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Near Miller's Bend, Smallville, Kansas
A group of archaeologists were scanning the entire area, especially the ground. While they were searching, a tall and aging man with black/grey short hair, wearing a long expensive looking black coat and suit, walked up to the head of the expedition crew.
"Have you found anything yet Mr. Rogers?" the mysterious man demanded impatiently.
"N-no, not yet, we're all working as hard as we can Mr. O'Conner," Mr. Rogers stuttered nervously and gulped in fear, while trying not to maintain any eye contact whatsoever with his boss at all costs.
With grey/white balding hair, rectangular glasses and a white lab coat on, you'd think he was a fifty- something old professor, but he was actually in his mid-thirties.
"Well then, you leave me with no other alternative," Mr. O'Conner warned with slight coldness to his voice. "I think we have to let you go then."
Mr. Rogers gasped at this and then he went down on his knees, his hands pressed together and tears starting to form in his eyes.
"No, no! Please I have a wife and children to feed at home, please! he begged desperately, now crying heavily.
"Stand up, NOW!" Mr. O'Connor barked, gazing down at the man in pure disgust.
Mr. Rogers stood back up, wiping his eyes.
"Come into my office for a little um… chat," he beckoned, turning around and towards a rather large room nearby that had murky grey stone walls and a plain chocolate brown wooden door. Mr. Rogers followed him anxiously.
Mr. O'Conner's office
"Now, it's come to my attention that you and your team are clearly not working to certain standards," Mr. O'Conner sneered while looking out of his blinds and right into the bright and scorching sunlight. His office was dusty and smelly, yet everything from the books to the files was all organized properly.
"Mr. O'Conner, me and my team are the best and I assure you that we are all working to our best standard possible," Mr. Rogers said, carefully choosing his words so not to make him even angrier with him or anyone else.
"WELL YOU'RE ALL NOT WORKING HARD ENOUGH!" Joseph spat, leaning over his desk, his face contorted and growing red with pure rage. This caused Mr. Rogers to flinch and then whimper; noticing this, Mr. O'Conner covered his true emotions with a mask of 'softness'.
"Please, call me Joseph, only me employees call me Mr. O'Conner," Joseph sneered with a smirk on his face as he eyed Mr. Rogers' current face expression with sick glee.
Mr. Rogers' mouth fell open as he tried comprehending on what just happened and tried to say something back, but nothing would come out of his mouth. Realizing that it was done and over with, Joseph pushed a little red button and called security to 'escort' him back out.
Once Mr. Rogers was gone, Joseph checked the clock on the wall on top of the door and noticed it was already four o'clock in the afternoon.
He went outside, into his long black limo and headed back home to his mansion.
House of O'Conner, 2116 Beresford Road, outskirts of Smallville
Joseph O'Conner practically charged into his office, pushing the two oak doors out of the way, causing them to slam violently into the walls behind them. It was a incredibly spacious room, a fireplace was on one side, which was now brightly lit, a two brown couches facing opposite each other next to it, tall shelves completely stacked with all kinds of books, beautiful stain glass windows with the emblem of a big golden letter 'C' somewhat 'engulfing' a smaller golden 'o' and a modern medium sized dark brown desk and a comfy-looking black leather chair that had a long back support were all neatly arranged with the necessary things.
Sitting there with his leg bent on his knee at an angle however, surprised Joseph slightly even though he didn't show it, was his son Ben in a simple white buttoned up shirt, black pants and smart black shiny shoes, but the thing that was most intriguing about him was that he had no hair whatsoever on his head.
Ben gave his dad a casual and slightly cold smile which his father returned with equal coldness.
"Son, what are you doing here?" Joseph asked, picking up some whisky from his favourite liquor store and pouring a small glass.
"Well dad, it is four so school been over for an hour or so," Ben replied, still keeping his voice in a casual tone and his face impassive.
Noticing his son's odd behaviour, even for Ben, Joseph asked with what seemed like concern in his voice.
"Why may I ask are you in here on such lovely day like today?"
"I think you know the answer to that."
Both of them stared at each other for a long time and then, after a while, Ben got up and began walking towards the door, not even acknowledging his father. Just when he was about to open the doors that had re-closed, his father stopped him.
"Y'know Ben, I knew you were cowardly and weak, but this is a new low, even for someone like you," he remarked, and then his faced turned more serious. "If its one thing I taught you are that the O'Conner's are brave and do NOT take the bullshit from others."
