“You... Took your own... But I don’t understand, growing up I always known you to be happy! You’d always giggle at every little thing, and you live off... No...”
“At one point I had met this lady, very dear to me. She had also laughed all the time. I asked her why she would always laugh and ask for jokes. She told me ‘why not? Because how sad would it be should laughter disappear?’ I suppose you can say I had retired after hearing that. I had already spent 20 years bottling up my emotions and never laughing, I decided I no longer wanted that for my life.”
“But why did you do it?” I asked quietly. He pauses before letting out a sigh. “I didn’t have the best life, it was just about a joke. I have always been different, never had friends or anything. I was... I guess you can say a troubled child. I was bullied due to my odd looks, behavior and personality. I had always been a hopeless romantic. When I would catch feelings for someone, they would throw it back in my face and make fun of me for it.... Then when I was forced to become a grim reaper because of what I did, I’d say it became worse. Being tormented by this role of being forced to reap souls. I lost everyone I had loved and cared deeply about. Leaving me alone and unloved. For the past... Over 20 years I had given up on love. I had come to the conclusion there would never be anyone out there for me, to be able to call my own. I believed, how could there be? I’m immortal, while everyone else here are mortal.”
He was starting to cry at this point as he continues to look down. My heart was breaking for him. “Baby-”
“You have no idea how... Grateful I am to you, Amora! You changed my views on love. You made me believe I can actually be loved and wanted! And the best part to me is... You are almost immortal as well!” He shouts as he looks back up at me.
“I believe that you are meant for me! I know you are! I won’t have to worry about losing you from old age, or natural causes! Only by a death scythe or someone taking you away from me! Amora, you are my world, my everything I have ever wanted and dreamed of!” As he was crying even more, I scoot closer to him and hold him in my arms as I try to comfort him.
“You are my love, Undertaker. I love you more than anything in the world, you will always have me. I need you just as much as you need me.” I say quietly, and he tightens his grip on me.
Once he calms down, he lets go and straightens himself up to continue on. “With you, yes you were 12 when you had died. I know you had asked me about your heart beating from time to time, and I didn’t have an answer for that. But I now know the cause and reason. When I brought you back, you didn’t have one of course, and I thought you never would anymore. I had returned your soul so you can still be that sweet girl I knew you had always been. It turns out, with your soul it still plays a role with your heart beating. With your heart beating, you are still able to age. However, as the years go on, you will start aging less, as your heart will slowly beat less. A heart is so used to beating constantly in a mortal life, and with your case, it will start getting used to beating less and less.”
“But how can that be? You still have your heart and soul, and you never age anymore?” I was beyond confused. “It’s different for me. I am absolutely immortal, except with a death scythe of course. With you, I am uncertain if you can be within a fire and be fine or if you would still burn to ash, and I refuse to have you risk it. I can be within a fire and be fine. I was immediately brought back after death to be a reaper. It took a year to bring you back... It’s difficult to explain.”
“I suppose that makes a little sense.” Though I was still very confused. “I do have a question that has been bothering me, and it’s a little off subject, but why is it you dislike Her Majesty?” I questioned.
“It’s not off subject, as part of the answer will be another admission I need to tell you. It’s another harder confession for me to admit to you.” He answers as he gives another sigh.
“This is where I know you will start becoming mad.” He says quietly as he looks down yet again. “Mad?”
“You heard me say that your father was the closest friend I ever had. More so, my only friend. He didn’t care about my differences, in fact that’s what piqued his interest in me. He offered me to work with him, become an aristocrat. As I was happy to make an actual friend, I agreed. The reason I dislike Victoria so much is that she is the reason behind the deaths of my dearest friends and love at the time. Your father and your grandmother.”
“My grandmother again?.... But wait, how is Her Majesty the cause of my grandmother’s death?!”
“I knew your grandmother before I ever knew your father and before he was even thought of. Your grandmother was..... Also, Victoria’s guard dog.”
“Her... Guard dog?... But you are the one who told me females can’t be a guard dog!! This whole time I could have been a guard dog instead of my brothers?!”
“When you were born, I had talked your father into not letting you become the next guard dog. You had a whole life ahead of you, and you shouldn’t risk having your life being taken away so short! But look how well that turned out...” He refused to look at me after that.
“The reason you have been constantly sought after was because those people don’t want there being any kind of guard dog. You are constantly being sought after because they don’t want you to ever become one! Same with your brother. Your grandmother was killed for being one, then your father... Your brother is next, or more so had been.”
“Undertaker... You... Lied to me! You promised me you would never lie to me!!” I was furious and hurt. “I have never lied to you our whole relationship, Amora! Well... Except for one thing, but that wasn’t intentional! I had forgotten about the truth, but I will be getting to that shortly.”
“You might as well tell me now, you already brought it up!” I yell out. He looks over at me, hurt clear in his eyes. “Amora, just know that I love you...” He struggles to hold back more tears as he looks away.
“I loved Cloudia. She was different from everyone else. We were in love, or, so I had thought.”
“Or so you had thought? What does that mean?!”
“It is true when I had said that something happened shortly after our relationship started that made her change her mind. But the real truth is... She... Broke my heart. She was already betrothed to someone else when we had started our relationship. Or I should say... Our affair. It devastated me to know she was already with someone else. I wanted her to be only mine, but she wouldn’t leave her relationship. So she left ours. I wanted her back though, I wanted to be her one and only, but she wouldn’t take me back.”
I was speechless, I didn’t know what to say. “I know I told you we never slept together. But there was one night that I did everything I could to forget, and I did up until earlier. We both had a few drinks, had a romantic night, and we... Did sleep together. On that very mattress. I could have sworn I had thrown it out. She completely devastated me! Because shortly after that night was when she told me she was marrying another. I ended up giving myself to someone who I thought was supposed to be mine! That’s part of the reason why I was scared to give myself to you until I knew you wanted to be mine! That’s why I proposed to you first, so I knew it was going to be something real! I was scared to end up going through the same thing again!”
We were both crying by this point. I felt almost betrayed... But how can I be, when this happened way before I was even born. Way before my father came into the picture. But then something had occurred to me, shattering my heart.
“Undertaker... First off how could you... You completely lied to me!” I shout as I stood up. “Second of all...” I didn’t know how to form my words and get them out. I was at a loss as my mind has basically been blown. I struggle looking around as I was starting to become lightheaded. “Amora-”
“Is Francis your fucking daughter?!” I ended up blurting out. “What?!”
“She looks almost just like you! And Edward can almost be your twin, especially with the green eyes! Come to think of it, he looks identical to a younger you!” Everything was spinning around me, before everything went black.
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Next chapter will be updated Friday night!