Day Zero:
"Noooooo!"
Day Four:
"You alright, Nick?"
"I'm fine, doc."
"If you feel up to it, you can head back to work."
Day Six:
"...we thank you for the life that you give us. It is full of work and of responsibility, of sorrow and joy. Today we thank you for…"
Why am I here?
"...Help us in our mourning and teach us to live for the living in the time that is still left to us..."
Day Fourteen:
"You haven't been back to work?"
"No, Stu. How could I like this?"
"She'd want you go out there. Not stay here doing nothing all day long."
"Heh… maybe."
Day Twenty-Two:
"Officer Wilde?"
"Hey Clawhauser. I see the power downtown is almost back up."
"Chief wanted me to have you go see him when if you came back."
"Don't want to keep him waiting then. Thanks."
Day Twenty-Three:
"What do you mean, Wilde?"
"I'm sorry sir. I thought about it last night. I'd like to stay an officer."
"Alright then. You talk to the bunny last night?"
"Every night, sir."
"She'd be proud of you, you know."
"Yes sir."
Day Twenty-Seven:
"It's been almost a month now Nick."
"I don't care. Stu, Bonnie, are you going to let this happen?"
"It has been a month Nick..."
"Has she not taught you anything? You can't just give up! You aren't doing this to her! You aren't doing this to me!"
"Nick.."
"No! I'm not leaving! She'd do the same for any one of us. She'd do the same for me!"
Day Thirty-Two:
"To hell with them!"
"Sir, you are going to have to leave."
"You're going to have to make me."
"It's not your choice, it's theirs."
"Look, Nick. Take some time. You can come back in five days, that's when it's happening."
"How could someone who gives up so easily have ever had her as a daughter? How!"
Day Thirty-Seven:
Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep!
-Click-
8:00
"Ugh… Oh no."
Today is the day. It's been over a month since my life changed forever. The city nearly destroyed, and so many got hurt. Every day now I see the effects of my actions still linger. I sometimes wonder if the world will ever stop hurting each other… when the world will become a better place. All I can do is try.
I've been mentally drifting in and out ever since that she plunged out the Wall. The say what she did was heroic. I told them she did it to save the city, but I know. I see her scared face. Her trembling arms. The way she fell over and begged me to kill her. She knew I wouldn't do it. They say she brought hope back to the city. She jumped at me, her eyes dilating, begging me. She looked at Bruce as he watched his actions take form. Maybe she was still in there, maybe not. But I like to think she jumped at him for me. For us. She bit his paw clean off. I can still remember the screams. Bruce fell over and she tackled him out the window.
It took a day or two before Finnick came to get me. I couldn't move. Finnick drug me out to the van with the help of some officers. They told me what happened. She jumped out on the ferret. They landed in the sand and the ferret broke her fall,and his spine. She was knocked unconscious. Finnick saw the whole thing and raced to get her to the hospital. They gave her the antidote, but she's been in a coma ever since. They think she is brain dead. I'm on my way there today. Stu and Bonnie believe the doctors and are going to pull the plug. Today is the day Judy dies.
Finnick picks me up and we drive to the hospital. We don't say a word to each other. He knows what is going to happen. I can't feel. The world just flies by as we stop in front of the hospital and I get out. I say hello to Karen at the front desk and she brings me to Judy's room. Stu and Bonnie are waiting outside.
"Hello Nick." Bonnie says. She is holding back so much emotion.
"Hello. How is she doing?" I look into the dark room. Utter silence comes from inside beyond heart monitor.
Stu looks at me with bloodshot and teary eyes. "She's doing just fine." She's ready. He gasps for air. "You.. you can.. say your g… say what you need to. We all have already."
"Ok." My heart starts racing. I step inside. The door closes behind me. Thud. The entire world fades away.
Here she is.
Beep.
"Oh… where do I begin? I'm still not ready to do this. I have that note you left on my desk, back when you were trying to find me?" I read it every day. I take out and look down at the note.
Nick, Bogo thinks you are somehow involved with the bombs at the wall. I know you couldn't have done this. I'm going to help clear you of this. I came here to find where your mother lives. I'm going to go to your mother's house to look for you. Stay strong Nick. I've never truly gotten to say this to you. However this turns out, I love you Nick. And I always will. When this is over, I want to start the rest of my life with you - Your Bunny, Judy
"It's going to be so weird not having you by my side every day… making fun of each other… going on about our lives."
Beep.
"Remember my first day? When we had to go take in Flash, and I felt so bad arresting my old friend after I could barely move? But you stood by my side, and guided me through it."
Beep.
"And then you did the most amazing thing of all...you made me laugh. For the last few years you've been my role model… but most of all you've been my friend… I'm really really going to miss you….
Beep.
"Goodbye Judy."
Beep.
I place the note at her side.
Beep.
Beep.
Beep.
I reach for the doorknob.
Beep.
Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
"ugh… n.. nick? is that you?"