You sit on your couch and look at the weapon you never dared leave behind. You fix your eyes on it, lose yourself as you travel back in time to the day it was given to you. You think about the days of youth, the lips that would smile with genuine mirth, the walks you both would take - shoulder to shoulder, talking about the future.
Some days your hand reaches out. You try to touch the arm, his back in front of you, long hair now dyed in black - his body is full of horrors. Those scars that were not there once upon a time now scattered all over his form. What stories do they tell? Those atrocities can’t be forgotten.
You press a kiss to the upper side of his shoulder but he moves away, sits up on the bed and the warmth is lost. You can no longer close your arms around him, because he wants to leave, and you know there’s nothing you can do to make him stay.
Sometimes you think the memories are all you have. Some days you wonder when it’s worth fighting for something, and when it’s best to just let it go. But if he were to forget everything, wouldn’t that be so much easier? Wouldn’t that give you reasons to move on?
“No one should know what happened here. Forget what we did. It never happened.” Blade says, standing up, gathering all his clothes and putting them all on, and you think: when will be the next time we see each other? Centuries have passed before your eyes. You remember the day it all happened, and you think of how many years have passed ever since. Probably, next time you won’t be yourself. Next time you could be nothing but a monster, and the mara would eventually take away from you even the memory of his name.
You chuckle, sitting up, gazing towards the window. “I’m afraid… I am not good at forgetting.”
I am not good at pretending these hands did not touch you like they did, or that I didn’t kiss you, so I could take something from you, or leave something of me in you, so you carry me wherever you go.
Blade looks back at you over his shoulder - a ruby stone staring, and then that fire burns you no more.