This is my frist fanfiction, it was inspire from the song Still Here by Digital Daggers.

Disclaimer: I do not own Happy Tree Friends, Happy Tree Friends is the property of Mondo Media. I do not own the character and this story is purely fan-made. Also I don't own the lyrics for the song Still Here.

All of the characters in this story had been humanized, death will be permanet in this story.

"How could this happen? This is not real right?" Flaky thought as she tries to deny the horrible scene in forward her.

This is suppose be a nice day to hang out with friend but what she can see from the surrounding are the building burning down, corpse of her friends and other people that had been murdered and die in different way. She wanted to scream but her throat is dry from the previous scream, that she couldn't make any voice come out her mouth, her tear is continuing running down her face as she couldn't stop crying. Flaky is shivering in a corner as the murder just end another life of innocent people, the murderer notice where Flaky is and moving close to her...

"Ah…" Flaky woke up in her bed as she thought of the nightmare she had, she knew she had a nightmare but she can't remember the detail. She tries to calm herself down by wash her face with cold water. Later, after she think she had calm down she went down to make breakfast while listening to radio.

"Oh I forgot to take the newspaper," She suddenly remembers that she had to go get the newspaper before the newspaper gets soggy from the damp air.

"Let see what is on the news…" She takes a good look at the headline which she immediately drops the newspaper to the ground.

"It can't be…" She takes another look at the newspaper and gasp from it, what wrote in that had reminded her about her nightmare. Her head is hurt from a sudden pain and she throws the newspaper away. The newspaper hit the radio and somehow it increases the volume of sound, which makes the music play louder.

Musing through memories,
Losing my grip in the grey.

Flaky's head start to hurt more as flasher of image coming into her head. She felt as if she going spilt into two with the pain going on her head as she receiving all the memory that she forgot, then she fall to the ground with her eye close.

Numbing the senses,
I feel you slipping away.

It was a peaceful day, the gang were hang out together at their high school's school festive until they saw a couple competition held by Disco Club. The well know couple group in the gang: Cuddles and Giggles, Handy and Petunia are joining the competition. Flaky and Flippy are new couple in the gang, Flaky is nervous asking if Flippy would like to join and Flippy is gladly agree with it. Every team has what they good at. At first Cuddles and Giggles were good at romantic stuff, later Flippy and Flaky manage to chase the mark gaps in the sport type competition. However in the end, Handy and Petunia win with an incredibly matching answer for the question which make they the winner of this competition. That night, everyone gathering around the bon fire and hang around.

Everything is perfectly fine until Cub causes the fire spread around by playing with some firework that Pop brought from Lifty and Shifty. The fire quickly spread around the camp, people were scream and running for their life.

Fighting to hold on,
Clinging to just one more day

Everyone was running but Flippy was stand as he having flashback about the war which cause him to flip out and start to kill people around him. It wasn't the first Flippy being flipped out, but it was the first time he did kill someone around him. Usually there are people around to stop him before he can deal more damage but now everyone is running away from the fire so no one care to stop him.

Flaky were terrified by the scene, she scream and try to run, but within few step she trip and fall. The fear within her caused her leg to fell soft that she couldn't get up or move. She watched her friend being murder by the monster who was her boyfriend, she feels like vomit. Then after Flippy done killing the last witness, he notice Flaky and start walking toward her. With the approaching danger, Flaky screamed and somehow she manage to gain her strength or will to stand up and run for her life but only to get caught by Flippy.

"No…no… Don't come close…." Flaky pleased.

Love turns to ashes,
With all that I wish I could say.

Flippy slam her to the wall, and use his bowie knife to stab Flaky's palm to the wall. Flaky scream from the pain.

"Hey… why are you running away from me?" Flippy questioned her as he grip Flaky's other hand tightly.

"Flippy… it hurt, please… stop being like this and return to your normal self." Flaky was crying as both her hand felt pain.

"I being totally normal, I am the usual Flippy. Now answer me! Why do you run away from ME!" Flippy yelling at Flaky, but Flaky didn't say anything or answers his question. She could only weep giving the situation in front her, Flippy felt frustrated looking at Flaky weep.

"Wasn't I the same? Didn't you promise that you will stay with me not matter what happen?" Flippy was yelling but his voice got softer in the end.

"Sorry…" Flaky felt guilty when she hear Flippy saying like this. She notices that he has releases his grip on her.

"Flippy? Are you alright?" She doesn't know why she would ask this where she should be using this chance to escape. Maybe she is fool or maybe it was the guilt she felt early, either the way she doesn't care about the reason.

"That right… someone like me shouldn't be in love. I always hurt the people around me when I flipped up, and this time I killed a lot of people. I should have just disappear!" Flippy kneel down, his hand is holding his head as if he stuff some headache. The sky starts to rain as if it tries to match the situation.

He then looks up to Flaky and the bowie knife that stab on her hand.

"Flaky… please… use that knife on your hand and kill me. I had done many sins, and you had the right to punish me for my sin."

