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Sam drove quietly along the road towards the highway.  I just stared at his face.  I couldn’t believe what he had confessed.  Everything was finally starting to make sense, but Sam just confused things again.   “What do you mean you don’t know how to save me?” I asked, feeling all together exhausted about the whole matter.  I had left Sarah behind again.  We were running away again.  Why were we running away?  Sam didn’t even know how to save me!  He was quiet as it began to rain outside.  “Sam, answer me right now,” I demanded.  Sam let out a sigh of despair.  “I don’t know how I’m supposed to save you.  Doc never explained that part…” he began.  I rolled my eyes.  “Oh, so Doc knows everything, but he doesn’t bother to tell you how to do the one thing you need to do; you can’t save me!” I said frantically.  It was horrible.  Here I thought I was going to live to see my grandchildren…

Sam seemed frustrated with me.  “I’m sorry, Kat.  I thought I could figure it out on my own…” he admitted.  Well, you obviously aren’t the best detective, huh?  I couldn’t speak anymore.  I had lost all hope.  I felt dead inside; I was giving up.  “What’s the point?” I mumbled to myself.  Sam heard my despair.  “What?” he asked.  I shook my head.  “What’s the point, Sam?  If I’m going to die, we might as well just let Levi kill me,” I stated simply.  Sam turned to me with such a look of disapproval.  “Don’t you DARE say that, Kat. Why are you giving up so easily?  There is no way I would let anything happen to you; I won’t let you die…” he warned.  I wanted to believe that was true, but I just couldn’t believe it anymore.  It was over; time to roll the credits…  It just wasn’t meant to be a happy ending…  At that moment, the car’s engine began to die.  Perfect…  I guess this is how my story ends…  Sam pulled over to the shoulder.  “Let me see what’s wrong,” he exclaimed.  I shrugged my shoulders.  “It doesn’t really matter… Levi will find us anyways…” I replied.  Sam rolled his eyes and got out of the car.  The rain began to pour harder.  Sam popped the hood and tried to see what was causing the car to die. 

I watched as the rain poured down on the window.  I wish it could just wash me away…  There really was no use in fighting this anymore.  There was no way to escape death; it was inevitable.  Why fight something that is unstoppable?  Why would running solve things?  It didn’t; and now I just wanted to end it…  I got out of the car into the pouring rain, not even bothering to put my hood over my head.  We hadn’t gotten too far from Ruckshire; I could walk back in 20 minutes…  Sam heard the car door slam and looked around the hood of the car to see me walking towards the town.  “What are you doing, Kat?” he asked, following after me.  He grabbed my arm, the good one, and stopped me.  “What are you doing?” he asked again.  He pulled my hood over my head.  “It’s raining,” he explained.  Why do you have to care so much?  I pulled my arm away and ripped my hood off my head.  “I want the rain to drench me!” I yelled, moving back towards the road.

Sam just continued to follow after me.  “Where are you going?” he asked.  I just wanted him to leave me alone; I wished he didn’t exist.  Things would just be so much easier…  Love is far too complicated.  My heart just can’t take it anymore…  “I am going back,” I said coldly.  Sam looked at me like I was crazy; I was.  “Kat, why are you acting like this?  You’re scaring me,” he said quietly.  I stopped and turned back to him as the rain continued to pound down onto my head, drenching my clothes and my hair.  “You’re scared?  I’M scared, Sam!!  I can’t take this anymore!  I just want it to be over!!   YOU can’t save me!  Face it!!  It’s over!  I, I just… I can’t do this, Sam!  I just can’t!!” I yelled, falling to the ground as my whole body cried.  I was done; it was over… No more…  I cried as the rain washed over me.  It was quiet for a minute; all I could here was the occasional car pass by.  Then I felt Sam’s hands on both sides of my shoulders.  He knelt down beside me and tried to look at my face.  I kept my head down; I couldn’t bear to look at him.  It just hurt too much.

“Kat, look at me,” he demanded.  I forced my head to stay down.  “Look at me,” he repeated.  I slowly lifted my head and struggled to see Sam’s face through the rain and my tears.  His eyes were piercing through me.  I couldn’t take it.  I just continued to cry.  Sam pulled me into his arms and I sobbed into his chest as the rain beat down on both of us.  Suddenly, I didn’t care if I was going to die, as long as Sam was holding me.  I didn’t want him to let me go.  In his arms was the only place I actually felt safe.  I clung to the back of his shirt as he began to kiss my forehead.  I turned up to his face.  I just wanted to kiss those lips; I wanted to be lost…  I wanted to be far away from here.  “Kiss me,” I whispered.  Sam bent his head down and pressed his lips lightly against mine.  I closed my eyes to the world around me, pressing up against Sam’s chest.  He grabbed me around my waist and lifted me up off the ground, still kissing me.  It felt so good… this was the kiss that made everything else seem so insignificant.  I was just so lost in Sam’s kisses. 

“That’s enough,” I heard off in the distance as we continued to kiss.  Sam suddenly pulled his lips away from mine and looked behind me to see who had interrupted our display.  I turned around as well, feeling curious.  Of course, who else would it be…?  “Levi,” Sam breathed.  “All right, quite frankly, I am getting damn sick of this,” I replied, feeling annoyed by the whole thing.  For some odd reason, I was less afraid than I thought I was.  It was as if Sam’s kiss had boosted my energy and given me some confidence.  Levi looked at me confused.  “But I am having ever so much fun,” he countered.  I turned to face him.  “You want to kill me?  Go ahead,” I stated simply.  Sam looked at me with that look of disapproval again.  Levi showed his signature smile.  “With pleasure,” he replied.  I held up my hand.  “But, before I die, tell me how Sam could have saved me,” I demanded.  Levi looked at me like I was stupid.  Why would he answer that?

