Tis a private RP my dudes amd dudets

"You don't owe anything to that caniving bitch." Amelia rolled her eyes, Jamie was starting to get on her nerves. "Stop believing in her lies, and maybe you'll live to see the after life." She shrugged, "or you'll spend eternity here. Maybe you'll see her again. Maybe not. Guess we'll never know." She turned to leave, hoping he'd take the bait.

"Looks like times up." Audric lunged for Ember, twisting one of her arms behind her back and grabbing a fist full of her hair.
Ember but down on a scream. what was time up for, her mind was going a million miles a minute. Was Jamie safe? Why did Audric wait till that moment to lunge? He could have taken her by surprise when he'd first shown up.
If Jamie was still safe- "I'll come with you." Her words came out in a whimper. "Just leave Jamie alone."
"Afraid the time for his safety is gone my dear. But you'll be seeing him again soon enough."

"Disgusting, don't tell me you're in love with that traitor. She'd never return your feelings. Reapers don't feel love." With that Amelia left. She'd let him sit alone for a while before going back to question him.

Audric spun Ember around so she was facing him, holding her wrists tightky to his chest. "You have one chance to make it out alive," he liked the fear in her eyes, "will you take it?"
"Only if you promise you wont hurt Jamie." If she could hust ensure both their safety…
"Tsk tsk, i already told you. The time for his safety is over." Audric pressed a hard kiss to Embers lips. To where her mark if death had been. He released her wrists and she threw a punch hoping to conect with his face. Her fist only met a hard wall. She hadn't even noticed beeing sent back.
Ember cried out, cradling her mostly broken hand to her chest. "Damn you Audric!" He'd offered her a chance and sent her back anyway… Embers curses echoed through out the halls of the reapers prison.

Surprisingly enough the cells didn't have a door. The only possible exit was a round hole in the top of the glass wall. And that was only if the person in the cell could reach it.

"Audric- you're back?" Amelia didn't exoect to walk out of the holding areas and find him so soon.
"I was able to locate and capture Ember. She was surprisingly easy to catch." He shrugged which only made Amelia angry. Such an arrogant bastard, she ploped down beside him on a bench. " how long time the bone heads figure out they're useless?" Was there any harm in talking while they waited for the grim reaper to show up?
Audric ignored her. "tell me how did you die?"
Amelia gave him a confused look. "I don't remember. No one knows how they died. Or did you forget?" She rolled her eyes. Audric was so strange.

(small time skip)

The pain in Embers broken hand and dulled to a throb. The only way she was keeping track of time had been the rather quick healing that reapers had. So surely it'd been a few hour's by now.
The whole time Ember was worred sick about Jamie. Audric said he wasn't safe. What did that mean? Had he completely destroyed Jamies soul? Or was he locked up in a cell like hers?
Except Embers cell was much different. There wasn't a glass wall, and there was no hole. All the walls where solid rock, and the floor was wooden. She'd already checked it for hallowed spots to no prevail.
She was stuck in a box with no way out. Unless she took whatever offer Audric was going to give her. She hated herself for even considering it. In fact, she was so frustrated that tears had finally begun to well uo in the corners of her eyes. But she couldn't give up. Not yet, not when she needed to make sure Jamie was safe first.

"This is taking forever. Where are they?" Amelia was growing bored with babysitting duty. Neither Ember or Jamie where getting out anytime soon. So why did she and Audric have to wait? There where much better things she ciuld have been doing with her time.
Audric on the other hand didn't have to be there. The only reason he stuck around instead of riding Ember from the world was that he needed Jamie too. He needed him because she cared about him. And Audric hated Jamie for that.

"I'm here," The grim reaper gave Amelia and Audric a look of boredom. They didn't like dealing with traitors. "You found the two rather fast, for this you will be rewarded. Amelia i grant you leave from your contract. You are free to go to the afterlife or continue as a reaper." Amelia beamed. "As for Audric… you wanted to be there while i questioned them hm? Shall we then?" They swept a hand throughout the room and two cells appeared. One that already had a glass wall, and one without. For that one a simple small hole appeared in the bottom. "State your case," they declared in a booming Voice to Jamie and Ember.

