Dank

The End

James had never thought about dying.

Nothing. Nothing in every direction but no directions either. No light, no sound, no smell. Just emptyness.

No body, just a mind. No feelings, just thoughts with nothing to anchor to. The world was gone despite his prescence and that was all he knew.

Limbs, his arm itched, but it wasn't there. No, he just couldn't see it, but he had no eyes. His world was in silence and had been since the accident and that was all he knew.

The last thing he rememered was emense pain, the loss of his body as he was torn away from it. Every inch had screamed out as it was disapeared, for a split second, and then it was gone. A shock of lightning had raced through his blood destroying every tissue and when there was nothing left he could feel no more. Every part that could feel was gone, all that was left was a conciousness with no physical entity, no contact with the outside world and no purpose. The universe had imploded on that night, but just for him, as he was removed from it.

What had happened to Jennifer? She was sitting next to him in the car on that night. Her long brown hair so beautiful, he turned his head to get a better look at her pure being and then the world fell away. His heart had fallen and a sense of pure dread had decended upon him. Her eyes were filled with fear and her fists had clenched as they drew up to cover her face. But they had never got there before he could see no more and darkness decended.

She wasn't near him, he could sense no presence, no warmth and no light. After the pain all was lost. Maybe it would return he pleaded with himself, but in the depths of the emptyness he knew it wouldn't.

In the eternity since the pain some senses had peaked up as if only to tease him. An intense bright light would overcome him, a sensation of a lost part would torment him. Truely there was nothing though. He tried to conjure sight but only dreamy visions would fog his mind. Was he even a man anymore, that was somthing he didn't know.

Where was David? He had been sitting in the back seat before, and before was both a life time and a second ago. Was David with Jennifer, was he in the dank place James was in now. Please don't say Jennifer was in the dank place outside the universe!

Would David look after Mum? What would she think when her son had gone?

All of the people he had known, where they gone too? They were gone from him, that much he knew, but they would not be gone from each other he hoped. Sadness overwhelmed him with thoughts of his loss, he had so much to say and to do and it was all gone. The sensations were gone from his life and the world was fading, those he loved were fading into the darkness.

Life was good for a time. This was the last thought that passed through his mind before he could think no more. The emptyness had completed itself and the suffering had ended with his life. Although he had died 12 hours ago his peace came now.

David

David stared at his brother. It saddened him to know that now he was truely gone. He looked around the dully lit ward and watched the doctor slowly approach. Head askew and eye brows furrowed he watched the bubbly surgeon glance at his brother and smile.

"He helped a lot of people" said the surgeon.

The words fell to silence that was descending upon Davids mind. His brother was gone and that was all he knew.

12 hours ago he had been told James had left the body which now lay on the bed with all the vital organs removed. He had given conscent for donation in reflex mode before it had sunk in. Brainstem death was hard news to take, but he got the picture now. At 23 years old James was gone and never comming back...