Edmondia: sheSeth is hiding Atemu behind her
Edmondia: aaaaaaand heSeto belonging to sheSeth has walked in dragging Yugi
Edmondia: Yugi appears to be thinking of setting him on fire
EnsTren: Seto appears to be getting Mokuba
EnsTren: to convince Yugi to be nice to Yami
Edmondia: Yugi's very not happy
EnsTren: Secret Weapon Mokuba is using his eyes to make Yugi talk about it
Edmondia: Yugi's glaring him down
EnsTren: Mokuba is innocently asking what's wrong and why aren't they all playing together
Edmondia: "Don't give me that bull, Mokuba."
EnsTren: "'s not bull, I heard Niisama talking about it to Seth-neesama and Atemu."
Edmondia: "What, sex?"
EnsTren: Mokuba looked both ways and then went over to the door and got down on his knees to peer under it before coming back, holding up one hand and whispering at Yugi, "Niisama is afraid of sex."
Edmondia: Yugi snorted. "Tell him to keep his damn paws off my yami then."
EnsTren: "Niisama... Niisama only had me as family, and now he has Neesama. And Atemu is family though her. Neesama was trying so hard to make Niisama loosen up and see that new family is good."
Edmondia: "Not that good."
EnsTren: "Niisama doesn't like family, we had family but they didn't take us in. You know Niisama's only really been friends with me."
EnsTren: "Seth got him to see her and your yami as family and you as family too."
EnsTren: "And she was bugging him to invite you over and play with a new game thing he's making."
Edmondia: "Mokuba, what exactly are you trying to do here?" he questioned, sounding annoyed.
EnsTren: "Trying to make you see. Open your eyes Yugi, if anyone should be jealous it is my Niisama."
EnsTren: "He hasn't had sex yet with his yami, and he knows he makes her cry and can frighten her and a bunch of other things."
Edmondia: "That's his problem."
Edmondia: Yugi drummed his fingers on his arm impatiently. "I don't care if you think your brother has more of a right to anything than I do. If Atemu wants to stay with her that's his choice, but he's not welcome back with me so long as he does."
EnsTren: "They are cousins, Yugi. He never asked you to stop talk to your friends and Seth doesn't ask Seto to stop talking to me."
Edmondia: "Most people don't sleep with their cousins, but they do. It's hardly the same situation."
EnsTren: "She still has nightmares, you know. Seto's so frightened and I have to help him because... Seto's always been the one that had nightmares--because he protected me so well."
Edmondia: "She has Seto to help her deal with nightmares," he said flatly. "She doesn't need Atemu for that anymore."
EnsTren: "...So just because you have Jou you don't need Honda? Or just because you have your Yami you need no one?"
Edmondia: A chilly glare was his answer. "The last is certainly true for dealing with nightmares."
EnsTren: "And if they both have nightmares? And if..." Mokuba scrubbed at his eyes with the back of his sleeve. "They're so hurt they can barely help each other?"
EnsTren: "Damnit Yugi! You know what your Yami did to my Niisama, and do you think that because of that he's all better?"
Edmondia: "I know better than that," he said coldly, softly, "But they're the ones who have to help each other. It's not Atemu's place to interfere."
EnsTren: "Yes it is! Yes it is because you're family now! Good family!"
Edmondia: Yugi fixed him with a glare. "There is a difference," he said softly, "Between families and lovers. Atemu needs to realize that."
EnsTren: "Why do you think they are lovers?"
Edmondia: "Because they are."
EnsTren: "They were. How could you think Yami would betray you like that Yugi?!"
Edmondia: "Please, Mokuba, he used my body to have sex with her."
EnsTren: "Once, and they had been married before, that's why you're family, by the way."
EnsTren: "And they were confused, or she was, and he was the only man she had ever been attracted to. I heard her telling stories to Niisama."
Edmondia: "That hardly excuses him."
EnsTren: "Did you tell him you were upset or assume he knew it?"
