I missed the romance and this fic, not to mention Seto- so he's coming back this chapter- YAY! Dunno how but I'll make something up!

Disclaimer: I do not own Yugioh.

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The wind rustled through the nearby trees as Mokuba, Seto, Jamie, Lea, Joey and Serenity got out of the limo, thanked the driver, and walked to the fairly remote park.

The sky was a clear passive blue- but at this particular moment, it cast an ominous gaze across the inhabitants underneath it. The occasional cotton-wool cloud sifted through the sky giving the atmosphere an unrealistic, dream-like feel about it.

When they entered the blossoming fields Seto ran towards the swings, closely followed by Jamie and Lea and Mokuba trailed behind them. Serenity and Joey found a black bench over-looking the play ground section of the park and sat on it. For a few minutes things were very quite- like they were two strangers sitting together on the crowded tube instead of brother and sister. Serenity nervously watched Mokuba and the kids playing happily on the swings.

Then luckily for Serenity, Joey broke the silence

"Seren?" He asked looking her in the eye in a serious very out-of-character way.

"Yes brig brother?"

"Are you ermmm...are you HAPPY here?"

"Of course I am big brother!!" Serenity replied in what she hoped was a reassuring tone.

"Good" Joey smiled at her in a slightly unsatisfied way and returned his gaze to the horizon.

"So has moneyba-.. I mean Kaiba, been OK?" Joey asked in a direct way, staring his sister in the eye- hoping to get her to make a confession.

But Serenity couldn't reply to her brother. She couldn't reply because someone she hoped never to see again was standing right in front of her. With his red, leather, sleeveless shirt and his black ponytail it was him. Duke. He was holding a bunch of red roses and he had a cheesy, dazed grin on his face. Joey soon left claiming he had pins and needles in his right foot and was going to walk it off. Serenity had never hated her brother so deeply.

"Heya Serenity" Duke said sitting down, so close to her that she felt dizzy from his strong, expensive cologne. "Is this seat taken?" He asked raising his eyebrows in a weird, challenging way.

Serenity turned her head to the play ground, whispering as she did "It is now!" in a very annoyed way.

"Hmm? Did you say something?" Duke asked, attentive as ever edging closer and closer to Serenity with every passing second- this was his chance.

Serenity put on a brave smile and turned to him.

"Nothing" Serenity said.

"So, Serenity, how have you been?"

"Really great, SETO AND ME are VERY happy together" Serenity said hoping he'd take the hint. Duke seemed a bit discouraged but never-the-less did not give up. He remembered the flowers he had in his hand and quickly said to Serenity.

"Oh! These are for you! "Duke said looking at her eagerly

"Thanks Duke" Serenity said she felt drained today, and this was one thing she really could do without.

There was an awkward silence, and then Duke pulled the trigger.

"You know I've always loved you….and I always will but-"

"I don't love you Duke" Serenity said so fast she had to check that she'd said it She quickly smacked her hand over her mouth, at first feeling very guilty but then moving her hand back down to the bench.

Another awkward silence- Duke looked as if he was going to cry- Serenity felt sorry for him.

"What do you see in him Serenity?" He asked in an aloof way.

This boiled the water- Serenity got up VERY frustrated and threw the roses on the ground. She got up planning on getting Joey- or Mokuba- to come and beat Duke up. But Duke grabbed her hand getting up with her.

"Answer my question" Duke said aggressively without meaning to,

"EVERYTHING!! Duke, please, understand! He doesn't have to be perfect! I love him because of his faults! Because he's made mistakes he regrets. Because he's made decisions so bad he wishes he could build a time machine and change them! And because I have no logical reason to fall in love with him!! Because Duke, of the way he makes me feel when he walks into the room, the way no other man could, the way he makes me smile so effortlessly. Because he's willing to take on the whole world for me, and I know that he'll do anything to make me happy Duke." Serenity said in a not yet calm voice "I know Seto doesn't show it all the time, but he loves me Duke, he loves me Duke, and I love him" Serenity said teary eyed.

Duke's eyes started to water. He dried them and sat down on the bench looking away from Serenity, somewhere to his left.

"Look Duke, I'm sorry" Serenity said sitting down and touching his elbow. "I can't pretend to love you, don't ask that of me, please. One day Duke, you'll find this girl and if you're lucky you'll love her half as much as I love Seto!"

Duke looked her in the eye. He knew he had no chance with her, and maybe, just maybe she was right.

Just then an explosive scream erupted from the playground. Serenity, recognizing the voice as Seto's ran towards it.

Lea had no idea what had just happened. One minute she, Seto and her annoying little twerp of a brother had been playing on the swings- having a good time. And then the next, there was an explosive scream and Seto was lying on the floor, with his eyes closed…all grown up…like his dad….Infact he looked just like his dad.

He laid there, completely motionless, leaving Lea, and everyone else petrified- thinking he had breathed his last.

Serenity came running from where she had been sitting with Duke and saw her husband on the floor surrounded by a shocked Mokuba, a mesmerized Jamie and an altogether puzzled Lea.

Serenity ran straight up to them and fell beside Seto's corpse.

"What happened?" She directed the question to nobody in particular but she feared the worst

"I-I-I d-don't und-derst-tand" Mokuba shivered. "He was playing on the swing just fine a minute ago. I was pushing him on the swing and then, -and then-this happened.

But then suddenly like snow white waking from her poisoned sleep, Seto's eyes fluttered open. He lay there for a few minutes his face a pale paper white then he sat up brushing clean his trench coat. Everybody watched silently as Seto stirred- it was like he had been de-frosted. Seto started to move his tongue and then, with no warning whatsoever he spit a big, fat, yellow-and-black, queen bee out of his mouth and over Mokuba's head. Then he continued stirring his tongue inside his mouth.

"S-Seto?" Mokuba asked in awe- today had been the weirdest day in his whole life. "Are you OK?"

"Bloody Bees! Yes Mokuba, I'm fine" Seto said,

"That was so gross" Lea said, referring to they way Seto had spit the bee out of his mouth.

"What just happened?" Jamie asked, thinking he had gotten the incorrect time for April Fools Day or that he needed to catch up on sleep- badly.

"Urmmm…it was a party trick" Seto said.

"You mean you remember?" Mokuba asked in a whisper. Seto nodded in response, brushed himself of more thoroughly and got up just in time to see Joey running over to them in shock.

"Moneybags, since when did you come back?" Joey asked frowning in a suspicious manner.

"As usual you have no idea what you're talking about Wheeler, I never left"

"Hey where did Seto go?"

"I'm right here mutt"

"No…not you…your son…who looked like you…but isn't you"

"My son?" Seto asked mockingly

"Yeah he was about this high, and he had your eyes and your hair?"

"My son?" Kaiba asked smirking

"YES MONEYBAGS YOUR SON!" Joey yelled impatiently

"Me and Serenity don't have any children-yet" Kaiba said as he helped his wife up and pulled her into a brief embrace.

"Oh," Joey said in a barely audible voice. Then for the second time in a day- he fainted.

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Confused? Good- all will become clear in the next chapter- hopefully.