Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ In the Arms of a Priest ❯ The Good Stuff ( Chapter 20 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

In The Arms of a Priest 20:
The Good Stuff
Author's Notes: Here it is gang the story of Seto and Pernia. This will tell a story about how they were ripped from each other five thousand years ago and found each other again. Although they never would have found each other again had it not been for Mokuba. Then again Mokuba feels the need to make for something that he did five thousand years ago.
The song "The Good Stuff" by Kenny Chesney.
_____________________________________________________________< br>Cause its the first long kiss on a second date

your momma's all worried when you get home late

Droppin the ring in the spaghetti plate

cause your hands are shakin so much

It's the way that she looks with the rice in her hair

Eatin' burnt suppers the whole first year

and askin for seconds to keep her from tearin' up

Yeah man, that's the good stuff
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Seto looked around the small, dark bar; the only other people there was an old man with white hair and an old pair of slacks and shirt, two old truckers in jeans and plaid vests, and a biker around the age of thirty-five. Seto walked up to the bar and sat down at it untucking his white shirt. He was glad to be one of the only ones here since he wasn't sure he wanted to deal with any annoyances. He was aware of the truckers and biker looking up at him from their poker game. The minute Seto turned his ice cold blue eyes on them; however, they turned back to their game and drinks.

"What can I get you young man?" asked the bar keeper as he wiped down the bar.

"Beer," said Seto flatly.

The man nodded and placed an ice cold beer before Seto and then went toward the other three men to give them fresh drinks. Seto didn't say anything to anyone; however, his eyes looked around the room taking in the shabbiness of the room. His eyes locked on a black and white photograph of a woman in her twenties dressed in a wedding gown, for the life of him Seto couldn't stop looking at it.

"My wife," said the barkeeper after a moment of silence.

"Pardon?" asked Seto shocked out of his thoughts.

"That is, was my wife," said the barkeeper turning to look at the photo gently. "She died of cancer a year ago."

"I am sorry," said Seto not knowing what else to say and becoming aware of the fact that the other men were coming over to join them.

"Don't be," said the man. "I just wish it had happened sooner so Meg wouldn't have been in so much pain."

"Cancer is a bitch," agreed the biker taking a sip of his beer as he took a seat next to Seto. "Wouldn't know the pain of losing my own wife to it of course, but my mother was taken by cancer when I was ten. My father never did get over his grief now that I think about it. Name's Gab." Said the man sticking his hand out toward Seto to shake.

Seto looked at the hand a moment before shaking it and rolling his eyes.

"Ah," said one of the truckers. "Didn't anyone ever tell you to respect your elders boy?"

"No," growled Seto annoyed.

"Me name's Greg," said the trucker. "Greg Yolh, this here be my younger brother Henry Yolh."

Seto nodded and started to wonder why everyone wanted to talk to him all of the sudden.

"Call me Mich," said the bartender still wiping down the counter. "And since you're here I assume you have women problems."

Seto snorted and looked away wondering how they could possibly know that.

"Simple boy," said Gab clapping him on the back. "Any man that walked through those doors as had problems with women at some point in their lives; whether the woman was a girlfriend, lover, fiancée, mistress, or wife. Either way this bar as heard a lot of sad tales in its day."

"I doubt it," muttered Seto under his breathe.

"Ya doubt me eh?" asked Gab smirking. "It ain't nice to doubt yer elders either."

"Perhaps we should explain what we mean," said Greg.
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He grabbed a carton of milk

and he poured a glass

then I smiled and said,

"I'll have some of that."

We sat there and talked as an hour passed

like old friends

Saw a black and white picture and it caught my stare

It was a pretty girl with bouffant hair

He said, "That's my Bonnie, taken 'bout a year after we wed."

He said, "Spent 5 years in the bottle, when the cancer took her from me,

But Ive been sober 3 years now

'Cause the one thing stronger than the whiskey
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"Right," said Gab. "I'll go first. See, my wife and me got married right out of college."

"I don't want to hear this," said Seto getting to his feet.

"I bet you don't," said Gab pushing him back down. "But you are going to hear it anyways so seat down and shut up. Anyways where was I?"

Seto groaned and banged his head on the counter muttering several curse words under his breathe.