Edmondia: "Just because I let him doesn't mean I was right, Mokuba."
EnsTren: "Tell him then."
EnsTren: "Tell him and talk to him."
Edmondia: "Give me a reason."
EnsTren: "So you can make up and be happy and we all don't have to worry about a dead guy attempting suicide."
Edmondia: "He can't die again, at least not while I'm alive," Yugi said softly. "And why do you assume we'd be happy?"
EnsTren: "Because they aren't lovers and they both feel lonely."
EnsTren: "Jou and Honda and Anzu and Otogi and everyone else are your friends Yugi."
Edmondia: "Not for their lack of trying," he said quietly.
Edmondia: "If they wanted to have friends then they would."
EnsTren: "They are DEAD, everything and everyone they knew is DEAD."
Edmondia: "And they've been given new lives to embrace."
EnsTren: "No they haven't. They've been given a semblance of life. Damnit Yugi, think why are they able to speak japanese? Japan wasn't colonized back then!"
EnsTren: "They can even write it! All the culture, everything current comes from their connection to their lights!"
Edmondia: "Just because they're bonded to us doesn't mean they don't have lives on their own."
EnsTren: "They don't, Yugi, don't you understand?"
EnsTren: "Yami would live and die for you, just as he did in the past for her."
EnsTren: "And now he's trying to HAVE a life and you say he can't!"
Edmondia: "I never said he couldn't. Otherwise he wouldn't be here, now would he? I just said that while he stayed with her, he couldn't stay with me. I am allowed to decide who I keep in my bed, Mokuba, and I've never kicked him out of his soul room."
EnsTren: "You might as well have."
EnsTren: "Seto gave him his deck to keep him occupied while he went looking for you and he's with him right now because everything's getting darker because he's not taking your light in or you're unconsciously not giving it."
Edmondia: "So now I'm the one who's not allowed to have a life of my own?"
EnsTren: "You have a life. You have your grandpa and your friends and your mother, why can't he have his cousins?"
Edmondia: "I never said they couldn't see each other socially. However, when he goes so far as to sneak around behind my back I think I have a right to get angry with him."
EnsTren: "Would you have let him come?"
Edmondia: "Maybe."
Edmondia: "But he didn't bother to ask me, now did he?"
EnsTren: "Maybe he thought that you would have said no."
Edmondia: "We could have talked about it," he said shortly, "But he didn't want to, so that's that."
EnsTren: "Did you ever think it might have been something of an emergency?"
Edmondia: "Even if it had been, he could have told me about it."
EnsTren: "And worry you needlessly?"
Edmondia: "Nothing he tells me is ever needless."
EnsTren: "He didn't want to worry you."
Edmondia: "That doesn't matter. He should have told me."
EnsTren: "Maybe he tried to when you kicked him out."
Edmondia: "Maybe he should've thought of that before he went running off."
EnsTren: "You're acting like Niisama when he's pissy and someone is arguing about someone being fired."
Edmondia: "Mokuba, there is a certain level of trust that I expect from my own yami. If he breaks it, I break it off with him. Simple as that."
EnsTren: "How does going off to comfort someone a break of trust?"
Edmondia: "He didn't tell me."
EnsTren: "Do you tell him everything?"
EnsTren: "Has he ever woken up surprised at where he was?"
Edmondia: "Once or twice."
EnsTren: "So you broke his trust too."
Edmondia: "I was knocked unconscious or he was asleep."
EnsTren: "He was asleep. And if he wasn't, the reason why he wouldn't be surprised would be because he was with you every second?"
Edmondia: Yugi sighed. "Mokuba. Atemu knew how I felt about this. I trusted him to come talk to me about it. He broke that trust. I'm not going to just trust him again because he's mine."
EnsTren: Mokuba stiffened up, "You threw him out Yugi! Niisama's the one that's giving him light now even though he can barely do it for Seth!"
EnsTren: "Don't call him yours if you're going to treat him like a stray."
