Strategy 91: Just Breathe [Accidental Video]

[shutupandduelme]

...System Reboot...
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[The LP clicks on to a shot of the woods in late afternoon light. How it got there, nobody knows, but there's a lot of pained breathing going on. There's a bit of movement, before a hand comes down heavily on the camera. The LP is lifted, and you can see another hand clenching a Duel Monster card locket (making

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[note_atem]

[Oh hey there not!boyfriend. Have your rival over here just staring at the camera for a minute. Yeah. He's pretty crazy looking. Tired most definitely from being out in the woods for two days without sleeping or eating. And, oh yeah, his eyes are pretty dead. And there's that mark on his forehead. And he's just staring.]

Welcome back. [Oh and there's that tone of his which is pretty damn blank. And he's not even shouting at you or worried that you're in pain or asking where you are so he can go help- But hey. Everything is okay. Totally.]

[shutupandduelme]

[Give him a minute, he has to wedge up against a tree to stay upright. That, and he's looking you over, Atem, and isn't very happy about it.]

...Is she dead?

[note_atem]

She keeps running from me. But she can't run for much longer. Of that I'm certain.

[shutupandduelme]

It's not your job.

[note_atem]

Like you are you'd barely be able to have a repeat performance. [He means lasting as long as you did last time. Sorry. He's not in the mood for you to push him around.]

I'm going after her. It looks like it'd be better for you to go back to the arcade for now.

[shutupandduelme]

[Pffft. It's only that his whole body hurts. That won't have any impact at all!]

I think I will do as I please. No one strikes at Kaiba Seto and walks away from it.

[note_atem]

You're right about that. [Talking to you hurts. And there's a minor hesitation and a pass of upset behind those eyes. But he gets control of himself.]

Consider it payback. You took out Bakura when I did not need nor asked you to. This one is mine.

[shutupandduelme]

[His eyes narrow slightly at that change in Atem's eyes.]

It's not the same. [No one owns him.] I'm not going to sit here and wait for Usagi or one of the others to come and sob at me.

[note_atem]

So go back to the arcade, then.

[shutupandduelme]

Absolutely not.

[note_atem]

I'm not going to stop. [Though there's inflection and force in the words, they're still blank- forced so now.]

So just go back to the arcade. I'm asking you. Please. As a favor, if you must.

[shutupandduelme]

And what do you expect me to do, stare at the blood that's almost certainly dried all over the office by now until someone else takes my retaliation?

It's not worth the favor.

[note_atem]

Then wait your turn. I've been after her longer than you have. You can kill her when she comes back.

[shutupandduelme]

[He snorts. Painfully.]

I don't wait. You know that.

...but it's interesting to hear that my death can turn a decision so easily. I thought you weren't going to kill her.

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[note_atem]

[Your death makes him feel guilty. Because you told him to kill her earlier and he didn't and you died. Again, his eyes seem to register a great deal of sadness, maybe even glass up for a moment.]

[note_atem]

[But he's done crying over it. For now. He turns away from the LP, it might be evident that he's still wading through the forest at this point.]

It doesn't matter what I wasn't going to do.