{"sf1_id":131831,"sf2_id":"keN7DVYm","title":"A New Life in a New Body: The Funeral","author":"Mat and Mari Productions","words":501,"posted_at":"2010-03-15T20:12:00.000Z","tags":["Character Development","Fox","M/F","Plot Development","Reptile","past"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/131831-a-new-life-in-a-new-body-the-funeral","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/keN7DVYm","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/89/c5/89c59945-3daa-4921-a911-957d56c7225e","description":"","content":"A New Life in a New Body\n\nThe Funeral\n\nFive Years before... Mikes Funeral\n\nSherri\n\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; He's dead the funerals today I just hope he is in a better place. I contacted all of his friends and family surprisingly his family is all dead. He never mentioned it, you'd think he would have known and went to the funerals. I never saw any pictures of his family either.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; It is to be held in the towns finest graveyard. There is a clock tower and a bunch of trees I checked them all twice I don't see anything. The ceremony goes on for several hours we all say something about his life a person. Even his friends didn't know much about him. Hell only the closest actually show up everyone else is too busy or so they say.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; After it started I was crying, he is the only person I have ever truly felt close to. I gave him a twenty one gun salute after everyone else left. He deserved better all that was buried was just some of his personal possessions and a flag. That was what I did he dissevered a military funeral not a civilian one.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;I read a news paper today about a dead mafia member found in the clock tower. The attack sounded like it was Mike's handy work. Quick, quiet, and subtle it sounds just a little convenient but I think he was watching over me. I let my guard down yesterday I could have died, the guy had a sniper rifle.\n\n\"What are you thinking about,\" Mike asked.\n\n\"The funeral you had,\" I replied.\n\n\"I remember that,\" he responded.\n\n\"You do,\" I asked.\n\n\"Yes I remember it like yesterday,\" he replied.\n\nMike\n\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; It was a sunny day, during the summer, as well as a sad day. I had faked my own death and I intended to watch from a bench where it would look as if I was a bird watcher. I then saw a guy carrying a briefcase. He went into the clock tower, I deiced to follow him. I followed quietly behind him when I got up to where he was he was setting up a sniper rifle. I stalked up behind him and snapped his pretty little neck.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; I knew he intended to kill Sherri. \u0026nbsp;I couldn't let that happen so after that I took up his sniper rifle and emptied it manually. I then looked through the scope in a prone position and watched the whole procession. I loved her too bad I couldn't let her know I was.\n\n\"So in a way I had went to my own funeral alive,\" I said simply.\n\n\"Why did you come to it,\" she asked.\n\n\"I felt I needed a family member there,\" I replied.\n\n\"So you went,\" she said.\n\n\"Enough of this I came here because I need to talk to the leaders,\" I said.\n\n\"Alright let's go,\" she said.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Hopefully this turns out all right.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n  \n  \n\n"}