Nightmares

As always, many thanks to my wonderful reviewers!

Totally Shameless Plug: if you're in the mood for something completely different, check out the Queen story I just posted - "The Kensington Horror." It's an AU/Lovecraft tale with a lot of Witchcraft, weirdness and general wackiness - plus, you get to meet Jada's parents. I wrote it for Halloween last year. (And BTW, I found out there's a manga based on HP Lovecraft's stories - Cthulhu looks about as imagined, but I never would have imagined Yog-Sotooth looking like a dragon :-)

I know Japan probably doesn't have most of the cable channels I refer to; I'm taking "artistic" liberties, big time. Court TV and Discovery Channel are addictive, BTW. So is the History Channel when they're not doing anything too military - I admit the latter two have been the source of much of my ancient Egyptian info. BTW, the fall of what's called the Old Kingdom in Egypt - the time frame when all the pyramids were built - coincides rather nicely with the time Yami would have been pharaoh. At least it does if all the math I was trying to do sans calculator is correct......

Oh man - someone out in the hall just said, "Let's see how long it stays up THIS time. I just got it back up Friday." It's a poster for an upcoming blood drive, I know, but still-----

Warnings for remembered violence, lemon and consumption of mass quantities of sugar....

Disclaimer: They're not mine. I'm just playing with them ;-)

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"The felon takes off at speeds approaching 100 miles an hour----"

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"Police lay down spike strips and it works. The front tires blow out---"

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"The moronic crook behind the wheel still refuses to stop, even though his car is now riding on the rims and throwing off sparks. Police decide it's time to take this idiot out for good---"

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"They decide to PIT him out. PIT stands for Pursuit Intervention Technique and here the cops execute the move flawlessly----"

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"The car spins out and stalls. Police move in to block off this idiot before he gets any more bright ideas about running from the law---"

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"He surrenders without a fight - the only semi-intelligent thing this fool has done all day."

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"Poughkeepsie, New York: Police are called to investigate a woman deliberately blocking a major intersection. They find her sitting in the car doing her makeup and taking rollers out of her hair--"

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"When they attempt to confront her, our little princess screams, starts to cry, accuses them of sexism and police brutality and abruptly cuts into traffic, taking off down the crowded multi-lane highway at speeds approaching 80 miles an hour....."

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"Yami?" Yugi finally had to ask. "What on earth are you eating?" Whatever it was, it was louder than World's Wildest Police Chases VII.

The pharaoh looked around. "Sugar cubes." He offered the bowl to his koi, who politely declined. It was several weeks later and things were back to normal in the Mutou household - or as normal as they got around the Mutou household, anyway, with a sugar-addicted pharaoh in residence.

Solomon came out of the kitchen with a coffee mug. "How did we run out of sugar cubes so quickly?"

"Oh, here. Many pardons, Mutou-san." Yami held out the bowl for him to take one.

"Yami----" Solomon exchanged an amused glance with Yugi. Meanwhile, on TV, police had nabbed the felonious femme fatale when she had driven on to work, gotten out of her car and started in as if she had done nothing wrong. "You remind me of Yugi when he was little."

"How so?" The pharaoh looked around as Yugi blushed slightly.

"He used to eat all my sugar cubes on me, too. Except he'd put honey on them first," Solomon chuckled.

"Honey! What a fantastic idea!" Yami exclaimed, leaping up with the bowl. "Is it still in the cabinet, Mutou-san?"

Yugi burst into giggles as Solomon shook his head, trying to look dismayed but unable to keep a stht fht face. "Me and my big mouth----"

~*~

An hour or so later, Yami, on something of a sugar high by that time, was watching True Case Files on Court TV while Yugi dozed, cuddled against him with his head in the pharaoh's lap.
"Yami, can we watch something else?" Yugi said sleepily after a few minutes. The story was about a man who had beaten his wife to death, shot his two children and fled, starting a new life under an assumed name and remarrying before police finally caught up with him - although not in time to keep his second wife from the same fate. He had been shot dead when police arrived at the scene, summoned by neighbors, shot in front of the couple's three children.

