Author: Kris
Email: blairchika7@yahoo.com
Notes: I wrote this immediately after watching Sentinel, Too pt.1 (having no pt.2 to watch afterwords). It's kind of my intense feelings on Blair's death in writing. Ok, so here it is...
Only one Heartbeat
by Kris
I don't know what made me turn around, I was going for the doors. But I did, and there he was. I knew it was him right away, laying face-down in that water. Only he could be in that kind of trouble. If I didn't hear his heartbeat
then, it's because my own was rushing in my ears full force. Dear God, I couldn't hear it. Not as we got closer,
or as we pulled him out of the fountain, his body twice as heavy as it was before. I didn't hear it when Simon was shouting at me, asking if I could. I couldn't even answer. I was zoning out just trying to search for life in his shell of a body. His skin was a dead giveaway, as pale and grey as the stone surrounding him. No breath. I could only still
hear mine, even as I faught with his lifeless form, trying to force my own breath into his water-filled lungs. I don't know how long it was, I don't know how long I faught. I just know I kept trying, kept listening. And there was only one heartbeat. Only one, for far too long. Mine.
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