Look With Different Eyes

me pov

"mmnn...huh...? wha...?" I woke up with all that being said, finding myself on my floor, not my bed. I figured I'd fallen out of bed, something I hadn't done in years. My head was pounding and in felt slightly sick, sitting up would have been less strenuous if it weren't for those facts. Then, I noticed something I hadn't before, my room had different shades of grey in it than it had before, me being completely color blind and all, I didn't know it was color that I was seeing. I closed my eyes, finding things more comfortable that way, I was still dead tired, after all. My head continued to ache, more and more. I figured that, in itself, would keep me up the rest of the night. Well, I was up the rest of the night, but that wasn't why. I was on my knees by then, whining from the pain in my head, the nausea might subside when I lay down. That was my thought pattern when I put my hand on my mattress to brace myself to stand, that's when I noticed the first minor sign of something being wrong. You can tell I was sarcastic with the 'minor' part, right? As opposed to my arm, which I miss dearly, I found a metal version, with clawed fingers, that sent me reeling back, falling over and bumping my head, yelping from the blast of sudden pain. I backtracked a bit to the sitting position, looking at what had been a flesh-and-blood arm, but was now a metal cop-off. My noticing my wardrobe change came next. Though the outfit was extremely cool, under opinion, that is, the fact that I was wearing it and not the clothes I'd gone to bed in clouded however cool I thought the outfit to be. "What...the hell...happened to me?" was all I said, feeling dizzy now. Never once in my life have I fainted, and I wasn't about to start then. I managed to haul myself upright, standing was dizzying and it sent a head-rush to join my steadily forming migraine. I sat down in my computer chair, finding that less strenuous. Then, I noticed that I was sitting on something. I pulled what ever it was out from under me and my jaw dropped. I'd been sitting on my Final Fantasy VII game guide. Which I, being the fanatic that I am, had opened to the bio page of my dearly beloved favorite character, Vincent Valentine. My brain was a little slow on reining itself in, but once I had it all together, I was quick to do the math, metal claw matches metal claw, outfit matches outfit. That's where I stopped for a second, 'gun matches'.. Did I have a gun? I patted around my clothes and, finally, came upon a gun. Ok, we have gun, plus outfit, plus claw equals Vincent. But, I had all of that too, and I knew I sure as hell am not Vincent. Someone's got a vivid imagination. That someone likes to make their thoughts into reality, don't they? I looked myself up and down again, standing up slowly, what the hell had happened to me? And when? The best question I asked myself was 'how the bloody hell did I not notice!'. that last one is still puzzling me. I may never know, but that's not what we're truly talking about, now, is it? I was on my feet and dropping the game guide, standing there in the middle of my room, staring forward blankly, trying desperately to think around my migraine. Eventually, it ended up being too much. I'm positive I broke an ear drum at the scream I let loose, screaming is a natural talent for me. I knew my parents were up, no living creature could sleep through that scream. I scribbled something down on a piece of paper, thanking God that Vincent's right arm wasn't the one that had been altered, me being right handed and all. Then, I was gone, I don't have any idea how they do it in cartoons and movies, but I accomplished the whole 'diaper out a window in a matter of seconds' thing, and the even more important 'don't get caught' part at the end.

I was standing in my front yard now, it sounds corny, but, saying good bye to the tree out front, I actually really liked having that tree there, it was a magnolia tree that was in full blossom when I was saying good bye. I took a long and hard look at my house, knowing that I wouldn't be back. I was one of those sentimental types at that time, so hearing my family inside running to get dressed and go out to find me feel lower than dirt with the knowledge that I wouldn't come home. But, eventually, they got to the front door and I just early managed to get out of view, I owe that tree another one, hiding deep in the magnolias was actually perfect come for me. They all ran right by, but my dogs were a problem, and I was mortified with myself for going after my gun when I saw my dogs run over to the tree. The shock from all of that, and my head ache, finally betrayed me worse than ever, I fell out of the tree. Surprised when I got right back up onto my feet. Damn, that bastard that had done whatever it was to me did a good job. No time to think on that. There was only time to run. My parents had seen me fall and were a hair's width away from what I considered to be too close. I jumped straight up, again, shocked when I found myself landing crouched down on one knee on my porch roof. I muttered and apology and was gone.

