Rachel
Hey, Rachel here. I don't really have a lot of time since the church session is about to start. Church session? your asking, what session?
Well, right now, I wish I was you and didn't know a thing. I'm at Jake's funeral session. Yeah, that's right. His funeral. Jake died about five days ago in the hospital. Confused? Here, let me fill you in.
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5 DAYS AGO
"Guys..." Marco stuttered, pointing. So, he'd noticed it too. I looked at my best friend for assurance, to tell me that it was okay. But all Cassie did was gasp and put her hand to her mouth.
"Marco, get some help." She whispered urgently. Marco, however, was petrified. He'd seen her face and he knew what it meant.
"NOW!" Cassie screamed. Marco jumped, quickly ran for the door, and poked his head outside. No, no, no. I thought to myself, this cannot be happening!!
Cassie ran over to Jake's side, knocked Visser Three out of the way, and took his wrist in her fingers; checking for a pulse.
"Cassie," Tobias choked, as the Visser relocated himself, muttering something about inferior humans. "We have a heart monitor." Cassie looked up at it.
"I know, I'm checking to see if it's right." She explained. We all "oh'd" and then fell silent. A few minutes later, Marco poked his head back in, panting.
"No one's out here!" He gasped. Cassie's eyes grew big.
"What do you mean 'no one's here'?" She asked, bewildered. "It's a frikkin' hospital, God dammit! There has to be somebody around!" Marco shook his head, then abruptly stopped as though he had a headache.
"Cassie, I did what the doctor said to do. I couldn't see anyone, so I ran outside and started screaming my ass off for someone to come. After five minutes, I shouted our room number and came back in, since no one came running."
Where is everybody? I thought, as I pushed the big red button on the wall. Cassie looked at me, confused, then shook it off. She had obviously forgotten that pressing the big red button was option one.
((What is going on?)) Asked Visser Three from his new position on the hospital chair. I just shrugged and I guess that wasn't good enough for him, because he immediately began to demorph.
I winced. His Andalite form gave me the creeps. He then, seeing the unsure looks on our faces, changed to human. "Is this any better?" He asked politely.
Marco looked at him and shrugged. "Better but still not my favorite." He said promptly. I looked at the red button again. I had pressed it, hadn't I?
Yes, I did. I know I did.
So then why was no one coming?
"Cassie?" I asked.
"WHAT?!" She practically shrieked, her hands grabbing a fistful of her hair.
"The options aren't working, neither of them are." I pointed out. "No one's here, and no one is coming."
"She's right." Marco said, walking towards us. "I just checked outside, no one's coming." I nodded. Cassie just kind of stared.
It scared me. "It's up to you Cassie, but I think that we need to flip the switch."
"We don't even know what it does!" She cried. "It could kill him!"
I looked at her with sad eyes. "I know, Cassie. I know. But what choice do we have?"
We sat there for about a minute, deciding. The only noise in the room was the heart monitor. Tracking his pulse.
Slower... and slower.
"Okay." She agreed, flipping up the switch. For about a minute nothing happened.
Then, the uneven, slow beeps of the heart monitor gave way to a long, flat, high-pitched one. I felt the tears forming.I heard Cassie begin to wail. Jake was dead and it was all my fault.
I had just murdered my cousin. That was it. No more war. No more Earth.
We were doomed.
I shut my eyes and let the tears fall. Tobias came up behind me after awhile, but I didn't care. I didn't lean into him for comfort nor did I push him away. I just stood there, listening to the single, steady drone of Jake's dead heart.
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5 YEARS LATER
Yes, that was how it had happened five years previous today. I am 21 now, have to children: Jacod and Tom (guess who I named them after??)), and am happily married to the love of my life, Tobias.
Marco owns his own TV show called 'Marco The Great' (go figure) and Cassie is helping out with the Hork-Bajir in Yellowstone, making sure they are happy.
Ax was named Prince after the war, and does many great things for his people. I guess he really did live up to his brother's standards.
Tom, my cousin, is alive and free and also is a professional basketball player. Any time he signs an autograph, he signs it as: Jake's Big Brother.
As for Jake: he was cremated after the funeral and his family took his ashes. After the war, with the entire world watching on television or in the crowd, we sprinkled them on a beach in his home town. They made a huge statue of him looking into the horizon, and renamed the beach in his honor.
Now, when anyone is talking about our 'Fearless Leader', they nickname him.
These nicknames include: The Great Yeerk-Killer, Jake-the-Great, or even so far as Our Savior and Earth's Hero.
The Animorph's all get together for a reunion on Jake's Birthday. Prince Aximili even flies down fromthe Andalite homeworld just to lay fresh flowers on his grave with us. Reporters come from all over to film it, and everyone in the world watches it in silence, only speaking at the end to say Jake's prayer:
"We are strong,
We are free,
Rid of evil,
Together be.
On this planet,
We will stand,
Behind our Savior,
Hand in hand.
He saved our lives,
So many of them,
But lived in fear,
Forever condemned.
So now we stand,
Our flaws number zero,
United by him,
Jake Berenson: our hero."
-THE END-
A/N: so whadda ya think? Am i really that bad for killing him off... omg im so sry! i didn't know what else to do with him!! God, im going to get A LOT of flams for this!
Oh well... r&r so I can complete my other story, the controlled! (For the record.. I wrote the poem!)