Human Nature (Book 4): Human Nature IV by Borthwick, Finlay (book recommendations website .TXT) 📗

One of the nurses performed CPR on the first body. As Elliot’s eyes adjusted, he soon realised that this was Kenneth, the pilot.

Out of pure instinct, Olivia clenched Elliot’s hand tightly as she too watched the nurse press and depress Kenneth’s chest.

Then, tragically, she looked up at her fellow paramedic and remorsefully shook her head.

Olivia gasped, “Oh—My God.” She was in utter dismay at the sight of someone being pronounced dead, for never had she seen anything like it.

Elliot was completely emotionless still, however. Then, his phone vibrated in his pocket.

Noticing that Elliot wasn’t reacting to it, Olivia took the liberty of reaching into his pocket and answering it for him, “Ryan… Yes, we’re alright… Elliot’s fine. He’s here, he’s just not talking… Well, not everybody. The pilot didn’t make it… Oh, uh, Lucy is—”

As Olivia turned away from Elliot and looked back over at the wreckage, she saw that Kenneth’s body had been carted away on the first stretcher, giving her a clear view of the second body; it was Lucy, though she had already deduced as much.

The nurse desperately pressed and depressed on Lucy’s chest now instead.

“Come on, come on, please!” Olivia desperately mumbled to herself, praying to every deity that she knew of in her mind.

Then, in the most tragic sight that Elliot and Olivia had both witnessed until that point, they watched as the nurse shook her head, and cautiously pulled the blanket over the late Lucy’s face.

“No—No! No!” Olivia was absolutely distraught as she burst out into tears.

The sheer grief was too much for Elliot to handle. With all of his emotions ravaging him from the inside, the only external feeling that he displayed was the formation of a minute tear in his left eye.

LONDON, NOVEMBER 2034

SIXTEEN YEARS AFTER LUCY’S DEATH…

“I’m—I’m so sorry, Lucy.” Elliot was tearful and was grieving about Lucy for the first time in a great many years. He had never truly come to terms with what had happened on that day, and as such, had only buried his grief rather than moved on from it.

What Elliot thought to be even more tragic was how all the people that he knew back then were now very much long gone; Ryan gave up his life not long after Lucy had lost hers’, Steven was killed by The Bandits during their first attack on London, and Olivia was killed during a conflict within Camp Hackley.

Elliot, truly was, the last one left…

About the Author

Finlay Borthwick grew up in a small village in South-East England. His entire life he has had a sweet spot for writing and storytelling from a very young age. Whenever it came to writing stories in primary school, Finlay always obtained the highest marks in his class. Even through his teenage years, this carried on, achieving some of the highest grades in his secondary school English classes as well.

Aside from writing, he also plays bass guitar in his free time. For a while, he also took up the sport of tennis, and even karate. Both of which however he ultimately decided were not for him. Writing on the other hand has stuck with him his entire life.

He has also written a series of books in a post-apocalyptic based franchise entitled “Human Nature,” a dystopian set following a global crisis which has ended the world. More recently, he has also branched into writing collections of short stories, under the series name “Tribulations.”

Also Available

-Human Nature

-Human Nature II

-Human Nature III

-Tribulations: Short Stories In Sci-Fi, Mystery & Romance