Coming To Terms

DOOM Fangirl: "Next chapter! Yay! Last time, Alister couldn't stop thinking about Marik, so he went to see him, and Marik said how he felt, but Alister still has yet to admit his own feelings, even to himself. What now?

Disclaimer: Don't own any of these people except Yura, who will play a slightly bigger role.

Marik felt really bad after Alister ran away; he felt like, maybe, he had done something wrong.

He had NOT, and Ishizu and Mai both told him that, but he still couldn't help but feel that he had come on too strong, and scared the redhead away.

He thought, maybe, he should apologize, but Mai's advice was to wait until Alister came back.

"But, what if he doesn't?" the blond boy asked, his eyes filling with tears.

"He WILL; trust me," Mai replied.

"Mai has known Alister for longer than you have, Marik," Ishizu pointed out.

"I guess," Marik sighed.

A few months later…

"Hey, Red!" said a familiar and, to Alister, annoying female voice.

"What, Yura?"

"What's wrong with you?" she demanded.

"I don't know what you're talking about," the redhead said.

"You haven't insulted me in a long time; something's up. Val says you've got a boyfriend; did you and him get in a fight?"

Alister blushed and said, "I'll kill that stupid Aussie!" he exclaimed. "I do NOT have a boyfriend! It's just some guy I met! God!"

"For it being 'just some guy', you sure are getting pretty worked up about him."

"Look, just…let it go, Yura."

"Talk to me, Red," she coaxed.

He sighed and told Yura about the accident, the phone call (which made her laugh), the "not-date", the constantly thinking about Marik (though he left out the wet-dreams), and the meeting with the boy.

"…And I don't know why he makes me feel the way I do!" Alister concluded.

Yura squealed in a very UN-Yura-like way, and said, "Aww, Red! You're in love!"

His face turned a shade of red that put his hair to shame, as he sputtered out a bunch of unintelligible sounds.

"Aww!" she said again.

"I…I'm not…I can't be…I don't…"

"Come to terms with it, Red-you'll be doing a favor to both yourself AND Marik," she told him, getting up, and leaving the redhead wide-eyed on the couch.

Do I? he thought. Do I…LOVE Marik?

He remembered when he'd fallen against the boy, and said boy had held him up. It had…aroused him, just to come into contact with Marik.

"I DO," he murmured aloud.

Ishtar Residence…

"He's taking it pretty hard, huh?" Mai said to her Egyptian lover.

"Hmm. Yes, it would seem that way. Marik never HAS been very good with rejection."

Marik just lay on the couch, sleeping after another crying jag over the beautiful red-haired man, who he figured probably wouldn't be coming back into his life.

DOOM Fangirl: "I'm ending the chapter here. Aww! Poor Marik! I'll follow up with the next chapter later today, or sometime tomorrow, because I live on my computer!

NOTE: I'm making this up as I go, really.