Out of the dark.

Can ya engrave it too?

Joey POV

The weeks to October flew by and I still had no idea what to get Seto for his birthday. Seto could get anything if he wanted it, he would buy it. This called for drastic measures. I had to do it. I had to call Pegasus and see if he had any idea what to get Seto.

I thought it would be best if I just emailed Pegasus first. I sent him a short message asking if he knew what to get Seto for his birthday and honestly I hadn't expected him to respond so quickly I thought maybe a day or a couple hours at the least, not four minutes after I sent the email, Pegasus called me.

"Oh Mr. Wheeler! I am so excited that you sought out my help for this!" Pegasus was beaming through the phone.

"Well you've known him for a long time so what do ya recommend?"

"Hmm, well I've seen that you two haven't announced yet?"

"Yeah that's true I guess I'm not sure what we're waiting for, all of my friends know, a few weeks ago, I called Mai from his office and told her."

"Oh!!! How did that go?"

"About as good as you'd expect. Anyway, my family, all of his security knows and so does his house staff." I paused, "He has a really nice secretary named Jane, pretty sure she knows."

"Oh yes I love her! I pushed her to be hired at KaibaCorp. But how are you? I saw the news about the fire I'm glad to hear that no one was hurt, anyway have you found anyone or any leads to it might have caused it?"

"Yeah I think, actually some kid got a hold of some matches and was trying to melt candles in his bedroom."

"BuzzFeed Japan, that's quite impressive." Pegasus mused.

"Well it didn't feel impressive I'll tell ya that much. It was awful, I had no way of knowing what was going on or if somebody started the fire on purpose. Or if they were trying to hurt my sister."

"Joseph, Seto will keep investigating I'm sure you'll find out well that's the problem was. But now his birthday? Has he said anything to you about it?"

"No which is the weird thing because he asked me what I wanted for  Christmas and then I realized his birthday is before Christmas and now I feel like an idiot. I told him I would plan somethin but he told me I didn't need to, he was fine with a lazy day together but I want to give him somethin more." I confessed.

"How are you on planes?"

"I'm okay I guess, why?"

"Well, how about this, I'll make reservations somewhere, but you'll probably have to fly."

"Pegasus, what d'ya mean?" I rubbed my eyes.

"Seto is my friend too, I want him to have something from me as well. How do you feel about mountains? There's a lovely traveler inn on Mount Kita. I'll book a reservation,"

"Wait where is it?" I asked writing the mountain name down. "I'll have to check it out first. Thanks for the idea. Oh, I've got to go." We said our goodbyes and I searched for the hotel Pegasus was talking about, I found a few that were nice but I didn't see one I could see Seto and I at. I'd look later. I still had a week until October 25th.

I decided to go shower. The hot water was burning my skin and I liked it. I kept thinking about Seto. I couldn't help it. He was a fantasy to me, better than a fantasy. I washed myself with Setos shower gel and relished in the scent.

I decided to go shopping today to see if I could find Seto something. Then it dawned on me. The money might have survived the fire. I dried it out but never took it with me! It was worth a try. I grabbed my car keys and ran downstairs. Heading out to the garage I texted Seto telling him I was going to hang out at the game shop today. It was a believable excuse plus I had planned to stop by there anyway.