See you someday (It's sooner than you think)

Oneshot

I can't figure out if this needs a trigger warning or not so please read with caution :)

He watches the water come into veiw, faster and faster. It takes him a second to realise he's falling. It takes him even longer to realise that this wasn't on his own accord and longer for the blood rushing in his ears to quiet down enough to hear the screaming from the people near the edge when he fell.

It's like his life slowed down. It's like rocks are hitting his head with memories flashing every few seconds.

"Holy fucking shit."

He's going to die, and it won't be his fault. It'll be someone else's, and he can't afford for his death to be on someone else's shoulders, but there's no way to stop his speeding down the 243 feet to the calm water. That'll be like concrete when he hits it, no matter how he lands. This is it for him.

And then it's all gone.

No screaming, no blood rushing, the water isn't there anymore. He can't feel the air rushing past his arms. What?

He opens his eyes that he had no memory of closing, looking around. He locks face first with George. Great, he's dead.

Wait.

No. That can't be right. The brain spends the last few moments after you die playing memories in rapid succession; at least he read that somewhere. He can't remember now, and he has a feeling that doesn't matter right now.

"George..?"

"Dream?"

He shakes his head. Hah, he's having a nightmare while he's midair, clearly. He feels himself walk closer to George. He didn't know how he did that, he has no control over his nightmares normally. Maybe it's different when he's about to die.

"Hey." He smiles when he looks around. The black void around them gone, replaced by a familiar spot. What in the hell is happening. He sits next to George on the bench he hadn't seen before because well..it wasn't there twenty seconds ago.

Twenty seconds can't be right. He should've hit the concrete by now then? Whatever. Maybe he's already hit the water and this is his brain showing his memories in rapid succession except this feels pretty damn slow.

He's confused. That much is clear.

"Hey." The soft voice brought him from his thoughts. Why can he still think? "You okay?"

No. Not exactly. But you can't exactly tell someone that you've just been falling off a cliff towards water while people were screaming your name and just screaming in general. You can't exactly tell someone that they're dead and you probably are too if you can see them.

"Yeah. I'm good." He smiles and it doesn't feel forced despite the situation and this is irritating him now. If he's dead then just cut off his ability to think, see, hear, feel. Everything!

When did he get so okay when the fact he was dying? The fact he was going to die? He wouldn't be reacting this way if this happened before George died but George did die and he was suffering. He lost his reason to keep fighting and he swears he's about to say that when the floor beneath them swallows him up. That's the best description.

He's accepting that this is it for him because the orginal black space dissapeared into memories of his life, flash after flash after flash and then he hits what feels like solid ground which isn't right? And he sees another memory with George.

Their first kiss.

It was during highschool. It was a rough time and they were all stressed and he was sitting in silence next to his bestfriend who makes everything feel okay whether he speaks or not. He makes-made-Dream's life better.

He's forced into his position next to George and it takes a bit, the memories with George-specifically the core ones-seem to be longer than the normal ones. But eventually George's lips are on his and they're kissing.

And they're pulling away and the floor is opening and the falling sensation hits him again, memories flashing like a camera lense fluttering. Memory after memory. The core ones longer than the regular ones. Forced into so many hims with so many George's and Sapnap's and everyone. In so many different places with so many different voices and it's all so overwhelming that if he could cry he would've already.

The first time George said 'I love you' back. The first time George and him played Minecraft. The day he and George met. So many George's.

So many Sapnap's. So many everyone's that's been important enough to his story to get their own special clip in his end credits.

He crashes through the last black screen and every peice of false comfort collapses. Because there's death after death playing infront of him. Everyone who he saw die is being played at the same goddamn time. So many voices. So many people died infront of him. For him.

It should've been him instead of George, instead of Sapnap, instead of any of them. Because they all died for him and it's always his fault, isn't it?

The memories fade to black and he's stuck until the floor crashes out beneath him and the screaming is back and the blood and air rushing is audible and he's cold and the water is getting closer and closer and closer.

Until he finally crashes.

And it's finally quiet.

And he can't feel a thing.

Not the cold air, not the cold water, not the pain he should.

All he can do is see as memory after memory plays in rapid succession. No longer memories, nothing being skipped. It doesn't feel lile he's living his life over again. It's quiet and quick.

And then it all goes black and he can't hear or feel or see or smell or breathe and it's peaceful?

He never expected to refer to death as peaceful but here he is. There's a familiar voice behind him and he spins quick because he needs to see his face right now. See what it looks like after your body fully shuts down.

"Dream?"
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A/N :

I wrote this in an hour maybe less then and I'm actually proud of it.

It was orginally an idea I had for a maze runner fic but I haven't really gotten to fully grasp the characters personalities y'know? So I decided to go with the next best bet. I hope it has the feeling I wanted it to have and I hope the ending feels as open as I wanted it to be.

My day's been good, watched an entire show in a day. Really good in my opinion, not gonna talk about it because I'll spoil it all but it was good and if you need something to watch it's on netflix. Scott Pilgrim Takes Off. It's like the movie but better and you don't really need to watch the movie but if you can you should, it's also really good.

Hope your day was good :)