Chapter 14: The Revelation

No, not nothing. Something. Josephine's image was a little blurry, but she could make out that she was in a small room with a bed in it. There appeared to be a person lying on the bed and someone sitting next to it. Then the diaphanous became transparent, and that's when she realized the person in the chair was him. Calvin. Seeing him made her feel lighter than air, a balloon floating skyward. She was too groggy to speak, but she noticed that Calvin was crying. He had his chair pulled close to the bed and was holding the hand of the person in it. He was singing, his voice choked with tears.

In the air she goes. There she goes.

She glanced at the person in the bed who was evidently causing him so much grief, and with unutterable astonishment, Josephine realized that the person lying in the bed was her. Her memory came flooding back with shocking swiftness. She remembered everything now. She had been driving, and she was sleepy, very sleepy. She had fallen asleep, swerved off the road and crashed into a nearby tree. The rest was a blur. The ambulance. The paramedics. The hospital. She recalled hearing the words "internal bleeding" and "doesn't have long". The sickening reality of it all hit with the force of a pounding wave as she realized she was dying. Her time spent on the Titanic had been nothing but the last thoughts of a dying girl. That's why it had all seemed so familiar to her. She had placed herself in her favorite movie, using the characters to represent the people she cared about in her waking life. Jack was Brooke, and Cal was Calvin.

Up, up, a little bit higher.

Josephine wanted to cry but found she couldn't. 'Perhaps the dying are incapable of tears,' she pondered despondently.

Oh my! The moon is on fire.

She moved to Calvin to try to comfort him. "Calvin," she whispered. "Calvin, I'm here.

Come Josephine, in my flying machine.

He didn't hear her. She wrapped her arms around him, and he stopped singing and looked up. He had felt her. She knew he had. She held him even tighter. "It's me. I'm here." She could only hope that her touch made her words more discernable. Calvin, you've got to promise me you'll move on. Moving on doesn't mean forgetting. You've just got to live your life without me. I won't ever really be gone." She looked him in the eyes and gently wiped his tears. "I'll always be just a memory away." She kissed him with all the love her heart possessed, and somehow, she knew that he had heard.

She released him, and Calvin looked around the room, searching for a presence that couldn't be seen. "Josephine," he whispered.

Then, she felt herself floating up. Up past the ceiling, past the hospital, past the sky, past everything. She felt free like she had unknowingly been imprisoned her whole life and was finally released from her cell. She didn't want to leave behind the world, and yet, at the same time she wasn't afraid

Going up, all on, "goodbye".

And in that last moment she found that although she wasn't able to stay, she wasn't unwilling to leave.

The End.

** Well, it's finally done! I feel kind of sad now that I've finished it, but hope you enjoyed it. Also, just to let you know this fan fic was inspired by the movie "Stay". It's a really good film and you should definitely watch it, although by reading this I've kinda ruined the ending for you! Lol. I plan on writing more fan fictions so please check out anything else that I write. I would greatly appreciate it.

And I would also greatly appreciate REVIEWS! Please review. It's the final chapter so give tons of reviews for me to be happy with! Thanks for reading.