I Scored Myself A Mate

When he opened his eyes he found himself in the guest room again. His vision was blurry at first, Ea's figure just a faded image in front of him, his expression censored. Soon though he faced the hard truth. His husband was looking at him disgusted, standing away. Ares sat up, getting off the bed and tried to approach him. Ea took a step back, not wanting to be near him. 

"Ea, listen to me…" Ares said. 

"Listen to you about what? How could overlook something like that Ares? How could you? They were children!" Ea screamed at him. 

"I was wasted most of the day, I was also drugged most of the time, in some occasions without me knowing it. I would say something and then forget it the next second. It wasn't that I didn't want to do anything, I was being manipulated." He said and heard Ea scoff. He was looking at him as if he was a living piece of trash. 

"Is that your excuse? You were drinking too much? Having too much sex? You were drugged? Well excuse you but you chose that life, you chose to run away from your problems and you went and found shelter in that psycho! You thought that was love?" Ea asked him. Ares exhaled, pushing his hair back in distress. He didn't know how to explain to Ea what had been happening to him at that time. He had no idea how he felt and the things that had been going through his head. His memories of that time were not even that clear. 

"I told you not to look. I asked you not to but you did it anyways. Is that your way of respecting my boundaries?" Ares told him, angry at him. 

"Is that your way of trying to pin this on me and make me forget of what you did?" The elf shouted. 

"No! But you have no idea what had been happening at that time. I was a mess. I never tried to excuse myself or say that what I did was wrong but soon after that I woke up, that's why I got banned from the demonic capital. Under normal circumstances I would be killed the moment I stepped here." He explained. 

"How did you wake up Ares?" Ea asked him with a suspicious look. 

"Ea... please" 

"Tell me! How did you wake up?" he repeated his question. His usually warm eyes, filled with kindness towards him had turned icy, blocking every plead the prince was sending him. 

"I woke up when Vines brought a teen to our room. I couldn't stand it and I tried to run away. I freed the child. Then I tried to free the rest but they caught me and kicked me out. The only reason I wasn't killed at that time was because I was a prince." Ares explained. 

"They brought one to your room?" Ea asked, his expression showing pure disgust and the elf prince nodded. 

"You have to understand something though. I didn't do anything. Once I realized what was happening I tried to fix it. I really did but I was weakened and still in a very weird state. It took me months to come back to my senses completely and by then it was too…"

"…late." Ea completed his sentence. He couldn't believe Ares' story. Somehow the image he had of him had been completely destroyed. A huge crack formed in his heart and now every time their eyes happened to meet he felt uncomfortable, as if the person he had married had been a complete lie. "I don't know what to say. Really I thought I knew you, I believed in you and I get to see this?" Ea told him with tears in his eyes. "How do you expect me to get over this?" he asked him. 

"Ea, please don't cry." Ares said and tried to approach him but once more he had gotten the same reaction from the small elf. He moved away, turning his back on him. Ea heard Ares sigh and his heart broke, the sound was so sad, desperate. "I didn't want of any of this to happen. It was just a dark time in my life. I don't want to remember it either."

"You don't want to remember it because it was something bad or because it was a time you enjoyed and you're afraid that you would get tempted again?" Ea told him coldly and Ares looked at him stunned. These words had hurt him, a lot more than the small elf would have thought. 

"How can you ask me that?" 

"I don't know. I am not the one who got turned on by being a cheater" 

"Ea!" Ares called him out. He knew he had been mistaken, he was very well aware of that and that was why he had kept this part of his life a secret. Because he was embarrassed and ashamed but Ea was taking a bit too far, his words were too hurtful and Ares didn't think he would be able to take it. 

"I don't think I can look at you the same way anymore." The elf told him as he looked at him in the eyes. "When we get back home I think it's time we start the process of breaking the soul link." 

"What?" Ares couldn't stand being in that room any longer. The more he stared at Ea and his cold expression he more his heart ached. He felt as if he would bleed out soon. "you can't be serious about this." He said. 

"I am. I don't want to be with you any longer. Not after what I have seen and what I know." He told him. Ares ran away. He didn't want to hear him anymore. He had understood enough; he had heard enough. Their relationship was over and it was all his fault. Ea would never forgive him.

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breaking the soul link basically means getting a divorce.