Again and again and again I was surprised even more by my speed, metabolism and abilities. I was jumping from roof top to roof top, at that point testing as to what I was capable of. I'd need to wait to see if I could actually use a gun. I stopped suddenly when I heard sirens below. "Dammit! My parents called the cops!" I growled to myself, I knew it would be difficult, if not impossible, to catch me. But I also knew how damned determined some cops could be. Again, at that time, at that place, I was still a fool. I hopped around town for a bit, knowing that I didn't really have much else to do.

Finally, I got tired of hopping and jumped to the ground, deciding to walk. The collar of Vincent's cape went up high enough to hide part of his face in the game, whoever it was that had done this to me had stayed true to that as well. A missing person can't be found if they can't be seen. I was thinking more as I was walking, I defiantly couldn't go home, and I also defiantly couldn't go to school, but, I also defiantly couldn't wander around like a hobo for the rest of my life, how ever long that may be. I decided on what to do then and there. I would drop out of existence. It would be easiest for everyone that way. I was obviously not human anymore, why try living as something you are not. I say my good-byes to the few people that would care and then be gone. After good byes, I'd find whoever had played 'Dr. Hojo' on me, bump them off and then become a shadow. Walking became slow after that thought. I was going to get this done and fast, back to the roof tops.

I decided to stop at Genevieve's first. It was the one I remembered off hand, and I was headed that direction anyway.

"Poor Genevieve..." I said to no one, "she's got enough on her plate already without me adding myself into the mix." but she needed to know. All of my friends did. I'd feel even more inhuman if I didn't tell them. I got to Genevieve's, don't ask me how I knew it was her house, but, I did. It unnerved me a bit, but I pushed it aside and sat quietly in a tree, figuring out how I would accomplish this without anyone fainting or dying on accident. Then I decided on the simple route. I jumped down out of the tree and walked up to the door. Now that I think about it, I probably should have used the window. But, it's too late now. I gave the door a couple loud knocks, opting for knocking with every house I would be going to. Yes, I defiantly should have gone in by window in all those cases. Again, too late now. I fought with my nervousness as I waited, who the hell would recognize me? What's more, and what was most pressing, would Genevieve recognize me? That made me want to play Ding-Dong Dutch on that very spot. Obviously, that wasn't meant to be, because the door was opened by Genevieve's mother, I could tell she was just getting ready to pack up whatever she'd been doing before I came and go to bed by the look on her face. That look changed drastically to complete confusion.

"Halloween's not until next year." was all she said before she started to close the door, nope, they didn't recognize me in this get-up, I was keeping the outfit anyway.

"Is Genevieve awake?" I asked quickly, the door opened all the way again, "um, I need to talk to her, it's important." I was sounding more sure of myself. And with every good bye I'd make that night, I would become more and more sure of myself.

"She's upstairs doing her homework." Mrs. Boman said. Then she stared at me for a second, finally a light went on for her, "are you her friend Katie from school?" I nodded, surprised that she'd remember after only meeting me twice, I will note now that she may have heard her daughter talk about me before, but, I reiterate about my foolishness at that time. She let me inside and called Genevieve down, then Genevieve's sister came in, her baby boy was wailing like a banshee, I winced at the noise, never wake a baby. I had forgotten that.

"Mom, he won't stop crying." she said, handing her baby off to her mother and walking away. I just stared after her in shock, how could she just abandon her kid like that? But, then again, she was the one who made a choice and paid a price. Not me. I just paid the price, for what I don't know, I never will. Dominic, I think that was his name, was overly loud, not stopping his shrieks for even a second as Genevieve finally came down the stairs.

