Reknitting the yarn of Time

A Promise to be Kept

Getting Ready to wonder off to bed, then realized I forgot to post the update. sorry

It was sudden, and Umbra almost didn't catch it.

Someone was doing something stupid, to the point that he was needed.

It was annoying, he had been enjoying his time without any duties. He thought that if it had just been Solas and himself, he would have napped the time away.

He was glad though Solas and the youngest two were with Searcher today, having a bonding day.

What he wasn't glad about, was that he was due any freaking time.

"I'm coming." He told Fate as he levered himself out of his plush chair, he wasn't happy and he knew that Searcher wouldn't be happy either.... But Fate was the boss, and until time caught up, they were rather stuck.

This time line was a lot less lonely than the original would have been, he pulled on his work clothing and he smiled a bit as the Magic in his jacket protected and hid his pregnancy, making him look normal and it even hid his ecto.

"We'll be home and normal before you know it." He said, patting his belly, and feeling the twins's movement beyond the protection.

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Searcher was happily playing with his kids... He was taking a day off of building Reapertale, and he was excited to show them the places that he remembered, before they became the places that he remembered.

It was at that moment, a shock wave rippled across the Multiverse as an AU ended.

Not deleted, not corrupted.... It was more like it exploded.

Searcher froze, when he felt the shockwave, as his floating weapons snapped into existence around his wrists and his ankles.

"Papa, Fate is really angry." Solas worriedly said.

"I know.... Feeling a shockwave like that, when an AU dies... That's not normal... Come on... We're going home."

Unknown to any, but Fate and Umbra, a Creator's voice that should never had existed had wiggled in, and had made Ink create a Au that made the future Axetale AU seem like Disneyland.

Searcher quickly took the kids home.

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Mentally exhausted, Umbra slipped into the void core, today.. had not ended very well.

He'd had to destroy an AU down to it's code coding, and shred the rogue Creator before it led Ink to even worse creations.

Ink had tried to stop him, but soon, he quailed under the rage that Umbra and Fate had leveled at him, and he fled.

Knowing Ink, he probably wouldn't even remember today in a few weeks, as he yet to gain the scarf that he wrote things on.

Sighing, he curled up on the love seat with his jacket still on him, he'd blocked his link with Ser and Solas while he was working, as he didn't want them to feel the toxic emotions that place had made him feel.

That place made him feel dirty, and so far, it was the most.. explosive job that he'd done so far.

It was funny... Fate had created him so well, that causing all that destruction was barely a blip in his power.

Fate had wanted to make sure her two skeleton Guardians could go all the way if they needed to, which he hoped that he never had to do. Because if he had to destroy both sides of the split Multiverse to stop Fear, then things had gotten super bad.

"Shades?"

A mostly red eye light opened. "Its been forever since I got called by my name..." He whispered.

"We felt the shockwave." Searcher gently placed the twins in their beds, before he gently lied down, on the floor besides the loveseat, smiling at Umbra. "I'm here Love." He held his hand up, to see if Umbra wanted to hold it. "And I know that it hurts, because I miss being called by my name too... I miss Mom and Dad..."

"I know... I miss being Shades, everyone, even you, always calls me Umbra." He whispered. "I sometimes feel as if I'm losing myself to Umbra, and that once time catches up, I won't know who Shades is anymore."

"Then I'll try to use Shades more." Searcher told him.

A wobbly smile came to Umbra's face, and he reached out to take his Mate's hands.

Searcher smiled, and he gently pulled Shades down, and off of the loveseat, so that he was on top of him. "Get some rest Shades... I've got you..."

"I meed to get my jacket off." Umbra tiredly mumbled.

Searcher gently helped Shades get his jacket off.

"On the day we can take our birth forms again, when we can just be Searcher and Shades... marry me, again." Umbra.. no, Shades asked, nuzzling his Mate.

"I will... I promise." Searcher told him. "On the day that we can finally let Umbra and Idrytís rest... I'll marry you again." He returned the nuzzle.

"Good, now let's go to bed." Shades said, with a smile on his face.

Searcher smiled as he carried Shades to their bed.