To Break A Curse

2.59

"Remus might actually kill me." Roman laughed as he pushed through his things and scavenged for a small box he's kept for millennia. "Where is i-... Yes!" Roman beamed happily as he pulled this good-sized black ornate box out of the closet. "To tink I'm actually tinking about its... tey might BOTH kill me."

"Roman?" Roman's eyes lit up even more as he quickly rushed out of his room to see Colt standing there with this look in his eyes. "What was all that noise about?" Roman simply gestured to the box in his hand making Colt's eyes narrow in confusion. "What..."

"It's my stuff!" Roman giggled as he carefully carried it out to the living room, Colt following behind him. "I don't have much. But tese are all te things I've kept troughout my life. All of which... I have no clue where I've gotten. But if it's in tis box, ten I don't ever get rid of it so... It must all be important to me."

"So what are you doing..."

"I wanted to try and find something before my brother came around." Roman set the good-sized box onto the coffee table before pulling off the top and just smiling at everything in it. "Sometimes I just like to go trough it. It's like a treasure box. I'm always finding new tings or tings I had forgotten about. Like its!" Roman pulled out a bear and just laughed. It was a stuffed brown bear with a white shirt with a red sash around it. "I wonder who gave it to me."

"Roman..." 

"Oh, yea..." Roman laughed as he set the bear down. "I got distracted." Colt sat down beside him just watching as the god pulled things out. The bear, a picture, a hand written play... small hand crafted things like tiny statues or ornimants. They all seemed like gifts that Roman held dear to his heart. That must be why he kept them in the box. So that he'd never forget it's importance.. 

"What are you looking for?" Roman hesitated a bit as he turned to see Colt giving his box a curious look. Roman frowned as his hands pulled into his chest making Colt narrow his eyes in confusion. "Ro?"

"Oh uh... I was just... um..." Roman fidgeted with his fingers only serving to make Colt that much more concerned. "Remus is coming soon. And I was tinking tat... Well... I doesn't really. I was lost in tought and figgured it might do well to find it."

"Find what?"

"My pendant from before I was god." Colt's eyes shot wide as Roman flinched a bit. "It's te only ting I have from back ten. Obviously, because I don't even remember anything but... I do remember it. Sort of. I know it's my family crest. Remus has one too. But other tan tat I don't remember it much."

"Why are you trying to find i-..."

"Have ya tought about what I said yesterday?" Roman quickly asked seeming to cut Colt before he could finish his question. "About yer name?"

"Not really." Roman's eyes darkened as he moved back to sift through the box. "I just don't really know what I would pick anyway. I've always been a Graberson. Colt Graberson... Honestly it's like acid to the tongue." Roman chuckled a bit as Colt just shot him a sideways glance. "I was wondering... What name was it that you thought would work?" Again Roman froze up, his fingers wrapping around this medal pendant, before he sighed and smiled.

"Don't worry about it, Colt. It's nothing important."

"I want to know. I'm curious." Colt  laughed as he pointed to himself. "I want to know what you thought would be a good name."

"Colt..." Colt's eyes went wide as Roman pulled his hand back.

"Is that it?" Roman tensed as he looked down at the necklace in his hand before nodding. "Can I... Can I see?"

"No." Colt flinched as Roman quickly pulled it back, this look of fear in his eyes.

"Oh..."

"No. It's not... It's..." Roman fumbled over his words as he sighed and just held it so Colt could look it over without touching. "It's not tat I don't trust ye. It's just... with my toughts te way te are... I'm concerned tat if you were to touch it... it would be as if you were accepting it. Even tough I know it wouldn't matter unless you actually put it on but..."

"What do you mean accepting it?" Roman groaned as he gripped it tightly in his hand to try and ground himself. Colt forwned taking in the nervousness had. "Roman... ok, let's step back and break it down, ok? You wanted to find it for a reason." Roman only nodded. "The reason had to be because of your thoughts, right?" Another nod as the tension in the god only grew. "So... what were you thinking about?"

