I came to know, a little while after that amazing and wonderful night, that was a peculiar feature for any Nephilim to be extremely clingy and attentive to those they choose to be their mates. Once they chose you and you positively answered to their feelings, that was it, and you'd belong to each other until one decided to terminate everything, which became clear to me as the days passed after that and was a way I couldn't possibly think of Death behaving. Even though he had always been attentive and careful with me for basically everything, it escalated really quickly.

And I was loving it.

Another thing I came to know as well is that, the Council kinda helped with us being together. Yeah, yeah, I laughed at the thought as well, but Death explained that to me when the topic came in the conversation after several weeks.

Basically, since their kin was wiped out and they received their powers from the Council, their need of companionship that wasn't between them four became less and less something that they urged for. I could only think obviously that they had someone they cared for and lost in that particular day, and putting it together with their newly acquired abilities, it just made feelings stop being important to them and almost ceasing to exist, being the reason why their solitude was basically self cultivated.

But after the fake Apocalypse and all the events that unfolded after it, the Council was afraid that the Horsemen could rebel against them and, just as easy as how it was given, they temporarily removed their powers, just so they wouldn't try anything against their masters and so, without that influence and adding the fact that Death was already building up feelings for me despite that, it only made it easier for him to clear up his mind and see past that, noticing that that his long dormant feelings found s reason to come out.

That he would only tell me after all that shitty mess with the Council was solved, otherwise he thought that maybe, even protected by his dome, I could be in danger. I just don't know how the Council would benefit of a simple love story like that, but if he said so, I believed him and mentally thanked that he kept that away to keep me safe.

But that is something I'm anticipating just for the sake of the information. I will focus on the present.

I don't really remember how I feel asleep at all, the only thing that was fixed on my mind was the sight of his face and our lips closing together as we kissed. My sleep, at least, was a calm one even with me having lots of dreams and visions, and when I woke up, fully restored with my energies, he was there. Behind me, holding me close, watching over me in my most vulnerable moment, and making sure I would be alright.

I can never fully wake up in one go, my body was always delayed when it came to making me get up, and so I was waking up in different phases. First, the eyes were a bit bothered, slowly getting used to the light that was invading the room, then my whole body shivered, feeling that cold breeze from the wind storming inside as well, what made me lazily curl up to him even more, feeling him tightening his arms around me and a slight caress on my face. And then, the smell. That scent coming from him, that was so unique, that at the moment I smelled it, I just wanted to bury my face on his neck and stay there for a long while.

That was a hell of a good way of waking up.

"Hm… it's so cold…" I said, my voice still croaky from my sleep, eyes still shut, lazily turning around to be face to face, just sticking my face in his chest while his arms pulled over the blanket on me and held me close again.

"You don't have to wake up now" I felt the caress in my hair.

"You saying that is a miracle…" I giggled "No training?"

He chuckled "You're starting to get lazy" he pressed down a kiss in my head.

"Who in their best minds would wake up like this and just want to get away?" I buried myself more into him "Besides, is so cold outside"

He let a smile appear in the corner of his mouth, but shook his head "Oh, Creator, I'm getting soft on you"

"It's a good thing, isn't it?" I smiled, finally opening my eyes to look at him, just to see him smiling as well. I was surprised to see him without the mask, even after he had taken it off the day before, I was kinda afraid he would've put it back.

I caressed his face gently, running my finger through his cheek, once again paying close attention to his sharp features. My thumb slightly caressed the corner of his mouth as well, and I noticed him sighing with the touch. He liked it and It made me smile.

He pressed down a kiss in my forehead this time, removing a lock of hair that was in my face "I won't be soft with you just because we're together now"

This childish looking pout appeared in my mouth "But then what's the point if I cant benefit from it?" I laughed and I saw him chuckling as well "Fine, fine, I'll keep up with the training routine discipline. I wont get lazy, I promise. But can we stay just a little more?" I gave him the best puppy eyes glare that I could, and I just saw him laugh.

"Alright" he held my hand "Just few more minutes"

I basically slept again, and I know it was for a good long time, because he just didn't want to wake me up and just stayed there with me, caressing my face with the back of his hand for all the time until I woke up.

In the beginning, I was kinda afraid he would find me too clingy or needy, once, of course, I wouldn't like to stay away from him for too long, but thanks God he still had his Nephilim characteristics, so the more the merrier. He too didn't want to stay away.

I regretted sleeping again, once I relived all those visions, and also some bad nightmares. I felt Death tightening the hug whenever I started to shiver and wake up, panting, with eyes watered, but by the second time it happened, I refused to go to sleep again, and so he just thought it was better for me to occupy my mind with something else.

He first had me in a quick meditation, once my mind was not completely out of my visions and nightmares just yet, and if not completely focused, the training would not be productive in any way. Then, he asked if I was feeling well, mentally rested and with no pain at all. It was all good, actually. The meditation helped my mind to get in place and since we were together, the pain in the chest ceased to appear.

He quickly taught me something he was very fond of using, which was teleportation. I completely forgot that he had it, because for me he was just so quick and agile that he didn't even need an ability like that. It was an easy ability to learn, but not so easy to master. He set up different distances and had me reaching them, but I would always go further or not reach it at all. One even brought me to the other side of the river. He couldn't help but to chuckle when he saw my frustration, but came closer to help me again.