"Hi." was all I said, I think it took her a minute to recognize the voice, my face was still partly hidden by a cape collar.

"Katie?" she half asked, I only nodded, there was a knot in my stomach, I hated to say good-bye to anyone. And that occasion was no different. "What are you doing here?" she asked, I'd only closed my eyes, which, I had finally figured out, were capable of normal sight now, not the half-vision I had gone to bed with that night.

"Genevieve, I came to say good-bye." I said in a voice that I knew sounded broken. One thing I was glad of was the fact that my cape had kept my new arm hidden. I didn't want her to see what I had become. "Need to leave for good. And I had to say good bye first. That's why I'm here." she looked confused.

"What? Say good bye? Can't you say it tomorrow at school?" she asked, I could tell that she was as fed up as I was with Dominic's crying. Neither of us said a thing about it. I shook my head, I would do that a lot that night.

"No. There's not gonna be a 'tomorrow at school' for me, Genevieve. I can't go back to school. I can't even go home. That's why I needed to say good bye right away. I'm going to Anna's next. Then Lizz, Jessi, and my friend Lisa. Then, I need to find someone. That's when I'll diaper. I know I shouldn't have said that. But I trust you." I turned to leave after that, "think extremely carefully about who you think of as a friend and ask questions. Find out who really cares for you and who doesn't. You're smart. Don't get caught up in something you won't be able to escape from." I said, hoping she'd take my advice and ask our, I'm sorry, her little group of friends who really would and who wouldn't be there for her. I knew one person who wouldn't and I was determined to get the point across that very night. Just to make sure she knew I was at the least a little serious, even if my back was turned to her, I used my clawed arm to push my cape aside, so she could see it. I left Genevieve's and I know she saw me jump into a tree and diaper from view.

I knew Lizz stayed up God awful late to finish homework, the same as Genevieve. So I knew someone would be there to answer the door. Sure enough her sister answered the door.

"Hey, Manda, is Lizz up?" then I added quickly "it's Katie." at that end part her jaw dropped. Again, glad to know my friends can recognize me.

"Katie? Why are you here?" but she let me in all the same, I dodged the question, not time for that answer yet.

"Can you go and get Lizz? I need to talk to you both." I said, again hiding my left arm. Manda nodded and went to get her sister. Once Lizz had entered the room and given the WTCF sort of line, I answered the question Manda had asked, "I'm here to say good bye. I wish I could stay. But I can't." I said, also silently praying that my gun was hidden too, that wouldn't be a very good fiasco if they saw it.

"What? What are you talking about?" Lizz asked, she was still a little confused by my outfit, which, again, I kept anyway.

"I mean I'm not gonna be at school tomorrow, or the next day or the next day, and so on. I won't be at school, I won't be at home, I won't be anywhere. I'm leaving all of this for good." I said, still afraid she'd get upset enough to try to smack some sense into me. "I can't be around humans any more." I said, waiting for the bomb to hit. It hit quick.

"What are you talking about! You are human! Why do you keep saying 'good bye'!" she was nearly yelling at me. I closed my eyes, bit my lip, which I would later find was a bad idea, I have slightly sharper teeth in just that right spot in your mouth, and raised my left arm, that stopped her.

"Does this look human to you?" I asked. She was standing still now, silent and slightly pale, Manda looked like she was about to scream. "Don't scream. Please. Don't say anything. I didn't want this to happen I didn't even know it did. I only woke up to it. I can jump on roof tops, it was accidently proven that I can fall quite a ways without getting hurt. I can see now, though." I said, lowering my arm. "I don't know what kind of sick joke was played on me. But, some nerd with too much brain power, too much spare time, and a sick sense of humor, turned me into a character from a video game. Video games aren't supposed to be real. And creatures like what I am now aren't supposed to be real either. So I need to go. I need to drop out of existence and never be seen or heard from again. I'll give you the list that I gave Genevieve, I'm stopping at Anna's next, then Jessi's then my friend, Lisa's. then I need to find the person that did this to me and make sure they don't do it to anyone else. So, good bye." then I bolted out the front door and pulled my vanishing act again.

