Peggi: I originally wrote this in 2006 after getting a new job at Subway. I was lucky enough to get to work with friends of mine, including a girl who came in later on who is one of my very best friends, and I was sitting around wondering what would happen if our very favorite CEO were to end up losing the company and having to get a job like a normal person! This fic was born! I based it off of mostly real events that can take place while working at a job like this, mostly for someone like me, who happens to be hard-working if not a bit (okay a LOT) clumsy and uncoordinated. Workplace injuries, frequent slipping around, and too many burns and scrapes to count. I did dramatize some of it a bit for the fun of the story. Now, I decided to start revising the story because the chapters I have I've read through and I noticed errors that irked me and some things randomly thrown in without much explanation as to why. I'll clear some of those up now.

The Yugioh cast is in America for no adequately explored reason: this was more for fun, friendshippy feels, and written for friends who enjoyed the story as well as my loyal fans (well, they were back then but likely have moved on to bigger, better authors by now) so scream at the mary-sue ness of any of the characters you'd like, but I still like them (and they're based on real people.

My self-inserted character's temper...I'll be the first to raise my hands in surrender, yes, I have a hot-headed temper and I go from nice to bitchy in under 3 seconds. I'm bipolar, I've grown up a lot, but this was my general attitude.

Why Seto didn't just get a better job...well...blame the economy, aliens, the Rapture, whatever you'd like. I actually planned to get into that much later on, but for now, just let your imagination run freely!

So, sit back, enjoy the ride, keep in mind this is more for you to laugh at Seto while I torture him a bit with a job and new life he hates and you can fangirl over him acting like a normal human being.

Seto: I don't like the plot. Do I really have to participate in this?

Mokuba: I'M IN THE STORY TOO!

Peggi: That's right, Mokie, you're in here too. And yes, sorry Seto, you're in here for the long-haul!

Disclaimer: Peggi doesn't own Yu-gi-oh! which is why she's writing this poor excuse for a fanfic. She doesn't own Subway and she doesn't even work there anymore. She doesn't even own most of her OC's or Saint Seiya or any other shows/movies that may be referenced. She makes no money off of this, not that anyone would pay her if she legally could.

Peggi: Seto, I promise not to be too evil to you if you kill the disclaimer for me!

Seto: DONE! (uses his money to kill the disclaimer. . .somehow. . .)

Peggi: YAY!

Eevee: Now, read, review, enjoy, Peg will post -revised next to chapters that are ready to be read!

CHAPTER ONE - Revised

Peggi grumbled as she slammed her fist down on her alarm clock. The stupid thing simply wouldn't stop beeping. She threw it across the room and it smashed into about a million pieces, finally silencing it. She unhappily pulled herself out of bed, grabbing a brand new alarm clock out from under her bed, placing it on her nightstand and setting the time. After that ordeal was over with, she went into the bathroom to brush the tangles out of her long black hair and go about her normal daily routine. After all of that was over with, she walked back to her bed and pounced on a lump that was on the right side of it.

The lump moved slightly, groaning as it did so.

"Eevee, we'll be late for work if you don't hurry!"

"But Peg, it's so early!"

"If two certain someones hadn't taken the liberty of breaking a certain bed, you would still be at Shiryu's place, and we wouldn't have to share a bathroom with your brother," Peggi teased, causing her redheaded cousin to blush as she appeared from under the covers.

"I'm not the one who said Nick could live here, you know. When Shiryu and I needed somewhere to sleep, you should've kicked him out and just given us the other room!" Eevee pulled the covers back over her head.

Peggi pulled them back down below her neck, "if you weren't so tired you wouldn't be telling me to kick him out. Now get up or else I'll start making you sleep upstairs with both of the boys."

Eevee's eyes widened, knowing her cousin was just evil enough to do so, and literally jumped out of bed.

On the other side of town, a brown-haired teenage boy was also getting ready for work. He tried to gel his hair down with the cheap store-brand gel he had bought, but it wasn't cooperating. His tiny apartment was the best he could afford right now, and although they were the cheapest apartments money could buy, he was still struggling to pay for living costs. He sighed and pulled an itchy wool-blend short sleeve shirt over his head and couldn't wait to take it off and replace it with his green uniform shirt once he arrived at work. It was his first day at Subway, and he wasn't really looking forward to the labor, but he had to keep himself and his little brother Mokuba alive and healthy.

At the Subway store, Deedra sighed, hoping that their new arrival would be as dependable as the last four people she had hired. After firing Jennisha and several other people, she wasn't sure if she would ever find dependable workers. She heard the front door open and looked around the corner of the prep room to see two of her employees, Peggi and Eevee, early as usual. The cousins had always been hard workers and had always tried to set a good example for the other workers to follow. Only one of them, Peggi's ex-boyfriend Tex, had followed this example. Tex and Peggi had split up when Tex realized that he was gay, causing a bit of tension between the two, but that had been resolved, and now the work environment was a fairly happy place.

