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Guess what time it is kids? That's right! RANDOM ONESHOT TIME! 8D

I like the music for this one, though if you could think of anything else, go right ahead and tell me…

Tick. Tick. Tick. Tick.

The small alarm clock sat on the grey, wooden nightstand, as small transistor played softly. Overhead, the ceiling fan spun lazily, scarcely altering the temperature. The blue wallpaper was peeling, and where it wasn't, small red scribbles covered every accessible area. The bed was dirty and unmade, and the desk's chair was thrown on the floor

He was laying beside the nightstand, on the floor, legs and arms sprawled in a star-shaped pattern. His eyes were glazed; two small pieces of reddened glass that were scarce tributes to their once-fiery glory. Beside his head lay a broken bottle. Its contents were spilled around him. The smell was strong in his nostrils, and yet he could not remember what it was. All he could taste was a sweet, yet coppery liquid in his mouth. He was in pain, lying there.

And yet the seconds continued to tick away.

Tick. One more life taken, never resurrected.

Tick. One more heart broken, never truly fixed.

Tick. One more moment swallowed by time, never returned.

…

Time.

It was everywhere, in everything he did. Every breath he took was a token to it, a tribute to its power to create… or destroy. He knew he wasn't given the true ultimate gift of time. Instead, it was if he had been born with time inside of him.

He wasn't sure how he could, but it was as if he could sense time flowing past him. Never halting, always going in the same direction: forward, with no stops for breaks. He could see it's mystical power flowing, ebbing away at matter, turning it into dust that it recreated s something new. The immortality granted to him artificially let him see the rapidly changing world around him.

It also brought him more pain then ever possible. Everything he saw around him, he knew would disappear and leave him. His friends would grow old and wither away, familiar landmarks would slowly disappear, and relationships turn to memories, while all he could do was watch. Watch, sadly, while before his eyes everything disappeared, forever.

She was the first, and he knew it wouldn't be his last loss.

Could his heart stand being immortal and witnessing all this death around him?

He wished and hoped that one day he would arise and lose his immortality. That one day he would be able to wake up and know that he could enjoy life. Yet, he couldn't. And he knew if he revealed the truth to anyone, they wouldn't understand. They couldn't. And he couldn't bring himself to lose another like he lost her.

So, buried behind the wall of coldness, he hid his most precious secret.

He was lying, depressed, in pain, alone, doomed to be so forever.

So as the small radio played the song softly, he couldn't help but sing along, tears in his eyes.

Tick. Tick. Tick. Tick.

And the clock kept slowly ticking away.

We'll do it all

Everything

On our own

We don't need

Anything

Or anyone

If I lay here

If I just lay here

Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

I don't quite know

How to say

How I feel

Those three words

Are said too much

They're not enough

If I lay here

If I just lay here

Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

Forget what we're told

Before we get too old

Show me a garden that's bursting into life

Let's waste time

Chasing cars

Around our heads

I need your grace

To remind me

To find my own

If I lay here

If I just lay here

Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

Forget what we're told

Before we get too old

Show me a garden that's bursting into life

All that I am

All that I ever was

Is here in your perfect eyes, they're all I can see

I don't know where

Confused about how as well

Just know that these things will never change for us at all

If I lay here

If I just lay here

Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

Short oneshots plot bunnies are plaguing my mind! O.O

SOMEONE CALL THE EPA!

Snow Patrol owns the amazing song Chasing Cars. GO AND WATCH IT NOW!

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CtC~