THAT SUMMER, Epilogue
By Reija Linn
Darkness - darkness all around me. A child, crying, somewhere, though I can't find it... or is it me crying?
They come and go all the time, the people in white. They give me food, which I don't taste, and clothes, which I don't feel, and drugs, which can never take the pain away...
I am alone in this void of darkness and silence. Though sometimes, it is not silent at all. Sometimes, I hear the child crying, sometimes I hear someone screaming, cruelly, unearthly, and sometimes I hear the crackling and burning of flames, the cries and screams of my children...
Once, I saw Ron, and Arthur is always here, holding me in the darkness, the only comfort I have left in a world of pain and loneliness. I tried to tell them about it, but they gave me more drugs, and wouldn't listen, so now I am silent, and don't tell them anything anymore, praying they would just go away and leave me here, with my husband.
There are other people here too, sometimes, though I don't know where here is... or is here perhaps nowhere?
Ron didn't come back to me again...
Sometimes, I hear voices, not the voices of the people in white, who talk to me in words I don't understand, but the voices of my children...
Percy, mostly...
Charlie, one time...
Bill, also once... and was that Harry with him?
But I cannot answer them, I know that when I turn from this world, I can never go back...
Arthur is here with me...
And Tina...
And perhaps, Ron will come back...
I can't leave this place...
Here, there is no pain, there is no death, and no loneliness...
Arthur tells me there is also no future here, but I no longer care about future...
At least I am with Arthur, whom I love so much...
And if I wait here long enough, they will all join us here, and then I will never again feel alone...
Alone...
THE END
By Reija Linn
Darkness - darkness all around me. A child, crying, somewhere, though I can't find it... or is it me crying?
They come and go all the time, the people in white. They give me food, which I don't taste, and clothes, which I don't feel, and drugs, which can never take the pain away...
I am alone in this void of darkness and silence. Though sometimes, it is not silent at all. Sometimes, I hear the child crying, sometimes I hear someone screaming, cruelly, unearthly, and sometimes I hear the crackling and burning of flames, the cries and screams of my children...
Once, I saw Ron, and Arthur is always here, holding me in the darkness, the only comfort I have left in a world of pain and loneliness. I tried to tell them about it, but they gave me more drugs, and wouldn't listen, so now I am silent, and don't tell them anything anymore, praying they would just go away and leave me here, with my husband.
There are other people here too, sometimes, though I don't know where here is... or is here perhaps nowhere?
Ron didn't come back to me again...
Sometimes, I hear voices, not the voices of the people in white, who talk to me in words I don't understand, but the voices of my children...
Percy, mostly...
Charlie, one time...
Bill, also once... and was that Harry with him?
But I cannot answer them, I know that when I turn from this world, I can never go back...
Arthur is here with me...
And Tina...
And perhaps, Ron will come back...
I can't leave this place...
Here, there is no pain, there is no death, and no loneliness...
Arthur tells me there is also no future here, but I no longer care about future...
At least I am with Arthur, whom I love so much...
And if I wait here long enough, they will all join us here, and then I will never again feel alone...
Alone...
THE END