Anna's went relatively fast. She was the one I didn't want to frighten the most Anna's impossible to get mad at and she's always been a good friend to me, so it wasn't easy to say good bye. I said good bye and gave the story of going on a long trip. I hoped she'd learn the truth someday. She never saw my arm, or my gun, thank God!

Next was Lisa, I'd decided to leave relatives for last, Jessi was my cousin. This time, I didn't knock on the front door. I didn't want her stepfather to see, so I eliminated the chances of him answering the door right away. She had a back door, of sorts, that had a lock like a screen door, I got in through there, wondering vaguely why no one had broken in. Suffice to say I'd just become the first to break in. I snuck as quietly as I could, getting to her room in a matter of seconds. I was also breaking the 'no shoes past the doorway' rule. But I found that irrelevant and continued on. I shook her a bit by the shoulder,

"Lisa, Lisa, wake up." I whispered, trying for several minutes to wake her. She finally woke up, I stepped back as quickly as I could. She sat up and looked around,

"Who...?" she started, I knew she was wondering who had woken her.

"Lisa," I started, she jumped, then looked at me with wide eyes,

"Katie?" well, at least she knew me right away. I nodded slowly.

"Yeah, Lisa, it's me. I need to talk to you. I already got to my school friends, and after I'm done here I'm going to Jessi's. But, I need to do this quick, I need to get outta here before anyone figures out I'm here. So, let's just get this out of the way. I'm leaving for good, as in not coming home." I said quickly, then, just like with Lizz, I waited for the bomb to hit. It hit rather quickly.

"What! What do you mean leaving for good! How did you get in my room! And-" she stopped her rampage for a second, " your cloths look like Vincent's from FFVII."

"Thank you, Captain Obvious. I walked in after opening the door. And I mean 'I'm leaving forever and not coming back'. I can't stay among humans any more. So, sorry." I said, I didn't know what else to do, she was my best friend and I couldn't find any true way of saying good bye. But, that's to be expected, right? I'm not going to share the rest of Lisa's war-path. I'm going to skip to my cousin's war-path.

She was the second one to find me sitting in her room silently waiting for her to wake up. She let out a small scream and fell out of her bed, sitting up automatically and staring at me in what little light was coming in through her window, either this all had taken longer than I'd thought it had, or there was a street light that I failed to process in my overloaded mind. I will now inform you that it had, in fact, been a street light. At first, just like all of the people, save Lisa, she didn't seem to recognize me, then again, I was sitting cross-legged on her spare bed, which was right across from her bed, wearing dark cloths, and dressed rather creatively. I tilted my head to the side a bit,

"you can turn on the light, you know. I won't melt." I said. She jumped to her feet, whether preparing to run, find a blunt object to fend me off with, or turn on the light, I was waiting to find out. Finally, she turned on the light in her room and jumped another few feet away from me. "Um...boo?" I said, she was staring wide-eyed at me, I think she recognized me.

"What the hell...?" she said, stuck still with shock. I turned myself around on the bed so I was facing her. She could now tell who I was. "What are you doing here? Did my parents let you in? What's with the outfit?" I let out a tired sigh, why me?

"I've been getting that question a lot tonight. No, your parents did not let me in, I climbed in through the sky roof thingy in your bathroom, don't give me that look, it's true. And I woke up with it on, I found several altercation to my personage had been made as well, aside from the clothes, which I think are pretty damn neat."

"Sky roof thingy? How, if you did actually get in through that thing, did you pull that off without falling on your head?" she asked, I knew how she worked, she was trying to corner me on that one, but, oh boy, would I have fun with it.

