It was a normal Tuesday morning at Holby City General Hospital and it had just been the switch over, Everyone had turned up for work apart from Elliot who had a family matter to see to also Jac Naylor who had the week off for Emma's 1st birthday.
Harry and Mary-Claire are in the AAU locker room getting ready for their shift mucking around and portending like they don't fancy each other when they really do.
Zosia, Arthur, Colette and Guy are in theatre making sure they had everything ready for the open heart surgery later on today. Zosia and Guy disagreeing as usual and Colette breaking up the almost fight and Arthur standing reading his notes.
Fleur, Sacha and Sophia were on Keller discussing a pervious patient who had mysteriously gone missing but had security onto it. Fleur had not long left of her shift as she had worked in theatre over night with Michael Spence who had just gone home.
Jonny, Mo, Adele and Fletch were on their break in the Darwin staff room having tea and cake that was made by Adele. Fletch was worried for Colette as they had got back together and she wasn't herself for the past 2 months Fletch thought it was stress as she was due annual leave soon.
Essie, Raf and Connie were standing waiting for the lift to arrive and discussing ideas about Darwin as Connie was due to perform open heart surgery later no today with Raf and Zosia who was going to observe. Raf, Essie and Connie finally entered the Lift and headed for Darwin.
Suddenly there was a massive explosion which sent people flying everywhere including all the members of staff all over the hospital. In theatre Zosia had been sent flying and was slumped against the wall and was unconscious, Colette lay on the floor covered in debris unconscious while Guy and Arthur had managed to shelter themselves from the blast as they went into the back room to check the oxygen supply.
When Guy heard the explosion he ran out back into the theatre room followed by Arthur they both looked around the room and saw Colette under a load of rubble with cuts to her head and face nothing major, Guy ran over to her and said "Colette? Colette can you hear me come one Colette!" Colette began to cough and splutter "What happened ?" Colette slowly sat up and looked around the room which had been destroyed by the blast. Arthur could hear coughing coming from behind him so he turn around to see Zosia slumped against the wall trying to move "Mr Self ! Zosia she is in hear is that her over there" Arthur pointed towards the wall where Zosia lay but there was a mound of rubble in the way. Colette managed to get up and started to help Guy and Arthur free Zosia who's leg had been trapped under the rubble "Do you smell gas ?" Colette said to Guy in a calm voice trying not to distress Zosia who was now fully aware of being trapped "Get me out. Get me out please my leg it kills" Zosia began to scream as Guy moved her leg "Right we need to get out of here... Zosia you need to get up I know you leg is possibly broken but we need to move this room will go up in flames any minute"
As Colette, Arthur, Guy and Zosia got out of theatre they made there was down the hall way towards what looked like the entrance to Darwin when there was another explosion which sent Colette, Zosia, Arthur and Guy flying to the fall as the roof above them set alight. "WE NEED TO MOVE COME ON ZOSH ITS NOT SAVE" Colette screamed as she saw Arthur and Guy make their way into Darwin which they thought it was anyway.
Meanwhile Essie woke up in the lift which had stopped and looked around the room to see Raf sitting there trying to figure out what had just happened while Connie lay against Essie as she had hit her head with Essie as the explosion happened. The lift began to creek and Raf suddenly shot up and said to Essie "We need to wake Connie I don't think the lift is going to stay up for much longer" Essie shook Connie by the shoulder and said "Connie we need to come the lift isn't going to hold come on" Connie shot up and hugged Essie and Raf "Thank the lord we are alive. Look that shaft there opens if we push it up I am sure I will open" Raf got on his tip toes and pushed the shaft open and pulled himself out and said "Right Essie you are the smallest up you come, Connie when she is halfway up you need to support her legs so she don't fall back in and then when she is out you are going to climb onto that rail their and pull yourself up we cannot risk you jumping with the lift about to fall" So once Essie had climbed up Connie pulled herself up and on to the top of the lift, "Look there is some ladders I think there might be the engineer exit up their best a try isn't it?" Essie pointed towards a little door at the very top of the shaft.
