For Now, Forever

He remembered more than the accident now. 
He remembered Anna leaning over him, talking, reassuring him as he was being wheeled on a gurney down the hospital corridor. 
He remembered the fear he'd read in her eyes, 
and before he slipped into unconsciousness, his one moment of blind, naked terror 
that he was being taken away from her. 

Oddly, he thought he remembered looking down at himself from somewhere
 while doctors and nurses scrambled around. 

Then it seemed he'd been sucked back into his body, 
but the sensation was too vague to pinpoint. 

For Now, Forever

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By Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0, 

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WHAT DOES DYING FEELS LIKE?

They found that even five minutes after a person's heart stops beating their brain cells, or neurons, may still function.

But a wave of 'spreading depression' marked the moment that these neurons shutdown before their final, irreversible death.

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Stressed out? Try smelling

Her legs were a little shaky as she rose to walk to it. 

Her fingers seemed a bit numb as she slipped the lid from a bottle of cologne. 

Then she smelled him—brash, vivid and very male. Her world seemed to steady. 

When she replaced the lid, her hands were firm and competent again. 

For Now, Forever

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By John William Waterhouse - The Athenaeum: Home - info - pic, 

Public Domain,

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Many people wear their partner's shirt or sleep on their partner's side of the bed when their partner is away, but may not realize why they engage in these behaviours," 

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"Just let me tell you everything I should have told you. 

Like the way the smell of you haunts me. 

I breathe you for hours, even when you're not there,

like you're inside me."

Waiting for Nick

"When We Were Young"

"Once I told you I'd thought of you looking around and seeing someone who appealed to you more. I wasn't joking." She gave him a little shake. "You should have been." 

Didn't she realize how lovely she was, how regal? 

Didn't she know how clumsy she could make a man feel with just a smile?

For Now, Forever

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Everybody loves the things you do
From the way you talk
To the way you move...
Everybody here is watching you
'Cause you feel like home
You're like a dream come true

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He took her hand in his. "Last night I dreamed. I dreamed of you. It started on the night we met, that first waltz."

 

"The summer ball," she murmured. She had only to smile to see the moonlight, smell the flowers. Odd, it had been in her dreams as well. "It was a beautiful night."

"You were beautiful," he corrected. "And I wanted you more than I'd ever wanted anything in my life."

"You were arrogant," she remembered, smiling. "And desperately attractive." 

Leaning over, she kissed him softly, lingeringly. The same passion that they'd felt in the beginning hovered over them. "You still are, Daniel."

"I'm old, Anna."

"We're both old."

He pressed her hand to his lips. The ring he'd given her so many years before was cool against his skin. 

"And I still want you more than I've ever wanted anything in my life."

For now, Forever