Ben closed his eyes for a second and silently chuckled darkly. He reopened his eyes and turned to face his father.
"Yeah, another one of your useless lessons either involving math or how to become a ruthless and cold-hearted lonely person. Thanks, but no thanks."
Turning on his heel, he continued to walk out, only to hear his father calling out and saying:
"You can't run away from your destiny Benjamin, you are part of the O'Conner family, it's in your blood!"
Ben just rolled his eyes at his father's antics and walked outside and down the stone stairs and passed the well-kept lush green gardens of the O'Conner Mansion and into a long black limo, his limo driver waiting there and opening the door for him.
"Thanks," said Ben, getting himself comfortable as the limo slowly drove away from the mansion.
"So Mr. O'Conner, where to?" the limo driver asked.
"Please call me Ben, Smallville's Fertilizer Plant," he replied, looking out of his left-side window.
The limo driver nodded and turned the car around a corner.
Li Residence- 5:08 pm
Daniel was running to Smallville High, even though school was already over. He just remembered he had to show Lorraine around the school some more and had promised to meet her there at 5:10 sharp.
As he was running across the vast stretch of open road, he didn't notice a long black limo going at a very fast speed STRAIGHT towards him head-on and another car, an orange mustang was behind him, the driver (who was too busy talking on her cell phone and not properly paying attention to the road that often) was also with her teenage daughter in the passenger seat listening and singing along to the radio was also speeding. The limo driver than spotted Daniel and then pressed the brakes as hard as he could, but it was already too late.
Daniel, now aware of the oncoming vehicle, abruptly stopped and tried to turn quickly, but wasn't nearly as quick enough to dodge it and so closed his eyes and braced for impact, causing it to ram at full speed into him.
It was then that something amazing happened that shocked Daniel completely, even after all the weird things that had recently happened. When the truck rammed into him, instead of being ran over and crushed to bits, the limo smashed into Daniel as if is was a titanium pole, severely damaging the front of the limo and then causing it do a forward flip entirely over him and then finally crashing down to the road roof-first, which made all the windows shatter instantly.
The other driver in the orange mustang saw this and immediately swerved out of the way, her teenage daughter gripping for dear life. Unfortunately, this caused the car to smash into a telephone pole, knocking both of them out unconscious and both of their arms sprawled out in different directions.
Daniel, who was on the ground and totally astonished that he was unhurt, not even a scratch on him. He then looked over at the two vehicles; the orange mustang's front had just set on fire, which was steadily growing in size. Glancing at both of the damaged vehicles and trying to decide which one to save first before the mustang blew up, he then dashed towards the mustang, unbeknownst to him however, was that behind the damaged telephone pole were a few green small rocks on the ground next to some electrical wires that were jumping around erratically. Three of the wires touched the green rocks and then another two or so accidently touched the teenage daughter, making the 'green electricity' pulse through the wires and into her body, which made her spasm violently.
As Daniel opened the car door he noticed that some of the fuel was about to touch the fire within a matter of seconds, minutes at the most. Realizing this, he quickly got the mother out of the car through the now broken window and then carrying her a long safe distance away from the car using the 'fireman's lift' technique and put her on the ground gently.
Suspecting that she might be injured, he checked for any serious wounds. There were none, only just minor cuts and bruises.
Boom!
Daniel panicked and looked over his shoulder towards the car. To his relieve, the car had only let off a mini explosion and no serious harm. Sprinting towards the car again as fast as he could, he failed to notice that Ben had stumbled out of his nearby limo window and stood up, quite injured from the crash.
While Daniel scooped the daughter up onto his right shoulder, he noticed that the fuel was just a few seconds away from the now very large inferno, so then ran with her on his shoulder to about halfway to the mother, when all of a sudden:
BOOM! BOOM!
As soon as he heard this, Daniel put her down and wrapped his arms around her entire body, shielding as much of her as possible.
Ben, finally realizing on what he was doing now, cried out:
"DANIEL, NO!"
The explosion engulfed the both of them, Ben witnessing first-hand in horror, shock and in a small way, awe? He frantically shook these thoughts and emotions out of his head and rushed to the scene.
While the smoke from the explosion was clearing up, Ben saw the brief outline of Daniel protecting the teenage daughter.
He gasped, slowly and carefully drawing closer to the two and then firmly put a hand on Daniel's shoulder.
"Argh," Ben winced, whisking his hand immediately and shaking it. Touching Daniel was like touching fire, it burned and hurt like hell, yet somehow Daniel didn't have a scratch on him; his clothes weren't even that damaged!
