Redeemshipping (Pegasus x Yami no Yugi)

"Don't you know about the evil intelligence of the Millennium Items?"

Those words would not stop echoing around his head. It was worst in the night, when there was nothing but darkness, silence, and the quiet, sleeping presence of his other self for it to echo around his mind.

"Don't you know about the evil intelligence of the Millennium Items?"

The evil intelligence of the Millennium Items? What had Pegasus meant? Had the American man realized exactly who he was facing at the time? Did he had any idea how those words might have affected him?

"Don't you know about the evil intelligence of the Millennium Items?"

The other Yugi could not sleep nights. Yugi's presence was comforting, but distant in his sleep. He could not burden his partner with these thoughts. But what was he? Who was he? He was not Yugi, not even a different part of Yugi, he was a spirit locked inside of the Millennium Puzzle. Was he the "evil intelligence" of the Millennium Puzzle? Was he evil? Was he hurting Yugi somehow, in the way the Millennium Eye had driven Pegasus towards criminal acts? Sure, Yami no Yugi had always tried to protect Yugi...but Pegasus' acts were for a noble cause, too: to see someone he had lost forever.

"Don't you know about the evil intelligence of the Millennium Items?"

It was all he could do to simply survive every day. He should have let Pegasus and his words slip from his mind. He had just been another opponent, someone that should not dominate his mind. But now Pegasus was dead, and he could not ask him to clarify his words. He could not go back and try to seek some kind of redemption from the implication of those words. There was no one to redeem him, and there was no way to redeem Pegasus at all.

"Don't you know about the evil intelligence of the Millennium Items?"

He couldn't go a day without thinking about those words, and the broken silver haired man who had spoken them.

"Dammit," Yami no Yugi whispered.

A/N: I enjoyed this one. I enjoyed this one a lot. The quote comes from the manga version; I don't believe Pegasus said this in the dub or in the anime. Next is Reachshipping (Priestess Isis x Priest Karim).