Second Chances: Making It Through The Rain
When Rick and Laurie Simon and Steve and Jaime Austin go on a short getaway, two old friends surface as vengeful enemies. What will it take to survive a deadly revenge?
(Simon & Simon and Bionic Woman/Six Million Dollar Man are owned by Universal Studios and will not be used for profit. No money is being made and only the original characters are owned by me; I made them up, you can't have them!)
"Rick, open your eyes." The voice…so familiar…"Laurie?"
"Come on, wake up, love. I'm scared, I need you. After all we've been through…. Please…wake up."
Rick listened to his wife's voice, shaking and pleading. He didn't want to wake up; his head hurt, his arm was on fire and he felt sick.
But she was upset. "Don't cry, darlin', it's all right." he "told" her, trying to sooth her. Instantly Laurie "called" back to him. "Rick!"
Then he heard Steve's frantic call. "Jaime, Jaime! No….please be all right!" Rick was confused…what happened?
Opening his eyes, Rick saw smoke, the cabin of a plane, broken and in pieces around him. A movement to his left caught his eye, and he realized Laurie was trying to lift him.
"Sweetheart?" he croaked, the smoke catching in his throat. At once she stopped, then gasped, "Rick? Oh thank God!"
"Laurie, see if you can get him up, we've got to get out of here!" Rick managed to turn and see a upset Steve Austin, an unconscious Jaime in his arms.
"Darling, the plane's on fire! Can you move?" Laurie asked, unbuckling his seat belt.
Gingerly moving his arms and legs, he tried sitting up, wincing at the pain in his right arm. "Damn, now I've got two bad arms." Once upright, he let his wife help him up, then they staggered out a hole in the fuselage. Outside the plane, Rick saw they were surrounded by snow patches and broken trees.
"Get as far away as you can!" Steve yelled, carrying Jaime a safe distance from the plane. Immediately the two of them followed. Setting her down gently against a fallen tree, Steve raced back into the plane, then tossed the four seats from the passenger area into the cleared area. Laurie helped Rick to sit on the ground, as Steve made another trip into the wreckage, bringing out some blankets and a plastic box. As the former colonel rushed towards the plane one more time, plumes of flame started to consume the body of the aircraft.
"Quick, behind the tree!" Steve shouted, then reversed direction and lowered himself over Jaime as a small explosion rocked the area. A crashing sound echoed around them, and Rick peered over the makeshift barrier in time to see the plane roll over, then disappear.
"Where'd it go?" he said, dazed at the sudden turn of events. Steve looked at him, then grinned wryly.
"Over the cliff, pal. We're near the top of Humphrey's Peak…so it dropped a long way."
"Steve, the next time I say, "the weather's not so bad", hit me!" Rick answered ruefully. Steve shook his head.
"Rick….join the club, I'm the one who said it was okay to fly. Of course it figures, " he added, "with Oscar and Rudy and A.J. out of town…."
"We're on our own for now." Rick finished wearily.