what do you beg for
when you think no one can hear you?
what do you beg for
when you think god can?
Cover by @adonysiac
Male OC / Matt Murdock.
Female OC / Franklin 'Foggy' Nelson.
Daredevil Season One - Three.
The 'Anti-Heroes' Series.
Est. 2018...
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— Inbred, Ethel Cain
(best read in dark mode; Georgia font; 3rd smallest size)
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ELIAS MARTINEZ IS A DEAD MAN WALKING.
The neighbourhood of Hell's Kitchen, NYC knows him not as the boy who lived but rather as the boy who died and returned to life. The newspapers were quick to label him as 'Miracle Boy' after his impossible recovery and in the eyes of the Catholic Church where he grew up, it was God who breathed life again into the teenage Elias just as He breathed life into his adult son Jesus.
Unfortunately for Elias, only his body was pulled from the wreckage of his dad's station wagon — his parents were gone long before the police even got the call. He was wheeled into the hospital while they were transferred to the morgue, and he never got to attend the funeral; too busy fighting for his life in a coma the doctors weren't sure he'd fight his way out of.
God brought Elias back to life, but not without cost.
Months were spent in recovery, and Eli never really returned to his former self. After all, the world wanted to know what he saw while he was dead. Was Heaven as welcoming as they were promised? Did God talk to him, reassure him of His plan for Elias and for the world? Were the Angels that carried him in their arms before he returned to Earth as beautiful as the Bible foretold?
Eli says he doesn't remember. He doesn't have the heart to tell his sister he felt the flames licking at his skin long after he'd been pulled from the wreckage. That maybe their parents and the Catholic Church had been wrong all along.
God was not there for the Martinez family, and he was never there to begin with.
Life after the accident was tough, but Eli was tougher. Had it not been for his older sister to help him pick up the pieces of his shattered mind and body, Eli would've never made it far. It wasn't God who helped him with the physical therapy; he has the doctors, the nurses and especially his sister to thank for his recovery. Though he also has his sister to thank for being in the car in the first place.
