Silvershipping (Sugoroku x Pegasus)

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((please forgive me for this one being skipped originally; I had it written, but I don't know why it wasn't posted. Thank you to YamiRox1010 for bringing this to my attention.))

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Despite everything, Sugoroku couldn't help but feel sorry for the young man. And he was young, in comparison to Sugoroku himself, anyway.

Pegasus J. Crawford probably didn't know that Sugoroku could both see and hear him from the Soul Card he was trapped in. Maybe it was better that way. Judging by the way the had presented himself to Yugi on the video tape – dark, smooth, and unfazed – he wouldn't want to know that people were watching him while he cried. He didn't seem to want to watch himself.

Sugoroku glanced back out into the fine room that was Pegasus'. The tall, silver haired man was sitting at his desk, his forehead resting on his interlaced fingers. The waves of his silver hair formed a tent around his face, so Sugoroku couldn't really see his expression from where the card was sitting on another table.

But Sugoroku knew that the man was crying.

Pegasus had been in and out of the room all day. He was probably checking on the tournament. But every time he came inside, when the door was closed and locked firmly behind him, Sugoroku could see the mask melting from his face – revealing the real face beneath, a face that was young, broken, and confused. It was a face Sugoroku understood. He had worn that face often in the days following his wife's death. He could imagine that Pegasus felt the same pain.

It was easy enough to confirm. Pegasus often murmured to himself in English, only bits and pieces of which Sugoroku understood, but he did catch a name: Cyndia. The back of the room was cluttered with canvas after canvas, all showing the same woman. A painter's supplies rested reverently in a corner table, beside a small, almost lifelike painting of that same woman. But years of dust rested on the paintbrushes and canvases. They had not been touched for some time.

"Cyndia," Pegasus murmured again.

Sugoroku sighed as he watched.

The pain goes away, he wanted to say. They always tell you that it doesn't. But it does. You'll remember only the happy moments, someday. You'll smile when you think about her, instead of cry.

But he could not say it, and even if he could, Pegasus probably wouldn't have heard him.

Somehow, though, those small moments were enough to make Sugoroku forgive him.

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A/N: I think people tend to write off both of these characters. Sugoroku is just Yugi's weird old grandpa, and Pegasus is just that one villain from the first season that really wasn't a villain and now everyone is stuck on his Abridged series persona. I think they're deeper characters than the rest of us would like to admit. Still...this pairing is...really gross... Next is Silentshipping (Seto x Shizuka). Prepare for some fangirliness. :D