Immortal Promise

“Til death do us part” they promised. A promise made among immortals, to whom a promise was an unbreakable vow, lest they lose their immortality. A promise that had thus far been faithful and dutifully carried out. Now a divide has come between the two and neither wishes to try and bridge the gap. They unite now only in trying to figure out how to forever be rid of the other.

They had learned some lessons from others. One was violence against the other was not enough to end either the promise or the intended target. Guns had been fired, drinks poisoned, brake lines tampered with. For one immortal couple this had actually rekindled their love, but they were the exceptions.

Another lesson learned was they could not just be separated from each other. If they did then over the course of their never-ending existence, they could never be with anyone else, or that would be cheating, and seen as breaking their marriage vow. This would result in lost immortality for the cheater, something neither one of them wanted to part with. Many attempts to convince other people to seduce their partners were made though. Several immortal couples had ended this way.

The most successful way to get out of the marriage promise though was to make more promises, unreasonable promises that were nearly impossible to keep. When a couple was in love they did their best to avoid asking their partners these kinds of promises or else an accidental break could end everything. Now that they wanted to end everything these requests became an everyday occurrence. “Do you promise to never…” or “Promise to always…” became part of common conversation. To have the other agree to something, but not yourself was the real issue. Many immortals had managed to convince their partners into impossible promises only for themselves to be equal bound, resulting in both losing their immortality.

And so, everyday the two wordsmiths fought back and forth, trying to get the other one to slip. Occasionally a knife would be thrown or boa constrictor left in the bed out of frustration, but it always came back to wordplay. The smarts and wit of why they fell in love had become the bane of why they were unable to separate. They are the longest lasting marriage of the immortals and it does not look like it will be ending any time soon.