Detective Shawn Black | Enter Cornelius the Vampire

Public Vampire Attack Caught on Camera

I thought I knew what a vampire was. We all did. When the stories came from a hundred sources, about a guy that went light speed and took out a guy, almost in the middle of the town square, with fires all around, the department couldn't deny, once and for all, that vampires exist.

When weird fed guys showed up, the captain, was on our tails to contain this, and be one step ahead of the feds, who never introduced themselves, nor even claimed to be over this. We were ignored completely.

The sarge, commanded everyone to divide up the witnesses and take all of their statements, no matter if it repeats. This was THE MOST IMPORTANT event in human history. It was confirmation that the supernatural actually existed.

Luckily, I had vacation in the middle of all of this. So, that Friday, I was gone, with the wife and the rascal.

When  got back, a week and a half later, no interviews, no commotion, no chickens running around with their heads cut off. That night, I got home and told the old battle axe, and she said, immediately, they've been mind wiped.

But by whom?

I kept a whole movable file case, at home, filled with interviews, pictures, video footage or the incident. When i got to the office the next morning, I opened my desk and found nothing there, that wasn't there before the incident.

I went to the Sarge's office. "Is there anything special you want me to do today?" I said, leaning into his doorway.

He had a bland look on his face, "hold it while I pee? Is that special enough for you, cupcake? Get out of here." He was Black, so I imagined... well, let's not go there. He probably needs the assist. "I heard about you people," I said as I left. "YOU'RE GROSS, TINKERBELL," he yelled after me.

"You told him what?" my partner was laughing his head off. "Team lightskin having problems downstairs?" He continued.

"No, we're just not related to horses," I gave him a dirty look.

Not a single person in the department was doing anything about the vampire project.

"Meet me at lunch," the note said. I had no idea, who it was from.

It was the friggin computer guy, OF COURSE! He sat in an off site bunker like thing, and ran all of our computer stuff. So, whatever happened, he wasn't affected, like me. He noticed, I tried to login into the now deleted vampire project, operation vampire. Really imaginative. He said, no one came in and waived a magic wand, they just literally, one second, stopped the interviews and even the people, got up and walked out.

Or, at least he couldn't see ON CAMERA! He was on to something. Camera's rely on mirrors, vampires don't show up in mirrors, so vampire appear invisible on cameras. BUT digital doesn't do that. Also, in the presence of a vampire, you are made to see them as invisible too. So, we were going to "upgrade" the internal security system. If anyone got specific, we were increasing the aperture, to let in more light.

The next day, we were hard at work. A couple of the other cops made jokes about me being the janitor, but for the most part nothing. One cop, though, asked about 20 questions. I let the nerd handle him. He kept saying, we'll be able to read badge numbers and reports, right on the camera now, to see if something being investigated, triggers someone to come in shooting. He said, it helped cops in Seattle, get a suspect, who came in guns blasting, took them by surprise, and fled the scene. Afte ir they ran their high def footage back, boom, they figured out, it was the brother of someone in custody.

With the digital cameras up, we duplicated them, with regular cameras, that no one noticed. In the housing, the camera just panned left and right, but on his computer screen, he had 2 pictures. BOOM, someone was sitting at a desk, no one went near. It was like he had some barrier.

I went to the office, and attempted to absentmindedly sit on the desk. NO GO! Every time I thought about it, it left my mind and I'd end up doing something different.

The computer guy called me back to his installation. I had forgotten even what I was doing. He wrote everything down, I said came to mind, going towards the desk. Even looking at the regular camera, made us look away a little. So he wasn't invisible, he was having a mind control effect on us.

The computer guy ran the footage of the guy running across the square, which we couldn't see from the CCTV cameras, and then boom, there he was, plain as day.

I headed back to the office, to leave the computer guy with the new digital footage, while I was to simply do my job and ignore the person no one could see. It was easy to do, since they had some sort of brain washing thing up. Hopefully the computer guy could run some facial recognition, to figure out who it is.

It was almost quitting time, the next day, when the computer guy called. He sounded excited. First he had calculated that the vampire, in the footage, was running, just under the sound barrier. Had he gone just a little faster, He'd have knocked over everyone in the square, busted windows, and moved cars, out the way. He said, he thought the vampire had slowed himself down on purpose, because who knows what breaking the sound barrier does on the human body.

