If Atem Lived in my Head

The Only Way

Atem

Nuni is under all of her negative emotions, she thought she had them buried deeper than this but in all honesty she was barely keeping her head above water and every day she grew more and more tired.

"Nuni, please." I yell as loudly as I can but she cannot hear me, she is playing but without her usual technique, she's going through the motions and I know how dangerous it is when she slips into that mode of herself. It's a last line of defense when she wants everything to leave her alone.

As her life drains to the last fifteen life points I know what I must do. I grab her and pull her into the puzzle.

"Nuni." I pull her into my arms and hold her tightly. She winds her arms around me and I can feel her frailty. She is glass ready to break and I try my best to hold her together.

"Atem, I'm scared, I don't feel right. It hurts." She clings to me and I am seeing the most vulnerable part of her, unguarded and ready to shatter.

"It's going to be okay, Nuni." I comb my fingers through her hair, it's longer, she's let it grow out some just for me. I hold her with all my strength because this may be the last time I hold her, the last time I ever see her again.

"I am going to free you." I swallow the sadness building up in my throat press a kiss to her head but that is not enough. Not for this.

I pull her into my arms and I lower us to the ground. I kiss her the way I have wanted to kiss her as she revealed every little piece of herself to me. I fell more and more in love with her and of cause as she accepted me, it seems I will have to say goodbye.

I kiss her deeply but I can feel her boundaries being reached, she is not yet recovered from a past she had long since buried. Being on top of her was a trigger but each time she seemed to get more used to me, trusting me.

I deepened the kiss, sliding my hands up her arms, over her shoulders, down her side and around her waist. I bit her lip and she squeaked but giggled and bit me back. I kissed her again and sucked on her lip until I felt her boundary break and before she had to push me away I pulled away and I pressed a kiss to each shoulder her abdomen her neck. A soft moan escaped her lips and I felt her embarrassment.

"Never concern yourself with how you look in front of me because you are always beautiful for me." I kiss her again and suck on the delicate skin of her neck until I know there is a bruise there.

"Atem." She breathes, her voice hitches and she rests her hands on my chest.

"I have to shatter the puzzle, nuni." I blurt out.

Nuni

"You what?" my breath is fast, my fear from the duel has faded but these new words send an all new fear down my spine.

"To protect you, I have to break the puzzle and sever our connection." He presses a kiss to my head.

"no, Atem, no" I grab him as if that can stop him.

"I have to, to keep you safe." He touches his forehead to mine "you must forget about me"

"Please, don't do this." Tears prick my eyes.

"You need to be free Nuni. So when you wake up I want you to go to California. I want you to live with the brother that always offer a place for you and I want you to forget me."

"Atem please!" I call out desperately but I can see it in him, he as already decided.

You promised you wouldn't leave me, Atem." I yell "you promised!"

"I am so sorry, Nuni. I thought I could keep my promise but Marik is going to take your soul if I don't do this and I could never forgive myself for that." He pressed his lips to mine, desperately, hungrily.

"don't go." Tears slipped down my face and Atem pulled away from me.

"Atem no!" I grab him but his body is engulfed in white light.

"leave your mother behind, forget me, begin a new life and be free Nuni, by happy and be free." The light bursts and then my world goes black. 

**Author's Note**

Welp guys it'a been a wild ride.

There is an epilogue which will be out tomorrow and book two which will be released on January 1st 2020

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