Chapter Two

Owen could see the brightness through his eyelids. He was surprised the radiation was so bright, he hadn't been expecting it. After a few minutes he was surprised he wasn't a pile of dust and decided to open his eyes. He wasn't in the nuclear facility anymore, it was a bright featureless room. Owen decided if this is what lay beyond then they had definitely changed the bulbs since last time. Where was the darkness he remembered? In front of him was a petite woman with sleek black hair, she was facing away from him.

He tapped her on the shoulder, perhaps she knew something. "Excuse me"

Owen was shocked as she turned around "Tosh? What are you doing here, I thought this was death?"

"It is"

"But…"

"As you died, I was bleeding to death. Grey shot me in the abdomen"

"You never said"

"What would have been the point?"

Owen's expression was pained. If only he had been there he could have tried to save her, like she tried to save him. Even in her final moments she wasn't thinking about herself, but trying to help him.

"So where do you think we are?" Owen asked

"The afterlife" Toshiko offered

Owen frowned "It was a lot darker last time and if this is as good as it gets, I think I preferred the darkness"

"It will get a bit boring"

A voice came from above them, making Toshiko jump "Please bear with us, there are some irregularities with your arrival, we hope to sort this out soon"

"Great we're early for our own deaths" Said Owen sitting in a chair that had just appeared "If you don't want us, we'll just go back" Owen said to where the ceiling should be and Toshiko sat next to him on another newly appeared chair.

"Perhaps this is hell" Owen pondered

"Hell's being stuck with me for eternity is it?" Toshiko asked hurt.

"I didn't say that, there are a lot worse people I could be stuck with. It's this place there's just nothing. At least in traditional hell there's bound to be a few good bonfire parties"

"Do you think we're actually going to hell?"

"Personally I'm not sure there is one, unless this is it"

"But it there is, I mean we've killed"

"Yeah but only for the greater good, they've got to give us that" Owen stood up again

"Perhaps that's why we are here, they are still deciding what to do with us"

"Where are we?" Owen asked the ceiling.

"Neither here nor there" the reply came.

"That's helpful"

"Oh god" Toshiko said panicking.

"Bit late to apply to him"