Before eternity
A/N: All My Stories will be updated at some point in in a dark place at the moment so please understand and I will try and get them updated when it is possible…
What is it that bind us to look for love? Is it the thrill of the chase? Or having someone there to hold at the end of the day?
Love is something that once you have it, it breaks you down when it is lost and makes you wish that you never found the fickle emotion in the first place.
This is what sucks about the whole thing Artemis had never believed in love, had never asked for it. Yet it had worn away his defences until nothing remained but a husk held together by a fickle emotion. Something that was all consuming and had taken over his genius thoughts and plans and had crammed his mind with these images of Holly of all people not butler.
But it was never meant to be it was impossible as a human Artemis could never be romantic with a fairy. But then there was Butler his immortal protector another person he had fallen in love with. After last night Artemis was not sure it was real (* See Before I Sleep*) . How could it have been it was almost impossible to have love but two forbidden loves in one's heart?
TWO WEEKS LATER
Unfortunately life is a disappointment in its simplest form you live, you cry and you die simple right? Wrong a person's heartache is the biggest disappointment life is never what you see in advertisements it is not as it is in romance novels life sucks. Especially when love is lost.
Artemis had come home thinking all this after the worst day he had ever had and that was a tall order taking the fairy people for all their worth and then helping them after they wiped his brain clean. Life had done nothing but throw up roadblock after roadblock. Artemis was at the end of his rope only the nightly dalliances with butler where his real reward. A good laugh a nice wine and a hug, that is what Artemis needed more then anything.
As Aretmis kicked off his shoes and walking into the kitchen he saw an menacing peoce of paper on the counter waiting to be read he picked it up and almost cried as he read.
Dear Artemis,
Your face lit up when I finally told you that I love you last week. To be honest, I just said it to see if it felt right. It didn't
I don't mean to hurt your feelings, but there it is. Living with you has worn me down to a shadow of my former self. I thought this would be a happy experience. Instead, I feel trapped. Every day the walls between this horrible house and the life that's passing me by seem to grow a little thicker. I'm trapped and even you can't save me. I'm going away to figure some things out with Tom, the guy I told you about from the gym. I can't say when I'll be back, a new bulter will be around in the next day to make sure you live and survive.
Love
Butler
"This isn't happening" Artemis's voice sounded distant the black clouds of depression sinking over his brain making him numb to everything around him. What was he to do? Who was he? Why would butler leave him? Those are the questions that where swirling in the black void that was Artemis's mind.
These questions would never to be answered when Artemis decided to pick up the kife.