Ares woke up at the back seats of the stopped car. He rubbed his eyes and looked around confused as he didn''t recognize where he was. He searched with his eyes for his brother or the king but no one seemed to be around. Then he turned his head, away from the window wanting to talk to Ea but he was not there. The seat was empty, no one next to him as he found himself to be all alone in the vehicle.


    Suddenly parts of his terrible dream started to pop in his mind, fast images like flashes that made his stomach hurt. A caring and innocent smile and then a lifeless body, heavy on his arms. He began to panic as he tried to open the door, his fingers slipping from the handle, as he moved frantically. He stepped outside, the hot sun hitting his skin. The car was parked at the side of a cliff away from the endless concrete road. In front of him there were rocks and slopes. Dangerous and mysterious as the end of the cliff concluded at a small river, the water flowing calmly its sound barely reaching his ears. There were no trees around or people, complete silence, not even cars or the sounds of their rushing engines. It was as if he had been stuck in a desert, hot and lonely. The only thing around him was a public restroom and after a while he noticed that the second car was parked there, close by too.


    "Where is everyone?" He mumbled confused and scratched his head, messing up his neatly made hair as he stared around, lost in the unfamiliar area.


    He took a few steps, up and down the road and called out his brother''s name a few times but he got no answer when finally, after a while the door of the little white building opened and everyone poured slowly outside. Had they been ignoring his calls? Probably, there is no way they hadn''t heard him. One by one all of his companions appeared and his heart slowly began to calm down. The thought of him being left all alone was kind of crushing. He didn''t want to wonder about questions like what he was supposed to do now? The idea of them being hurt or abducted wasn''t pleasant either. For now, he needed to ask Allias what had happened. The last thing he remember was sitting in that witch''s couch and drinking tea. After that only that nightmare remained in his mind. He spotted everyone and his brother approached him with slow steps, his hands in his pants.


    "You''re finally awake. You took longer than anyone else." Theseus told him with a joking tone.


    "What happened? Where are we? Where is…Ea?"


    "Ea? He…"


    "Is he okay?" Ares asked and started to panic again. What if that dream was some kind of vision? A kind of warning about what was supposed to happen? He wondered as he remembered the death that had taken place in his mind. The death that destroyed his root of happiness, the one he had been searching his whole life.


    "Relax" Theseus said and placed his hand on his shoulder. "He is still inside and he is fine."


    Ares did not ask anything else and simply ran inside the small building. He felt as if he had been seperated from him for years and the anxiety of his dream combined with the shock of not seeing him next to him when he woke up made him impatient. It all might have seemed too dramatic, the way he run just to meet his husband on a run down public toilet in the middle of nowhere but after that dream, the way it had felt so real, his weight on his arms, the sound of his final breath he didn''t really care about how he looked. Maybe he seemed like a fool, it didn''t matter. It smelled and you could figure out it hadn''t been cleaned up in a while, from the dirty floors and the stains on the toilets. Some of the door were half hanging from their frames and the mirrors on the sinks were cracked, some of them completely broken. This whole place looked fine on the outside but on the inside it was crumbling, like it wore some kind of mask. Hidden from the simple observers but showing its true decay to the ones that dared to enter.


    Ea, thankfully was indeed there. He was standing in front of a sink, washing his hands while his reflection on the cracked mirror appeared distorted. He spotted him with his eyes and smiled, shaking his hands for the excess water to go because there was obviously no towel or tissue and turned around just to be slightly shock by the way the young elf prince ran towards him and hugged him tightly. Closing him into a suffocating embrace as his face dived in his shoulder. He exhaled filled with relief and he didn''t even attempt to change his position.


    "Ares, Ares I can''t breathe" the elf chuckled and his husband let go of him, with a frown on his face. He caressed his cheek and smiled right afterwards. "Are you alright? Is there something wrong?" he asked him


    "I am so happy you are here" He said and hugged him again, this time allowing Ea to wrap his arms around him too. "I…For a second I thought I lost you." He whispered in his ear.


    "It was the dream wasn''t it? Everyone had one. It''s okay now. Don''t worry. I am here. It''s fine" he comforted him and patted his back. Letting him get as much of reassurance as he needed by holding him. While still in a hug Ares looked at him, staring at those eyes that glowed underneath the light in his dream. He was so adorable, smiling faintly, towered by his tall body and his heart was now racing again. Not from panic or worry but from need. Every time he was close to him like this he would feel his body temperature rise, his mind would turn hazy and the only thing he could see would be his lips. So kissable, so tempting. He felt like an absolute sinner.


    "Ea…I…" he whispered and the elf fluttered his eyelashes, waiting for him to continue his sentence.


    "Yes?"


    "You seriously have no idea what you''re doing to me" he said and Ea tilted his head to the side.


    "What are you talking…" he tried to ask him what he meant but his words were discarded and cut short since Ares collided their lips. His eyes shot wide at the unexpected gesture and Ea for a second was found frozen, just standing there like a block of ice. Ares moved back, Ea could still feel his breath land on his lips, as the body part was burning up and tickling.


    "Let me kiss you" Ares said, not satisfied by his reaction. "Open your mouth a bit" he commanded him and Ea nodded shyly, his lips parting for their second kiss to take place.


    He never imagined a kiss could make him feel like this. Weak and panting, unable to even stand, Ares raised him up in his hands and he instinctively wrapped his legs around his waist, playing with his raven hair as his husband devoured him. The room had suddenly become hot and if he could he would take all of his clothes off. Just to feel his skin touch Ares'', nothing separating them, nothing between them.


    He moaned when he felt him move, his lips traveling from his to his chin and then sucking on his sensitive neck. Soft pecks and teasing bites turned more intense by the second as Ares found it hard to control himself. It was suffocating but at the same time so sweet. He was being restrained by the place and the occasion, like he had shackles on his body, or else by now he would have pushed him on the floor and finally made him his. At the same time, he knew he shouldn''t give in. He wanted at least that to be special. He wanted Ea to remember everything like it was a fairytale. He kissed him one last time and gently let him down, Ea slipping slightly and him catching him as not to fall, holding him as if they had started a very passionate dance.


    "Is it over?" He asked him with a disappointed expression and Ares couldn''t help but laugh with how cute he was.


    "Yeah, for now at least" He answered as he winked playfully and Ea pouted. "Your first kiss was at a dirty public restroom. I don''t want your first time to be like that too"


    "First time?" Ea asked in shock, his tone raised.


    "Yeah" Ares said and placed his hands in his jeans as he walked outside. Facing again the burning sun and meeting everyone.


    Their first kiss was at a dirty run down human bathroom and somehow both of them could not have asked for anything else.