Not spoilery, just imagination.

Dearly Departed.

Suffocation

Susan Mayer can't breathe. The new kitchen is too small. There is hardly enough room for the dishwasher to fully open without hitting the counter across from it. The wallpaper peels around the edges of a protruding refrigerator. The stuffy room opens with a window facing a bland brick wall. The dinner table doesn't fit.

Mike had put the table as close to the kitchen as he could. To make it homey. Like their home on Wisteria Lane. But still, it doesn't fit in the kitchen. So its in the living room where they eat their meals.

Susan Mayer sits at the table. Alone. She sips cooling tea knowing this is no place she could ever have her friends over to play poker. She misses Wisteria Lane, and all of her neighbors. She misses her best friends, and talking to them over fences and gardens, and being able to visit just for the sake of it.

Susan begins to weep softly over her loss.

Drowning

Bree Hodge is losing hope. Life is cruel. Her intentions are merely good, and still bad fortune comes her way.

All the men in Bree's life are gone. She is, once again, alone. This is too much to handle. Her company is gone. Her children are grown. Her friends are occupied with jobs and children and babies.

But one of her dearest friends she might lose forever. She knows what telling her secret to Gaby will do. After all, she has seen what Gaby did to Lynette during their legal dispute. She doesn't want the same pain.

Bree looks around her living room, realizing the imminent lawsuit might strip her home and fortune away from her. But if she keeps this secret, she's sure she will go insane. She will lose her mind. She can't lose anything more. This is too much to handle.

Bree Hodge is drowning.

Stoned to Death

Lynette Scavo is elsewhere. While her family welcomes the newest member to the family, her mind is in another place.

But sometimes, so is she.

Lynette sits in a courtroom, full of heartbroken parents and siblings and friends. They are all fighting for the prosecution of Eddie Orlowfski. They all think he is a monster. They want him gone. Jailed. Or worse, put to death.

Lynette is crying. She sits at the stand, being pressed and challenged against. Lynette loves Eddie. He has a heart. She wishes people would see that. She sees that.

Lynette's heart aches as she waits for the jury, and for the judge to announce Eddie's sentencing. Now sitting with him, her hand finds its way to his shoulder. Eddie is grateful for the human touch, and smiles at his truest mother figure.

Then, the judge lifts her mallet: "Eddie Orlowfski sentenced to life in jail. No parole."

Two large cops pull Eddie out of his seat, hastily handcuffing him, and shoving his orange jumpsuit-ed being out the doors.

Lynette collapses back into her chair, face red, and she sobs uncontrollably. She hears people applauding in relief and in happiness. Lynette is neither relieved nor happy.

Eddie has been beat. They have been beat.

Martyrdom

Gaby Solis is a hero. She saved the day.

For once in Gabrielle Solis' life, she has done something for the good of another. She has never been so selfless. She rescued the Bolen family, and now all is good.

She returns home from a celebratory shopping trip. She walks into the living room to find Carlos, and her girls sitting at his feet. Above them, stands a man in a suit. Once Gaby and the lawyer catch eyes, the lawyer grimaces.

"Who is this?"

"Gaby, you need to sit down."

"Carlos–" Gabrielle challenges. "What's going on?"

Gaby can't save her family from this one.


End.