I Scored Myself A Mate

He was too late. Once more time had been his worst enemy, hurting him and Allias. What could he have done if he managed to reach him? Offer him his hand? Would he not be bathed in his own blood now? Theseus couldn't know, all he did was just stand there, heartbroken and confused, staring at the elf king. He was pale, sliding on the wall until he reached the ground, grasping his cut arm. There was nothing left underneath the elbow. 

"My king. No! We need to call the doctor. He will fix this." Ea said and attempted to leave. 

"Theseus stop him." Allias ordered him, his voice rough, his eyes squeezed shut as he was trying to endure the pain. 

Subconsciously Theseus grabbed the small elve and stopped him, it was Allias' order, ringing in his ears but why? Why didn't he let him go bring the doctor? Maybe because deep inside him he knew. Allias deserved this. For everything he had done.

"What are you doing?" Ea asked him distressed. "He can't stay like this. He will bleed out!"

"Just bring me a med kit. I will fix this mess." Theseus said. He wanted to enter the bathroom, looking at that line created by the different materials used on the floor. He was scared to do it, afraid that Allias will reject him. He didn't dare to look at him in the eyes, he didn't want his tired and pained expression on his mind, torturing him every night. 

Time, he just wished he had a bit more time and like always his wish wasn't granted.

"Come in. I know you want to." Allias said and Theseus finally managed to step inside. His black boots stepped on the pools of blood, leaving trails with his every step and Theseus crumbled next to him on the floor. He grabbed his white shirt and his face rested on his shoulder. 

"You fool, why would you do something like this? Couldn't you just wait for me? You never do." He told Allias and the king smiled faintly. 

"I love you. How could I ask you to do this for me, or sit here and watch?"

"Yes but..."

"I deserved it. You know it. I can't go on living with such a burden. Such guilt." Allias said and rested his sweaty head on Theseus'

"So now you will be okay?"

"Okay? Oh, no. Definitely not the slightest bit but at least now I feel like I could live. Theseus I am sorry. Only now I get to see how hard I've always made your life. You were so carefree, traveling the world, living your life to the fullest always smiling and I...I locked you in a golden palace, brought you in my prison and never let you out. I am despicable." Allias said. Theseus opened his eyes and raised his head, looking at his exhausted lover with a depressed expression. He caressed his cheek, seeing how Allias enjoyed his touch. 

"You really are a fool. There is no prison. It has never been. There is just you. Even if we were forced to live in a tent in the woods again it would be just you, because always you're the only person I can see. I mean how can someone else steal my sight when you shine so brightly?" He asked him with a charming smile and Allias' lips moved upwards.

"That's such a nice thing to say. You know." Allias mumbled. "You know I....could let you go. One day if that's what you wish. Spare you the royal burdens, give you the life you wish. I could...if it made you happy." 

"You should get such stupid ideas out of your head. You were right when you said we were cursed." Theseus told him kissing his forehead. He wiped away the sweat from his temples and took his hand in his, squeezing it faintly. "How villainous it sounds that I don't care if the world burns as long as I have you?" Theseus asked with a chuckle. 

"Very, very much indeed but I like it." Allias mumbled. "I'm getting dizzy."

"Well you've lost a lot of blood. When Ea brings the supplies I will patch you up it's not good to have anymore rumours."

"It's not good to have anymore rumours" they said at the same time.

"I love you Allias, never forget that. It's not bad to share your pain with me. I can handle it." Theseus told him and the elf king nodded, his head moving slightly. He opened his eyes for a while, just to see his handsome face, he was smiling as he played with his hair, so handsome, he thought. 

None of them wanted to share their pain with the other. Allias didn't want to hurt him, hear him during the night as he wailed, as he wished he never existed. He knew how bad Theseus would feel. But why was it that right now, dizzy and stunned by his words he believed in him? He would always be there.

"I am too lucky." He mumbled.

"Yes you are." Theseus agreed. "I am lucky too. Look at me born with nothing and got married into royalty. I am amazing." 

"We are not married you know." He said.

"We should. You would be my husband, and we would have a ceremony on a nice field or maybe close to the beach, the place your dad liked so much. And there would be our friends no one else and we would dance until the morning. I would hold you in my arms all night and hear you laugh as I spun you around. Then we would return home and I would get to have you all to myself. My husband. Only mine. Imagine the music Allias, imagine the food and the wine, imagine us dancing underneath the moonlight, when everything is over I will steal you and take you away. Whereve you want just the two of us, away from the world. "

"Now it hurts a bit less. So tell me more" he mumbled and rested his head on his chest. Tired and in pain. 

"As you wish my king. Then how I tell you about when we will visit your father's land. The clear sea and the golden sand, the smell of the ocean and the sound of the waves. We will walk and walk until you get tired. Then I will stop and kiss you...."

Theseus kept talking, telling him about all those beautiful times he wanted to spent with him. Soothe his pain as they waited. The elf lost consciousness soon but the general kept going. Making more scenarios, more stories, a smile on his face as he reminded himself that the pain would one day end and then there would be plenty of time. The time he craved so much.

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