When I pointed out that this was a vampire body, and probably far tougher than regular humans, he said, "Oh yeah."

Then he turned to the figure inside the police department, no one could see. He's not a policeman, not fbi, not cia, not irs. In fact, he as fairly certain he wasn't american. He cleaned up the digital image, and I gasped. He looked like some ancient egyptian statue. He was black. His skin was some sort of porcelain or something.

The computer guy said, he would need better equipment, but he thought that his skin was causing light rays to bounce around him, to appear invisible, just by existing. But, also, he had some sort of mental power, on top of that, that caused people to ignore him.

The computer guy suggested, we hire some people and outfit them, with backpacks, with these dual cameras, regular and digital, and have them walk around the town square for a week, to see if we can pickup any more of these vampires.

He spent about a week, making machine learning, that could scan the footage at high speed, to compare who wasn't there in the regular camera footage, with who was there, in the digital camera footage.

The next month, we were done with our test, and didn't even tell our guinea pigs, what they had been doing. We just strapped backpacks on them, paid them for a week to walk around, and got the footage, plugged it into the computer and....

We weren't prepared for what we found. There was the vampire. But this time, he was invisible. Guess he learned a new trick.

But that wasn't the shocker. We saw another vampire, we assumed. And as the first vampire was running around, invisible, the second vampire, unbeknownst to the first, disappeared from view, and teleported, it seemed, right in front of the first, and stuck his hand in his chest, and the first on exploded. Clearly the second vampire was more powerful than the first.

It rocked our socks off. Where we thought we could take on the first vampire, with some tech gear, there was no way we could take on the second.

It was a major setback for us.

We then looked at the vampire sitting inside the police department, and compared him to the second one. The computer guy spent a day comparing the two vampires.

When he called me, two days later, I wasn't prepared for what he was about to say.

1. the one in the police department, was clearly more powerful than the second vampire, so that makes him, vampire 3.
2. because he observed his behavior for a whole month, and all he did was sit there, doing absolutely nothing, he was someone else's minion
3. which brings us to the conclusion that there's a 4th vampire, more powerful than him.

My head was spinning. We couldn't handle vampire 2, at all. Now there was a 4th vampire, running around here somewhere, that put 2 and 3 to shame?

Computer guy assumed that vampire 1 had broken some code, by revealing himself to everyone. Then, although he got more powerful, assuming he had eaten enough humans, it was too little too late. Vampire two had, probably mindwiped the entire population, and the police, and took him out.

Computer guy assumed vampire 3 was just observing the police, to monitor the population, since the police get the people that tell all the weird stories and sort of act as a central place where humans go to, in case something goes wrong. Not a bad strategy if you think about it.

Where do vampire comes from?

Computer guy, packaged everything up, made a nice report and shipped it off to the New York times, then the FBI, then the CIA. However, he left no contact information. And we maintained radio silence for the next 6 months.

That's about when the men in black showed up again.

I got a message from computer guy to come see him. When I arrived, I knew something as very wrong.

"They're all gone," he started. Then he swiveled around and showed dead screens covering the wall. These were the feeds to the police department where we had the regular cameras and digital cameras.

"They removed all the cameras, from the department. And, what's worse, is that no one saw them do it. I arrived here this morning to this. I checked this end for hours, thinking it had short circuited or something. But there's nothing. It makes no damn sense though. Every department has internal security cameras," he ws frazzled.

We got the FBI on the line and asked to speak to their version of agent Molder. After they laughed for about an hour, they finally put us in contact, with some guy, spookier than the men in black. He request to come over.

A couple of days later, this giant 6'5 guy comes through the door. He's in love with the computer guy, immediately. You can tell, because he almost smiled, or thought about it.

After about 2 hours of questioning us, he suggested, not only we put back up the cameras, but that the FBI do all the work, and make a feed come through here to a field office, in the nearest city.

When it was all said and done, we had super digital cameras, and amazing regular cameras too. Isn't it great, when you have an bottomless taxpayer budget? The computer guy was fit to be tied for weeks. I spent hours each day sitting with him, tripping balls over the feed.

