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Third life. A place where a king fell and his partner died by grian’s hand. He had tried to move past the fact that no-one, not even the man he loved, would remember. It was comforting, in a way. He would never have to reconcile, and never have to talk about what happened. He just wished that his partner would at least remember that they had been a couple. He wanted scar to sit at home and talk about how they were going to take lives. How he had stayed somewhat kind even though he was at his last life. He wanted to tell scar what they had done, that they had killed and yet still stayed by each other’s side.
But then he remembers the bad. How he had been the cause of all of scar’s deaths. How he had killed scar with his own hands. The wind on his back as he fell-
Don’t think about it he reminded himself.
Don’t think about it he told himself again. Scar is alive at his base, He is ok. He’s not dead. He had to remind himself at times that scar was in fact- alive and well. That scar couldn’t remember him, or anything that happened on those servers.
He got a bad taste in his mouth when he remembered double life. He hated himself for thinking that cheating on scar would magically make the memories of third life go away. That was what he hated most about himself. The worst part was, scar knew that he had been cheating on him. That the man had stayed silent until he gave him those cookies.
He shook his head and stretched his wings. Now wasn’t the time for reflection, it was time to build. He got up, but just as he was about to start, he got a ding on his communicator.
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Scar had been searching for sand for his newest project when he finally hit a desert. He would have bought sand, but everyone was sold out. It had taken a few rockets, but he finally found what he was looking for. “Didn’t take too long, did it?” He told himself. He took out his shovel and started collecting when he started thinking weird. Things like this is where I died, and we won. He hadn’t thought much of it, he had assumed it was a quote from a video, or show he had watched. Until, like static clearing, he had a vivid scene in front of him.
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What was in front of him wasn’t a sight he expected. Grian and him- why was he grey like a robot? They were in a circle of cacti. Before he could continue his questions, grian spoke. “No matter what happens, we can claim this as a double victory, right?” “Yes!” His other self answered quickly. “we’re good!” His other self lit a fire where there was a gap in the circle. He had no idea what him and grian were doing, but he had a gut feeling it wouldn’t go well for him.
“ let the ghosts count us in, alright?” They both readied up for what looked like a fist fight, he assumed the ghosts had gotten to one, because they had begun fighting. A punch or ten later, other scar had tripped and grian had begun punching his face, they had both been crying as grian said “scar, scar I’m sorry” they exchanged sorries until scars eyes turned from bright red to a dark brownish-grey.
Scar could only watch as he died while grian was still crying over his now dead body. He tried to tell him that it was ok, that he was ok, but nothing came out of his mouth. He could only watch as grian cried. Eventually he stopped, and created a grave for scar and himself. Scar ignored that implication and looked at another grave, the name was pizza. It had a llama engraved on it so he assumed they had a pet llama at one point. He followed grian outside where his friend had jumped off a cliff. He watched more of his lost memories after. The deaths of himself and others, pizzas death. And most importantly to him, the times he spent with grian. All those memories came back to him in just ten minutes.
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Scar woke up with a long gasp. He had just remembered events of his life long forgotten. All those memories at once. He was still processing when he heard a ding from his communicator. He looked down at the conversation on the small computer.
ZombieCleo: Hey scar find sand yet?
ZombieCleo: I’ll pay you 20 diamonds for a stack of sand
ZombieCleo: Scar?
ZombieCleo: Scar you dead?
ZombieCleo: SCARRR
Scar bit his tounge at the messages. How long had those flashbacks been? He needed to calm down and respond before they sent a search party for him.
GoodTimeWithScar: Sorry was collecting sand!
ZombieCleo: Really
GoodTimewithscar:Sorry!
ZombieCleo: you should be!
He thought for a moment. Would grian remember? The possibility was there. Scar had to keep it simple though.
[you whisper to grian] hey, wanna have a pizza night?]
Now to pray that grian said yes.
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Grian looked down at the message. At first he thought about the pet llama that scar had, but he quickly reminded himself that pizza was dead. But food-wise, pizza did sound good. He wondered if scar was planning a pizza party, but why wouldn’t he just ask everybody in chat?
[you whisper to goodtimewithscar] Ok your base?
[goodtimewithscar whispers to you] yes
[you whisper to goodtimeswithscar] alright be there soon
Grian put his blocks into a shulker box, he had mostly finished building anyway, he could use a break. He gave himself a few minutes to put his shulkers in his ender chest before he flew to scars base. When he landed he knocked on scar’s door and waited for him to open it. The door opened after a few moments with a creek. “Why hello there! Ready for pizza night?” “Yup! What kind?” Grian walked in and started for the kitchen. “ I made pepperoni, but I can make other kinds” Grian took a slice and sat down at the table. “No, I’m alright with pepperoni” he preferred peppers, but he could live with pepperoni.
“Also, I have a question” “what?” Grian said muffled by pizza. “ Do you rememberer monopoly mountain?” Grian almost choked when he heard that name. How did scar know about monopoly mountain? He couldn’t remember right? Maybe that was a monopoly game that they had played once. “Why do you ask?” grian was praying that it was something other than third life. “ grian, I remember it all. And I’m guessing you do too.” Grians heart sank from hearing that. How long had scar known? How did he find out? “ you... you do?” Grian looked scar in the eyes. “Yea, I remember monopoly mountain, pizza, dogwarts, everything.” Scar wasn’t lying, otherwise he would’ve started laughing and did a prank or something. “When did you.. remember?” “About an hour ago” They both took a bite of pizza.
Grian had dreaded the day that this might come. “I’m sorry” was all he could muster out. “For what?” Scar asked while taking a bite of his slice. “ for what? For killing you!” Grian shouted, tears already running down his face. “You should be mad, you should hate me for all that I caused you” scar put down his pizza and gave a look of empathy. “ Why? Your still the best partner I’ve had” grian immediately began crying. Scar held him close trying to calm him down. “It’s alright grian I forgave you” Grian sniffed, “ you shouldn’t...” “and yet I do!” Scar held him closer until grian calmed down.
They sat cuddling close for a while. Until scar broke the silence. “Grian , do you want to be partners again?” Grian didn’t hesitate to say yes. They cuddled the rest of the night with each other, being partners once again.