"You're not focusing, little one." He stood in front if me "It is as if you make a quick calculation in your mind. You see your opponent, set up his distance in your mind and think if you want to get near or past him" he did it himself to the other side of the river again "Get here by my side"

"Right…" I sighed, inhaled deeply and looked at him, focusing on his right side. It was a weird feeling to teleport. It was as if you were running faster than anything, because you could feel the friction and the air blowing in your face and hair. I mirrored his right side, but when I got to the other side, he had to quickly hold me by my arm, otherwise I would have fallen into the river as I appeared exactly on the edge.

"A little bit more of calculation" he pulled me closer, away from the edge, chuckling.

"Don't laugh! This is hard!" but I ended up laughing as well.

"I know it's hard. But you have to learn it to use in combat" he gently let me go "Go get your sword."

I ran inside the room to get it, and, it could be just my imagination, but it glowed at my touch, as if it felt I was excited to use it. By the time I got to Death again, he already had Harvester in his hand, holding it by his side. "You're using Harvester?" he nodded "Man, this is so unfair."

He laughed "why is it?"

"I mean, look at the size of this thing. And look at my tiny little sword. I can never reach you when you use your full scythe." I sighed "And also, you didn't even get inside, how did you get it so fast?" I was always curious to ask that question.

"As I do with Despair. I just summon it."

"There's so much I have to learn…"

"Quit the talking" he said "Theres plenty of time for me to teach everything you want"

"Alright"

The meaning of the training was for me to train the teleportation, the reason why he was using his full length, bad ass scythe Harvester. It was intended to make any kind of approach hard. And he meant what he said. He wouldn't be soft with me just because we were together now, and it was really clear once he didn't even bother to go easy.

"Death, you're too fast!" I said, panting, supporting myself over my sword "You said you'd increase speed gradually"

"But you can teleport now. That, if done properly, can outcome any speed of mine or anyone's. With that, you can dodge even Strife's bullets".

"Alright, but I didn't master it yet"

"That's why we are training" and he told me to keep going.

That first training was awful and I barely could get near him, ending up with some cuts all over me, as my teleportation always reached Harvester's sharp blade. When he finished for the day, I sat down on the floor, healing those minor cuts as quickly as they were made, a big baby pout in my mouth.

"don't Make that face, little one" he kneeled by my side "It takes time and lot of practice to master this" The pout didn't go away, and he chuckled at the sight "here" he waved his hand over me and all the remaining cuts disappeared at once "We will train more and in no time you'll be mastering it. You'll see." Without time to answer him, my tummy rumbled. I haven't had anything to eat the whole day "Someone's hungry"

"Starving" I laughed, accepting his hand to get up.

I never had pictured Death as one to cook or do anything else, once he barely needed to eat anything, so, as long as I had what to work with, I didn't really mind making my own food. Back on earth my brothers and I would just order it from somewhere, but as I couldn't do this here, I'd have to cook. Not that we were a terrible cook or a lazy one, is just that we had so much to do that if we could just spare time in that matter, it would make our lives better.

That being said, what was my surprise to see him going to prepare something. "You… cook?"

"I'm going to pretend I'm not offended by how your words came out, but yes. We don't always need to eat, but when we do is good to know how to make it by ourselves. And I'm going to pretend you forgot you've eaten an entire meal when you were without your leg. No one else could've prepared it"

"True" I laughed "I didn't mean to offend you, Death" I approached him to sneak a peak of what he was going to do. "I thought you guys just hunted and cooked it in the fire."

"We're not primitive, Maya" he chuckled "The Nephilim never had a place to call their own, and so we would go from place to place. And they weren't always empty, so we would learn things from the new place"

"Hm…" I watched him while he was doing whatever he was doing – he didn't want to tell me "This looks rather earthly. Actually, this entire house looks pretty earthly for me. I could almost feel like there."

"We have visited earth a couple of times already. It's not hard to learn with that large group doing it all the time"

Needless to say, when I tasted the food, it was amazing. I think I never had something so good like that in my life. "If you were a human, you'd probably be called to work on a restaurant. This tastes amazing"

"Enjoy" he smiled as he saw I was eating with so much joy "is it really good or are you just hungry?" he laughed.

"Maybe both.' I said, with my mouth full.

We did all the cleaning together, and it was funny that when he saw I was struggling to put my plate on a high placed cupboard, he just lifted me up in order for me to reach it. I let go a funny laugh as he put me down.

I looked outside the window, just in time to see that thin snow rain starting to fall, layering the grass as if it was a white sheet. Death told me that now was a period of cold in there and that would be raining snow for most of the days. Well, I just loved it and it would be the perfect excuse for cuddles, obviously. One that I used in that exact moment.

I started to think that the best way to spend time was to be in his arms and eventually fall asleep, because that was basically what always happened when he wrapped me in his arms like the way he did. And, of course, the warmth coming from the fireplace, the crackling sound of the fire and the comfort of his arms were just a "good night sleep" combo.

And I couldn't refuse it.