Happy End?
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This was a bizarre moment. It felt more like fiction than reality. It would have been a great setting for a cheap action movie: hellish planet, evil supervillain, giant killer robot - only the hero was mis-casted for Piper´s mind. They should have had a grim anti-hero there, a badass. An action hero would have finished the job and of course he would have had a snappy one-liner at the end. A real hero would have saved them all, for truth, justice and all that.
He had played a Queen-song at the end. What a finale..."Piper goes to hell", soundtrack by Freddie Mercury.
He loved Queen, but seriously...what had he been thinking?
Why couldn´t he have played something more dignified...Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, Händel, Vivaldi...at least he hadn´t played "Stronger" by Britney Spears or some other pop crap. A requiem, an ode, an anthem - no...Queen.
He first has the guts to tell Trickster what really happened there as they sit on their couch. James had never breeched the subject - or anything that happened after his death - and Piper had done the same. His resurrection had involved a fight in the underworld, a satanic ritual performed by a group of college students who wanted to impress some girls and Neron vowing eternal damnation to him (again).
Now, curled up together and watching TV - James zaps from channel to channel until he discovers "Moulin Rouge" and decides to watch it. It´s a musical, a love story...exactly what Piper liked.
But when Santine - the female protagonist- begin to sang "Show must go on" tears fell silently on Piper´s cheeks. With a flat voice he tells James what happened. James holds him close. And he tells his story afterwards, quietly, too quite for anyone else to hear.
In the movie Santine dies...not every story has a good end.
James promises that theirs will get a "happily ever after".