"Peggi, there will be a new employee coming in for training today. Would you mind training him?" Deedra asked her.

"Nope, not a problem," the raven-haired girl usually ended up training new employees because she had been there the longest and knew the routine.

Eevee was mostly in charge of paperwork, phone calls, and important financial things such as keeping stock of merchandise, so she didn't tend to work up front unless they were really busy. Shortly after agreeing to train, Peggi heard the door open again. She looked around the corner to see a tall brunette with blue eyes standing in the doorway. He looked completely dumbfounded as to what he was supposed to do, and so she called out to him.

"Are you the trainee?"

He simply nodded and she waved him towards the back of the store, where she met him at the employees' only door.

"I'm Persephone-Sayuri-Hikari James Crawford, but everyone just calls me Peggi because it's way easier. I'll be in charge of training you today, so if you have any questions, just ask. The manager's name is Deedra, and my cousin, the red-head working in the back, will also be here today," she was far too cheerful for his liking.

"Am I supposed to tell you my name now?" the boy asked.

"That would be helpful, otherwise I'll call you 'hey you' and that would be kinda disrespectful," she gave a little laugh but he wasn't entertained.

"I'm Seto Kaiba. I'm from Japan, the company KaibaCorp may sound familiar. I'm sure you've heard of me."

"No, not really. You need a uniform, so follow me," Peggi demanded without skipping a beat.

Peggi led Seto to a white filing cabinet in the middle of a large room and opened it up, pulling out a green shirt and a visor that read "Subway" on the front.

"This should fit. Large, I'm assuming? I'd say medium, but you're tall. If it's too big let me know. The bathrooms are down the hallway from the lobby so you'll have to leave the employee room."

Seto said nothing but followed her directions and was glad to finally get the discount wool off of his skin. He looked into the mirror and cringed at the uniform: black pants and an almost forest green shirt and a visor that he knew would have his hair messed up by the end of his shift. He couldn't stand the thought of spending the rest of his life working in a complete dump like that, but at the moment, he had no choice. Mokuba had to eat somehow, and being the kind big brother he was, he figured he should find a way to give his brother aforementioned food.

After changing, he re-entered the area where he had been given his uniform. A red-head who he assumed to be the cousin was placing different types of food on a silver cart, entering a walk-in refrigerator, and then coming out with more types of food for the cart. Once it was full, she walked into an office, looking at Seto long enough to smile and nod, before closing the door.

"Ready?" Seto turned quickly to see Peggi standing by the refrigerator door.

"I suppose."

"First you'll need a number, so come over here to the register. Whenever you come in you'll use your number to punch in, and then punch out later on when you're leaving. Every day when you come in, after you punch in, you can help me prepare the meat and veggies that will be on the silver cart in the prep room. If you ever forget what to do, just ask, okay?"

Peggi was becoming very frustrated by the boy who was standing in front of her. He never smiled and didn't seem too interested in working at the job, but she let that slide out of her mind, as she was sure he must've simply been shy.

"Your number will be 9. I'll show you how to punch in. You'll probably forget so I'll show you for a few days how to do it."

Peggi pressed several buttons and Seto didn't think it looked that hard at all. As the girl walked back into the prep room, he followed her, watching her take some green peppers off of the silver cart.

"I'll start by showing you how to chop up the veggies. Green peppers are simple. I've set up the slicer and all you'll need to do is cut off the ends and put it in the slicer."

She showed him how to cut off the bottoms and the stem, and it seemed easy enough. While he worked on cutting up the green peppers, Peggi began by washing off and slicing the tomatoes. It wasn't long after they had begun their work, that Peggi heard Seto gasp and looked over to see him grabbing at his hand.

"What's wrong?" she asked, walking over, a pretty good idea already of what he'd done.

"I cut myself!" he explained, right before letting a few obscenities go.

"Let me see."

At first, he didn't want to show her, but he held his hand out, palm up, and she could see that he had a cut from the base of his pinky reaching almost to his thumb. The cut didn't look deep, but she knew it must've really stung, as she'd managed to do it quite a few times while lost in thought. She looked up at him, about to ask him to remove the glove he was wearing, when she noticed that he was blushing slightly.

"I've done it about a million times before, so don't sweat it. Just take off your gloves and follow me to the sink."

Without a word, Seto did as he was told, trying to avoid conversation, and thinking about how stupid he, the ex-CEO of KaibaCorp. must've looked, bleeding over a sink and being taken care of by a stranger. Peggi grabbed his hand and ran it under the sink, cleaning it, and then began to wrap it in gauze.

"After I bandage you up try not to get it wet."

"I can do this on my own, you know," he snarled at her.

"Oh, don't be a big baby. I'm just helping."

"Did I ask for your help?" he was really trying her patience.

"Fine, if you want to do this on your own, good luck!" she walked back to her station and angrily sliced the tomatoes.

Seto looked down at his hand and suddenly realized he had cut his right hand, and being right handed meant that it would be difficult to bandage up his own hand. He did the best he could and then went back to work, his sloppy gauze work being very obvious to Peggi.