This cannot be in anyway possible. It can't be. It can't…
But his thoughts were interrupted as Daniel slowly loosened his grip on the teenage daughter and looked around him and also scanning for any injuries on himself.
None whatsoever. Not too shocked about that.
Letting the girl go completely, he rose up onto his feet and stretched his back.
It was when he turned around was when he froze in panic. Ben was standing there, also frozen, but in utter shock and loss of words.
Daniel, not knowing what to do, then did something that he knew he would regret later.
"Sorry," he panted and then punched Ben right in the jaw, but not too hard, just enough to knock him unconscious to the ground.
Then he whipped out his phone and dialled: 911. In the next ten or fifteen minutes the sheriff arrived, who had a slightly wrinkly face, blue-green eyes and a thick brown moustache, looking immensely pissed, his emotions etched visibly all over his red and blotchy face.
"What happened?" he asked, or rather demanded, looking suspiciously at Daniel as he surveyed the entire area for clues.
"I was walking along the sidewalk, when suddenly the limo," Daniel explained casually and maintaining a straight face throughout, pointing to the now wrecked limo. "Went out of control and literally flipped over, I don't know why," he added, the sheriff eyeing him more suspiciously by the passing minute. "This caused the orange mustang over there," he further explained, now pointing at the mustang. "To swerve out of control and crash into the telephone pole. I noticed all this, so I got the all of them out, fortunately no- one was seriously injured."
"I wouldn't say no-one," a young-looking deputy who had small circular glasses that loosely hung on the rim of his nose, a broken nose, a few golden teeth and brown yet cold looking eyes said, walking up to the sheriff and grinning disturbingly.
"Deputy Banks, what have you got for us all?" the sheriff asked eagerly.
"It turns out that this young man here is wrong, there was one person who died: the limo driver," Deputy Banks told them, grinning wickedly at Daniel deflated face.
He died. Why couldn't I save him? I could have saved him!
"How are the causalities doing now?" the sheriff asked, this time with concern.
"The mother's okay, but the daughter…" the deputy cringed, then continued. "They're being sent to Smallville Medical Center as we speak, they're probably already there."
"Kid, do you have anything else to say, Kid?"
But Daniel was no longer standing there; he was already just less than halfway to the Smallville Medical Center, hoping he wasn't too late.
Soon enough, he made it inside and dashed towards the reception and hastily asking the frightened receptionist about the location of the mother and daughter. As soon as Daniel knew where they were, he dashed off again, leaving a now bewildered receptionist behind. The first destination was the teenage daughter who was in a room near the radioactivity area.
Once he was there, Daniel spotted a doctor talking to a nurse and looking over some charts. Using his super hearing, he listened in on their conversation:
$ "Brain activity higher than normal, yet it seems like Briana's brain-dead or something," the doctor examined, scanning through the entire charts.
"Well, something's happening to her; maybe it's another meteor-freak," the nurse reasoned.
The doctor sighed and said: "Maybe so." $
Meteor-freaks? Are they what I think they are?
Looking through the blinds into the shaded room, he saw the teenage daughter lying there peacefully, completely unaware of her surroundings. This was the first time that Daniel actually had a good look at one of the casualties. She had brunette hair that rested on just past her shoulder, blue/green eyes and Caucasian skin colour.
"Hello, can I help you young man?"
Daniel turned around and saw the very same doctor that was talking to the nurse a few minutes ago. He was bald, but naturally unlike Ben and seemed quite old and wearing medium-sized rectangular glasses.
"No, I'm fine sir, just checking up on my a... friend," said Daniel, walking away to find a seat in the waiting room.
Inside the dark room
The machinery that was around the teenage girl started going haywire and she then started emitting green electrical currents and sparks everywhere. All of a sudden, Briana's eyes snapped open and she robotically got up, the electricity still coming out from her...
Sitting in one of the waiting room's seats and tapping his foot impatiently, Daniel studied the area for things like cameras, escape hatches etc just in case. Right then, a loud alarm went off, causing him to jump a bit in his seat.
What the hell?
Just around the hospital corridor however was Briana walking towards Daniel with green electricity frequently pulsing inside and outside her body, which made all the electrical equipment flash uncontrollably.
Daniel quickly stood up, only to be shot with a beam of 'green electricity' and blasted into a row of seats on the other side of the waiting room. If Daniel wasn't invulnerable, he would have surely been killed or severely injured at the very least.
