Title and Link: A Song I Think I Heard Before Author: Scribbler Fandom: YGO Rating: T Summary:Mai's story, from beginning to end, pre-canon to post-canon, plus all the bits canon itself didn't let us see. Duellist Kingdom wasn't the first time she and Jounouchi met - not that either of them knew it at the time. Chapter: 3 - Patient Pairing: Jounouchi/Mai.
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'Out of control'. That was the phrase her aunts and uncles used again when they had her committed to Sunshine House. Mai would spend a long time thinking how inappropriate the description, now she was totally in her relatives' control, and the stupidity of the name 'Sunshine House'. With bars on the windows and locks on the doors, the only sunshine allowed in was weak and latticed with shadows.
The sign at the end of the driveway proclaimed it a 'recovery unit for troubled young adults', which was a politically correct way of saying 'containment pen for crazy teenagers'. All the kids there knew it was really a dumping ground. If your parents couldn't cope with you, or you were a special type of embarrassment, and they had enough money to stash you away, you ended up at Sunshine House.
Title and Link: A Song I Think I Heard Before Author: Scribbler Fandom: YGO Rating: T Summary:Mai's story, from beginning to end, pre-canon to post-canon, plus all the bits canon itself didn't let us see. Duellist Kingdom wasn't the first time she and Jounouchi met - not that either of them knew it at the time. Pairing: Jounouchi/Mai.
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The walls were high and topped with barbed wire. The mansion felt like a prison sometimes. Idly, Mai poked about in the bushes at the far end of the Sunken Rose Garden, which her father had commissioned but never once walked in. The bushes were thick with thorns and offered no way out. There were gates stationed at intervals in the wall, the largest of which was ornate black metal shaped into curls and twists like a choppy sea. Mai's fingers fitted through easily, but all she could see beyond was the long driveway, neatly trimmed on either side and studded with lights like an airstrip to guide cars when they arrived home after dark. Mai turned her face away and caught sight of a figure in an upstairs window of the mansion, but it a trice it was gone, and she thought no more of it.
Title and Link: Getaway Author: Scribbler Fandom: YGO Rating: T Summary:Mai has a gift for Jounouchi. It's just not anything he expects, or could possibly predict. Pairing: Jounouchi/Mai.
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"Here."
Jounouchi startled at the cardboard box that landed in front of him. He actually scooted backwards in his chair, hands raised in a mock jujitsu pose that would have made an actual martial artist laugh. "What the f-?"
"This is for you."
He looked up but didn't drop his hands. "Bwuh?"
"Articulate as ever. Okay, five words is what you can cope with, right? This. Is. For. You." Mai counted off on her fingers, blinked, and then added, "Doofus."