So, I have no idea where to start. Guess it should be where I was dying in the hospital, seeing as how that's how this whole thing- my second life- began.
I had been in the hospital for a little over a week, now, dying of liver cancer, and lung cancer. Yeah, it was painful, I'm not gonna lie, and no matter what the doctor's tried, they wouldn't entirely go away. Because of that, along with how much I kept myself otherwise healthy, the doctors had given me about a year to live, which had been eighteen months ago.
Anyway, I had had an episode related to the lung cancer eight days ago, and was now here, plugged into various machines, in what the doctors considered my final hour of life. At my request two days ago, the doctors let my husband, daughter, and brother-in-law in to see me.
"Hey, sweetie," my husband-average height and wearing a RWBY shirt-said. "How are you doing?"
"Oh, well," I said. "Except dying, that is." We shared a laugh. Even after what I had done to him a few years back, and continued to do behind his back after learning of the fact I had cancer, we had agreed we'd try to keep our death as lighthearted as family death can be. Joking, even if it was in terrible taste, was just how I avoided pain. "What about you guys?"
"We're doing fine, mom," my daughter-also wearing a RWBY shirt, this one mainly having Ruby on it- replied.
"And school, young lady?" I asked with a somewhat sinister grin that instantly turned into a grimace of pain.
"Seriously, mom?" she asked. "You're in the hospital, and you're worried about my schooling?"
"You still have a future, young lady," I said before sighing. "I don't." I then looked at my step-brother. He never liked to talk much.
"What about you, Josh?"
He shrugged. "Good, considering," he said before glancing at the heart monitor. "Docs said your heart wasn't beating strong, considering."
I gave a light hearted chuckle. "Yeah, they said I'd have a little over half a day when I woke up, at best." Funny I said that, considering I had been feeling tired for the past few hours. I then looked to my daughter. "You remember what we talked about, right honey?"
She nodded. "Yeah, me and the others are working everything out." She then sighed. "It'll be different without you there, mom."
"Just remember," I said. "Don't go for me. Go for you." I then closed my eyes, let out a sigh, and opened them again. "I guess I'll see you guys later, huh?"
Two smiles and a single shrug-the shrug having a "Maybe" to it-later, I let a small smile out. "Then bye, I guess," I said as I saw my vision go black, my eyes close, and felt a single smile on my face, the last sound being the flatline of the monitor before it just stopped.
"Well, that was interesting."
I opened my eyes-the fact I could open my eyes flying over my head- and saw I was in a black void, and was face to face with a woman in a gray dress with rainbow colored hair that went to her shoulders. "I'm in hell, aren't I?" I asked.
"No," the woman said. "Nor Limbo nor Heaven," she added. "But you are someone I've been interested in."
"That sounds like something for a porno," I muttered.
"You'd know," the woman said in a joking tone. Didn't stop me from blanching. "Before you ask," she said, holding up a hand, "I have my ways of getting information. The reason I brought you-or, rather, your mind- here is to offer you a second chance."
"Would I see my family?" was the first question out of my mouth.
"Perhaps at a later date," the rainbow haired woman replied. "If you do choose to take this second chance, you will gain certain powers, as you'd be going to a world where those I choose have certain abilities."
"Only if I get to see my family again," I said.
She nodded. "I'll see what I can do, then. But they will probably be changed by then. They will still have their memories, but may be different in appearance."
"That's good enough for me," I said. "I do still want to make up for what I did."
"Then I'll send you where I sending you," she said. "When you wake up, ask for the sun and moon, and tell who ever comes that you're sent by Harmony."
Before I could ask what that meant, there was a flash of light, and then nothing. Again.
Well, may as well see what I got myself into.