Chapter 7
A million emotions were reeling through him as he loudly stepped through the forest. Making sure to break and destroy every branch he happened to step on. He was angry, and frustrated, decorated, and just wanted to hurt something to show how much he hurt on the inside.
Arriving at the outcropping of rocks at his factories cliff he defeated lay sits down. Covering his face with his hands. Silent tears still streaming down his cheeks that he would never admit to shedding.
He opens his eyes. Watching the silver glint of the river below. For a second, he thinks about jumping. Ending this pathetic life. Leaving this messed up world behind. Slamming his fist into the rock he shakes his head. Not believing that he has just thought that. Not after knowing what it would do.
A soft hand touches his shoulder, easing the pain out of him. Turning his head, he notices the familiar whips of ghostly white hair tickling the side on his head. Turning around, he grasps her ghostly form, pulling her against his chest. Wishing like so many other times that he could talk to her. To her her soft voice, hear her laugh.
She gently flows to the ground next to him. Her ghostly tattered skirt spreading over the rock. Tossed by an invisible breeze. Placing her cold ghostly hands on his cheeks she smiles. Pulling his set frown into a smile. Her mouth moving to form words that he could not hear.
Removing her hands she nods approvingly when his smile stays. Floating up she bends down to kiss his forehead. Fading into the wind just as a crunch sounded in the outskirts of the forest. A blonde head emerging from the shadows. Violet eyes searching the clearing until they landed on him.
He sighs, staring straight ahead of him as the blonde settles down next to him. Keeping a reasonable distance between them. A comfortable silence stretching between them as both searched for the right words. Neither willing to break the calming silence. Sollux breaks the silence first. Glancing over at the blonde with a small smile.
"Prince Eridan, who would have guethed right?" Eridan blushes, staring at the ground.
"I hope you understand wwhy I lied. I feel miserable and guilt for my actions." Sollux lets out a small laugh.
"No hard feelingth. I would have done the thame given the right circumstanceth." Eridan smiles and visibly relaxes, turning to face him.
"You know, that wwas my first time seeing a man so intimate wwith another man. I've heard of sodomy, but I did not believe it real until today. Much like the existence of vvampires." Sollux instantly frowns, glaring at the rushing river.
"You must feel dithguthted then. KK's right, my actionth are revolting.." Eridan raises his eyebrows shaking his head.
"No. Actually, I found it the opposite. I thought I wwould find it disgusting wwhen I first heard of it, but seeing you kiss Karkat did not look revvolting to me at all. It looked...normal." Sollux laughs, relaxing slightly.
"Actually, speaking the truth, I was rather jealous of him. You must really lovve him." Eridan blushes looking away. A shy smile on his face. Probably imagining things in his head that Sollux would not dare ask him about.
Sollux smiles, reaching his hand over to gently place his over the pale hand. Another silence follows. Eridan soon curling his fingers. Making them twine with each other. Sollux couldn't help but notice that the spaces between his fingers were where Eridan's fit perfectly.
"I'm being forced into a marriage wwith a tribal princess in a couple months. My father promised me that I wwould be able to marry wwhomevver I wwished, but he broke the promise. I wwas really angry with him.
Felt broken and unlovved. Like I wwas nothing but a puppet for him to control. That's wwhy I left home. That's wwhy I decided to end my life. Pretty pathetic right?"Sollux shakes his head.
"I don't think itth pathetic. If I wath in your plathe and did not know the thingth I do, I would have done the thame thing. Although knowing mythelf my death would have been more gory." Eridan sighs, moving just a little closer to him, their thighs almost touching.
"So wwhy don't you do it? End your life I mean. I wwould." Sollux sighs, wrapping his arm casually around the other shoulders.
"It's not that eathy. Altho, the rethult will be tho much worthe than what I fathe here." The blonde looked at him with an expression of confusion. Making Sollux sigh again and run his free hand through his black hair.
"So you know how I have the ability to move things with my mind?" A small nod, but the look of confusion remains.
"Well, that'th not all I can do. I have thith gift, actually it'th more of a curthe if you athk me, but that ith bethide the point. I can hear thingth. Well and thee thingth too but only when I'm athleep. My thithter called them 'the voiceth of the thoon to be dead. They echo and thcream in hith head'. Which ith actually the betht way to dethcribe them.
But you thee, it'th not all the dead. It'th only thothe who die unnatural deathth. Murder, accidentth on the thtreetth, drowning, witchcraft burningth, thuicide. Bathically anything that ith not cauthed by a ditheathe or death by old age.
Thethe voiceth, they thcream in agony. At leatht motht of them do. Otherth jutht accept their fate and remain thilent. At night, I enter their bodieth and experience their deathth. Uthually a thmall amount of dayth before their death day. That'th how I knew you were going to jump. I already experienced it from your point of view theveral nightth before.
Anywayth, the point being, the dead are mitherable. Their unnatural deathth trap them in thith world. And the only way they can move on into the next ith if they, well actually, it'th nearly impoththible.
The killer mutht acknowledge their death, apologize for killing them and then preform a ritual that would thend them onto the next life. If they died becauthe of an accident or drowning, or their own hand, they can't move on. There ith nothing they can do but thuffer being the ghothtth of the earth that hunt the living." He trails off, his mind traveling to the day that his sister was burned on the stake. I shalt he pushes the thought away. Turning to face a thoughtful blonde.
"Did the vvoices tell you all that?" Sollux shakes his head no. Bitin his lip as he thinks of a way to explain where he got the knowledge.
"No, my thithter did. Like me, she altho had a gift. But unlike me, she could thpeak and control the dead. Now she ith among them. But unlike the retht, she hath thomeone thhe can vithit who can thee her ghothtly form. Who can feel her hand on hith back ath she hugth him.
The only thing, he can't hear her thpeak. No mater how many timeth she openth her mouth to try." Eridan does not ask anything else. Accepting his answer. Sollux stares at the river, glad that he was not asked about the details of her death. Even though several years has passed he was still not ready to share them with anybody. Let alone a stranger who he had yet to become close with. Eridan squeezes his hand, offering him a warm smile.
"It's alright to miss her. I'm sure she lovves vvisiting you. You should feel lucky. You're probably the only one who can see her wwhile others just livve with their lovved ones' memories." Sollux nods, looking into the others violet eyes.
The blond smiles, shifting his body to the side so that he was across from the black haired man. Offering him another smile he gently cups his chin. Moving slowly toward him until their lips meet. Sollux smiles, instantly returning the chaste kiss. His hands wrapping around the other's waist as he gently kisses back.
Pulling away after a short while to watch the sunset reflect off the surface of the river at the bottom of the cliff. His arm wrapped around the blonde in an almost protective manner.
AN: Aww, so sweet right? Dont forget to leave a a review and tell me what you think of the story so far. Remember, the more reviews and stuff I get, the faster I will update. Love you all, and thankies so much for the reviews. (Also: if you guys want to draw fanart I WOULD ABSOLUTLY LOVE TO SEE IT XD) ~Angie