Edmondia: "He acts like one."
EnsTren: "No he doesn't!"
EnsTren: "He acts like he's found his family! He acts like he's found two cousins and he called me nephew once Yugi! He did and he patted me on the head!"
EnsTren: "Would you throw him out if he came to me to make sure I was all right after another kidnapping attempt?"
EnsTren: "No, because you wouldn't be jealous of me!"
Edmondia: "It's different."
EnsTren: "HOW?!"
EnsTren: "Because she's a girl?"
EnsTren: "Because they had sex?"
EnsTren: "Because they are pretty?!"
Edmondia: "Because he's not in love with you."
EnsTren: "He's not in love with her either!"
EnsTren: "Ask him! Or do you think he would lie to you? That he can lie to you?"
Edmondia: "Why do you think that he can't?"
EnsTren: "Because he's in love with you!"
Edmondia: "That has nothing to do with his trustworthiness."
EnsTren: "...So you think he'd break your trust?"
Edmondia: "He's done it before."
EnsTren: "When he struck against Niisama while he was on the edge?"
Edmondia: "That was once."
EnsTren: "And another time?"
Edmondia: "I don't think that's any of your business."
Edmondia: "And if he really wanted anything from me he'd come and get it."
EnsTren: "No he wouldn't."
Edmondia: "Yes. He would."
EnsTren: "Niisama's giving him light--why isn't he asking you for it?"
Edmondia: "I have no idea."
EnsTren: "Because you're wrong about him asking you if he needs something."
Edmondia: "He doesn't ask. He takes."
EnsTren: "He's not."
Edmondia: "Hmph. Perhaps he's learned something after all."
EnsTren: "He's learned a false lesson that you hate him."
EnsTren: "Or I wouldn't be surprised if that's what he learned."
Edmondia: "He knows better than that," Yugi snapped irritably.
EnsTren: "No he doesn't."
Edmondia: "Mokuba, that's just stupid."
EnsTren: "No, it's not."
EnsTren: "Niisama is sure I hate him sometimes, and I have to make sure he knows I don't blame him for anything. He gets mopey."
Edmondia: "Keh. We're hardly you and your brother."
EnsTren: "Niisama was dark before your yami took it out, wasn't he?" Mokuba hedged.
Edmondia: Yugi gave him a flat look.
EnsTren: "Well?"
EnsTren: "He was acting like a freaky yami, wasn't he?"
Edmondia: "No. He was acting like a normal person who'd had a psychotic episode. More like Pegasus than anyone else."
EnsTren: "Pegasus didn't hire professional assassins to kill you."
EnsTren: "Niisama did."
EnsTren: "But he also gave your a... well not a fair, but a chance to live that wasn't an accident."
Edmondia: "Mokuba, your point?"
EnsTren: "It was like a shadow game, wasn't it?"
Edmondia: "So?"
EnsTren: "So he was acting more like a yami than a psycho."
EnsTren: "A psycho would have killed me."
Edmondia: "Mokuba, what has this got to do with anything?"
EnsTren: "I had to keep my brother on reality, he could have made weapons to kill people but I had to remind him sometimes."
EnsTren: "Remind him of his dream..." And then he shook his head. "Point is that if Seto and I can be like a really weak and disfunctional pair there should be paralells between real pairs. That's a scientific law and a magical one!"
Edmondia: "Mokuba, he lives in my head. I've given him everything, he knows everything about me."
EnsTren: "You can't be."
EnsTren: "Otherwise he would have known you would have stopped him from trying to defenestrate niisama."
EnsTren: "Well it wasn't a window, but you get the point"
EnsTren: "Cliff, battlement, window, what's the diffrence?"
Edmondia: "Mokuba, we've gotten much closer since then and I told him I'd give him everything."
EnsTren: "You're still you though."
Edmondia: "What's that supposed to mean?"
EnsTren: "If you gave him anything then there wouldn't be a duality."
Edmondia: Yugi sighed. "He got his memories back, he doesn't need me to live for him anymore."
