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SPOILER ALERT DON'T READ THIS UNLESS YOU'VE READ SPECIALS!
Hey everyone! Well...this story is kinda angsty. I guess that's why it was so hard for me to write…I've never written anything like this before! I just finished reading Specials, and I was in the mood to write something. At first, this was going to be a fic about Tally and David, but as I typed I found myself saying things about Zane instead. So I guess that's how it came out. I don't particularly like Zane, but when he died, my heart found a soft spot for him. So I wrote this. I know it's short, but like I said, it was hard to write, and I think it's shortness kinda fits the mood anyway. Well, enjoy!
Disclaimer: I do not own the Uglies/Pretties/Specials series or any characters.
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M e m o r i e s
Memories. Tally Youngblood had many of them. The good, and the bad. Becoming a bubble-head; taking Maddy's cure pills on top of the tower with Zane; sneaking out to the ruins with Shay when they were still ugly. These memories were clear in Tally's mind. Clear, and painful.
But the painful feelings that these memories conveyed could not compare to one particular memory. The memory of Zane dying before her eyes. In that moment, Tally had changed. Standing there, watching as he became weak…his eyes going dull as he passed on. Tally's special senses had made it so she could see every detail, hear his imperfect heart beat fading, so she could feel his cold hands and know that he was gone. As she stood there among the ruins of Diego's hospital, all she could do was stare. Specials didn't cry. They couldn't cry.
But that was what Tally had wanted to do most then. She wanted to disappear, to just melt away and let everything in the world swallow her up. What point was there to live on? Shay and the other Cutters could stop the war by themselves. They didn't need her. And she didn't need them.
She'd only needed Zane, Zane's love. Being with him had made her life bearable. But now that he was gone, forever, what could she do? Nothing. She couldn't do anything.
For once her life, Tally Youngblood was useless.