When you've been alone for too long, you sometimes feel the echo of the last words spoken to you inside your head.
When you've been alone for too long, even the mere impression of someone feeling something for you can bring a tremendous satisfaction to your heart.
When you've been alone for too long, you don't care who is standing opposite you, as long as they are standing there, with you.
"Hello ladies and gentlemen and welcome to Who Is My Valentine!, our Valentine Day special on Lousy FM! So, today, a young couple from Italy will be joining us, to share their own unusual experience! Please welcome, Romeo and Juliet!"
There was some clapping, it probably was a live broadcast.
"So, Romeo, how did you get to meet Juliet?"
"Well, we were classmates, and you know, since we were little everyone would...you know say we had chemistry and stuff because of our names..."
"Oh, I don't see a reason why they wouldn't! What about you, Juliet? Did you fall in love from the first sight with Romeo?"
"Oh, yes I was starstruck!"
I rolled my eyes. There was some other cheering and I decided to change the station when a word captured my ear...
"So what are your plans for the future?"
"Whatever happens, we have promised to never let each other go...Not even in death."
There was some blur clapping echoing in my stunned head.
Romeo and Juliet,
are together in eternity...
Then there was this song, and a fluttering feeling inside, and out of sudden, all I wanted to do, all I wanted to see and hear, was Him.
*()*
Death had never experienced love. Not even when he was Bill Door. So, he shouldn't obviously be able to mimic a feeling he had never felt before. But he had felt need. And care. And affection. So, for some strange reason, Katherine caused him to mimic this feelings, in a bittersweet mixture of him needing her, yet being unable to have her.
He wasn't accustomed to the ways of a young lady, even though Katherine was no complex character, and open-minded enough to let him get close enough to her. Death knew he had to impress her somehow, he had to please her. He wasn't beautiful, nor could attract her with his character, which where the two basic ways for love to be created, as far as he knew. But he could definitely make her need him.
In fact, Death thought she probably already did. When he was near her, she could see and walk and do all those things she hadn't done for so long. But he didn't want her to need him in this way. He didn't want her to feel he was just death for her; he wanted to be Bill Door for her.
Rising from his study chair, he walked around the office and out of the room, in seach of his butler. Albert was frying pudding in the kitchen as always. Death walked through the kitchen wall to get to him.
I NEED YOUR HELP.
The old wizard jumped up in surprise, spilling some pudding out the frying pan and on the floor.
"What is it master?" He tried to act as if nothing had happenned.
I MUST ASK YOU SOME QUESTIONS...
Albert raised a silver eyebrow.
"Is it about this girl you're visiting? Cause I know as much as you do as far as soul transportation is concerned..."
Death seemed puzzled.
YES, IT IS ABOUT HER. BUT NOT ABOUT HER SOUL.
Albert frowned, one horrible idea slipping into his mind, causing him to immediately pray his suspicions were proved wrong.
"...What about her then, master?" he said eying the skeleton opposite him.
ER...I...HOW CAN I PLEASE A HUMAN?
Albert felt his heart sinking into despair. Not human business again!, he thought.
"It is about the human, sir."
ER...HOW CAN I PLEASE A FEMALE HUMAN?
Albert felt unable to hold his fury back. He had to obey Death, or he would be kicked back out on the Disk, such little time left in his hourglass.
"Well...ladies like...being bought things."
YES. I CAN RECALL ESPECIALLY FLOWERS, CHOCOLATES AND DIAMONDS. BUT I NEED SOMETHING MORE THAN THAT...
"What do you mean?"
I NEED SOMETHING NO WOMAN HAS BEEN GIVEN BEFORE...SOMETHING...UNIQUE.
Albert seemed to be thinking for a while, he then snapped sharply.
"I know! Dragon's Tears!"
If Death had eyebrows, they'd both fly up in surprise.
DO YOU THINK IT WOULD BE SAFE TO TAKE THEM TO ANOTHER WORLD?
"I don't see why not. They're not so dangerous after all."
Death seemed thoughtful.
CORRECT. I MUST BE LEAVING NOW.
"The duty?"
THE TEARS.
*()*
Nurse Betty burst into the room. I couldn't sense if she was happy or upset, but she was definitely very nervous.
"Is something wrong?", I spoke.
"Er...not exactly. There is someone here," she paused in search of the right word, "to see you."
I felt my heart pounding louder.
"Me?"
She didn't reply, but I could feel her nodding.
"He says he knows you."
I felt my neck becoming drier as I couldn't believe it.
"Me?"
"He says he's your brother."
