In the Mood (Part 3)

DIMENSION: ANIME (The One That Pays to Save the Day)

"The dresses are gifts and you may keep them," Bastet insisted to Téa and Masika. "You look very lovely."

"It's fitting," Sekhmet complimented each of them. She bent down in her full lion form as Bastet changed back to a cat.

"Come," Bastet beckoned. "We shall take you back now."

Neither Téa or Masika made to move.

"You can't stay on a rooftop forever. You must go down and explain properly," Bastet told them. "You cannot hide it. There's no grace in that."

///Téa: Oh yeah? Well, I might be a dancer, but I hung out with three guys most of my life! Screw grace!///

///Masika: They can hear you.///

///Téa: I don't care.///

Bastet sighed. "They will know it is not your fault."

"They won't know anything because we aren't telling them anything." Téa looked toward Masika. "You better not either."

"We cannot hide this-"

"-Yes we can," Téa declared. "For one? It doesn't really matter, because they are never going to pick either one. My Yugi would never pick either one. So, we will pick for them. Done."

"Oh, I forgot how incredibly stubborn you had always been, Masika," Bastet said to Téa.

"My name is Téa, and I'm not in the mood for hearing anything else! Unless you goddesses spill the beans, then they will never know, and that's fair."

"I've always followed your will," Masika said to Téa. "But these are goddesses wishing for-"

"Wishing but not demanding," Téa said. "Do we have to, is it required of us?" Bordering on mockery. She didn't feel like she had anything to lose.

"It is not required," Bastet said. "We will not tell them. Yugi's card can be given to you."

"Good, because I'm taking it and my butt back to New York. I still have my apartment, everything's still fixed, I have plenty to wait for a new gig to hit to try out for." Never.

"Téa? I know this is sudden news, but-"

"I said no!" Téa commanded her. "And if you tell Yugi, well then, I'll never believe that we were really one being to being with! I'll never talk to you again, Masika!"

"May I tell-"

"No!" Téa said again. "Nobody. Not even our Bakura, the friendly Bakura, the mailman, nobody will know." ///Téa: Don't break./// "Not one person will know." ///Téa: Don't break./// "Because it'd just hurt worse. It's a lot easier to accept it this way." She looked toward Bastet and wiped a tear from her eye. "Okay, so we are doing this thing. You aren't going to hurt Yugi ever again. Not you or Sekhmet."

"I forgot about the fire that burned in her," Sekhmet mentioned too. "I will not snack anymore on your Yugi."

"Nobody hurts him. Nobody is going to know. Whenever they ask for a new deal, just tell them some simple stuff. Like? I don't know, just simple stuff to actually help. Send stuff to the other side that will help."

"We are already doing that," Bastet said.

"Well, let them be involved. They'll feel better." ///Téa: Stronger./// "Masika? We are going to disappear in a couple of months. They'll never know. Then, we won't see them ever again. We'll move to a different country or something." She looked toward Bastet. "Can you help us if we move to a different country until it's time?"

"Oh, I should have left it on the other side," Bastet said. "After getting everything, we just . . . I just wanted to make something right. Extra power, more energy, more time they didn't have . . . and humanity wonders why we never connect with it. It will be worse if you just leave your friends and disappear without a word. Their concern will be nothing but regrets."

"No, it's worse if they did know what you jerks did!" She yelled at them, not caring about whatever woes Bastet was wailing about. "And if it was just one thing, I could have awkwardly dealt with it, but it's against the millennium items. No one is going to make those for you, so tough!"

"If they don't, the other you could die in the other dimension later," Bastet warned her. "So it's been written by Thoth."

"I'm sorry, for her," Téa said. "I'm sorry for us."

"It's not in a normal way the Pharaoh's will ever want to let you go," Bastet tried again. "It's not a way that we prefer you to go either."

Sekhmet shrugged. "She knows what she wants. As you wish. I'll leave them alone. We can easily take care of you. I will send my cats to protect you from the villain that is after you in New York."

"I think I'll need more than little cats," Téa said.

"Little cats and big cats like I am," Sekhmet added. "They will hide around you, never interacting unless someone does something you don't like or if you call for them to show themselves. Then anyone hurting you will have mere moments left to breathe."

"Oh, that and so many gods and goddesses are already watching over you," Bastet said. "This isn't very graceful, but it is your life, human."

"They won't stop pursuing. Pharaoh's rarely stop when they should," Sekhmet warned her.

"You said that we have the power inside of us," Téa said. "I'm glowing like a neon sign so obviously I'll just tell them that, if they kill us, they can have the power to actually help save the world. They never would. They'll let me go and they will struggle to find a different way until the last minute. That's what they do, they keep going."

"Oh great." Masika wasn't happy about that.

"It'll be fine," Téa said to her.

"Says the one leaving to New York. Are you really leaving me for New York?"

"You can go live with Bakura for now for two months. We'll just be separated for two months." Two months was plenty. Just a little time to unwind to the truth. Just a little time to dance again. Just a little time to get away from Yugi again. To pretend reality wasn't there. "It's a nibble of the truth. We are cursed to die either way."

"Understood." Masika bowed. "Téa, you're a silly fool."

"And if you dare tell anyone, then I won't meet back up with you. You can figure it all out on your own," Téa warned her. "I mean it!"

"I understand," she said again. "You're still a fool."

Several small gods started to show up briefly, wave and disappear. Not even Masika bothered to address them.

"It will be fine," Sekhmet added as she scooped them up herself along with Bastet. "Let's go. History is being made, and we are here to meet it."