Plot: They had each other, they lost each other. They found each other again only for one to then lose the other for what he thought was forever. But like at the end of all great stories they find each other once more, at a funeral no less. Will they finally be reunited forevermore?
A/N: Inspired by the lyrics to Requiem, the first track on Gary Barlow’s Since I Saw You Last album, and which was written by both Gary and Robbie Williams. The lyrics to the song are integrated into this one-shot. Please excuse if I’ve got the words wrong or the meaning is taken out of the original context as I had to make it fit as best I could. It involves both Gary and Robbie, although I've not divulged who is who really although maybe you can kind of guess. Also there is no time frame as to when this is set, which is intentional.
All written in the Principle Character's PoV.
PG-13: Due to the subject matter, and some swearing.
Disclaimer: The following is fiction. I don't own the lyrics* included or anything, and it is not based on any person(s) actual life, and any resemblance is purely accidental.
(*see A/N)
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I hear Organ music - sedate, sombre somehow yet inviting.
‘Wait - where the hell am I?! ‘What’s this?’
‘Wait...WHAT THE F*** IS GOING ON?!’
‘...Why, dear god WHY is my name in flowers?! - On top of a shiny mahogany coffin?!’
‘Is this some kind of a sick joke?!’
‘This has to be a joke!’
‘I’m standing right here so it’s not me in there, so what the hell is going on and how did I get here?!’ ‘I don’t remember anything! I don’t even feel like me, I don’t even feel like I’m really here!’
Panic is rapidly rising through me as I continue to stare at what appears to be my own coffin. I’m so confused...unless - ‘but it can’t be, IT CAN’T BE! Because that would mean I’m...Oh god! NO! I’m not, I’m not, I can’t be! THIS isn’t happening! I’m NOT DEAD!!!’
‘...am I?!’
‘Nah, that don’t make sense cause’ if I were REALLY dead, I’d know wouldn’t I – I mean, how could it even happen! I can’t remember a thing!’ But standing here gawping at that coffin, the confusion and panic is starting to fill me with actual terror yet it doesn’t feel real enough, it just feels like I’m having a dream, like I’m just watching this from the outside, like on TV or somethin’.
‘Maybe that’s it! I must be in a nightmare...the worst nightmare I could ever imagine! It could be that, couldn’t it?! I’ll could just wake up...I mean, eventually I’ve gotta wake up, right?!’
‘Please, PLEASE be a nightmare’.
‘I DON’T LIKE THIS’
‘I DON’T WANT TO BE HERE ANYMORE’
‘I WANT TO BE HOME!’
“LET ME GO HOME!!!”
