Love and Grief Everlasting
by Kathleen Emerson
Disclaimer: Don't own anything. Never will. End of disclaimer.
Summary: I think Winnie did the right thing by living the "life unlived" but I was watching my video and got this idea so I wrote this story. In my version of the story, Winnie's parents died in 1918 during the worldwide Spanish influenza epidemic. Overcome with grief, she decides to drink the water and wait for Jesse to return. During the years that pass she begins to understand what Tuck and Miles tried to tell her about living forever. Will Jesse find the same Winnie he left or will she have changed too much for them to find the love they had?
A/N I don't really remember Hurricane Andrew but I did look up a few websites about it. And truthfully, I didn't get the information I wanted out of them, so if some of the things about the hurricane are wrong, I'm sorry.
Chapter 5
Florida
August 1992
Winnie had never felt so lonely in her life, not even when she was a little girl living in Treegap. She had searched for decades for Jesse without success. No one else understood what it was like to be immortal except the Tucks and she couldn't find them. Through the years Winnie had learned just what Tuck and Miles had tried to tell her about drinking the water from the spring.
"Our life is like those rocks, Winnie. Those rocks have been there for years, never changing. People are meant to live and die. You have nothing to fear of death but of life immortal, that you do." Tuck's words echoed from the past.
Outside, the wind blew the palm trees roughly. It was a hurricane, one people would remember for years as Hurricane Andrew. Yet Winnie felt so detached from it all. It didn't matter if she boarded up her windows or not, she'd still live even if her belongings did not. But since there were a few momentos from her childhood and her times with Jesse she did not want to lose she had gone ahead and boarded the windows.
The wind howled some more, knocking down palm trees. The rain was fierce, pounding against the windows with such force Winnie was beginning to wonder if she should have evacuted.
She paced the floor of her two bedroom apartment anxiously, waiting out the storm. She had no TV but a little radio instead. "Well, folks, looks like Hurricane Andrew is beginning to hit us full force. Stay indoors, away from windows. Do not attempt to go outside, I repeat, do not attempt to go outside. For those of you who have evacuted or in the process of doing so, it is the utmost importance you get inside somewhere as soon as possible." The reporter said, from the radio.
"I'm inside already, don't you ever say anything else?" Winnie grumbled.
The storm made it impossible to have electricity which made no real difference to Winnie's way of life since she still did a lot of things the way she had ninety years ago. Time meant nothing when one was immortal and changing one's ways didn't seem to matter much. After all, what comes around goes around, right? At least, that was Winnie's philosophy on her old fashioned ways.
Winnie sighed. It was kind of boring to be alone. Being immortal meant she couldn't stay in one place for too long because people would get suspicious of her never changing appearence. So she had traveled the world almost constantly for nearly ninety years. For the hundredth time that day she wished Jesse was at her side. "He would have thought up some strange but wonderful thing to do." Winnie thought. "He'd have Miles and me putting on raincoats and going outside while Mae watched anxiously by the window, no matter how dangerous it was. Not that they would be in danger, being immortal, but Mae's mother heart wouldn't let them go without worrying.
"I wonder if she worrys over me still. Could they have even forgotten me? If that has happened what will I do?" Winnie's thoughts terrorized her soul. "If the Tucks have forgotten then what will I do? They are, as far as I knew, the only immortal people on the whole earth! Could even Jesse, my Jesse, had forgotten me? Could he have fallen in love with another? No, he had promised to love her til the day he died, which meant forever." Winnie sighed again.
The storm beat unrelentlessly against the boarded windows and she could tell it was flooding in the streets but she didn't care. All she wanted was Jesse.
"Jesse, Jesse, Jesse, where are you?!" she cried, knowing no one would hear her. "Why did you never come back for me? You promised you would! I waited and waited til I could wait no longer for you!" Winnie crumbled into a heap on her bed and began to cry loudly.
Shorter then my other chapters but the next chapter is gonna be really good! I won't post it until I have at least one or two reviews on this chapter tho! Kathleen
by Kathleen Emerson
Disclaimer: Don't own anything. Never will. End of disclaimer.
