It was time to say goodbye...

No.

See you later.

Bryan was a step away from passing into the Afterlife. And Inpu was holding his waist gently as Bryan cupped his husband's weeping face.

"Inpu." He said in a sombre tone, "I- I have a request." The ghostly cupid gazed at him desolately.

"What is it?" Inpu choked.

"... Move on."

The Pharaoh's world stopped moving for moment. Everything went still. His breath. His tears. His heart. Just processing his loves dying request.

"W-w-what?" He stuttered.

"Move on, my Love." Bryan smiled serenely. But inside. It felt he was dying a second time...

"Find someone else. I love you and I- I don't want you alone, for rest of eternity. I can't be happy in Elysium if I know you're not."

Tears fell down the cupid's face.

The idea of his husband being with another, someone else made his heart ache, crack, and break but if it meant his husband's heart could be healed of the hole he left...

And

Knowing that his Inpu could be happy once more, even if it's not with him... was worth it all.

"No.

... I don't want someone else. I want you..." he begged.

Bryan wiped the tears off Inpu's face. "And the one you want doesn't want you alone."

~

When Bryan walked into the light, he didn't know (or maybe he did) that his stubborn lover would not 'move on'.

~

Inpu had spent five years. Five years with a single yet ambitious goal of resurrecting his husband.

He didn't listen to him when he said to move on. Why should he?

Bryan was his Love.

He was his first and his only love. The Pharaoh'd even dare say, Bryan was his Soulmate.

And regardless of The Fates cutting Bryan's thread. Inpu's still knotted itself to the broken soul of his husband.

A golden shaft of love was forever lodged in his heart. An immortal, throbbing wound, that not even the deathless gods could heal... aside well, Eros or Aphrodite.

And with all this in mind.

He couldn't just find someone else as there was no one else.

Inpu's stubbornness and ambitiousness paid off in the end as he was rewarded with the long-awaited sight, breath, and life of his beloved husband.

When he gazed upon his love for the first time in half a decade, he had almost forgotten the divine, unearthly beauty of his Bryan but his looks were nothing compared to the fact he was breathing and alive.

It felt impossible. But it was real, not a dream.

~

Bryan was resting in bed, reading the Song of Achilles when Inpu stepped into the room, his eyes glanced upward and he saw his husband clothed for bed.

It was late. Like 1:30ish.

"Hi honey." Inpu smiled at him, he looked tired, ready to bundle under the blankets and cuddle his husband.

Bryan placed the book down on his bedside table and awaited for his husband to be at his side, quietly staring at him.

Inpu looked maturer since the last time he saw him.

Which was five years ago.

In Bryan's eyes, Inpu became less 'cute' and more 'hot', not to say he wasn't cute, it's just it's not the first word that springs to mind when gazing at him is all.

He couldn't tell whether his husband's maturer complexion stemmed from grief or not.

But Bryan's mind weighed with a question heavier than that. Though he may ask later.

"Inpu?" Bryan uttered, breaking the silence. Inpu had just tucked himself in bed, he looked at him. "Yes dear?"

"You were alone weren't you...?"

Bryan had spent his time in Elysium convincing himself that his husband had found someone. Someone who makes grey skies feel blue and who fills the hole in his heart.

But that never happened.

Inpu never did search for another as Bryan wished.

He just wanted him.

Inpu sighed. "... I'm sorry Bryan but no one else could ever fill the hole in my heart... only you." He began.

The pharaoh cupped his husbands face. Bryan's eyes brimmed with tears.

"You, are my first love. My one and only love. My Queen." Bryan giggled, reminiscing back to before Cleopatra's Ball.

"And I'll be your queen." Bryan avowed.

Inpu stared at his love's giggling face and a rosy red blushed his cheeks, 'What did I do to deserve you?' He wondered truthfully.

He cupped the cupid's face.

"Inp-?"

"Your eyes..." the Pharaoh looked into his eyes, "Are as though the dawn is captured within them, or warm, burning candles that's glow never ceases.

No one else has that aside from our children and that's since they take after you.

I say this truthfully when I would rather gaze into your eyes than watch the sunrise...

And your aura... it radiates with pure, selfless love. And may I tell you secret?"

His dewy-eyed husband nodded, the cupid's heart was melting at his love poem.

"It scared me. I never in my long life felt something so ethereal yet so overwhelming.

All my life, I thought I was destined to be alone forever, a misfit like myself but you... you welcomed me into your heart and saw something in me that I didn't even see.

You saw beauty in me."

He stopped, sucking in a deep breath before continuing.

"Sorry I rambled a bit there- But now you know why I couldn't just move on, Bryan. I couldn't, even if I wanted to. There's no one else in our or any other universe who could've healed my heart but you."

By the end, Bryan was the sobbing mess. Just sobbing into his hubby's chest.

"Honey, don't cry." Inpu smiled warmly as he wrapped his arms around him. Just happy he got to tell Bryan what he's been waiting to say for five years.

Bryan slowly regained himself, he sniffed, rubbed his sore eyes and glared half-heartedly at Inpu, "An 'I love you' would've worked too ya' know." He sputtered.

Inpu chuckled. "I love you."

Bryan face was painting red, redder than roses as he lightly pressed his lips on Inpu's cheek. "I love you too."

~

Hi! 👋

Sorry for the silence, I just had no motivation but I hope you enjoyed this. 🤍

Sorry if it feels unsatisfying and bad at the end. 😅

Sappy Inpu is a good Inpu. 🩷

Thank for reading! ✨