Monteague was awaken early in the morning to a pressure on his chest; he opened his eyes to see Yugi holding onto him with her head reburied in his shirt, she kept shifting restlessly, she turned over again gripping onto the closest thing, the sheets, before she turned over again whacking Monteague in the side with her arm. Monteague grunted slightly and lightly shook her, waking her out of her sleep, she moaned and stopped moving gripping into Monteague's shirt.
"Yugi? Are you okay?" He asked stroking her back gently, Yugi shook her head slowly.
"What's wrong?" he said shifting very slightly so that he could look at her.
"Yami," she moaned quietly wanting him but knowing he probably hated her now.
"It's all right Little Yugi" Monteague told her soothingly, he understood what she meant, the hurt was there in her voice along with a longing for her husband, but the man was dangerous. Yugi huddled down in a curled up ball, shivering slightly even though it was warm in the house.
"Shhh, Yugi, you are okay, do you need anything?" he asked taking her carefully into his arms.
"Blood," Yugi whispered nuzzling into his collarbone.
"I'll go get you some, do you want to come with me?" he said smiling slightly trying to perk her up. Yugi just shook her head and laid her head back down on the pillow; Monteague got up off the bed and checked on Pira quickly, the phoenix was asleep and still on top of all three of the eggs, before he whispered his return to Yugi and headed towards the kitchen for the blood, with the thought of 'poor thing' in his mind.
Yami awoke about the same time as Monteague, only he awoke to the smell of blood; he was immediately up when he noticed Yugi was not with him. He looked around the room and saw the blood streaks up to his side of the bed coming from the bathroom.
"Yugi!" Yami called noticing that the pill drawer was sitting ajar, there was no answer, he stood up from the bed and felt friction on areas that didn't normally get it and looked down.
"Shit!" Yami said seeing the dried blood on his lap, he ran to the bathroom where there lay the main pool of blood from the night before; Yami quickly ran to the shower scrubbing himself until he was almost raw trying to franticly get the blood off all the while his brain repeating.
'No, no, no, no, no,' as he thought of what could have happened. He got dressed and began to follow the blood trail, after the small pool next to his bed, it lead in a staggered trail through the door, there was a gruesome spatter of blood on the wall and he continued to follow it, recognizing the scent of his lover's blood as it trailed towards the stairs and on towards the door, which was sitting wide open. He could see red spots and footprints on the white snow and ran to grab his jacket. He went outside and the blood stopped in a small pool in the snow, but he saw a landing point with more blood a little farther away and realized which direction she had gone, towards Monteague's. He jumped swiftly from place to place following the landings and blood right up to the balcony outside of Monteague's apartment, noticing the landings had gotten even more staggered the closer he got, until he saw the large scraped and bloody area in the snow where Yugi had fallen trying to get in; Yami pounded on the door,
"Monteague!" he shouted. He heard a clinking sound on the other side of the door and then it opened and Yami stepped in, but he didn't see Monteague, that didn't last for long though as the larger vampire grabbed him from behind, getting him into a good hard head lock and this was no friendly thing Monteague really meant him harm.
"Mon-teague," Yami croaked scratching weakly at the arm around his neck.
"Why did you do it Yami!" Monteague growled at him clenching a little tighter leaving just enough for Yami to talk.
"What?" Yami gasped out,
"You know damn well what you asshole," he snarled, he rarely ever cursed, but right now he was pissed off.
"No I don't," Yami replied focusing on his shadows and bring the Black Magician, who instantly retaliated to his master's situation and blasted him off of Yami with an attack.
"You- you know what you did you fricking rapist! I aughta tear you apart," Monteague roared, his brown eyes flashing darkly as he dove at Yami again like a lion pouncing after a gazele, the magician blasted him back though, sending him back into a book lined wall.
"Ooooh," he heard a moan come from his bedroom and he immediately got up, grabbing two bottle's off the table and leaving Yami staring incredulously after him. Monteague reached the bedroom to the sight of Yugi curled up with her back to him, coughing, the older vampire walked over to her and knelt, stroking her back comfortingly.