As to the men in black, the FBI didn't know how to contact them, but since the cameras would have the FBI fingerprint all over them, he assumed they wouldn't mess with them, without a nasty internal federal agency squabble and they'd FINALLY have to reveal which agency they worked for. No one knew. Not the department of defence, nor homeland security.

The weird FBI agent, that scared regular humans said those guys gave him the creeps. Imagine that. He said, he thought, maybe, they weren't as human, as we thought they were.

Once the FBI cameras were up, we noticed they didn't come into the police department, but we knew they were still in town. The FBI agent recommended we do NOT try to contact them though. We were to treat them, as if they were all SCP specimens.

As to computer guy's theory that there's a hierarchy of vampires, the FBI agent was impressed with that. We hatched a plan to make this vampire inside the department move.

20 agents came into the little computer guy's office. 30 were on the ground, unbeknownst to the police department. The FBI who installed the cameras, had also installed something into the fire suppressant lines. Upon a remote, a gas flooded the entire building, and the police were told to evacuate.

The 30 agents on the ground got the police well away from the building quietly, informing them, it was an internal federal operation. After retreating a mile away, we all observed, at the remote computer base.

He didn't move.

Even Cowboys Cry (find this song for me please)

Even Cowboys Cry (find this song for me please)

Here I go again,
fallin fallin down
Everyone knows the end
the winner will be crowned
my vertigo ascends
high above the crowd
a rodeo will end
when a cowboy hits the ground

this is not my first
rodeo
and it wont be the last time I
ride those horses home
we are, we are, we are
Just stardust getting by
Ride on ride on ride on
Even Cowboys Cry

And if I walked to you
Would you know my name?
That's not the card I drew
But I played it all the same
You threw a rope at me
A noose around my heart
If you keep on pulling me
You're pulling me apart

This is not my first
rodeo
And it wont be the last time I
Ride those horses home
we are, we are, we are
Just stardust getting by
Ride on, ride on, ride on
Even cowboys cry

Last call before the night is over
Our only crime was getting closer
Strange planet rises on
the summer breeze
we can dance all night but
save the last dance for gravity

this is not my first
rodeo
and it won't be the last time I
ride those horses home
we are we are we are
Just stardust getting by
ride on ride on ride on
even cowboys cry

I flew too high with you
and I could hardly breathe
I'd touch the sky for you
you melted off my wings
last chance gravity
to put me in my place
chose

Here I go again
Trying to stay alive
Fear of dying is the...
same as fearing life.
I will try again
knowing I can fall
risking nothing, well that
ain't living at all

this not my first
rodeo
and it wont be the last time I
ride those horses home
We are we are we are (we are we are)
Just stardust getting by
Ride on Ride on Ride on
Even Cowboys Cry

From Bad Credit to Perfect Credit (VIDEO)

From Bad Credit to Perfect Credit (VIDEO)

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Listen to any Black comedian and  they'll joke that Black people have bad credit an white people have good credit, to the point that they have to trick family members to cosign to get their lights turned on.

While the jokes are funny, it highlights a real world thing, as comedy usually does. Poor people have a poor understanding of credit. Boom, ok, lesson is over. I'M JOKING. But, it's no joke, poor people have a poor understanding of credit.

In fact, what's really laughable, is how simple credit actually is, and to top it all off, how much it affects you.

Financial advisors will tell you, how perfect you have to be, to get a perfect credit score, but i'm here to tell you, with almost no income, you can have a perfect score. It's just a game, so let's play.

I'm about to tell you something none of the financial advisors will tell you. New creditors, don't care about old creditors. And, they forgive and forget. And, they're quick to do it.

What do creditors care about.

- you pay credit

- you pay on time

- you've paid debt for a long time

That's it.

Can you build credit with a bankruptcy or thousands in debt, bad credit? Yes. How? Make it look like you're a different person. Play the game and new creditors will literally assume, the old you, was just going through hard times.

In fact, they share info so much, they'll start offering you credit, if you switch up your credit habits.

How is the question, right?

Fake it.

What do i mean by fake it? Build credit, small scale, and they'll read into it, like you've done something big. The credit unions will report how wonderful you are with $20.

Let's start from the beginning.

No matter where you are financially right now, start small and build.

