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Avery has been closer to D3rLord3 now. Closer than they were when Avery first met him in that Minecraft world. Closer than they were when D3rLord3 sat by his side and started talking about what he really saw at those gates and the truth about knowing it all.
No, he should stop calling D3rLord3 by his username. Principally after the man letting him see the gates, but never letting him get inside. Avery didn’t see what was inside, but he could feel the power, the ancient coming from those yellow doors. He was mesmerized and terrorized by that sight.
Avery never deleted that Minecraft world, but he never touched it either. Leroy explained to him that he had changed fate when he told Avery about the crossroads, and they could live in peace for a while, until the King found another victim. By then, the King would have forgotten about them.
But Leroy would never forget, not when he had the knowledge of all the universe, past, present, and future. Avery always felt bad that Leroy didn’t want to watch a movie or when he watched, he seemed unimpressed, simply because he already knew what would happen.
And this fact that Leroy knew about everything is what made Avery never really tell what he felt about the man. At first, he just believed it was some sort of amazement he had for the knight; after all, he made Avery escape the thing that destroyed Leroy’s life. But then, it grew and grew and grew… It wasn’t just amazement anymore.
Avery knew that Leroy is aware that the slime guy (as Leroy calls him) feelings are romantic. He probably knew about that before Avery even knew he is bisexual. Oh, if that wasn’t a surprise for him! He always liked girls, and simply Leroy came into his life and he couldn’t help but fall in love with him.
The fact that, even knowing about that, Leroy still kept their friendship going, made Avery ignore the embarrassment and keep talking like they had a normal relationship. Like if Leroy didn’t have the knowledge of the universe and that Avery felt bad that he could never surprise his knight in golden armour.
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“So you just don't… Drink any type of soda?” - Avery asked, throwing the can in a nearby trash can, falling inside with a loud sound. Avery's eyes almost shone with how great that throw was.
"No. I simply don't like soda." - Leroy chuckled, amused at seeing how Avery was surprised to see his own doing. - "And you love every type of soda, specifically Coca-Cola."
Avery turned his head because, for a moment, he forgot that Leroy knew everything. He never told the man his preferences in food, but he shouldn't be surprised; sometimes Leroy would appear with a savory or sweet that was Avery's favorite without the slime guy even telling him about it, and exactly when he was about to plan to buy some food through a delivery service.
That immediately brought questions to Avery, questions that he didn't dare ask before. They sat on the sidewalk of the street, the moon already up in the sky and no presence of cars. Normally, Avery would have gone home and not let himself be in a place like this, but he knew that if there was some danger on the street right now, Leroy would have pulled his arm and they would've been in one of their houses.
Avery sighed, laying on the ground. The sidewalk was hot, but it didn't burn his body. He looked at Leroy. - "You know every little bit of me, don't you?"
Leroy responded with that distant gaze of his, the gaze that Avery learned from observing it so much. Leroy was retrieving memories that weren’t his. - "I do. From when you were born to this very moment."
"How does it work? Are you constantly thinking every time or...?" - Avery asked, but he knew Leroy was already planning his answer before he could even finish his sentence.
"It isn't thinking, I'm remembering something that I didn't pass through. It can be someone else’s memory or mine." - Leroy explained, gazing at his hands as he decided if he should look at Avery in the face or not. - "And it doesn't come every single time, sometimes I have a quiet peace... But when something is about to happen, something that I involuntarily want to know or something that I should answer, the memory comes at full force. Which is... Almost every time."
He finally decides that lying by Avery's side is the best option. - "At the start, it brought me a painful headache that not even medications could solve. Now I'm more accustomed, it doesn't hurt anymore. But... I can't control it."
"Maybe we could try to find a way for you to control your prophetic visions!" - Avery exclaimed, sitting back on the sidewalk in excitement. Leroy accompanied him, using his hand to support his head. - "You could be like a superhero with prophetic vision!"
That made the knight genuinely laugh. He never saw his "new powers" to be good, but the way Avery talked about it, Leroy thought that maybe it could be good. It could be good to have these visions, even if he knows exactly what Avery is going to say next right now.
"And... That means you know what I want to ask you, right now?" - The slime guy said, and Leroy was a bit surprised to see that instead of asking directly, it was just a thought that Avery had. Sometimes his visions got scrambled like that.
He didn't answer; he just leaned in and kissed the other. Avery's arms immediately wrapped around Leroy's neck, and his hands came to rest on the slime guy's waist. The kiss got more sloppy, since neither of them actually knew how to kiss a man (Avery only kissed girls, and Leroy never kissed anyone), but eventually, Leroy pushed Avery carefully to the ground and put his hands on the other's hair, feeling the texture.
The kiss ended with a string of saliva coming from their mouths, Leroy cleaning his one with his hand, and both laid side by side. There were so many questions inside Avery's mind, but there was one that he needed to ask first. - "Did you already know this would happen?"
Leroy sighed, his fingers touching his mouth as if he couldn't believe what had happened. - "I already knew we would end up like this the moment I saw the King. I could see all of our relationship. I... Simply couldn't forget that. I'm quite... Disappointed."
"Disappointed?" - Avery said, not hiding an inch of his sad tone. He got surprised when he saw Leroy's face turning from depressed to surprised in seconds.
"I-I'm not disappointed on the kiss..!" - He excused himself, face flushing in embarrassement. - "I'm disappointed to believe I could prove that the King was wrong, that these memories are limited."
"I believed that if we didn't end together, that we only stayed as friends, then I could prove that these visions aren't all true. But they are. And this kiss just proved that my fate is sealed." - Lorey said, his voice not betraying the stress he was feeling. - "I know every little thing we're going to do together. When you're going to buy our rings to officialize our relationship. When we're going to bed together for the first time..."
Avery listened and listened as Leroy expressed his feelings about his condition. - "Do you understand, Avery? Every single thing we do won't be new for me. I'll probably just feel how it is, but I'll already know how it's going to happen!"
"Then feel it." - Was Avery's answer, and Leroy almost jumped in shock. He was so focused on rambling on his tragic fate that he didn't focus on the vision that was being given to him, of Avery saying that, so he got surprised. - "Feel every little bit of the memories you receive. The touch, the expressions, the sounds. Just... Feel it. That's way better than just a memory, right?"
Leroy let his hand intertwine with Avery's, sensing skin to skin; how his own is too rough and Avery's is almost like porcelain (at least, for him). He watched Avery's face, analyzing his gaze to see all the admiration and love he felt for him. It was way better than a memory.
"Yes, it is." - He answered, letting his face rest on Avery's shoulder.
"You want to go home now?" - The slime guy asked, his hand coming to caress the knight's back.
"No... Let's stay like this. For a while. I want to feel this memory."