Raf, Essie and Connie began to climb the ladders that were at the side of the lift shaft all the way to the top "Connie can you smell burning?" Raf asked Connie as he looked down to see Essie looking up at Raf with the terrified look on her face while Connie kept saying positive things to her and Essie to keep themselves moving "Yes I can Raf we must be near the ward were the fire started on this must be Darwin then because it says floor 17" Connie looked up at Raf and smiles to keep herself going while Essie muttered to herself under her breath. "Oh god I hope I get to see Grace again" Connie said, Just then the lift that they were in dropped the wire snapped and the lift hurtled towards to bottom floor "5 more minutes and if we were still in there we would be toast"
Jonny woke to the sound of screaming and the sound of the structure of the hospital groaning when he sat up he saw Adele and Mo sitting on the sofa trying to stop the bleed on Adele's arm she had fallen through the glass panel as the explosion happened, Fletch came over to Jonny and said "You alright mate?" Jonny looked at Fletch with a blank expression "What just happened I remember getting a cup of coffee and you going on about Colette and that was it blank the rest" Fletch smiles and says "Well mate it looks like there has been some sort of explosion we do need to evacuate the hospital anyway come on mate if you can walk we need to get out and I need to find Colette"
So Jonny and Fletch walked off towards the fire exit while Adele and Mo helped people find their way out of Darwin. Fletch decided to take the stairs to see if there was a way out "look you can see the car park from here maybe if we bang this window someone might hear us" Jonny said as she pushed the door open to the stairs. Then the most horrible thing happened there was an explosion coming from Darwin which wiped out the rest of the people left of Darwin including the HCA and the last remain Doctor on the ward which happened to be Mo. "Oh My life the oxygen cylinders must of gone up in the fire as well" Jonny and Fletch both lowered their head for a few seconds in respect of the two members of staff that had just died.
Down on Keller Harry had managed to wake up and remove himself from the rubble, he had totally forgotten about Mary-Claire until he heard coughing coming from under the rubble, Harry panicked when he heard Mary-Claire call out for him in a croaky voice, he knew she needed urgent assistance as Mary-Claire was never this quite. "Harry please...Please help me" Mary-Claire said as Harry started to remove the rubble and roof tiles away to revel Mary-Claire lying her inner thigh seriously cut and her arm looked as if someone had punched her a lot of times. As Harry sat Mary-Claire up she gave a cry out in pain which causes Harry to look at her back to see what looked like a small metal beam lodged in her back, "MC I need you to stay with me please I am going to get you out of here!" Harry gently picked up Mary-Claire who was now barely conscious and began to walk down the corridor with her in bridle carrying position.
Harry had managed to get Mary-Claire to a safe part of the hospital that hadn't been touched by the explosion only empty corridors and empty wheel chairs left lying around. "Come on Mary-Claire stay with me, Please don't leave me I love you. When we get out of here I am going to marry you and you must say yes" Harry continues to walk with Mary-Claire in his arms when she turned to him and said "You promise?" Harry was amazed that Mary-Claire still conscious, Harry smiled and nodded "Yes know don't say any more you need to keep your energy up" Harry kissed her on her head and came to a fire exit near Psychology.
Fleur sat up and looked around the empty Keller ward no one was their apart from Sacha who was trying to find signal to let the fire cure know where they are and Sophia sitting against the wall with an oxygen mask on and her left in a blow up splint "Sophia?" Fleur said quickly before getting up and walking over to her "speak to me Sophia are you alright... Argh!" Fleur cried out in pain and she put her hand to her head she had managed to split her head open when she hit the desk and then the floor "Pudsey what is going on what happened here?" Sacha noticed that Fleur was sitting next to Sophia and said "The fire cure seem to think there was an explosion up on Darwin and half the staff have not made contact with the fire cure so they are still trapped in the hospital like us" Flue gave Sacha a little reassuring smile and sat next to Sophia wondering what the next half hour would bring them.
Meanwhile Colette and Zosia had to find their own way out as the hallway collapsed in on them while walking down towards oncology, Arthur and Guy had managed to escape the hospital but know were fearing for the rest of the people left in the hospital including Colette and Zosia.
Colette and Zosia had give up hope of getting out of the hospital alive and had stopped to rest in the corridor "Have you ever wanted children Colette?" Zosia asked to break the silence "Yeah I thought of it but never gave it ago wish I had know who would want a 37 year old as their mother?" Zosia laughed and smiled at Colette " I have always wanted Children I wanted to have a little boy and call him Nathanial and a little girl called Kate don't know why but I love the idea of a family" Zosia smiled and began to cough again so did Colette. Then a little girl came running down the corridor covered in black dust and a cut forehead "Help me please my Mummy she isn't breathing" Colette sprang up like she had got her mojo back and walked over to the little girl and said "Hello I am Colette and this is Zosia we work here can you tell me your name please?" The little girl looked up at Colette and smiled before looking at Zosia who was trying to get up off the floor.
