After War Storm

Cal

I barely made it to my study before the sadness erupted within me.

I shut the door with a harsh band before slamming my fish against the wall. I didn't pay any mind to the pain or the blood as I pounded the wall again and again.

Suddenly the door opened and I turned to see Julien.

"Cal," he started but before he could say anything else, I hugged himself and let the tears fall.

I couldn't help it. Every last hole I had allowed myself was gone and it felt horrendous. Ti was really dead and there was nothing I, or anyone else, could do to bring him back.

"What is it?" Julien asked after a moment.
"She can't bring him back," I whispered though Julien managed to hear.
"I'm so sorry, Cal."

I really though Felicity would be able to save him. And she might have been able to had he not died the way he did.

I hadn't seen Ti's body but he'd been dropped from a fourth floor balcony. His body couldn't be perfect anymore. I'd kill whoever did this. I would find them and make sure they paid for what they had done. I'd have them begging for death a long time before I would give it to them.

Ti was an innocent baby. And now I had lost him. I'd lost my son.

"She moved," Julien spoke after my tears had finally run dry.
"What?" My head snapped up and my eyes met his.
"Not a lot, but Mare's fingers twitched."
"It's still something," I said, hurrying from the room so I could go and see her.

Mare was still lying in the same position. Sara was sat beside the bed, reading a rather large book.

"What are you reading?" I asked her.
"I'm looking through all the research we have on this kind of illness, trying to find anything that could help," Sara told me. I nodded before making my way to the bed, sitting down next to Mare and taking her hand.

"Please say something," I spoke quietly to her as I squeezed her hand. "I need you, Mare. I can't do this without you. I love you so much."

She didn't move, didn't answer.

We stayed that way the whole night. I didn't leave her side for even a second. Though Julien and Sara both left, Julien finding a Greenwarden to fix the gardens.

I didn't sleep at all that night. I lay by Mare's side, desperately hoping she'd do something, anything.

I needed her to be ok. I was falling apart after losing Ti. I didn't know what would happen if Mare didn't respond to something soon.

I spoke to her most of the night. I had no idea if she could hear me but I hoped she knew I was there.

I couldn't help my mind from wondering to Ti and what would happen now. Now that I knew Felicity couldn't save him.

We would have a funeral and Ti would be cremated, as are all Burners. Burners are cremated, Nymphs are sent off to sea, Greenwardens are buried and returned to the earth.

I hadn't even seen him yet. But I couldn't; I wasn't ready.

Then I would hunt down the person who had done this. The only issue was, I had no leads as to who it could be.

If I could only work out what had happened between Evangeline and Cameron. I knew Evangeline wasn't lying, but I could bring myself to believe that Cameron was or that she would do something like this.

It can't have been them, which means someone messed with their minds, or one of them at least.

Could it be the same person who is taking the powers of Newbloods?

But what reason would they have had for doing this?

Or was it someone else?

And if so, who?

I didn't think I had any enemies who would do this. Nor did I think Mare had any.

It took the lowest of the low to kill a child. I didn't understand how anyone could do that.

Sure, I've killed people before, tortures them as well, but I would never murder a child, especially not one who was completely innocent.

It made me feel so guilty that whoever had done this she only done it because Ti was Mare and I's child. If we had had different lives, Ti would have grown up safe and happy.

Everything was so wrong now. I'd only known Ti for a few days but I missed him with everything that I had.

And I knew nothing would ever be right again.

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Hey, everyone. So I know it's a short chapter and I am sorry about that but I wanted to get something written because it has been a couple weeks since I updated. I will start the next chapter now and hopefully have it up later today.

I know you probably thought Felicity was going to save Ti, or hoped so anyway, and I am very sorry for getting your hopes up and then having it so Felicity couldn't save him. But this story isn't over yet and I do hate a sad story so we shall see where things go. But yes, Ti really is dead and Felicity can't bring him back 😭😭.

Until next time xx