"Jamie!" Ember shouted when he finished his ramble. She had be stunned to hear him. Heck she'd been stunned when she'd heard the booming voice. But knowing that Jamie was safe, she felt to relieved.
"He's telling the thruth sir! Audric is-" a voice buzzed in her ear, and for a second she wasn't completely sure she heard correctly. "here is your chance." it whispered. Her chance for what, to walk out alive? Or- and then it dawned on her.
It was her or Jamie, that was her choice. "He's lying," she forced her voice to be strong. Because in that moment she wasn't. She was greatful no one could see her because of the tears that had finally begun to fall.
"I forced him back to the land of the living. I tried to pin it all on Audric but you caught us. You caught me." She hoped that Jamie would be able to forgive her.
"I needed a trusting soul so i made him trust me. I threatened to destroy Audrics soul unless he did what i wanted. The crawlers where my doing. It all was." Damn you Audric. She prayed the grim reaper would believe her lies. "I even killed Jamie in the first place. I broke the rules, and I'd do it again."

Ember clearned her throat, "whatever the soul claims is a lie. I fabricated everything." There was an unnatural calm to her voice. It wasnt right that Jamie had ro go down with her. She didn't know what Audric was capable of, and frankly she didn't want to test it either.

"Well that was a roller-coaster," The grim reaper yawned and snapped his fingers. The glass the Jamies cell shattered. "Judgment shall Pass on you Ember a reaper of our realm. From this moment on your powers to travel between the realms is revoked along with your abilities and loss of memories. Said memories will return and you will relive them as if it is happening all over again." They're eyes slid to Jamie.
"As for you Jamie, all will be sorted out. You will be returned to the land of the living with no memory of any of this. You will return to a normal life, being granted the death of old age and nothing else. Do these conditions please you?"

The grim reaper rolled their eyes. "You may have a few minutes to say good bye if you so please. Though i don't see why you'd want to." They motioned to the stone cell Ember was still trapped in.
She hated hearing him Cry. Ember couldn't stand the sound of it. Part of her wanted to plead to just get this over with. She wondered if she'd be handed over to Audric or if this bix was to be her eternity. Hadn't that been what she'd always wanted? Eternity alone? She had to calm her breathing or else she'd start to hyperventilate.
"Audric will send you back when you're done. Give them a few moments alone." The grim reaper vanished along with Audric.
Ember could only assume they where gone because now all she could hear was Jamie. And thats when it dawned on her, why eternity alone seemed awful now. Why she'd cared so much if he was safe. "Jamie listen to me," her will finally broke and her voice wavered. "You're going to be okay. You're getting your second chance. Remember how you wanted to help your little brother through high school?" Her voice hitched. "You get your wish." She was smilling despite everything. Her forehead rested against the cool stone wall. "Don't worry about me okay?"

(😭 I feel so bad. Also its almost 5am dkxnndns)

"I didn't lie…" her words felt empty. She couldn't stop now, for all the knew the grim reaper was still listening. "I had to come clean. For you." Because I care about you, she hated herself. Audric ciuld have been lying. He could still go after Jamie. But Ember was willing to take that chance.
"It's gonna be okay." Could she even make that promise? "I'm gonna be okay. Just know that-" she was cut off abruptly by the wall dissapering. She crahsed straight into Jamie with a panicked cry. "Oh my god," Ember wrapped her arms around him. "Jamie I-" she didn't want him to see her like this. Ember despritely wished the wall hadnt vanished so suddenly.

(Nah. Im determined to watch the sun rise at this point. 😂)

Ember actually laughed bwteen sniffles. "I think the pancakes will have to take a rain check." One she might not ever be able to fulfill. "How does next Tuesday sound?" Maybe if they planned it, maybe if they hoped enough it could happen. But Jamie wouldn't remember their plans. He'd be sent back without a single memory of her or her promises.
She couldn't let go either. But their time was quickly trickling by.
"It has to," the words where painful to speak. "Jamie it has to end like this." She pulled bcak just enough to hold his face in her hands. Another laugh escaped her. "I promise you'll see me again. I'm not letting go of this so easily. I'm not letting go of you so easily." And before she could chiken out she finally kissed him. Every confusing emotion made sense. Every butterfly in the stomach, every flushed face. It finally felt right even if this would be their first and last kiss. Because God's be damned Ember had no idea how to say it. How to tell him the words that where stuck on the tip of her tongue. So for now she settled for this. For this final goodbye.

