Thoughts Before Death.
By EdElricRules
Betaed by DoThePieFace
A/N: I was thinking, what would Hughes have been thinking when seeing his wife shoot him? Then this story was born.
"Forgive me, but I have a wife and child waiting at home." I mutter, turning away.
The crackle of electricity reached my ears from behind. I spun on the spot, my knife raised and ready to strike.
I could feel the shock on my face, it was evident. My brain was telling me it wasn't her, it wasn't my darling wife, no it wasn't, it couldn't be! But I stood there frozen with shock.
It spoke, the voice sounded uncannily likes hers', but it couldn't be her!
"Don't you think this is a nice effect, Lieutenant Colonel Hughes?"
I stared at the woman… no — thing in front of me. Its features just like hers, the green dress just like the one she had been wearing before I left, the cream cardigan positioned exactly as she wore it; though it couldn't be her, no it couldn't, she would never point a gun at me. Not in a lifetime.
Yet I stood frozen, even with all these thoughts racing through my head.
A gun shot reached my ears, a searing pain shot through my arm blocking out the pain from the stab wound I had received earlier, and lodged itself painfully in my chest. I felt my arm drop. I could see it walk away.
It could never be her! Gracia would never shoot me. These thought drifted through my slowing mind. Gracia would never kill me. I let these thoughts stay until finally I thought of the day I told Roy I would support him from underneath.
I could feel myself falling. I allowed one more thought enter my mind.
'Gracia would never…'
I never could or would be able to finish that sentence as the darkness finally consumed me.
End
When you're gone
The pieces of my heart are missing you
When you're gone
The face I came to know is missing too
When you're gone
The words I need to hear will always get me through the day
And make it OK
I miss you
'When You're Gone'- Avril Lavigne