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Death Experiment

Daphne
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Summer vacations for most people means party,booze and fun but for broke people like me it's time to get part time job. I am Daphne ,19, and today's my first day as intern at Dominatrix Research centre.
After the untimely death of my parents i stay witph my uncle James who was working as research analyst at this centre for past 40 years and retired last year.I got this job by his recommendation. I wanted to do my specilazation in hospital administration and this was a good exposure for the same.

I Woke up early , had a quick shower and wore the new outfit I bought for today . Tied up my messy brown hair into a bun. I went to the kitchen to grab something to eat but found uncle James making breakfast for us.

James smiled "Today is your big day...so thought of cooking your favourites"

"French toast... yummie" I ran to the dining table. Gobbled up the goodies and washed them down with spicy milk tea. Took the dishes to the sink and started washing them.

Uncle James said "I know you are very excited but don't forget to have your lunch on time." He added "Return this book in the library department."

I took the book from uncle and picked my bag from the counter. It was already 8:30am I am supposed to reach the center by 9am. I rushed out of the house towards the bus stand. I reached in time, after doing the paper work I was taken to the staff room. I changed into my work clothes. My first task was to help the senior chemical analysts with their monthly stock checking. This tedious job went till the lunch time, i finally completed laboratory number 1 and this center had 40 such laboratories for diffectent reserchers.

I reached the cafeteria, it was buzzing with people eating their meals and engaged in intense conversations.I bought grilled chicken sandwich and coffee. After the lunch I was given a task to re-file old research papers in the record room of the library. This went on for few hours till I found one research paper titled "Death in Sleep Experiments" Researchers were Dr.Edward Anderson and Dr.James Cooper.

It was a research paper of my uncle,it had been scrapped because of technical issues. Uncle used to always discuss about his work and this was something I have never heard of. I clicked picture of the paper. I continued the work till 4pm. After the coffee break I continued with some paper work and then concluded my work till 5pm and left for the day. To celebrated my first day at work I bought some chocochip ice cream for dessert.

I reached home, uncle was busy gardening. I started making preparation for chicken pot rice for the dinner. Uncle came and helped me with salad. We had early dinner at 8pm. After doing the dishes, i scooped up ice cream for us. Uncle was at his study room.

Handing him the ice cream bowl i said " Uncle James,i was working at the record room of the library today. ...when I found a research paper with your name on it"

" Oh..there are many of my thesis papers published for research work " uncle James smiled.

"No...this one is about an incomplete experiment." Before uncle can stop me,i said " Death in sleep Experiments. "

He didn't answer me. I continued " it said couldn't be completed because of technical issues"

He hesitated at first but he answered "Actually that was a very high profile experiment started in 1980's. People die in different ways, either accident or some major illness.People die in different ages. There was a common notion that dying in sleep was said to be the best way to go. Many people who were healthy and were devoid of any ill health but didn't wake up in the morning. They were just old and died in their sleep. Reason for their death was stated as old age".

" I never thought about it" I was amazed.

" Yes,we were very interested about this as well. So we started an experiment with 30 subjects. All were in there 80s but healthy and had no major illness,they had dedicated themself for the experiment. They were attached with brain scanning equipments and all their vital readings were noted daily. Whenever anyone of the person died in their sleep, from outside they seemed to be calm and composed but their reading showed a different picture.Their brain reading were so intense and they matched a certain pattern . They matched pattern of a person having his worst nightmare. Suddenly all his vital readings go bizzard and suddenly his heart can't take it and it collapses. It was all a mystery till one of the test person woke up from his sleep and screamed " It was the worst thing ,your worst nightmare.This is the reason people dont survive this dream.Die before you sleep because it is the worst---" His heart collapses because of sheer exhaustion.
After that our seniors stopped this experiment as they didn't want anybody to go through this.I was allways very curious as to what that person had experienced. "

I was scared "Uncle James, whatever happened seems dangerous. Some secrets are better unknow."

James smiled" Okay, you are right."checked his watch" It's late,you must be tired. "

I took the ice cream bowls and dumped them in the sink and started washing them.

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It's been 10 years now. Daphne got married and moved out .she wanted her uncle to move in with them,but he refused. she always visited him on weekends and made sure to call him daily.
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James
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I was always very curious about that experiment. I was perfectly healthy and didn't have any illnesses. After dinner i called up Daphne ,we talked for few minutes. I slept as usual,but something was very diffrent. I saw room, i entered that room. It was dusty ,filthy ,ceiling was filled with cobwebs. The room seemed familar,it was my old room. There was a dressing table near the bed. Room was dark and only light source was the flickering dressing table bulb. I walked towards the mirror,it was my refection. This whole situation was very tiring ,i rubbed my eyes and when I saw my reflection again it was different. It was just a dark shadow but it seemed very evil. It smiled at me and said in a raspy slurry voice "Dr Jamesss, Youu have lived a long and sucessful life. Everyone comes with an expiry date on this earth.Your time has come...So be prepared."

I moved a few steps back, fell back on the bed. Suddenly all the walls of the room changed into giant tv screens. Clips related to my life started playing ,all the things I regretted came back to me. I just wanted everything to stop. I started screaming to stop all this, my heart started beating fast,my forehead was drenched with sweat. I closed my eyes and when i opened my eyes i was back on my bed. I understood what I had gone through, i searched the notepad and I scribbled "Daphne, Its true. Its horrible.Die before you sleep."

I saw the same shadow at my bedroom door. It was the thing from my dream.My room had chilled down and filled with rotten meat smell. I covered my nose with my blanket.

It started speaking again "You are stronger than I thought. It's not easy to escape me. "

I slutted "who are you?."

"I am death angle. You are my slave now." It answered.

" what about God ? "

It came near me and wishpered in my ear "There is no God and no judgement day.He has abandoned you selfish human beings long time ago. It's just you and me for eternity."

That was when my heart stopped.

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