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The Break-Up Meme

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01. Cheated – you’ve been a bad boy / girl. Why stick to one when you can have two… or several? You want an open relationship, none of this commitment shit. Let it be known!
02. Just be Friends – the oldest excuse, maybe but.... You really believe you're better off as friends (maybe with benefits? You sly dog!) You’re like my little brother / sister!
03. I said No! – maybe you’re the victim here. Did they not respect your personal space? Humiliated you? Maybe you’re just not ready for the next big step but they keep pushing you to breaking point. Well, enough!
04. There’s Someone Else… – you had a good run, but.. I’m just not feeling that spark. Maybe you’ve felt it elsewhere, or you just want to have them think this so you’re lying through your teeth!
05. Well, I need More – they just don’t understand your needs. No, sex once a week isn’t reasonable, dude! You hog the bed! You never clean the sink! Your dirty socks and etc. is lying about! Whatever it is – they’re not cutting it here.
06. Out of Our Control – you’ve been transferred to another city for your job, your family’s moving out etc. Whatever the reason, you just think a relationship is too much hassle right now.
07. Wild Card – make up your own!

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[Atem had never considered himself blind. A fool, though, was something else entirely. A relationship between the three of them had to have been one of the most ridiculous ideas he'd ever thought could work out. And he'd been saving the world with card game antics for some time. It had felt like it was okay. The three worked well enough.

But there was always a fourth factor in the mix. And that was the Corporation. And it ruined everything. Cissnei wasn't as hard to take home, to go out with- and his compatibility with both was obvious. But their compatibility with each other was something else.

She and Kaiba worked in close quarters. They stayed up at all hours. They could rattle off lines of code at each other, and if he ever walked in on another session of hot binary he'd probably have hanged himself. It was too much. And in the end, he was realizing Kaiba was competing in a game that .... he just couldn't win, whether he was doing it on purpose or not.

Eventually it became that, when Atem didn't try, he never saw them. They were in the office together at all hours. And it was too much.
Far too much.

So when he'd finally caught her and asked her to sit down with him for fifteen minutes- the corporation could do without for fifteen god damn minutes, he'd already made up his mind.]

I've thought a lot about it. [There was something wrong when he couldn't look her in the eye, the way he couldn't then. Listlessly staring out the window.] I'm going to go back to Egypt for a while. [His roots. They couldn't argue with that. ... she wouldn't, right?]

[His whole life is a break up.]

[Fifteen minutes was a ton of time- but time, in the end, that was better spent with him, because by the gods, did she need a break. A break that was going to take longer than fifteen minutes, if by sitting down in a little coffee shop said anything about it. It is a quiet morning , made so by the early morning and the few cars that rushed past the window, the Kaiba Corporation building looming as the highest thing on the skyline.

If there had ever been more mood setting scene, Cissnei had never seen one. Not that she would be the best person to spot such things, considering her teenage years had been less about boys and breakups and more about missions and following orders.]

Going back? Really? [It is nice, and Cissnei is already relaxing into it. At least, until Atem's words set in. Curious, she sets down her coffee, watching the man and sliding her eyes to his reflection in the window, trying to see where he was looking at. Was he... Avoiding her? That was really unlike him.] For how long?

['Kaiba isn't going to like this.' She thinks reflexively, gauging the other man's reaction the situation, even without him being here.]

[He should have had a better game plan- especially with her, more so if it had been with Kaiba. Running away from him wasn't a good idea, either, and he'd deal with him after. Cissnei took precedent because she wasn't going to scream at him and call him a coward.

His eyes lowered to the road and he tried not to frown.] I don't know just yet. A few years, maybe. [Setting the bar just high enough. It wasn't a vacation. He needed her to understand that before anything else.]

[It must be Wednesday.]

[A few years? What was in Egypt that would require his attention for a few years? Well, it was where he was from, after all, and she could understand his want to learn more about the place, but had that not already been done?

A few years, a fact he states and can't look at her after. What is she missing here?]

Oh. [Cissnei's nuances are subtle- the frown she hides behind her coffee when she picks it up again, the questioning way she says the word. Several thoughts hit her at once, questions she could ask and accusations gleaned from only the few words spoken. Instead of jumping into any of those, she plays along for just a bit more, trying to draw a little bit more out of him.] Do you really think it will take that long?