"Yugi, I've got some blood for you," he whispered, getting her attention, she took in a deep breath and let out a slow shaky one rolling over for him.
"Hun?" she muttered looking up at him.
"I'm back, and I've got some blood for you," Monteague told her smoothing back her hair. He knelt down next to her and popped open the blood bottle; he set it down to help Yugi sit up putting an arm around her and actually picking her up off the bed, keeping the blankets still wrapped around her body. As she rested her head on his shoulder she caught a glimpse of Yami in the doorway, she looked up, gripping onto Monteague harder when she saw her husband, Monteague noticed it and turned his head to see the door and saw Yami as well, he glared at him growling.
"Get out," he demanded holding onto Yugi, who was hiding her face in his neck.
"You are holding my wife, why should I leave?" Yami retaliated glaring at him.
"Please no, I don't want to hurt again," Yugi whispered huddling down scared trying to hide behind him.
"I won't let him," Monteague whispered to her, turning back to Yami.
"I told you to get out!" he snarled at him.
"No, I want to see my wife first," Yami replied, not budging.
"You will leave, this is my apartment not yours," Monteague said stroking Yugi's back as she began to shiver, he remembered the eggs and the sleeping Pira that only made him even more angry; Yugi might not be his, but those eggs were his and Pira's babies.
"Fine, then I'll make you move," Yami told him waving his hand and bringing up thunderball, it was about the size of a large, purple, white, and green, spiked softball, which floated in front of him; it floated to Monteague, who released Yugi to swat the slow mechanical thing away, but as soon as he touched it he was zapped, hard. he knelt down, cradling his numbed hand, rubbing the burned area that had come into contact with the thunderball. Yami stepped forward towards Yugi while Monteague growled at him, Yugi looked up at him helpless.
"Monteague help," Yugi cried hoarsly, shifting away.
"No! Get away from me," she whimpered moving even farther away as Yami reached for her.
"Stop! Monteage, help me!" Yugi cried, tears welling up in her eyes when Yami grabbed her arm. Yami was immediately stopped, but not by Monteague, in a flash of golden feathers, Pira flapped up and sunk her talons into Yami, clawing at his face until she exhausted herself again, and landed on Yugi's feet, waddling her way back to her eggs.
"Arrrgh!" Yami screamed covering his face as he knelt on the floor, blood leaking from the open cuts.
"Ah, ah, damn it," Yami cried, bowing low into his knees.
"You got what you deserved," Monteague told him flexing the still slightly numbed hand as he stood again, going to help Pira waddle over the high rim of her nest; he came back to Yugi, letting the little vampiress hold onto him and cry.
"Sh, sh, sh, it's okay," Monteague told her shielding her.
"I don't want to- I don't want to go through it again, help me," Yugi sobbed
"Yugi," Yami said from his curled position on the floor; he was carefully licking his fingers and drawing them across all the scratch marks.
"My baby, shhh," Yami whispered gently, tears coming to his eyes, it was happening again, someone was blocking him from contacting his lover and she was only three feet from him.
"Love, my sweet love, come back to me please," Yami said having healed his face he started to sob harshly into his hands; Monteague looked at the older vampire, both of the lovers were crying, Yami wouldn't have been crying if he had raped her on his own free will, and knowing this pair Yami's was known to have strange things happen to him. Yugi had stopped crying and was curled into his side with her eyes shut, she was panting slightly. Monteague's heart melted, in a sense, for the pair and it hurt to see them like this, an idea came to him. He picked Yugi up, still wrapped in the sheet, she looked up at him slightly through teary eyes
"I'm just moving you into a more comfortable position," Monteague explained lifting her easily.
