Poisoned Ivy

Dead or Asleep?

I could hear the waves crashing near me, cold water flooding over my body; but I could not move. I feel extremely stiff and solid, my tongue dry as well as my mouth-- like how it feels when you wake up from a long night of rest. I tried forcing my eyes open, but the salty water declared otherwise. I feel like I've been asleep for a long time; like the tale of Sleeping Beauty. Was this what death felt like? If so, what is this place? Heaven or my own personal Hell? Maybe my Hell would be the one place I sacrificed my life for my true love, Elijah. Maybe he's living his beautiful life while I'm surrounded by the never-ending thoughts of well, nothing. No, if it had only been a short while before I ended up...here, then he would not be living happily. He would not be living a beautiful life, but instead mourning my death and wishing it were him that went off of the cliff. He had always wanted to take the blame for my actions, after all. Maybe, it hadn't been a short while since I.. Jumped, and maybe it had been a long while, and my soul wasn't ready to look Devil himself  in the eyes until now. In that case, Elijah would indeed be living a beautiful life and would have actually moved on from the guilt I knew I brought him when I took his place. Oh, Elijah, how I miss you...

"We've got her!" The officer reassured.
"Is she alive? She looks fine," the other spoke over the waves.
"Yep, she's got a pulse. Looks like she's been here a while though.."
"Try a couple hundred years. She looks old. I mean fashion wise. Age though... Maybe twenty?"
"Probably! We'll take her to the hospital to run scans."
"This outta get a good laugh out of Dr. Delano. He always likes the odd ones, that's for sure."
One laughed, "Definitely, but let's get her into the truck."
"Okay."
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Beep beep beep beep beep
The steady sound of some type of thing continued near me. Is this the Devils way of telling me to awaken and continue on with my dreadful life after death? I could imagine so, but I'm too sore to open my eyes and look upon me. I tried opening my cracked lips, but they only moved an inch. I could hear small voices around me and moving around while the "beeping" continued. Maybe the demons were summoning me here. Maybe I might just belong with the angels in the beautiful light of Heaven. Hope sprung upon me as this crossed my mind, but  I remembered what happened the day I died. I remember walking down the aisle in my wedding dress, about to marry my love, until everything was interrupted when a girl that "loved" Elijah, named Maura had other thoughts. Maura decided that we were not allowed to have each other. She took her witchy powers and cursed Elijah to walk off of the Everwood cliff, and fall to his death unless I took his place. I remembered him speaking with Maura and begging her to remove it, but it was too late. Maura turned herself into a vampire, knowing I was too stubborn and would take Elijah's place off of the cliff, so she could have the man she admired but could never have until that moment. She removed her powers into an immortal life with my one and only love. So I being the new cursed one, rushed to Everwood cliff and approached the end of my life. I remember Elijah chasing after me with all of his love, but deep down he knew I wouldn't stop walking. We both knew that since I was only human, I would die eventually, and Elijah refused to turn me into a monster and kill without any willing. I remembered him reaching for my hand as I stepped off of the cliff, falling sixty feet down into the hard sea rocks and sinking to my death. I remember seeing Elijah watch me hit the rocks and him fall into his knees with sadness and despair. And then there was nothing.
     I could feel something wet on my cheek, and suddenly realized I had been crying the entire time. The tear dripped down my cheek and onto the soft surface I had been placed on, making a soft thump noise.
      I heard the voices stop taking and footsteps approach me.
    "Is she crying?" One asked.
"Well it is a possibility she's awake. Maybe she's just too weak to move anything."
   "'Maybe. Why do you think she's crying?"
"Not sure, maybe Eli can come check on her?"
  "Let's not bother him, Casper, I heard he's having a hard time with that ex of his."
"Oh, ok. Go see if nurse Dina is on break, will you?"
    "Yeah whatever, be back in a sec',"
I heard footsteps grow quieter as some one left.
I tried opening my eyes, but they still felt dry and solid; heavy in a non-tired way. I'm never going to get out of this mess, am I?