[Cissnei is a smart woman, she always has been- But the person before the two of them had not even really been a relationship, just a simple, never realized crush. Everything of their relationship was foreign territory, the reason it had took her so long to trust them in getting there.]

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[He wasn't sure about any of it. It was why he couldn't give her a strong answer. And why he delayed. It could say that he did think it would- because he thought leaving them alone would be the answer. But pussyfooting around wasn't the right way to deal with this.

And it was obvious it wasn't working. His eyes dropped to his own beverage. Tea. He could never really stomach the coffee the pair drank as if it were life blood.]

I need time. [To himself. Because he was sure after all this he wasn't going to want to be around anyone. Retracing his steps seemed like a good place to start.] And you and Seto... [A look of absolute crushed defeat on his face before he banished it.] You'll continue on without me. [Because they would. They did when he wasn't around. If he didn't make the effort.]

[Cissnei isn't sure why adrenaline is rushing though her, why hearing Atem talk like this makes her nervous enough to flex her fingers, set them down on her knee in an effort to keep from reaching over for a hidden weapon she no longer carries. Because she was safe here, because the two of them had worked on letting teaching her that she could let go of everything that had happened before.

But a that moment, she feels more dread than she ever has facing down any kind of enemy.]

What... Makes you think we would want to? [Peering up at him now, Cissnei can't even mask the little bit of hurt that crosses her face, even though it goes against all of her instincts to show it. Why isn't Kaiba here, he would know how to put an end to this- talk some sense into the other, or at least yell at him until it happened.]

[He had resisted all urges to look up at her. It would probably break his resolve. She was beautiful and she'd always been kind to him, even in her own little way. And they'd worked. And no one had questioned it. Not until then. And he didn't want to hurt her.

But that was inevitable.

She deserved that much, at least, so he did, trying to hollow out his expression the best he could and serve a weak smile forward.]

I wouldn't get in the way of work any longer. [A terrible, honest joke. And just barely scratching the surface of the reality he felt.] He can get a bed installed, just like his bathroom. You two would never have to leave against your wills again. [And then at least they'd have something softer to fuck on.

Ooo.. what a nasty little jealous thought.]

[If there ever was a time for the panic button to be used on her KC pin, this was one of them. But she is pretty sure Atem knows that, just like anything else from the man, it probably could be used to track them down, and she doesn't want to scare him away, gang up on Atem.

Stay calm, Cissnei. She could use her training in a different way- similar techniques to try and find out what the problem was.]

Maybe we could talk about it first, if you haven't already made up your mind. [She can't look at him- Even seeing that look on his face makes Cissnei feel guilty and almost - panicked at the same time, running though everything that she might of messed up with him, that would of brought this up.

Work barely crosses her mind. It would of never, if his words had not been said.]

[He swallowed, hands going around his drink. He had no intention to drink it. But squeezing his hands in his lap felt incredibly weak. Not that doing the same to his cup was really any better.

Atem really wanted her to talk him out of it, too. Because the best times he's had since finding this path were with them. With her.]

You two have much more to do without me around. I get in the way, he says so all the time. [All. The. Time. The frown resumed its rightful place.] You won't have to plan around me anymore. He could practically lock his office until business meetings. It's better this way. [For them.]

[He does say that, and Cissnei knows how often it is, how often she comes home later than she tells him she will, only to be back up and out again a few hours later.]

Or I... Might of been selfish as well. And so is he. [Trying to help Kaiba reach his goals, to get them on time because when they are done, he will stop working even for just a little bit, occasionally go home and see his brother, see Atem. And selfish for herself as well- pleasing the other man, seeing projects she knows she worked on take off. It is different type of work then patrolling the streets, then gathering information by any means-

It is fulfilling, and it doesn't hurt people. It makes her worth something.]

If we can talk about it, we can work on it. I didn't mean to make you feel excluded.

[And there she was. Trying to make it work. Trying to talk him out of it. How could he have been so stupid as to think things would just be talk and then go? Or cruel, for that matter.

Maybe his feelings of hurt were ruining his true sense of judgement.]

