Love Beyond the Veil

Chapter 2: The Death of Mr. Jim Root

(A/N): Gang this is going to be a sad fuckin chapter and everything I'm so sorry for this but just bare with me like I said !!

(T/W): Gore, Death, Murder, Distress, etc..

Takes place in 2006

Jim was visiting a friend who passed away peacefully in the hospital, placing flowers at her grave for her birthday, and any other time he was missing her. He did this every year for the past 15 years. He talked to her as if she were still there before leaving.

But someone else's grave caught his eye for some reason, and he wasn't sure why.

(Y/N) Taylor
1954-1977
"Dead but not"

'Maybe they're related to Corey in some way..' Jim thought to himself before finally leaving, the name still in his mind.

As he was driving home he felt something was wrong deep down, but there wasn't anything wrong? He had everything, and he wasn't missing any band practice that he forgot of. So he brushed it off as just missing a loved one. But once he got home, he still felt something bad was going to happen.

He sat down looking for something on TV to watch before throwing something in the microwave to eat, maybe he felt so off because he was hungry? He sat back down as he waited for the microwave to go off, but he heard a loud crash before he was held down by someone on his back. He tried to get loose but couldn't, the large being behind him yanked his head back by his hair and he felt a sharp pain in his chest. He looked down and saw another person in a ski mask with a knife - and that knife was punctured into his chest.

"Please.." Jim whimpered, his breathing ragged.

All he was able to see was the person in front of him have a gruesome grin on his face before beginning to repeatedly stab him. He tried to scream but the one who was holding him down covered his mouth, so Jim bit him. But when he tried to scream that time it was just a hoarse cough before he was whacked in the face by the one he bit.

He fell in and out of consciousness as he was repeatedly being stabbed until what seemed like a blink - wasn't a blink. He was then out of his body watching himself being mutilated even after he was - what he supposed - dead, because he didn't feel it anymore. After the two we're done making a mess with Jim's dead body, they threw him into the floor and gave him a hard kick to the back to make sure he was dead.

Jim followed them - and his deceased body - to a bridge where he was then thrown off of it, the two who had killed him laughing and running away. Jim just stood there staring where his body had plummeted into the water for a long while - days even. Eventually he was found and he followed where his deceased body went - almost having no control doing so - so he stood there as his body went through an autopsy and was brought to the funeral home to prepare his body for the funeral.

He couldn't believe it, he was attending his own funeral, he watched as many people began to fill the room, he walked around seeing familiar faces, reaching out to try to touch them. But, they apparently couldn't feel it. He looked and saw a memorial table, with some of his belongings, his favorite guitars on each side of it. There was photos, yearbooks from his years in school, his glasses, and guitar picks scattered out on the table.

Jim tried again to get the peoples attention, trying to tell them he isn't dead and right in front of them. He saw his bandmates sitting in chairs separate from the rest of the people. Corey started walking up to the podium and began to speak. Jim ran up to him trying to get his attention by screaming and shaking him, trying to tell him he was right beside him.

He eventually gave up and just sat with his back against the wall as multiple people went up to speak. He felt absolutely defeated, he would never be able to talk to them ever again and he didn't know how he was going to live with that. Well.. he won't live with it, but he'll have to deal with it. A few hours had passed and now it was time for the burial, everyone said their final "goodbye"s and the casket was now closed. All 8 of the remaining bandmates of Slipknot grabbed the bar on Jim's casket and were walking to the hearse.

Once at his burial site, they put Jim - Jim's deceased body in the casket - onto the casket lowering device, spoke some before lowering him, which took quite a bit. The device was moved and his bandmates began to take turns shoveling dirt into the hole. But whenever his hole was almost fully covered, he passed out.

(A/N): IM SO SORRY FOR KILLING JIM BUT HE'S GOTTA GET TO US N WE'RE DEAD 😔😔