[#WATTYS 2017] Saved by Death [LGBT+]

Chapter 15| The Fear is Tying You Down

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"Hey kid, I gotta tell you something."

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"Kid? You there?"

"He is not here. He is not coming back."

"!"

"Who?! Who's there?"

"I am your greatest happiness yet also your greatest sorrow."

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"What?"

"I am your greatest pride yet also your greatest failure."

"Hey, listen, stop talking in riddles. My IQ isn't that high, man. I barely passed the entrance exam to become Death."

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"Fine, fine, I'll stop it with the jokes. Who are you? And what have you done to my boy?"

"I am exactly who you think I am. I have always been here with you, from the start. I have watched you as you attempted to save the boy. You are trying to correct a mistake that cannot be fixed."

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"I don't understand."

"But that doesn't matter right now. Answer me, What have you done to my boy?"

"I have done nothing. You were a moment too late in your decision to tell him. He has decided, on his own, to find out your true origins."

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"What have you done...?"

"I only gave him a whisper, a hint, a truth."

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"What have you done, Life?"

"... are you afraid?"

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"Why should I be afraid?"

"You have many things to be afraid of. Before, only you and I knew the dark truth you kept hidden within 14 little letters. But now someone else is about to find out. You are scared."

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"You cannot kept it hidden any longer. For I stand as the greatest evidence against your misdeeds."

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"You are only a mere shadow of my past. I am not afraid of you."

"So you are still running away."

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"No, you are wrong."

"I've stopped running away when I took my own life to join you, when I became Death."

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A/N: we are nearing the end. Sorry for late update.