This is to one of my greatest fans, to finally set a MC's pain at rest and give him the happy end he deserves.
Ever your Servant-
Ore-samma
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I watched and held my sweet Alex as he trembled and wept in his sleep. He mumbled incoherently and trashed.
“Shhhh, Alex….shhhh..” I whispered as I wiped his brow and eased some of my magic into his body, hoping it would help his slumber.
His entire body seemed soaked with sweat and he stopped for a moment and thrashed again.
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“Neechan!” He cried, gasping and shivering as he woke.
“Here! I’m here my darling!” I cried out, placing my hand to his face and kissing his cheek.
Alex’s eyes locked to mine and he exhaled with a trembling breath as tears poured from his eyes.
“Neechan!....oh, neechan!” He whimpered as I held and cuddled him close, letting him suckle from my bosom as I kissed his forehead and stroked his cheek.
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With a rushing gasp he let go and sighed, “It’s the same dream- over and over.” He whispered, “I keep reliving the day I left you, and as hard as I try- I can’t stop myself!”
He placed his small hands to his face and wept again. “I hurt you so much! And I keep hurting you in my dreams! I see your face! I hear your weeping! I can’t stop it! I can’t stop myself!”
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I held my love in my arms and rocked him back and forth as he trembled and wept.
“My love, but you must always remember! I love you! I forgive you! Please remember!”
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Alex shook his head. “I can’t forgive myself! How could I have been so cruel?”
I felt my own tears blossom to the surface as I held my darling Alex as he wept, mourning like I had for so long. I wanted my pain to stop- I wanted some measure of justice for the horrible situation I endured for so long.
But this…..this was too much….I didn’t want this. I never wanted to see my love hurt! I just wanted for me to stop hurting!
Oh! There had to be something I could do…..wait!
“My love…..if you cannot forgive yourself, perhaps we can start over? There is someone who can help you….and help me too!”
Alex gasped and looked at me. “Neechan! Yes! Please!”
I nodded and tucked my daring deeper into bed and fluttered my wings to let a cool breeze and my scent waft over his body as I gently pulled his pajamas from his body and settled upon him, gently rocking upon him, taking his stress away and his love into my body.
The sweat quickly wicked away from his body and he shivered from the sudden chill and as a wave of ecstasy washed over us both.
“Sleep, my darling….sleep.” I whispered as I cuddled him again to my breast, reveling in the skin to skin contact we shared.
I felt his heart slow and his breathing ease and closed my own eyes as I drifted to sleep.
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(later)
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“Good Morning, Alex! Aphrodite!” Julvath said with a sweet smile and shook my hand, and Neechan’s hand..
I rubbed my eyes and nodded. “Thank you for seeing us, Doctor.”
Neechan rubbed my shoulders and held me a little tighter in her lap. “Yes, thank you very much!”
Julvath smiled and sat back down and laced her fingers together in her lap. “So, I have read your file and your mental impression made on the sensory stone.” Her eyes took on a caring glean as she scooted her chair closer and looked into my eyes.
“Alex, you want to have the memories of leaving your wife behind to be taken away and replaced with a life lived with her- correct?”
I nodded.
“Tell me why. I know you already stated your reasons, but to speak it out, in front of me will help me isolate and make my task easier.”
I sighed. “When I was young, I didn’t realize what love was. I didn’t know how much my actions could hurt others. Promises broken, and another life that was forgotten.” I rested my head into Neechan’s arm and sighed, feeling her fingers smooth my hair. “I keep remembering hurting her in my dreams. She forgives me, she loves me…..but I don’t know if I can ever forgive myself. I carry that pain, and I just want to….I just want to have who I was, be who I am now.”
Julvath nodded, “Alex, you do realize that what you speak of is normal, and is a part of growth and growing up, yes?”
I nodded. “I do. But, are all pains and emotional traumas able to be overcome? Are there not minds that are not as strong as the devastation?”
Julvath sighed, and I felt a mental ripple and feedback as she did so. “You are most wise beyond your years, Alex. You are correct…..some pains are too harsh for a mind to overcome or to indeed live with.” She held out her hands and I saw her tentacles come forth. “May I first see how extensive this pain is? To see if it is indeed as you say it is?”
I took my Neechan’s hand for courage and nodded as I closed my eyes.
