Zarkon was happy, living the calm retired life and he was loving the time he would spend with his younger kids, wife, and new granddaughter.

At the moment he was walking to the lounge room to meet up with his family only to walk in and find Elara sobbing so violently with Vetza, Leara, Azura, and Aries hugging her with tears in their own eyes. 

"What's wrong with her?!" He asked and bolted to his wife and kneeled down in front of her.

"Angel what's the matter? Tell me what's wrong." He pleaded.

"W-When were you g-going to tell me?" She asked through her sobs.

"Tell you what?" He asked.

"You're sick aren't you?" She asked.

His heart dropped

"Elara... I swear I was going to tell you." he said nervously.

"Liar! You were never going to tell me!" She hissed and stormed off to their bedroom.

He had no choice but to follow her and once he got to their room he saw her sitting on their bed crying hysterically.

He didn't say anything. He picked her up and sat down on the bed with her sitting on his lap and he let her cry.

"Why couldn't you tell me? Why? How long have you known you were sick?" She asked him.

"About a year. I couldn't tell you because you were already going through so much... Elara you lost your parents, our older girls moved out, and Koltor got married. You were fragile. If I told I was scared you'd have some sort of heart attack." He said and kissed her forehead.

"Twenty five years Zarkon. I've been with you for twenty five years and now I'm losing you... How long do you have?" She asked.

"Ten to fifteen years." He said solemnly.

She fell silent. Dead silent. Well... She was quiet until she stood up in a grief filled rage.

"Why must I be tortured like this? What have I done to deserve this? I've been abused, nearly murdered, I've almost died multiple times actually, forcibly divorced while pregnant, my daughter was taken from me... What did I do?!" She growled loudly in pure fury.

"Nothing. You did nothing wrong." Zarkon said as he stood in front of her.

"Things happen. I've been sick for longer than you and I know. Maybe I had the sickness before we got Leara back. We don't know why these things happen.... They just do." He said.

"What am I going to do when you're gone?" She sniffled.

"I want you to find somebody to love you like I do right now when I go." He said, holding her hands.

"That's not possible. Nobody loves me like you do. I'm never going to remarry. Never." Elara said.

She meant what she said. She was bound to him for life and after death. She knew she had found her man, her soulmate, her world. When he goes, she'll have so many memories to remember him by.