The Reckoning

From an episode of Medium.

It's you and me
and all of the people
with nothing to do
nothing to lose
and it's you and me
and all of the people
and I don't know why
I can't keep my eyes off of you - You and Me, Life House

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Nadine: You're not going to find her here. Melanie's fine, she's safe. She's where she's supposed to be. Finally.

Allison: How about you?

Nadine: Me? I'm still adjusting, getting...used to the idea. Trying to accept what he did. *sigh* You know, it took me almost 27 minutes to die. He sat beside me holding my hand for 27 minutes while I tried to hang on. Listening for the sirens that never came. But I guess I had it coming. I should have come forward, to the police, and told them what we'd done. That's all Melanie wanted. She never meant to hurt me. That day that you and I met in the restaurant? She arranged that, you know. And the business with your headlight [going out]? She was giving me a chance to confess. A chance to live. And I didn't take it. *sigh* And now Melanie's parents will never know who took their child from them.

Allison: What happens to your husband?

Nadine: He had a chance too. Today, with you, in the room. He had a chance and he didn't take it. *sigh* So now I guess it is up to me.

Allison: I don't understand. What are you going to do?? Obviously he is not afraid of ghosts.

Nadine: He's not afraid of flickering lights, or music. But, if someone, or something, was to blow out the pilot light in the old stove in our kitchen, and James were to have a cold, not smell the gas, let it fill the room, and James were to light a cigarette? *sirens in the background* I wonder what those sirens are about. *pause* You smell something?