HAPPY BLUES
by an awesome blossom
James experiences completion.

Written for a Friday prompt (And I've never felt this good / I'll never feel this good / If I ever feel this good again / Stick a sword right through me / Bury me in the blue sea / And that'll be the end -- a song called "Bury Me In the Blue Sea" by Actionslacks) at sh(underscore)het on Livejournal. Indirectly inspired by Bosche's Garden of Earthly Delights. Silent Hill 2 is property of Konami and co.


James smiled. He smiled, and he sighed; then he sighed, and he smiled. For in those sighs there was no air, and in those smiles there was no life.

No air, no life
No life, no air
Smile, sigh
Sigh, smile

There was just a car drifting down to the bottom of the lake happily with its headlights flickering happily and its driver smiling happily. Oh what a happy day!

And in the place of the great beyond, the car started again and went off to race all the scrap metal in the junk yard; the lights communed with nature and when they weren't communing they were sitting over particles discussing their dreams; air came to life, and life came to air; and James was king of the hill protected by the triangular god of the smiling sighs and the sighing smiles. Together they lay upon the grass to watch the mannequins flutter by and the bad patients see how far they could spit (but they weren't really bad, God told him, just his playful children).

The nurses crowded around the new baby hatching from the egg, each one hoping to be its mother, but when Mary broke from her shell, she could only see the king and god. And then all around her the nurses began to coo, the bad patients began to belch, the mannequins fluttered in fanfare, and the king and god sigh-smiled as they all sang:

"Welcome to Silent Hill, Mary!"