Get a secured credit card. You fork over $50 - $200 and they give you a credit card... not debit card, with a limit of how much you gave them. Here's what you do, put your cell phone bill on that credit card, on automatic pay. Something small, that you KNOW you will pay, every month. Then every month, on or before the due date, pay off that credit card.

I had a t-mobile phone, and my bill was $50 monthly. 6 months later, i got my deposit back on the secured card. 6 months after that, i got my credit limit raised. a year after that, it was raised again, to $1,000.

That's not that big of a deal, $1,000, but it made my credit score jump up. Because 2 things happened. I now had credit history, I had proof of payments, and my debt to credit ratio fell off a cliff. I went from owing $50 each month, compared to $100 credit limit, to $200, then $1,000. So at the end the $50 to $1,000 made me look like dadddy warbucks. 10 cool points if you comment who that is.

Here's part 2 of the game, because you just finished all 3 things I said creditors want. After you get your deposit back, now start opening up new credit cards. If someone offers you a card, with no annual fee, TAKE IT. More credit, means that debt to credit ratio will help it fall off a cliff even more.

Then, you can start getting sophisticated.

- open up a bank account and take out a loan, for $1,000. They know you can pay it off with your credit card. This gives you even more credit history.

- work your way up to an american express card, and repeat the putting your cell phone on it, and paying it off. Those you have to pay off each month.

So if we're keeping track at home, a year later, we have about 5 credit cards, a bank loan, we're pay on monthly, an american express card we have our cell phone on, we pay off monthly.  In 15 years you'll have a perfect credit score. I'm JOKING, it'll take about a year to 2 years. tops.

Right about now, you might be wondering, what can you do with a perfect credit score 

- refinance your house for white people mortgage rates

- refinance your car

- apply for government grants

- open up a business, with a business loan, with your perfect credit score

- get store credit cards

- get big box do it yourself tools and supplies credit cards at a contractor rate

A perfect score pops the cap off a lot of things in life, and you can do this, even if you have bad credit on your record. Now the experts will tell you to pay those off, but if you're at the 4 yr mark, and this what i'm telling you is going to take 2 years, that's 6 years, go ahead and ignore it. BUT if it's relatively brand new, when you get all those credit cards, call up the companies and ask to reduce it, like 10 cents on the dollar, So a $1,000 debt, you ask if they'll take $100. They will. Because by the time you're calling, it's a debt collecting company. They're happy to get anything. They paid probably 50 cents to take your debt. It's all profit for them.

And, that's no joke.

Any questions?

6 Vitamins that fight any virus

6 vitamins that fight any virus

These are the 6 vitamins that fight any virus and gets rid of it.

1. Probiotics

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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and WHO defines probiotics as “live microorganisms that, when administered in adequate amounts, confer a health benefit on the host.”

Essentially, probiotics are foods or supplements comprised of live bacterial or yeast cultures that help to reduce the number of “bad” gut bacteria that cause illness or inflammation, while also replacing those bad bacteria with “good” or “friendly” bacteria. By doing so, probiotics help to balance the gut microbiome, which improves not only digestion but immunity as well. Prime examples of probiotic foods include yogurt, kimchi, kombucha, and sauerkraut, but if none of these are to your liking, probiotics are also available in supplement form.

2. Zinc

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Zinc is a powerful micronutrient most commonly found in proteins. Lean meats, poultry, and shellfish are particularly rich in zinc, but milk, whole grains, beans, seeds, and nuts are good sources, too. Zinc has been shown to be essential in neurocognitive health, wound and scar healing, and immune system defense against invading bacteria and viruses.

According to the NIH, “The body’s immune system needs zinc to do its job. Older people and children in developing countries who have low levels of zinc might have a higher risk of getting pneumonia and other infections.”

The agency added: “Some studies suggest that zinc lozenges or syrup (but not zinc dietary supplements in pill form) help speed recovery from the common cold and reduce its symptoms if taken within 24 hours of coming down with a cold. However, more study is needed to determine the best dose and form of zinc, as well as how long it should be taken before zinc can be recommended as a treatment for the common cold.”

3. Protein

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Protein deficiency can lead to poor immunity because antibodies and immune system cells not only rely on protein to help facilitate the repair of body tissue, but to fight off viral and bacterial infections as well.

