"I received her documents already. Now I just need to confer with Mr. Smith and we can be finished with the project" Sam informed Burt.
Burt looked through the documents subtly impressed. "I'm thankful that you've been tying up the loose ends for me" Burt said nodding.
They concluded their meeting and headed out. Quinn stood up when she saw Burt leaving. "I'll be going home early. Quinn you can leave as well" Burt said.
"Yes sir" Quinn replied. She switched off her computer and turned on the answering machine.
"Let's go Sam" Burt said. Sam smiled at Quinn and went off with Burt.
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Kurt glanced between two dresses and sighed. One dress was an A line, salmon colored, backless dress. The second was a soft pink, with sleeves and a short skirt.
"Which one would Quinn look better in?" he asked tapping his chin.
"Why don't you choose? As long as the couple looks amazing on the wedding day, nothing else matters" The saleswoman said.
"No, I've found a perfect groomsman to match her up with. Quinn has to be very noticeable" Kurt replied flicking his gaze between the two dresses.
"Why don't you show her the dresses?" the saleswoman asked. Kurt smiled as if this was the best thing he had heard all day.
Kurt walked out of the boutique with the garment bags which he placed in the backseat of his car. He drove off. At the same time Sam who had finished for the day drove out of the office car park.
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Finn sat alone in his apartment and looked up at the calendar. It was old and yellowed in the corners. But a date that was circled was clearly visible. 15th March 2006. He stood up and opened one of the cardboard boxes on the side. Inside was a black suit which was usually worn during funerals. He shoved it back into the box.
Meanwhile a short woman dressed all in black, drove along the expressway on her motorcycle. She zipped along the roads easily and checked her watch. It was nearly time.
Finn sat on a bus holding a dried rose in his hands. His face was ashen and morose.
Kurt, in his car passed the bus. Anyone could see that he drove without a smile, his eyes full of tears.
Finn got off the bus and began walking slowly. Behind him, Will Schuester followed carefully.
The woman on the motorbike zipped past the two of them but they didn't seem to notice her at all.
She drove along and soon stopped on the side of the road. She took off her helmet revealing her long brown hair and brown eyes. She got out her phone and looked through a list. "Mr. Andrew Teros. Five more minutes" she murmured and settled on the bike to wait.
Finn stood across from the woman and sat down on the sidewalk. He stared at the road remembering the huge river if blood, the slumped and dead body of a girl on this very road. The sirens, the shouts of people and paramedics. He stood up and looked out at the speeding cars. He stepped forward and horns blared at him.
He stood in front of a truck which honked at him to move. Just as the truck was about to impact him, Will pulled him away. They collapsed onto the pavement. The truck swerved and banged into a car from the other lane. Other cars behind the truck crashed leading to a huge road pile up. The woman seated on the motorbike stared in horror and sighed.
She looked into the car opposite her and saw Andrew Taros having a heart attack. She sighed and grabbed her phone calling someone frantically.
Kurt drove along the road, his hands shaking and he steered the car. A motorbike zipped past him and immediately banged into the car in front of him. Kurt spotted the pile up too late. He swerved to avoid it but crashed horribly into the truck in front of him. The impact was so great it propelled Kurt out through the windshield.
He hit the ground horribly but after a few minutes his eyes opened. He remembered the accident and sat up. To his surprise there were no bruises or scrapes anywhere on his body. Kurt stood but and looked around surprised. The paramedics arrived and the police as well. "Sir! Sir!" a few people were shouting.
Kurt turned and saw they were banging on the door of his car.
"What's wrong?" he asked. He walked towards them and looked into the car. Inside he was slumped against the steering wheel with blood running over his face. Kurt's eyes widened and he felt his hands shaking.
"That's me!" he said pointing to the himself inside the car. "Move aside!" he shouted trying to push people away. His hands blurred before him as if those people couldn't even see him or hear him. Kurt turned around to the road and saw paramedics heading to his car. He looked around and saw a woman staring at him. She was standing next to a motorbike, dressed in biker gear.
Kurt whirled around making sure that the woman really was staring at him. "Excuse me!" he said waving to the woman. She stared at him while talking on her phone. Then the paramedics wheeled Kurt's body to the ambulance. Kurt was momentarily distracted by his bloody body. He looked up and saw the woman and her bike had altogether disappeared.
He looked around for her but didn't find her. He then climbed into the ambulance and was driven to the hospital. "Sir, please save me" Kurt begged to the paramedic who was attaching him to a machine. Kurt couldn't hold in his tears. He didn't even understand what was going on around him. His body was soon wheeled into the operations theatre leaving him outside.
