It Was a Dark And Stormy Night

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Be warned: this chapter should probably be dedicated to whoever invented diet Coke with lemon - you'll see why when you read it. Major yaoi alert ahead.......

BTW, Jada's deck (yes, she duels, too) is partially based on the stories of horror writer HP Lovecraft. If you like deliciously creepy, gothic, classic horror stories, I strongly recommend checking him out. He might well have been one of the earliest fanfic supporters, too, taking it as the ultimate compliment when writers of his acquaintance took his works and expanded upon them, especially his Cthulhu mythos.

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"Yami?" Yugi said when they were alone. "What do you think happened to Pegasus? Do you think he was telling the truth?" He took a sip from the Coca-Cola can he'd brought up with him, pushing the straw back into place as he did.

"I don't doubt his story, koi," Yami said with a shudder. "Whoever this Presidio is, he tore Pegasus' soulribbribbons and took perverse joy in doing it." He shivered. "It was bad enough being trapped in the Shadow Realm all those millenia without being harmed. Imagine being forced to relive, over and over, the worst moments of your life, knowing there was nothing you could do to change them, but having to try again and again, unable to break the illusion---"

"That's what they did to him?" Yugi shivered at the thought. Outside, the wind screamed around the house, making it quiver. In the past half hour the wind's force had seemingly doubled, a steady, constant, howl that twisted the trees, slammed wave after wave of rain against the house. Yugi glanced apprehensively toward the shuttered and boarded windows, then looked around the room as Yami lit candles. He'd made sure to bring up the ones in glass jars, the kind they could safely leave lit if needed - or forgotten. This particular suite was mostly decorated in red and gold, which he supposed was rather akin to a pharaoh's bed chamber. He shivered, setting the can down on the bedside table to turn the bedcovers down, then, going over to Yami. "That's horrible."

"Worse, this Presidio also held - or may still hold - the soul of his lost love," Yami replied. "He tortured and ravished her as well while Pegasus was held, able to do naught but watch. Even after he knew such abominations would not win him the Eye, he continued." Yami shook his head, looking at his koi, who was looking up at him in that endearingly comical manner that made him look every-so-slightly crosseyed, the candlelight turning his beautiful eyes a deep indigo. He didn't know how he could have hung on to any vestige of his sanity if someone had done that to his beloved Yugi.

Yugi shuddered, hugging his darker half tightly around the neck. "If they'd done that to you, Yami koi, I would have gone crazy, too." He kissed his love softly on the mouth. "But there's no way I would have left the Shadow Realm without you. No way."

Yami hugged his light close. "I am fortunate in that I am able to leave the Shadow Realm, koibito. Most souls are not as lucky." He shook his head. "Shadi misled him into believing that he could trap her soul in the Eye the way I was trapped in the puzzle."

Yugi shivered, suddenly unnerved. Yami looked apprehensive as well. "Koi, let's not talk about this right now, please?"

"Fine with me," Yugi said, pressing closer. "What did you want to talk about, then?"

Yami scooped his little hikari up and dropped him unceremoniously on the bed, straddling him and kissing him deeply. "I didn't have talking in mind, koi. And I still need to thank you for saving me."

"What -- oh Gods---" Yugi whimpered as Yami moved to kiss his throat, deliberately biting and sucking hard enough to leave a noticeable bruise. Yugi started to reach for his darker half, but Yami caught his wrists, pinning him to the bed, then holding him down to roughly strip him. Yugi moaned, a little frightened but not unwilling. He liked being completely dominated, utterly at the pharaoh's mercy - and sometimes Yami didn't show him any. This was apparently going to be one of those times, he thought, not moving as Yami let go for a moment to strip off his own clothes, then slid back against him, the heat of their bodies intertwining almost too much for Yugi to stand.

"You didn't know you'd belong to me when you solved the Puzzle, did you?" Yami breathed, ducking his head to slowly sweep his tongue along Yugi's collarbone. "You didn't know you'd be mine to do with as I please, forever----"

"Please---" Yugi whimpered. "Please----"

"Are you begging, my little concubine, my slave, my little toy?" Yami nuzzled the little hikari's throat, then nipped savagely at the bruise he'd left a moment earlier, drawing a little blood and making Yugi cry out. His cry turned into a shuddering moan as he felt Yami's tongue lap soothingly at the injury. "You're being disobedient again. You know what happens to disobedient bed slaves, don't you?"

