SM:Push the Man
From Create Your Own Story
You reach out and push the man away.
You catch him completely off-guard. He stumbles, loses his balance, and ends up falling into the path of the oncoming bus himself. The driver tries his best to stop but buses aren't designed to stop on a dime and he ends up running the man down.
The teenage girl shrieks and backs away from the platform's edge, looking at the mangled body of the man, and then to you. You can see her mind is reeling and she isn't quite sure just what to think of what just happened.
A crowd of people begins gathering around you, the girl, and the mangled body of the man when time suddenly seems to stop and everyone freezes in place.
"Thank you... though I wish this could have been resolved without one of them perishing. I suppose it was unavoidable," a voice says from behind the crowd. You recognize it as the voice from earlier when you signed the contract.
You weave your way through the crowd and out the back, finding some sort of spirit floating there waiting for you. It is made up of a hooded white cloak and featureless, black porcelain mask where the face should be. It has no discernable form or body, and in the white voids of its' eyes you can sense a powerful malevolence and deep hatred... for you.
"I do not blame for you his death... He brought it on himself. It is not as though you tried to kill him," the spirit says, "At least, I hope that is not what you tried to do. Still... your end of the contract has been fulfilled, and so I am oblidged to provide you with something."
"Something?" you question.
"Yes. I do not wish to force anything upon you, especially if you may not want it. Therefore I present you with a choice: would you like me to restore you to life, or allow you to pass on to the afterlife?"
You consider your options. If you are brought back to life, and put right back into this situation it may be difficult to explain your way out of it. Then again, you didn't do all of this just to pass on anyway. You have a tough decision to make.
The End: You have saved the life of the teenager, but inadvertantly ended the life of that man. Ultimately you fulfilled your end of the contract though, so now you must choose whether to be restored to life or pass on to the afterlife... but that is another story entirely.
