Something Darker ch. 4

while he tried to fill his mind with other things, the haunting feeling of his submission crushed him. He tried to remember Yugi, because his little light was such a comfort. His light made everything in the world seem alright, because Yugi had freed him from the prison known as the puzzle.

"-mi? Yami?" He turned sharply, meeting Yugi's concerned amethyst eyes. "You okay? You haven't been... normal... lately..." Yugi sat on his lap, in an affectionate childlike way. But Yami thought he saw a glimmer of gold in the dark, and pushed his light off him.

"I'm fine, Aibou. Just a little tired... I've been thinking a lot lately." Yugi nodded, but he didn't quite believe him. "Now, how about that algebra question?" in a moment, Yugi forgot all about what had just happened, lost in equations. He breathed an inner sigh of relief.

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"Good evening, Pretty Darling. How are you on this lust filled night?" Atem pinned him to the ground, making quick work of his pants and top, an evil leer in his eyes. Without another word, he dipped his head and caught Yami's nipple into his mouth. Yami bit back a moan. He would not degrade himself any further.

Not any further.

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like every morning of his un-life, he felt empty. This was a new kind of empty, one he could not explain to anyone, because this emptiness was his shame. It's not like he begged for this to happen. It simply did. Maybe it was his fault, for even being the way he was.

Maybe, just maybe.

"What are you thinking about when I'm making love to you, lovely? Surely you know I should be the only one in your mind." Atem hissed in his ear, his blood red eyes glowing with that insanity that he hated so much. Atem gave a harsh thrust of his hips, making him cry out, his hands fisting in tri-colored hair.

Just that moment, the metal door was pushed open, and in stepped Yugi. Atem regarded with a sick kind of amusement "yami, I heard someone..." his eyes rested on the couple laying on the floor to his right. "Oh..." he whispered. His face turned bright red.

He couldn't understand it, the pain he felt just then, when Yugi mumbled a quiet apology and left. He'd tried to contact his light through their link, but it was choked by atem.

"You're trying to ruin it all, aren't you?! Let me go." he managed to push away from his unwanted captor, almost getting out the door. But he was caught, slammed into that door that offered him freedom.

"How many times have I told you? It doesn't work like that. I tell you what you do, how you act. You're my pet."

"I am not!" without another thought Yami managed to throw Atem off him with a blast of shadow magic, and followed yugi.

He found his light crying softly. He rested ghostly fingers on his partner's back. "Do not cry, Aibou."

Yugi looked up at him. "Is that why you've been so weird lately? You've been distracted by that... person?" his voice was so soft. He couldn't tell if it was angry or remorseful. "You could have told me... it's not something that big..."

Yami sighed. He could not tell his young liege what was happening to him. So instead he gave him quiet comfort. "It is a little complicated." he admitted finally. Yugi nodded. Atem was calling him, pulling him back to that dark place. That place of no hope and choked freedom. He didn't want to go back. He kissed Yugi on the forehead. "Good night Aibou." he received no reply.

When he returned, Atem was smirking at him, a long braided whip made from shadow energy was coiled in his hands. "You should have known you'd be punished." he didn't answer, instead allowed himself to be bound to the wall.

As each lash cracked, he would not allow himself to scream. Yugi shouldn't hear it.

And if there was anything of his pride left, he wished to retain it.

OWARI

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