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Time flicked by again for Nocturne after that very satisfying day. There were quick moments spent with Leo, but they were few and far between. Too many people were dying.If their relationship continued he knew he was going to dread the winter months every year. There were just so many souls to collect in that time period.He barely saw Celeste either, it was just as hard to see someone who worked in the underworld with him let alone his boyfriend who lived in the human world.Soon the snow in the human world melted and flowers began to grow. That was when the rate of deaths slowed down.On one spring morning he reached for the list and found it was considerably smaller than the one the day before. He smiled to himself. There were so many things he wanted to do with Leo and it would be good to catch up with Celeste.He felt a sudden presence behind him and saw it was Draven and not his friend. He scowled at him.“You look disappointed to see me,” Draven drawled and put his hands in hi
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As he lay prone on his bed with a sore backside, Leo reflected that the second time for everything was always easier than the first.Nocturne had been kind and considerate the entire time and he was even doing the laundry for him right now. Leo sighed and sat up in bed so he didn't feel so lazy. His mind was active in thinking of all the things they could do together. He was going home for spring break and it would be fine for Nocturne to appear in human form there. Brad was still on the lookout for human Nocturne so dates at university had never been possible.They could go to the park for a walk in the warmer weather. Returning to the arcade wasn’t appealing. Leo smiled as he thought back to how odd he had thought Nocturne was for not knowing what anything was in the arcade. It all made sense now.The coffee shop was also an option. Most of their dates in his hometown had started off there in the morning.“What are you smiling about?”Leo started as Nocturne’s face came into view. H
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Leo finally dared to look back at the park when he was further down the road. The man was gone. He shook his head.That was an odd encounter. Hopefully he would never see the man again. There had been something not right about him. He hadn’t felt like a regular homophobe.He turned the corner of the street and found Nocturne waiting there for him.“Is everything on track for today?” Leo asked.Now that he was with Nocturne again his heartbeat was back to normal.“Everything is going fine,” his boyfriend confirmed and held out his hand. “Let’s go out for lunch. Did you want something fancy? It will be on me.”Leo took Nocturne’s hand with a grin. “Hmm, after having to feed myself at university I do feel like something fancy. Do you have lots of money on you?”Nocturne patted his pocket. “When I transformed into this form I specified a fat wallet in my pocket.”Leo laughed. “You have found a loophole. I won’t really burn through all your money. I just don’t want fast food.”Their convers
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Nocturne stared in abject horror as he realized that Draven had stabbed Leo with his hand. Draven withdrew his hand and then Leo's body fell to the ground. Nocturne rushed forward.He was too late to do anything. Leo was lying on the ground with a hole in his chest. His eyes were open and unblinking.He was dead.Draven laughed loudly. His laughter could only be described as triumphant.“That was wonderful to watch. I’ve seen you suffer true pain.”Nocturne closed Leo’s eyes with a shaking hand. He didn’t know what to do right now. His only love was dead. Draven stopped laughing and yanked him away from Leo’s body with a swift pull.“You are in so much trouble. You two were unlucky enough to walk past the brothel I was just leaving. I recognized your human form and followed you two around. If only you had been in your real form, you would have sensed me,” he snarled in his ear. “I heard enough to know everything. You let him cheat death. That’s against the rules. I am going to report
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Nocturne took a deep breath in before replying. This was the answer that would seal his fate.“I plead guilty.”“Why did you break the rules for a human?”The ruler of the underworld thought of his first encounter with Leo. Now that he was dead again he thought about it in a different light. Maybe it had been love at first sight. “When I met the human in purgatory and he begged for his life, I felt something. I felt alive,” he admitted.“You are dead,” the entity pointed out. “You cannot feel alive.”“I felt alive whenever I was with him.”He knew the entity was not impressed with him. At this point, it didn’t matter. He was going to die again anyway.“I am not going to remove you from your position here in the underworld,” the entity stated. “Your soul will not enter the reincarnation cycle this early on. I think you might like that prospect too much. Instead you will suffer here.”Nocturne’s blood ran cold. He wasn’t going to die and not have to think about Leo’s death again, he wa
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Nocturne was immediately intrigued by her introduction. He had no idea it had been possible to be in the hallowed trio in different lifetimes.He thought back to all the journals that were stored in his personal quarters. Every past ruler had written at least one line in them. Leo’s journal entries had to be there.“What was Leo’s name?” he asked.“Leonides,” she told him. “I will refer to him as Leo to make things easier. You were called Nathanael yourself and I was of course someone else with a different name.”He couldn’t remember a ruler with that name having a large presence in the journal collection. Maybe Leo had been too busy being in a happy relationship with him to have time to write anything.“Was Draven there?”She rolled her eyes. “Thankfully no. He is in some of our past lives though. I ruined your lives single handedly this time.”“I fell in love with you pretty quickly,” she said and didn’t meet his eyes. “You were gorgeous to say the least.”Now he didn’t know where t