You two have the corporation. I have... tournaments. And Duel Monsters. We haven't met up lately. If I don't sit around and get in the way it... [His eyes sharply moved down. The frown got deeper.] Three is not an intimate number.

We've made it work before, Atem. You two made it work before me, as well.

[Drifting apart was a thing that happened, right? That was why communication was needed, a thing that happens with working so that everyone stays on track, makes sure everyone is on the same page? She is pretty sure the same thing can be applied here.]

And you two make it work. Much more than the three of us. [They're together more. They talk about the same things more. Atem was a ... mediator, more than anything else, it felt like.]

This is better for you two, if I step away.

You aren't going to even fight for it?

[The words come out sharply- Frosty, hurt, and Cissnei can't help it, even if she doesn't mean it in that way.]

[That sounds almost like a step down from what Kaiba would say. But there would have been snarling and accusations already. Still, programmed as he is it's too hard for him not to bite back.]

I've tried. I stay there. I drag you two home when you get tired enough to acquiesce. But that's not my place. I don't want to live up in that tower like you two do. [He only adjusts his tone, and his eyes back to his tea after a breath.] It's your work. You and him. That's the way it's been.

[She sighs, this time the one who can't look at him, knowing that she snapped.] I know you have, you've waited a lot for the both of us, and we haven't given back.

[And it has been the two of them, Cissnei and Kaiba. But Atem doesn't understand how hard it was for her to get that spot- She wasn't a rival to the other man by any means, not someone who could face him in Duel Monsters on the same level, or even in business. Cissnei was loyal, was strong in face of everything, someone who rose to the challenge and worked for what she wanted until it was Kaiba chasing her- First with a work contract, then for what they have now.

Finally, she reaches out for his hand with her own, afraid that if she doesn't, he will walk off. What is she suppose to do then?]

Tell me what you want to change, Atem. Let me work this out for all of us.

[He hadn't expected this to be easy. But he'd steeled himself- fooled himself into thinking that she would have let him go. That things would end. He'd go face Kaiba. Get called a coward, go to Egypt and-..... then who knew. Be a coward, probably.

His hand tensed when she touched it, simply because this wasn't in his plans. The way his life went, that seemed to be normal. Nothing ever went the way he planned. But it was always for a good reason.]

You can't change. He won't. And I get it. I know that the Corporation is important to him. And to you. And it's not right for me to just ask you two to change when, to the both of you, nothing is wrong. It's me that's wrong. So just... [Taking the blame because he didn't want her to. Work was important to them. How was that wrong? It was him that couldn't fit into their lives. He wanted to be angry, and maybe before walking into this, he wanted to yell at the both of them. But in the end he just couldn't. Not to her.]

It's not more important than you.

[At least, to her. And that is the only captivity she can speak in. They both know why he works so hard for Kaiba Corp. , who he does it for. And even they couldn't come between that- It was Kaiba's life work.

Cissnei had left hers to come here, to be with them. And now Atem wanted to leave, to tear it in half. Cissnei finally does look at him, waits until he looks back before she speaks, hazel eyes meeting red, showing in quiet words what she does mean, what everything means to her.]

I changed to get here in the first place, Atem. To come to a better place, to have a stable life. I found you along the way, and I don't want to lose that.

[She can't say the three words he might want to hear- Cissnei doesn't think she will ever be able to. But she can show it, and tries to do so now, struggling with compromise, with saying how she feels.] You are that important to me.

[For a few seconds he looks utterly devastated. And then relieved. And then confused. He'd come there with a plan. To tell her to take Kaiba, make sure he's taken care of, and to keep in touch. That he did love her, but this wasn't working. That she and Kaiba were infinitely more compatible than the two or the three of them.

But she wasn't letting that go. Wasn't letting him go. And it put him in a tight spot. Because of course he didn't want things to go sour. He didn't want to hole up in Egypt and feel sorry for himself. What kind of life was that after staying regardless?]

Cissnei... [A small breath out, almost like he can't believe her. Before his hand covers over top the both of theirs. He's not sure what to say. He would have been a coward for leaving. But doesn't quaking in the wake of something he'd been so resolved to do make him just as much of one?]

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