"Now shut your eyes and relax," he added nuzzling her forehead slightly to comfort her. He rested her on his chest with her arms folded, he moved slowly so as not to hurt her again; Monteague kneeled down on the floor next to the sobbing Yami and carefully tapped him on the shoulder, hoping he wouldn't lash out at him. He didn't; he looked up at him, his eyes were red and slightly puffy as tears streaked down his face, Monteague bent down to Yami's level the older vampire looked pitiful. Monteague offered Yugi to him, the little one still had her eyes closed and resting against his chest; Yami held out his arms for her, like a child for their security blanket. Monteague carefully put her into Yami's arms, shifting her gently from his to Yami's, the little one didn't even move. Monteague switched her grip from his shirt to Yami's, and that was it the small girl was in Yami's arms, the older vampire had his head buried in her shoulder inhaling her scent holding her as thought she was about to run. Monteague stood and sat on the edge of the bed; Yami looked up at him, tears still shining in his eyes, he had a confused look on his face.
"Be gentle," Monteague whispered to him rubbing Yugi's back for him. Yami smiled slightly holding her to him a little tighter, but the comfort and happiness didn't last long as Yugi opened her eyes, she instantly realized that this was not Monteague and panicked trying to move away from him.
"N-n-n-no, please stop," Yugi cried as she tried to move away.
"Yugi it's okay, he won't hurt you," Monteague told her rubbing her back and keeping her on Yami's chest, but Yugi didn't believe it and bit hard into Yami's shoulder, stopping when her fangs were completely embedded in his flesh, Yami hissed slightly in pain but recovered quickly.
"Yugi I mean it I'm not going to hurt you, you are my wife, why would I?" Yami said feeling Yugi trying to bite even deeper and harder into his shoulder. Yugi, in tears again, mouthed at Yami's shoulder, unable to go further as blood slowly ran into her mouth.
"Yugi, I'm sorry, I don't know if that's getting through to you but I am sorry," Yami whispered holding her close and burying his head in her shoulder again, tears hitting the bare skin.
"I love you, I love you so much it hurts, please don't leave me," Yami told her shutting his eyes to hold back the tears. Yugi heard him and slid her fangs out, licking over the large punctures like a kitten licking it's wounds; she hesitantly rested her head on his shoulder. Yami felt her head there and picked her up being gentle as Monteague had told him to be. Yugi stayed curled up in his arms as he lifted her, Yami sat her back down on the bed, trying to make her as comfortable as possible without jolting her around. The little vampiress huddled down in the sheets, still not so sure about letting Yami touch her, the bottle of blood still sat there, warm, next to the bed and this was when Monteague stepped back in between the two.
"thirsty," Yugi moaned, relaxing now that Monteague was in her line of sight.
"Okay, here it is," Monteague said giving her the bottle; she could only keep a grip on the thinner end of the bottle though so Monteague had to hold the other end for her as she drank, her throat moving rapidly to bring in the red liquid. Yugi finally pulled away, having drank almost three quarters of the bottle and Monteague took the bottle away, Yugi just lay there her eyes half lidded.
"Tired," she mumbled trying to roll onto her side without hurting.
"Shhh, just sleep, we're right here if you need us," Monteague told her brushing a bang out of her face the small vampiress nodded sleepily, finally alowing her eyes to shut knowing Monty was there to save her if need be. Once she was out, sleeping, Monteague looked back at Yami,
"You zapped me," he said incredulously, getting up off the bed so they wouldn't wake Yugi.
"You were standing between me and my wife," Yami replied looking up at him and standing as well.
"You still zapped me," he repeated going around the bed to Pira's nest, the phoenix had curled up and gone back to sleep; he knelt down and pushed one of the eggs under her body a little more, making Pira chirp at him tiredly as though trying to ask why he'd just woke her up.
"I'm sorry," he cooed lightly, scratching the back of her head, she curled back down on her eggs happily.
"She had her egg, huh?" Yami asked watching him amused by the way he was acting.
"Three of them, she had them when Yugi landed here last night," Monteague said throwing Yami an angry glare.
"I didn't do it," Yami replied trying not to shout and wake Yugi.
"Then who else looks like you, because I sure don't think Yugi would have run away from you if it was someone else," Monteague said glaring at him.
