10: Open Your Eyes
I woke up to the sound of small voices. I felt a million of things in me. My vision was blury, almost like I had been asleep for a while. When I could see clearly, I looked around. The room was a hospital room. Peter and Winston were playing a game of cards while Ray watched. Janine was on the phone with someone. Louis and Natalie were kissing.... kissing? How could Natalie be kissing anyone? She was dead. She looked over and smiled at me.
"Egon your awake!" she cried, running to me. She made sure I was okay before giving me a hug. "I thought we had lost you!"
"Your not dead?" I asked. She looked at me strangely.
"No, I'm not," she answered. "Why would I?"
"Natalie, why am I here?"
"You must have forgot." She looked at the other to help her explain everything that had happen. "Well, Ligen was going to kill Janine. So I ran and pushed her out of the way."
"She tackled me," Janine put in, making Natalie laugh.
"Yes I did. So anyway, both of us were alive. Ligen took a lot out of you, so you passed out. We freed you and got rid of Ligen. He's gone Egon! He's really gone! Anyway, you were in a coma. You've been asleep for so long, that you probably don't know anything that happened, do you?'
"No," I said. I pinched myself a little to make sure this wasn't a dream. It wasn't. My sister.... was alive! I couldn't believe it. In the middle of the pain I felt before hand must have made me think she had died. So she wasn't a ghost. She was going to be with me the rest of my life. I felt amazed by that. My amazing sister....
"Well," Natalie said, breaking my thoughts. "Let's see...."
"You and Louis got married," Peter told her.
"Oh yeah, that something for you."
"Saying I'm not that good?" Louis asked her with a small smile.
"No. Oh, you and Janine got married. You woke up a month ago for a little bit, saying something about marrying Janine. So we got a preacher here quickly, married you all, and then you went back to sleep."
"And what was this thing about mumbling Natalie is dead?" Winston asked.
"Well...." I started. I explained everything that I had dreamed, telling how Natalie died, how everything happened, everything that made me think my sister is dead. They looked back at me in shock.
"Egon," Natalie said, taking my hand. "I'm not dead, and I don't plan on it for a long time. Trust me."
I gave her a small smile and looked at the doctor. They undid everything so I could go home. Janine and Natalie helped me to Ecto-1 and I smiled.
Things were only going to get better, and I can tell you how everything happened.
The Ghostbusters stayed open for years since then. Until we couldn't hold the packs anymore, we fought ghost and demons. Nothing like Ligen ever happened again. When we retired, our kids took over.
Yes, we all had kids. Janine and I had two, twins, boy and girl. I named the little girl after her aunt Natalie, and Janine named the boy David after her grandfather. Natalie and Louis had three kids, a set of twins and a little boy. The twins were both girls. The girls were Kelly and Marie, after people in our families and in his. The boy was named after me.
Ray and Ellen got married too. It was a wonderful wedding. They had one little girl named Grace. Winston got married to a woman that we saved during a call. Her name was Nikki. She had black hair, dark skin, brown eyes, and spook fluent Spanish. She loved being in New York and loved meeting us. She was a big fan of us. They had two kids, both boys. Named Alan and Cory. Here's a shock, Peter got married. Guess who to? Cora. I know, he got married, really? Let's see, they had one. Boy named Tim, after Peter's father.
David, Natalie, Egon, Alan, and Tim all took over for us. Grace took over Janine's job and Cory's Louis'. The others stayed close, but they had jobs that they loved more then busting ghost. Actually it was only Natalie's twins. She was a little crushed until they become what they wanted. Marie was a famous Astronomer and Kelly was a chemist. That made my sister happy.
Has for us? Well we all grew old and happy. Ray lived till he was eighty five. He let him self go when Ellen died at eighty two. He died two years after her. Peter and Cora died the same year, Cora being eighty eight, Peter was almost ninety. They both died of heart attacks, and I feel like they had planned it. Winston died at eighty. He was the youngest of us to die, but he died when his body just couldn't handle it. He died holding Nikki's hand. She died a month later, seventy nine.
Louis. He died when he was eighty three. Janine died at eighty four. Ellis lived for a while too. He lived till he was ninety two. Natalie and I lived for a long time. Has long has I can remember. We lived in a retirement home together, sharing a room. We lived for so long, people were impressed.
Yet everything does end. Out of the two of us, I lived a little longer. Natalie died when she was ninety eight years old. I died a week later at the same age. I'm writing this beyond the grave, my last words to the world.
I just love looking back, seeing the world has a wonderful place. I see my family still busting ghost. I can't help but wonder what would have happened if my dream had been real. If Natalie had died long ago. I think everything would be different.
Yet my sister had lived. She lived with me until a week before my death. I had been so sad, that I just let myself go into the arms of her, my friends, my wife, my family. They welcomed me to a nice place to rest.
But I still have one question that we all love to say. It is what we keep close to us, what we loved. Nothing would ever change that. And we all answer it, hoping that the world years us. Hoping that it never ends.
Who ya gonna call? Ghostbusters.
I chickened out of killing Natalie. Kind of. So this is the last chapter of Freeing Natalie. I'll post TRG last chapter in a little bit. Think I'll have Egon and Natalie's last words. So I hope you loved this book, this series. I'll come back to it after a few of my other books are down, like Bettlejucie and a few other. Tell then, remember one thing.... GHOSTBUSTERS!
Oh, and I did base Winston's wife off my friend. I'll dedicate this last chapter to her, and the last chapter of TRG to another big fan of mines.
Peace out my Stars!
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