EnsTren: "You wish you did, don't you?"
EnsTren: "Or that he didn't."
Edmondia: "...that's not important."
EnsTren: "If he didn't remember he wouldn't be here with Seth."
Edmondia: "I said it wasn't important."
EnsTren: "But it is."
EnsTren: "He's not replacing you, you know. No more than Seth replaces me. And you can't replace Seth."
Edmondia: "I already know that," Yugi hissed.
EnsTren: "But you don't believe it."
Edmondia: Yugi laughed. It wasn't a nice sound. "I'm never going to be able to give him the family he wants. And he knows it. And that's why he left."
EnsTren: "Nonono! Stop being an idiot Yugi!" Mokuba is grinning, "He's got a family for you! He's got a big sister and a little brother and a brother."
EnsTren: "And you could have us too if you would stop looking at it the wrong way!"
EnsTren: "Don't you always call Niisama twin?"
Edmondia: Yugi gave him a pitying smile. "You're not the family he wants, and you're not the family she wants either. Sooner or later they'll both realize that."
EnsTren: "No they won't Yugi. I've been done with stupid thoughts like that for a long time."
Edmondia: "On the nights he doesn't wake up screaming," he said bitterly, "It's because he's dreamed of her."
EnsTren: "Or you."
Edmondia: "He doesn't dream of me."
EnsTren: "Well that makes sense--why dream of happiness if you already have it?"
Edmondia: Yugi laughed again, but the sound was tired. "You're sweet," he said, and buried his face in his hands.
EnsTren: Mokuba hugged him.
EnsTren: "It's all right to cry Yugi."
Edmondia: "Leave me alone," he whispered miserably.
EnsTren: "I don't leave my big brothers alone."
Edmondia: "Please... just go away."
EnsTren: "Family sticks by family in this house, Yugi."
EnsTren: Light touched him, tired and drained but light, and a tall crane like form bent and nuzzled him.
EnsTren: Matching darkness, tired, wrapped him up in soft wings, and then finally his own darkness tickling at the edges of him, please let him in? Don't throw me away, I'msorryI'msorry. Pleaseneedyouloveyou. Is it okay to touch you perfectprettylight?
Edmondia: Yamimine! he wailed, and flung himself into his darkness.
EnsTren: Surpise, awe, tears.
EnsTren: And there was another darkness wrapped snug around them as he dived into his yamimine, and a mortal light and Twinlight.
EnsTren: Even if it's not supposed to work we'll make it work. We're family now, do you understand me Yugi?
Edmondia: He nodded a little, mewling softly, pawing at his darkness.
EnsTren: You're my little brother too now.
EnsTren: "And you're my big brother."
EnsTren: And you are brothercousin.
EnsTren: We're family. Family shouldn't be jealous of each other.
Edmondia: He closed his eyes and cried.
EnsTren: TwinBrightBrotherfatherTwin. TwindarkmothersisterFriend. TwinbrotherFriend. Yami
EnsTren: Family.

Edmondia: (the Yugis need cuddling-time)
EnsTren: (they are getting it)
Edmondia: (some time alone, that is)
EnsTren: (they will...once they are sure he's not going to do anything stupid or such)
Edmondia: (he's going to cling and cry, pretty much, and then talk)
EnsTren: (which will be listened in on and watched if at all possible)
Edmondia: (he's not going to like that)
EnsTren: (they know, but they want to make sure they will be okay)
EnsTren: (Seto and Mokuba...worried and thus invasively paranoid to make sure everything works)
Edmondia: (but they definitely need some alone-time)
EnsTren: (they'll get it)
Edmondia: (am glad Yugi finally got off his chest what was bugging him)
EnsTren: (secret Weapon Mokuba works every time)
Edmondia: (Yugi a bit untrusting of family even tho he loves his jiichan and mama)
Edmondia: (anyhoot, lack of daddy + knowledge that daddy was rapist = untrustingness of males to stick around the home?)
