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As Nathan took in his last breath, Nocturne’s breath came back to him in deep gulps and he nearly collapsed onto the sand of the wilderness. He caught himself and then his legs gave out under him.That had been horrific to experience. He found solace in the fact that he was now out of the memories of his past life. He touched the sand underneath him to ground himself as he tried to evaluate everything he had seen.At first it had been interesting to watch how his past self fell for Leo in another life and then it had been heartwarming to watch them together. The end of it had been the complete opposite.The ruler of the underworld analyzed the memories carefully. Who had caused the end of their relationship and their deaths? There had been lots of factors at play.The news articles had played a part as had homophobic attitudes at the time. Leon’s parents had been terrible to him with their verbal abuse.When he thought about it, it was clear that it was a combined effort between Celia
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“You have already made a friend here without my interference,” Ernest said. “I do not recognize this gentleman.”“Allow me to introduce myself, I’m Lord Dwight Hawthorne,” Draven’s past self drawled. “I chanced upon this lost soul here and made his acquaintance.”Nocturne felt his past self bristle at Dwight’s way of speaking. He was amused to find that they had the same feelings about Draven.“I was unaware that we had a lord here,” Nathaniel observed out loud. “I must come here more often.”A butler came over to inquire if they wanted to move to a larger table. The request was accepted and soon the four of them were sitting around a table discussing a range of subjects.Nocturne lost track of the conversation quickly as he didn’t have enough human knowledge to follow a discussion on 19th century political issues and inventions. He kept his attention on Leopold. He was the shyest person at the table and was hesitant whenever he was asked for his opinion on difficult topics. Dwight ma
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Nocturne watched the scene with interest. He had learnt a lot about etiquette in this society already from the conversation and Nathaniel’s thoughts.Only men could ask ladies to dance. It was a strict rule. Celeste’s past self was skirting a fair amount of rules with her bold behaviour, he could hear whispers around the room confirming it. As she had a higher societal position than a lot of people in the room, there was no open admonishment of her.“She has noticed us,” Ernest joked. “I will go back to my young lady’s side before she gets the wrong idea about my absence. I cannot say Lady Celestia Clarence does not provide a show to lighten up the evening.”Ernest promptly walked away which left the two of them alone. “Let us go and find refreshments and watch the dances,” Leopold said. “I am pleased that Dwight did not manage to fill her dance card.”The two of them shared a smile and moved around to the other side of the ballroom where a table had been set up with drinks.Celestia
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Nathaniel’s mouth dropped open. He had just been feeling jealous of the person Leopold was interested in.It had been him all along?“Now that I have dropped that bombshell, I will leave you alone,” Leopold said. “I will see you tomorrow afternoon as we planned.”He turned on his heel and walked off briskly. Nathaniel was left standing still in the street in shock. It took being offered a newspaper several times to get him to move along.Leopold liked other men and wanted to become his lover.Did he even like other men?Leopold’s comment from earlier about waiting for the other man to realize that he liked other men made more sense now.Nathaniel turned and walked up the steps of his own house. This was not a realization he wanted to have in the middle of the street.It was right that he was not interested in women. He never wanted to dance with any at balls and the thought of courting them was irritating. He did not want to marry a woman. When he thought about courting a man, it fel
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Nathaniel took a deep breath in and swallowed his initial response that was forming on his lips. He needed to deal with this problem quickly and the best way was to not offend his mother.She didn’t know that he was not attracted to women. She was just frustrated that he wasn’t courting any lady yet and was nowhere near marriage. His mother had jumped to a wrong conclusion after being told some falsehoods. First he needed to make things clear to her. Then he needed to find out who had lied to her.“Mother, I cannot go ahead with any marriage arrangements. This was all based on a misunderstanding from someone claiming to be my friend. I understand that Lady Clarence has somehow developed feelings for me and it will be awkward to go back to her parents and disappoint them by telling them that I am not interested, but it will need to be done,” he said calmly. “I will forgive you for making a rash decision if you do this.”There were tears in his mother’s eyes and he knew he had disappoin
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Nathaniel was completely thrown by her unexpected request. He had predicted that she would act like a standard well bred lady and would apologize with her gaze aimed downwards before leaving quickly.Miss. Prim spluttered into speech. “Lady Celestia! You cannot say that. You told me we were here to apologize.”Celestia ignored her companion. “My parents want me to marry, you are under pressure to marry. It would be mutually beneficial for us.”Her offer did make some sense. He had just been telling Leopold he would sort out the marriage issue. There was a solution right in front of him. Should he take it?Celestia was a pretty woman and she had some intelligence. She was also popular with men judging from what he had seen at balls. If he told her he had another lover, it would be easy for her to find her own.He observed her bright eyes and pink cheeks. He couldn’t do it.She was too fond of him. He knew he would be hurting her feelings if he agreed to marriage only to turn around and
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Nathaniel wasted no time that night in writing a letter to Leopold. He needed to tell him that it would be best if they did not see each other for a while. He spent some time carefully wording the letter so he wouldn’t upset Leopold.Lady Celestia hadn’t said anything to him about knowing his secret. If she had feelings for him, she wouldn’t want to send him to prison. He felt like he could trust her to keep silent. Dwight was the problem.He summoned Henry again. His butler looked like he had dressed in a rush as he was not as neatly attired as usual.“Please take this to Mr. Leopold’s house as soon as possible,” he instructed and held out the letter. “Make sure it goes to his hands.”Henry looked openly at the clock. It was past midnight by now.“It is late,” he pointed out. “His household will likely all be asleep. Would it be fine to simply slip it under the front door? Or perhaps wait until tomorrow?”“That is acceptable,” he acquiesced. “It will have to be that. I do not want to
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It took a week for Nathaniel to find out that things could actually get worse. When he arrived at the breakfast table one morning, his mother silently passed him the morning newspaper. Her face was expressionless.He read the headline of the front page and his breath caught in his throat. Nathaniel read it again just to make sure and his breathing returned in short panicked bursts.Leopold was dead.His eyes quickly scanned through the article. Leopold Arlington had been stabbed viciously several times by a visitor to his house and had bled out before he could be taken to the nearest doctor.The attacker had fled, but had been caught by officers at the end of the street.“Nathaniel,” his mother said. “I have held no ill will towards your lover. I am sorry that he had to die this way.”He wasn’t listening to her. His eyes kept rereading the headline. The article made no mention of homosexuality and it was one thing to be glad for.“Nathaniel, I know who stabbed him,” his mother told him
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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
