All that Live Must Die

Elijah stumbled home, while his head buzzed under the effect of several drinks.  Elijah struggled to keep himself up as the dizziness of walking set in, while simultaneously attempting to clear his head of thoughts about the past.  Elijah fell into his apartment, where his memories set upon like ravaging storm.  Elijah was back in his old home in Lanesport with his mother and father.  Elijah knew that tonight, his parents would die, but no matter how he yelled his parents were oblivious of the danger that quickly approached them.  He then  looked towards his younger self, full of innocence unaware of the fate that he would be left with after tonight.  Then suddenly a knock came at the door, Elijah watched in horror as his father, an imam at the local mosque, opened the door and two men forced him out of the way, throwing him to the ground.  Elijah watched his mother push him under the couch quickly, flashing one last smile before she was ripped away from him and thrown next to his father.  Then two shots rang put, jarring Elijah from his painful past.  Elijah quickly sat up and wiped the sweat from his face.  Elijah pulled himself to his bed to lay down, but his memory kept replaying in his head. Elijah stared at the fan spinning above him, and he began to slowly fade away, while his mother's face stayed ever clear in his mind.