Tribes

Till death do us part

Ryan's POV

It's what you say isn't it? When you get married it's in there, I said it, she said it, we thought nothing of it, merely words, we fully intended to be together until we drew our last breaths but we didn't expect to find ourselves here

I can't help but find myself wondering, is this my punishment for something I've done? The amount of times I've prayed or hoped or begged or even wished upon a fricking star that I could switch places with her at this point is uncanny

All of these thoughts flood through my head in the space of mere seconds after I thought I felt her squeeze my hand, when she didn't do anything else I knew I had imagined it

Until

"Chloe?!?!" I could swear I felt her do it again

Ugh Ryan stop! Stop this! Stop messing with yourself! Stop trying to have hope for something that might as well be impossible! Just stop!

Suddenly I see something out of the corner of my eye as I'm beating myself down internally, I look up to where I go ugh I saw it and my eyes catch on Chloe's face, they're fluttering, slowly but they are

"Joe!" I yell for him but before he can even get in here it stops

"What? What is it?!" He asks me concerned but I just shake my head as I look back down

"Nothing, my imagination" I mumble

"This must be so hard for you, but Chloe wouldn't want to live like thi...." His voice trails off which makes me look up

"Y...you see that right?!" I ask rather desperately

"Yeah!" He replies as he rushes over, her eyes flutter again, I watch them and he does some random stuff with the monitors, just checking them I think but I was to focused on her

"That's it, come on baby, please! You got this!" She comes so close, almost open but then....then it stops

She doesn't have enough fight left, she's exhausted, she's had to do too much fighting, I have to say this now, I don't want to....but she deserves it

"Chlo, it's okay, if you can't do it anymore then don't, if you can't fight anymore then don't, I will hate losing you more than anything else I've ever hated but if this is what you want, if this is what's best for you....then let go, we'll be okay" ever word felt like someone was plunging a knife into my heart but I had to do it, she had to know that, if she needs to go the I will try my best to be okay with it, if she needs to stop fighting now then I will accept that

That was when it happened, so many 'it's' have happened in these last 16 days but this one was it, this one was the real one

I watched it happen, but I could only sit and stare

I saw it right in front of me

I saw her eyes open

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