I don’t know why, but I just had to ask that question.  I knew that Levi knew exactly how Sam could save me.  I had to try something…  It was my last resort.  “Come on, Levi…  I’m going to die; torture me a little,” I coaxed.  Levi thought for a moment, deciding to answer my question.  “Ironically, Sam would have to kill me.  I’m sure he explained that I’m not really like the rest of you… if you catch my drift…” he began.  I looked over to Sam.  I DID remember him telling me Levi wasn’t like the rest of us…  I nodded slowly.  “Honey, I’m your ‘reaper’ so to speak,” he explained.  I looked at him blankly.  Huh?  My reaper?  So where’s the black hood and machete?  Levi could see my skepticism.  “It’s true.  I’m supposed to make sure you stay dead when you’re supposed to be, well, dead.  Everyone is assigned to a human being; I was assigned to you.  Our jobs are to kill our humans if they have a ‘second chance’ at life…  You’re just not meant to live when you’re supposed to die… We make sure everything stays on course…” he explained.

This was a lot of information to take in.  I couldn’t believe it.  All this time I was waiting for the Grim Reaper to come and take me, and all this time I was running away from him.  “So that’s why Sam has to kill you.  You’re standing in his way of the future.  If you’re dead…” I began as Sam finished for me.  “… Then there would be no grim reaper to kill her…”   Levi nodded.  “So I would live forever?” I asked, feeling confused.  Levi shook his head, annoyed with my “stupidity” in the subject.  “No; I’m not the head grim reaper, so to speak…  I’m assigned to you for this particular task; there are others…” he explained.  It was all beginning to sound like some stupid fiction movie to me.  Grim Reapers in charge of killing people who aren’t supposed to be alive?  I rolled my eyes.  It was all too difficult.  “But, we all know Sam can’t kill me…  It’s too late.  Let’s just finish this.  I’m ready for some vacation time,” Levi replied.  Okay, so NOW I was afraid.  We finally knew how I could be saved, and I was going to die.  We were so close!  I wish I would have killed Levi when I had the chance…  I leaned closer to Sam as we backed into the Dodge.  Levi inched closer to us.  I could feel Sam tense up as he put one hand in his pocket, and the other firmly around me.

“Just let us go; have some compassion on us…  Otherwise, I would back off if I were you,” Sam warned.  Levi laughed his evil laugh.  It sent chills up my spine; granted, the rain was freezing, but I knew that those chills weren’t from the rain.  God, please, don’t let me die…  I want to live… I whispered to myself.  Levi came closer, holding his gun forward, close to my chest.  I began to breathe heavily as my heart pounded like I was having a heart attack.  As Levi placed the gun to my chest, I braced for the worst.  I could feel the gun barrel jabbing into my rib cage…  I closed my eyes and began saying goodbye.  It was over; I was going to die….  The time had finally come; I couldn’t outrun death forever.  But the thing is, Levi just froze in place.  I heard a gasp escape his lips; a sound of pain…  I opened my eyes and stared into his demon eyes.  They were opened wide, as if he were in pain.  I looked down to see that I wasn’t bleeding; he hadn’t shot me…  That’s when I saw Sam’s arm.  The hand that had been in his pocket was now out, holding a Swiss Army knife, and it was protruding out of Levi’s chest.

My eyes widened in horror as Levi began to fall to the ground.  Sam let go of me and grabbed Levi’s collar.  The rain pounded harder as he stared my killer right in the eye.  “It’s over, Levi.  I win…” he whispered into Levi’s ear.  At that, he let go of Levi as he fell to the ground.  This time, he really was dead.  Suddenly, he began to disintegrate into the air.  It was nothing I had ever seen before.  He just vanished, as if he never came in the first place.  I turned to Sam who was still holding the knife in his hand.  He was shaking.  I ran to him and grabbed his hand.  “You saved me, Sam,” I whispered.  He looked at me and smiled wearily.  He dropped the knife and pulled me close.  “I did it; you’re safe.  No more…” he whispered back.  I began to breathe easier as the rain suddenly died down.  “Let’s go,” I replied softly.  Sam nodded and grabbed my hand.  We began to walk towards Ruckshire.   As we neared Zelda’s diner, Sam stopped.

He let go of my hand.  I turned back to him in confusion.  “It’s time for me to go, Kat,” he said.  No!  You can’t leave me now!  “What? But why?” I asked, feeling like I was going to panic again.  Sam smiled.  “Kat, I did what I came here to do.  Now I have to go back to the future.  Hopefully everything turned out right…” he explained.  I knew he had to go back eventually, I just didn’t think he had to go back at that moment…  I wanted him to stay forever.  I ran to him and wrapped my arms around him.  “But I love you…” I whispered.  Sam laughed as he put his arms around me.  “I know; just be patient.  You’ll meet me again, soon…” he soothed.  I nodded as the tears slowly slid down my cheek.  He pulled me back and wiped my tears away with his finger.  “I know I’ll see you again, but it will be different.  You won’t know who I am…” I exclaimed.  Sam nodded in agreement.

“You’ll just have to win me over,” he stated.  I rolled my eyes.  A smile crept into my lips.  “Now you won’t know anything…  I will…” I said with a smile.  Sam laughed at my happiness.  “That’s true.  Now you can torture me, if you want.  I’m sure I won’t mind.”  He pulled me close.  “And don’t worry; I’ll notice you,” he whispered.  I breathed his scent one last time.  It felt so good; I just had to drink it all in.  That was when he pulled back.  He reached into his pocket and pulled out the cell phone.

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