"Y-yes, m-my pharaoh---" Yugi whimpered, barely able to think. Yami shifted, swirling his tongue slowly, ever so slowly across Yugi's chest but deliberately avoiding his nipples, ignoring the little one's whimpers. Desperate, Yugi tried to pull his lover to where he needed to be kissed, only to have Yami pin him to the bed and lean over him, panting heavily.

"I'm going to have to punish you again, aren't I?" The former pharaoh's eyes were dazed, darkened with lust. As he spoke, he unexpectedly pinched the little hikari's nipple, making Yugi jerk and gasp. He kept stroking and fondling it as he leaned over to kiss Yugi hard on the mouth. "You're still not as submissive as a good slave ought to be, are you?" He backed off a little to look at Yugi, who was almost unable to react, his huge amethyst eyes dazed, slightly frightened and awash with desire all at once. Those eyes ------ Yugi had once begged Yami to tie him up and blindfold him, but the former pharaoh had drawn the line at the latter. The blindfold would have meant he wouldn't have been able to look into Yugi's eyes when his little one climaxed. Smiling wickedly, he leaned over, swirling his tongue slowly around Yugi's abused nipple, then taking it in his mouth and sucking hard. Yugi made a noise halfway between a whine and a scream, his back arching off the bed. Yami had to chuckle. He kept nibbling and licking until the slightest touch made Yugi gasp and writhe, then moved to tease the other nipple, nipping unexpectedly at it, then blowing softly to soothe the abused flesh. Yugi cried out again, helplessly, not sure how much more he could take. Yami, seeing the state his little one was in, smirked and slowly slid down, slowly running just the very tip of his tongue along Yugi's already-throbbing erection. Yugi nearly screamed, burying his face in the pillows to try to stifle it. He felt the bed shift as Yami apparently reached for something, then cried out when the dark spirit unexpectedly took him completely in his mouth, sucking hard, at the same time thrusting a finger deep inside him. He nearly screamed again when a second finger joined the first, carefully loosening the tight ring of muscle, finding the spot that made him see stars. At the same time, he felt Yami's thumb rubbing slow circles against his perineum, and he shuddered, crying out, the combined effect becoming far too much. With a helpless cry, he came, hard, his small body arching off the bed, then collapsing, still trembling, whimpering as Yami finished cleaning him up with his tongue.

"You taste so good, aibou---" Yami murmured between licks. "I think I want more of you." He glanced up at Yugi, who was presently beyond response, and his eyes alit upon the soda can. With a slow smile, he leaned over to retrieve it, putting a finger over the end of the straw and slowly lifting it out. He put the can back down and let a slow dribble of soda drip from the straw across his koi's navel.

Yugi gasped, shuddering, as the chill liquid touched his overheated skin. "Y--Yami--!"

"Yes, my little concubine?" Yami purred, leaning in to slowly lick up the caramel-colored drops, sliding his tongue languorously around Yugi's navel. Yugi made a noise somewhere between a keen and a whimper, shuddering, stomach muscles quivering under his dark's tongue.

"I --- I thought you were ---" Yugi couldn't get the words out.

"Shhh. I haven't finished punishing you for your disobedience, my little bed slave," Yami murmured, reaching for the can again and carefully pouring just a trickle of the icy liquid up Yugi's chest to the hollow at the base of his throat, making him cry out. "You will learn the conscequences of disobeying the pharaoh," he added, leaning in to slowly lick the sweetness from his koi. "This --- soda --- is notbad,bad, aibou," he decided when they were once again face to face. "But I find your essence much more to my liking." Before Yugi could react, Yami slid back down, taking his redoubled erection in his mouth, working him slowly this time, sucking hard for a moment before letting go to explore the throbbing shaft with his tongue. "So good, koi --- so good---"

"Gods, Yami----!" Yugi cried as Yami took him in completely again, this time sucking him ruthlessly until he climaxed again, crying out. Instead of backing off after this second time, however, Yami kept working him, sliding his fingers inside again. Yugi whimpered helplessly, completely at the mercy of his lover. "Yami----"

"Yes, koi?" the pharaoh murmured, slowly running his tongue along the inside of his hikari's thigh.

