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My world started spinning, I felt like a frightened child. I felt them, their hands pulling me, their voices screaming for me.
Then I saw it. Their decaying faces. Their dead lifeless eyes, but this time they were concentrated on me.
"Its your fault, you did this, this should be you"
"No. I tried. I did."
"Not hard enough"
"I couldn't do anything more"
"liar"
"Honestly! I loved you! All of you, if I could have, don't you think I would have?"
"No. Your selfish. It may have cost you your life"
"I'd have gladly done so to spare you"
"IT WASN'T ENOUGH"
"Professor, are you all right?" a student interrupted my thoughts, a little red head girl I remembered seeing in the train compartment.
"Yes, I'm fine" I walked away.
'Don't you always?"
"Always what?"
"Walk away. From danger. From friends. From love."
"She left me!"
"Did she? I thought you left her….months before she dissappeard."
"What are you talking about?"
"Like you don't know"
"No. I don't" I ran to the bathroom and splashed my face with cold water. "They aren't real"
"Says who?"
"Your dead"
"So are you"
'What"
"Look." James' decaying finger pointed to the mirror.
I looked and was transported back to the living room of my old home; I saw the younger version of me sitting on the couch; my wife screaming at me.
"Remus! Just listen to me, look at me…something! They are gone, but we are not. We have to keep living"
Then I looked at myself and my eyes were staring lifelessly into the oblivion.