EnsTren: (possible)
Edmondia: (...hn. also, I think, he's a bit insecure about the most reassuring thing pharaohboi's ever said to him)
EnsTren: (which was?)
Edmondia: (Whee for slashy canon. ^_~ "I want to be with you forever... even if I don't get my memories back.")
EnsTren: (*pets them both*)
Edmondia: (in response to that lovely statement, Yugi bites his lip, tears up, and says, "Me too... I'll give you all of my memories...")
EnsTren: (beautiful!)
Edmondia: (it's one of the sweetest moments in the series, IMHO)
EnsTren: (now what would Seto set up, or Mokuba set up with Seto's check book, as a celebration?)
Edmondia: (...nothing, I think)
EnsTren: (oh?)
EnsTren: (no family outting or whatnot?)
Edmondia: (nope)
EnsTren: (no classy reservations at a reasturant for Yami and Yugi?)
Edmondia: (nah)
EnsTren: (non classy resturant?)
EnsTren: (fake ids so they can get drunk?)
Edmondia: (again, nah)
EnsTren: (wad of spending money?)
Edmondia: (a few honey cakes in a basket, some milk, and a blanket to watch the stars)
EnsTren: (*kawaii!*)
EnsTren: (and Sethmade Egyptian beer)
EnsTren: (some nuts, dates, uh...*tries to rememer other stuff*)
Edmondia: (pomegranates, uh...)
Edmondia: (just miscellaneous snackses)
EnsTren: (yes! pomagranntes, and splenda, to sweeten them just in case)
Edmondia: (hee. and then just a sweet night out on the roof or in a park)
Edmondia: (I think it's warm out for them)
Edmondia: (and it's a big blankie)
Edmondia: (so they can cuddle/make out/have sex in cozy comfort)
EnsTren: (Seth and Seto are jealous)
EnsTren: (because Seto's not ready for anything close to that)
Edmondia: (they need this, though)
Edmondia: (to have their private talking time and making up time)
EnsTren: (Seto's barely comfortable with cuddling alone with her sometimes, less and less often but still)
Edmondia: (but they can take this opportunity to discuss things between them, too)
Edmondia: (yay for mature discussions of relationships!)
Edmondia: (and Seth gently teasing Seto)
Edmondia: ("Here honey, try some beer."
"What?"
"Beer."
"No!"
"It's gooooooood..."
"It's a bad example for Mokuba!"
"Hey Mokuba, try some beer..."
"Ack! No!")
EnsTren: ("This is a substance free household--except for caffine in all it's forms, chocolate, and sugar pills.")
Edmondia: ("And this!" she said cheerfully, and took a swig.)
EnsTren: ("Big Brother can't marry a drunkard!")
Edmondia: ("It's hardly alcoholic," she giggled, "And it's yummy. Hikari-mine could use a bit of loosening-up.")
EnsTren: (Hikarihers...Grabbed his little brother and ran away from her.)
Edmondia: (She giggled after him. Well you could!)
Edmondia: (and the Yugis are either up on the roof or in the backyard)
Edmondia: (having soft serious discussions and holding hands)
EnsTren: (sweet)
Edmondia: ("I can't give you what you had before."
"I don't want what I had before."
"You don't have to lie to me - I know how much you ache for your children.")
Edmondia: ("...they're dead and buried. Let them rest."
"But you don't."
"..."
"...you're allowed to cry.")
EnsTren: (*huggles them*)
Edmondia: (so yes, Yugis be cuddling and talking about serious emotional issues)
EnsTren: (and Seto and Mokuba hide from Seth)

EnsTren: (what cuteness occured within your mind?)
Edmondia: "You told me once... that you wanted to stay with me forever, even if you didn't get your memories back," Yugi said softly, eyes downcast, slim fingers toying with the fringe of the blanket. "But... now you remember." He paused for a long moment, gaze turning to the sky, eyes seeking the stars beyond the light pollution of Domino City. "So now... do you still want me?"