"....the case brings back eerie echos of the Wanatanabe case, the 1990 case in Domino City, Japan that sparked major changes in laws governing the reporting and prosecution of child and spousal abuse cases. In that case, Rykai Wantanabe was shot dead by police after they were summoned by neighbors reporting a disturbance, only to find Wantanabe brutally beating his already-deceased wife. The shooting took place in front of the couple's four-year-old son, Yugi. No effort was made by police to contact any of the child's living relatives; he was simply taken to a state-run orphanage after being examined briefly and then released from the hospital. Yugi was eventually reunited with his grandfat but but only after hospital officials finally contacted the archeologist several weeks later regarding coverage for the bill. As in the Wantanabe case, the three children were taken to the hospital, this time by Social Services, then subsequently abandoned. Only through the dedicated efforts of police on the case---"

Yami shivered, quickly changing the channel to MTV and The Osbournes. "That could almost have been you, koi."

Yugi burrowed against his Yami, supremely unnerved. "There aren't that maugisugis in the world, you know. It's not a common name."

Yami pulled his koi into his lap and kissed him, hoping to distract the little one. It worked far better than he expected. The kiss turned into a long, heated, deeply passionate one, full of raw lust and need. When it finally broke, they were both breathing hard.

"Gods, Yami---" Yugi said shakily. His face was flushed, turning his normally pale cheeks adorably pink, and his violet eyes were dazed. They hadn't made love e hee he'd gotten home from the hospital close to three weeks ago.

"Koi, I need you---" Yami whispered huskily. He'd been doing his best to hold off and let his koibito make a full recovery, but after almost three weeks he was heartily sick of taking matters into his own hands - so to speak. "I need to be inside you. I need to feel you tremble in my arms as I take you, as I release deep inside you----" Had Solomon not been home, he would have taken Yugi right there on the sofa, heedless, but he didn't want the elder Mutou walking in on them. Solomon being Solomon, he would never let them live it down.

"Y-yes, my pharaoh---" Yugi said softly, a bit shakily. "I shall be as you desire me, Nushi."

Yami turned off the TV, then the lights. "Meet me in our bed chamber, beloved."

~*~

Yugi joined Yami in bed about twenty minutes later.

"Nushi, what is your pleasure?" he whispered, looking up into Yami's crimson eyes. "Shall I pleasure you?" Without waiting for an answer, he slid down and took Yami's throbbing erection in his mouth, making the pharaoh gasp and shudder.

"K-Koi----" Ra, what was his small one thinking?! "Wh-what are you--?"

Yugi looked up, all big nervous violet eyes. "D--does it not please you, Nushi?"

"No, it -- I--" Yami couldn't get his thoughts together. Yugi licked timidly around the swollen head and Yami groaned, knotting his fists in the blankets. Ra, it felt so good----

Yugi continued his timid exploration, running his tongue along the underside with maddening delicacy. He licked back up along it, making Yami whimper, then tried to take his dark love all the way into his mouth. He couldn't quite do it. He went back to softly licking and kissing along Yami's throbbing length, leaving his lover in the throes of mindless ecstasy. After several more minutes of exquisite torture, he tried to deep-throat his love again, this time with more success. Yami let out a soft cry that was very close to a keen, trying not to arch into that welcoming heat, as Yugi, encouraged, started sucking on him as hard as he could. Yami clutched the sheets, his head thrashing from side to side in ecstasy. All at once, though, he caught his breath with a sharp gasp, shuddering and trying to focus on Yugi. "K-koi, I -- I'm close---"

Yugi didn't back off - if anything, he sucked harder, finally managing to take Yami all the way in. Yami gasped sharply, tensing -- then came with a strangled cry, so hard he almost saw stars. Yugi tried to swallow it all, but he couldn't; a lot of it dripped down his chin and down his chest.

When he could move again, Yami reached over and pulled Yugi down with him, licking his seed from his beloved's chest and delicate face, finally teasing him into a long, deep kiss. Tasting himself ugi\ugi's mouth and against his skin made him start to get aroused all over again.

"D--do I please you, Nushi?" Yugi asked when their lips parted, eyes downcast.

"Small one, you give me the greatest of pleasure," Yami murmured, kissing Yugi tenderly. "Shall I take you now?"

"As you please, Nushi---" Yugi allowed Yami to roll him over on his back. The pharaoh didn't like taking him in any other position because it meant he couldn't look into his koibito's eyes when he came. "If it pleases you, Nushi, take me --- as I am----" Yugi couldn't keep from blushing.

