That night I couldn't sleep. I was haunted by my memories and my guilt. I had killed my brother. I had no family left at all because I couldn't keep my fucking emotions in check. Maybe with a little luck, the judge would understand where I grew up and maybe I'd be let off easy. Maybe they'd sentence me to lethal injection. Or even dare to hang me from the gallows where an audience is able to see.

When I finally did drift off to sleep I had nightmares as always.

Tonight it was just me and the girl. She'd changed again, now she was wearing a black 20th century dress with a black hooded cape. Her mess of now white hair stuck out from her hood in all directions framing her pale face. Her eyes were black all seeing pits sunk into her face. She was terrifyingly beautiful. The most terrifying detail wasn't her hair or clothes or the claws she had wrapped around a stick or even the war paint that made her look like a skeleton. No the stick wasn't just a stick, it was a scythe , razor sharp to a deadly curved point. The end of the scythe was an hour glass and it had almost run out of time.

"One down, Gerard." Her ice cold voice sounded like it was made of the best things you could think off. "One to go."

"Who are you!" I screamed at her.

She smiled a wicked grin to reveal her teeth were as sharp and pointed as the blade on her scythe. "I am what you humans call death."

"Wha- What? No! Death is a skeleton not a- a girl?" I screamed.

"Maybe to some. I am what your innermost thoughts want me to be, of course I put on my own twist. You're lonely Gerard. When I'm done you wish that's all you were." She pointed to the hour glass on the base of her scythe. "I suppose I should answer one question now. Ask away."

"I wanna- wanna know why. Why you're doing this to me."

"That's all? Hm, shame. I suppose because you took a life that was not ready to leave. Clever to save your precious, what did you call him? Your boy in blue? It distracted me from my real task, to take your boy in blue away."

"But you said, in my dream, you said I killed them both."

"Enough questions time to get to my real purpose. You have very limited time on this planet, we all know that, but I'm here to tell you that you've handled it all wrong."

"What do you mean?"

But it was to late, she faded and I was left in my cell screaming bloody murder.