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Nocturne put that journal down and picked up the journal that Leo had written in a past life.There wasn’t much to read in there. It appeared that Leo had not been interested in documenting his life as the ruler of the underworld. It made sense knowing that they spent most of their time together and Leo couldn’t exactly write about his secret dating life.The handwriting didn’t feel familiar either. The Leo he had known didn’t write in cursive like this. He traced his fingers over the loops and curves nonetheless.“I am going to do it. It does not matter if I get punished,” he told himself resolutely. “I just need a plan.”Potentially he could get out of the throne room and out into the wilderness and somehow find Leo’s soul out there. That wouldn’t be enough. He had to get back and get Leo’s soul back into the cycle so it could be reincarnated. He had to do all of this before he was caught by the entity.There was one thing the entire situation had shown. The entity hadn’t known abou
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The conversation in the meeting room continued and Nocturne learnt more about himself and where he was. His name was Nathan and he was the CEO's son who had just been put in charge of a new band project. The purpose of the project was so he could prove himself to everyone at the record label and be known as more than the son of the CEO.The calendar came into his sightline as he followed the men out of the meeting room. It was March 1994. His vision swam momentarily and when it stabilized he was standing outside a room. It was labeled as a practice room and he opened the door. The men from the meeting were behind him. The man who had spoken most of the time was a recruitment manager. There were four people sitting around on the laminated floor.The brunette girl looked up with interest and he recognized Celeste. Nocturne wondered if she was about to fall for him. Her cheeks flushed as she looked at him and he suspected she had. Leo was the next person to look at him.He was struck
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“I don’t have any romantic feelings for Atlas,” Leo said as they looked up at the sky.Nocturne glanced at him in surprise before replying. “I’m fully aware of that.”“I just thought I would tell you. I know you have complicated feelings about the entity,” the blond told him. “The only person I love is you. I don’t love your former self in any way. I feel sorry for him instead.”It was a relief to hear those words even though he had never suspected Leo of harboring romantic feelings for the entity.“I think anyone would have mixed feelings about the person who made them go through painful lives because they saw falling love as a weakness instead of something normal,” he said lightly. “I’m mostly neutral on the subject of the entity now. He apologized and he has arranged this new life for us.”“I wonder what our next life will bring,” Leo said wistfully. “We’ve both achieved a lot this time. I’m a successful author in my genre and you’re the CEO of a profitable company.”Nocturne’s foc
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Nocturne found that he still had the folder with all the wedding planning information in the same place on the kitchen table. The most important thing to do was find out if the wedding was in the same place. Everything else could wait.“We are using the same wedding hall in this life,” he told Leo. “It seems this wedding was more expensive. The price for the decorations and the catering are higher than before.”Leo put four slices of bread in the toaster.“Glad to know that we’re not going to turn up at the wrong place,” he said. “My headache has gone now. What about you?”The former ruler of the underworld gently touched his head and was relieved to feel nothing.“I’m fine now,” he said.He experimentally tried to teleport to the underworld and nothing happened. It was odd to think that he would never see the underworld again whilst he was alive. When he would see it again, he would just be yet another soul there to be judged.It was bittersweet.His job as the ruler of the underworl
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“I want to be with you,” Leo said fondly. “I admit that I also want to get married tomorrow. If we could somehow be transplanted back into the human world I came originally from, it would be amazing. I’m just worried that it’s not possible.”Nocturne ruffled his hair. “That was what I’m hoping for too. I would also like for the underworld to be stable after we leave as well.”Leo considered the different worlds. Technically they had all been created because of him. Atlas had created another human world after he had died as well as the current system of life and death.The other two people at the table had been created because of him too. They wanted to sacrifice themselves to help him as well. He was conflicted about everything.A while later, a stone faced Atlas approached their table.“Leo, can I speak to you in private?” he requested.“You may,” Leo said.It made sense that Atlas would want to say something to him. This was all because of him. The throne room disappeared around hi