Assuming that Daniel was unconscious, Briana moved towards the exit, everyone cowering and backing away from her in fear.
Li residence (8:45pm)
Running into the barn and into the loft, Daniel was shocked to see Lorraine lying on the couch fast asleep, wearing a pair of black skinny jeans, a semi-thick turquoise jumper and a pair of roman sandals, her arms crossed over her chest and her head resting peacefully on a small white square pillow.
Careful not to wake her, Daniel slowly crept around the couch and to the silver chrome laptop on the wooden desk. Unfortunately, Daniel made a loud squeaking noise with every step he took, cursing under his breath. Eventually, he made it to his desk and sat down, quietly opening the lid of the laptop and switching it on. The laptop then glowed brightly and made the traditional switching on noises, Daniel desperately making shushing gestures at it to no avail.
He then opened up Internet Explorer and typed quickly into the Google search engine: 'Smallville wiki'.
Fortunately, it only took a minute or so to load up, displaying everything from characters, episodes, news etc. One article especially caught Daniel's eye:
'SMALLVILLE CREEPS INTO OUR WORLD!' BY LOUISE WILLIAMS
ON JANUARY 4TH 2012, A HUGE METEOR SHOWERS STRUCK THE SMALL TOWN KNOWN AS SMALLVILLE (THE TOWN WHICH THE SHOW IS FAMOUSLY BASED ON), LEAVING MANY CASUALTIES AND SADLY DEATHS AS WELL. TO SEE EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS FROM THE CAST OF 'SMALLVILLE', JUST CLICK THE LINK BELOW.
But Daniel ignored the rest of the article and immediately typed 'meteor-infected' in the search bar that was located in the top right part of the page.
The page loaded and Daniel quickly scanned the contents of the page to recap on his 'Smallville' knowledge.
This just like that episode with that guy who could emit and control electricity and stayed a freshman until Clark saved him.
His train of thought was interrupted at that point by Lorraine, who was now yawning and blinking several times.
Shit! She's awake. Now what do I do?
"Daniel," she murmured, rubbing her eyes and gradually getting up. She stifled a yawn.
He turned around at Lorraine and then back at the laptop screen. Discreetly, Daniel deleted the windows and shut down his laptop and firmly closing its lid.
"Yeah Lorraine," he glanced nervously.
"Where were you today? I didn't see you anywhere at school," Lorraine asked suspiciously.
"I was at the hospital," Daniel lied casually. "Some people were hurt in an accident when I was on the way to Smallville High, so I called an ambulance and checked up on them."
"Did you know them?" Lorraine wondered, finding it weird to check up on someone you didn't know.
"No, but I wanted to see if they were alright," said Daniel.
"Wow, Daniel sure cares about people, no matter who they are," Lorraine thought.
"Y' know Lorraine, I JUST remembered that my friend Ian called me ten minutes ago about homework, so I have to go now, sorry," he apologised and ran hurriedly down the loft stairs.
Lorraine shrugged and sat back on the couch again, scanning the loft and seeing if there was anything to read or investigate.
As a computer geek, she liked to look through things in utter detail and get the best scoop of gossip. In the future, Lorraine desperately, one hundred percent, wanted to be a famous reporter at the Daily Planet in Metropolis.
Just outside the Li residence (9:15 pm)
Leaning on one of the farm gates and staring out into the night sky using his telescopic vision, Daniel pondered on what to do next. After a few minutes of long hard thinking, he clicked his fingers and went back into the loft.
I've got it. I'll find Briana somewhere, save her and then try and bring her safely back to her parents unharmed… hopefully :/
While walking, he planned carefully on how he was going to do it. As he walked back to the loft, the more Daniel started to have doubts on whether it was going to work or not.
First of all, Briana was most likely not come back without a tough fight; secondly, he had no clue where the hell she was and finally the 'Smallville' episode wasn't a proper guarantee of a nice, clean save.
In a minute or so, Daniel reached the loft to find that Lorraine was already gone, a note placed firmly on his desk saying that she already went home. This was a good thing for him as he didn't want her to be caught in anything dangerous like this.
Alright, that's one part of the plan done with. Now onto the next phase: Find Briana.
Daniel headed went near the edge of the loft, looking outside the barn and across the entire town using telescopic vision and micro-vision and also seeing if he could pick up any strange noises using his super hearing.
Later in the night, about half an hour later to be exact, Daniel came across multiple scurrying noises and the sound of electricity, both were loud and clear.