"Okay, smart guy. We're going to be working together for a while, so why don't you drop your tough guy act and just let me help you?" she tried to be nice.

"I didn't come here to make friends and I don't need your help!" he snapped at her.

Inside of the office, Eevee was laughing to herself. She could hear her cousin arguing with the brunette, and she found the whole thing very funny. Finally, the arguments settled down and she continued to count out the money and wrote down what they would need to order when they were planning to restock. Suddenly, there was a loud crash, and she ran out of the office wondering what her cousin had crashed into this time. Peggi and Seto were both on the floor, black food containers surrounding them.

"What happened?" Eevee asked them both, holding back laughter.

"It was his fault!" Peggi blamed, at the exact same time that Seto said the same thing about her.

"Guys, I don't care who did it just get this fixed before the customers start to come in! This is a business and the flirting really needs to stop!" she stormed back into the office, leaving the two teens bewildered.

"Yeah Seto, stop flirting! Start working!" Peggi tried to hide the blush that was forming across her cheeks.

"Me? You were the one who was doing the flirting! Trying to hold my hand and everything!"

"I wasn't holding your hand! I was trying to stop your stupid bleeding!"

Eevee laughed again, proud of herself for embarrassing her cousin who really had it coming after having done the same to her so many times. She'd heard a bit about Seto prior to his arrival and based on that and her brief encounter with him, it seemed he needed some friends. She also tended to have a sixth sense about people and she knew that her cousin was definitely attracted to him, clearly for his appearance and not the attitude which she figured would cause some problems soon. It was obvious to her that Seto had gone through something that had devastated him, and he would need someone to comfort him. That meant her cousin would likely be compelled to try and help, but with that temper of hers, who knew how it would turn out.

The rest of Seto's first day was uneventful in comparison to the first two incidents. He was confused and didn't know what to do when he was asked to do something, but by the time the crowds had died down, he was exhausted. Peggi and Seto were both about to get off of work when the door opened and another teen walked in, dressed in the subway uniform. Peggi jumped over the counter and tackled him, nearly knocking him to the floor.

"Where are my two bucks, Tex?" she questioned.

"They're on vacation at the moment," he had a big dorky grin on his face.

Seto studied the two and instantly decided not to like this 'Tex' person either. The guy was average looking, definitely not as tall as Seto was, long shaggy black hair and a bit on the heavy side. Seto ignored him as he prepared to leave, when he heard Tex and Eevee talking in the back and mention Peggi. He didn't mean to eavesdrop, but they were right where he needed to be in order to walk out the door.

"I really love her, I didn't plan for any of this to happen, I really do hope she finds someone else. How about that new guy? He's pretty cute."

He heard Eevee laugh and he almost held his breath, hoping they wouldn't catch him around the corner and think he'd been listening in on purpose, "oh him? I could definitely see it happening, he's definitely her type but he doesn't seem to like it much here. Or people in general. I think if they can become friends he might have a shot, I noticed he has blue eyes. You know how much she loves a guy with blue eyes."

"Yeah," Tex laughed nervously "I just really hope we can be friends again one day. I kinda feel like maybe she thinks I used her. We were in such a bad place when we met and she did so much to help me get my life back together and everything in order, then as soon as it was I just came out to her. It was just bad timing."

"Tex, Peg doesn't hold that against you. She was hurt and I hated to see her so unhappy for that long, but she's okay. You guys are able to be civil now and that's the first step. She gets it, you can't control your feelings. If you fall in love with someone you fall in love, and you can't control that. Honestly, I have a feeling she's going to at least try for Seto, she likes to fix people's problems and he seems to have an awful lot of those."

Seto had heard enough of that, so he quickly made his way around the corner walking right between the two and out the door into the main part of the store. He saw Peggi standing outside the doorway leading directly outside, looking through a deck of cards. He noticed right away that they were Duel Monsters cards.

"You play the game?" he asked as he pulled the door open.

She looked up at him and smiled, "I dabble."

"Dabble? Then you must've heard of me! Anyone even slightly familiar with the game would have! My company produced the consoles and duel disks people play the games on! I was the Grand Champion, defeated only by a boy named Yugi!" he was frustrated that this girl was clearly in denial and he couldn't understand why.

"Don't forget Pegasus," she added, pointedly.

"So you do know who I am!" he smirked, since Seto doesn't really smile.

"No, I've heard of the Seto Kaiba who lives in a mansion and doesn't have to lift a finger to do things he can pay staff for. Whatever reason you are here working with me, I really don't care, but you aren't the Seto Kaiba I've heard of."

"Well, aren't you a snob," he huffed, walking off and shaking his head in frustration.

"We should duel sometime!" she called out to him.

"I'd wipe the floor with you," he didn't bother to turn around and face her.

She whispered to herself, not loudly enough for him to hear, "you'll find that I'm full of surprises, Kaiba m'boy!"