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This jumps from the present to the future and back.

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Me and Lucy walking hand in hand

Me and Lucy never wanna end

Just another moment in your eyes

I'll see you in another life

In heaven where we never say goodbye

-"Lucy" by Skillet

I want nothing more than to hold her close, to hold her hand in mine. I can almost imagine it- I'll walk through the gates of Heaven, and Elizabeth will be waiting for me with our baby in her arms. I'll take her hand and we'll walk through a perfect world, a world where we never have to say goodbye.

The memories flash before my eyes from the moment we met to the moment we said goodbye.

Her hair flips wildly in the wind as she turns her head and laughs. She looks like one of those movie stars in the romance films…

She holds my hand in her's and looks deep into my eyes, her lips curving into a delighted smile…

Our laughter booms off the walls as we spray gallons of paint over each other and throw water balloons full of colorful paints at the huge canvas on the wall. I had never particularly enjoyed painting until that moment…

Her lips touch mine, and I feel myself falling in love all over again…

Thump, thump… Thump, thump... thump, thump…

"That's our baby's heart," Beth murmurs, and I decide that I've never heard a sweeter sound than the drum beating in our baby's chest…

Her sweet voice glides over my ears, and I touch my hand to her protruding stomach, feeling a small amount of force under my hand as the baby kicks…

The sweet memories turn sour as I remember crying over her casket.

I'd give anything to hear her voice again, to feel her heartbeat next to mine. I want to feel our baby kick and listen to the heart beat on the ultrasound and later, in real life. I want to listen to her breathing as she drifts off to sleep.

But I'll have to wait many more years before I can…

Here we are

Now you're in my arms

I never wanted anything so bad

Here we are

For a brand new start

Living the life that we could've had

-"Lucy" by Skillet

JUMPS TO THE FUTURE

Ben Wheeler, now sixty-seven years old, smiles up at his beautiful forty-five year old daughter (Emma); his forty year old son (Marcus); his thirty-five year old daughter, Destiny (he had both children with his wife years after Emma was born); and his amazing wife, Elle. He whispers his goodbyes and closes his eyes, thinking how much this scene must resemble one from a movie.

"What took you so long?" a familiar voice laughs, and Ben opens his eyes to see Elizabeth leaning over him, still as young as she was when she died. After examining his skin, he realizes that he is, also, twenty-one years old. It was like no time had passed since they said goodbye…

"Beth," he mumbles before his lips touch her's.

He hugs her, and he sighs at the feeling of her heart beating beneath his chest and loving the way her back and chest rise with each breath. But then he realizes that she's holding something.

Ben pulls away and glances down to see a baby boy in her arms.

"Michael," Ben murmurs before taking the baby in his own arms.

The baby looks a lot like him with a tuft of brown hair on his head, a fleck of yellow in the iris, and the same skin tone. But he has Beth's green eyes and lively aura; his smile is a mix of both of theirs, and Ben is glad because it's an amazing combination to form a wonderful grin.

"He's perfect," Ben mumbles.

"We made him," Elizabeth points out.

"And as long as we're together," Ben states, slipping his hand into Beth's, "we are perfect."

Elizabeth leads him away from the gate Ben woke up in front of and into the wonderful world known as Heaven.

"Now, we never have to say goodbye," she says. "I've been waiting for you."

Ben nods. "Me, too. Just wait until you meet Emma, my daughter. She'll love you."

Elizabeth stops him and careful of the baby in his arms, kisses him passionately.

Ben feels himself falling in love all over again as his soul mate embraces him, and he knows that he wouldn't trade this moment for anything.

BACK IN THE PRESENT

I can imagine the moment so clearly, but I know that it will be ten times as amazing as anything I can imagine.

Alas… I have many years before I can see her again.

I break down all over again, sobbing over the graves. Tears burns tracks down my face and hit the dirt below me. They dance on the rose petals and trickle over the cool marble of the grave stones.

I tremble and cry and sob to the point of just leaning down, my forehead pressed into the dirt, because I cannot hold myself up any longer.

A hand touches my shoulder, but I barely notice it until an all too familiar voice speaks.

"Ben?"

Tucker.

I know it jumps from past tense to present tense. Ben was looking back on that morning as he talks to Elizabeth, so he used past tense in his memories with Elizabeth and to describe that morning. Now that he's finished telling Elizabeth about the year he's had without her, including that morning, it becomes present tense.

If that doesn't make sense, don't overthink it. The tense really isn't relevant; I just wanted to explain why it changed from past to present tense.

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