Texts from Last Night/Texts prompts

[b_e_w_obsessiveskeptic]

1. I'm a huge fan of space, both outer and personal


2. The way you vanished gradually has made a bitter man of me


3. I want to do bad things to you... Like break your fucking neck.


4. I'm supposed to be a lot of things, but I live to disappoint


5. You don't have to be who they want you to be


6. You ruined me. I plan on returning the favour.


7. What, from the bottom on my heart, the fuck


8. I'm not actually funny, I'm just really mean and people think I'm joking


9. I apparently have "behavioural issues" and I'm "too defiant"


10. I wonder which will get you killed quicker? Your loyalty or your stubbornness.


11. 3rd base is when they see you having an anxiety attack


12. Actually I take that self-deprection back, I'm awesome


13. I'm forever imprisoned in my own personal hell, so I am never truly 'free'. But I don't have any plans next week, except for Monday.
14. I believe in annoyed at first sight
15. I'm not having you barge in at 2am smelling of cigarettes and disappointment so you can sleep on my couch and then have an awkward morning with my housekeepers whilst I'm at work.
16. I woke up and found that i was using my computer as a pillow. i had 53 pages of random letters on Microsoft word

Comments

5.

[puzzlingly]

According to you, what is that?

[b_e_w_obsessiveskeptic]

I think they're putting all of their hopes into you being a good little sacrificial lamb.

[puzzlingly]

Really? Is that what you think this is all about?
No one is making me do anything I don't want to.

Why are you telling me this now?
What is it to you?

[b_e_w_obsessiveskeptic]

I think stories passed down by word of mouth can become corrupted by those who have an agenda to push. The Ishtars have many reasons to lie so they can be 'free' from their duty.
But they're preying on you having no memory of anything necessary. Doesn't that set any kind of warning bells off?

Because you're so caught up in being self-righteous that you haven't the first clue how to look out for yourself

[puzzlingly]

「Why are you being like this?!
One shouldn't call it a long pause between texts, but there is a dely, all right.」

I trust them. I remember.
Unlike you.

「They are all he has left to rely on, any other link to his past is gone, it's nothing but dust.」

And you do?
I know my place in the world, Kaiba. If it doesn't align with your personal agenda... It's how things are.

[b_e_w_obsessiveskeptic]

[His lip peels back into a snarl as he reads the message. What an absolute idiot.]

You don't trust me or I don't remember?

[It's making his skin crawl.]

This has nothing to do with my personal agenda. You're buying into the promises of a woman who claimed to see the future and was proven wrong. She's a phoney. She caught you hook line and sinker and played you like a finely tuned instrument.

[puzzlingly]

At this point, does it matter?

I will ask you again. What is it to you?
You never believed in any of this to begin with.

[b_e_w_obsessiveskeptic]

Apparently not.

I will not watch you be led blindly by the nose to chase a fate being dictated to you. You who wields such power to be a tool for another is

it's unthinkable. You're not a pawn. You claim to be the pharaoh, so take control of your fate.

[puzzlingly]

That's why I am the Pharaoh and not you.

Let it go, Kaiba.

[b_e_w_obsessiveskeptic]

No.

Do you not care about what could happen to you?

[puzzlingly]

What is worrying you so much?

[b_e_w_obsessiveskeptic]

[Unlike Yugi's delay, there's a noticeable pause between the messages on Kaiba's end.]

You may have blind faith in them but I do not. I will be on the lookout for the cracks in their story if you will not.

[puzzlingly]

Why?

[b_e_w_obsessiveskeptic]

I've been used by another before. I've seen how exploitation works. People who do want you to be starstruck with them. Tell you the things you want to hear so you stay by their side, do what they want.

I don't know if I could stop you, or convince you. But at least /think/ about this.

[puzzlingly]

Let's say I do. Let's imagine for a moment I'm a little selfish and do what I want for a damn change.
What's next?

[b_e_w_obsessiveskeptic]

Whatever the hell you want. The world is your oyster, you're the champion of the most popular card game in the world. You own stocks in Industial Illusions. Give yourself a hickey with a fucking vacuum- I don't know.

The point is, go see the world. Do /something/. But do it because you want to and not because of some crackpot fortune teller batting her eyelashes at you. Do something for /you/.

[puzzlingly]

That's cute.
And you're going to give a new body too, or do you just want me to steal Yugi's life away so I do what I want?

[b_e_w_obsessiveskeptic]

That's not what I'm saying.

I know it's not fair on either of you. I know he wouldn't want you to just fade away either.

[puzzlingly]

FUCK YOU YOU DONT GET TO USE THAT ON ME

[b_e_w_obsessiveskeptic]

I'm right though aren't I?

No one wants you to fade away, but you're looking for a quick fix because you feel guilty. You're not some leech. Whatever you are, you need each other otherwise you'd be like Bakura by now.

[puzzlingly]

you dont get to satisfy you ego with this. YOU DONT!

YOU KNOW NOTHING! WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS!?

[b_e_w_obsessiveskeptic]

Maybe I don't know anything.

But I seem to be the only one that seems to notice how god damn unhappy you are.

