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Written for 15minuteficlet LJ community's challenge #78, the word "deserted."

Hopeless
by Zzilly14

All alone in the world he sits, waiting, smoking a cigarette as he stares out into the darkness. She said she'd come back one day, when she was ready.

But now there is no one left.

The war was lost, and now everyone he ever knew, even some of those he didn't, are gone. And thanks to his curse of immortality he suffers – and he will forever.

Evil has won, taken over the planet. And he has lost all hope.

Demons scour the earth, and vampires feed on the few humans that remain. And he does nothing to stop it.