Blue Flames //Divergent Fanfic//

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Chapter 16:

Natalie's Perspective

    I stare in horror as I stare at my mother in the a water case that looks like I was just in, floating at the top. Her eyes are shut, and she's very pale. I am crying loud enough for those men to hear. Dad is crying and yelling.

Everything is all so slow, I hear Dad make a shot at somebody and he pushes me back over to the corner. Other men come up behind him and I light it, and shoot them. I shoot everybody that comes at me, and Dad grabs my arm and pulls me over to Mom.

    "Watch me!" he says and shoots the glass case multiple times. We back away and the water spills out. Mom is laying among broken shards of glass, and I watch for men, trying to not look at my Mom's body. I turn and look at Dad for a second and he's doing CPR on her.

Water spills from her mouth every time he presses his hands to her chest. I don't see any men, so I lean over Mom and pull strands of her hair out of her face. I sit down next to her.

Dad presses his lips to hers and breathes into her, but I don't notice, all I focus on, is her eye lids. I'm waiting for her eyes to open. I'm waiting for her to jump up and hug Dad and I in a big embrace and say I love you.

But she lays there, motionless instead. I take her hand and heat my hand slightly. It doesn't burn, it just feels like warm water. Dad's tear falls on my hand as he presses on her chest, but my hand warms it.

Tear after tear falls from my face, and lands on my hand. I check her pulse. There is nothing. I cry harder, and fall onto the ground, letting go of her hand. I look around for men, and see one aiming at my Dad. I shoot him, and he falls to the ground. Dad slams his had into the ground and keeps doing CPR. I get up and sit next to her.

I wipe my eyes, and begin to sing. I don't know why, I just find myself singing.

Evanescence: My Immortal (Parts of it)

These wounds won't seem to heal

this pain is just to real

there's just too much that time can not erase

when you cried, I'd wipe away all of your tears

when you'd scream, I'd fight away all of your fears

and I held your hand through all of these years

but you still have

all of me

   Dad stares at me with tears in his eyes. He goes back to giving her CPR and I cry into my knees as I hug myself. I mumble words of the song, and I hear someone bust the door open.

Aunt Shauna runs in before a bunch of paramedics. I get up and run to her. She holds me and the paramedics run to Mom. Dad backs away and holds his face in his hands.

They put Mom up on a stretcher, and roll her away. Her hand hangs off of the stretcher, and I reach for her, but she's already gone out the door.

 Dad falls to the floor and I pull away from Aunt Shauna's arms, and run to Dad. I tackle him and hug him at the same time. He falls to the floor and I hold him around the chest and hug him tighter than I ever have before. He holds me close to him and we cry into each other's shoulders on the floor.

We don't say anything, we just lay there on the wet, glassy floor sobbing into each other's shoulders. I hear Aunt Shauna crying, and other footsteps but it's all too blurry for me to see. Then I feel someone tug me off of Dad.