[puzzlingly]

「And of course, no reply comes back.」

ヾ(･ω･`｡)

[puzzlingly]

phease com get me i thoght i ws in a place i dont even understnd

[b_e_w_obsessiveskeptic]

do you even know what time it is

What are you even babbling about? Are you alright? Do I need to call an ambulance?

[puzzlingly]

no
i man no im good
i thnk

kabia ar we friends?

[b_e_w_obsessiveskeptic]

Then text me a full sentence without drunk text on--

Are we? You haven't messaged me since I told you to be careful.

[puzzlingly]

i dont thnk i can do that rn
its cold here

i was mad

[b_e_w_obsessiveskeptic]

[Fuck he's sorry and that annoyance is really hard to hold onto]

Why? I was /worried/ about you. I don't want you to be spirited away by some delusional wannabe cult leader. Things like this don't happen normally. This sort of thing is called grooming in any other situation.

fuck. I just want you to have some autonomy for yourself.

[puzzlingly]

i knw
i cant do anything kaiba
im sorry

pleas come

「woW, don't make him cry? But that also doesn't say why.」

[b_e_w_obsessiveskeptic]

i don't get

fuck it all

where are you?

[Not that that really matters, he could track him using his phone, but it'd keep him talking and let him know he was still alive.]

[puzzlingly]

idk purgatory?
i jus wann ago home

「That works, right?」

[b_e_w_obsessiveskeptic]

[Not too far at least. Had that been his intent to wander his way to the estate?]

Which home?

I knew you were the type to brood but I didn't know you were i the habit of wandering off.

[puzzlingly]

one with a bed?

i didnt want to boher anyon

[b_e_w_obsessiveskeptic]

....Well, you're in the right neck of the woods.

And yet here you are.

I don't mean that in a bad way.

[He can't help but recall that particular road trip across the American desert.]

[puzzlingly]

there are trees alright...

「That's not what... never mind.」

where is here?

bring m ea jacket??
ill owe you one 👌

[b_e_w_obsessiveskeptic]

Idiot. If you'd asked me to bring you one before I left I'd have been able to.

how long have you been out here? More importantly are there any landmarks near you?

[He says desperately trying to work out where the signal is. Atem was like a cat, he brooded in high places. maybe he was on the top floor of the nearby multi-storey car park.]

[puzzlingly]

guess ill die
again 🤣

「Kaiba can't see him but he's laughing at that.... he thinks he's so funny. Help him.」

if i knew where i was i woudlnt have calld you!
call me crazy but i see a blue eyes wht dragn
nto sur if its real
hasnt omved in a while
not sur if itever idd

kaiba why you havenet made a blue eys emoji?
we only get green draons 🐉
🧙 crappy magicin

[b_e_w_obsessiveskeptic]

[Blue eyes- .. wait a hot gay second. Asides the Kaibaland duel arena there weren't many other places in town where he'd been given planning permission to slam another Blue Eyes White Dragon statue in town. The only other places were is front porch, but he'd have seen him on his way out and-

mother fucker.

The Kaibacorp offices were a stone's throw from his manor if he'd taken the right pathways but naturally his GPS system took him all around the houses-- of course, it fucking did he was still on the vehicle settings rather than the pedestrian one.

Suffice to say if anyone was out late that night they'd see him howling unintelligibly before picking up the pace to get to the offices.]

'Motherfucking-- sack of-- bastard coated bastard- stupid fucking GPS.'

DUMBASS THAT'S THE FUCKING OFFICES

[puzzlingly]

oh
you have a nice view

[b_e_w_obsessiveskeptic]

Stay the fuck put. I'm sending my people out to find you before I get there.

[Bastard. Absolute bastard. Here he is worried he's going to find him in some awful state and there he is swanning about at the offices like it's some day trip. Fucker.

Eventually, he reaches the Kaibacorp offices a little out of breath and more than a little worn out. Thankfully the receptionist rushes up from the desk to inform him that Yugi had been found on the roof and was escorted to the canteen for safety.]

Asshole.

[He muttered as he got in the lift.]

[puzzlingly]

👍

「He's been rescued all right, put under a cozy blanket and given some kind of warm beverage (which, he hasn't touched) because the so called bastard was around in nothing but his top tank and his stupid leather pants, of course he was going to be freezing at this hour of the night.

But said asshole perks up on his seat when the CEO makes it into the room.」

Kaiba!

「Way too happy...」

[b_e_w_obsessiveskeptic]

[At least it hadn't been raining whilst he'd been making his way through town. But that face. That stupid fucking face. So happy to see him like some dog that'd been missing its owner. Well, Yugi was no dog for sure at least, but yet, he couldn't ignore what it meant. He didn't hold back. Even after their last conversation, he was still content to be so buddy-buddy with him.

He heaved a sigh and approached. His mouth set into a firm look of weary annoyance.]

Just as big of a pain in my ass as ever.

[He slumps on the seat near Yugi, wishing he'd stretched before wandering so far.]

[puzzlingly]

「The dorky smile is not leaving that face any time soon, and even less now that Kaiba sat next to him. The beam gets brighter if possible.

Atem offers him the cup in his hands.」

Want some? I don't know what it is, though.

「Probably hot cocoa or something like that.」

2. long shot is long

[puzzlingly]

gradually? are you sure?