If Tomorrow Never Comes

I had a dream last night.

Everything was really white and beautiful and I heard a voice. "Remember?" it asked me.

So I'm trying. Trying to remember. Sometimes I think I can't. Sometimes I think I've forgotten everything. But I haven't. I still remember his voice, his eyes.

Ron says that writing things down will help me.

Okay. I remember... The news. I remember when they told us about the Virus. I remember how silently it came, like... like the angel of death. With black wings. And then it was quiet.

I remember fire. From the ground. Explosions, everywhere. And I remember when he left. And I looked up at Ron and said, "Where's he going?" But Ron looked down, like he always does when he doesn't want to say.

But now, I remember running. Running for days on end. I don't want to remember running, I don't want to remember hiding. I don't want to remember how it felt when I knew he wasn't coming back.

But I remembered that morning, the sky a bloody red, when he looked at me. I remember how his hands felt on my shoulders. I remember when he said, "Don't forget, Ginny, promise you won't forget."

I don't want to remember, but I don't want to forget.

For him.

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SHADE 40412394 - SHRN

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Is this bloody camera on yet? Oh, finally.

Alright then, where do I start?

Name: Granger, Hermione. Code: 40412394

REGISTERING NAME
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GRANGER, HERMIONE
TOP RANK
AGE: 25

(Looks at information on the screen) Yeah, that looks about right.

Okay, a little about my past now. Um, I really have any parents. Tetris is my parent. He told me he had found me a long time ago, and my parents must've died. It doesn't bother me much, I mean, I never knew them.

How do I feel about being a Shade? Well, I don't especially like to hurt others but when the going gets tough, the tough get going.

How do I feel about a future mankind? (Pauses. Thinks for a while.) Well, I don't think there'll be a future, the way things are going now. So forget about a mankind. I do this to survive. I do this because I get free room, board and education.

But another future? Maybe. Not for me, of course, but maybe for Tetris, or another Shade. I think they'd like to wake up to another kind of morning.

A better morning.