Reborn:

I run, breathlessly, through the woods heart pounding as my feet carry me into the distance. Screams pierce my eardrums, screams I know. Roger. I turn back and see him there lying on his front, blood pouring from his chest as he reaches towards me.

" Edilio!"

I try to force my brain into stopping my feet but I can't hesitate, even for a moment. Yet behind me I know that those screams will be Rogers last.

I sit up panting with fear, sweat rolling down my hot forehead. Just a dream. I lie back in bed pulling my threadbare duvet up to my chin. I don't think there has been even a day that I haven't thought about Roger. Sometimes I just imagine his mutilated, rotting carcass on the forest floor, unburied. We only confessed our love a few weeks before the incident on the boat. Precious little time.

Light rips through the boats my body crashing against our bedroom walls, I hold Roger and Justin tight as we try to run out the cabin door my heart beating fast as we run from the fire. Heats seems to seethe from every corner and around me I can see the other houseboats sink to the bottom of the lake, the cool water putting out the flames.

" Daddy Roger? What's happening?" Justin asks his face an image of pure terror.

" I dunno baby." Roger replies clutching the little's hand in his fist.

" Dilio! I gotta get my pictures!" Roger cries pushing back against the surge of people in the corridors.

" Babe, no!" I shout heart filled with passion as I run back towards our cabin. The next few minutes was all of a blur. I still remember today the look of sheer terror as Justin's was incinerated cut in half with Gaia's light. He was our baby and then he was gone, a pile of ash not even a body to bury. All that's properly left of him are the memory's in my mind of his laugh and little hands as he hugged me and Roger. We used to joke that he was practise for a real kid one day. That'll never happen now. Not when Roger's dead. I hope their lying next to each other still at the bottom of the lake. I remember how I waited by the shore for days after we were separated. I'll never get to say goodbye properly to him either.

" Edilio!" My mum says bringing me back to reality." You gonna mope around or do something for a change?" Mum asks setting a cup of coffee down on the shelf next to my bed.

" Thanks." It still feels a bit weird to have mum bossing me around, a few weeks ago I was in charge. I flick on the TV and go onto the news. The FAYZ is still taking up most of the local news so I watch some of that to find out if there are any more survivors.

" A boy found in the woods yesterday has made it to hospital and is..."

Roger.

" This way please." The Nurse says walking up a corridor." Are you a close relative?"

" I'm his boyfriend!"

" Alright then, go through."

Roger lies on the bed, tubes running through his bandaged body. I sit down beside him, stroking his soft cheeks and willing for his eyes to open.

" Dilio?"

My heart flutters as I hear his soft voice.

" It's me babe."

I grab his hand and hold it tight tears rolling freely from my eyes.

"I missed you Dilio."

I smile, nothing could be better than this.

" Me too."

Far away from them Justin smiled, his Daddies were together again.