"My name is Danielle but my Mummy calls me Danni, I am 4 it's my birthday today and I was going to see Mummy and on that ward their and once the banging noise had stopped my mummy stopped to" Colette looked at the ward sign and noticed it was the ward for people who were dying anyway but it was there just to see the until the end. "Okay darling lets go get out of here!" Zosia had managed to stand up and Colette picked up Danni and told her that her Mummy had gone to the angels know and she won't be seeing her for a while.
The lights flickered at Colette, Zosia and Danni walked down the corridor well Colette and Danni did but Zosia limped down the corridor towards what looked like the exit near the ED. "Look Colette can I see day light?" Zosia was wrong it was another fire which was stopping them from exiting the hospital and the ED side.
Essie, Raf and Connie had made it out the lift shaft alive but that was the least of their worries Connie turned to Essie and Raf and said "Can you smell Gas because..." As Connie spoke the place where they keep the gas cylinders exploded sending Connie and Essie flying backwards down the hallway Raf was ok as he had gone into a room down the corridor to look out a window to see what part of the hospital they were in "Right so we are near AAU so it isn't far until we find the emergency stairs."
Meanwhile outside the hospital more people have managed to get out the hospital apart from the others. "Have you seen Colette?" Guy walks up to Elliot who is currently trying to ring Jac to tell her that they need help ASAP, "Erm, No sorry Mr Self but I haven't seen Colette since yesterday" Guy looks up at the building wondering where Colette and Zosia are.
Jonny and Fletch have know made it out the hospital and are being treated by the paramedics "Fletch what are you doing here?" Fletch heard a voice come from behind him it was Rita and Dixie "Hello ladies nice to see you again! So where is Tamzin?" Fletch lets out another chesty cough before seeing Dixie pointing over at Iain stitching up Tamzin's head "Hello Tamz in the wars again?" Tamzin see Fletch and smiles "Nice to see you again Fletch, No I was up on AAU giving a woman her handbag back when something exploded I managed to get out with a few other people"
Harry has stopped for a rest in a room that was untouched when the explosion went off and had placed Mary-Claire down on the sofa and had got her a drink of water while he changed the bandages around her abdomen where she got impaled by the piece of debris "Harry... are you serious about marrying me?" Mary-Claire said quietly Harry smiles and Said "Of course I do, I have loved you since day one. I want us to grow old together and have children with their dads good looks" Mary-Claire smiled as her face seemed to drop in colour to a more paler white than before .
Harry finally scooped Mary-Claire back up into his arms and said "Right we are going to get out of here MC" Harry kissed her on the head and carried on walking until they found a place that looked like it had an exit.
Back on Keller Fleur and Sacha had decided that had to get out as the pulse in Sophia's leg was dropping and Sophia was suffering from drossiness even though they were both doctors where couldn't do anything because Fleur had a cut to her head which could lead to concussion and Sacha had back pains "Right after three we lift her and we go down the fire escape" Once they had lifted Sophia up they managed to get out and onto the fire escape where they made their way down towards everyone else who had made it out, Fleur felt the freedom as soon as she was out of the hospital and was happy that she wasn't going to die with the ex and Pudsey.
It had been 40 minutes since the explosion and Colette and Zosia along with Danni were still trapped in the building. "Do you think we will ever find a way out?" Zosia asked Colette questioning her life once again "I don't know Zosh, we need to keep our hopes up for Danni remember?" Colette looked over at Danni who was standing looking around kicking pieces of rubble about. "excuse me ?" Danni said tugging on her cardigan, Colette turns around to Danni and says "Hey what's up?" Colette rubs her hand up and down her arm trying to calm Danni down who was now crying "I...I want my Mummy" Danni finally breaks down and starts to cry hysterically. Colette picks up Danni and hugs her and tells her that they will find a way out and then she can find her Dad.
Raf had found the emergency exit but the door was stuck and Connie and Essie where trying to see if there was anywhere else of escaping the hospital "Come one girls a little help over here?" Connie and Essie turned to see Raf pushing the door "Come on Raf you are a man aren't you ?" Essie said while moving some rubble from around the door to see if that was what was jamming the door. Finally the door slams open and Connie, Raf and Essie start to breath fresh air, "Thank god for that!" Essie shouts at the top of her voice. Raf, Connie and Essie start to walk down the stairs when Connie slips on the stairs and ended up with her whole body dangling over the edge of the stair case, Essie screams as she watches Connie try to hang on to the side of the staircase "Please Help me" Screams Connie as she begins to lose her grip, It was a matter of life or death. Raf had to react to quick to Connie or she would fall to her death, And in the blink of an eye Connie lost he grip and began her dissent to the ground...