It Was a Dark And Stormy Night

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Again, big big BIG thanks to everyone who's taken the time to review!! BTW, Jada's gotta-get-a-clue moment with the pizza is based on one of mine back in college. The school was shut down due to a huge snowstorm one afternoon - almost a foot already on the ground, everything was closed; the county had declared a state of emergency. My roommate was fretting about what to do for dinner and I said, "No problem, I'll just call for a pizza!" and cheerfully picked up the phone. It took a few minutes before I figured out why I couldn't get an answer anywhere......by which time my roomie was laughing her head off at me.

Warning for a little more lemon - can't be too rich or have too much lemon in your daily diet, can you? ;-)

Disclaimer: They ain't mine. If they were I'd never have let WB do what they did with the dub version.......

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He swerved to avoid the oncoming truck, hearing the girl in the back scream as they plunged off the road --- he was trapped, dazed and unable to escape, unable to breathe --- he clawed at the branch holding him down, but it was useless----

"Yami!"

His eyes flew open and he found himself staring into a pair of frantic amethyst eyes. He was on his back and Yugi was sitting on his hips, holding his arms pinned by the wrists. "Mon hitari no boku!"

"Are you all right?" Yugi said. He'd awakened when Yami had cried out in his sleep, thrashing and clawing at the air.

"Now I am----" Yami said shakily, disentangling his hands so he could wrap his arms around his koibito, hugging him tight. Yugi hugged him back, fluttering soft little kisses over his lover's face.

"It's okay, Yami. It's all over now," he soothed. "You're safe now."

"Thanks to you, my darling, my koi---" Yami kissed him back, pulling him closer.

Yugi nestled into his dark lover's arms. "I love you so much, Yami koi."

"And I love you, hikari no tenshi---" Yami kissed his small one again, rolling him under. When their lips finally parted, they were both panting and Yami was hard all over again. Very much needing to do shinghing about it, he nipped at the bruise on his koi's neck again, making Yugi cry out.

"Yami --- what--?" he quavered. Gods, he wanted Yami to take him again so badly---

"Now I want to be inside you again, my little concubine---" Yami breathed, his crimson eyes boring into Yugi's, dark with lust. "I want to thrust myself into your tight heat, feel your perfect little body yearning beneath mine. I want to hear you scream my name when you climax, pleading for more, lost in ecstasy---"

Yugi unexpectedly grabbed him, pulling him into a long, bruising kiss. When their lips parted, he looked into Yami's eyes, shy and brazen all at once, and whispered, "Nushi, onegai -- yaru ka ----"

"Great Ra---" Yami breathed, pushing Yugi down and thrusting hard into him, his little one needing no preparation after the last time. He rode him savagely, mercilessly, making Yugi cry out helplessly with each hard thrust, whimpering, pleading, begging his lover not to stop, his cries getting louder and louder every time Yami hit the bundle of nerves inside him --- "Yami, oh Gods, Yami --- oh Gods, YAMI!" He screamed helplessly as he came, hard, feeling Yami release deep inside him a moment later, making him shudder and cry out again.

"Yami, oh Gods---" he whimpered in the aftermath, clinging to his lover. "Yami, please, say you'll never leave me. Please say you love me, Yami----" All at once he felt scared and totally vulnerable, utterly at Yami's mercy. "Please, you're all I have----" Overwhelmed by exhaustion, the aftermath of his earlier terror and the realization of what could have been, he broke down sobbing, more or less hysterical. Yami understood; he just held his small one tight, not saying anything, simply letting his overwhelming love for his little angel flow through their link, soothing, comforting. Yugi shivered, his sobs slowly quieting, his breathing steady slo slowing and deepening. Yami smiled, realizing his koi was asleep, and kissed the top of Yugi's head before curling around him and falling back to sleep himself.

~*~

"Jada?" Seto said, watching his cousin leaf through the phone book. "Don't you think all the pizza places will be closed because of the storm?'

"What?" She looked at him, bewildered.

"Most likely," Pegasus said, unable to repress a smile.

Jada looked from one to the other, dumbfounded. "You guys think so? Really?"

Pegasus nodded. Seto had to laugh. Jada was as sweetly, innocently clueless as her famous father Freddie, who, at their first meeting, had insisted on making tea without any help from the household staff - and forgotten the teabags.

"I didn't think of---" Yugi's ecstatic scream cut her off.

"Damn, how many times is Yami going to have at him?" Seto said.

"What's the saying? Take two, they're small?" Joey said.

"That was more like the fifteenth time, Rover," Jada said. "Darn, now what do we do about dinner?"

"We've got cold cuts and stuff," Seto pointed out.

"Yeah, but I kind of had my stomach set on pizza," she admitted, pursing her lips thoughtfully. When she did, it made her look as if she were begging to be kissed - the harder, the better, thought Pegasus, rather wishing he could be the one to do it.

"There's sushi rolls," Joey added from the landing.

She looked up. "I hope you have tons of guacamole."

"Guacamole?" Joey looked bewildered.

"That hot green stuff."

"Wasabi---" Seto said with an inward wince, remembering the time he'd let Yugi talk him into ordering SuicWingWings at Burgerpalooza. "They're really good, Seto. They have a lot of flavor, but they aren't really hot." Yeah, right. He'd ended up outside stuffing snow in his mouth in a desperate effort to kill the burn while Yugi and Yami had watched in bewilderment.

