Elimination

He had found it. He had finally found it.

After countless hours of time spent. After sixty years.

The cure to avoiding his own demise. His own fate. 

He had just changed his fate. 

Realization dawned on him. 

But instead of running screaming in excitement, he leaned his hands on the desk, breathing deeply. 

He had thought he had wasted his life trying to avoid her. 

The one who waited for him at the edge of death. 

He never wanted to see her again.

And now he wouldn’t have to. 

He had found the fountain of life in a vial.