Yugi, your angel friends have made a special request for you and Yami." He said.
"Oh? What is it?"
"They have asked for you and Yami to have a second chance at life."
Yugi stood dumbstruck for a few moments.
"What you mean go back to earth to live out our lives together?"
"That's exactly what I mean. The request has been granted and you are to take these." Jou said handing two rings to Yugi. "When you are ready to return to earth, just put them on."
"Tell my friends than you so much." Yugi said overcome with happiness at having a second chance to live. "I'll go tell him now."
Yugi ran off leaving a smiling Jou watching him.
"Yami! We have another chance at life!" Yugi gushed as he ran through the door and startling Yami who had been daydreaming.
"Are you serious?" Yami asked when he had got over his surprise.
"Yes, my angel friends requested for us to have a second chance and it was granted. All we have to do is to put these rings on and we can go back to earth and live properly."
"Then what are we waiting for?" Yami said and held a ring above his marriage finger. He looked at Yugi's surprised look and laughed! Well we might as well be married, we are in love after all."
Yugi laughed and nodded and together they slipped the rings on and held each other as they were once more surrounded by a brilliant white light. They covered their eyes once more as they were transported back to earth to live out their lives, eternally together, never to be parted.
Owari (end)
All done yay!