Before Jada could reply, there was a knock on the door. Seto went to get it, hoping for no more unpleasant surprises. It turned out to be Tristian.

"What are you doing here?" Seto said, surprised. "I thought you were staying with Ribbon."

"Her parents came home and threw me out. I managed to get the last bus to the stop down the hill but it's not going any further," Tristian said.

"That sucks," Seto said, letting him in, then lowering his voice. "Don't freak, okay? You're not going to believe who turned up here."

"Let me guess ---- Weevil Underwood."

"No, Pegasus."

"WHAT?!"

"Keep your voice down!" Seto hissed. "Someone named Presidio was holding him prisoner - Yami thinks he was held in the Shadow Realm and tortured. I'm inclined to agree. He was a mental wreck when he turned up. Jada got him calmed down and steadied a bit." He sighed. "Whatever he did to me and Mokuba, he didn't deserve what this Presidio guy apparently did to him. Nobody deserves anything like that," he added as they walked into the living room.

"Oh man," Joey groaned when Tristian walked in. "Dude, they said it was gonna get ugly, but not this ugly!"

"Joey man, I thought you said you were gonna shave your butt. Oh wait, that's your face, isn't it?" Tristian retorted amiably.

Joey mooned him in response.

Jada shook her head. "Oh yeah, we are just soooooo mature and sophisticated and refined and all that," she sighed, then yelled at Joey, "And here I thought "butt ugly" was just an expression!"

~*~

It was a couple of hours later. Yugi and Yami had rejoined the others downstairs, along with Ryou and Bakura. The wind was howling so violently that they were starting to wonder if the roof was going to come off the house.

"Damn," Jada said in the aftermath of a particularly violent gust. She finished coating a piece of sushi in a lethal mixture of wasabi and soy sauce and popped it in her mouth.

"Indeed," Yami agreed. He was sitting in the same chair as before with Yugi cuddled in his lap, sound asleep. The little hikari had made it to the shower and back, but Yami had pretty much had to dry him off and dress him, then carry him downstairs.

"What were you doing to him, pharaoh?" Bakura said, sounding grumpy but looking amused. They'd all noticed the bitten bruise on Yugi's throat. "I didn't think he was ever going to stop smingming. That'st tht they make gags for, you know."

"That would take all the fun out of it," Yami replied, smiling. He cuddled Yugi closer, cupping a hand around his little hikari's small bare foot and rubbing it gently, then gently wiggling his big toe. It was the most gentle way he knew of waking someone up. After a few minutes, Yugi whimpered, then stirred and looked up, blinking sleepily.

"Yami? Where-----" He yawned cutely, mewling like a sleepy kitten and shaking his head, then looking at his dark love again, bleary-eyed. "How did we get down here?"

Yami chuckled. "You don't remember, koi?"

"No, I thought we just----" Yugi realized they weren't alone and blushed scarlet, hiding his face against Yami's shoulder. Yami laughed softly and hugged him tighter.

"You're so cute, chibi tenshi," he said, nuzzling him softly. "Hadn't you better eat something? You haven't eaten since lunch."

Yugi looked up a bit. "What time is it?"

"Nine-thirty," Jada said as Yami stood up, setting Yugi down in the chair as he went to look at the food spread out on the coffee table. Yugi curled up in the chair, looking small and pale and rather lost. He abruptly realized how much the bruise was showing and blushed again, shifting his collar to try to hide it.

"So that's what that thing is for," Jada said.

Yami chuckled, stepping over her and setting a plate down on the table nearest the chair, then picking Yugi up and sitting back down with the little hikari cuddled in his lap. He kissed Yugi softly, then reached over for the chopsticks and picked up a piece of the sushi, which he fed to his little one.

"Okay, you two are beyond disgusting," Bakgroagroaned.

"You're just jealous that you didn't think of it first," Ryou teased.

Bakura pulled his hikari over for a bruising kiss. "Damn right I am."

Yugi looked apprehensively around as the wind howled again, roaring like a bullet train.

"It's really getting nasty out there," Tristian said.

None of the others replied. They all listened as the wind scaled up and up, shrieking, moaning, thrashing about the house, which groaned and popped and squalled in protest, shivering to the foundation. The groaning grew louder and higher pitched, becoming a scream of pain-----

"Oh Gods---" Yugi whimpered, cringing aganst Yami and pointing toward the high ceiling, which in this part of the house was level with the roof. In one corner a dark open spot was slowly appearing, letting a stream of water run down the wall.

Seto blurted out a string of curses reminiscent of the entire Osborne clan. "The roof's being blown off! I have to go get Mokuba! You guys head for the basement!"

"Seto, wait!" Joey ran up the stairs after him.

"Guys, hurry!" Jada yelled after them, but as she spoke, the wind tore shrilling through the hole, ripping twenty feet of the roof away in a sudden violent lurch, sending debris crashing around them. Yami dove for cover with Yugi in his arms and Bakura pushed Ryou out of harm's way, but a piece of roofing tile clipped Jada before she could move, knocking her to the floor.

"Jada!" Yugi and Pegasus reached her almost at the same instant, but she was out cold....