A Life Without You…

Chapter one: Don't leave me

POV: Kim Crawford

I felt tears rolling down my cheeks as I stared down at his lifeless form. He just couldn't be dead! My mind swirled sickeningly as the past few hours replayed in my head.

"Hey Kim, come on!" Jack told me for the umpteenth time to keep up. I sighed and made myself go faster. "Coming!" I replied, frustrated. "Jerry! Don't walk so close to the edge." I cried. Jerry turned to me. "I got this Kim, besides, Jack and I are tied together, if I fall, he'll just pull me back up." He smiled at me. "Or, I'll let you dangle and laugh while you scream." Jack teased. Jerry shot him a dirty look –in a friendly way-

I shook my head, smiling. Leave it to Jerry and Jack to be messing around when they're up this high. Jack, Jerry and I were vacationing in the mountains, and right now, we were climbing along one of the ridges. There were steep drops on either side of us. Somehow, I had no idea how this place was open to the public, it was dangerous. But the boys had to have their fun, and I let them. If they wanted to get themselves killed, well, let them!

Metaphorically speaking of course. I never actually intended on letting any of them die. And still, here I am, holding his head in my lap, his blood still soaking my clothes. My mind returned to the past.

"Jerry, I'm serious, stop being stupid!" I cried as Jerry slipped and nearly fell. "She's right dude." Jack told him, bracing his weight against the rope. I was tied to them as well. My rope was tied to the middle of theirs and was only half as long, which was about two feet. "I said I got thi-" His sentence was cut off when the rocks beneath his feet at the very edge of the cliff broke and he fell. "Jerry!" Jack and I cried. We leaned back against the rope, holding his weight.

"Hold on Kim, we… can pull him back up." Jack cried. I nodded, glancing back at him. "Jack! Look out!" I cried as he took a step back and too slipped off the edge. I shrieked when the rope went taught, ripping me off my feet. "Ow…" I moaned. I was closer to the side where Jack was he was dangling loosely, and it looked like he was unconscious. "Jerry?" I cried over my shoulder. There was no reply. I grunted and scooted back to the middle of the cliff. I needed to do something.

I finally decided as I saw that it got narrower up ahead. I would be able to see them both, and possibly help them back up. I was wrong. As I finally reached the narrowest part, I looked below me to see the most horrifying thing I'd ever seen. Jagged rocks at the bottom, was a given, but also that the rock beneath me was no longer solid, I was laying on a ledge jutting-out from the rest of the rocks, and a thin ledge at that. The situation had quickly become worse.

By now, Jack and Jerry were starting to wake up, and I was starting to feel the strain of holding them. I whimpered when I felt the rope begin to snap. "Jack! Jerry! Wake up!" I told them. They obeyed. "Kim, you can't hold us, get Jerry up." Jack told me. "No! I got you, just hold... on." The rope had come untied from mine and I was now holding onto it for their dear lives as it started to fray in the middle.

I swallowed hard, glancing down at them. I could tell that the ropes had come untied from them as well and the only thing holding them was themselves. I screamed when the rope finally snapped and my arms were nearly ripped out of their sockets as they went taught again. I was now stuck, splayed on my stomach on a thin and crumbling piece of rock, with two boys at the end of two ropes in my hands.

I whimpered as I begun feeling the massive strain. I felt Jack's rope bouncing. I glanced down at him. He was trying to climb it, but I could tell he was having trouble. I could see blood all over his right shoulder, probably caused from when he first fell. He slid back down, unable to do it. "Hold on guys! Just hold on!" I told them.

Jack looked up at me. "Kim, you can't save us both!" He cried, locking his eyes with mine. "Yes… I can, just hold on!" I cried, strain thick in my voice. "No, you can't!" I found it hurtful he lacked confidence in my abilities. "I can't lose you guys! No! I won't let either of you go!" I cried at him. He glanced over at Jerry, then back up at me. "I know you won't, I won't make you chose." He told me quietly, then I saw his hands slip free of the rope and he was falling…

"NOOOO!" I heard someone scream, not realizing it was me. "JACK!" Jerry screamed. I was pulled heavily to the left, Jerry's weight suddenly the only weight I had to hold. I stood up and heaved back, helping Jerry up. He fell onto the rock, panting. I fell back down on my hands and knees to see Jack's broken form down at the bottom.

I had run with all my might until I found a way down, leaving Jerry alone up on the rock. I had come to Jack, who was panting heavily, and bleeding even more so. "Jack!" I whimpered, grabbing his upper body and putting it in my lap. "Hold... just hold on, you're gonna be okay." I whimpered. He looked around.

"Is Jerry okay?" He asked. I nodded. He smiled. "Good." I leaned down, not wanting anything to happen to him without him knowing how I felt. I kissed him softly, tenderly, lovingly. When I pulled back, he was gone. I had stayed there with him for hours.

And that's how I was now. I had forgotten about Jerry. I didn't know where he was and I honestly didn't care. I stared at Jack's face. Stared at the blood all over his body. At the sickening way his bones looked all twisted and out of place. I let my head droop. "Jack." I whimpered, letting the tears fall. "A life without you isn't a life I want to live."

(A/N: how did you like it? Because I'm just not sure. And some of you have been asking why all my stories I'm mean to Jack well, I think it's an illness. I'm mean to the characters I LOVE. I don't know why, like I said, i think it's an illness. Anyway, REVIEW and let me know if you want me to continue.