Once he picked the noises up, he tried to find the precise location of the noises and so scanned the entire town again more carefully, glancing at even the slightest of noises.
It was when he looked at a nearby construction site for the new youth center, did he see sparks of green electricity all firing over the place uncontrollably and the screaming of what seemed to be a teenage girl.
That definitely her, I mean c'mon, how many teenage girls do you know that can shoot green electricity?
Quickly grabbing his navy blue jacket, Daniel exited the barn and headed towards the construction site, no matter how dangerous it might be.
At the construction site
Arriving in just five minutes, Daniel surveyed the site, keeping a close eye for a single spark of any green electricity.
"What are you doing here?"
Daniel froze. He then turned around to see Briana standing there, her hair and clothes from the hospital in a mess and electricity pulsing up her arms, giving of a few shocks now and then.
"Briana, you don't wanna do this, this isn't you," said Daniel, putting his hands up slightly in a show of peace.
Briana gazed at him with a sort of innocent look that only lasted for a split second before she smirked and sneered in a cold monotone:
"You don't know ANYTHING about me."
Briana then raised one of her hands and shot a concentrated beam of electricity towards an old battered car that instantly spring back to 'life', its lights shining brightly at Daniel, causing him to squint at the luminosity of it.
Then, without warning, the car charged at him at full speed, hitting him and propelling him into the brick wall hard along with the car.
Thinking that she had done the trick, Briana turned around, only to find out that the only thing that was damaged was the car itself!
"Hey!" Daniel called out to her and then sneered: "That almost hurt me."
Briana growled as he came trudging towards her confidently. She grabbed onto him with both her arms and sent out her most powerful shock she could muster coursing around his whole body. This made Daniel fidget and try to break free to no avail, even though it didn't hurt him badly.
Briana smiled in satisfactory. He however, was tired of the fun and games and with all his might Daniel yelled:
"LET ME GO!"
This seemed to do the trick as thanks to the invulnerability, Briana's own electrical currents reflected back into her and blasted her with an explosion-like noise to the other end of the construction site and landing her with a loud thud.
Daniel smirked in victory. Then realization hit him hard, his smirk instantly falling.
Something was very wrong. Briana hadn't stood back up even after a full five minutes on the ground. Fearing the worst, Daniel rushed towards her. Once he reached her, Daniel almost threw up.
Three sharp copper pipes were poking through her abdomen and blood was leaking slowly from her forehead and the edge of her mouth. Careful not to cause anymore damage to her, he put one of his arms behind her head and the other between her knees.
Looking directly into Daniel's eyes, her eyes gradually their losing focus, Briana whimpered only two words:
"I'm sorry."
Daniel tried desperately not to cry, but a few tears managed to escape, looking at Briana with tremendous guilt and sadness.
She looked at him for a second, accepting her fate and slowly closed her eyes and let her head fall into his arm.
"No, no!" Daniel panicked, frantically looking around the site for any passing people. "PLEASE SOMEBODY HELP! HELP ME!"
With no-one in sight, Daniel hastily scooped Briana in his arms and quickly ran to the Smallville Medical Center, even though he knew it was already too late to save her.
While he was running there, inside his mind he was having an argument with himself.
No! This wasn't supposed to happen! She was supposed to live and turn back to her usual self.
Another part of his mind argued back.
You stupid son of a bitch! Do you honestly think that what happened in 'Smallville', a TV show, would ACTUALLY happen in the REAL world? Really?
Shaking his head out of his thoughts, Daniel managed to arrive that the Smallville Medical Center within a matter of minutes. Luckily, it wasn't crowded; in fact it was almost empty inside. As he entered the building, the automatic doors opened and Daniel again started yelling:
"HELP ME, SOMEONE HELP ME, PLEASE!"
All the available staff, especially the ones that recognized Briana, immediately rushed forward and put her gently on a stretcher, another nurse forcing Daniel to wait in the waiting room.
Begrudgingly, he sat onto one of the seats, occasionally looking at the clock on the wall nearby, which read: '9:45 pm'.
Finally at ten o'clock, a male doctor, the same that had treated Briana earlier in the day, came out into the waiting room towards Daniel, who was now standing up, with a look of extreme yet somehow familiar sadness etched upon his face.
"Mr. Li," he couched. "I regret to inform you that your friend Briana passed away, I'm terribly sorry."
