Title: After
Theme: 60 – Could Of
Summary: The Afterlife was just as glorious as they'd told him.
Rating: T
Genre: Drama
It was like they'd told him.
His family, his friends, his home. The people he'd grown up with, the people who had raised him to become a pharaoh were all there, exactly as he could now remember – it was as perfect as the scriptures had told them. The Afterlife was wonderful, just as they'd always said.
But no amount of it all could keep him from remembering his partner. He wonders, sometimes, if he should have told him everything before he left. On some days he thinks he made the wiser choice, and on others he spends his days in foul moods, cursing himself for a fool. His friends worry. His family tries to understand.
Though none of them could ever, really. It had been his decision. He'd had the opportunity to do so much, and blown it. If only he had been as honest with Yugi as Yugi had been with him – maybe it would have changed how things had turned out.
Atem didn't know. He didn't want to think about it. All he could do now was spend his days enjoying his company, and his nights crying silently, mourning what never was, and what, now, never would be.
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