No
No please
I don't want to do this I don't want to leave
I catch flashes of images as my eyes flicker in and out of focus, as I flicker in and out of consciousness.
Sage howls and screams as the paramedics swarm around me, an animalistic, awful sound which they ignore. I feel myself being lifted into the air.
Then everything goes dark again.
No no no
I want to stay with Sage
Let me stay with Sage
I can't
I don't want to
Please
I wake briefly to the interior of an ambulance. I am lying on a bed. My eyes droop and close, and then all I can feel is the agony of my weak body, worse than ever before. Everything hurts, hurts, HURTS
Please leave me here
I want to get better
I can still make it
I'm not going to die
I'm not
I'm going to live
Live
Live
Live
Let me live
Please
My eyes won't open but I can hear crying near me. I can't move to comfort her.
No
I strain my whole body, desperate to awaken, for any sense of what's going on around me, but
No no no
Sage help me
Help me
There is only darkness and more darkness. I can't move. I can't think. I can't die. Not yet.
Help me help me help me
I don't want to die
"We're taking her inside," they say, so, so far away. "She needs emergency treatment."
It's an emergency
I'm scared
I'm so scared
"Will she be okay?" Sage's voice does little to calm me. I need to hide in the safety of her embrace, but there is nothing I can do except remain on the stretcher, fighting for air.
There is no response from the doctors.
Shit shit shit please no no no I want to live
What about her
What about me
I'm not finished yet no
I can't tell what is happening anymore. My consciousness flickers in and out, like a dying candle battling a hurricane.
I open my eyes for just long enough to see the blinding white lights of the hospital ward. Strange. I never thought I'd want to go back to the last time I was here, the time Sage and I ran away. I want to live through everything again. I want to live.
My eyes close of their own accord. Though I try, desperately wrestling with the dullness that sets in around me, I am losing drastically.
This can't be finished yet
This can't be
the end
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Romance// Completed 11/12/23 \\ // This story is now COMPLETE! Minor edits have been made! It's finished! Of course though, nothing's ever finished, so there may be small changes for details every once in a while. \\ When the bomb exploded, Adeline's life...