EnsTren: "I want more than that, I want you and I want to share what I have now with you."
Edmondia: He was quiet for a long moment, long lashes heavy-lidded, half-hiding his thoughtful eyes. "Before," he said slowly, "Before this happened, I felt like I could provide for you. I felt like I could help you - I thought I would be enough for you."
EnsTren: "You are still my Ra in the endless night. You still shine brightest."
EnsTren: "You are still my soul, my heart, and the balm to my throat when done with screams. The crown is a heavy burden to bear--this I know. And I am sure I am heavier than a crown."
EnsTren: "Do we not always say it is best to work together? Friends are family you may pick, here are friends who are already family."
Edmondia: Yugi shook his head minutely and stood up, slim arms lifting to hug himself, framed by the faint glow of stars and city lights. "Look at me, Yami. Don't look at your hikari or your lover, look at me. I'm seventeen years old, yamimine, I'm failing most of my classes, and I won't be able to get into a good university. You don't need my memories anymore, and I..." he trailed off, shivering. "I have nothing else to give you."
EnsTren: "Seventeen, failing at classes, and the love of my life."
EnsTren: "And I'm sure Seto will work you like a dog if you ask him to so you can pass."
EnsTren: "Who knows, he might even deign to allow Jou and Honda in."
EnsTren: "Friendship, teamwork. Have a bit more faith in yourself."
Edmondia: He turned his head down, fingers digging into pale skin. "You don't understand, Yamimine..."
EnsTren: "What you offer is yourself."
EnsTren: "Seth told me that she had a long talk with Seto when he doubted himself."
EnsTren: "Was he a product of being light, all he had accomplished and survived by a roll of fate's dice? Seth answered and I echo it. The light is a product of you, who you are and how you are."
Edmondia: "...absolutely nothing." It was a bare whisper in the still night.
EnsTren: "I love you for you."
EnsTren: "No. No. You are kind beyond compare. Stronger in heart than any I have met. Pure beyond the stars."
Edmondia: "...she can give you your children back."
EnsTren: "She cannot be you."
EnsTren: "When we were children we dreamed of you and Seto and whispered the secrets we saw of you to each other. The dreams came best as children when we lay together in the same bed."
EnsTren: "We loved you even then, and both of us thought that perhaps you were faces of Great Ra."
Edmondia: "You know better now."
EnsTren: "I think we were right."
Edmondia: A soft, sad chuckle. "Yamimine... I can't give you anything."
EnsTren: "Ra gives us everyday his blessing, his warmth and Light, and he is the greatest of gods. You give me the same, and your love and mercy and friendship, so I place you above him."
Edmondia: "...I'm nothing."
EnsTren: "You are my match that was written in the stars."
Edmondia: Yugi tilted his head, and he watched a crystal tear slide down the soft curve of a porcelain cheek. "Even the stars don't last forever."
EnsTren: "I will challenge the gods to rewrite the laws of the universe so they might if it would please you."
EnsTren: "I would rip the stars from the sky and place them in your hands so they would shine forever in reflection of your soul's light."
Edmondia: Another tear, perfect in its imperfection. He was beautiful when he cried. "I'm just a kid," he whispers softly, "I'm... just a kid. I don't deserve that kind of devotion."
EnsTren: "You're a kid that saved the world."
EnsTren: "You deserve every joy and gift I can lay at your feet."
Edmondia: "...and don't you deserve as much, and more?"
EnsTren: "There is one gift that I cannot lay at your feet, and that is your equal--yet you give it freely to me, and it is more mighty and beautiful than any gift I could unworthily offer you."
Edmondia: He cried softly then, as he'd seen before, silently as he always did. "I can't give you anything, I can't, I don't have anything..."
EnsTren: "Have you not granted me yourself?"
EnsTren: "Love, like friendship, asks for nothing."