Daniel froze shocked at this and slowly sat back down. Even though he knew that he couldn't have possibly saved her life, his innocent naïve part of his mind still believed that she could be saved from her fatal injuries.
Guilt swelled up inside him at that moment.
It was my entire fault. I shouldn't have come there to confront her; if I hadn't, she would still be alive now.
"Mr. Li, Mr. Li."
Daniel snapped back into focus to see the doctor looking at him with a look of understanding. The doctor then put a comforting hand on his shoulder.
"I know how hard it is to lose a friend, but trust me, it will get better in due time," the doctor reassured him and then went back to work.
Daniel started to exit the hospital too, but not before two familiar officers, Deputy Banks and the Sheriff himself came striding along towards him, a sort of malicious emotion in their eyes.
"Good evening Mr. Li, fancy meeting you here at this late night," greeted the sheriff coldly and suspiciously, albeit not as coldly as their first meeting together.
"Yeah, what are you doing here?" Deputy Banks asked him suspiciously. Clearly, Deputy Banks still disliked him.
Daniel sighed heavily. This was not going to go well at all.
So, for the next ten to fifteen minutes, Daniel reluctantly explained a false story to them, about how he had found her lying on the ground with the copper pipes protruding painfully through her abdomen.
Throughout the whole story, both of them were eyeing him suspiciously, especially Deputy Banks, who wanted Daniel to come over to the police station for further questioning, but the Sheriff hesitantly disagreed about it and sent Daniel back home, no questions asked.
Next morning (8:45 am) - Li residence
The sun rose up from the horizon like it everyday, but today however feeling the sun glorious rays could not lift anyone's emotions up, as today was the day of Briana Corcoran's funeral.
Since Smallville was a small town, everyone knew everybody, even if it was just by name. The impact of the news was a heavy blow to the citizens, especially Briana's mother and her older twin siblings, Michael and Tess.
One who was especially bummed out was Daniel, who was up almost all night, sitting on the floor and leaning against the couch, repeatedly throwing a baseball towards his loft wall back and forth, his face devoid of any emotion except for guilt and sadness.
Meanwhile, Daniel's parents came up the stairs, both talking to each other and trying to figure out what to say to snap him out of his depression.
"I know you're there," Daniel called out, looking at his worried parents.
His mother walked up to him first and sat down beside him, putting a comforting hand on his shoulder.
"Sweetie, it wasn't your fault at all," she comforted, probably knowing it wasn't going to work.
"Wasn't it though, mom? It was me who made her reflect off of me, shoot the electricity back at her and then impaled her with the pipes," Daniel confessed, tears welling up in his eyes, which he wiped off immediately.
"It was self-defence son, she attacked you," Mr. Li reassured, plopping himself on the other side of Daniel and putting his arm around his neck.
Daniel stood back up when he heard someone coming up the loft again. He expected it to be Lorraine, Ian or maybe even Rene, but instead it was Ben, dressed in a completely black suit and shoes. Ben's sudden appearance made Daniel's parents both stand upright and alert.
"Ben, what are you doing here?" asked Daniel.
"Didn't you hear that it was Briana's funeral today? Her family want you to come too," he replied. "If you want to that is," he added quickly.
Daniel glanced at his parents, both of them nodding in approval. Turning back to Ben, he replied without any hestitation:
"Okay, I'll do it."
'Apologize' by One republic ft Timberland
(Beginning Music)
Once all of them got ready, they headed outside and into the truck despite Ben's suggestion of his limo and towards the graveyard to see that many people had already arrived, surrounding the clean black coffin. Among them was the mother, her name revealed to Tiffany and Briana's siblings, all of whom were sobbing hard with tissues in their hands and pockets.
I'm holding on your rope,
Got me ten feet off the ground.
They all got out of the truck.
I'm hearing what you say,
But I just can't make a sound.
Daniel's parents going to the family and offering their condolences to them, while him and Ben stood next to side of the coffin, Ben's hands together at his front in respect and Daniel gazing down at the graph with indescribable emotions of guilt, sadness and anger.
You tell me that you need me,
Then you go and cut me down.
But wait…
You tell me that you sorry.
Didn't think I'd turn around and say:
That it's TOO late to apologize,
Yeahhhhhh!
Holding on your rope,
Got me ten feet off the ground…
It was once the priest had stopped talking and the coffin was lowered into the earth below, was when a single tear escaped from his right eye. The truth was that: Daniel wasn't untouchable as he thought he was.
A/N: Thank you for all your support and stay tuned for the next 'episode'!