A Scripta

Many, many, MANY years from now...and not canon.
Inspired by:
"Seen a million faces
Seen a million places die
Well I wonder who will walk with me
When I get to heaven..."
Hootie and the Blowfish, Old Man & Me (When I Get to Heaven)

The next thing he knew, he was on a boat. Kalius looked down at himself, dressed in full Grecian armor, the armor he was buried in.

"Sexah," said a voice behind him.

Kalius turned around to see a blond main with gentle blue eyes, dressed all in grey, holding a staff as he rocked with the boat's movements. What struck him were the wings on his back, black as a raven's. However, his halo was bright gold.

"You look silly with a halo, Grim."

"Don't I?" He grinned. "I've been asking them if I really have to wear it, but down here it's like an ID badge."

Kalius walked across the boat to him. Grim smiled at him, and gently turned him around so he faced the prow. "Look ashore. They await you."

Sure enough, a crowd of people waited on shore, people of many times and places, of all the lives Kalius had lived during his search for Dimitrius. His soul seemed to want to jump out of the boat and join them immediately, it was Grim's hand on his shoulder that restrained him.

The boat touched the shore, and Kalius was out of it in moments, making sure not to touch the water. Immediately he was surrounded by happy faces of family and comrades, and he would have wept if he could. Then Grim was guiding another man in robes out of the boat and helped him to make sure he didn't step in the water. Kalius turned to look at Grim, knowing this would be the last time he'd see him. Grim gently slid the hood off the man he had guided.

Kalius gasped. "Dimitrius."

Dimitrius smiled at Kalius. Kalius in his Grecian form was a big man, and pulled Dimitrius into his arms. Grim stood by, watching, with tears in his eyes. "How did you..?"

"You wouldn't believe the strings I had to pull," Grim said with a smile. He nodded to Dimitrius. "I was very gentle."

"What did you have to do?" Kalius gave him a look.

"Oh, renewed my contract. For a couple hundred years."

"Grim!"

"Don't worry, Kal. Time here is different. I'll be done in no time." Grim hugged Dimitrius, and then hugged Kal tightly. "You know I love my job."

"Too much, sometimes."

Grim laughed. "True, that." He drew Dimitrius and Kalius together. "You boys have fun, now." He spread his raven wings and suspended in the air. "Be seeing you soon."

"Grim..."

"I love you, Kalius of Thebes."

"I love you, too, Michael."

Grim gave him a Grecian salute, and flew straight up, then headed back East. Dimitrius slipped his arm around Kalius' waist, and Kalius did the same, watching Grim's grey light fade away.