[ WP ] You can give away a year of your life to someone else as a day of life . You can take the life of someone else and make it a year of your 's . You found true love and she only has a day left . You will do everything to save her but you hate killing .

I kissed her brow as her pain racked body finally fell into what I can only imagine as the sweet relief of sleep. For weeks I have watched her glow fade, her body wither and have not found a way to ready myself for tomorrow. I had promised her that I would n't leave her side, but something nagged at me to leave. 
 
 As I exited the hospital and approached my car, I noticed dark and ominous clouds looming overhead, promising a storm. Once in my car, I began driving with out a destination. Driving aimlessly to wherever I could find my peace. Finally, weary and hopeless, I pulled the vehicle to the side of an empty street. The only building there was massive and eerie through the fractions of light caused by the storm. As I donned my coat and gloves, I hoped for a way into the grey, foreboding giant. Somehow the back door was not fully latched and I slipped in to escape the downpour. 
 
 I stood there, staring at the cell doors and felt an unwarranted sense of guilt wash over me. She had made it very clear that she wanted no part in this, but I could not let such a gentle soul be lost to this world while these heathens kept breathing. 
 
 With out the keys, there was no way for me to approach any of the inmates. I walked on until I saw a hallway with lights still beaming. As I stepped into the infirmary, the guilt increased and my movement became more sluggish. 
 
 The first I approached was obviously brutally beaten for his ways. Two words had been carved into his arm; `` BABY RAPER''. Still wearing my gloves, I found the closest knife to me and hesitated. Could this man have been falsely accused? Were my actions just as disgusting? The need for one more day with her before the life faded from her eyes steeled my resolve; the knife caught his throat as a gloved hand stifled any possibility of a scream. Within moments he was gone. Somehow this made me think less about who/why was in the next bed. I continued until there was not one living being in the room save myself. 17 souls sent from this world to whatever fate they had accumulated for themselves. I knew I would join them soon enough. 
 
 As the dawn light broke, I was just reaching the hospital. The storm had broken and the sun was rising. The colors of the dawn had always lifted my spirits. Not today. It was as if the world was dead; as if I had taken its beauty. As I reached her bed, she looked at me and smiled. Some of her color had returned and she was sitting up on her own. When I attempted to return her smile, she immediately knew what I had done. She knew I had no more years to give her one more day, as that was how she had lasted for the past few weeks. 
 
 `` Oh, my love. How could you?'' As she spoke, her voice broke and tears formed in her perfect eyes. My own cheeks showed streaks of the streams that had flowed there for the past few hours. 
 
 `` I could n't stand having a tomorrow with out you. At least this way, our passing could be closer together.'' 
 
 With out looking at me, she asked me to grab her the water from the table behind me. As I turned, I heard a sudden twang. She had pulled the machine that was keeping her organs working from the wall. 
 
 As I hit my knees, I felt a surge of life. `` Oh god, no!'' She had given back the gift of days I had given her. Only this time, it felt so much different than before. 
 
 In my despair, I held her close for one more embrace, and opened my femoral artery. Only the wound healed instantly. There was no way I had missed it. I then attempted to leap from the high floors of the hospital, only to land with out pain. Now my suffering would truly begin. She was the 18th life I had caused to cease, and now I would spend 18 days powerless to end my plight. There was no way to give this time away, no way to end it. There was a turmoil on my soul that a river of love could not wash away. 
 
 So here I sit, on day 5, my sanity already gone. Nearly two weeks before I face those lives I stole from the infirmary again... 
 
 
 Edit: This was my first WP, hope you like it.