"Yami, I -- I --- oh Gods!" Yugi cried out, unable to help himself, as his lover's talented fingers hit home again. He was starting to get hard all over again. Seeing this, Yami took him in his mouth again, this time slowly teasing his helpless koi to an orgasm so intense it was almost painful. Poor Yugi lay exhaused in the aftermath, gasping, drenched with sweat, but still wanting nothing more than to feel his lover inside him. Sensing his koibito's need, Yami slid up, positioning himself, then leaned over to kiss Yugi softly but deeply. Yugi whimpered into the kiss, dazed, tasting himself in Yami's mouth as the dark spirit's tongue sparred with his. At the same time, Yami slipped slowly into him, making him whimper and moan softly, feeling the first renewed twinges of arousal. He whimpered as Yami moved against him, gently at first, then harder, pulling him up closer aginst him so he could thrust deeper, making Yugi cry out in renewed ecstasy. The dark spirit leaned over, capturing his hikari's lips in a long, deep kiss, then breaking away abruptly, reaching down to stroke Yugi's erection in time with his movements, feeling himself coming closer to the edge but trying to hold off, wanting to wait for his little one---

"Yami, oh Gods---" Yugi couldn't hold out any longer, screaming when he came yet again, feeling Yami climax almost at the same instant, dimly hearing the dark spirit cry out as well.
"Great Ra---" Yami gasped in the aftermath, collapsing, leaning heavily on his elbows to try to keep his full weight off of Yugi. He finally came to his senses enough to disentangle himself and curl up beside his love, gathering him close.

"Yami, koi---" Yugi was almost beyond response. He lay limp in his dark lover's arms, panting, melting against him, deliciously sated and too exhausted to move. /I love you, Yami, I love you so much----/

//And I love you, little angel. More than anything---// Yami cuddled the little hikari closer. Yugi was already asleep in his arms. Yami curled close around him and fell asleep as well, yin and yang, dark and light intertwined.......

~*~

Meanwhilewnstwnstairs:

"Your move," Seto said.

Jada smirked. "I think it's time to play a little guessing game, Kaiba dear."

"Don't tell me---?" he groaned as she waved a Premonition card in his face. "Oh man, not THAT again?" They were in the living room with dueling disks, Joey, Mokuba and Pegasus watching in amusement.

Jada's smirk curled into a deadly weapon. "Indeed. Now, let's see---" She held the card to her forehead, eyes closed. "I spy with my little eye --- something that begins with B. Oh dear, could it be a Blue Eyes White Dragon?"

Seto groaned in frustration and handed over the card. "How do you do that?"

"Seahorse, it's kind of a no-brainer. You always play your freaking Blue Eyes," she said. "You have to get some new moves. Anyway, your move."

Seto considered it. "Okay, I play Saggi the Dark Clown in attack mode." That would take care of the Parrot Dragon she presently had on the field. "Saggi, attack!"

"Oops," Jada said, watching as her Parrot Dragon got vaporizied. "Okay, then, well---" She considered it. "If you want to get dark and ugly, then well, since Tristian isn't around, this will have to do---" She put her next card down with a flourish. "Yog-Sototh in attack mode!" A huge shadow shaped like a manta ray emerged from the field, glaring malevolently at Saggi with a red, glowing, three-lobed eye. "Howling darkness, attack!"

With a hollow roar, the shadow swept down on Saggi, easily destroying the hapless clown - then abruptly shivering and turning an odd shade of green.

"Ha! I also had this card face down!" Seto flourished a Crush card at her. "Read it and weep!"

"Not so fast, Kaiba boy," Jada replied, smirking. "You forgot I had one face down, too." She held hers up. "Cat of Ulthar. Any attack or damaging magic card is turned back on the sender instead."

"Shit----" Seto groaned, realizing he'd just been had. With all but his weakest cards incapacitated, he had no chance of beating Yog-Sototh. At least Jada hadn't turned his own Blue Eyes on him -- this time. "You are getting really good at this."

"I still haven't managed to beat Yugi, never mind Yami," she said, giving him back his dragon. "Yugi nailed me good the last time we dueled. I played Yog-Sototh knowing he could clobber Dark Magician only to have the little imp pull Swords of Revealing Light on me as well."

"And then nailed you in three more turns," Seto said, looking around as Mokuba headed out of the room, presumably in quest of a soda.

