Here (In Your Arms)
Prologue
Sitting in his car, driving down the twisted mountain roads, Stan was content with himself. He had everything he wanted, he was going off to university soon, his parents knew about his sexuality and were ok with it, and he had his boyfriend by his side. "dude, did you see that chick oogleing us earlier in subway?" he asked
Kyle looked at him and laughed "Yeah! Oh man, I really wanted to just walk up to her and say 'why yes. He is my boyfriend' just to see what her reaction was" Kyle laughed.
Stan chuckled, looking over at him. Something didn't feel right, but he wasn't giving that too much thought.
"Dude! Watch the road! How many times? Do you want to kill us or something?" Kyle chastised him
"Sorry" Stan said, turning back and looking forward through the windscreen. Now he really felt uneasy. There was defiantly something wrong with the situation, but he couldn't work out what
"You ok?" Kyle asked
"Yeah It's just…oh I dunno. Something just feels, ya know, Off centre."
Kyle shrugged and looked around "I've been there before now…been here before now too"
"Wha..?" Stan asked, looking at Kyle
"DUDE! ROAD!!" Kyle told him off
Stan looked back just in time to see the road disappear from in front of them. He expected the car to start falling any minute, but it didn't, it kept moving forward into the night "What the hell??!!" he asked, panicking, putting his foot firmly on the breaks, but the car kept moving forward. There was no sound of screeching tyres, he could not feel the anti-lock break system vibrating through the peddle, then he noticed, he couldn't hear the sound of the engine either "What the hell's going on dude?" He looked over and saw Kyle with blood running down his face from under his hat
"I loved you…and you killed me! How could you Stan? You took your eyes off the road and you killed me!"
Stan jumped backwards, pressing his body against the car door, trying to get away, He suddenly worked out what felt wrong about everything, and memories of the accident came flooding back to him. He started sobbing "Kyle, I'm so sorry. I know it sounds corny, but I didn't mean it. It was an accident."
Kyles eyes filled with an evil glint "that's what they all say" he said.
Stan tried to back away further but couldn't. He knew Kyle was going to lunge for him. He had no idea what was going on, the car should have fallen, or stopped or something, but it didn't, it just kept moving straight on. Stan could feel his heart trying to pound out of his chest. Before he could do anything about it, Kyle Lurched towards him.
Stan shot up in his bed screaming, a cold sweat pouring off his body. He looked around quickly, whipping his head around before he realised where he was. Safe in his own bed.
"Man, I'm so fucked up. When are the nightmares going to stop?" He lay back against his bed, tears appearing in his eyes.
It had been nearly 3 years since the now 20-year-old Stan Marsh had swerved to avoid something on a road high up on the mountains, crashing through the barrier, injuring himself, totalling the car and killing the person who was both his best friend and crush, Kyle Brofslovski.
Kyle had some unfinished business with Stan, so had been granted a few hours life, where only Stan could see him, so as he could finish off what he had to do.
Both boys had been in love with each other for a long time, but before the car crash, neither had the chance nor the strength of will to declare it to one-another. Kyle died before telling Stan.
During the few hours they spent together, they went through an emotional rollercoaster, where they both ended up declaring their love, but with only limited time to spend together as lovers.
Stan managed to get 2 photos of them, right before Kyle disappeared for good. One of the two of them side-by-side at Starks pond, and the second was one taken by him accidentally setting the camera's timer to take two photos instead of one. The second one was of a final, tearful kiss between the two boys.
After Kyle faded out, his image in the photos survived, much to Stan's delight. While stan was downloading the photos to his computer, he noticed that Kyle had been back into his room and written him a note. The note told Stan that Kyle was glad the photos had come out OK on the computer, and that he should move on with his life, not sit there and be upset of what was and what could have been. This note can only have been written by Kyle after he faded away.