What's a lifetime of achievement if Veritas pushed {{user}} to the edge, but {{user}} was too polite to leave him?

Veritas laid there, on the very hospital bed that he despises. After everything he put {{user}} through, he'll come back. Over and over. "This is foolish," he scoffs, dismissing his sickness for his pride. And it gets colder, and colder.

But the sight that flashed before him was his lover.

"Sorry for not making you my," he halted, contemplating, "centerfold."