"It was my body, not me, I was looking into her dreams and something came out of the dream and attacked me, it was a possessor that raped Yugi not me," Yami cried at him frustrated, he didn't want this, they had only been married for two weeks and everything except their honeymoon had gone totally wrong.
"Uh huh? Yami I know you get into some weird situations, but this is kind of bogus don't you think? I mean really how can anything posses you through another person's dream," Monteague said gesturing to his head and looking down on the shorter male. Yami raised a hand to stop him,
"Right then, Monteague you read books, there's no denying it," Yami began humorously,
"Now among all those books you've read, in that four hundred year long life of yours, you can't possibly tell me you never read of Egypt's many gods, of prophets and other divine powers intervening in the ancient world," Yami asked running a hand through his bangs, momentarily stretching the bolts back into his hair before letting them flop back onto his face as he stared skeptically at him.
"Yeah I have, so what?" Monteague replied miffed at the fact that the older one was challenging his intellect.
"So you've probably heard of the god Set or Seth as some idiots at the digs call him, the god of storms or thunder, well I de throned him, there was a little point there where he came down after killing Osiris and tried to rule my kingdom, and well I just couldn't let him do that, so i pretty much booted him off my throne," Yami told him pushing it with Monteague to get him to think logically.
"Aaand?" he asked waving his hand.
"You still don't get it? Well, lamens terms then, He. Is. Out. For. Reveeeenge," Yami said slowly leaning up and knocking on the larger vampire's forehead.
"Get that Monty," Yami said finally giving up and walking past him to look at Pira.
"I got that, now get back here!" Monteague said reaching after him and grabbing the back of his shirt dragging him back.
"Now, let me get this straight, this Set thing turned Yugi into a girl, and now he's giving her nightmares, which you looked into for her, at which point he possessed your body and did this to Yugi," he he said gesturing towards the little vampiress sleeping curled on Monteague's massive bed.
"Exactly," Yami slapping him lightly on the side of his head getting him to let go.
"Why?" Monteague asked finally.
"How should I know, it was three thousand years ago," Yami said kneeling next to Pira's nest.
"Obviously he still has a grudge against me," Yami added petting Pira's back gently as she watched him out of one of her eye.
"I'm done talking about it now, what do you think Pira?" the bird bobbed her head slightly before looking up at Monteague.
"Daddy," she said weakly.
"What is it sweetheart," he asked softening instantly for her, Pira couldn't yet speak more than that one word, so she had to show him, she stood up scrambling to the edge of her deep nest, she pecked Yami away before turning and nudging her three large pinkish eggs carefully.
"Oh I see," Monteague said kneeling next to her he reached into the nest and picked up and egg just barely off the bottom, he gently turned the egg over and put it back down in the soft nest, under the scrutiny of Pira's watchful eye, he did the same to the other two turning them over slowly for her, before she nudged his hand away and slid back into her nest, resting back on top of her eggs.
"There you go, anything else?" he asked helping her, she bobbed her head and opened her beak.
"Hungry?" she nodded again.
"Okay coming right up," Monteague replied smiling he would do anything for Pira it was like having a pregnant wife again for him. Monteague stood again and headed for the kitchen.
"You touch you die," he threatened to Yami before he left him. As he sat there in the quiet room a tiny moan came from behind him and he turned to see Yugi staring at him with her eyes barely open.
"Yugi, are you okay?" he asked turning all the way around and reaching out to her, she simply continued to stare at him weakly, but she quickly pulled in her hand when Yami's long fingers brushed hers.
"Yami," she moaned out slowly blinking at him.
"shh, I'm here baby, what's wrong?" he cooed not moving in fear of scaring her, upon seeing how she reacted when he touched her hand.
"D-don't hurt me," she whispered out shaking.
"I'm not going to hurt you, I just want to help," Yami said softly, feeling a pang of guilt shoot through his heart at the fear in her eyes.
"It hurts... Make it stop... Kill me," Yugi moaned trying to curl tighter as her back and belly felt like they had been set on fire.
