I Scored Myself A Mate

"I love you too. I missed you, even if I didn't know you believe me I did and now I realize why my life had always been so incomplete. You weren't there. All I want now is for us to go home, please" He told him and he felt Theseus tense. He moved away a bit from his embrace and looked at him. He wore a saddened expression. "What's wrong?"

"Allias home…does not exist anymore" he said. 

"What do you mean home does not exist?" Allias asked him, countless questions popping in his head.

"The Sunrise palace and the whole Avgee tribe has gone extinct. It happened a few months after you died. That was when the High Council came in and forced them to stop the war. I guess the extinction of a race was too shocking and they couldn't let it evolve further." Theseus explained to him and took his hands in his. "You are the last Avgee elf. We searched for many years but no one was left alive." 

"It's impossible. Where was the Council when my people died? Just a bunch of old men ruling like idiots" Allias said and in his mind he started cursing. He stood up and barefoot he escaped Theseus' room running through the dully lit hallways to that one window. The only placed that he was aware of you could see the view of the twin kingdom. He almost slipped once as he ran, out of breath and exhausted. Theseus was following him but he had no intention to stop him, he knew he would have to see it sooner or later. Feel the crushing pain. Of course they wouldn't have done anything as his people got massacred. As their bloods watered the ground, they would just sit and watch until it was too late. These ten men, representing the strongest supernatural tribes had formed a council with the excuse of preserving peace but in reality all they wanted to do was manipulate power. Once Allias was out of the picture, their biggest threat they took their eyes from the war and realized the disaster when it was already almost over. 

He stopped in front of the frozen window, his fingertips touching slightly the glass as if he was trying to move further from it. To extend his hand and reach the place he had called home so many times. The snow had covered almost everything but the saddened king could clearly see it. The ruins of marble and gold. The broken colorful glasses. The ruins of a beautiful kingdom filled with laughter and joy. There was almost nothing left, just columns and half destroyed walls from the houses surrounding the palace. The lake was no longer vibrant and calm but frozen a huge coat of ice hiding its beauty. His hole heritage had been wiped out and he wasn't even fully aware of it. 

Allias rested his forehead on the glass, his cold breath leaving marks on it as his fist hit it making a hollow sound. His forehead was wrinkled and tears escaped his closed eyes. His was crying silently, mourning the dead. His mother, his servants, his friends and his people. All of their souls, he hadn't even managed to say goodbye and that hurt the most. He had failed them; he had failed everyone. His people were not fighters. They were doctors, healers, magicians and philosophers but they fought their hardest in this war. They gave everything so their children could have a chance to survive but in the end there was nothing left, just rocks and ruins. 

"My love…" Theseus whispered and placed his palm on his shoulder. He was shaking. He had to take in everything so quickly and if it was in the general's hand he would have done everything so different. Made his transition a bit less painful. "Please don't cry. They all fought bravely" 

"For what?" Allias mumbled. 

"What?"

"For what reason Theseus?" he repeated this time louder. "To be extinct? To die? I have failed everyone! I was their only hope and I fucking died so easily. I could have won us this war but I was too weak." He said and hit the window once more. 

"I know I should have died back then" Theseus confessed. "For a long time I wished that I had, so you could end the war. Save everyone. You didn't fail them. I failed you. I was the one meant to protect you. I was ordered to but only that I wanted to. In the end I became the reason for your undoing because when it comes to me, you don't value your life." Theseus said and Allias felt guilty. If he could go back in time he wouldn't change that moment. The final moment he chose Theseus over himself because that was what he felt. That was what he still felt but that did not mean he was the reason they lost the war.

"Do you value your life when it comes to me?" Allias asked and caressed his pale cheek. 

"To hell with my life" Theseus joked "A moment of you laughing is worth ten of my lifetimes" He told him and grabbed him from his waist bringing him closer. 

"Then why should it be any different with me?" 

"Because you are different. You were a prince and now a king. You were a light, the son of the sun and you shone so brightly in front of me I believed you could burn me. You were pure and beautiful. Smart, funny and above all you had a golden soul, overflowing with kindness and love for everyone around you. I was just a bastard son, drowned in the shadows. It would be an honor to give you my life." 

"Don't talk like that about yourself. Listen to me, look at me" Allias said and moved his face gently so their eyes were meeting. Both of them had many regrets. Memories that haunted them, scars not made by swords but by words. Unspoken feelings and unsaid goodbyes. They both hated themselves for not being able to do more, for not being able to ease each other's pain and now almost a century later they finally met, lilac into green, the vibrant sun in front of the lonely moon with bare souls, and gentle hands desperately needing to make the other smile. Just for a slight second, a simple moment of relief. The disaster of the war was their last greeting. Their morning and their final goodnight but now at last together after many winters they could just talk, nothing more than hear the other's voice. Nothing more than feel their heartbeat as they embraced to make sure they were alive, that they were together. "You are the best thing that happened to me. Trapped into a golden cage you became my key. Alone amongst so many people you became my company. You soothed the fears and made me smile. You gave me life and the will to try. So don't degrade yourself. Because it hurts me to see the one I adore hate themselves. A person that to me is incredible."

"Should we get married?" Theseus told him and Allias smiled sleepily.

"What?" 

"Let's get married. We are so long together after all."

"Are you proposing to me right now? Like this? In the middle of the corridor? Where is the romance?" Allias joked and Theseus pouted.

"I thought our moment just now was pretty romantic. I want us to get married. I want you to be my husband. Let's go. Let's get married now, now!" Theseus said and grabbed Allias' wrist dragging him away. The young king began laughing loudly as he was being swayed by Theseus' charm who soon too had joined him. 

"I guess we can. But not right now. We will get married one day. When I build back my home, when there is no fear in our hearts anymore and he winter has left. Then we will get married, with all of our friends there and we will have a huge celebration later and maybe one day…a child"

"You want us to adopt a child?" Theseus asked him surprised. 

"Why not?" Allias asked him with a blush growing slowly in his face.

"Why not" Theseus repeated with a bright smile on his face. You could see their dreams in their eyes, coming to life once again, the color returning into their souls. A marriage, a home, a child. A new hope for a new life and new dreams to dream at night. No more nightmares. Yes, both of them wished for their days to be like this from now on but unfortunately there were many storms to come. The danger of the night might have subsided for now but still around them had surrounded many watchful eyes, mocking their need for peace, laughing at the sound of their plans for a happy life. No one wished for them to be happy in this endless game for dominance and there were many fights ahead.

"I want to do everything with you but before that we need to land into reality again" Theseus said causing a frown to appear in Allias' face. "Joe had left a note saying we will pay for what we did to his people even though we didn't. I think we need to act fast."

"Yes I agree with you. I think I have an idea. We should discuss it with everyone tomorrow. We need to act first." Allias announced. 

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I don't know why I cried while writing this. I guess I love drowning myself in romances I will never live. 

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