Within the vast darkness a gunshot rung out echoing in the stillness of the night, followed by a thud as the victim hit the floor and the sound of hurried footsteps…..

Waking up she finds herself in a pitch black cramped space, with a blistering head ache and feeling drained of almost all energy. She tried moving around, trying to get a sense where she was, she found herself surrounded by silky fabric cushion it kind of felt like the inside of a …. Coffin

At that very moment the realization hit her like a ton of bricks she was in a coffin, panic took her over as she started to hyperventilate, she started to bang furiously on the top hoping with all her remaining energy hoping that someone will hear her and free her from this nightmare. She tried to shout but her voice failed her so she simple had to rely on the banging for someone to realise that she was a alive and thus shouldn't be enclosed in a coffin.

Soon after scratching could be heard on the outside of the coffin, as the top was slowly pulled of letting the light pour in causing her eyes to ache slightly. The first thing she saw was a peculiar looking man standing over grinning at her, he stood before her, wearing black robes with a grey sash from his left shoulder tied at his waist, his grey hair, came down just below his waist and looked like it hadn't seen a brush in a long time, his face was covered to just below his nose by a sweeping fringe all toped of with a large black top hat with a long fabric ribbon.

"Well well well look what we have here, a living one" he chuckled offering a hand to help the young woman to sit up "you my dear are extremely lucky hardly anyone can recover a bullet to the head, ~ also good thing you woke up today since you were scheduled to be buried tomorrow ~ in that case it would be much hard for you to escape hehe ~" this man was truly creepy, it was frightening how joyful his tone of voice was, even when he was talking about a topic as grim as being buried alive.

She simply stared at his hand for a moment, looking at his pale long thin fingers, each one ended with a long black talon like nail, before cautiously taking his hand as he help her ease herself into a sitting position.

"I'll go fetch some tea, be right back~" he walked out the room merrily humming to himself, just to return minutes later with two beakers of tea, "will you be alright holding this?" he asked her. She nodded and reaches out for the tea, grasping it with both hands a little shakily to begin with but she soon steadies herself and takes a long drink of tea, which had been intentionally cooled so she would be able to drink it quickly to soothe her dry throat. She looks over at him and smiles gratefully for the kindness was showing her, in his own unique way.

"Better?" he asks kindly, she nodes as she finally finds her voice she croakily adds "Thank you" with this his grin widen.

"So what is your name dear guest?" as he sips his tea, she guessed he was looking at her but she couldn't be sure.

"My name..." she tried to think what it was but she just kept coming up blank, "I... Don't know what my name is… I can't remember…" she takes another drink of tea to relieve her throat after talking.

"Not really surprised ~ since the wound to you head was pretty severe~ is there

anything you remember at all?"

She shook her head, "can't remember anything… before waking up in this" as she taped the side of the coffin.

"anyway I think I'll try to get out now, not that's it's uncomfortable in here, very much the opposite but it's a little strange sitting in a coffin" she lifts herself up onto her knees, then lifted herself to her feet, she stood for barely a few seconds before losing her balance and falling out of the coffin onto to wooden floor. She closed her eyes and braced herself for the impact, with never came she opened her eyes and looked round to see the strange man beneath her as he appeared to have caught her before she hit the ground.

"You need be more careful ~ although your fall would have been amusing to watch, you could have agitated your wounds and cause yourself more damage~" a small amount of seriousness creeping into his usually joyful voice, he chuckled at the light blush that had formed across her face.

"Sorry… I didn't mean to be such a burden" she crawled to the nearest coffin and pulling her self onto the top of it

"No need to apologise ~ your quite fun to look after~ kukuku" he chuckled getting up of the floor, dusting himself before taking a seat a next to her on the coffin.

"Do you know what happened to me? How did I end up in a coffin?" she asked staring at the floor whilst still sporting a little blush

"Not really sure, I heard a gunshot a couple streets way, so I went to see if it was a potential new guest ~ and there you were laying on the floor of a alley unconscious ~

Clinging to live after being shot in the head ~ so I brought you back here, checked the wound, clean it and patched it up but since the likelihood of you surviving was very low I prepared a coffin for you ~" he replied casually

"Thank you for saving me… don't know how I'll ever repay you for your kindness" she looked at him, and smiled kindly

Then it was his turn to blush, never before had he been thanked so sincerely, also there was something about her that he found endearing. "You could work here for a while, if you wish~ could use some help, as it can get rather busy ~ plus I wouldn't mind the company" he proposed, thankful his hair covered the blush he was sporting.

"I would love too, plus as I've lost my memory I have no where else to go" she laughed lightly, "so what's your name? I forgot to ask"

"Most just call me undertaker," he grinned at her

"Could I perhaps call you Theo? Undertaker just seems a little strange" she asked looking curiously at him

Hearing her say the name he froze, was it a coincidence she called him by his old name or was she a … he shook himself free from these thought it obviously was a coincidence but still he had to ask "why Theo?"

"Don't know, just like the name, don't you like it? Could think of another one if you like?" she said honestly

Brushing of his concerns, he might as well let her call him it, it'll make a change being called his proper name "oh I see, no I like it, was just curious is all" he said casually

"Since I gave you a name it only fair, would you like to give me a name?"

"Sure why not, what about Kimi?"

She murmured it to herself several times before answer "yea I like Kimi, thank you" she hugged him,

for the first time since she woke up she felt happy, she had a place to stay, granted it was with this strange and eccentric man but she didn't mind in the slightest, even thought she thought he was quite creepy at first she also discovered behind that she found he was kind, generous, funny and kind of sweet.

Plus he had saved her life and above all he made her feel safe.

She also liked being in his company, and she had a feeling that her life from now on won't be dull. She now had a name, another thing he had gave her, the thing was she couldn't help but think there was still one thing missing…

"Theo do you have a mirror?" Kimi asked letting go of him, to his great disappointment as he was quite enjoying her embrace.

"Yep, there's one in the back, why you ask?" trying to hid his disappointment with a chuckle,

"I was just wonder what I looked like," she said trying not to sound vain, she was just curious.

"Oh I see, want me to take you to it?"

"Please if you don't mind"

"Not at all, if you want to put your arm round my shoulders…"

She did what he said as they slowly got to their feet "is this ok? I'm not hurting you am I?" Kimi asked worriedly

"No I'm fine, are you ok to walk?"

"Yea should be," on her word they started to slowly make their way to the bathroom in the back, finally reaching the mirror over the sink.

Looking in the mirror was a weird experience since she didn't recognise herself; it felt like there was a stranger staring back at her through the glass, her thin face looked washed out and almost skeletal 'well I guess that's what I get for being pretty much death for a while' she laughed to herself, she had brown hair that reached the middle of her back with the shorter bits framing her face, the most striking feature was her eyes, each being a different colour, her left eye was a iced blue and her right one was a light brown.

"Oh great I look dead, and have weird eyes" she said sighing lightly completely forgetting that Theo was still by her side.

"Well you was technically dead for 4 days~ your eyes ain't weird, I think their pretty ~ plus your not the only one with weird eyes ~" he chuckled looking into the mirror at her,

She could've sworn for a brief moment there she saw a flash of green from beneath his grey hair, brushing it of as her imagination "Thank you" she blushed at his compliment, before asking "is that why you hide your eyes?"

"Partly, but mostly it's because I like wearing my hair this way ~ plus I like keeping people guessing at what I'm looking at ~" he ever present grin widened

His response made her laugh; he did seem the type that liked teasing people, she was glad that he was the one she woke up too, since his sense of humour seem to help her feel a little more at ease then she would other wise be in her current situation.