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This book is dedicated to all those who have drowned in the depths of loss, with memories clutched in your fist like fragments of the sun. May you be brave enough to peer between your fingers, so they might shine again.
Know yourself and own every piece of who you are.
“And I won’t rest until I make every star in the heavens fall for trying to cleave us apart.”
He was mine and I was his. That wouldn’t change even with the shadow of death hanging between us, keeping us apart. There is only him. Endlessly. Always.
I wouldn’t leave him here either, no more than I would say goodbye. Because this wasn’t goodbye. I would never utter that word to the keeper of my heart, and I would never relinquish the promise I’d made to him with the blood cut from my veins mixed with his own, which I’d taken from the wound that had stolen him from me.
The girl who was worth a thousand years in hell. I’d wait that long and more if I could be sure I would one day return to her, and that she would be safe, protected from all the darkness of the world.
Our happiness was a flower that had bloomed and withered before I’d barely had a moment to breathe in its sweet scent. I had to find a way to buy her an eternal summer where it could bloom once again.
Remember Blue. Stay strong for her.
But if anyone deserved this sacrifice from me, it was Blue. She loved me with the fury of a night storm, and I was going to honour that love down to every last raindrop.
I turned my mind to the girl who was worth a thousand bloody deaths.
Not today, you nefarious wraith. I shall not yield to you this day.
“We must feel the bad as deeply as the sea, for then we are able to feel the joy as high as the moon.”
“It may even feel worse for a time, but this pain we must bear, because there are others left here who love us to the sun and beyond, others who need us to keep moving forward towards the hills of hope.”
“Take my hand and find me here. I live in the wind and grass, my dear. So when you need me, call my name. You’ll feel me close within the rain. For I, for I, for I, will wait beyond the Veil for you. But please, my love, don’t wait for me. My time is done, my seeds are sown. So live a life of joy and love, and I’ll be watching up above. The greatest show has just begun, my seat is taken, my song is sung. I’ll smile with every smile you take, I’ll laugh with you when times are great. So live for me, and live for you. I’ll see you in the star’s lagoon…I’ll see you in the star’s lagoon.”
Because we don’t need glory. We only need to know that we are fighting for what is right.
my eyes to turn towards the coffin which contained Darius Acrux, the man I had hated and loved so eternally. This is not our end.
It suited her, the colour matching with the fire which burned unwaveringly within her soul, bright and brutal and wholly her.
Me, him, Max and Darius. It had always been the four of us, and it would be the same when we ended up beyond the Veil.
But just in case the stars have other plans, then I want you to know I’m fucking privileged to get to face it with you,”
“Maybe there’s more adventures waiting for us beyond the stars,”
Oh bless my moonstones, I had missed him something fierce.
I would claim him this day, and nevermore would I seek the loins of another codfish. For he was my one true salmon, and the rivers of our destiny were wide and flowing toward an eternal horizon.
It didn’t matter anymore anyway, not when I could feel our end closing in on us and the only ray of light I cared to look upon was the woman standing up on that black altar before me.
I couldn’t allow for any other fate. Not for her. She was my everything.
Gerry and Max
I was her creature for better or worse and she had come for me in the dark when I needed her most.
while I just trailed her like a whipped little bitch. But if destiny was kind enough to allow me to be her whipped bitch, then I was all for it. I was hers in any way she would take me and damn the consequences.
“Who would have thought we’d end up here, Wolfman and Bitchy Flame Eyes striding into yet another adventure side by side with Fish Fury and Batty Betty bringing up the rear-” “Remember the time I punched you in the dick because of that time you peed on me?” I asked in return, and he frowned in confusion just before I swung my fist towards his crotch.
Geraldine ran back, a dagger in her hand as she made it to the rear wall and hastily carved a message into the stone there. Long live the true queens.
The only pause I made was to gather things from his old bedroom, treasured photos of him with the Heirs and Xavier as they grew up, a few of him and Catalina too. They were the only hint of joy that had been found in this place, and I left everything else to the flames as I headed further into the house.
I closed my eyes as I felt the ghost of him beside me, the man I loved come to witness the destruction of this nightmare.
“I’ll burn it all if that’s what it takes,” I breathed
Geraldine’s message awaited him beyond it, alongside the slight change I had made to the wording for his benefit. Long live the motherfucking Queens.
I broke into a thousand pieces which I knew would never again fix back into a whole.
-Caleb
The four Celestial Heirs no more, a future we had been groomed for our entire lives torn from beneath our feet, and our brotherhood shattered in the most unthinkable way.
A body hit the bed beside me, Seth’s earthy scent offering the smallest measure of comfort as I rolled towards him, my hand finding his, our fingers winding together and our faces turning towards each other on the soft pillows.
I found myself tethered by my grip on Seth’s hand, one tiny point of light amid a sea of misery.
“Darius would want us to keep fighting. To help the rebels regroup and-”
My mouth was on his before I could think of anything else, my tongue breaching the barrier of his lips as I shoved him back against the wall, endless nights of fantasising about the taste of him, the feel of him all rushing into me and making me act without thought or reason.
Even if I knew it wasn’t real, that his heart didn’t ache for mine the way mine beat only for his.
Cal stop denying it!!
Mine. In here, right now, he was mine,
“You want to fuck so you can feel something else?” he asked me icily,
“How about we stop talking and you just come for me like a good pup,” I growled,
“When I make you come for me, I want to fuck that filthy mouth of yours again, Seth Capella,” I snarled in his ear,
“On your knees,” I demanded, tugging on his hair hard enough to make him hiss, but a groan followed the noise, making it more than clear that he liked it. “I’ve been dreaming about that mouth of yours and I need to feel it again.”
“Tell me how much you want me,” I commanded, my heart hammering to a rampant tune
“Too much,” he breathed. “I want you too fucking bad and I can’t help it. Can’t stop it. I’m yours to do whatever you want with. I’m your fucking Wolf, Cal, and the thought of making you mine is too much to bear.”
And I’ll find him again in this life or the next before I’m done.”
“There isn’t a depth I won’t fall to for this,” she warned me, and I nodded. “Then I’m ready to fall at your side.”
“Keep looking at me like that and we’ll end up doing something we swore we wouldn’t,” I murmured, my blood heating at the liquid brown of her eyes. “Maybe I’m starting to think differently about that promise,” she said quietly. “Maybe I’m thinking that life is too short and can be stolen so briefly. So why deny ourselves anything in the time we have?”
We were meant to remain together, there was no alternative. I was done losing him and done with all the monsters who kept lurking at our door. Lance Orion was mine, on this plane and every other, and he was not going to be stolen from me now.
