ad meliora | circe

ad meliora | 4

| (first name) |

"yue!" you called out to your little brother as you looked at him from behind.

it has been exactly 2 months after you made a contract with circe. from the day he first appeared, and up until now, he was by yours and yue's side. everything somehow felt glued together with him around.

and somehow the impending doom seems to creep closer.

"wait i'm coming!" yue replied as he was picking jueyeon chillis.

you sighed as you walked over to circe and your brother "what's taking so long? we need to get back to the village as soon as possible.. we shouldn't get caught up in the middle of nowhere with the archon war starting."

"sorry, (first name)." yue apologized as the golden haired demon only stared at you stoically.

"circe, what's wro—" you suddenly stopped mid sentence as you started cough heavily.

yue suddenly jumped over to you leaving his basket behind and hurriedly asked, "are you sick? what's happening? are you alright?" with the tone of his voice, it was obvious that he was overflowing with worry.

your chest was feeling like it was being squished to a million tiny pieces, you couldn't handle the heavy feeling, you dropped to your knees. you coughed and coughed while your brother held your arm with a terrified look.

"i'm alright.." you managed to say afterwards.

"but you're burning!" yue said as he clung onto you tighter.

"yue, can you get her water from the lake?" circe asked as he took a cup out of your bag.

"..alright.. please take care of my sister while i'm gone." yue replied as he took the cup from circe's hand as he ran towards the lake in a hurry.

circe stared at you from head to toe and mouthed, "i'm alright" while mimicking you.

"(first name), you're getting worse as time passes by. do you think you can hide this from your brother until you naturally die out?" circe said as his golden locks flew with the air.

"..don't tell him.. he shouldn't know.." you mouthed as he grabbed onto circe's arm.

the demon looked right into your eyes and said, "how will he not know when you're going to die?"

"..who's going to die..?" yue asked as overheard the last sentence from the conversation while tightly gripping on to the cup.

"no one." you quickly told your little brother

"then what is he saying?" yue asked more and more questions as he walked towards the two of you.

"it's just something between me and circe, yue. he's going to leave soon.." you lied as circe gave out a sigh.

"right, kid. i'm going to die soon." circe suddenly blurted out, as you stared at him in disbelief.

"what?!" yue gasped, "are you sick, mister?"

"even though i don't like you, you can't die! my sister's inlove with you!" yue screamed

"w-what do you mean in love, yue! your words!" you suddenly burst up as you were very flustered.

"what? you said love is looking after people and you love me, and you look after mr. circe. so it only means you're in love with hi— sjssjsjsshjs" you covered up your brother's mouth before he could say anything more embarrassing.

"is that so, kid? but apparently, i'm set to die.. so that's unfortunate," the golden haired demon smiled and gave out a chuckle.

"no, mister! i'm telling you! you can't die!"

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"is he asleep now?" circe asked as you were staring out the small hut you all stayed in for the night.

"he is." you replied as you continued to stare outside while hugging your knees.

"..well how are you feeling?"

"i.. i can't quite explain.." you told him, "about what you told yue.."

"you're not really dying.. are you?"

circe was in disbelief and he stared at you for a long time before answering,

"why? are you really in love with me?" he chuckled.

"you're insane." you replied and gave out a sigh.

"i might be at this point."

"what do you mean?"

"..i don't want you to die."

"stop joking around." you firmly say as your eyes both met.

"when did i ever joke around.." he says, not breaking eye contact with you.

you raised your hand arms to stretch, "it's not funny, really!"

circe sighed and made a stoic expression.

"what no—" before you could finish your sentence, you were pushed down to the floor, circe pinning you down.

"h-hey!" you said as your felt heat upon your cheeks.

"i'm not into jokes," he said in a bewitching manner

"now.." he continued to talk as his cold fingers trailed your hair

"what can i do.."

"to convince you to change our deal?"

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