The Fault in Our Stars Alternative Ending

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Akira Yang

10/29/2014

The Fault In Our Stars Alternative Ending

I think he must have fallen asleep. I did, eventually, and woke up to the landing gear coming

down. I looked over at Augustus, who was staring out the window and I straightened my back.

We soon landed and just when the passengers were getting ready to get off the plane, a flight

attendant stopped us.

I sincerely apologize for the inconvenience, but all passengers must stay on the plane. She

said, It has been brought to our attention thata bomb has been found on the plane, so until

we find it, we request that all passengers stay in their seats and wait patiently for the security

check to finish.

Right as the attendant finished speaking, all the passengers started to panic. I rolled my eyes.

These people dont understand the futilityof their actions. Panicking wont do them any good.

Augustus looked at me and I knew he was thinking the same thing as me. Its not that I dont

understand how they feel; there was a bomb on the plane, and if it goes off, theyre all going to

die.

They need to stop panicking. Its not going to do them any good, though I understand how

they feel. Augustus said, sighing dramatically. I couldnt stop the smile that came up despite

the situation we were in.

You dont fear death? I asked, and Augustus shrugged.


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Oh, I fear death. But, if Im going to die either way, I want to at least die a death in service of a

greater good, you know?

I sighed and shook my head.

What? he asked.

You fear oblivion, yet youre obsessed with dying for something and leaving behind a sign of

your heroism or whatever. Its weird.

I want to live an extraordinary life.

I can tell.

Augustus gave me a confident smirk and I rolled my eyes at him. It was hard to believe that he

confessed to me just a few hours ago. He just confessed that he loved me, and now were

sitting on the plane with our lives on the line.

Augustus, you said that you loved me. And although I cant give you an answer right away, I

will give you a response.

Augustus was surprised and a little dubious, I could tell, but he smiled and gave me that cloying

smile that I loved.

Excellent. No rush, of course, but I thought I would inform you that there is a very attractive

one legged sex-god here, and I wouldnt want you to miss him.

I laughed in spite of myself. Augustus Waters was, without a doubt, the most self-assured being

since Narcissus.


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Well, Ill be sure to give you my answer soon.

And right after I said that, one of the passengers stood up, laughing maniacally.

Youll never find the bomb! Youre all going to die! The bomb in the restroom shall never be

found!

I stared at him with a deadpanexpression. He has got to be the most vacuousperson Ive ever

seen. He just announced to the world that he was the one who planted the bomb and gave

away its location. Looking around, I saw that everyone was panicking even more now that they

knew the terrorist was on the plane with them.

I saw Augustus move from beside me and slowly creep towards the restrooms. Reaching out, I

quickly grabbed his arm.

What are you doing? You cant expect to disarm the bomb by yourself!

I want to live an extraordinary life, Hazel Grace, and now is the perfect time to show off my

heroism. The people are panicking and encumberedwith the reality that they could die at any

moment.

I shook my head at him.

You cant go there without taking a preemptiveaction. You need to distract him first.

The passengers are panicking enough that the guy wont even notice me moving.

And with that, Augustus slowly and stealthily walked to the restrooms. I had a premonitionthat

he wouldnt be coming back. Right after Augustus went into the restrooms in search of the


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bomb, the security officials came on the plane and ordered us all to get off the plane and

arrested the terrorist. I panicked, obviously. Augustus was still on the plane trying to disarm the

bomb. I shouted out to the officers, yelling to them that there was still someone on the plane,

but they didnt listen to me and led meoff the plane.

A minute later, the plane blew up. Augustus never came back out and I knew that I would never

see him again. I could feel myself going numb as realization set in. Augustus was dead. I can

never see him again. I never even told him that I loved him and he died, just like that. A floating

sensation took over me and I felt myself falling to the ground. A woman ran over to me,

shouting in a vernacularI didnt understand. It was getting harder to breathe, and at that

moment, I realized that all our efforts have been for naught. Augustus used his wish for me,

and I wouldnt be able to fulfill it.

I slowly pushed myself up from the ground and held my head. There was a strange ringing in my

head, almost like the screeching of a car. People around me were shouting at me to move, and

when I looked forward, I saw the car that was speeding towards me. I felt strangely calm about

this though. I wouldnt be able to fulfill Augustus wish, but I could at lea


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The characters voices are consistent because while theyre still teenagers, they sound much

wiser than they should be. Hazel has a twisted sense of humor in which she doesnt really care

if she dies, but she tries her best to live because she fears that shell hurt people around her if

she dies. Augustus is someone who wants to die heroically. He believes that he should live and

die for the sake of someone else. I decided not to include Peter Van Houten because I didnt

really know how to incorporate his voice into the ending and make it end nicely. The vocabulary

words I used were futility, vacuous, dubious, cloying, vernacular, preemptive, premonition,

naught, encumbered, and deadpan. The conflict was that Augustus confessed to Hazel. I

resolved this problem by killing them both off. The characteristics of a good story that I used

were the interesting plot and not rambling on about things people dont care about.And what

the flight attendant said made absolutely no sense at all, but it needed to happen if I wanted

the story to end the way I want it to.

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