Time and again, researchers have shown an association between low-protein diets and reduced immune system response. In one preclinical study, for instance, one-third of adult hamsters that were fed a low-protein diet and infected with Leishmania infantum, “had severe visceral leishmaniasis compared to only 8% of animals fed the standard diet.”

“It is well accepted that protein calorie malnutrition impairs host immunity with particular detrimental effects on the T-cell system, resulting in increased opportunistic infection and increased morbidity and mortality in hospitalized patients,” wrote University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine researchers in one Critical Care Medicine publication.

4. Vitamin A

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Vitamin A is one of the most important nutrients for a healthy immune system. You probably know that it supports vision through its precursor beta-carotene, but you may not know of its even greater role in strengthening and regulating the body’s largest organ: the skin.

Perhaps these authors put it best: “Vitamin A (VitA) is a micronutrient that is crucial for maintaining vision, promoting growth and development, and protecting epithelium and mucus integrity in the body. VitA is known as an anti-inflammation vitamin because of its critical role in enhancing immune function. VitA is involved in the development of the immune system and plays regulatory roles in cellular immune responses and humoral immune processes. VitA has demonstrated a therapeutic effect in the treatment of various infectious diseases.”

5. Vitamin C

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When people think of nutrients that play a role in immune health, vitamin C is probably one of the first—if not the first—to come to mind. This probably goes back to our early school days when we learned that sailors cured scurvy by eating vitamin-C rich citrus fruits, namely oranges, lemons, and grapefruit.

Looking at this on a deeper, more scientific level, vitamin C promotes the formation of antibodies that bind to and destroy dangerous toxins, bacteria, and viruses in our bodies before they can wreak havoc. Vitamin C also promotes wound healing by stimulating the production of collagen.

“Vitamin C contributes to immune defense by supporting various cellular functions of both the innate and adaptive immune system. Vitamin C supports epithelial barrier function against pathogens... Vitamin C accumulates in phagocytic cells, such as neutrophils, and can enhance chemotaxis, phagocytosis, generation of reactive oxygen species, and ultimately microbial killing. It is also needed for apoptosis and clearance of the spent neutrophils from sites of infection by macrophages…Vitamin C deficiency results in impaired immunity and higher susceptibility to infections… Furthermore, supplementation with vitamin C appears to be able to both prevent and treat respiratory and systemic infections,” wrote the authors of one article published in Nutrients.

Furthermore, with respect to the common cold, the NIH notes that “[a]lthough vitamin C has long been a popular remedy for the common cold, research shows that for most people, vitamin C supplements do not reduce the risk of getting the common cold. However, people who take vitamin C supplements regularly might have slightly shorter colds or somewhat milder symptoms... Using vitamin C supplements after cold symptoms start does not appear to be helpful.”

6.Vitamin E   

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Vitamin E is generally found in whole grains, seeds like sunflower seeds, nuts, and vegetable oils, and works in conjunction with vitamin C to fortify healthy cells for increased pathogen resistance.

Concluded the authors of one study: “Vitamin E has been shown to enhance immune responses in animal and human models and to confer protection against several infectious diseases… Several considerations are warranted for the advancement in our understanding of vitamin E’s role in immunity. For in vitro studies to support implications for the regulation of immunological diseases, the physiological relevance of vitamin E levels used for treatment should be considered. Different forms of vitamin E exert differential effects on immune cells. Cell-specific effects of vitamin E provide valuable evidence regarding the immunomodulatory mechanisms of vitamin E, but the interplay between immune cells should not be ignored, because interactions between immune cells are critical in the regulation of immune function.”

For vitamin E you apply it directly to the skin. You do this in the evening, AFTER sundown. The sun oxidizes these particular vitamins on the skin, so applying in the evening maximizes the absorption and effect of the vitamin.

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Property insurance and casualty insurance (VIDEO)

Property insurance and casualty insurance (VIDEO)

Property & Casualty Insurance

Property insurance and casualty insurance (also known as P&C insurance) are types of coverage that help protect you and the property you own.

Property insurance helps cover stuff you own like your home or your car.

Casualty insurance means that the policy includes liability coverage to help protect you if you're found legally responsible for an accident that causes injuries to another person or damage to another person's belongings.