EnsTren: He knelt before his light and looked up at him. "I kneel at your feet in worship. Your light will last as long as Ra shines, and my devotion for at least that long. And my love beyond eternity."
Edmondia: "I don't deserve you," he whispered, closing his eyes, "It's not fair for you to have to live like this."
EnsTren: "I would live in squalor in the streets if it would mean I could be with you. I would do so to please you."
Edmondia: He shook his head. "You should be free - you could do so much if you weren't tied down by me."
EnsTren: "I could do nothing good. You are my guiding light."
Edmondia: "That's far from true, Yamimine. You were just fine on your own."
EnsTren: "I would be a horror now."
EnsTren: "I am struck to madness without you."
Edmondia: "It's not fair," he said again, lashes parting slowly, the light in his eyes muted and dim. "That you have to rely on me to give you this semblance of life."
EnsTren: He looked up with frank admiration and worship in his eyes, "It's not fair that you think so lowly of yourself."
Edmondia: Yugi couldn't meet his gaze for long. "...I'd let you leave me, if I could. I'd let you be free."
EnsTren: "And I would fly free and turn right around to return to you forever."
Edmondia: He shook his head, swaying a bit. "You don't owe me anything, Yami. You deserve a life of your own."
EnsTren: "I want you."
Edmondia: He swallowed, and in the dim light, he saw he was trembling. "I - I can't make you happy..."
EnsTren: "You do."
Edmondia: "...Yami..." Yugi turned to meet his gaze again, and his eyes were dark and needy. "I can't..."
EnsTren: "Please don't say you can't love me." His voice was quiet with real fear.
Edmondia: Yugi blinked away tears. "Sometimes I think that's the only thing I can do."
EnsTren: "Oh thank you," a celebratory sigh of relief, and he leaned forward and hugged Yugi's legs, and slid down to press his forhead to his shoes in abject worship.
Edmondia: Yugi trembled finely beneath his grip, breath finally catching on a sob. "D-don't, I don't deserve it, I don't..."
EnsTren: Loveyouneedyouworshipyouloveyouforeverandever. DiveingtodarknessforTENthousandyearsifitmentIcouldkeepyou.
Edmondia: He shook. "Y-you can't, I'm n-not..."
EnsTren: You are worth it, and if I thought you'd accept it I'd build you an alter and sacrifice animals on it everyday.
Edmondia: Yugi choked on a soft laugh. "Yamimine, yamimine, I'm not..."
EnsTren: You are worth it and worthy.
Edmondia: Yugi shook harder and slowly sank to the ground, resting his head against trembling hands. "Even though I got mad at you?"
EnsTren: I would love you even as you ripped my heart from my chest.
Edmondia: He looked at him from under the thick fall of his bangs and the jet frame of his lashes, eyes moist and uncertain. ...why?
EnsTren: Because my love for you is irrefutable.
Edmondia: What did I do to make you like this? He was crying still, silently, achingly beautiful.
EnsTren: You were you. Perfection in my eyes.
Edmondia: Yamimine... it was a whimper and a plea all at once.
EnsTren: He pulled his Yugi close and kissed him.
Edmondia: Yugi melted into him, lips tasting of salt and honey, slim hands sliding over his body and curling into his hair.
EnsTren: Seth had told him a little trick she had to do with her hikari, so he wouldn't flinch from her early on, or hurt.
EnsTren: He offered a tendril of sensation to his hikari.
Edmondia: Yugi bit his mouth softly, purring in appreciation.
EnsTren: He crushed him tight to him and a thousand endearments and promises passed from his mind.
Edmondia: Yugi cried silently, but didn't refute a single one.
EnsTren: They tumbled sideways onto their blanket and were held tight in each other's arms.
Edmondia: Iloveyou, Yugi whispered, I shouldn't be this greedy but I am and I do.
EnsTren: ILoveyou.
Edmondia: Mmm... yamimine... Lips and tongue brushed his cheek, his throat, sharp teeth closing over his earlobe. Yamimine...
EnsTren: Hikarimine, love...
