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'No Ordinary Cinderella' – A Twilight Fanfic
By No Ordinary Cinderella
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Saffron's POV
Chapter Twelve
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I never knew that hell was a fiery pit, and that the flames constantly licked at your skin.
I thought that hell was just an empty void, with nothing there, absolutely nothing but you and that would be the true torture, being alone again.
It seemed that everytime I tried to breathe in oxygen, I would inhale the red flames as well, and they would slowly burn me to death, as they tore at my skin from the inside, and as they fluidly danced around my body, setting everything in its deadly path alight with pain.
Halfway through this unbearable and agonizing pain, the snapping began. The fire had melted away my flesh and had started on my bones. So how was I still alive? The flames burnt my bones into a crisp nothing and then replaced them with fire, before stronger, tougher, bones were placed in there.
This seemed to happen to every single bone, large or small, fat or thin, important or unimportant as they may seem, but all I could think of how it hurt so badly.
The fire seemed to go to my organs next, and due to this ordeal, the fire managed to cloak itself with blackness as I passed out.
When I awoke again I found the fire had reached the limits of my body, and was on the outside of my body, on the fingertips, toes, hair, and then it all seemed to rush in at once, and the more close it got to their counterparts, the more it started to hurt. I had managed to not scream so far, but one, blood-curdling one managed to squeak its way out.
The fire seemed to be attacking the most important organ of all, the one I needed to survive, the heart. As it fought, I could hear my heartbeats getting fainter, quieter, slower, with each defence it tried to put up.
This was truly it, this was the end.
I was never a good daughter, never a pretty girl, never good, a stupid ugly girl, and now the flaming pits of hell wanted to torture me.
And I would let them, because I deserved every last bit of pain.
As my heartbeats got slower, the flames grew smaller, and as my heartbeats got quieter, the pain eased away a bit more, until there was no heartbeat or pain left.
I was dead.
But how come I could still think and feel and...
"Breathe." A smooth voice said to me.
I let in a gulp of air and my throat felt dry and restricted, and when I exhaled I opened my eyes.
"Cathy?"
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An:
Ha, you had to wait for ages for a really short chapter and I just HAD to put that cliff-hanger there, but I have two important exams next week which are counted towards my overall grade so I need to revise!
Au revoir, toodle doo,
Hoped you enjoyed this chapter,
And please review!