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Nightmares	By : ladymadrigal Category: Yu-Gi-Oh > General Views: 5030 -:- 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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I'm back........thank you everyone, for all the great reviews for "Coming Out of the Dark" !!! (I'd thank everyone personally, but I'm afraid I'll forget somebody.....)

This is more or less the next part of the story, starting a few weeks later. It didn't quite go the way I'd intended, but one I got going I swear it took on a life of its own - I don't know if that's good or bad. :-)

BTW, I'm relying on an English to Japanese dictionary for many of my translations, so please feel free to point out any mistakes I make. I was debating switching to the characters' original names, but since I started off using the dub names, I decided I'd stay with that. Although, personally, I think Tristian looks much more like a Honda (and I don't mean the car :-)

Disclaimers: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh or Dilbert (that strip is real, BTW - and yes, my first thought was "Oh, Yaaaaaaamiiiii?") If I did, I most likely could have afforded the peridot earrings I was drooling over at lunch today - man, if peridot is semi-precious, I'd hate to think how much precious gems cost....

Warnings for some mild Yugi abuse in this one - I gave him my ear infection, only worse, poor baby. (I didn't know it was contagious, honest.......;-)

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Nightmares

Yugi Mutou was setting up a display box of card packs when his grandfather burst out laughing at something in the newspaper.

"What is it, Jii-chan?" he said, looking around. He wasn't feeling well, which was why he wasn't in school. He'd awakened with a painfully swollen ear that had only been getting worse as the morning slowly wore on. He'd insisted on helping his grandfather out in the shop, though, feeling guilty about staying home just because his ear hurt.

"This. "Dilbert" today," Solomon replied, referring to the comic strip. In it, Dogbert was telling Dilbert's pointy-haired boss: "If you want to be a great leader, read the books that have inspired leaders for centuries. For example, the first pyramids were built after a twelve-year-old pharaoh read this book." The title of said book? Things That Look Naughty From Miles Away. Solomon chuckled. "Now I wonder which pharaoh that was?"

Yugi managed a wan smile. Solomon looked at him in concern, then looked around as Yami, former pharaoh, millennium spirit, and now Yugi's best friend/protector/lover, came down the stairs with one of those golf-ball-sized gourmet lollipops stuck inelegantly in his cheek.

"These are very good, Mutou-san" he observed, taking it out of his mouth so he could speak. "Why did you have them in the back of the cabinet hidden behind the dishes?"

Solomon started to protest that they'd been hidden in the back of the cabinet behind the dishes because they'd been intended as a gift for a friend of his, but decided not to. He could always buy more of them - and not bring them home first. He should have known better by now, anyway. The simple fact was, if it was edible and had a high sugar content, Yami was going to find it and eat it. Solomon smiled inwardly, then started to ask Yami to come take a look at Yugi. Before he could, however, Yami rushed over. "Aibou, your ear is worse. And you have a fever." Their mental link was open, as it almost always was, and Yami could feel the dull throb in the side of his own head, the building heat of the infection.

"I do?" Yugi's eyes were glassy and dull all at once, his face sickly white save for two hectic blotches of color on his cheeks. He looked far worse than he had when he'd come downstairs ten minutes ago.

Yami easily lifted his little hikari up onto the counter to peer into his left ear, careful not to hurt it more. "Mutou-san, look at this. I think you need to call in a healer."

"Call the doctor, you mean?" Solomon said, looking at his grandson's ear and wincing. "Yugi, you poor thing. It's almost swollen shut." The delicate shell of Yugi's ear was sickly red and raw, badly swollen. Even the side of his face was starting to look puffy. "You're right, Yami. I think we need to get him in to see the doctor right away."

Yugi suddenly wasn't feeling well enough to object to their talking about him as if he wasn't in the room. He let Yami take him in his arms, leaning against his dark love and nestling the good side of his head against Yami's shoulder as his grandfather went to call the doctor.

//I would kiss it and make it feel better, aibou, but I'm afraid to touch it. I don't want to hurt you more.//

/I'll be okay, Yami./ Yugi closed his eyes and Yami cuddled him closer, stroking his hair. He leaned his forehead against Yugi's, trying to shoulder some of his small one's pain.

Solomon came back in about ten minutes later. "Two-fifteen. She squeezed him in." It was about eleven. "We'll leave here about one-fifteen or so."

"Gomen for being so much trouble, Ji-chan," Yugi said softly, miserably.

"You're not trouble, Yugi," Solomon reassured, hugging him. "I'm sorry you're not feeling well."

~*~

The doctor shook his head, peering at Yugi's inflamed ear. "Not good. I'm going to put a wick in it to keep it open. Otherwise the skin c fus fuse." He was concerned. Yugi was running a fever of almost 102, not typical for this sort of infection, and he was dazed and quite sluggish. He was lying limp on his side on the exam table, violet eyes dull and half-closed, his face sickly pale under the hectic blots of fever-flush on his cheeks.

"Fuse?" Yami said. He had followed Solomon and Yugi into the exam room and wound up doing most of the talking.

The doctor nodded, thinking that Yugi was lucky to have a biendiend like Yami. He'd known the Mutous for so long that Solomon had been forced to come clean to him about Yugi and Yami's relationship. "The skin is so raw and inflamed along the length of the canal that it's lost its protective layer. If it stays swollen shut too long, it could stick together and not heal properly. Also, the swelling will prevent the medication from getting down to where it needs to. I'll be right back." He left to get a wick, returning less than a minute later. "Now Yugi, this is going to be a little uncomfortable," he warned, gently tilting the little one's head to insert the cotton wick. Yugi didn't even flinch. It couldn't hurt more than it already did. The side of his face ached with a dull throb, but the pain in his ear was sharp, cutting.

