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T-Time:
Every hour that passed, every minute, every second was important to both Rosette and Chrno. The two had experienced what happened when someone's time ran out, Rosette with her parents and Chrno with Mary but Chrno did not want to think of what would happen when Rosette's time finally came to an end. It was something he had to come to terms with when he and the blonde had first became friends, simply because she was human and he was a demon; he would out live her and her younger brother by years. But things had changed when the two had agreed to a contract, Rosette's time depended on how long he remained in his demon form, and how much energy he used, her life was in his hands literally.
Time was something Chrno had no control over. No matter how much he wanted to stop things just for a little while he couldn't. Time had no physical form,the demon couldn't grab time and force it to stop, no he had to remain still and watch it play out before him and that's the way it had always been.
There was only one thing worse then time, and that was fate.
Fate was what made Mary and Pandemonium blend into one, fate was what brought Aion to Joshua, and it was fate that Chrno and Rosette had bumped into one another but it was time that forced fate forward. Chrno knew well that without fate there was no time, and without time there was no fate but why couldn't the two things leave him and Rosette alone? Just for this once Chrno wanted both time and fate to butt out and depart from his and Rosette's relationship.
But it wouldn't.
Because Rosette was human.
No matter what the demon did, Rosette would remain human but deep in his heart of hearts Chrno knew that he had fallen for her because she was indeed a human. She was far from a demon, and far from any other normal human. The Nun was a strong woman who never gave up even when her enemy had overwhelmed her in numbers and strength, and that was what Chrno needed in a best friend and a lover.
And yet Chrno would forever have to deal with the fact that time was no longer on his side. Rosette would grow old and, with the way their fights were going, weak before her time and then eventually die at a young age. He, however, would keep getting old, getting stronger without her by his side. And that was what made time so cruel; there would be days where he woke up without her, and nights where his last goodnight wouldn't be to her. He didn't want to accept it, but it was a fact of life.
A fact of time.
For now, though, Chrno would praise the time he had with Rosette and cherish every second he had with her because there wasn't much time left.
R&R please!