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Forever
"Forever and forever and forever," he murmured.
"That sounds exactly right to me."
And then we continued blissfully into this small but perfect piece of our forever.
Footsteps clicked down the hallway, the crisp sound bounding off the walls, echoing, echoing…
There wasn't much talk in this place; words were useless to the main occupants. Except for the occasional telephone bleeps and murmuring, silence ruled supreme.
"Hello." The nurse looked up from her paperwork. A familiar face looked back at her.
"Hey yourself." The face in her vision smiled. Her heart melted for him, and she offered him a warm smile. "Right on time as usual." He nodded.
"So can I go in?"
"Yeah, they were just done with her." He flicked a glance down the corridor, his gaze landing on the door to the room that held her. In an instance, his facial expression changed, his smile turned stiff, and an indiscernible sorrow settled in him.
"How is she doing?" His eyes never left the door. She could detect the subtlest tremble in his voice.
"She's… the same. We're trying our best." He sighed and inhaled deeply, almost as if oxygen was foreign to him.
"Yes… Yes, I know… Thank you."
"You're sure you want to go in?"
"Yes."
Her eyes darted to his neck, the welts, painfully obvious, still red and fresh from the last time. He knew where she was looking, his fist closed unconsciously.
"Please." She sighed. She felt sorry for him, she really did. Every day he would come, without fail, even if he was down with fever, still he came, with flowers, a kind smile, and overwhelming concern.
She stood, grabbing the key ring from her desk drawer.
"Come along then."
The key turned. The door swung open.
She stepped aside, allowing him to enter.
"We'll be outside." She said, gesturing to herself and the burly warden.
He smiled, grateful.
"Hey…" She heard him say as he went in, closing the door behind him. She bowed her head and crossed her arms, waiting dutifully for him to finish.
A scream pierced through the air. The silence was shattered.
Without hesitating, the warden flung the door open. It was happening again.
She was latched onto him, her teeth having sunk itself into his neck, piercing it, tiny streams of blood flowing down.
The warden pulled her off him while the nurse dragged him out of the room.
"No! Leave me in there!"
"Shh… You're hurt." She suppressed the wound with the gauze from her pocket.
"She's hurting more! Just let me be with her!" His hysteria was devastating.
"Charlie! Please…"
"She needs me… My daughter needs me…" A broken man. Disappointed by life, beaten down time and time again. After his wife left him, she was all that he got, he was so happy when she came to stay with him, he simply radiated with joy, but then the hallucinations of sparkling vampires started, and he started losing her. He was losing that one thread that kept him intact. The nurse held him then, in her arms, cradling him in her embrace.
His sobs never left her.
Back at the now closed door, silence settled once more, yielding only to a tiny voice that came from the room, one word repeated, again and again and again.
" Forever, forever, forever…"