"There. Now, don't sit up yet. Stay still. That's it---" the doctor said, gently administering antibiotic drops. "Good. Stay there for a few minutes." Not that poor Yugi looked like he was about to get up anyway. The doctor shook his head, then looked at Yami and Solomon. "Poor kid. I'm going to give him a prescription for ear drops - five drops morning and evening - and a codeine pill for the pain. Watch his fever; it's higher than I like to see. The codeine pills won't have asprin, in case he needs it for his feverheatheating pad might help make his ear feel better, but don't use a hot water bottle. We can't risk getting any water in there. If he's not markedly better by Thursday morning, call the office right away. Otherwise, I'll see him in a week." He looked back at Yugi, who was still lying limp and unresponsive, then added. "And if he gets any worse, take him to the emergency room and have them call me at home if need be." He found a memo slip and wrote down the number. "I don't care what time of the day or night it is, I'll be right over." He went back over to Yugi. "Yugi? Are you able to sit up?"

Yugi nodded weakly, managing to get to a sitting position without hurting his ear too much. Yami immediately scooped him up, cradling him gently. "It's all right koi. I'm here," he soothed, kissing Yugi's forehead.

Solomon chuckled in spite of everything. "I don't know if he can walk or not because Yami won't let him," he said as they left.

The doctor smiled. "He's lucky to have Yami around. You said he was from Egypt?"

"Originally. He was an exchange student," Solomon said, using the same story he'd told everyone. "He stayed here because he doesn't have a family to go back there. I'm just thankful Yugi will have someone to watch out for him when----" He didn't finish that thought.

~*~

Back at the game shop, Solomon left Yugi in Yami's capable care while he went to fill the prescriptions. Yami immediately put Yugi in his pajamas and tucked him into bed. Yugi didn't protest that, either. He was hurting and exhausted and wanted nothing more than a nap. He snuggled under the covers more, finally just letting go and letting himself drift away into sleep. "Arigato, Yami----"

"You're welcome, my koi. And I'll be right here," Yami reassured him. "No further away than the kitchen." He softly kissed Yugi's cheek, then tucked him in more, sitting by him and stroking his hair until he was sure his small one was asleep. He didn't put the shades down because it had clouded up outside, threatening rain. He kissed Yugi's cheek again, then left him to get some much-needed sleep, closing the door all but a crack behind him.

~*~

Yugi awoke about three hours later, in a lot of pain. He whimpered, about to call for Yami - and all at once the dark spirit was right there with a glass of water and two of the painkillers the doctor had prescribed.

"Here, koibito," he said, helping Yugi sit up so he could take the pills. "You'll need to eat something with those. I'll bring you some soup in a moment. How does cream of mushroom sound?"

"I'm not hungry, Yami," Yugi said softly.

"Koi, those pills will upset your stomach if you don't eat," Yami warned, going to get the soup. As he left, Solomon came in.

"How are you feeling, Yugi?" he said, sitting down on the bed next to his grandson.

"I'm okay---" Yugi said, completely unconvincingly.

"I'll tape the duelist finals for you tonight," Solomon said, reaching over to stroke Yugi's disheveled hair back. "I don't think you'll feel like staying up to watch."

Yugi nodded slightly. "Arigato, Ji-chan."

Yami came back in right then with a bowl of soup. Yugi, much to Solomon's relief, drew the line at letting Yami feed it to him. He wasn't quite that sick.

~*~

"Mutou-san! Wake up! We need to take Yugi back to the healer's!"

"Huh?" Solomon came out of the depths of sleep to find himself face to face with the frantic Yami. "What's going on?!"

"Yugi's gotten more sick. I can't awaken him!" Yami was as close to panic as Solomon had ever seen him.

Solomon hurried into the room his grandson and the dark spirit shared. Yugi wasn't unconscious, as Solomon had feared, but he wasn't far from it. His ear was badly swollen and a malignant dark red, the side of his face puffed with the telltale red lines of blood poisoning starting to streak out across them. His fever was so high that touching him felt like putting your hand on the stovetop. "Great Gods, Yami, how long has he been like this?!"

"I don't know. The heat from his body awakened me---" Yami was frantic. He ran out of the room and returned moments later with a cold wet cloth, whcih he used to dab at Yugi's neck and wrists with, trying to break the fever.

"Get dressed and get him bundled up. You're right, we need to take him to the hospital---" Solomon ran off to get ready and find Doctor Yakamoro's number.

Yugi heard the commotion around him, but he couldn't react. His ear - his ear was hurting so much. Did ---- Yugi couldn't remember. Did HE do it, hit me again? He couldn't think. Where was O-kaasan-san? He needed her, badly. Why couldn't he remember? This was like that night when ---- when what? "Y-Yojiyogo-----?"

"Shhh, koi---" Yami lifted him up in his arms. "It's all right, beloved. It's all right---"

"O-kaasan-san?" Yugi whimpered.

"How is he?" Solomon came back in ready to go.

"No better," Yami said, cuddling Yugi closer. "It's going to be all right, beloved. There there---"

He hoped. Oh Ra, he hoped.........

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I know, evil. But it was the most logical place to end the chapter.
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