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Finn woke up disoriented in the hospital. He looked around and saw doctors and nurses scurrying about. How had he got here? Finn looked around again and saw that a body of a man was wheeled into the room. He was torn up and his face was covered with blood.
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Burt burst through the hospital doors and ran to the front desk.
"Where's my son? He was in an accident right now" Burt said to the nurse.
"Dad" Sam said running to the counter.
"He's right there" The nurse said pointing to the body that was being wheeled out of the room.
"Dad! Sam!" Kurt shouted running towards them. Burt and Sam walked right through Kurt and ran to his body on the other side of the room.
Kurt screamed loudly and sank to the floor.
"Kurt!" Burt shouted. Kurt began sobbing in earnest now and followed his father all the way to the operating room.
"Dad, it's me!" Kurt shouted but Burt didn't hear him.
"Sam, please I'm right here!" Kurt shouted to Sam but Sam didn't hear him.
Kurt tried to grab Sam's hand but a barrier was stopping him.
"Burt!" Carole said running towards them.
"Carole!" Kurt said running to his step mother but she also stepped right through him and walked towards Burt.
"We'll have to wait until after the surgery" Burt said.
"Oh my god!" Carole began feeling faint and Sam quickly made her sit down.
"Why is this happening?" Burt cried out his hands shaking.
"Dad!" Kurt cried out trying to figure this mess out.
Kurt then looked around the hallway and spotted a woman. She was dressed in a black dress and heels but she was the same biker woman he had seen after the accident.
"Excuse me!" Kurt shouted running after the woman.
The woman walked past Finn who was just waiting for the elevator. Finn took no sign of I'm ever passing. Kurt ran after the woman but Finn took no notice of him either.
Kurt ran until he reached a room where a family was gathered around a man on a bed. Kurt peeked inside through the glass doors and saw the woman inside just watching the family. Kurt couldn't open the door but a doctor soon opened the door to go outside and he shimmied his way in.
"Excuse me" Kurt said running up to the woman.
The woman stared at him and rolled her eyes.
"Do you remember me from before? During the accident?" Kurt asked hopefully.
"Kurt, don't you know how to drive?" The woman asked, annoyed.
She turned her attention back to the man on the bed. Kurt watched as another man came out from the body and stood in front of the woman. He was rather fuzzy and transparent like a hologram
"He is dead" the doctor announced. The family surrounding the man's body began crying and sobbing over their loss.
Kurt gasped and watched the scene with wide eyes.
"You have worked hard, it is now time for you to move on Mr. Taros" The woman said.
Mr. Taros looked down at his body and his family who were crying over him and nodded.
Suddenly an elevator materialized out of thin air and the woman waved her hands. The doors opened and Mr. Taros stepped inside. The elevator doors shut and it disappeared.
"What was that? Who are you?" Kurt asked.
"Come. Follow me" The woman said walking off.
Kurt followed her along the hallways and they reached the hospital balconies.
"So are you like the Angel of Death?" Kurt asked.
"I haven't been called that in a long time. I'm a Scheduler" The woman replied.
"Scheduler?" Kurt asked, the title sounded a little strange.
"You see when humans are born, their entire life is planned for them and the day of their death is scheduled. When they die, I go, take their spirit to the afterlife" The woman explained.
"Like the Angel of Death" Kurt argued.
"I said I'm not the Angel. I'm a Scheduler! SCHE-DUL-ER!" the woman said.
"But in the end I'm dead aren't I?" Kurt shouted.
"Yeah you're dead" The woman or Scheduler said.
"So does that mean you're here to take me?" Kurt asked backing away from the woman.
"Not exactly. Today my schedule said to take Andrew Taros. The guy you saw leave right now. He was supposed to die while driving because of a heart attack. Due to the road pile up, his death was postponed. This is what us Schedulers hate, when our schedules get messed up" The woman ended her talk and Kurt absorbed this carefully.
"So why am I like this? Why didn't anyone come to get me?" Kurt asked.
"Because you weren't scheduled to die today" The woman replied.
"I wasn't supposed to die today?" Kurt asked confused.
"Occasionally there are trouble makers. Like that guy who wanted to do suicide. Why don't people understand that there is a time for you to die? Why go against the order?" The woman ranted.
"But I can't be dead. I'm undergoing surgery right now!" Kurt shouted.
"Are you?" The Scheduler asked.
"Yeah and there can't be an angel of death like you" Kurt argued.
"How would you know? Do you know anyone who has died?" The Scheduler retorted.
"No" Kurt replied in a small voice.
"How can one who is undergoing surgery be up here and watching himself?" The Scheduler asked.
Kurt found no answer to that and fell silent.