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Wish	By : WhosJeebus Category: Yu-Gi-Oh > Yaoi - Male/Male Views: 3302 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: I do not own YuGiOh!, nor any of the characters from it. I do not make any money from the writing of this story.

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Title: Wish (Prologue/9)

Author: WhosJeebus

Rating: NC-17

Pairing(s): Joey/Seto, scads of others, & even a few surprises

Beta: Jennie B.

Spoilers: None

Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh!, but if someone wants to give it to me as a Christmas gift, I certainly won't argue about it...

Summary: Seto won't be home for the holidays, but can Joey's friends and family manage to show him a holly jolly time, anyway? Sometimes, Christmas miracles happen in the most unexpected of ways...

Rant: I woke up this morning to find 4 whole glowing reviews after the first day of posting, and I was SO freaking happy! **hugs everyone** But then, I saw that some cocksucker had gone and given the prologue a one star rating. This pretty much killed all my happy. Not to toot my own horn or anything, but I've SEEN one star stories, and this AIN'T one of 'em. Asshole. I know it was done just for spite, so I went ahead and reposted the prologue, and because ALMOST everyone has been so great, I'm gonna go ahead and put chapter one up, too. Please be kind enough to R&R if you have the time, even if you decide to flame. If you don't like my fic, I'd sure like to know WHY, so I can become a better writer.

My intention was to post a chapter a week until the end, but I've decided I'll let the reviews speak for themselves. I'm new at this feedback blackmail thing, so I think I'll just arbitrarily say that chapter two goes up one week from today, or at 10 reviews, whichever comes first. I sure hope you guys enjoy this one -- I've heard from a LOT of people online that 2005 was a pretty sucky year for them, and if you don't mind, I'd like to try and put a smile back on your face. A lot of work into 'Wish', and I hope it shows. **crosses fingers** Happy reading!

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Prologue:

