They Celebrated Him As Well

The fireworks, the rallies in the streets... he may not have been alive at the time, but he knew that celebrations like these weren't all that uncommon a little less than a century ago in certain places in Europe. The cheering and the fireworks weren't loud enough -- not to him anyway -- to drown out the beeping of the heart monitor.

And it scared him how easily everything seemed to be repeating itself, but this time... this time was going to be worse. He knew it. It already was.

He wished he could be asleep with her.