"Ah yes," said Gab going on ignoring him. "Since we got married right out of college we had no idea what we were getting into. Now after awhile things started winding down and it started to become easier to survive as we started making more money and paying our bills as soon as we got them. However, as I started to become more and more laid back and not worrying so much about bills I started to become risky. I started goin out everynight with the boys from work drinkin and leavin me wife home alone with three youngins and another on the way. Well I would come home drunk three or four times a week and finally me wife got tired of it all and one night the dam broke loose.

"And what a dam it was too my wife let me have it, o'course with the little ones asleep she let me have it quietly but it was still there. Finally I got tired of her hollarin and just slapped her. Unfortunately for me we were standing at the top of the stairs at the time and she feel down the stairs and we lost the baby. We never got over it and after that I hardly ever drink like I used to, my wife eventually forgave me but I never forgave myself."

"No offense," said Seto. "But what does this have to do with me?"

"You see because I was foolish in thinking my life was safe I lost site of what really mattered and nearly lost the one I cared for more then life itself."

"What happened?" asked Seto taking a sip of beer. "We got counseling and we have still remained married; o'course we still argue sometimes but nothing like what happened that night. Been married to her for a little over ten years now and I am grateful I wasn't foolhardy enough to forget that I had a great life with me wife and kids."

"My tale," said Greg drinkin a sip of beer. "Is nothing like Gab's was but it's a tale you are goin to hear none the less."

"Here we go," muttered Seto.

"Shut up," said Mich. "And listen you might learn something."

"My wife was killed by my father," continued Greg. "You see for some reason ever since my ma died my dad for some reason or another went insane could have been grief, could have not been; it really doesn't matter much now. Well one day when I was out makin some deliveries he came to my house, they got into a fight and he killed her because she wouldn't give him what she wanted. His angry got the best of him and I have had to leave with that for the rest of my life, knowin that I hadn't done anything to save her."

"Who's next?" asked Gab.

"Am I going to have to seat here and listen to all of your stories?" snorted Seto.

"Yes," said the other four males.

"I guess it's my turn," said Henry.

"Can hardly wait," said Seto drinking the rest of the beer.

Henry just sighed and waved for another round of beers while he started talking, "My wife was killed was by drunk driver I still haven't gotten over it. There I have had my say."

"You aren't one for words are you?" muttered Seto.

"Nah," said Henry shaking his head. "All right Mich your turn."

"I already had my say when he first came in," said Mich. "After my wife died I opened this bar and I have been helping people with their love problems ever since."

"Why did you tell me all this?" asked Seto.
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Chorus 2

Was the sight of her holdin' my baby girl

The way she adored that string of pearls

I gave her the day that our youngest boy Earl,

married his high school love

and it's a new t-shirt saying "I'm a grandpa"

and being right there as our time got small,

And holdin her hand when the good Lord called her up

Yeah man, That's the good stuff
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"Young man," said Mich. "You should learn from us and our mistakes."

"I doubt your mistakes can help me," said Seto getting up.

"Kaiba," said Gab.

Seto froze and slowly turned around to look at the four men.

"Yes," said Gab. "I know who you are, we all do. How could we not know who you were? I am telling you Kaiba no matter how small whatever it was is, I doubt it is worth losing the woman."

"You know nothing about what is going on between me and," began Seto.

"Pernia," supplied Mich.

"Or Nikushimi?" asked Henry.

"How the hell do you know so much about my personal life?" asked Seto flatly.

"I make it my business to know such things," said Mich. "Or should I say we do. But who we are, is not what is important at the moment."

"What do you mean?"

"What is important now is what are you going to do about Nikushimi and Pernia. You can not have both when you only had one in Egypt."

"What?!" asked Seto whirling around but the only thing that he saw was a run down bar and a piece of parchment being held down by a bottle of beer.

Seto went back to pick up the parchment and noticed that it was written in the language of the priests.

`One love, One truth, One way
One heart, One oath, One soul
One path, always and forever love.'

"Pernia," whispered Seto walking out of the bar to head back home.
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BRIDGE

He said, ''When you get home she'll start to cry,

When she says, ''Im sorry,'' say ''So am I''

Then look into those eyes so deep in love

and drink it up

'Cause thats the good stuff

That's the good stuff
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Author's Notes: well got one chapter down and this story is no where near done. On to the next story and hopefully I will get that one up later tonight peace out.