The Fault In Our Stars: A Capital-S Somewhere

*40 YEARS AFTER GUS DIED*

Hazel's POV

I always thought that when you died, it would be painful. I now know that, it's not. At least, not physically. But emotionally, it hurts like crap.

I watched my children crying. After Augustus died, I never married anyone. I couldn't date and not think of Gus. So, I just stopped dating. My children did come from Gus though. When we had our little affair in Amsterdam, we forgot to use protection and I got pregnant.

It didn't matter though. These twins helped me to always remember Gus. I tolded them all about their father. How he had cancer, how he took me to Amsterdam, and his metaphor.

"Mom. Mom. Are you okay?", my daughter Anna asks me.

"I'm okay. Sweetie, I need you to stay strong. Take care of your family for me."

"Mom, why are you saying this?", my son Peter asks.

"Because I'm going to see your father. Anna, Peter, I love you all so much. I will never stop. I know your father, even though he never met you, loves you too. And someday he will. But for now, he'll watch from a capital-S Somewhere. And so will I," I tell my kids lovingly.

My kids don't want me to die, but I have to. My cancer says so. It's forcing me to leave my kids. I always knew it would make me leave my family. I just never thought it would hurt this much.

"Kids, I love you. So, so, much."

I see the light. Wow, that sounds so cliche. I follow it.

"Hello, Hazel Grace," I hear Gus say.

"Hi"

I look down, and I see my kids crying. It pains me to see them this way, and that I can't stop it.

"Don't worry. It'll get better," Augustus says to me.
"It does?" I question.

"Yeah. It does." Gus says.

And with that, we walk off inside a capital-S Somewhere.