Ember couldn't help the small smile that had crept its way into their kiss. She didn't care that she could taste the salt of their tears. Or that this was as good if a good bye as she could think of.
"Oh brake it up already," Audric sounded as if he was ready to vomit.
Ember jumped at the sound of his voice. There was no way their time was up already. "Tuesday," she had to hold onto that small hope. That small childish promise. "I'll see you then," and then he was gone. Audric snapped his fingers and Ember was all alone, missing the heat of Jamie's body. Feeling as cold as death all over again. She decided she hated the feel of death.
"Tuesday," she repeated the word one last time. The chance of ever seeing another Tuesday where next to nothing.
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"You two make me sick," Audric said to Jamie. "Well I guess this is it. I did offer her that deal, so Itd be incredibly rude if i where to destroy your soul forever. Oh well, I'd say it was nice meeting you, but it really wasnt." Audric snapped his fingers again, sending Jamie all the back to the very first day he'd died.

"You where in love," the grim reaper sat across from Ember watching her carefully. She nodded her head. "Tell me something Ember, do you take me for a fool?"
Her eyes widdened, "n-no sir," soft sobbs intarupted her words.
"Good. Because I'm not. I knew very well Audric was lying. He's not a reaper, and the fact that the council didn't notice says i should probably work on getting new council members." They stood and stretched out their limbs. "So I'll offer you a choice, what do you say?"

Ember took the grim reapers second option. She hadn't even had to think about it. Sure she'd never remember her time as a reaper, nor would she ever remember Audric or Theodore. But that was all for the best. The grim reaper had granted her a second chnace.
This time in a diffrent era. She'd grown up in a small town not far from where she was now. And her whole life she'd felt like she was being pulled to this exact spot. Granted She'd never really knew why, or cared to question it. But now in that ally as she was rushing back to apartment that she'd barely moved into a few weeks ago with some pretty crazy roommates, the pull was stronger then ever. She'd barely even relized the stranger she was about to run straight into.

"Oh that's totally on me! Im so sorry." Ember ducked to grab his notebook for him. She picked it up and held it out to Jamie.
The invisible pull seemed to finally stop. This was it. This was who it'd been leading her to all her life. "I- do i know you, you seem really familiar." She took a moment to study his face. There was something about him that felt so familiar. "Say, your face is really red, are you sick?" Even in this life she wasn't able to identify blushing.

"Ember," she shook his hand a smile coming to her face. There was something incredibly familiar about Jamie. She just couldn't put her finger on it at this moment.
She snapped her fingers, assuming she'd had it all figured out. "I live a few doors down from you. I've just been so busy i haven't had the chance to meet any of the neighbors yet." But that wasnt it. "Say, I'd really like to get to know you. Wanna meet for pancakes sometime?" She was already making her way twords the door to the apartments. She had a paper to write for school on a book that also seemed far to familiar.
The door to her apartment swung open and a girl popped her head out. "Ember! Emergency, Stacy needs us to get her out of a date gone wrong." The other girly didn't even seem to notice Jamie as she hopped out the door trying to put her other shoe on. Ember sighed but that smile was still there. "I'll see you around Jamie!" For now her paper would have to wait.

The grim reaper had offered Ember two options. One, she become part of his council and be the one to reap Jamies soul when he died of old age. Or two, get another chance with no memory of what had every happened. They'd watched her accept the second offer not knowing if she'd find her way to Jamie again. But They'd made sure of it. Death had spoken to Fate and Fate almost seemed all to egear.
And so The Grim Reaper watched as the two souls met again. They may have taken the memories, but They'd left a shadow of emotions.
"I can't believe Audric actually tricked us," Amelia stood by the Grim Reapers side, disbelief on her face.
"He tricked you." They narrowed their eyes.
Amelia had chosen to stay after all. She was free of her contract, but not of the guilt she felt.
"Do me a favor and hunt down Austin and Troy. I don't want them messing anything up." The grime reaper Vanished leaving Amelia by herself watchibg as Ember hurried off with a friend.

Audric on the other hand had never happened. Without Ember there he'd never married, let alone killed anyone. Theodore had died of natural causes, and the river that Ember still sometimes saw in her dreams- though she didn't know what it meant- never had a cold dead body float in it.
In a way by giving that second chance to one, it had been given to many.

(😭 this sounds like a wonderful point to end it at. Flckdnndnd)

(Ahhhh, at least they got their happy ending 😭 even if it is an open one)