Prologue
Amber Blair is the name. Nec-Romancy is my game (Helping magical or the un-dead with all their marital struggles with my one-week marriage therapy plan). I'm a normal girl, for the most part. I like painting and drawing flowers mostly. I have brown hair and blue eyes, and I'd say I'm pretty pale. Everything about me is normal, except, of course, that I drink blood. Animal blood, of course, but blood nonetheless. I didn't choose to be like this, but I was dying slowly of stage 3 cancer, and I am all my Grandfather has left.
My family was pretty young, my Grandma had my mom at 15, and my mom had me at 16, so at 22 years old, my Grandfather is 50. My entire family died the summer before I was diagnosed. They were in a plane on their way to Philadelphia to see me, when they went through a heavy thunder storm. You can imagine what happened next.
So I drove down to Estes Colorado to live with my Grandfather, learning more about my heritage and family history than I ever truly cared to know. But I listen because it means a lot to him, and it's how he copes with knowing that his family, save me and his brother, are all gone. It's really too bad that I'm gone too.
((I just kindda wanted to have fun with this, so its structured more like a tv show with a new plot each chapter, but with an underlying main plot)) ((It's kind of like a fiction-humor. I got the idea of it from izombie, but none of the same characters and not zombies and not in a morgue))
Geoff and Naomi are dead, and they're depressed, but when Geoff's cat Bernie dies as well, they embark on a wild journey to find it in the underworld.
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When Geoff dies, alongside his girlfriend Naomi, they end up sharing an apartment in the Underworld as skeletons. But after a few years, Geoff starts suffering a mid-death crisis. What's the purpose of going through the motions as a skeleton if you can't really live? Then he gets word that his cat, Bernie, just died and he can collect him and bring him home! Geoff and Naomi hurry to get Bernie only to discover that, due to a clerical error, their cat has been lost. With the hunt for Bernie giving new purpose to Geoff's un-life, he and Naomi begin a quest to get back their cat. Battling skeleton pirates, climbing the sky ladder and facing off against the villain who took Bernie, Geoff is determined to find his purpose - or die a second time trying!
[[2018 Wattys Winner - The Originals]]
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