[It was unfair to unload his own emotional baggage on what must be a different Seto Kaiba, but Atem couldn't help it. He had thought that they had made a connection, that they must be the set that belonged together.]

Remember.. [There was a fleeting flash of a smile] .. you couldn't stand the irony. That you now had to wield the very thing you had denied for all those years. [It's an endearing thought, really]

[Feeling the touch of other's hand anything else he was going to say immediately vanished, so fixated on the warm sensations that followed]

I'm... a bit confused. [Was he being brushed off or.... not? He looked up imploringly for answers.]