"Alec? You. You're the host, aren't you? I'm the other man. It doesn't make sense but we were both there, we were there every time." Said Simon in a muddled daze.
"Simon calm down. I'm going to explain everything, you just need to calm down and listen to me." Replied Alec with authority in his voice.
Simon walked over to a comfortable looking chair in the corner of the room and collapsed into it, wiping his weary eyes with his hands. "Tell me." He said to Alec.
"Okay, this is going to sound crazy… But, we're immortal. Well, not quite, I mean, we can be killed, but every time we are, we don't die; we just disappear and pop up a few days later with no memory of what has happened before hand. The other one of us remembers everything, so has to find the one of us that's missing, and help them claim back their memories. See, you disappeared a few weeks ago and I've been tracking you ever since. Once I found you I knew I'd have to act quickly, because if I hadn't had found you within six months, you'd never have been able to get your memories back."
"Memories back? So I'm going to be able to remember everything that's happened before this soon?" asked Simon, eager to snatch back what was rightfully his.
"You'll get flashes of memories, and slowly they'll all come back to you. You usually remember our deaths first, and then pieces of your life will come back to you. This morning when you started to remember? I'll bet you were remembering deaths this morning, huh?" Remarked Alec in a semi-curious manner.
"I remember a ball, a night in the blitz, and being in a nightclub at some time in the seventies." Replied Simon.
"Well I died at the masked ball. A jealous man killed me for the lady I was supposed to marry-"
"A lady you were supposed to marry?!" Asked Simon sounding shocked and envious at the same time.
"Well I wasn't actually going to marry her, but it was intended." Said Alec suddenly realising, "You know that I've loved you in every life, and I will in every life to come, Simon."
"Well that's good; because I can't remember much apart from that I love you. You saved me when I was going to die in the war. You jumped in front of a bullet for me; thank you." Said Simon.
"You don't need to thank me." Said Alec looking suddenly bashful, "Hey, how about we go out somewhere for a coffee and we can finish this conversation?"
"Sure." Said Simon with smile; he supposed this was his first proper date (that he could remember) with Alec, and that was pretty nerve wracking as well as exciting. Alec took Simon's hand in a familiar but almost nervous way as he lead him down the corridor, out of the towering oak doors and onto the street. Outside the sun was slowly setting into a raspberry smoothie in the sky. This was going to be the perfect ending to the perfect day, Simon could just feel it.