Something Unfortunate (RC...But open to any other D7 person who asks)

I was laying in my bed staring at the roof. I had been stuck in my bed for a week or so but it wasn't my fault, I just didn't feel strong enough to get out of bed, every single time I tried I'd collapse and begin by having trouble breathing. I had been checked out by a doctor but they wouldn't tell me what was wrong. At that moment I started to cough and it was a brutal one at that. It continued on for five minutes and then I relaxed back in my bed. I hadn't seen anyone for awhile not even my mother. I wonder where they all were. Surely the doctor told my mom and my brother Logan what was wrong or what was to happen.

"Hey Aurora." Logan walks into his little sister's room. "How are you feeling?" I gulp. The doctor said that she wasn't doing well. At all. I sit down on her bed by Aurora. "Drink some water." I give her a little cup and help her drink it.

When I saw Logan walk in I gave a small smile. "I still hurt." I said quietly and looked at him as he sat on my bed. When he told me to drink some water I had to struggle to sit up a bit to drink some. I tried to keep the water down. I kept a bit of it down but the rest was coughed back up. I didn't know it but apparently I was even paler than normal, that's what the doctor had said but this was a bad pale. "Did the doctor tell you anything." I asked.

"I'm sorry about that. Surely you'll feel better in a bit." I say reassuring me. Well, I try to. I help Aurora get up to drink the water. "There you go." abut when she coughed it up I said, "There, there." Then I help lay her back down. "The doctor didn't really say much." Yet. I thought after.

"I wish I could go out and play." I say softly looking out the small window in my room. Even if it was sunny out and I was sensitive to the sun, it'd be better than this but I couldn't go out there I was too weak to stand let alone walk. As I laid on my back I grew into another coughing fit that made my head ache. I finally laid on my side. "Can you rub my back like mom does?" I ask, mom wasn't home at the moment she was out providing for the family while Logan took a bit of time off to watch me.

I swallow. "Uh, it's not that nice out today." Who am I kidding. It's bright and beautiful outside. "Sure, I can rub your back like mom does." I've observed her do it before, do maybe I could do it the same way. I slowly start out trying to remember how to.

When he said it wasn't that nice out my eyebrows furrowed. "Are you the one that's sick?" I asked and laughed a bit but it hurt too much so I had to stop. When he attempted to rub my back the way mom did I sighed. Soon enough coughs followed after that. "I don't want to hurt anymore." I mumble.

I smile. "You aren't sick, you're just having some problems." Stop it Logan! She knows that she's deeply sick. "I know. And it really stinks, it's no fun. But I'm sure one way or another, things will be ok."

I sighed as he tried to tell me it'd be okay. I appreciated it but the fact was I knew I wasn't. "I wanna go outside." I say firmly looking at Logan. "Can, you take me outside?" I asked and then go into a deathly cough again. "Please?" I ask again.

I swallow. She wants me to take her outside. Exactly what the doctor said would make things worse. "I don't think it's a good idea." Aurora starts begging me. I sigh. "Okay, okay, but only for a few minutes. Then we're coming right back here."

After I begged him to go outside he finally agreed to it. He picked me up and took me out side and I smiled weakly. I could hear the birds and the people chopping trees down far off in the distance. The trees were bright and beautiful. Today was a beautiful day. Soon our mother was home and she looked at us. "Griffin, didn't you hear what the doctor said?" She asked. I looked over at her, "I wanted to." I say weakly and another coughing fit comes. Our mother came over and kissed my forehead. "Only five more minutes." She said before going back inside. I looked at Griffin. "Why doesn't she like me being out here?" I asked and then closed my eyes as the sun shined down on my face. It felt warm and for once it gave me comfort. "You're a good brother Logan, I couldn't have asked for a better one." I say softly.

I opened my eyes again, "Do you think dad's watching us? Do you think he's up there? I bet he's proud of you." I say and then after he sat down my hand reached down and brushed along the grass. I pulled the grass up near my face and breathed in the scent. "Grass smells so sweet." I speak and then I looked up at him. "It's peaceful out here," I start and then continue "It makes me feel like I can sleep peacefully out here." I said. My eyes closed once again and my heart rate had slowly dropped even more. When I felt like I was almost asleep I spoke, "I love you, Logan and I love mom. Can you take care of my cat Gregis as I try to get better?" I ask very quietly and then instead of falling asleep it was like I let go and there was nothing. I was gone and couldn't feel, hear, smell or anything like that.

"Okay mom." I sit silently wih Aurora for a moment. "I dunno. She's mom." Logan smile at he ground. "Thanks. I like having you as my sister." I look at Aurora and she looks extremely sickly now. Not good. "Maybe we should go inside." Aurora doesn't respond. I look down worriedly.

"I'm sure dad's watching us. And I can..." Logan gulps at the thought of his loving father. "Can only hope he's proud of me." I look up at the sky. I hope. I hope he's watching. "It is very peaceful." But that's when I hear Aurora's breathing slow. Oh no. No no no. "I will. I love you too Aurora." Then I watched her, I watched her stop breathing. I felt her heartbeat. There's nothing. "Mom!" I scream. I know there's nothing I can do. "Goodbye Aurora." I say with a tear running down my face.

(Okay hold off my shower and eating process for a moment xD)

Logan and Aurora's mom heard Logan call for her and she ran outside and when she saw Logan holding Aurora and it seemed like Aurora was gone she knelt down right near the two and tears began to form in the woman's eyes as she took the limp form of her daughter. She brushed Aurora's hair back and kissed her forehead. "She's not in pain anymore, Logan. She's in a better place and her father's taking care of her now." She said barely able to speak and soon tears just ran down the woman's cheeks as she stroked her daughters hair. "There wasn't anything we could have possibly done..The doctor said she was too ill to be treated." After that was said the woman broke down into so many tears and she began to sob.

Logan sits speechless over his lifeless sister until his mom comes. "Did we give her a good life mom? That we do the best we could? Or could we have done better? Did we make her time horrible? I just.." Logan looks at Aurora. "It was too soon. She only lived 12 years." I can't speak anymore. But them, I finally form words. "Take care of her dad." Then I stand up and help my mom carry her inside. Then I go back outside for a walk.

As i sulk through the paths of district 7 I rethink of the day i burned my brother in our house. Then i run into an unfortunate person wondering through the district streets. "Logan?!" I say in wonderment.

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