Property and casualty insurance are typically bundled together into one insurance policy. For example:

Homeowners Insurance
Car Insurance
Condo Insurance
Renters Insurance
Power Sports Insurance
Landlord Insurance

HOMEOWNERS INSURANCE
Homeowners insurance helps protect your home and your belongings against covered perils, such as theft or fire. Homeowners insurance policies also typically include liability coverage, which may help protect you if you're found legally responsible after someone is injured at your home or you cause damage to someone else's property.


CAR INSURANCE
Car insurance helps protect your vehicle - and you - in a few different ways, depending on which coverages you choose. Drivers in most states are legally required to have liability coverage. Additionally, comprehensive and collision coverage may be required by your lender.


CONDO INSURANCE
Condo insurance helps protect against structural damage to the interior of your unit. Liability protection is usually another component of condo insurance. It's important to understand what your policy covers versus what may be covered by your condo association's policy.


RENTERS INSURANCE
If you rent, you'll likely find that your landlord has an insurance policy to help protect their building and their personal property, but that policy would likely not cover the belongings owned by you, the renter.

Renters insurance commonly helps protect your personal property (furniture, clothing and electronics, for instance). It also typically includes liability coverage if you're found responsible for damages to someone else's property or a guest's injuries in your home. Renters insurance may also help pay for increased living expenses, such as if you have to temporarily relocate if your rented home becomes uninhabitable due to a covered loss.


POWER SPORTS INSURANCE
Boats, golf carts, all-terrain vehicles and snowmobiles are among the vehicles that may be protected by specialized insurance policies. These types of policies generally help cover the vehicle (for instance, if it's damaged or stolen) and provide liability protection just in case you cause damage to someone else's property or injure someone else while riding it.


LANDLORD INSURANCE
Landlord insurance helps protect a property that generates rental income. This type of policy typically helps protect the building you own from certain perils - damage caused by hail or fire, for example. It also usually offers liability protection, which may help cover you if you're sued following an incident on your property.


No matter what type of property and casualty insurance policy you have, coverage limits will apply. Be sure to read your policy or check with your agent to learn about your coverage. Limits can typically be adjusted based on your specific situation.

The Headset

The Headset

( have this on repeat as your read the story:

Mary was a romantic girl, steady, loyal, true. She didn't give her love easily and when she did, she expected love in return. This is the tale of her one true love.

Jeff wasn't a remarkable guy, but he loved Mary. He had boy next door looks and a good head on his shoulders.

The two were inseparable, once they came together and agreed to always be with each other. That was when they were 14. They went through high school together, won homecoming king and queen. No scouts came to watch him, no modeling agents contacted her, but they were happy.

They decided they would not go to college. They would get simple good paying jobs. Marriage was just an assumption since they had already made a promise to each other.

Jeff got the call that he would start Monday to be  an apprentice electrician, Mary would start on Monday too, being a seamstress. They could take vacations and do things in life, most people their age could only dream of.

They bought a house together only a year out of high school, something modest, a 3 bedroom. None of their friends could afford a house, definitely not a year out of high school.

Life had its ups and downs, but none more up and down than people testing their love and loyalty to each other. Men hit on Mary and women hit on Jeff. They quietly and politely would excuse themselves from these people and leave the situation. No drama, no claiming they had a boyfriend / girlfriend. Just a really reserved aura that said, no.

One was never far away from the other. Half the time Mary was at home, taking in hems, and stitching holes. She would go into work when there was a big project that required all hands on deck. She had steady work, but she could do it at home.

Jeff would come home and tell her about everything, the guys at work, the girls at work, the work. She would just rest her head on his chest and they would nap together until dinner time.

When her dad got sick Jeff arranged to take off work and the two stayed in the house to keep her mom company and be there if need be, to answer any call the hospital had.

They all sat around her Dad's hospital bed on that day... that day the earth stood still for them. The eldest son flew in, just in time. Jeff had picked him up from the airport. He had come along, not bringing the wife nor kids, just himself. He lay with his head on his father's hand, Mary stood over her brother and her mother held her.

Her dad passed on, that afternoon. The bed was wet with the eldest son weeping. Her mother held Mary upright, almost fainting. Jeff came and got her and drove everyone home.