Edmondia: I don't... Yugi breathed, I don't deserve to ask anything of you...
Edmondia: But I...
EnsTren: You have me!
Edmondia: Yugi kissed him slowly, one hand sliding down his side to rest on his thigh. Can we...?
EnsTren: OhRaplease! Yami somehow managed to pounce him when they were tangled up with each other already in a prone position.
Edmondia: Yugi made a soft noise against his lips, sliding his hands up his sides again. You don't mind...?
EnsTren: I want you, I love you.
Edmondia: Yugi smiled, just a little then, and his eyes were warm and needy. Iloveyou...
EnsTren: Loveyouloveyouforever.
Edmondia: ...prove it, he invited huskily, sprawling back on the blanket like a fallen angel, gaze dark and warmer than the heated night air.
Edmondia: Show me how much you love me. It was a velvet whisper, deep enough to match the night.
EnsTren: Under the cover of stars and blankets they made love.
Edmondia: Slowly, reverently, clinging and sighing, gentle motion in a heated night.
EnsTren: And when they both rested and slept after their exertions two tall individuals who loved them both (but one would barely admit it,) took them up in their arms as if they were children of a tender age and took them indoors.
Edmondia: They laid them in a guest bedroom, watching as they curled instinctively together.
EnsTren: One who had carried them looked guiltily away from the other.
Edmondia: "...what is it?" It was a soft whisper, low enough not to disturb the sleeping lovers.
EnsTren: "I'm sorry."
Edmondia: "Why...?"
EnsTren: "That I can't... that... you... I'm sorry."
EnsTren: And he left.
Edmondia: She lingered for a long moment, just watching them, recognizing the jealousy and loneliness burning in her heart for what it was.
EnsTren: Her hikari knew it.
Edmondia: She closed her eyes and turned away, following in her hikari's footsteps.
EnsTren: Her hikari had started running--and crying, at the end of the hall.
Edmondia: She caught him and held him tight.
EnsTren: And he cried, he sobbed and she was afraid his tall form would break and collapse if she didn't hold him.
Edmondia: She settled them both to the floor and held him, petting and stroking his hair, covering his face with kisses.
EnsTren: He could only managed twothirds of choked apologies though his sobs.
Edmondia: She whispered to him that he had nothing to apologize for - she could wait. They were still young.
EnsTren: Her hikari hurt so much inside. She was waking him up, but not enough yet. But he was awake enough to know that he wanted it but not so much so that he could stand to have it.
Edmondia: She held him close and warm and tight.
EnsTren: Hikari had a selfhate problem sometimes.
Edmondia: ...exacerbated by the awakening of the two down the hall.
EnsTren: Ooh! Now she wouldn't be able to stop hikari from crying!
EnsTren: Hikari sobbed and sobbed, hurt so much inside.
Edmondia: Ssh, ssh, it's all right, it's all right, we'll be just like that someday...
EnsTren: Hikari had manymanymany tears in his pretty blue eyes.
Edmondia: She did her best to kiss and lick them away as they fell down his flushed cheeks.
EnsTren: When he called her his mother she had no problem soothing his tears, but the separation between he and she were never the cause of the tears before.
Edmondia: It hurt.
EnsTren: He drew his knees up to his chest and under his chin and leaned against her, coat spread out behind him like broken dragon wings.
Edmondia: She held him tight and tried to block her ears from the soft cries of bliss, barely muffled behind the door a few yards away.
EnsTren: They only made her hikari cry harder and he unwraped his spindle like arms from around himseld and first covered his ears and then reached up to help her cover hers.
Edmondia: She shook her head and clambered to her feet, dragging him up with her, took his hands, and ran to escape their joy.
EnsTren: His legs could move, he had been trained to run, both of them born to it. They outdistanced the sounds of pleasure with one of them dragging the other who could not stop crying.
Edmondia: They collapsed in an empty hallway together and wept.
EnsTren: Dragons with broken wings.