Epilogue
Your inner monologue has already written the description of the current scenario. "A lone figure sits at the edge of an abyss, looking down into it with awe and passion." You are the last remnant of an offshoot reality that has come to an end. You are looking into the abyss of the alpha timeline, watching the girl you had come to love about to cross over into the next session.
"What's going on down there? I can't see; only you can," a female voice speaks from behind you, and you answer, "They're about to cross into the new session. They're going to be able to meet their ancestors, or at least who they would've been had their roles been swapped. They will fight the enemies presented to them. And if I had an idea of what will happen next… they will succeed. But what I couldn't say, is what that victory will cost."
"And what about us? Why am I still here? I already disappeared from this reality a long time ago. How am I here now?"
"Simple. You're on my mind. In the last moments of this reality, I seem to have complete control. It makes sense, since this world was created when my mind touched hers. I guess I brought you back for some company in the last moments we've got."
"Sounds fun, so I get to see what happens when this last little bit of our world disappears? I'd rather stay in that abyss then fall into it twice, to be honest."
You turn to her, and you simply say, "Don't worry; it's not the end for us."
She frowns at you and replies, "How is it not? Our whole world is gone, you and I are all that's left of it, and how can you say this isn't the end?"
"It's as simple as it could be," you say, looking back at the golden ship in the abyss, "I'm on her mind. Maybe not the forefront of it right now, but I'm in her subconscious. And when they emerge victorious, and rebuild a new universe, they are going to do it with their minds. She'll bring me back, and I'm going to bring all of you with me." You watch as they finally crash through the other side, and you know that's the last you'll see of her in a long time.
"You loved her, didn't you?" she asks you, as you stand up.
"I grew to love her because I had the chance to, that's all. It doesn't matter now, though, because even if she brings us back in the next universe, she'll have him. They'll have all of Time and Space to be together in. A perfect match if I've ever heard of one," you say this sounding somewhat bitter, and you don't really care. You think that in this situation, you really almost deserve to be bitter.
You expected another reply from her, but as you turn you see she's gone. The world must be about to finish breaking apart, and you see the driveway and your car start to disappear. You quickly grab the CDs from inside your car, because there's one you want to listen to one last time. You head inside her house, passing by the baby grand you had impressed them with so long ago, head up the stairs, and through the second door on the left.
In her room, you pop one of the CDs into the player, and switch to the second track. A copy of the CD she had first heard when she got in your car, just with each part broken up into separate tracks. This was the part that was playing. You lay down on her bed, close your eyes, and wait for the end to come. You smile as the lyrics start:
Once again, now where do I start, dear love
Dumb struck with the pure luck to find you here
Every morn' I awake from a cavernous night,
Sometimes still pondering the previous plight,
Seems life done changed long time no speak,
Nowadays I often forget the day of the week
Taking it by stride if you know what I mean,
No harm done, no offense taken by me
So let's rap, we'll catch up to par, what's the haps?
Perhaps we're even closer now after all things considered on this side of the planet,
Couldn't pick a better time even if we planned it
To come clean and candid if I have to
Oh what I wouldn't trade for your laughter
Sweet and sour spice in my poetry pot melting,
Even better than the real thing
It's like the God in me saw the Devil in you
I wanted to break myself in the worst way when I met you
Who would have thought, conversate by the river, celebrate birth,
Sit and delivered the lines that would prove to be the seeds of trust
Unsigned, yeah but destined to grow with sunshine
Self-assigned task piled on the desk of good works,
Knowing hardship appreciate the best of both worlds
You open your eyes as there's a metallic twang which you know is the piano breaking apart, and you look to find the darkness creeping into the doorway. You stand up again, and it takes all of your will to keep from panicking. You really don't want to go into that abyss, you don't want to fall for who knows how long before she saves you, if she even does save you. You try to hold onto your faith that she will, but you are scared. You are more scared than you've ever been, and you shudder as the music screeches when the CD starts to disappear. Soon, the darkness has you backed up onto the bed. You sit on it cross-legged, and close your eyes. You use your last waking moments to meditate, and you manage to calm yourself. You find yourself actually smiling in your last moments, and that same song runs through your head,
Once together, now where do we go, dear divine
I pray that you keep watching over us,
From the heavens where light is the nucleus
To this space filled with darkness and negative matter…
And then, the darkness overtakes you, and you start falling. You never stop falling, or at least not until you wake up…
== Wake up.
You wake up in your bedroom, like any other normal day. You get out of bed, you start your morning routine, eat breakfast, brush your teeth, make sure your hair looks somewhat decent. You just have to get through one more day of classes, work some extra hours at the music store, and then you get to go have some fun awesome times with the best friends in the universe. Speaking of work, you are glad you remembered, because you almost left the house today in mismatched shoes. You change out one maroon shoe for the other black one, and shoot yourself a thumbs-up as you leave the bathroom. You are smiling as you leave work, but as you unlock the door of your car, you think you hear a girl crying and you look up. When you make sure you just heard the wind or something playing tricks on you, you get into your car, sliding a pair of black sunglasses over your pure white eyes…
End Epilogue.
A little bit of closure, perhaps, on what happens to Mike. To forever spend his time reliving a single night in the dream bubbles, until such time as he is brought out of that realm. The song whose lyrics I used in this is Luv Sic part 2 by Nujabes.