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“I love you,” he said tearfully. “I want you to be happy after this.” “I won’t be happy without you,” I sobbed. “I won’t be able to bear it.” “Yes you will.” His mouth tipped into a wobbly smile even as tears continued to stream down his cheeks. “You’ve survived worse than this. Much worse. I’m just… some weird dude from another world who fell into your big palace one day.” “No,” I choked, clutching his hand to press my mouth to his palm. “You are everything to me. I won’t survive it, not as I am now. I won’t.” Releasing his hand, I splayed my trembling fingers over his chest. “My heart is in
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“And maybe you can put that beer can next to that old seer’s eyeballs on the shelf, and you can come in here and tell me what you’ve done each day.” “But you won’t really be here.” I was crying so hard I could barely speak anymore. “Maybe I will be, in a way,” he croaked. “Maybe she had it right. Maybe I’ll still be watching over you in some way. Because I only want to be here, Lor.” He cupped my cheek, hand quaking. “Even if I wasn’t sick, I’d only want to be here. With you. I just… I w-wish we’d had a bit more time.”
“Life doesn’t always work out the way you want it to. But at least we had a little time together, right? At least… at least we managed to meet, against all the odds. I’d say we did pretty well.”
“I haven’t really achieved much, but making the decision to come back here, to meet you properly, is the thing I’m most proud of in my life,” he told me quietly. “I love you, Lor. I don’t regret any of it. And that… that helps. It helps me accept what”—his breath shuddered out of him—“what’s going to happen. It was all worth it. I love you.”
“We’ll do whatever you want,” I whispered, twining our fingers together on the pillow between us and kissing his knuckles. “Anything. We will spend the whole day together.” He smiled back drowsily, eyes already slipping shut, face lined with exhaustion after his emotional onslaught. “Sounds nice.” The next morning, he didn’t wake up.
“I would wait my whole life for you,”
“I would wait forever for you, Jugs.”
