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When i woke up, i was alone. the sun had just come up and i was eager to see the sunrise, to see if everything was all it was to be rumored to be here. Rising out
of bed, i touched the sheets and a flash back of the pervious night with Marius
entertained my eyes. Running my hands through my hair i caught a sight of a white
piece of paper, it was computer based type and i was torn to either read it now
or wait til after i got the total expernice of the sunrise. Gathering my cover
around me i walked down the stairs to the living room and opened the curtians
and before me was the most breath-taking sunrise. Hues of red, purple, and blue
swirled and danced within white puffy almost cotton ball type clouds. It was
warming and charming at the same moment. I was standing there, in my room of black
and dark blue looking out onto the sky into which my entire human life i never
made time to see. Everything that i had taken for advantage on earth, i was going
to make up for it here, for all of enterity.

After watching the rising sun i went into the kitchen and brewed coffee for myself,
this was a daily ritual i had done for all of my 29yrs of life and it wasnt about to
change just because i was dead. Leaving the kitchen i went to the letter that sat on
my night stand, it was folded into threes. i didnt know what to expect the moment i
would open it but i had hoped that it wouldnt be something i would regret. Opening
the letter to its entirety, i fixed my eyes on the letter head:

My dark one,
I wanted to wait til you woke up this morning to tell you that i would have leave
this morning before the sunrise, but feeling your exhuastion as we slept i decided
that i should write you before i had to leave for my slumber and the hunt. I will
always return back to you but i am still the demon i was made into being. Nothing
can change that, no matter how badly i wish it so, i longed to be back with you
as we used to be back in our time, our past, our home of greece. Watching the rising
sun every morning and the rising moon every night i wanted to be with you to see the
rising once more but sadly, i could not. I do miss the days of us back in greece, you
a girl of 23 and me a scholar of 30, everyone said that there was nobody ever more
matched for each other than ourselfs, and i knew that the moment we met in the markets
when we bumped into each other at the book-merchant. one look to you i was caputred
in your eyes and the emotion behind them. Athena was the name on my lips after we
met, and i knew that you were the daughter of the gods, your father Hades had gifted
you with emotions far-more advanced than other human being and the gods of mount
omyplous gifted you with beauty, wit, personialtiy, charm, and intellagence. I
prayed every night hoping that i would again come into contact with the goddes
again and i was answered when we met again, under the tree of unbearing fruit.
you stood with much grace and at your age of 18 i wanted your hand but your mother
go wind of what i wanted and strongly suggested that i leave you be. i couldnt. i
wanted to see you once more, talk with you and see the joy in your eyes that i had
seen when we first met. no man satifiyed you and you never married, not even when
a honored merchant of kings came to you for your beauty intoxicated him and he
promised you gold, jews, status you said you would rather be of your mother's wealth
rather than something bought by unnoble hands, i knew then i had to have you. meeting
at any chance we could weather in public or the gardens of your house, where we spent
countless nights talking and looking into the heavens above, where we shared our first
kiss and the change in your eyes and the change in my heart i was going to marry you
but it would have to wait until i came back from rome. you said that you would wait
for me and we would marry the day i returned and never look back, 5 long years you
waited and never touched another and i could not for you were on my mind countless
nights. while the others were with boys, slaves and women i waited to return back to
you and talked with the gods to protect you and keep you sound, letting you know
that i had not forgotten about u and i was over-joyed to hear that you kept thoughts
of me and kept your promise. Even now as you sleep and i stare at the face of the youth i married every thought remembered of our wedding still dances into my head
and my thoughts. Your eyes were so filled of joy and happiness you still mourned the
passing of your mother but she brought me back to you, she saw us on our wedding night
and your fathers and mothers looked down on us from the heavens, they blessed us with
each other. and even then when you wanted children and i wanted nothing more than to
give them to you, war pressed on and i had to leave you. 22years. the wound was still
fresh when i left you, tears shared between us both i didnt want to leave but duty
called. I stayed longer because i had found the secret to eternal life and i wanted
nothing more than to share it with my truest loved one.

I will never forget the day i returned to you, the house was sad and full of sorrow,
i demanded to see you but when our servant shook his head i knew something was wrong
and i was rushed to you. i came into our chamber and i found you on the ground, tears
streaked down your face, and blood on the corner of your mouth, you had poisoned
yourself.a note on the bed shared that i was killed in action and i could feel the
emotion on the page where your hands held. i kneeled at your body and took you in my
arms and wept and yet you remained emotionless and still. i had lost the one i wanted
to keep forever and nothing could change that, your spirit was already gone and not
even the potion could reviv you. i was heartbroken and i wanted to join you in death
but zeus and hades came to me, saying that you died of a broken heart and would be
reincarnted into a human life decades from now, and i would be back with you again.
i still held your body and i knew that we would never share the connection we had
and never have the children we longed to have. Carrying you down the stairs to the
temple i draped you on marble and a prayer was blessed over you and i held your face
in my eyes before you were buryed.

Even now, as you sleep i still see the woman i married back then and the eyes of the
true loved i left and returned back to but the last time was the saddest moment i
have ever experniced, which is why i gave up my human life to become the creature
you see before you, and yet you still love me the same, and althought i wanted to
tell you our past in voice i think that telling you this now is much more expected.
I will return tonight.
Yours Forever,
Marius


My eyes pooled with tears of my rememberance of our history and every moment we shared
back then, i thought i was crazy to see the visions of people i didnt know but now
it made sense and i was home, with him once again. folding the letter again i got up
to shower and change. the dreams where gone and i was finally whole again. Changing
into my uniform of the dead, i went into the kitchen and poured myself a cup of
steaming coffee, and returned back to my desk where a list showed on the screen. No checks so this meant that today i would start my job of the reaper and a damn hot one.
When i turned my head my scythe was floating next to me and i reached out my hand
to which it fell into and i stood with list in hand and exited my room. The hall was
busy and alive as it was yesturday. I walked down to the main hall to where she sat
and bowed to me and i to her. "i see you have gotten the list of souls?" she said gently, i nodded in reply. "go forth and bring them here or to where they are to remain for all time." i bowed before i was projected onto earth.

"ok, we go."

*TBC*