#death thread 01

[devildog-punisher-blog]

Frank thought he heard something and his head snapped to his right. Maria was still laughing and so were his kids as they rode the carousel. He had to remind himself he was home now and not in a war zone. Lisa's laugh faltered as she looked at him.

Then the world exploded in gunfire.

He watched as the bullets ripped through his family. As Lisa fell from her painted pony Frank caught her. Well, he caught the bloody mess that was left of her. He could see Maria laying on the ground eyes open and staring. Frank Jr. was collapsed on his horse and gravity had its hold on him. He was starting to fall.

Then the world went black.

The moment repeated with Frank looking to the right. Again and again he watched that moment continue to repeat like a stuck record. It seemed endless and unchanging. He lost count of the unchanging repetitions.

Then the sound of a drum accompanied the event. It slowed and stopped. This time when his world went black instead of repeating he was standing in a hospital room. Strangers surrounded his body. They looked at machines. Tubes were coming out of him and his head was wrapped in a bandage.

The woman standing next to him looked so different from everyone else in the room.

"What's going on?" he asked. "Where's my wife? Where are my kids?"

@the-oldest-reaper

[irradiated-struldbrug]

The first time Bruce Banner saw Death he was seven years old. He was kneeling beside his mother in the driveway trying to get her to wake up. A spreading pool of blood was being drawn slowly from her head down the concrete, but the little boy didn't understand its significance. Nor did he understand why the woman all in black was silently regarding him. Later when the police and lawyers questioned him, he didn't even remember she was there.

The next time he saw Death he was standing beside his mother's gravestone. It had a blood stain on it from his father's head. It was twenty years to the day after the first time he'd seen her and once again his memory of her was gone.

The third time he saw Death she was standing in the observation booth. Just before he gave Betty a wink and his body was bombarded with gamma radiation he saw the woman all in black. He wondered if this time she was here for him. It was his last thought before his world was swallowed by pain and the color green.

When he woke the next day and made his way to Betty's hospital room, he saw the black clad woman in the room hovering near Betty. He knew who she was at that moment. "Please, take me instead," he said softly as he reached out to touch Betty's hand. The bruises and cut on her face made him close his eyes and look away from her. "Just-- take me."

@the-oldest-reaper