Missing Pieces

' Dead Like Me'

Authors Note: Sorry its been a while since I updated… Thanks to all of you that have read, reviewed, and, put my story in your favorites… Hope you like the rest of the story…. I do not officially own anything Dead Like Me related …

Chapter 4: ' Now That's True Love'

I couldn't sleep the rest of the night, I kept thinking about how much I missed my old life ,and how much of it I took for granted. Then I started to move my thought on a different subject; Mason. He was my best friend so I didn't understand why , I was feeling so weird around him. I felt different when I woke up with his arms around me. I don't think I have ever felt that before. Although it was probably just the dream I had about my old life. I kept thinking about it, what ever it was scared me ,so the only thing I could think to do was leave.

I looked at my alarm clock, that read, and it read 6:00 am. I was thankful that it was Saturday, but I still had to go to Der Waffle Hause to get my Daily Reap. I put on a pair of faded blue jeans, and a yellow tee shirt, before heading out the door ,and driving to the diner. When I arrived ,I took a deep breath and walked to the table. Roxie got up and let me sit in between he and Mason, Rub and Daisy sat on the other side.

" Good Morning " I said as I scooted in. Rube looked at me over his morning coffee and smiled.

" Morning Peanut!" He was surprisingly chipper. Daisy was fixing herself in a pocket mirror, Roxie just nodded my way and Mason was looking at me funny.

" What?" I snapped at Mason. Was he wondering where I was this morning? Was he feeling this weirdness between us as well? He continued to stare at me, and now it was annoying me.

" Mason, why are you staring at me?" I looked aver at him. Roxie looked over at us and tried to make an excuse.

" Just ignore him George he's been acting weirder than usual this morning."

" Are you High?" I asked him, hoping that for some reason that he wasn't.

" No!" He looked away ,and was now looking over at Rube as he started to pass out the post-its. I looked down at my post it

T. Jamison

Subway 1-A

ETD- 12:04 pm

I was glad that it wasn't an early morning reap, I hated rushing off to reap someone in 15 minutes. It was too much pressure. I was also relieved that it was Saturday , because that meant I didn't have to give a lame excuse to Dolores today. You would think after a while she would get suspicious on my I had to leave at weird times all of time. I mean How many times could you use, ' A relative died', or' I have an emergency AA meeting'? Mason looked over me ,and grabbed my post it from my hand.

" When's your reap George?" He looked at both of our reaps very carefully ,and then over at Rube curiously.

" Hey, Mine is ay the same time as George's reap ,and the same place!" I reached over and snatched my post it back off of him.

" Rube what's happening on the subway?"

" Apparently two people are going to die" He sighed " And I expect you not to screw it up" He looked directly at Mason when he said this.

" Why do you always look at me when you say that?"

" Because you're a screw up"

" Well Rube I'm hurt" He grabbed his chest in mock hurt. I just shook my head, he usually did screw a lot up. Not on purpose of course, but Rube didn't need to always rub that fact in his face. Rube took the last bite of his bacon, before leaving.

" You'll get over it" He smirked. I looked over at Mason, and he looked like he was deep in thought.

About 20 minutes later , Daisy, Mason ,and I left. We went with Daisy to do her reap. She said she needed company, and of course Mason stayed glued to her side like some goofy love sick puppy dog. I tagged a long mostly because I had nothing better to do, and to make sure mason made it to his Reap on time. I couldn't let Rube think that he screwed it up. We walked around town for a while, listening to Daisy go on about some celebrity she blew to almost get a role as a princess. I kept thinking no one cares, she is so vain, and slutty. I watched as Mason looked at he with awe. I felt sick to my stomach. She led him on, and it wasn't fair. When ever she is around, it's like nothing else matters. I'm not jealous or anything, I just hate seeing him get hurt over and over again. No! I could care less if I am all Mason thinks about, cant stop talking about…. Though it would be nice to matter to some one. Like Mason? NO! I thought that's crazy.

At exactly 11:24 am Daisy Reaped John Pierce, who tripped over his shoe lace, and when he fell over in the street, a bus going 50 miles and hour hit him square on. What an odd way to die, kind of makes me be more cautious about making sure my shoes are tied.

After Daisy left to take her reap to the other side, Mason and I headed for the Subway station. Taking the subway always had made me nervous, because of all the negative stories you always hear about them.

" I hate subways!" I finally said as we were waiting on the right subway car to get here.

" Bad experience?" I sighed

" No, I have always tried to avoid the subway , because of all the stories ya know. Some one gets mugged, subway car derailed ,or gets stuck because of a power outage" He laughed , and then rubbed my back

" Don't worry Georgie, I ride the subway all of the time, I'll be right here" For some reason this actually made me feel better. When we got on , I immediately looked around, and it was surprisingly empty. I'd always imagined it would be packed with people. There was an elderly lady with a cane and a couple bags of groceries, a tall tan man with facial hair, wearing sweats, and a mean scowl on his face, a young mother with her 3 year old daughter with blond pigtails, and a young couple who looked to be in awe of each other. She had curly red hair, with cherry red lips and a smile that seemed to go on forever. The man was scruffy, and pale skinned who looked to not care about anything else happening but each other. I looked over at Mason's post-it

B. Bradley

Subway 1A

ETD- 12:04 pm

I nervously looked around for Grave-lings, and a sign as to who my reap was. I noticed Mason was doing the same thing. I looked at my watch and noticed it was now 11:59 am. I got nervous that we wouldn't find our reaps in time, when I head the couple speak and I felt my hear t sink.

" I Love you Tiffany Jamison"

" I Love you too Ben Bradley" They smiled at each other and I motioned for Mason, and we made our way to sit behind them. Is it pathetic when I feel bad for the people that I am about to reap? I mean I know I don't have a soul any more ,but I'm not heartless. They looked over at us, and smiled, as we sat down. I looked out the window, and that's when I spotted them. Grave-lings! They were going to derail the train and make it crash. I held my breath.

" Mason look!" He looked over m shoulder at the grave-lings.

He looked over at the young couple as if analyzing them and sighed. Just then I felt the train skid and try to stop, and we stated to halt to a stop. I quickly grabbed the chair in front of me ,making sure to reap my person's soul in the process, and Mason followed my lead. I held my breath as I looked over and saw that we were on the tracks of the train meant to go in the opposite direction. 12:04pm is what my watch said. I saw the train come crashing into the side of the car we were on. Before the train could hit, Mason wrapped is arms around me ,and pulled me to the floor, covering over me ,as the glass shattered, and the other train came straight through our car. The train erupted with screams and loud sounds. The lovely couple was hit right on from the crash, and died instantly, as there bodies were now crushed to death. I looked up at Mason who was still holding on to me on the floor. We both looked up in front of us when we saw the ghost of Ben Bradley ,and Tiffany Jamison standing in front of us.

" Are we… " Tiffany whimpered looking around at the damage that was done. " Dead?" Mason slowly got off of me and held out his hand to me to help me up. I dusted my self off and looked over at her again.

" I'm sorry" I said as calmly as I could . The sub way had just made my fears come true, but Mason protected me just like he said that he would. Ben Bradley looked at Tiffany and grabbed both of her hands and smiled up at her. She looked at him with confusion.

" Don't you see?" He said to her " Our love was so powerful that it took us away together." As he said that she began to smile as well. Mason and I just stood there and watched ,as the dead couple kissed. Then Bright lights appeared ,and they entered the after life together. It was the kind of ending that you read about in books ,or see at the end of a sappy movie.

" Now that's true love!" Mason sighed as we made our way off the subway.