Yugi twisted in his chair to smile into his webcam at the top of his laptop screen. Yami was in Egypt for a week so he and his boyfriend were missing each other like mad.

Yami smiled back at him and blew him a kiss, which Yugi returned and waved goodbye before shutting off the conversation. He sank back in his computer chair and sighed, catching Tea's attention. "Miss him?"

"Like you wouldn't believe," he smirked, "I can't sleep properly when I know he isn't there next to me, holding me to his chest..."

Tea grinned. She had temporarily pursued Yami, but the second she realized that Yugi was smitten with him, she halted her advances. Yugi was one of her best buds. "I had a message from him yesterday, not long after I finished work. The exact words were, 'I miss my Yugi'," She chuckled, "And I replied, 'why are you texting me when you could be talking to Yugi?'."

"Sounds like Yami." Yugi closed the lid to his laptop and watched it go onto sleep. Then grabbed a piece of paper. When he got bored, or missed Yami, he drew. Spinning back to face Tea, he knew what he could do to distract himself. "Tea, stay there, I wanna try to draw you."

She glanced back up from the page about 'Resident Evil 5' and nodded, then went back to it.

Yugi took up the pencil that he always used, which was slowly shrinking over time, and touched the tip to the page in front of him.

Tea just stayed still, completely at ease. Yugi was a great artist, and she knew exactly how he would draw her. He would perfectly capture her pose, then change her outfit to be egyptian instead, and would change the magazine for some sort of scroll. He was amazing at this kind of thing; all he needed was the outline, then he would flawlessly sketch an incredible piece.

Thinking about this brought her to the canvas he had painted for her birthday. It had been a painting of a photo of when they were younger, him making the peace symbol and her glomping him with a grin. It was, along with her photo album, the first thing she would grab in a fire, one of the things she never wanted to lose. He'd spent ages perfecting it, and she treasured it.

Yugi drew a knee up and got more comfortable as he sketched his friend. He noted what she was wearing; a pair of pale blue jeans, a white vest with lace around the straps and upper edges. He flicked the pencil on the paper and the jeans became a long skirt, and the vest became a belly top, flaunting her back.

While he drew, he remembered all the times that they had spent together. There had been all the tournaments, the virtual world, Egypt. The time after Yami had left for the Afterlife, when he had just realized his feelings. The time that she found out those feelings when Ishizu managed to bring Yami back using spell scrolls recovered from his tomb. Then her finding out how he felt about the former Pharaoh and, despite her own feelings, encouraged him to embrace them and tell Yami.

He finished the drawing with a slight smile. Tea had sacrificed her chance to ask Yami out to let him be happy. And for that, he would always be grateful. "All done."

Tea got up and hopped off the bed and walked up to him and took a look at the drawing. A smile spread over her lips. Her drawn self was in the position she'd been in, but had a spell book in front of her with a wand, and she was dressed like a mix of a mage and dancer, and wore elaborate jewelry. But what caught her eye was the crown on her head. It was one of a queen.

Yugi had been told something by Ishizu when he and Yami got together. Had Yami not been sealed in the puzzle, Atem would have married Tea in her past life to bear a child for the throne.

Tea, who had been known as Anzu, knew of Yugi, or Heba's, feelings back then too. And despite loving Atem would have stepped aside for his and the Pharaoh's happiness if they had been given the chance to be together, having realized where Atem's feelings really lay.

She was the same as her past self; strong, selfless and kindhearted.

"Tea..."

She looked at him as he said her name. "Yeah?"

"...if me and Yami are still together in ten years or whatever, and we both want one...would you have a kid for us?" he questioned, looking up into her eyes.

Her own gaze softened. "Of course I will. But on one condition."

"Yeah?" he asked, raising an eyebrow.

"It has to be by artificial insemination. I don't wanna have to sleep with your boyfriend. THAT is your job," she giggled. A second later she found herself with a face-full of pillow and under an onslaught of a tickle/pillow fight.

After a full blown cushion war, plushies being used as 'grenades', the friends dropped onto the floor giggling like crazy. "Thank you Tea."

"Huh?" she was confused.

"You gave up your chance with Yami, and would have done the same back in Egypt, for me-"

"Yugi, I never had a chance with him. I would have been his queen, but you would be his lover. He was always yours," she interrupted, "When I found out you felt the same as he did it was already too late, he was sealed away but Yugi, if I had married him..." she linked their hands and gave it a friendly squeeze, "I loved him enough to want both of you to be happy."

The pair gave each other a hug and Yugi spoke, "Tea, what about your happiness?"

"Yugi, Yami isn't my soulmate, he's yours. I know I'll, one day, find mine," she replied, "I have this feeling he isn't far away."

"Or she. Love knows no gender," Yugi teased.

"Watch it, or Yami will come back to a concussed Aibou," she threatened. As she got up and looked in the mirror, tidying her messed-up hair, she caught sight of the picture of Yami and Yugi on his bedside table in the mirror. And when she saw how happy they were, she smiled brightly in her head. When it came down to it, giving up any small chance she'd had with Yami wasn't really that big a sacrifice.