"What's it like to die?"
I laugh softly, weak, leaning against a growing ever colder body. "What do you mean?" I ask, tired. My eyes feel heavy; and I drowsily stay where I'm sat. "Well...you've died before. What's it like?" I smile, lacing their hand in mine, still leaning on them.
"It's... peaceful." I say, with resolution. "I woke up; so... it was like a never ending dream. I'm sure..." I feel their heart beating slowly aside mine. "I'm sure it'll be peaceful for you too."
We sit in silence, under a flight of stars. "Do you..." they pause for a moment. "Think maybe, we'll wake up? Like you did...but somewhere else." I squeeze their hand lightly, and smile bittersweetly. "I hope so." I whisper out into the night.
It grows colder, and colder, and I feel my body beginning to numb and weaken. Their own body beginning to become rigid and cold. They are, I am - we are, dying.
I laugh, tired, cold. "It's funny..isn't it?" I pull away from them slightly, sitting up on my own. They turn to look at me, with their own sky blue eyes and blond hair gazing into my own. I reach a hand out at the stars. "Where we begin is where we end.... we began in the stars, and we end in the stars." The only warmth left is their hand interlaced with my own, and I can't help but feel a desperate loneliness begin to shake inside me, awakening something in this final moment.
The air is slowly thinning, the world crumbling away. I will turn to dark night and join the sky soon, as will they, and we will forever be together and yet never again see one another. I feel the world begin to tilt, and fall on them suddenly as we crash back onto the cold, wet grass.
"I love you." It is barely an audible whisper, and their lips are cold, breaking away to nothing as I press my own against them, my heavy eyes closing, their warm kind hands on mine dissipating entirely.
Then there is nothing but a cold void, and I am lulled into an eternal slumber. My hopes, my dreams, aspirations. Pain and suffering; it all slowly breaks away from my mind, until there is no more mind. There is no more me. There is only nothing; and that nothing becomes my everything.
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A/N: I don't know.
