A Series of One Shots

Note: This is written from Ryou's POV speaking about Atem

DREAMING OF YOU

Sometimes, if I really think about it, the bruises and cuts don’t hurt so bad.

I like to imagine you taking me away. You burst through the door heroically and sweep me into your arms where no one can hurt me. You take me far away from this place and you tell me how much you love me. And sometimes…you make love to me. We make love because that’s all we have for each other. And it’s always enough.

And sometimes, if I really think about it, I imagine that it’s you inside of me and not a stranger. Even if it hurts and I bleed, if I close my eyes, I can make myself believe its you so desperate for me that you get a little too rough. But I don’t mind because I know it’s because you love me too much.

And then it doesn’t feel like that stranger that paid Yami anymore and I can just lie there and quietly whisper your name. Careful that Bakura doesn’t hear while he watches.

Yami doesn’t want me to like you. He gets angry when I mention your name. He wants me to love him. But I don’t. I love someone who is heroic and kind. Who is brave and gentle. And who would love me forever.

Whenever Yami makes us…be together…he won’t let me close my eyes because he knows who I will imagine. But I know how to picture you even with my eyes open now. I can picture your body moving against mine. Your soft moans hitting my ear. I feel your soft kisses against my skin and I feel you moving inside of me. Whispering my name again and again.

As I walk through our dark house day after day, you walk next to me. You help me clean and cook, you tell me jokes and tell me I’m beautiful. And then each night you show me your love. And when Yami starts to bring home customers, I shut my eyes and think about what all we did that day.

And if Yami punishes me for not doing my best or whispering your name, I think about your dark lavender eyes and your warm smile. That smile that is just for me.

But one day I worry it won’t be enough. One day…some day…I will break. I will give in to this world that I have been thrown into and then I will leave.

I wonder if you will cry. If you will hold my lifeless body. Maybe you will confess long hidden feelings, whispering them lovingly into my ear.

Perhaps as you walk through your house, I will walk next to you, helping you clean and cook. You will tell me jokes and tell me I’m beautiful and that you will always be with me…

Just like you’ll be with me wherever I go after this place. And nothing else will matter because I’ll have you.

I will always have you.

AN: I know--terribly short and terribly depressing. But it is the last of the 'angst/no love' themes I had left that were built up. As of now, I have no more stories finished but I am working on one.

Quick side note: I had a couple people say that they didn't see Yugi really leaving Ryou like that in the last chapter--when I used the term 'never to return' I meant that loosely--as in, he didn't go back to explain why they got rid of Bakura but I didn't mean that to mean Yugi just said "fuck you" to Ryou and left him to rot and die--of course as an author you can't put notes at the bottom to further explain the plot--but hell, its fanfiction. : ) I leave it up to you as the reader to decide how Ryou got on--and how Yugi got on.

ALSO...thank you SO SO SO much for giving me over 200 reviews for this story! It is truly appreciated that I have readers that enjoy my stories so much. A special thank you to those who have been with this since the beginning and have faithfully reviewed again and again

AND FINALLY...I think this one shot book will continue for some time to come. As long as I have followers--I just can't turn you down! XD

(I will add last chapter's reviews onto the next chapter!)