"Want me to show you?" I asked, with Jessi and Lisa, I was a little looser, they could handle it, I reined myself in for my school friends. Now, would be the best of them all. Jessi looked skeptical, but finally followed me into the bathroom, which is tiny and smells of cat, making sure the doors were closed, and the one to the outside world locked, then she leaned back against the door we'd come in through and waited. I simply jumped straight up, using that damnable claw for something useful, I hooked it over the edge of the roof, yanking myself up out of the house completely. Several seconds later, I swung half way down, hanging upside-down and staring at my cousin, who was pale white and looked stuck stiff. "See? Told ya." I said, "I was gonna use that weird little balcony thingy, but then I remembered I had a better chance at waking up everyone else in the house if I did, so, this is what popped into my head next. I think it's neat. Did I scare you that badly?" she shook her head,

"how did you do that?" she asked, I swung back up onto the roof, then jumped back down into the room, landing silently in front of her.

"I told you," I was back to being serious, I had to go soon. I wanted this all done that very night. All of it. "Some altercations were made. I'm not truly human anymore, Jessi." I said, then I opened the door to her room, walking out of the bathroom and back to the guest bed, which I sat down on, crossing my legs automatically, it was comfortable to sit like that. Jessi came in a few seconds later, sitting down on her bed, staring at me as though I'd grown another head, which I'm pretty sure might have sounded logical to her at that moment. My heart had gone back to racing, another one of my hardest good byes. I'd never wanted to make this one, but I knew I had to.

"What happened to you?" she asked, her composure was regained, I was still me, so it was alright to talk to me as if it were a normal conversation.

"I, honestly, don't know. I slept through whatever it was,.and whoever did it did it shit-quick." I said, then I looked at my left hand, now a claw made of metal. "And a damned accurate job too." that confused her.

"'accurate'? What do you mean?" she asked, I only looked at her.

"Jessi, this all should look familiar to you. You read the guide. You watched me play." her eyes were slowly widening with every word I said, "you heard my babbling over and over again, and what's more, you've seen his picture." now she looked like she'd gone into a state of paralysis. "Jessi, some nerd with too much spare time, far too much exposure to Final Fantasy VII, far too much intelligence, the right kind of equipment and a sick sense of humor turned me into Vincent Valentine." I said, she was shaking her head and muttering about me being nuts more than she'd thought possible. I shook my head, "no, Jessi, this isn't some freak hoax. You saw me jump through a sky roof, light, whatever. The outfit should be a dead give away. And then, you didn't notice this?" I stretched my left arm out in front of me, giving her full view of what was there. "That's another dead give away. I've jumped on roof tops, I've fallen a fairly high distance and walked away unscathed, the list goes on. But the worst part...now I know how he must have felt. Isolated right away, like some kind of escaped freak show performer. I'm vanishing for good after I find out who did this to me and blow their brains out. Oh, yes, and, whoever it was that played 'Hojo' on me gave me full eyesight, and a gun." I held up said object, I knew she wouldn't freak out, we both knew I had no idea how to use a gun. She took it from me and looked it over, she did have a license to own and use a gun, I think that's how it went. I can't really remember anymore. But, she knew what to do to make a gun go 'bang' successfully, I did not.

"This thing's real!" she cried, nearly dropping it, "where did you get this! Who gave it to you!" she pressed on.

"I already told you several times, I don't know." I said, then I held out my human hand, "may I have my gun back please." she, oddly enough, didn't argue. I put the gun away and sat staring at her, I knew someday I would forget the faces of all of my friends and family. That is a day I still wait for. I had to finish this quickly, the faster I let go, the quicker I could fall. "I can't stay here anymore." I said, looking down at my clawed left hand, "I can't stay among humans. I can't live as something I'm not. So, this is the last time you'll see my face." I looked up at her, she was staring in shock, "I realized a second ago that I don't really have any recent pictures of any of my friends. Even you and Lisa. I think that's good and bad. Bad because I don't seem to have anything as a reminder of your faces. Good because now your faces won't haunt me forever. I'll be able to forget. I hope. Well, good bye." I said, standing up and walking towards the bathroom. Jessi stopped me, of course, and we had a small argument, which managed to somehow wake up her dogs, who started barking, and while she was rushing out of the room to shut them up, I was climbing out of the house and getting away without a scratch.