"Not quite. I didn't have anything else on the field at the time. But you see, Swords of Revealing Light is the one magic card besides Shining Palace that can actually destroy Yog-Sototh. He can't stand the light," she explained. "It knocked me down to 200 points, then next move I pulled Shuggoth, which isn't strong enough to stop Dark Magician and well, that ended that." She shrugged. "He keeps telling me it's because I'm not ready. I keep telling him it's because I'm only in touch with the heart of my tarot cards."

"You read tarot cards?" Pegasus said, brightening somewhat. "Cynthia was good at that."

"My mom taught me. Her mom was a fortune teller," Jada said, sitting down on the arm of the sofa. "Grandma Evangeline also ran a brothel back in New Orleans. According to Mom, her grandfather was some kind of voodoo priest back in Haiti - my mom's grandpa, not her mom's."

"We're related on her father's side," Seto put in quickly. He'd never imagined that, when he did find his remaining family, he'd turn out to be related to Sabrina the Teenage Witch. He still found Jada's mysticism a little bit unnerving at times.

"I should have brought my cards with me," she said, looking at Pegasus. "I'll do a reading for you sometime, okay?"

"I'm not sure I want to know what the future holds," he admitted, tilting his head at an odd angle to look at her.

"Just don't try to play one of your tarot cards in a duel again," Seto said.

"That was an accident. But it was kind of funny," she said.

Pegasus looked around. "Where did Yugi and whathisname --- the spirit --- go?"

"They---" Before Jada could reply, there was a scream from upstairs, undoubtedly in ecstasy and undoubtedly Yugi's. "Does that answer your question?" She shook her head. "I am so fucking jealous-----"

"Bad choice of words there, Jay-Jay," Joey laughed. "Man, I wouldnave ave pegged ol' Yuge to be a screamer." He looked at Seto. "Then again, Dragon, I wouldn't have pegged you to be a screamer, either."

"Hush, puppy," Seto said, kissing him to shut him up.

Jada looked at the astonished Pegasus. "Everyone plays with boys around here," she said with a wry smile. "Including me, unfortunately." Jada actually suspected she was bisexual, but had yet to meet an attractive female who liked her back - that way, anyway. Yugi, she knew, was definitely bisexual, but she suspected Yami preferred boys.

"I've always preferred girls, myself," Pegasus admitted, turning to look at her. She was an odd dark little thing, to be sure, about as opposite Cynthia as one could have gotten - but not all that bad, really, once you took a closer look at her. And she seemed to truly care about him----

"I suppose that's where Ryou and --- Bakura, is it --- went, too?" he said.

"Yeah," she replied. "Them I don't get. I mean, Yami and are are so completely in love that it'd be sickening if they weren't so darn cute. But Bakura and Ryou --- I think Bakura loves him, but he has the weirdest ways of showing it."

"But aren't he and Yami ghosts?"

"Spirits. I'm not sure what the distinction is myself. But they're solid enough. At least Yami was the time he got a wild hair to try out my brother's skateboard and ended up crashing into me," she said. Five thousand year old pharaohs who werly jly just now getting to enjoy their adolescence were dangerous sometimes.

"What's the saying? They burp and fart just like the rest of us?" Joey said, leaning on the back of the sofa.

"Joey, nobody farts like you," Jada said, looking at him. "Your gastrointestinal tract ought to be reclassified as a weapon of mass destruction. It's a good thing no-one thought to light that thing or Domino City would have gone up in a mushroom cloud. Oooh, speaking of mushrooms, I wonder if there's a pizza place somewhere open and delivering?" She rubbed her hands together thoughtfully, then went in search of a phone book.

"That was Tristian and you know it!" Joey called after her, then looked at Pegasus. "How the heck did she get from farting to pizza in three sentances, anyway?" He looked around after Jada again. "You want me to see if anyone else wants anything provided you find one?" He glanced up the stairs. "Great sex always makes you hungry. At least it does me."

"I wouldn't know," Jada replied, looking around from the phone book.

"But I thought you----?" he started.

"The operative word there being great, Rover," she told him. "You can go see if they're awake if you want."

"You better be planning on getting something besides mushrooms," Joey warned her, starting up the stairs. "I don't do fungus."

"Mushrooms aren't funguses, dickhead. They're plants!" Jada retorted.

"Uh, Jada, dear? They are fungi, unfortunately," Pegasus pointed out.

"They are?" She looked around. "Oh, well, that's got to be better than fungus, right?"

Pegasus didn't have the heart to point out the obvious.......