"A demi." Colt froze up as Roman chocked a bit subtly shifting away from the human as if anxious over how he would react. "I... I couldn't stop tinking about... well tat's not important. I just... I felt better knowing If I had it on person in case I ever did decide."

"Decide to what?"

"To make a demi." Roman crashed a bit his nerves finally breaking him down as he looked over to see the confusion on the mans face. Roman's eyes when a bright cyan as he squeezed his necklace tightly. "I've been tinking of making a demi recently. It took me a bit by surprise as... I told you I've never really tought about it before. Never felt te need or desire to... except from what I read in my journal about tat Will lad. I... I just... Obviously, I'm not going to do anything about it. I'm aware of tere toughts on te matter. I'm just... I can't help but tink about it. Tere already really important to me and I guess... me being te god of family and love... te need to be a fat'er to 'em is taking over."

"Ro..."

"I swear, I'm not going to do anything. So ye don't have to worried. I know ye still have yer toughts against gods making demi's. I just... I... I'm te god of love, Colt... And tere is SO many different forms of it. Love for a friend and of yer family is one of tem. So... Te moment I started to tink of y-... tem as a son..."

"Roman, stop." Roman jumped as Colt took his hand in his right over the pendant with a smile on his face. "I think it great you've found the desire to have a family. I do. Thomas already went over everything about demi's with me. I... I've already worked my thoughts out with it. To be honest... I've been a bit stuck on them myself."

"Ya have?" Colt nodded as he sat back and just sighed.

"Yea. I have. I've just been thinking about it all. Really Roman. If you decide to try and make a demi than... I hope it works out. That way when we finally take down the federation and light it all a blaze... Virgil and you can have that again." Roman's eyes flashed black as Colt started to tear up. "I'm just sorry Alex won't be here with you all."

"Colt..." Roman sighed as he let his hand go lip in his lap and just stared at his necklace before looking back up at the other, eyes the brightest cyan they had ever been. "Colt... Ya really haven't tought of a name yet?"

"Nope. Guess, I'll just stick to Graberson." Roman tensed as he took Colt's hand making the younger flinch a bit at the determined silver in the mans eyes. "What?"

"Yer not keeping tat blasted name. Yer not a Graberson. Tat man is no fat'er to you. I'm more of a..." Roman stopped and looked away before he could say anything he'd regret. "I don't like hearing ye talk about yerself as if yer like tem." Roman tensed up bad as he forced himself to just get the words out. "Ye don't have to say anything. Ye don't have to do a ting, but... I'd like it if ye took it." Colt's eyes shot wide as Roman put the necklace in his hand. "Nothing will happen as long as ye don't put it on but... I'd still like ye keeping it."

"Ro..."

"Ye asked me what name I tought would work fer ye. Well... It wasn't so much of me tinking about one as it was... Me tinking of you as a son so... I guess what I'm saying is... Te name I had in my head was my own."

"Wait..."

"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to... I was just..." Roman tensed as he quickly picked everything up and just smiled over at the human with a shrug. "Keep it. It's ok. I'm... I'm gonna go rest a bit. Uh... don't worry about te name either, Colt. I was just being a creative moron again, I guess. I'll see ye later." Colt just sat there frozen in shock holding the necklace in his hands as he watched Roman slowly walk out of the room. 

"Ro?" Colt frowned as he blinked a bit lost in thought. His eyes dropped to what he was holding everything was flurry in his mind. "Me? Why... Why me?" Colt actually found himself smiling a bit as he stood up and stuffed the necklace into his pocket. "HEY, RO!" Colt yelled out as he grabbed his jacket. 

"Yea?" Roman mumbled from where he paused in the hall. Colt just laughed as he shook his head. 

"I'm going to go do some more... reinventing." Roman's eyes narrowed in confusion as Colt gestured up to his hair. "I think you'r right. It's time for a change. Rest up ok? You look drained."