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“What options can you offer us?” Leo asked.He thought about the wedding that was waiting for them the next day with a pang.“Your first option is to enter the reincarnation cycle and eventually live another life,” Atlas told him. “You two always find each other so there is no need to worry. You two could also take up positions in the underworld."The blond knew that wasn’t something he wanted to be involved with. He was too sentimental to be dealing with death all day.“Is there any chance we can go back to the test world?” Nocturne asked. “I’ve become attached to it and I would like to have the wedding I’ve been waiting a year for.”Leo was pleased that they were thinking along the same lines.An expression of pain shot across Atlas’ face. Leo looked at him carefully and saw how tired he was looking. His skin was almost translucent.“Atlas, are your powers growing weak?” he asked quietly.“I do not have too much left in me,” the entity admitted. “I have lived for a long time and set
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The two of them reached the town a little too late to recreate the timing of their first date. The lunch period was in full swing at the coffee shop and they ended up squashed on a small table between two families with crying children.Leo frowned as he thought about how Nocturne had arrived whilst he had been sitting outside the coffee shop all those years ago and asked if he could sit next to him.“How did you find where I was on the day we met for the third time?” the blond asked. “You couldn’t have stalked me beforehand because it was only the morning after I rejected you.”Nocturne stirred his drink. “Remember I wasn’t human. I teleported to your house first and found you weren’t there. I went through your bedroom to learn things about you. Then I transformed into a human and the rest is history.”“I wonder if any other Grim Reaper put in that effort to chase a human,” Leo said. “You went to some trouble to date me.”The former ruler of the underworld winced for some reason and t
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Leo burst out laughing. The man in the jewelry shop had mentioned another customer before him buying a ring to propose that very evening. It had been Nocturne all along.What were the chances of them choosing the same ring and the same day to propose?“It feels like we’re fated,” he said. “The same ring and the same day.”Nocturne placed the other ring carefully on Leo’s ring finger. It fitted perfectly. Leo held up his hand and admired it.“I had been planning to gauge your opinion on marriage and then you asked me for mine,” Nocturne said softly. “I guess that should have been the clue we were thinking on the same lines. You confirmed you wanted to marry me and I went to buy a ring that I had seen earlier."Leo smiled as he realized they had followed exactly the same steps.“I was planning to propose to you when you came back from work in the hallway so it would be the first thing you saw when you came in. I was disconcerted to find you had come back early,” he admitted.“In my mind
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The blond didn’t waste any time in pursuing his mission. He had seen the ring in the morning and he took the first chance he could to ask Nocturne for his opinion on marriage in person. It wasn't a conversation to have by text or over a call.His boyfriend returned from the office as he was serving up dinner. Leo had expanded his cooking repertoire over the years and had seven meals he could make for dinner. He made dinner on weeknights and Nocturne cooked much better meals at the weekend so it all worked out.Leo waited until they were both sitting at the table to broach the topic of marriage.“Nocturne, what are your opinions on marriage?” he asked. “I mean marriage for yourself.”His boyfriend raised his eyebrows. “That’s a random question. What brought it on?”“It doesn’t matter. I just want to know your opinion,” Leo replied.He had learnt over time that Nocturne was good at avoiding questions he didn’t want to answer.Nocturne frowned over the question and took a long moment to
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Something strange happened on the evening of their seventh anniversary together.The two of them decided to celebrate their seventh year together at their favorite casual dining restaurant. Leo had introduced Nocturne to it on their fifth date. Their preferred table was outside looking over the harbor.During the wait between their main course and the dessert, Nocturne briefly left him alone at the table to order more drinks at the counter. Leo occupied himself by taking a photo of the candles on the table so he could post about their anniversary on his personal social media account. He was in the process of writing the caption when someone sat down opposite him.The smile on his face died when he saw it wasn’t Nocturne returning from the counter. It was a man he didn’t know.The man was attractive in a similar way only his hair was long and black and his skin was unearthly pale.“That seat is taken by my boyfriend,” Leo told him.He didn’t entirely know why this man had chosen to tak
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He was ready to find this man and give him a piece of his mind. Leo moved towards the door. Angela cleared her throat and he stopped. Maybe he had reacted too fast.“You don’t have to go and punch him. Nocturne spent a lot of time working on a report for HR to get him removed for harassment. He submitted it this morning. There’s so many witnesses to everything, it should be an easy case for HR,” Angela informed him. “Levi is being questioned in the HR office right now."Leo realized that he had been naive to think that Nocturne wouldn’t use official channels to do something about someone harassing him. His boyfriend was thorough like that.It made sense that Nocturne had told him not to worry about him and that things would be sorted soon with the ‘difficult client’.He sat back down at the table. It appeared he didn’t have to go and defend his boyfriend from Levi. Nocturne had already done everything necessary.“I would still go and say something to him on a personal level,” Angela s