It took Yami a moment to realize what his koi meant. "Koibito, no. It would hurt you. I would never take you without preparing you first." He shuddered at the thought. He'd been taken that was, before, in his old life, and remembered how much pain he had been in afterwards. Not to mention during. He found the tube of lubricant and stashed it in a handy spot on the bed, then proceeded to kiss, nibble and lick every sensitive inch of his koi's perfect little body, turning Yugi into a whimpering, quivering mess. As he did, he found the tube again and slicked his first three fingers, carefully slipping them into his little one's tight entrance one at a time. By now his own erection had completely redoubled, almost painfully. When he was sure Yugi was ready, he backed off, applying a generous coat of lube to his throbbing cock, shivering at the chill against his overheated skin, throwing his head back unconsciously with a moan. Yugi whimpered at the sight. Yami really was perfect----

"Aibou---" Yami pushed him down amid the pillows and blankets, positioning himself. "By Ra's eye, I need you so badly----" Before Yugi could even think to reply, Yami thrust into him, hard. Yugi shuddered, biting Yami's shoulder to keep from crying out, making the pharoah moan and thrust into him harder. As he did, he bit at a spot between the nape of Yugi's neck and hid shoulder, sucking hard, making Yugi gasp and moan with the mix of pain and intense pleasure.

"Yami, oh Gods----" he whimpered, digging his fingers into Yami's back hard enough to bruise, wrapping his legs around his lover's waist as Yami slammed into him with the force of a tsunami. There was nothing at all gentle or romantic about this; it was all lust and need, dominance and submission - and Yugi needed every bit of it, needed to feel that Yami would have taken him anyway, by force, had he not submitted to his lover's will. He needed to feel dominated, forced, used for no other purpose --- that Yami might even kick him out of bed altogether when they were done --- he was startled out of his thoughts by Yami's mouth claiming his, hot, demanding, insistant---

"Koi, oh Gods---" Yami abruptly broke the kiss, his whole body shuddering, going rigid as he came with a strangled moan, his release sending Yugi over the edge as well. They clung together in the aftermath before Yami finally came to his senses enough to pull out of his beloved and curl up beside him, gathering him close. They lay in a panting heap, sticky with sweat and Yugi's second climax, in no real hurry to regain their senses. Finally, Yami pulled Yugi closer, kissing the top of his head. "I love you, koibito."

"I love you too, Nushi---" Yugi snuggled closer, mostly asleep. Yami smiledachiaching down to pull the covers over them, then curled protectively around his koi and let slumber take him as well.

~*~

"Ji-chan?"

Solomon awoke to find a tiny, trembling chibi peering up at him, huge amethyst eyes full of tears. "Yugi? What's wrong, baby? Are you sick?"

"N-no, I k-keep having bad dweams----" Yugi sniffled, hugging his blanket. He was dressed in a little pair of blue footed pajamas decorated with sleepy teddy bears. "C-can I 'tay here'm 'm 'fwaid---" He choked on a frightened little sob. It wasn't a device, wasn't contrived - the poor little thing was terrified. Solomon had long heard all the warnings about not letting a frightened child stay with you, all the admonitions to make them go back to their own beds - but he couldn't do that to his little grandson, not now.

"Of course--" he said, sitting up and scooping Yugi up, putting him on the bed. "Baby, what is it? What kind of bad dream you you have?"

Yugi huddled against him, shaking and crying. "I dweamed he came back to get me --- he didn't want me to stay with you any mowe---" He was interrupted when the front door slammed back, nearly off its hinges.

"Yugi, you little piece of shit! Get your ass back here now!"

"No, O-tousan, pwease no, I wanna stay with Ji-chan!" Yugi cried as his father stalked in.

"Ryaki, get out of here!" Solomon warned.

"Shut up, old man. The little shit's coming with me and you can't do fuck to stop it!" Ryaki's fist slammed brutally into Solomon's face, knocking him to the floor. Ryaki continued kicking and ounching the now-unmoving body, cursing vehemently. Finally, he turned, leaving Solomon lifeless in a pool of blood. "Now I'm going to show you who's the boss, you little fucking shit----"

"O-tousan, no, pwease----"

"Koi!"

Yugi awoke, shaking, wide-eyed, almost in tears. He was in his bedroom, in his bed, with his very concerned Yami looking anxiously into his face. "Y-Yami--?"

"Koi, it's all right. You were having a nightmare," Yami soothed, gathering him close.

Yugi pushed back enough to look into his lover's eyes. "Not just a nightmare, Yami. Not just that---"

"What is it, beloved?"

"Yami, I --- I ----" He swallowed hard. "Yami, Ryaki Wantanabe /i> /i> my father----"