A/N: I'm sorry that I haven't updated in a while but I hadn't read all the emails and wasn't aware that you guys actually like this! Thanks for reading (:

It's been so long since the last time we talked. We touched. We kissed. I missed it all. We sat on the railing talking about the years we spent apart. I achieved nothing, but trouble. Getting into fights, arguing with father. No one knew what was wrong with me but Mary. She knew everything, she was the one that found out about us and warned me about the danger of this relationship. She saw my pain and did everything she could to make it better. She even offered me the coins she had saved up her whole life for me so that I could run away, as I'd have to ask father for some money and he'd need to know why I needed it.

"I miss her, how is she?" Ichigo smiled as he remembered her. She was always caring towards everyone; she deserved a better life than a servant.

"She's not doing so well, age is getting to her." I frowned, I've just gotten Ichigo back, I didn't want to lose Mary now.

"I'm sure she'll be fine for a long time. She is very strong." He placed his hand on my shoulder in a comforting manner.

"Yes she is. Strong enough to understand our love. No one else would." No matter how many girls I had in the absence of him, none of them could fill his place, he was always missing in my heart and no one could replace that. "What are we going to do Ichigo?"

"We'll make things work. We are older and wiser." He laughed, "Thinking back on the year we spent together, makes me laugh of how stupid we actually were. Well I was."

"You were not." I paused and thought about it, "Okay maybe just a little, I mean you wanted to run away with me but you never had a plan of how we'd live afterwards."

"It's okay. This time I do have a plan." He grinned. His grin was contagious; I couldn't help but grin back. "Question is do you still want to run away with me?"

"I thought you'd never ask." I laughed. I couldn't believe my life was becoming good again. I could see light again; I wasn't a soulless man walking in these empty halls. Now I had something to look forward. Someone to be with. "What's your plan?"

"It is going to take a while, but in order for everything to go correctly we have to do it so that they wouldn't search for us." Okay so his plans never made sense. There was no way for a Prince to disappear so that no one would look for him. Purely impossible. "That's impossible Ichigo. Everyone will look for the Prince and Duke's of Souliety son."

"Not if they are dead." He smirked. So I guess his plan wasn't impossible, it was just shit crazy. Does he want me dead? Because last time I checked God did not allow same sex relationships and so we wouldn't go to heaven and wouldn't be together. Simple as that.

"If we're dead, we can't be together you clown."

"You are well aware of the war your father and Aizen are planning? It is scheduled in a few months. If we go and fight in the war, and just not return they would think we have died." Ichigo jumped happily in circles. I've never seen him so crazy-happy before.

"But what if we do die or get hurt in the war?" I was never the optimist, more of a realist.

"We never actually go to war." He stopped jumping and stepped towards me. "We go way into the opposite direction, away from everything." He leaned in closer and just as I was about to kiss him he moved and laughed. What a tease.

"Well this could work, but what will we do afterwards? Where will we live?" A million questions circle in my head and suddenly I got a little frightened.

"We have two months to worry about that. In the mean time I suggest we spend some quality time." He inched closer to me.

"But how are we going to do that without getting caught?"

"Ahh Grimmjow you and your questions. We can always meet up anytime, anywhere but we won't be able to do anything more intimate," he whispered the last part in my ear. I shivered. "But I hear your father likes these Masquerade Balls very much and has them very frequently. So if you just talk to him and convince him to host them even more frequently we can always hide behind masks." This plan of his wasn't so bad, which was actually surprising. "Well look at the time, I have to go or my family will get suspicious. Hopefully I'll be seeing you again soon Grimmjow." He waved a good bye and walked out the balcony closing the door behind him. He was never romantic with his goodbyes.

I sat in the balcony for a while, thinking about the plan. The more I thought about it, the more I liked it. My father was planning a war against Aizen, which must also be the reason why the Duke of Souliety is here for the first time. If we have two months, that might be enough time to earn some money, especially if I tell my father that I am taking out a girl somewhere, he'll be more than glad to give me some, no more questions asked. I couldn't remember the last time that I was so happy. I just wanted to run out there and grab him, never letting go. But if I did that it meant death, and whatever I do I will not risk his death.

"Prince, I knew I'd find you here." I was so fixed on my thoughts I didn't even hear the balcony door open and close, I didn't hear when Mary came to my side.

"You know everything Mary." I smiled and gave her a little hug.

"I know you want to be with him and you won't let anyone stand in your way." She coughed.

"You are a wise one, you always were. " I looked at her more thoroughly, she seemed quite pale ad that made worry.

"I just want you to know that God loves all of his children, even if they have sinned." She smiled and coughed again.

"Mary, are you okay? You don't sound too well." I took her hand and she was freezing.

"I'll be fine, for a while at least, but just in case I want you to know that I love you so much, like a son I never had and that whenever you decide to do something, you need know that all of my fortune is in that hiding place you always used to hide when you were little." She laughed quietly at the memories of little Grimmjow running and hiding, only to be found quickly as Mary knew where he always was.

"I could never take everything from you." I frowned, why does this sound like a goodbye?

"But if something happens to me, I want you to have it. I have no one else to give it to." Again, she coughed.

"Please Mary, just hold on for two months and I'll get you out of here I promise. Just... Just don't leave me."

"I'll try to Grimmjow, but now you have to get in there and change so that your father would know you have attended." She handed me my usual blue mask and I took of my Perriot robes and fixed the suit that was underneath. It was also a shade of blue.

"Here let me help you." She took my old robes and started to remove the powder from my hair, it took a while but Mary can do anything. She then place the mask on my face. "Ready to go, my Prince." She smiled and opened the door for me.

"Thank you Mary, I don't know what I'd do without you." I thanked her while I stepped out of the balcony and all the eyes in the ballroom went on me. But I was only looking for a hair of hazel ones behind a black mask. And I found them.

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