Flaky took out the knife from her hand and holding it, she not sure if she could do it. She thinks about the thing he did, and yes he should be punished. This may also release Flippy from his suffering right? She held her hand up high and stabs it down.

I'd die to be where you are.
I tried to be where you are.

Flaky awake as she end her flash back, she was sweating as she experience the horrible thing again in the flashback.

"Did I just… " She stop and pause for a while before continue her sentences. "Kill Flippy?"

She looks at the newspaper again and found about a funeral ceremony going to be held for the victim.

Every night, I dream you're still here.
The ghost by my side, so perfectly clear.

Flaky attend to the funeral ceremony, she saw many people weeping for the lost. Throughout the ceremony she didn't hear anything about Flippy or someone cursing him, she felt weird but she didn't say anything. Well… Flippy did kill all the witness expect her, so other may not know about it if she doesn't speak.

After the ceremony she quickly went back home, and rest on the bed before she slowly drifting to another dream. But this time is all about the sweet memory she had with Flippy.

When I awake, you'll disappear,
Back to the shadows
With all I hold dear.
With all I hold dear.

I dream you're still here.
I dream you're still here.

Flaky awake from her sleep as the dream end with the memory of her killing Flippy. She pats her chest, trying to remove what in her mind. However every time she went back to sleep, she dream about the same thing again and again.

Hidden companion
Phantom be still in my heart
Make me a promise that
Time won't erase us
That we were not lost from the start.

She thought going out was a good choice, but it turns out to be a bad one. Every place she go made her thought about memory she spend with Flippy, she even saw some illusion of Flippy whereby she will happily went to hold him but only to end up with her passing through the illusion as she watch him slowly disappear from her sight.

I'd die to be where you are
I tried to be where you are

She went to the graveyard, she decide to visit Flippy's grave. She doesn't have a clear memory about the funeral ceremony, she think it must because of the mood of that day cause her to not to remember stuff like these.

She walks around look at the grave one by one trying to search for the one she looking for. She found lot of her friend's grave but not sight of Flippy's. When she thought of giving up and decided to asks the grave keeper, she saw someone familiar standing in front a grave.

I dream you're still here,
Ever slightly out of reach.

She saw Flippy… she saw Flippy standing in front a grave. Could this be him? Or is it another one of her illusion or is this… Flippy's spirit?

She walks toward the grave slowly, hoping Flippy won't disappear from her sight again.

I dream you're still here,
But it breaks so easily.

"Sorry for killing you…" Flippy said in a soft voice as if he was whispering.

"It okay Flippy… you don't had to feel bad," Flaky is now standing behind Flippy as she listens to what Flippy had said. She doesn't care if this is real or fake, she wants to hug him but it end up with her passing through him again.

"I'm sorry that I still living at here while not one recognize the sin that I done." Flippy is crying, he using his hand to wipes away the tear.

"But I can't die now….! Not with the life Flaky risks to save."

Wait… what did he just said? Flaky felt another pain that she felt before and went into another flashback.

I try to protect you,
I can't let you fade.

Clack~

Flaky drops the knife before she could stabs into Flippy.

"I can't do it… There no way I going to kill you Flippy. Not matter what you do you are still the person I love, I can't harm the person I love." She hugged Flippy close to her.

Flippy was surprise by her action, he allow her to hug him close, his mind is blank as he don't know what to do.

"We will confess your crime when we get out, they all know you have post-traumatic stress disorder, and maybe the punishment wouldn't be death. I will wait you forever for you to come out from there." Flaky said, she remains hugging Flippy since she thought this will calm him down.

"No… I must die here!" Flippy push her away and took the knife from the ground as he stand up, he point the knife at his throat. "This is where I said goodbye. There won't be any different for me to go out since the only redemption for me is death, it will only be different place that I die."

Flaky know she should say something to calm Flippy down, but she doesn't know what to say to him as she watch the knife touching his throat. Then there a lighting strike at a nearby building and the building going to collapse, where the building going to hit is the exact same point Flippy is standing on.

"Flippy… watch out!" Without a thought, Flaky pushed Flippy out the place he stands.

Boom~

The building collapse and it create lot of dust, Flippy was unharmed and he is shock and he scream for Flaky's name.

I feel you slipping.
I feel you slipping away.

"So… I was the one who die?" Flaky said, she looks at Flippy and she finally knew about the weird felling she having these days.

There isn't any one who come to speak to her at the ceremony or come to visit her. She didn't know how she ends up in her bed after the incident. If Flippy is an illusion, why she still can see him after she passing through him? Why isn't there a grave for Flippy in this graveyard? Or why there not one talking about Flippy.

All those question finally receive an answer.

She felt that her body slowly dissolves into the thin air when she realize about the fact.

"Sorry for leaving you here, Flippy. It must be the will to see you again made me become a being like these. Thank you for everything you done, sorry and good bye Flippy." She hugs Flippy for one last time even she knew she won't be able to touch him. After the finally hug, she disappear to the thin air.

Flippy felt something on his shoulder, he turn around and said, "Flaky?"

Ring~

There will be an epilogue for this story.