I was half way through searching the city by sight alone when I remembered something, I should have forgotten it, what I had told Genevieve about figuring out who her true friends were, that would be useless if one of them lied, which I knew she would. I decided to make sure she didn't. Being the idiot that I was, I went to find her house. It frightened me as to how quickly I found it, as if I had known its location the entire time. I jumped up onto the roof when I heard someone coming to the door, then nearly fell off of the roof when Nikki walked outside, turned around to face the house, put her hands on her hips in a classic 'mother about to scold her child' pose, then she looked right at me, grinning.

this can't be good. was all I had time to think or say before she started talking.

"Well, well, well, look who came back to her maker. I figured you'd come." she said, sounding so sure of herself and casual at the same time. I was lost completely.

"What the hell are you babbling about! I just came here because I decided I didn't want you lying to my friends and leading Genevieve on anymore. How'd you know I'd be coming!" I snapped, in all truth, I was afraid. I remember that part clearly. I was afraid of her. She crossed her arms over her chest, still grinning like a cat who'd caught the mouse.

"I guess I should have kept you here after all. Your memory didn't process this place at all, yet you still found it right away. Do you wonder why?" I nodded my head, I wanted to know, but hated admiting she was right, "because this is where you were re-born. The 'creature', as you consider yourself, that you are now was created here. By me."

"Oh, well, if that's not the biggest load of bull shit I've ever heard!" I said, "now, you just sound like the nutter you keep telling all of us you were thought to be. I'm insane, but you're a completely lost cause, ya fruity loon!" she gave a short laugh, still grinning.

"Vincent had Hojo to turn him into a monster." she started, I sat quietly, listening, "and you have me to turn you into a monster." I glared death at her. "Glare at me as much as you like, it won't bring your humanity back." that did it. I had my gun out and pointed at her faster than I thought I was capable of, I also found I knew how to work it, though I never got the chance to pull the trigger. A sharp pain around my neck made me stop, it felt as though something was choking me, then the feeling of being zapped by electricity came in and I fell off the roof with a small scream.

When I managed to fully wake up, my neck aching, my head throbbing and my heart racing, I looked around solely with my eyes, not sitting up to turn my head, that would have made my headache worse. I almost tried to scream, but that would have hurt as well, I was lying in a box, staring up at a stone ceiling, in a very dank and dark room.

oh, hell, no! I thought, this time, not only did I force myself to sit up, I forced myself to run for the door, which opened right into my face, sending me flying back a bit, clutching my head.

"You're up I see." Nikki said, she was standing there in the doorway, something hidden behind her back, "well, I'm sure you've figured out what comes next in the game. Am I right?" she said sarcastically, talking wasn't a burden anymore, I'd forced words to come beyond the pain in my neck.

"The hell I did!" I cried, then calmed a bit, "why me? And what the hell is this about? And I know for a fact that you're not Nikki. If you were, I'd be calling my mom asking for bail money right now. So, who are you?"

"You're right. I'm not Nikki. In fact, I haven't been Nikki since your freshman year of highschool."

"You mean this entire time Nikki wasn't there? It was you?" I was in shock, during the short time in my life when I'd followed Nikki around, and now during the drawn out period in my life that involves me hating Nikki, it had been someone else posing as Nikki? This made my brain hurt considerably. "Ok, I'll pretend to understand that. But, if you're posing as Nikki, who the hell are you, and why did you do all of those things over the past few years? Lead people on, lie, hurt people? What did you have to gain?"

"Angela Seraf, but you may call me Dr. Hojo, if it seems more appropriate for you. And, as for what I had to gain from all this madness...A cast." she said, I was back to being completely confused. "I needed a 'Vincent' for my little experiment here."

