[ WP ] A man has cheated Death and achieved true immortality and gloats at Death about his victory only to realize after multiple aeons that immortality was a mistake and mortality is a long lost dream and now he treats Death as a former enemy he can not reconcile with .

The last one was gone. I walked along the barren wasteland I, at one brief moment, called home and stared helplessly as the radioactive wind blew fragile skeletons of what was once the human race to dust. I remember, many years ago, that this place was a place of learning, where children came to be taught; Science, History, Art. Of course I know all these things, I know everything, well... as much of it as I can anyway. It was amazing how the brain adapts, recodes itself to grow and learn when it's been alive for hundreds of thousands of years. 
 
 Hundreds of thousands of years, that's all we lasted. I tried to tell them, to warn them, to make them see. But I was locked up once for that, for seventy, eighty years, maybe more. As they died out or panicked, I escaped somehow. 
 
 Then there, stood on a hill of glass and fire, was a figure. A thin man, dressed in an ill-fitting suit, the sun reflecting a glint about his person. The sweltering sun, no longer held back by the atmosphere, burnt my skin as it always did and like that also did, healed instantly. I had n't seen him for thousands of years, but he had been busy today, taking the last. 
 
 As I got closer, the glint revealed itself to be a pocket watch, which in contrast to his moth-eaten suit, was in perfect condition. Not a scratch or a tarnish on it. The man looked at the watch, then looked back at me. `` It has n't stopped, it never stops for you. I thought today of all days, I'd see it stop but no, you're still the chosen one.'' he said in a matter of fact way. He smiled, which for the first time in all our meetings, I'd never seen him do in any way other than forced to appease the tears of someone being taken too soon. 
 
 I shouted across the wind, `` I wanted it to come today, I wanted you to win! Why could n't you win? What do I do now?'' All my frustrations just came out at once. I had planned this conversation to be a noble one, but I found it almost impossible to hold back my anger. `` WHY? Damn you.. WHAT DO I DO NOW?'' 
 
 As the man sat down on a rock, he looked into my eyes with the same sincerity he reserves for those others who have met him. `` You're immortal James. You beat me, remember?''. He glanced again at his watch and laughed, a situation which stopped me unexpectedly and left a knot in my stomach. He never laughs, I was only just reeling from the smile. 
 
 `` What is it, why are you laughing?'' I demanded to know. I wanted answers from him, I wanted to know why I beat him, why I was left like this. I need to know what happens next. I need to know what I do now! Do I wait here, for the end of the Universe, to float in Space until the end of time or until my mind goes? `` TELL ME!'' I screamed to the malevolent God. 
 
 He held up the watch. It had stopped. I had lost! The watch had stopped... it was over. It was time for me to end this madness finally. I dropped to my knees in an emotion I had n't felt for the longest time, relief. I began to crawl towards him, to thank him for taking his greatest prize. 
 
 He placed the watch back in his pocket. He knew from my face, I did not understand. `` No, it's my time James. Not yours.'' and he collapsed into a heap on the ground, his suit emptying like sand out of a bucket. I ran to where he lie, but there was nothing left. 
 
 Just dust, ashes and time. I took the watch and watched the second hand tick by. 
 
 I watched it for the rest of my life.
