This Story takes place right after Stopping Time,
When Niall and Irial were at the café.
After hearing, Irial confuse he still loved him.
Niall left to the Café and went to the only place he felt at ease at, The Dark Court, Once long ago he feared it, but now he was their king and the court was like a sanctuary to him.
The memories that once haunted him, were nothing more then shadows coming and going with everything he felt.
The only thing that stayed the same was the way he still loved Irial.
With a sting of longing he once and still felt, every time he thought of him.
Niall stepped off his throne and walked to his chamber room.
He then opened the doors and walked through them, remembering the past he tended to remember and forget every so often.
But that was an extremely long time ago and now that didn't matter anymore, He thought as he walked to the case of cigarettes on the nightstand, opened the case and lit one with that lighter next to the case. He took a long drag and exhaled the smoke liking the way it danced off into the room.
He took another drag then grounded it, right before a knock came from his chamber door. He exhaled the light gray smoke and called to the door, "You may come in," he wondered just who could be on the other side of the door.
As the door opened, Niall saw that it was Irial.
Irial bowed to Niall without lifting his head to look at him as he asked, "May I offer you some comfort, Niall?"
He wondered if Niall felt the some discomfort from earlier that day as he did.
Niall walked over to Irial about 8 steps away from him, and whispered, " I understand that You and I had a hard time today from the stuff with Leslie and some of the other stuff and I missed the company you once brought me a long time ago and," He then looked at the other without hiding the emotions he still felt for him as he finished saying, " I've longed for the day when you would come to me, like you have done right now and asked me those words you have just spoken to me and my answer is…Always."
Irial then walked past Niall and sat on his king's bed before saying, " I'm glad… you agreed I was worried that you wouldn't, How much I've longed for this day to when we could just be---"
His sentence was interrupted by Niall's lip on his own. Swallowing the sentence Iri didn't finish.
"I've dreamed of the day when we could be together, just like those many decades ago, when it was just us." Niall whispered as he sat beside Irial.