"No Yugi, I'll try to make the pain stop, but I will never even think of killing you," Yami replied shuffling slowly around the bed towards the side Yugi's back was to. Yugi didn't move; Yami found the wash cloth that had slid off her forehead and wet it again in the water bowl still next to her on the side table. He gently, slowly, pressed the cool wet wash cloth into her spine which was bare and revealed to him the bruises on her back where the stairs of the bathtub had ground into the tender flesh. Yugi cried out biting her lip till it bled.
"Ow, ow, ow, stop it!" Yugi cried as Yami gently massaged her back with his fingertips, through the cloth.
"Shhh, koi, I know it hurts but please trust me, it should make it feel better," Yami told her whispering into her ear, but in his head there was almost no reason she should ever trust him again. The smaller vampiress continued to writhe beneath his hands until she became exhausted and submitted to to his touch again; Yami continued to whisper to her, carefully rubbing her back with the cloth.
"You're doing great Yugi, just relax," he whispered having gotten her to face him; he had coaxed her out of her fetal position and was currently stroking the side of her face,
"Your going to be all right," he cooed feeling a pair of eyes on the back of his head.
"How long have you been standing there?" he asked looking back at Monteague who was standing in the doorway with Pira's spare food bowl.
"Long enough," Monteague replied carrying the bowl around to Pira's nest. The phoenix didn't even have to get up, the bowl was small enough to fit in her nest with her but still big enough to hold enough food for her size. Monteague came back to the pair; Yugi was lying on her back half asleep as Yami gently rubbed her stomach through the sheets.
"Yugi, do you need anything?" he asked, Yugi didn't respond, she simply blinked tiredly, before shaking her head slowly.
"Monteague, do you think I could take her home? she'll be needing her morning pills soon," Yami asked still rubbing, she was relaxed under his touch, she didn't have any fear of him now, other than a spasming twitch when he got too close to certain parts.
"It's up to her, she's the one who came here," Monteague replied. Yami looked back to Yugi who had a very faint look of pain an bliss mixed on her face,
"Yugi would you like that? Would you like to go home to Seto and Jou and Ryou and the others?" he asked Yugi nodded slightly.
"O-okay," she whispered tiredly. Yami smiled at her as he gently raised her into a seated position; she clung to his shirt when he picked her up.
"I guess we'll see you soon," he said rubbing Yugi's back to get her to relax into his body.
"I guess so, just come to me if there are any problems," Monteague said smiling slightly.
"Good bye, Monteague," Yami said carrying Yugi out of the room still wrapped snugly in the sheets.
"Oh, and sorry about the zap," he added as he stepped out of the warm apartment into the cold morning air. Yugi let out a small cry, huddling closer to Yami's body as the cold air hit her; it had gotten a little windy since he had been in the apartment.
"Shh," Yami comforted holding her closer as he crouched; Yugi could feel her husband's muscles tensing like a spring she was huddled so close. Yami sprang into the air and they were launched together the distance of about two apartment buildings, before landing as softly as possible on another roof. Yami asked if she was all right with every landing just in case, they finally made it home, by then the wind was blowing fiercely and Yugi was shivering in the cold as Yami tried to wrap her in his jacket. He jogged inside, sinking in the rapidly deepening snow outside the door; he ran in and scrambled to shut it, pressing his back against the wood to get it shut as the wind tried to force it open. He slumped down to the floor, Yugi shaking and chattering against his chest, now that they were inside, Yami removed his jacket and wrapped it around Yugi holding her closer to his warm body, her teeth constantly clicked together as she curled against his chest.
"Shhh, okay were home Seto and Jou are nearby, Ryou's in the living room, and the brothers are in their den, shh, calm down you are fine," Yami told her, resting her head against his chest so she could feel the words from his diaphragm soothing her and making her relax.
"S-s-s-s-so c-c-c-c-cold," Yugi chattered out, still shaking even though she was wrapped in the blankets and Yami's coat; the older vampire just sat there with her for a moment, trying to warm her up, unsuccessfully, he finally stood again, carrying her tensed body upstairs towards their room, realizing the blood stains were still in the carpet and on the walls. He entered his room and Yugi's eyes opened wide.