Mary just laid on his chest that night, not weeping, just there, not saying a word. Jeff held her all night. When her mother came in the morning and opened the door, there they lay, eyes open, laying, not saying a word. Mom quietly came in and pulled a chair next to the bed and stroked Mary's hair, just like when she was a baby girl.

"Your brother's a mess, in there. Please go talk to him. Jeff are you hungry? I made us a morning snack. Come get some juice at least. You know Henry looked at you, like a new son," she steered the moment like a ship's captain.

Mary got up and tears... fell from her eyes. It's as if laying on Jeff's chest kept them in and being away from him, let the flood gates open. Jeff reached out to her, but mother captain, got up, hugged her, rubbed her arm and said, "go help your brother, you know dad was his biggest hero."

Mary went in and talked to her brother and held him for an hour, like Jeff held her.

Jeff and Mary's mother went into the kitchen and snacked on little pieces of meat and cheese and juice.

An hour later Mary and her brother came in. Her brother's eyes were red like a stop sign, this was going to take some time for him to let his father go.
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They set a date for the wedding, a year out. Everyone had plenty of time to get ready.

It was nothing fancy, no tons of gifts, because they had mostly everything in the house.

One day, Mary was at home taking in hems. It was getting late, the sun was going down. She kept working. Finally, she looked up and it was dark.

She kept working. After several more hours she curled up on the sofa and drifted off to sleep, he'd be home soon, she told herself.

She was cold, so cold it woke her up. What time was it? She got up and turned on the lights. What was she doing sleeping on the couch. Oh yes, waiting for Jeff. Should she call her mother? No, she decided against that. Mother wouldn't know anything anyway.

She prepared a quick meal, so when he came in he could grab it and come to bed.

She left a note on the counter telling him it was in the oven.

She headed off to bed, but left a candle burning by the note. The bed was cold, so cold, without Jeff. She put on all her nightclothes and got in bed. He'd come in and laugh at her looking like a big kid in her night clothes.

She woke up in the morning. She found the candle burning still, and the food in the oven untouched. She put it in the fridge and called in to work. Did they need her to come in? No! They'd be around to pick up the work she'd done and give her some more.

Ninna came by and marveled at how many hems she did. She explained her fiance hadn't gotten home and she worked all day and night, 12 hours. Ninna laughed that she worked too hard. Maybe she needed a raise, she'd see to it, and since she's about to get married it would help too.

They sat and gossiped for about an hour. Then Ninna left. She was happy for the human contact.

Jeff would call if something was wrong. He'd always call if something happened. She set out to work. She looked up and it was lunch time already. So steady working, it was 2pm already.

After lunch she set to work again. She continued undisturbed till night again, late in the evening. Still Jeff was a no show. Again she cooked a meal, set it up and watched T.V. for a bit.

"Do you have a loved one that is about to leave this world, is in a coma, or just can't talk to you? A miracle break through has just been created. Neural net! Just place this device over your head and neural net will connect you to that loved one. Don't worry, the neural net will contact the brain that you have in your mind, that person need not be connected at all. We are taking testers right now, just call this number and we'll send a kit over next day and they'll explain everything."

Mary had already ordered hers before the commercial was even over. Won't Jeff be surprised when she taps into his brain?

The next morning the representative came over. She was expecting a man, but a lovely lady came buy and explained everything, hooked it up for her and as she started talking to Jeff, she waved goodbye.

"Hi honey, I've been waiting to hear from you for three days," she said.
Jeff seemed confused, "who is this?"
"Honey it's me Mary, you're surprised aren't you? I'm on this new neural net and I can connect with you directly," she said excitedly.
"It's only been three days? It seems like an eternity," Jeff said, in a distant voice.
"I know right? I missed you so much when I went to bed. Where are you?" Mary said.
"I don't know, it's dark here," he said.
"You don't know where you are? Were you in an accident?" Mary asked.
Jeff patted himself down, "nope I seem fine, It's just really dark."
"Well are you near the car, when are you coming home?" She asked.
"Home? That seems so long ago," Mary thought maybe he was in accident and didn't know and he's in shock.
"Honey, where was the last place you were? We'll come pick you up, I'll get mom to drive dad's old car," Mary said.

Just then she felt hands on her and being shook. They we calling her name, Mary, Mary, Mary sweetheart.