I felt my perception spin and wave in and out, but it was over in an instant.
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I opened my eyes and looked at Julvath who seemed to be in deep thought.
“I love you, so much Alex.” Neechan whispered and kissed the top of my head.
I looked up to her and smiled as she lowered her face and kissed her lips, sighing in a deep contentment.
“Alex, your trauma is enormous. And because you are so young, it consumes a lot of your awareness…..as you are now- you are correct. You are not strong enough to fight and overcome it…...you might be in time….years from now…..but I understand what you mean when you say you do not want to carry this burden.” She looked to Neechan.
“And you Aphrodite, you wish to fully commit to your husband’s memory alteration, to also lose your memories of when he did not know better, and left you alone?”
I felt Neechan nod, bobbing her head and body as I watched Julvath’s expression.
“Yes. I love my darling Alex so much. I would do anything for him! To have my memories of pain taken, and to have memories of a happy life together…..who wouldn’t want that?”
Julvath held up her finger. “But it would not be real. I typically do things like this for extreme cases!”
Neechan sighed. “Dear Julvath, Reality is often so harsh, painful and depressing. In the here and now, my darling Alex and I could not only be happy- but have been happy for nearly all our lives!” She wrapped her arms around my chest and rested her chin on the top of my head. “Please, all I want is for him to be happy, all he wants is for me to be happy. Neither of us ever want to leave the Lands of the Fairies.”
Julvath nodded. “I will agree to take most of your memories, but not all of them. I do not want you to forget and abandon your family back in your dimension, Alex.” She held up her finger, “There would be no sense to bestow upon your family back from your lands of your birth the same pain you accidentally gave your wife.” She held out her hands. “Don’t worry. You will never have to worry about being trapped in your home dimension. That you are Soul-Bonded to Aphrodite, means that she is your anchor. You can never be apart from her- even after death. You will always find each other. You will always be near. You will always be of one heart, and a singular love.”
I took a deep sigh. “I agree.”
I felt Neechan nod too. “Yes.”
“Okay….this will be easy enough. The memories both of you want to be taken, and to be given are so similar...I can do this at the same time….I will even take away the memory of you coming to me….” She held out her hands and a magical aura surrounded her tentacles. “Are you ready?”
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(later)
I laughed and laughed as I ran through the ever-summer fields that were full of tall sunflowers as I heard my Neechan flying over head.
“Peekaboo!” I shouted and took a hard right and ran off as she giggled, still chasing after me.
I looked over my shoulder and-
“Alex!” Neechan cried as I tripped over a sunflower stalk and skinned my knee.
“Ouchie! Neechan! I hurt! I skinned my knee!” I cried out.
“Oh dear! Oh-dear-oh-dear-oh-dear!” She called out as she set me in her lap and rubbed her pinky against my raw skin. “Lemme kiss it all better.” She said with a smile.
“That feels good!” I said and kissed Neechan’s lips.
“You know what feels even better?” She said with a sly grin and eyes.
“What?”
“Tickles!” Neechan squealed as she started to press her fingers into my ribs, sides, belly and legs.
I squealed in laughter, and the tickling soon became caresses, kisses, and finally love making under the cloudless sky with only the sunflowers to give us shade.
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I sighed as Neechan held me closer and flew to one of the many infinite-fruit trees and plucked a peach for me, and a small watermelon for her.
“Neechan, how long have we’ve been together?” I sighed as I rested against her stomach, watching the sun set over the rising hill.
“Over one hundred years, my love!” Neechan said, running her fingers through my hair.
“It doesn’t seem that long. It only feels like it’s been one week.”
“That’s the magic of my Kingdom, the Land of the Fairies, and especially of the Ever-Summer fields.” She kissed me, her tongue and lips tasting of sweet watermelon. “We are in a magical realm of the underworld. We will always be young, always be happy, always in love, and always together.”
I sighed along with her as the sun fully set and the stars peeked from under their cobalt blanket. “Neechan, you promise? We will always be together?”
Neechan sighed and pulled me next to her, so our faces were together and she kissed me again and deeper than before as we rested in the soft, cool grass- a gentle wind blew across our faces that were wet with tears of joy.
“Always, as long as we love each other." She said placing her hand on my head "…..we will always be together.“
We will always be together......