"Hari!"
It was Sarah Fade-in shouting. He, angrily, turned to answer her.
"What?"
"Please, man, help me. They just run over Rhapsody!"
"What do you mean, run over?", Hari asked worried. All his anger about Eleanor dripped away.
"A van...he didn’t look to the road...oh damn it, Harrison, enough questions, help me!"
She practically dragged him away from the building. On the pavement, Danny Boy and Sparkle were leaned on a body on the pavement. It was Rhapsody.
"Someone call an ambulance!", Hari shouted to them. "And quickly, damn it!"
Danny and Sparkle went away, and Sarah moved just a few yards away, trying to find some help. Hari touched Rhapsody’s neck, seeking for heartbeats. But all he heard was the silence of his friend’s body.
Oh Lord, he is dead!, he thought. All that fight for nothing at all! Heavenly Man, this can’t be like this! , he started to say, getting more and more despaired. He’d ask Sarah to marry him today! You...you can’t do this, Heavenly Man, you can’t do this to them...please, don’t let this be like it was with me! Love can’t tear them apart like you tore my life apart! What evil have they done to you, Lord? Did they dare of you too?
His hands were shaking. He still couldn’t feel any heartbeat on his friend. His heart was frozen. Suddenly he remembered of another day, one night in 1980. He could hear Yoko shouting for his life, like he was shouting now. Oh Lord, don’t do that, it’s not fair... A second of my life for one second of his! , he pleaded. That meant he was giving part of the life he had "won" to solve the mess with Brittany to let Rhapsody live more one time. One second of my life for one second of his, Lord. Don’t let the story be repeated, don’t let another heart be broken. Please...
When Mary and Daniel ran to where he was, he suddenly felt life running through Rhapsody again. God accepted the bargain, and let him live.
John, you are blessed. You gave your life away to save the life of a man you don’t know. You are blessed, John.
Don’t bless me, Heavenly Man. Bless him and Sarah. Bless Britty, she’s so in need of it. But don’t waste your prayers on such a bloke like me.
Remember why fate took you early, John. You are beginning to end the mission you left hanging here.
"Hari, wake up, the ambulance is already here."
Hari stood up and felt suddenly tired. It was the side effects of the giving - he’d feel a bit older from now on, for a part of his youth were now at Rhapsody’s hands.
"Are you okay, Hari?"
"Just a bit tired. Sarah, your man is alive and well."
"Oh, thank God. I can’t live without him, you know. He’s the other half of my sky."
"I know. It’s in his eyes."
He hugged the roadie so tight it was almost painful. "He’d get over that and I will be at your wedding. You write this down."
"Let’s see!", she said, smiling a weak but confident smile.
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