My Love; My Life: Slipping Through My Fingers

E: Ember

*Remember-from Nickelodeon's Danny Phantom; written by show's creators Bush Hartman, & sung by Robyn Krimsse for the show's character: Ember McLain.*
*For how my character Ember Everwood looks, I refer you back to the chapter labeled, 'K:Tuck' for the photo.*
*Ember: glowing coal or wood burning in a dying fire.*
Setting: December of 2038-3039 school year, the Everwood house up in flames...

     The Coopers were never able to get the Everwoods to sign the paper in order to relinquish their custody of Ember & lost the court case they opened on the matter. As a result, Ember's attendance at school slowly became nonexistent while her attendance at the hospital became annual. Her world slowly became so small that she rarely to never saw Tucker & she spiraled downwards into the deep abyss of darkness with no one to stretch out their hand & help pull her out. She eventually fell so far, that she snapped & 'accidentally' took the batteries out of all the smoke detectors & left a candle burning on her nightstand, in close proximity to her curtains. She then proceeded to mix her parents pills & needles with alcohol until she overdosed & passed out so deeply that she never woke or felt a thing as the house went up in flames.

     Her parents went the same way without the knowledge of it even happening & while they fell directly into hell, her soul found its way to the Kripke house where Bay's making breakfast for her kids. Bay only glance at the confused spirit next to her as she continues to cook & set the table with the ease of her demonic powers while Ember just looks about the kitchen of the house she briefly stayed & recalled feeling safe in. Bay looks at the clock before finally looking to the soul of the young girl in her kitchen as she leans against the kitchen sink...

"Ya just had ta show up now," Bay mutters

"Sorry?"

"I wasn't supposed ta reaper yer soul till..." she says pulling an appointment book out of thin air & starts looking through its pages at hyper speed, "several years," she states, "after ya ave yer first kid," she reveals as the book disappears into thin air, "so congrats on denyin a new soul life," she adds sarcastically, "Huh," she sighs out, "but seriously," she continues, "no matter what people's problems are, cutin one's life shorter than it already is-a person's life n time on earth, is so short sweetheart," she tells the girl, "it's short n sweet n beautiful n worth every minute. It only lasts a short while while the beyond lasts-all eternity n honey, trust me ya ain't gonna like it."

"My grandfather once told me that I wouldn't get inta heaven n meet grandma if killed myself-was e right?"

"Well," Bay start in an unsure voice, "I ain't actually the one that decides that," she tells her, "that's actually somethin decided at St. Peter's gate-n just between you n me, e's a little behind on gettin people through at the moment."

"Are ya a ghost?"

"I, am a lawyer, matchmaker, social worker," she starts listing off, "grim reaper, a mother n a guardian Angel," she tells her, "n my work never ends cause someone's dyin almost everyday while another is born every minute-keepin track of the ghost with the most's family n my own, plus others...every other person on the other side either wants me ta find em the love they left behind or a new love, n I just recently added law practice ta my resume," she explains, "but those things are neither ere nor there at the moment," she says standing straight, "right now, I need ta take ya ta the neitherworld n explain ta ya-how exactly things work on the other side."

"How did ya pull that book outta thin air?" She asks as Bay turns intangible

"I got some friends on the other side," she tells her, "now take my hand Ember n I'll take ya ta yer afterlife."

"Was the book already in the house?"

"Yes-not this house though, a version of it I live in on the other side sometimes when they need me fer longer than I'd like ta be there."