[Sept. 29] [James Bond] On Borrowed Time

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Title: On Borrowed Time
Day/Theme: Sept. 29 - Thoughts of a dying atheist
Series: James Bond
Character/Pairing: Bond
Rating: PG-13


Look through a faithless eye -
are you afraid to die?

- Muse, "Thoughts of Dying Atheist"


I take a step into the room, and I am dead.

I shove the clip into place and cock the gun and take a breath, and I am dead.

Dead, I creep through the room, and dead I punch in the security code which was so dearly bought. My breath is cold, spreading frost on the window. I am nothing more than a ghost, a poltergeist, laying my frigid hand on earthly things and causing them to move.

I can almost taste the formaldehyde coursing through my veins.

I can still feel her lips on my skin. Didn't she know she was making love to one already dead? Scoff at the necrophiliacs, dear - with your posh lipstick and your posh eyeliner. You are one.

Dead feet - bones on the floor. Strange I can't hear them rattle.

The prize is tucked away, under the dead arm. I creep, so much like a spectre, back from whence I came.

All shrouded in black, I keep on sidestepping my way to the door, only visible to the few cursed with a sixth sense. Back out the door - back out the window.

Sunlight and grass -

I'm alive again.

I've survived one more impossible situation; I won't take it for granted, in fact, I can't. I was a dead man when I walked through that door, and I live now only on borrowed time. Tomorrow, perchance, I will die again.

And, if I'm lucky, be resurrected.

Just to live once more on borrowed time.