Henry
"Captain, go tell the others to drop all of the anchors and find a way to jeopardize the system in the control panel to stop this darn vessel from advancing into the city any further! I'll go find Lyn!" I had barked to the captain who had nodded obediently. I glanced at Lincoln rocking himself in the corner of the deck muttering restlessly and repeatedly that he's going to die. "Don't just stand there! Do something!" I hollered impatiently to the frozen man baby. Then, I looked over my shoulder and saw my beloved niece and her recognizable blonde friend.
"Brooke, what in the world are you doing here?! You should be with Papa and your family!", I hadn't mean to be mean, but this was a life or death situation for heaven's sake! "Just, come with me. I need to find Lyn and get all of us out of here!"
"Okay, come on Laurielle!", she had replied as she and Laurielle descended down the stuffy staircase to the abandoned cargo hull, where Lyn had been crying.
"We're all going to die, Henry!", she had sobbed desperately with genuine melancholy.
"No we're not. Lyn, come with me.", I say soothingly and she followed all of us upstairs to the deck.
"Yes we-", I kissed her on the cheek. It had been now or never.
She looked up to me contentedly and smiled, "Okay." That would have been the last word that I would see come out of her bleeding lip. I hugged Laurielle and Brooke, but while I was hugging them, a beam and loads of debris rained onto the deck.
"WATCH OUT!", I yell as I shove them out of the way, as I pray for a life in Heaven as the slow motion of a huge steel beam streaking towards my head meets my peripheral vision.
I give one last sentimental smile to Lyn as the lights went out.
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Missing in Venice
Short Storyi literally was forced to write this for my gifted/talented class in the fifth grade and i want to burn it but at the same time i want more works on my profile so - Even with her mighty engines in reverse, the ocean liner was pulled further and furt...
