The Reaper

...And there she stood at the side of the road, it was just pass sundown and the only light around was coming from the one lonely highway lamp, and the odd car driving by. She didn't want to be here, she would have rather been in China causing a little trouble with a title wave, but no she had to be here, tonight of all nights. Just then she saw a car in the distance coming right in her direction. She then checked her watch on her wrist, it was a strange watch, the face was all covered in black and instead of numbers there were names and both hands were pointing to the name "Nicole". She must have understood it, she smiled and then stuck out her thumb in hitchhiker fashion, in hopes the driver would see her.

The driver did in fact see the women standing at the side of the road with her thumb out, so the driver pulled over. Once the car came to a complete stop, she ran over to the passenger side window, and watched as it came down automatically. Sitting in the drivers seat was a young woman in her early 20's "Need a lift?" she asked the women "sure do" she said and climbed into the passenger side seat. As the young women pulled back on to the road she introduced herself. "My name's Nicole by the way" she said as she looked over to the other women, she was dressed in a black skirt, with a white dress top and a black jacket over top, her hair was red curly and long, and she seemed real pale. "Nice to meet you Nicole, I'm Jessica." She looked over at Nicole and smiled as she put her eyes back on the road. All she had on was a pair of jeans and a big sweater on with the words on the front NYPD, her blonde hair was neatly back in a bun. "You a cop?" Jessica asked her "oh...the sweater... no I’m not but my brother is, he gave it to me, I go to NYU and I’m studding to become a teacher" She smiled at the thought, she had always wanted to become a teacher.” So were you heading?" she forgot that she didn't ask the hitchhiker were she was going. "I'll show you when we get there, it’s not too far." "Oh ok" That seemed a little strange, but Nicole shook it off and decided to change the subject "So...Jessica, what do you do for a living?" Jessica thought about that, it wasn't what she did for a living it was what she did for an afterlife. "Well I guess you can say I’m kind of like a physiatrist, I help people deal with death" "Oh you mean like help people deal with the lost of a loved one?" Jessica looked at Nicole with a sympatric look "No it’s more Like I help the dead, and tonight it looks like I'll be helping you..."

Before Nicole could comprehend what she said, Jessica placed her hand on top of her's. This made her speed up. She was freaking out, she couldn't slow down, just then a transport truck was barreling down the other lane. Something made Nicole drive into the other lane and right into the path of that truck, but before they hit the truck, the car missed the truck by serving back into the other lane. "WHAT THE HELL" was all Nicole managed to say. She was about to pull over when she realized that she had lost control of the car. They were heading right for a lamp post. The car was still at high speed, and Nicole saw the lamp post and tried to cover her head in a feeble attempt to avoid being ejected, but it was too late...they had hit the lamp post.

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"Nicole...Nicole wake up" "mmmmm five more minutes" Said Nicole as she turned away from the voice...it was a male voice, a very nice male voice "...but hunny you have to get up, its time for work" said the male voice once more. Nicole slowly opened her eyes to see who the voice belonged to "BRAD PITT?" Her eyes opened widen as she saw Brad Pitt standing over her "What are you doing here in my bedroom?" she asked, but its not like she needed an answer, it had always been a dream of her's to have Brad Pitt in her bed room,...but wait it was only a dream "What are you talking about, your my wife" he gave her a kiss on the fore head. She looked around her room it was a nice one filled with lots of pictures of family and friends, and then she looked over at her night stand, and saw a photo of a women with a group of kids. She recognized the women in the photograph...it was her, and the little sign in front of the class indicated that it was her second grade class. Now she knew she was dreaming, she wasn't a teacher yet, or married to Brad Pitt. Just then she remembered the car crash, and Jessica...What the hell was going on. Nicole started freaking out, she hoped out of the bed, but the minute her feet touched the floor, there came a white light and she felt as if she was lifted of the ground. Nicole closed her eyes tightly, maybe she was going to wake up, but when she stopped moving she found that she wasn't sleeping. She opened her eyes and found her self back were she had crashed her car. The car had hit the lamp post head on, there wasn't much left to it, Nicole just stood there, she was looking at her wrecked car, and yet she wasn't in the car, she herd the sounds of sirens and saw that paramedics were coming to a halt close to her car, she also noticed a group of people stating to gather. She watched the paramedics go to work, first they had to use the Jaws of Life to pry open the driver's side door, and then she saw the most surreal and disturbing thing she had seen in her whole entire life, the paramedics pulled her body from the car.

Nicole just stood the as they pulled her lifeless body from the mangled wreck that was once her car. She couldn't believe it...she wouldn't believe it. She found herself walking over to were her body was, a group of paramedics were around it. Once she got there she thought she was going to be sick...it was her, well her body at least. She looked it over, what a mess she wasn't a doctor but she was sure by looking at it that she had broken every bone in her face, if you could call it a face it was all cut up and bloody. Nicole touched the side of her face, nothing. The she looked at the rest of her body, due to the fact she had on baggy clothes she could tell what else what’s broken and what was bloody. "She’s a goner, there’s no way she could have survived this" Nicole over herd one of the paramedics say "Does she have any I.D on her?" One said to the other one, one of them shrugged and searched the corpse’s pocket, and Nicole did the something to her own pocket while standing there. She found her black wallet, she opened it and in side there was plenty of I.D"...Names Nicole Brown, aw man she was young only 22" Nicole looked back down they found her I.D as well "...she’s an NYU Student...shame" said the paramedic as he bowed his head. Nicole started to feel tears swell up in her eyes, she was dead...she screamed out loud, but no one took noticed, the tears spilled over and down her cheek, as she just stood there looking at her body. "Wait what about Jessica?" she thought to herself, after all this was her fault.

Nicole ran to the other side of the wreck, she was shocked what she found, nothing...no one was there, no body...nothing at all. Now she was confused, did Jessica bail out before they hit the lamp post? "What the fuck?" was all she managed to say while looking for her body or any sign of her. "...Strange isn't it?" That was Jessica's voice, Nicole stood up straight, and her voice was coming from the other side of the car. Nicole slowly walked to the other side only to see Jessica standing over her dead body, the paramedics left to get a body bag. "YOU, YOU DID THIS TO ME!" Screamed Nicole as she pointed to the body "yes I did" Jessica simply answered. "Wait a minute... if I’m dead and no one can see me how can you see me?" Nicole started to get that confused feeling again. "Because...I am the Reaper, Death if you will, and when its peoples time to die, like it was you time tonight" she explained much to Nicole's sickening look "I show myself before people die and then I help them deal with it, much like I'm going to help you here, and now" Nicole was lost for word, she couldn't believe that she was dead. "So I am Dead" she finally said, Jessica looked over at her "yep...Welcome to the After Life Sweetheart"