Title: It Should've Been Me
Author: Riley Masters
Rated: T
Category: Push
Genre: Angst
Warnings: Death
Disclaimer: I do not, nor will I ever, own the rights to the above mentioned movie.
Author Note: I had no choice. I couldn't kill the plot bunny.
- Riley Masters (02/20/09)
Two years, eight months, seventeen days, four hours, fifty-six minutes, and nine seconds.
That's how long it's been since you died.
Yeah. I counted. Every minute.
You died in my arms, in the middle of the road, covered in blood.
You didn't See it coming.
I couldn't Move fast enough.
No, not by a bullet. Not the easy way.
No, a drunk kid, in a sports car, going at least a hundred.
He hit you. Hard.
Your pad went flying, scattering pictures everywhere.
Your pink highlights vanished underneath the red.
I shouted.
You screamed.
Then there was silence.
I Moved as fast as I could to you.
I held you close as you slipped away.
I felt you die.
Now you're buried in some backwater Canadian town, a million miles from Hong Kong.
I never left you for more than a few days.
I saved your mom. She jumped off a cliff after seeing your grave.
Everyone we knew has come to pay respects to you.
God knows where they are now.
Damn it!
If only I had Moved faster.
I should've died.
It should've been me.
A/N: Short as hell, but gets the job done.