Stargate Command - USA

Ryou couldn't work out if the Thief King coming to his cell and handing him the ring had been a dream or reality. It had felt so real. After weeks of being locked up in the same room, he was starting to hallucinate. It was the same old same old every day. Sam, Daniel and Janet would often come to talk to him. Occasionally he was joined by a large man with a golden tattoo on his forehead that represented the serpent god Apophis. The man didn't talk much, he often sat in the room in silence, meditating. Ryou wasn't sure why he did that, but he didn't get a bad vibe from the man. Something about his presence was calming.

They had stopped asking for him name and history. Ryou suspected whoever was holding him had found his identity and were now trying to see how crazy he was. That was one reason he didn't want to tell them his name. They would see his questionable mental health and just write him off as a loon, or lock him up in jail for the rest of his life for the things that his Yami had done while in control of his body. His Yami was in the building somewhere. The slight connection was the only thing he had that suggested what had happened had not been a dream. His Yami was real and that connection was slightly reassuring. Was he a nut case if he wanted his Yami back despite everything the ancient spirit had done?

He glanced up as Sam and Daniel entered the room. He could feel his Yami's presence on them. From wherever they'd just come, they'd recently been in the presence of the Millenniums Ring and his Yami.

"Ryou Bakura," Sam greeted him.

Ryou forced a smile. He'd been correct, they had found his identity. They were holding a backpack. His backpack. With his belongings. If it had his duel disc, still. If they didn't know what it was, he had a chance for Kaiba finding his current location. The duel disc technology contained a chip that beamed your location regularly. Kaiba wasn't meant to track anyone unless they were in a duel. The likes of himself, Yugi, Joey and the Ishtar's and a few others of Yugi's duellist friends had signed a permission form for him to track their duel discs at all time. He'd didn't mind Kaiba knowing his location. Kaiba was a good person and wouldn't misuse the information that he'd gained. Joey had surprised everyone that he'd signed the permission for considering how much he complained about hating Kaiba. Nevertheless, that showed how much trust Joey had for Kaiba despite not liking him.

"How much do you know?" Ryou asked them.

"That you escaped a mental hospital. The footage was interesting." Daniel replied.

"Are you going to take me back to the mental hospital?" Ryou asked with concern.

"Why would we take you back? From what we've seen while you've been here, you have no reason to be in a mental health facility." Daniel replied. "If you belong there then I also belong there."

Ryou looked at Daniel with confusion. He had seen no reason for Daniel to be locked up in a mental health facility. However, looks could be deceiving. Some of the people he'd met appeared completely normal until they snapped.

"I believe that aliens are real. I used to do lectures to the archaeological community about my research of how aliens were involved in Egypt. That the pyramids were landing pads for spaceships. I got laughed out of the archaeological community." Daniel told him.

Ryou smiled. "The archaeological community doesn't exactly like people who think outside of the norm. If I ever voiced my beliefs about certain facts they probably wouldn't allow me to continue my studies."

"What are your beliefs?" Daniel asked with genuine curiosity.

"The condensed version is that some forms of magic are real. That the Egyptian gods are creatures from a dimension parallel to our own." Ryou replied.

Daniel recited some of Ryou's history. "Studying Archaeology at Domino City University in Japan. Your primary teacher is Professor Lemaire. He's a good friend of mine. I haven't spoken to him recently. What do you think he would say about you?"

"That I'm a good student, but have been distracted from my studies in the past few months," Ryou replied with a shrug.

"Why have you been distracted?" Sam asked.

"Because I knew the Millennium Items had been disturbed," Ryou replied.

"How did you know?" Sam asked.

"That magic I was talking about before, I have a small amount of control over magic. It is stronger when I have a Millennium Item." Ryou told them. "When the items were disturbed, I felt it because of the magic."

"What can you do?" Sam asked.

"Read tarot cards accurately. If I don't have tarot cards, I can use Duel Monster cards in their place. I'm actually better with Duel Monster cards then tarot cards. If those Duel Monster cards belong to the person, I'm doing a reading for my predictions are even more accurate."

Sam looked at him in disbelief. Daniel, on the other hand, seemed intrigued. Daniel pulled his extra Duel Monsters out of his bag. "Can you attempt a reading for me?"

Ryou nodded, hoping that he had enough control over the shadows for an accurate reading. He shuffled and placed the cards and examined the cards for several moments before talking.

"You're looking for your wife who was forcefully taken from you. She is currently lost at the moment within herself. You will find her for a short time and experience a new life. She will then disappear once again for several months before you will find her again, but it will not be the happy conclusion you are hoping for." Ryou told him slowly. "I'm sorry Doctor Jackson, I hope I'm wrong about your wife ... if you have a wife." He started apologising. "Not everything I predict is accurate. I was more accurate when I had the Millennium Items. I mean here it says you've physically died twice. There is no way that you've actually died."

Daniel and Sam looked at each other and then back at Ryou. "What else can you do?"

"I can summon the monsters from the other dimension I mention before," Ryou told them. "Or at least, I used to be able to. The doorway was closed, but has recently been open again." He shuffled through his cards for something that was cute and fluffy which wouldn't cause any damage, or scare anyone. He summoned "Happy Lover."

The monster cooed and smothered him. "I missed you as well," he told the monster in Japanese.

"Can I touch it?" Daniel asked.

Ryou whispered to the monster, and it shyly went towards Sam and Daniel. It allowed them to pat him.

"That's amazing," Sam exclaimed. Patting the monster. "I've never seen anything like this before."

The creature disappeared from sight. A loud thump was heard. Ryou had collapsed to the floor.

YGO

Ryou woke up to beeping machines. He looked around and found he was once again in the medical facility.

"You gave us a fright passing out like that," Janet told him. "How are you feeling?"

"My head hurts," he replied to the doctor. "I feel tired, but I will be fine."

"You go rest, I'm just going to tell Daniel and Sam you're awake," she told the young man.

It only took a few moments for Sam and Daniel to return with the big tattooed man who rarely spoke.

"Do you know what happened?" Daniel asked him.

"I used too much magic. I thought I could handle it, but it has been a few years since I last tried that. I thought I would be okay since I summoned a smaller monster." Ryou told him. "It takes a lot of energy to summon a Duel Monster and keep it in this plane of existence. In the wrong hands, the Millennium Items can be used to destroy the world. If you try to command them and don't have the power to control them, they destroy you."

"Aren't you afraid that they will kill you?" Sam asked him.

"If they were going to destroy me I would've been dead long ago." Ryou yawned.

"Get more sleep, we'll talk again when you wake," Janet told him. She gave a look to Daniel and Sam to let them know them know that questioning of her patient was over.