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You're alive.
The world regained its colour, regained its life again.
Your brilliant mind is still among us, your laugh is still something I will be able to hear. Promises whispered in skin, oaths folded in between kisses.
You're on your way home.
You're on your way to me.
Gripping the cane in my hands, the tear in the canvas.
I won't need it.
You'll be there next time.
Next to me, where you belong.
A smile forming without thinking about it, grief taking off its heavy cloak from my shoulders.
You're really coming home to me.
I missed you.
You're almost home.
I almost can't pull myself away from you.
To know that you're out there, alive and well.
That you're out there somewhere, passing by the places where we once were.
The Outer City where you took me to watch you kill.
You inviting me into your world.
Are you around them like you were with me?
The real Achlys, not the Blade or the Chosen. Did it give you that?
I'm waiting, reading your letters in the meantime.
Only a day and I'll see you again.
You will walk in and the world will make sense again.
There's a familiarity around.
My hand gripping a blade I just found, a green blade.
My hands remembering something that my mind has forgotten. The perfect grip.
Care crafted into it.
I can feel the ghost of a man sinking over me as I clasp Gale's hand.
Sharp guilt twisting in my body.
I can see the eyes of another when I open mine in the morning at times.
I can hear the wind whispering a man's voice that he loves me.
Somebody misses me, loves me here.
And the answer might tear me apart or make me whole again.
You're walking in at the hand of another.
The simmer of jealousy raising with each step that you take.
The look in your eyes like you don't recognize me, like we were nothing.
The look in your eyes when you realize that there is more.
Your hand releasing his.
Do you remember me?
You don't but I can read you like a book.
There is something that you remember. I can see it.
You're mine and I am yours.
Made for each other, made to thwart the Gods.
Does that hand in yours feel like mine?
Does it feel familiar?
I'm walking in at the hand of Gale.
My mind trying to make sense when we walk up.
I recognize you, from my dreams.
All along it has been you.
My hand releasing his.
Are you happy to see me?
Did we love each other before?
Would you know that your ghost has been haunting me? Has mine been haunting you?
Did you think about me at night? When sleep couldn't take you?
Like you did to me?
I shouldn't be thinking this.
Should have cleared my mind away from you.
But I can't, I can't do that to you.
You're here. Alive and well.
I know that you have an inkling of the memories, I know you too well to hide it.
So why don't we finish what we started?
You'll find your memories again, you'll find our love again.
And you'll look at me like you did the last time.
With danger flitting between love, so uniquely you.
And you take the alliance and I know that you remember the last time you did it.
I'll wait.
I'll be so patient.
You'll find me right here when you remember.
Where it all started between the both of us.
The city screams your name.
The city screams your presence.
You name always at the back of my mind. Your eyes and your face.
My body remembered, like it was the only thing that survived.
Now I'm wandering like I'm in a maze that I walked before.
When I smell the sea air, I can see your face at the docks.
When I hear a Steel Watcher, I can see your grin.
When I am with him, I can feel your hand on me.
You know the monster inside of me.
I know that you were never scared of me.
Blood begets blood.
Sister has to kill sister.
Choices are made.
The Daughter of Bhaal turned Child of None.
Memories pounding my mind, rushing over me.
Memories of happiness and sadness, anger and fear.
Also the memories of you.
Of love, of being brought in a world of colour.
Of something that felt more real than anything in the world.
Tied to each other like the strings of fate.
Your body pressed up against mine, feeling safety for the first time.
Your lips on mine, a touch that was chosen.
A solemn vow of love that was just between us.
I know it is you who enters, the sound was never so sweet.
There are a few seconds before I feel you against me. Pressed up against my back.
Your body fitting in like it never went away.
Like everything that happened was blown away.
Because you're here.
Because it's you.
Like it should be.
Vanilla and lavender, some things never change.
Some things were so ingrained that even they couldn't take it away.
I never doubted you, I always knew.
You're made for me.
I'm made for you.
A love that Gods couldn't rip apart.
You're back with me.
We always knew, it would be glory or ruin.
But then I didn't know that it wouldn't matter.
Because it would be with you.
It would always be with you.
Others never were able to do the same, never would fill the place you hold in my heart.
Different sides but still the same.
You changed my world.
You changed my life.
I will hold your hand, even if it is to ruin.
Because the last thing I will see is you.
Just like it was always intended to be.
It was always meant to be the two of us