(8 days 'til Christmas)
Joey dialed the cell phone number he knew by heart and waited through five tedious rings before he happened to glance up at the clock. Shit! It was just past four AM in Hong Kong, and there was no way in hell that Seto would be awake at this hour -- not after such a lengthy flight and the hours of meetings he'd probably insisted on cramming into his day. Knowing the workaholic CEO, it was more than likely that his schedule was already overbooked before he'd even set foot off the plane. Joey hurriedly hung up the receiver and fervently hoped that Seto had his cell phone ringer set to off. He knew all too well what a bear his lover could be if woken unexpectedly. Breathing a sigh of relief, he had just started to walk away when the cordless phone on the desk behind him began to ring. Startled, Joey jumped a few feet in the air before whirling around reflexively to answer it.
"H - hello?" he stammered out.
"Why did you hang up on me?"
"Seto? The fuck are you doin' up at this time of the night? Err, morning. Whatever."
Joey could practically ~hear~ the smirk over the wire. "It's great to hear your voice too, Mutt."
"I can't help but notice you only call me that when you know I can't get my hands on you."
Seto sighed. "Now that we're living together, I'm much more concerned with self preservation. Don't want to get stabbed in my sleep now, do I?"
"I always knew you were a smart one," Joey teased, laughing. "Seriously though, why aren't you in bed? Is everything alright?"
The fact that Seto hesitated in answering told Joey all he needed to know. "Joey... something's come up."
He fell heavily into the computer chair behind the desk in Seto's home office, and stared up at the ceiling with sullen frustration. He struggled to keep the hurt and disappointment out of his voice as he asked, "I guess this means you're not gonna be home in time for Christmas, right?" If something had gone wrong with the business deal on the first day there, the last thing Seto needed was a guilt trip from his boyfriend, no matter how let down Joey might feel. "I'll be sure to let Mokuba know too."
"Don�t worry about Mokuba; I�ll send him an email myself. Joey... I know how pissed you are at me right now, but can I please explain?"
"Seto, it's really OK. I know I overreacted at Thanksgiving, and if you say you can't make it, then I know that's the truth. You're aware of how important this is to me, and you wouldn't make a decision like this lightly. Roland told me what a huge deal this is for Kaiba Corp; bigger even than the Australian merger last month. You do your thing and take care of business, and we'll be alright here. Trust me." God, he hoped that hadn't come out sounding like blame. He certainly didn't want to give Seto a complex. Not another one, anyway.
"You have no idea how horrible I feel about doing this -- again. Sung is deliberately stalling the negotiations, and I nearly ended up putting my fist through his face before I figured out why. Apparently, Gozaburo screwed him out of some huge defense contract back in the day, and he's taking his revenge out on me by proxy. Stubborn ass. He ~needs~ this deal with Kaiba Corp even more than we do, but I get the feeling that Sung's the old school type who's willing to cut off his own nose just to spite his face." There was another long sigh. "I'm sorry; I'm babbling aren't I?"
Joey smiled. "Nah. It's just like if you were here. You know I like listenin' to you talk about your day. I'm just sad that I can't fix you a drink and rub your shoulders while you're lettin' off steam. Y'know, all that domestic shit."
"Ever the romantic," chuckled Seto. "I knew that I kept you around for a reason."
Despite the distance between them, Joey felt like he could close his eyes and imagine his lover standing right beside him as they spoke, and the thought brought an immediate lump to his throat. Hot tears were beginning to collect at the corners of his eyes, and he decided that a change of subject was in order. "So what's this prick's deal, huh? He just bustin' your balls for the hell of it, or do you think he's gonna let up eventually?"
"Honestly Joey, I can't even tell at this point." Seto's voice had taken on a hard cast, and Joey knew that he was warming to his subject. A full-on, patented Kaiba rant was just what he needed now to distract him from his sorrow, and it would hopefully keep Seto's mind from being burdened down with guilt. "I wish I'd known about that bastard Sung's little predilection before I flew all the way out here. This ancient beef with Gozaburo is information that even an incompetent junior level executive should have been able to dig up prior to me boarding that plane. This deal has been in the works for ~months~ after all. If I'd known the old bastard was going to be gunning for me like this, I wouldn't have made this fucking trip until after the first of the year. When I get back home, heads are going to roll..."
"Now, Seto... play nice. It ~is~ Christmas, after all."
"And that's ~exactly~ why I feel like cracking a few skulls right now. I could be at home, right this very minute, enjoying the holidays with you and Mokuba, but instead, I'm on the other side of the planet, stuck in an ugly hotel suite, totally unable to get to sleep. On top of all that, I have to spend every day that I'm here dealing with some smug asshole who not only treats me like a child, but also insists on dangling the code for his company's graphics engine just out of reach simply to torture me. And... and ~mocking~ me over it as well! He's sadistic, and belligerent, and rude, and --"
"In other words, he's ~you~ in thirty more years."
Seto let out a deep breath, and for a brief moment, Joey worried that he might have gone too far. There was silence for the space of several heartbeats, and then the sound of barely smothered laughter crept over the line. "Touché."
Joey leaned back in Seto's leather chair, imagining he could still detect some faint, lingering trace of the brunet's presence. "You'll get through it; you always do. It's a world renowned fact that no one can resist the will of Seto Kaiba."
"How do you always know exactly what I need to hear?"
"Easy. You never hear ~anything~ you don't want to, you stubborn jerk. Now get off the phone and go to sleep. I don't wanna have to read in the paper that Seto Kaiba was deported from Hong Kong because he tried to shove a briefcase up someone's ass."
"I miss you, Joey."
"I miss you, too."
No good-byes were necessary between them, and once he'd hung up the receiver again, Joey spun aimlessly in the desk chair for a long while afterward, silently insisting that Seto's absence made absolutely no difference. It was inevitable. This would be a Christmas made up of one, tiny heartbreak after another, just like all the others that had come before, and he was fine with that. If he kept telling himself that often enough, maybe he'd even start to believe it.
Three thousand miles away, Seto Kaiba stared grimly down at his cell phone, as if holding his own personal grudge against it as the bearer of bad tidings. He was fluent in Joey-speak by now; even over long distance and without the benefit of the blond's obvious body language, and he could easily tell that his lover was most assuredly ~not~ fine with being left high and dry for the holidays. He felt like such a heel for allowing this to happen, and he wracked his tired brain relentlessly, trying to come up with some way of jettisoning this soured business deal. Despite his mental prowess, no escape plan sprang immediately to mind, but he ~was~ able to formulate the barest outline of a scheme that might just make Joey's holiday a bit brighter in his absence. With a little help from a few outside sources, this could very well turn out to be a Christmas that Joey Wheeler would never forget. Seto turned on his cell phone again, and began dialing a Domino City number he knew by rote.
"Kame Game Shop, Yugi speaking. How may I help you?"
"Yugi? It's Seto. I need a ~huge~ favour..."
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tbc

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