"N-n-n-n-no!" she whimpered, trying to struggle away again, fighting him. Yami instantly retreated from the room to the Ishtar's temporary room, where there sat their massive cushion that they both slept on, the brother's, as Yami had said, were in the basement in their den, so he was safe putting Yugi in here; he carefully laid her down on the cushion, letting her curl up again for heat. He left her only momentarily to get her some night clothes and other things. That soon began the difficult process of getting her dressed, Yugi couldn't stand on her own yet, but she didn't want Yami around to see her naked, that fear in itself would take time to heal; she was finally able to get into everything and Yami helped her lay back down. The little vampiress let out a sigh of comfort as aching muscles relaxed and Yami covered her in a warm thick blanket.
"Do you need anything?" he asked her after lovingly kissing her on the forehead.
"Pills," Yugi replied Yami was off in a flash and back even faster with her pills; he handed her the pills as always, only she seemed to be having more trouble than usual swallowing them and she grimaced as they went down.
"Something wrong?" he asked having taken the pill bottle from her.
"Y-you shoved these down m-my throat," Yugi replied tearing up again.
"I'm sorry love, I promise you it won't ever happen again," Yami said pushing her bangs back out of her face.
"Now just get some rest, I'll be right across the hall if you need me," Yami said softly, kissing her on the cheek before he retreated leaving the small vampiress to sleep on the large cushion, like he had promised, Yami left the door open a crack and did the same with his before he set out to clean his own room.
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Set stood before her yet again, only this time he had a more dog-like look to his face; he took her by the arm and pulled her in close to his body, lifting her up to his eye level; Yugi let out a sharp cry of pain as the feeling of being stabbed hit her stomach. Set fell into her, but he didn't fall far as a wall appeared behind them, the entire world spun until the wall became the floor, the creature holding her slinked his hands lower over her breasts and the stabbing pain hit her again; she looked down to see an wide open cut in her stomach and Set smirked.
"You will soon die by your own flesh and blood's hands," he said again running his hand over the bleeding cut in her belly; Yugi screamed terrified, just before she blacked out into a dreamless sleep, as Set pushed his hand into the cut.
---------------end dream---------------------------
Set sat at his throne once again, the time had finally come for his plans for the good and evil halves of Saku's soul to come into play, he gripped the pair of split souls in his clawed hand and began to chant; the evil soul growled at him and the weak one cried out, sensitive to pain, once the chanting was done, the two souls began to dissolve from his hand and went to where he had implanted them.
"What the hell did you do?" Bakura screamed up at him angered that he had taken his cell mate and partner in torture.
"He has gone to his son, I'm not ready to let you go, yet," he grumbled down at him, becoming tired of the theif's annoying ranting an raving.
"A lowly worm like you doesn't deserve to be set free when he commands to; I will decide when you leave and only then will you come out of that cage," he added putting pressure on the top of the cage with his foot and making the angered theif growl. Set conjured up his screen to watch Yugi twitch and turn in her nightmare ridden sleep.
"Step three complete," he whispered dragging a claw across the screen where Yugi's lower stomach was.
notes: okay, readers out there, I know it seems I'm skipping days and weeks alot, but it's for the story and I'm sorry but I must skip another week ahead to continue the story, I can't do every single day you all know I can't. and story related the egg turning thing with Pira; in the bird world birds turn their eggs over many times a day to keep the chick inside from sticking to the inside of the shell which can be a fatal thing. I will be much slower to updating now that my school is in full swing and i'm in tenth grade high school is going to take up alot of would-be writing time (darn college needed grades) but never fear I shall update it'll just take me a little longer than normal.
Gruzzee: wow...
Cazi: and so it begins
Gruzzee: well at least Yugi isn't totally afraid of Yami
Cazi: I guess you're right, now all you readers out there R&R and come back for more
