DISCLAIMER: I don't own anything related to the show Dead Like Me. I am just writing this story for the fun of it.
"Fuck me" Georgia Lass grumbled as she rolled off of the couch and onto the floor. She had hardly gotten any sleep that night because Mason made her stay up and watch a Twilight Zone marathon with him. She didn't really know why she stayed up, she could have gone up to her room at anytime but she felt bad just leaving him alone like that. Rubbing the sleep from her eyes she looked around and noticed that Mason was no longer on the couch.
"Mason? Mason!"
Georgia got up and started to look around the house. In a matter of only seconds she realized that Daisy was gone too and the house was completely empty.
"Where the fuck is everyone it's only…" She glanced up at the clock in the kitchen and realized that it was 9:00.
"Oh fuck I am so late!"
George got ready and a record time of 10 minutes and bolted out the door to get to Der Waffle Haus. She violently swerved into the first parking space that she saw, almost killing an old man walking by, in the process. She quickly jumped out of the car and ran to the entrance. She saw Rube, Roxy, Mason, and Daisy all eating their breakfasts and before she walked over to the table she straightened herself out and took a deep breath. She silently slid into the booth next to Mason and casually picked up a menu.
"Your late peanut." Rube said without even looking up from his breakfast plate.
"I know I'm really sorry but someone forgot to wake me up." George said glaring over at Mason.
He gave her his most innocent look and said, "What the fuck? It's not my fault and besides Daisy could have woken you up at anytime."
"Hey I'm her roommate not her babysitter." Daisy said taking a sip from her coffee.
"You see that's why I don't trust anybody. You can't rely on other people for shit." Roxy blurted out before eating another piece of cantaloupe.
Kiffany walked over to the table and cheerily refilled everyone's coffee cups.
"Hey sweetie can I get you anything?" Kiffany asked George.
"No thanks Kiffany I think I'll just have a really big cup of coffee to go."
"Ok sweat heart I'll be right back with that."
Kiffany went back behind the counter to get George's coffee.
"Not going to eat anything this morning peanut?" Rube asked while sticking George's reap of the day in front of her.
"Oh come on this is in 15 minutes." She whined looking down at the post it."
"Well then I guess you better get a move on peanut."
George let out an annoyed sigh and gratefully took a sip from the cup of coffee Kiffany had just brought her.
"This day is going to fucking suck." George mumbled under her breath as she made her way out to her car with only 10 minutes to get to the park and find the poor person who would be dying that day.
She made is to the park with six minutes to spare. George urgently rushed around asking people what their names were and receiving dirty looks. She stopped dead in her tracks when she saw a young pretty teenage girl who looked to be about 16, with two gravelings following closely behind her.
"You got to be kidding me it's a kid."
George was about to make her way over to the girl to pop her soul when she heard a middle aged man shout, "Warren Alan Smith you old son of a bitch I haven't seen you in years!"
The middle-aged man walked up to Warren Alan Smith and slapped him hard on the back, causing Warren Alan Smith to choke to death on the hot dog that he was eating. George looked down at her post it and saw the initials W.A. Smith. Trying to be discreet as possible she pushed her way through the crowd of people who had gathered around the body and popped out his soul. Remembering the girl and the two gravelings George looked back to where she had seen her. There was the girl watching George like she knew what had just went on. The gravelings were sitting by her side like two loyal pet dogs would. George's attention was turned away from the girl when Warren Alan Smith tapped her on the shoulder.
"Oh my god am I dead?" He asked looking at his dead body.
"Yeah you're dead and now you should go off into the light or something."
She watched as the man walked into his own version of heaven and was gone in a flash of light. She looked back to where the girl was standing but she was gone and so were the gravelings, like they had just disappeared into thin air. George found this to be very strange but she figured that she would go back to Der Waffle Haus and grab some breakfast. When she got back to Der Waffle Haus everyone was still there just finishing up their breakfasts.
"Welcome back Peanut. How was the reap?"
"Just some old dude who choked on his hot dog." She answered in a monotone voice.
"Hey rube can I ask you something? George asked.
"What is it?
"Ok well while I was at the park I saw this young girl and she had these two gravelings following behind her. At first I thought I was going to have to reap her soul but it was that guy instead and after I popped his soul she was staring at me like she knew what I had just done. And to make things even weirder the two gravelings were standing right beside her like two pet dogs would. Do you have any idea what that was all about?"
"Hey maybe she was going to die soon so that's why the gravelings were following her around." Roxy answered.
"No but they weren't following her around like they were going to do something to hurt her it looked like they were her pets or something."
At this time Rube had put down the check and was very interested in what Georgia was saying.
"Well I heard this story once about Death. It was that the gravelings follow around death because death controls them and tells them what to do."
"So you mean she was a reaper?" Mason asked.
"No, no, no it's just our job to take the souls before the people die and it's the gravelings jobs to cause the accidents. They follow wherever death is. And I mean death like the actual thing."
All of the reapers sat back in their seats and began to think about this? Had George just actually stared death in its face?
Hey I will add the next chapter later tonight or tomorrow. I hope you all like it so far. Also I know that Death was supposed to be the frog in the show and that will all be explained later on in the story.
