Disclaimer: Don't own Yugioh
Author's Note: This is the last chapter I owe, yay! This chapter is my way of defending Pegasus. It's debatable whether he's gay, but you got to respect a guy who'll go that far to get back his love (he built his own multi-billion dollar company and lost an eye for god's sake!). And after all, he's only 24. So no Pegasus bashing here.
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It isn't pretty to wake up after a hangover, especially when you have a worse headache to deal with than the side effects of alcohol. I looked at the mess in front of me and wished that I hadn't gotten up.
Pegasus was still chained by the spell card from last night: I was still inside him. He had passed out, either from pain or from loss of blood, his silver hair now caked with blood to prove my brutality the previous night.
Blood also coated some other areas in his body that'll be much harder to clean.
I immediately got up, getting rid of the spell. Then I tentatively picked up the Millennium Eye and wiped it clean, wondering if I should put it back into Pegasus' eye sockets, and whether he'll kill me after I do.
His remaining eye opened, I winced, not knowing what to expect. He actually smiled.
"Feeling better?" he asked me, I stared. Is this sarcasm, or a rhetorical question? Or maybe both? Or maybe he's just scared to anger me again.
I debated whether I should ran away as quickly as possible or get on my knees and beg for his forgiveness. He smiled again.
"Relax," he told me calmly, "I don't mean anything by that. It's just that yesterday, you looked really depressed. So I was just wondering if you're feeling better now."
I nodded numbly, praying this wouldn't be the calm before a storm. "I'm…" I stuttered, "sorry. I never meant for this to happen…"
Brainteaser: what do you say after you've raped somebody of the same sex who's also very powerful.
I'm sorry.
I'm really, really sorry,
Please don't kill me.
Answer: Nothing, because they would have killed you before you have a chance to say anything.
I don't know how that suddenly popped into my mind, but it did. So did many much less pleasant thoughts.
"You expect me to kill you, right?" he asked, as casually as if he was inquiring on the weather, I nodded again. "Don't worry, I can't" he reassured me, "you've overpowered me last night, remember?"
I flinched, what he said hardly made me feel better.
"What do you expect me to do?" He asked, seeing that nothing he had said thus far made any effects on me, "cry my heart out and vow that I'll get my revenge?" I nodded again and again, he rolled his eyes.
"What's the big deal about being raped? I'm a guy, what do I care? That you took my virginity?" He actually laughed.
I can't help but agree with him. I, personally, would probably murder whoever dares to rape me, but I can understand where he's coming from.
"Still, I'm really sorry this happened. I'll make it up to you, somehow, I promise." I stammered. It actually made me feel worse that him, the victim, is comforting me, and I felt as guilty as I could be.
"So what do you want me to do? Rape you back?" He sounded defeated. "Look, it's not that I don't mind being raped by guys, but I can't do anything about it anyways. You crushed me last night when you're drunk, are you to tell me that you can't do it again when you're sober?" He adjusted his position on the bed to get himself into a better position.
"I wish that you can die right now," he told me, "but that doesn't change anything does it? And since that I can't beat you, I have to beg to use your Millennium Ring anyways, so what's the use of hating you?"
The sheer truth and practicality of his words tore through me. He had been young once, he had fought against Fate passionately, and lost miserably. Now he has no choice but to resign to the lot Destiny assigned him, wishing that he could be allowed his love back. Compared to him, my misery is a joke. Was do I have to complain about, when his world was taken away from him?
"Pegasus," I gained a new sense of respect for him. How can I not respect a man who gave up everything he ever held dear to bring back his love? "I'm sorry about what happened, but like you said, it won't change anything. All I can say is that you can use whatever Millennium Item I may have to resurrect Cecilia."
It was his turn to be shocked. "How did you know about her?"
I grinned, finally feeling like I had the upper hand in the conversation. "I also know that you need the seven Millennium Items to bring back her soul, and Kaiba Corp. technologies to bring her soul out into the holograms, right?"
He confirmed my query with a curt nod.
"I don't know the exact process, but I do know the Millennium Items." I told him. I felt like I had to make it up to him somehow for… "I have the Ring, Yugi has the Puzzle and you have the Eye, that you already know. Shadi, the man who gave you the Eye, has the Scale and the Key, he'll come here shortly to see Yugi, but I doubt we can get the Millennium Item from him. Malik Ishtar, keeper of the pharaoh's tomb, has the Millennium Key, and his sister Isis, the Necklace."
Pegasus looked grateful. "I'm almost glad," he told me, "that you raped me." Seeing my incredulous look, he smiled. "I would have willingly repeated last night for what you just told me. I've done more for her, and I never regretted it."
I hesitated, then finally summoning up the courage to ask. "What is love? I mean, how do you know if you're in love at all? It's just a bunch of hormones in your brain, right?" I needed to know the answer, but at the same time, scared of what I might find.
"I don't know if it's love," he said matter-of-factly, "I just know that I can't live without her. So whatever sacrifices you think that I'm making, it's as much for me as it is for her. And now you have to go, I have to clean up before I duel Kaiba-boy this morning." He was restored to his usual haughty air, the flashes of pain hidden well enough that I could find no traces of them in his eyes.
"Pegasus, put Seto and Mokuba's soul in the same world, okay? We still need his technology to bring Cecilia back. After all, you have nothing to lose" He nodded.
I left him with more on my mind than ever, sure of nothing except that I had to collect the Millennium Items so that Pegasus could resurrect Cecilia: I owe it to him, and he deserved at least that much.
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