Summary: I think Winnie did the right thing by living the "life unlived" but I was watching my video and got this idea so I wrote this story. In my version of the story, Winnie's parents died in 1918 during the worldwide Spanish influenza epidemic. Overcome with grief, she decides to drink the water and wait for Jesse to return. During the years that pass she begins to understand what Tuck and Miles tried to tell her about living forever. Will Jesse find the same Winnie he left or will she have changed too much for them to find the love they had?
A/N I don't really remember Hurricane Andrew but I did look up a few websites about it. And truthfully, I didn't get the information I wanted out of them, so if some of the things about the hurricane are wrong, I'm sorry.
Chapter 5
Florida
August 1992
Winnie had never felt so lonely in her life, not even when she was a little girl living in Treegap. She had searched for decades for Jesse without success. No one else understood what it was like to be immortal except the Tucks and she couldn't find them. Through the years Winnie had learned just what Tuck and Miles had tried to tell her about drinking the water from the spring.
"Our life is like those rocks, Winnie. Those rocks have been there for years, never changing. People are meant to live and die. You have nothing to fear of death but of life immortal, that you do." Tuck's words echoed from the past.
Outside, the wind blew the palm trees roughly. It was a hurricane, one people would remember for years as Hurricane Andrew. Yet Winnie felt so detached from it all. It didn't matter if she boarded up her windows or not, she'd still live even if her belongings did not. But since there were a few momentos from her childhood and her times with Jesse she did not want to lose she had gone ahead and boarded the windows.
The wind howled some more, knocking down palm trees. The rain was fierce, pounding against the windows with such force Winnie was beginning to wonder if she should have evacuted.
She paced the floor of her two bedroom apartment anxiously, waiting out the storm. She had no TV but a little radio instead. "Well, folks, looks like Hurricane Andrew is beginning to hit us full force. Stay indoors, away from windows. Do not attempt to go outside, I repeat, do not attempt to go outside. For those of you who have evacuted or in the process of doing so, it is the utmost importance you get inside somewhere as soon as possible." The reporter said, from the radio.
"I'm inside already, don't you ever say anything else?" Winnie grumbled.
The storm made it impossible to have electricity which made no real difference to Winnie's way of life since she still did a lot of things the way she had ninety years ago. Time meant nothing when one was immortal and changing one's ways didn't seem to matter much. After all, what comes around goes around, right? At least, that was Winnie's philosophy on her old fashioned ways.
Winnie sighed. It was kind of boring to be alone. Being immortal meant she couldn't stay in one place for too long because people would get suspicious of her never changing appearence. So she had traveled the world almost constantly for nearly ninety years. For the hundredth time that day she wished Jesse was at her side. "He would have thought up some strange but wonderful thing to do." Winnie thought. "He'd have Miles and me putting on raincoats and going outside while Mae watched anxiously by the window, no matter how dangerous it was. Not that they would be in danger, being immortal, but Mae's mother heart wouldn't let them go without worrying.
"I wonder if she worrys over me still. Could they have even forgotten me? If that has happened what will I do?" Winnie's thoughts terrorized her soul. "If the Tucks have forgotten then what will I do? They are, as far as I knew, the only immortal people on the whole earth! Could even Jesse, my Jesse, had forgotten me? Could he have fallen in love with another? No, he had promised to love her til the day he died, which meant forever." Winnie sighed again.
The storm beat unrelentlessly against the boarded windows and she could tell it was flooding in the streets but she didn't care. All she wanted was Jesse.
"Jesse, Jesse, Jesse, where are you?!" she cried, knowing no one would hear her. "Why did you never come back for me? You promised you would! I waited and waited til I could wait no longer for you!" Winnie crumbled into a heap on her bed and began to cry loudly.
Shorter then my other chapters but the next chapter is gonna be really good! I won't post it until I have at least one or two reviews on this chapter tho! Kathleen