AN: Sequel to The Death of John McClane.
The Death of Matthew Farrell
When Matt is twenty-five, he gets shot in the knee by a terrorist named Thomas Gabriel, and for some reason unknown to anyone but himself, he knows that he will not live out the next decade.
When Matt is almost twenty-seven, John McClane dies of a heart attack in their apartment while the hacker is out getting groceries and champaign to celebrate their eighteen-month anniversary.
When Matt is twenty-eight, his limp is not nearly as noticeable to anyone but him, but he still winces whenever he puts too much weight on it and stumbles or jars it too far.
When Matt is twenty-nine, he decides that mixing pain killers and sleeping pills is a bad idea and quits both cold-turkey. The next day he decides that quitting cold-turkey is a bad idea and starts mixing pain killers and sleeping pills again.
When Matt is thirty-two, the phantom pain in his knee still makes him wake in a sweat, sometimes screaming from the images behind his eyes, and he sobs because no one is there to hold him and tell him everything is all right.
When Matt is thirty-four, he swallows what is left of his pain killers and sleeping pills in the bathtub, drowning in the over-flowing water once he's passed out.
When Matt isn't thirty-five, no one visits the grave of a cliché homosexual suicide victim who probably would have died of some incurable disease anyway.
When Matt just isn't...the world seems to go on as it had when he was still alive.
AN: I do actually have a prequel to both The Death of John McClane and The Death of Matthew Farrell in progress...I think it might even be more than one chapter!! :D More soon!!