Héctor laid back on the nurse's room bed after Miguel hung up, still trying to wrap his head around what just happened.
5 minutes ago he woke up surrounded by strangers. The manager said the staff found him lying unconscious on the floor. They asked him his name, and laughed at his answer until the blinky box told them that all the dead that are buried in Santa Cecilia have come back to life. They can't show La Muerte on the screen, but all Santa Cecilia neighbors confirmed that they saw her appear on the sky.
The workers quickly apologized, but Héctor brushed them off, it's not their fault that most dead people don't randomly come back from la tumba after 97 years. He tried to buy a ticket to Santa Cecilia, but unfortunately the train doesn't go there anymore, and it's closing time, they'll have to ask him to leave soon.
Why am I so prone to bad luck!? He thought before the manager managed to miraculously contact his family! y gracias dios, Imelda was there with Miguel! They'll come to take him home!
General Hospital de Santa Cecilia
Elena, and Julio sat in the waiting room as the doctors still wanted all the "Came back from the dead" to get their health check.
Driving here with her dead Papá was already weird, how is she supposed to handle seeing her dead sister again?
"Papá!"
"Viví!" The old man rushed out of his seat to hug his 40 years old daughter.
Elena still remembers her sister well, but she'll never get used to seeing her desgarbada sister without glasses. She swears she did bury Victoria along with a pair too.
"What's that funny face, Él?" said Victoria after Julio let go of her, when was the last time her sister called her by that tonta name!?
What should I say back!? Elena thought, I miss you? I'm glad you're back? Or just go ahead, and hug her?
"You need glasses." Elena said finally, "Let's go home."
The twins arrived shortly after Victoria, and Elena drove them all home.
Coco watched the seat's window eagerly as she was sitting in her Mamá's lap, none of them taking any rest as they were waiting for the station to come into their sight.
Coco hated her 3 years old body, she's a 100 years old! She's not supposed to be struggling with just openning a car's door because of her height! She wishes she could have skeleton form, or at least an adult.
"We're here." Said Enrique right after the car stopped.
Coco quickly opened the door, and jumped off her Mamá's lap. She rushed to the front of the station just to find all the lights are off, it's closed. Are there any hoteles nearby that Papá might be in? She thought as she looked around, and found a vagabundo sitting on the ground with his arms around his knees, laying back against a trash can with his face tucked down. She remembered that charro suit!
"Papá?"
The man lifted his head up from his knees.
"Coco!?" he bolted up from the ground, and rushed to pick her up in his arms, "Look at you!"
Coco giggled as her Mamá finally came to join the hug.
"How dare they leave mi idiota here!?" Imelda asked in anger after they let go of each other.
"It's closing hour, mi amor." He replied, "And I promised you, I'll wait here.".
And he kept his promise, he always has. He'd have returned home to her, and Mamá if that Devil Cruz didn't murdered him! But now they're given a 2nd chance!
"Let's Go home, Papá"
Coco held his hand as her Mamá held another.
"Si, Mi Familia."
Remember what Héctor called the scanner? xD
It was very, very hard to find the station that Héctor could possibly die in! Santa Cecilia is set in Oaxaca, and according to Elliott Moore, The passenger train between Mexico City and Oaxaca was cancelled back in the 90s :(
And I have to look for a train station that existed back in 1921! However, Gracias dios I found this quote by Michael R. Swigart, "Train leaves Mexico City (Estación Buena Vista) in the evening and arrives in Oaxaca before midday", and he said it in August 1996!
So I googled La Estación de Buenavista! it opened 1873!
Few Vocab
La Tumba = The Grave
Desgarbada = Gangly
Vagabundo = Homeless Man