Tell Your Heart to Beat Again

"I will wait for him. I love him and I'm not going to just let that go. He holds me together. No matter what, I always know he's with me. He holds me without touch and he keeps me without chains. He's everything I could ever want or need. How can you even ask me to go on without that?"

"Do you know what it felt like? Dying? Going to Elysium and knowing you were still out there, that you would live on the life we were supposed to have together without me? It felt like my world was crumbling. We became separated by Life and Death and I....gods it felt like a true death. But I had that hope...that small hope you'd come back to me. Don't take that away from me. Please... Don't I-I couldn't-couldn't take it...don't do this..."

"I didn't plan for this. I didn't plan on you dying. I didn't plan on becoming a god. Nothing went as planned. Because if it had" he pulled her head up and forced her to look him in the eyes, "we'd be married by now. I'd be kissing you goodnight. I'd be hugging you from behind and laughing as we prepared dinner. If things had gone the way I had planned, we'd be in bed cuddling as I whispered I love you right now. I'd be fingering my wedding ring in disbelief, wondering what I could have ever done to deserve you. I'd only fall in love with you even more..."

"Gods why don't you hate me?" he cried into her shoulder, true confusion and heartbreak echoing in his words.
"How could I ever hate you?" She was truly appalled, wondering where this thought came from.
"How could you ever love me?" he countered.

"I don't want to forget. That's the worst curse of immortality. Time moves on and we stay frozen. It flows around us and we forget. The more time that passes, the harder and harder it is for me to recall her face, the way she smiled, her voice. It becomes a muffled blur the more I try to remember it. And soon, her name will no longer be a dull ache within my heart. I'd rather live in pain forever if that meant I'd never forget her."