Awaken

Alex regained consciousness and heard a sound that resembled rain on stone. The sound was somewhat off, and it seemed to be coming from behind a door across the room. He stood and went to investigate and found a shiny room with white tile floors, a seat with water in the basin, what looked like a desk with a strange bowl shaped top, and a clear box that went from floor to ceiling. The box was the source of the rain noise, and currently looked as if a fog was clouding the inside. Steam, he thought to himself. He could just barely make out a shape inside the box. He mentally touched bond in his mind and heard Pixie moan softly from inside the box.

"ah, Alex? Are you there?"

*I am.*

"Oh... Um, I'll be out in a minute. I'm glad to see you're awake."

*How long did I slumber?*

"Three days. Really weird to have a guy just sleeping in the corner of my room, but the good news is that you kept it dark even during the day, so I slept good too."

*We are already being of assistance to each other.*

"I guess we are," she chuckled.

Alex heard a soft screech and the rain sounds vanished. After a moment, a door on the box opened and Pixie stepped out onto a mat on the floor. She smiled at him and reached for a towel on the wall to begin drying off.

"I'm not used to having a guy watching me in the shower. Not that it's the first time, just not a often lately."

*Is it an issue that I am here?*

Pixie hung up the towel and walked over to Alex and took him by the hand before leading him back to the bedroom where she began to pull cloths out of her chest of drawers.

"Not an issue, just different. I'm not some blushing virgin. I've had a few boyfriends, and even more casual encounters. Having a guy watch me walk around naked isn't a big deal. The fact that you're a god does kind of give it a bit more thrill though."

*A god... That is a designation that you humans gave us. My brethren and I are impossibly powerful and ageless, but we can and do die.*

That caused Pixie to pause for a moment. She looked up from putting on her panties and Alex could sense the question forming in her mind. Alex gave her a moment to ask, but Pixie tensed when she felt him touching her mind.

*I have killed one of my kind before, as well as watched others die.*

"That's insane... To think something as powerful and old as you can die..."

*That is simply how life works. Everything dies child, just some of us do so later and through much ****.*

Pixie nodded slowly and continued to get dressed. Alex was so accepting of the idea of ****. She guessed with how long he had lived, he had probably experienced it enough. But... With a bit of fear, she reached out to touch his mind...

Pixie felt herself looking through someone else's eyes. She assumed that it was Alex, but she couldn't be sure. Before her was a beautiful young woman. She was admiring the flowers like always. Alex had watched her over the years, and this was her favorite place. As she admired the flowers, he too was admiring her. It was time. He would speak to her today.

Pixie felt herself shifting forward, propelled by a writhing mass of tentacles. She could feel Alex's fear and yearning for this woman. As Alex grew nearer, The woman looked up and he saw the look of terror on her face. She twisted away from him, but then fell to the grown, dead among the very flowers that she had loved. Alex blamed himself. Simply letting her see his twisted form had been enough to shake her very sanity and caused her to die on the spot. Approaching humans was too risky. Too... painful...

Pixie jerked awake with a gasp, and found herself on the floor, looking up at Alex. He looked sad and hurt.

*Do not do that again. There are painful memories that I would rather you not explore.*

"Who was she?"

*Someone that I fell in love with. Someone that I killed by getting too close.*

"You didn't kill me."

*And I am grateful for that.*

Pixie sat up and gave the god a hug that he carefully returned. When she finally pulled away, she gave him a weak smile.

"Listen, I have some business to take care of. Give me about an hour or so and then we can head out for lunch and grabbing some groceries."

*I shall await you here.*