"Hold on Jeff, someone is here in the house," Mary said. She decided to take the set off.

"She's regaining consciousness," one voice said.

Mary opened her eyes to find herself in the hospital surrounded by nurses, her mom, her brother and a couple of doctors.

"Where am I? What happened?" Mary was almost yelling.

One of the doctors said, "calm down miss, you're alright now. You've been in a coma for a whole month."

Mary went into shock immediately.

After the doctors and nurses got her under control, her mother brushed aside the doctor and went to Mary's side, "you put that thing on and lost track of time?"

Mary shrugged and said, "I must have. Because it seemed like a minute to me. I was talking to Jeff, through this thing."

The room went silent.

"Honey..." her mother started it.

"Here you want to talk to Jeff? He's right here," she said.

Her brother snatched the headset from her and put it on, "Hi Jeff."
"Hey, boy I haven't seen you in forever," Jeff said.

A single tear rolled down his face as he removed the headset, "She's right. He's literally sitting there waiting to talk."

"How can that be," the mother turned to the doctor. The doctor shrugged, "I have no idea what that headset does, Ma'am. But, I think, as we saw with your son, if you don't let yourself get lost in it, you won't lose yourself."

"What's goin on?" Mary asked.

"Here, Mary. Hold my hand. I'll be right here. I'm holding your hand. Tell me what you see, while you talk to Jeff," her mother said.

Mary placed the headset on and took her mother's hand and closed her eyes, "he's standing on a street with purple and blue lights."

"My god, Mary is that you? It's been ages since I last spoke to you," Jeff said.
"He says it's been ages since I last spoke to him," Mary said under her breath.
"Mary sweetie, I don't know how time works where he is, but I have some new for you. Jeff has been dead for about 6 months," her mother whispered.
"That's impossible. It's only been 2 days, and I've only been talking to him for 15 minutes," Mary whispered back.
"Mary are you talking to me? It's so dark here," Jeff said.
"He says it's dark there," Mary whispered.

A gasp went around the room.

"She's keeping him there," a voice said.

"She most certainly is," a new voice said. "Either she should tell him to go into the beyond or she can keep him there for eternity and he will not pass on," the new voice said. You could hear the smile in the voice.

Mary's mother shook Mary and squeezed her hand, "honey you have to let Jeff move on, tell him to leave."
"Mother he's leaving, like a cloud or something. He heard you. NO JEFF DON'T LEAVE ME!!!" Mary screamed.

"SHE'S GOING INTO SHOCK," a voice said.

"ACTUALLY, you have a choice, let her go with Jeff or keep her here. But it is our experience that being this close to someone breaks the human spirit when they let the person go," the new voice said.

Although a commotion was going on throughout the room the mother looked over to the eldest son. "Unplug it," she said.

The son reached down behind the bed and with great force yanked the plug  out of the wall.

The beeping and monitors all stopped. Mary's body went slack.

"SON, YOU UNPLUGGED THE WRONG THING!!!" the doctor yelled.

Mother turned to the doctor with cold smoldering eyes. "No he didn't!"

Mary passed away that moment. You could hear her laughing quietly.

"It's not dark here at all. There's a light right there, you dingus," she said grabbing his arm. "Oh, so there is. Let's go over there then. You feel all warm now," Jeff said.

The eldest son stood up from the bed. "I couldn't imagine Mary with anyone but Jeff."

The mom shrugged, "I think her laughing at the end there, pretty much summed this who affair up.

And you, did you not warn the public what they were doing?"

The representative took the kit and placed it into the eldest son's hands, "technically, you could recall her and Jeff any time you want to talk to them. It won't hurt them anymore, since they've gone into the beyond. It'll be like a day visit.

We spoke with the entity that keeps the beyond and he actually explained a lot to us. This doesn't break the rules.

BUT, don't go anywhere except that road. If you go anywhere else but that road, you're gone.

We explained that to your daughter. She might not have remembered, but I think you made the right choice, because she decided a long time ago. We were surprised that she stayed alive this long.

We've already taken care of all the financials and the home. One of you sign here. And, we'll take care of the hospital too."

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Once a year the eldest would put the headset on and visit with Jeff and Mary. He would always come away from those talk as If he had aged in wisdom a hundred years.

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