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Inspired by Dierdre's Fade and a freaky nightmare of mine..."shutters"
Flames
I wake to the feeling of something crushing my chest, a heavy weight. I try to open my eyes and fail, the smell of burnt flesh hits my nostrils and I gag. Then it comes flooding back to me...and I scream when I open my eyes.
The explosion, my living shield, screaming as the flames burned away his mask, his skin, watching him writhe against me as the flames sought his life. The way his body arched, mouth open, screaming. The flames attacking, the sound of bone and tendons snapping, the sight of skin peeling away and failling in ugly ashes of burnt flesh. His body convulsing as the flames stripped his lungs of precious oxygen...as the smoke flooded his lungs.
I jerk from the flash back and find myself in a corner staring at the ruined body of my older brother, my dead brother. Another memory hits me...
Screams for mercy, begging the flames to stop...the sound of my brother's pleas...the crushing weight of his body on top of me, the smell of burnt keratin, the sight of my brother's face in flames.
I retch and crumple to the floor sobbing. I drag myself forward and touch the back of my brother's head. There's nothing left in there...
"Raphie, I'm sorry," I sob slumping against the ground beside him.
"MIKEY! RAPH!" I hear Leo screaming our names, hands around me. The sound of Leo screaming in horror, Don sobbing as he hugs me tight.
Raphael is dead...he was my shield against those flames...
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