Toni stares straight into the blank emptiness. Her eyes are are fixed, glazed and empty. One pupil dilated. The paramedics work quickly and efficiently, one pounds her chest, one shines a flashlight in her eye. Nothing, no response. The paramedics lift her head and slip on a oxygen mask over her mouth.
The pool of blood spreads out from under her head across the wooden floor like a rose blossoming.
Sweet Pea. He is wearing an old war uniform a first captain one at that. He stumbles getting out of the forest, into a open field. His uniform was ripped and torn with blood smeared all over his face.
Something up he sees ahead of him makes him stop in his tracks. Men, dressed in crisp new uniforms of officers. They look almost out of place, with all the killing and mud everywhere.
They seemed to be gather around a body? They turn. One of them who he will remember as F.P Jones spots Sweet Pea. They grin at him. And their eyes turn a deep solid black.
“There is no escaping it, no coming back from it.”
Blood, mud and body upon body upon body. Sweet Pea, among them. Pale and cold, just another solider, dead.
Suddenly, his body arches and he gasps for air, almost as he was bursting in the middle of the ocean for air.
He looks around, shocked disoriented. The puncture marks on his neck still just visible.
Fangs Fogarty. On his back, on the ground, he’s in shock. Struggling to move, eyes rolling. His clothes, shredded at the shoulder and red with blood.
Laying next to him his a figure, and his chest gone. Just gone.
“But there are some that cheat death.”
There are sharp flashes of light, some people run over to him. One has a shotgun, trying to scare away something. Someone else attend to Fangs.
A bright lit room in a hospital, sunlight shining across Fangs’ face. He sits in a chair, quiet. Surrounded by flowers and get well cards, but there is something of about his presence.
Fangs gets up slowly, and just walks out.
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