"You are a sick and messed up bitch with far too much time spent playing video games!" I informed her, she shrugged.

"Well, you fit the part perfectly." she said,

"what the hell?" I was shocked, to say the least, at that one. I fit the part of Vincent Valentine? How? She would answer that question next.

"Yes. You fit the part. At first, in the time you spent following me around, I was testing to see if one of your friends might step up and get in my way. But, you foiled that plan unknowingly by spending every other day with your friends. None of them needed to try to tell me that I would only end up hurting you because you held onto them more than you did me."

"Ok, so, the fact that I still made a point of spending a majority of my time with my friends saved them from you. I like how that sounds. Let's move on." I said, she glared a bit.

"Then, I wasn't sure on how to go about trying again, until I heard about the depression and depleting will to live that you were going through, the fact that you cared for your friends keeping you alive. I decided to test a theory I came up with, I started in on the girl with the most problems, the most things I could work with. I knew you would continually try to get in the way, pretending not to. Like Vincent with Lucretia." she explained. I was staring wide eyed.

damn. I really screwed myself over, didn't I? I thought, "but then, if she had the most to be sad about, why not Genevieve? Not that I want her here in my place, just out of curiosity." I asked, it seemed somewhat valid sounding.

"Because she had nothing to try to keep me away from." the Nikki imposter said, that got me pissed,

"yes, she would have! She had us! If I could have, I would have gladly helped her more. But you got in the way and now you're just pulling her down! I had to try to make it stop somehow!" I screamed, the feeling of being electrocuted came back, making me fall to the floor from the pain.

"You see?" the poser said, "your melancholy attitude, wishes of helping someone you care for more than yourself and constant stepping between me and your friend made you perfect for Vincent's part." she was sporting that grin again. I was on my hands and knees now, in too much pain to do much else, I glared up at her,

"ok, so you're that ugly sod Hojo, Genevieve is, if I'm following properly, Lucretia, and I'm Vincent. Right?" I said between breaths, I was trying to bring everything back to normal, heart rate, respiration rate, all of it. She nodded. Then, some sick realization came to me. We were in a basement, as far as I knew, I was in a dank and creepy room full of coffins, and I'd just gotten out of a coffin in my futile escape attempt. "Oh, shit." I said, eyes wide, I knew for sure I was right when she laughed, I suddenly had energy, enough to make me run for the door at full speed. She grabbed my arm as I ran past her, sticking me with the syringe she'd been hiding behind her back. My world faded out.

"Been given 24 hours
to tie up loose ends
to make amends
His eyes said it all
I started to fall
and the silence deafened
Head spinning round
no time to sit down
just wanted to
run and run and run
Be careful they say
don't wish life away,
now I've one day

And I can't believe
How I've been wasting my time

In 24 hours they'll be
laying flowers
on my life, it's over tonight
I'm not messing no I
need your blessing
and your promise to live free
please do it for me

Is there a heaven a hell
and will I come back
who can tell
Now I can see
what matters to me
it's as clear as crystal
The places I've beenthe people I've seen
plans that I made
start to fade
The sun's setting gold
thought I would grow old,
it wasn't to be

And I can't believe
How I've been wasting my time

In 15 hours they'll be
laying flowers
on my life, it's over tonight
I'm not messing no I
need your blessing
and your promise to live free
please do it for me

13 hours they'll be
laying flowers
on my life, it's over tonight
I'm not messing no I
need your blessing
and your promise to live free
Please do it for me

I'm not alone, I sense it, I sense it
All that I said, I meant it, I meant it

And I can't believe
How much I've wasted my time

In just 8 hours they'll be
laying flowers
on my life, it's over tonight
I'm not messing no I
need your blessing
and your promise to live free
please do it for me

In just 1 hour they'll be
laying flowers
on my life, it's over tonight
I'm not messing no I
need your blessingand your promise to live free
please do it for me"
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Jem; 24; Finally Woken