Chapter Two
Thank you for your reviews already!! Yay for my loyal reviewers!!! Yay for Kerry Macfadden, winning celebrity!!!! Woohoo!!!!!! Anyway I am calm now! I am also knackered, and feeling rather battered and bruised from my Tae Kwon Do training for the night, plus getting in four horses and changing all of their rugs in the dark in half an hour, and all of that was after a full days work, oh to be a student again!!!! Anyway I shall stop moaning, and get on with my story...
Chapter Two
Scott hummed to himself as he flew, Virgil was only a few minutes behind with all of the fire fighting equipment, at least this rescue didn't seem like it would be too tough. In his min Scott began to plan the operation, he always prided himself in thinking of almost every eventuality in the event of a rescue, especially since his accident.
"Holy shit!" he muttered to himself as he arrived at the burning building, it was obviously spreading fast through all of the hay and straw held in the barn. He shook his head, once a fire took hold on a stable yard, it was nigh on impossible to stop it, but usually best to just leave it to burn itself out. Unfortunately this would not be possible today, as there were people trapped inside the inferno.
"TB1 to TB2, I have arrived at the danger zone, what's your ETA?" Scott asked his brother across the radio.
"ETA eleven and one half minutes Scott, what's it like down there?" Virgil's calm voice questioned in response.
"Looks hot" Scott replied bluntly, as he landed his craft as close as he safely could. "I am going to take a look around, see if I can find the person that made the call for our help" Scott told his brother, already getting out of his craft.
"Okay well be careful and stay in touch" Virgil replied, the memory of his brother trapped alone in a dark dank mine with just a dying little girl for company, still too fresh in his mind to not cause concern.
"F A B" Scott replied with a roll o his eyes, knowing all too well his brother's train of thought. As soon as he was clear of TB 1, Scott's eyes began to water from the vicious assault of the smoke. He was immediately assailed upon by an elderly lady grabbing him by the arm.
"Oh thank heaven's you're here" she told him, pulling his forwards. "Quickly this way, they're all trapped in there" she told him pointing towards the burning barn.
"Hey slow down lady!" Scott cautioned her, pulling her back slightly. "I need to know, how many people are trapped in there?" he asked her, needing to get some information from her, before she truly panicked.
"Seven, my son and daughter in law, the stable boy and my four grandchildren" she told him.
"Okay, how old is the youngest child in there?" he asked her, he needed all the detail he could get, to plan exactly how to attack the situation.
"Twenty-Four" she replied, and if it wasn't for the severity of the situation, Scott would have laughed, this old lady was so alike his own grandmother that it was uncanny.
"Okay now what's your name?" he asked her gently.
"Julia Evans" she told him.
"Okay Mrs Evans, I need you to move over here, into a safe area. In a few moments my colleague will arrive with the equipment that we need to help your family, as soon as he gets here we will get them out, okay?" he asked her, and she nodded teary eyed. He had long since learnt not to promise that he would get people out alive, as it was not always possible as he had learnt the hard way. He gently guided her back away form the heat and smoke, and just as he had manoeuvred her to safety, Virgil and TB 2 arrived, landing perfectly next to the smaller craft, Virgil jogged out to join his brother.
"What's the situation Scott?" Virgil asked as he reached his older brother, both boys missing the strange look that the nearby elderly lady was shooting the older brother once she had heard his name.
"One end of the main barn is on fire, with secondary blazes shooting up around the perimeter of the building There are seven people trapped inside, plus a number of horses" Scott told his brother, not missing the shudder than ran through him at the words. Virgil truly appreciated the beauty of horses and their grace of movement, but he wasn't so keen on meeting them face to face, especially not when they would be frightened and surrounded by fire. Scott on the other hand held no fear of the animals, he had ridden for many years since his Air Force days, and loved the feeling of being in control of such a powerful beast riding across the country side with nothing getting in the way, yet he did understand his brother's fears. It pretty much summed up their individual characters, Virgil the thinker and Scott the doer.
"Do we know how it got started?" Virgil asked, breaking his brother's train of thought.
"No, no idea, I suppose that will be down to the fire department to investigate once the fire has burnt out" Scott replied. "I think we should use the mole, so that we can go under the flames" Scott told his brother, and Virgil nodded in agreement. "I think we should both go this time, much quicker to get seven people out with the two of us" Scott continued whilst the brothers were setting up their equipment, he was also concerned about how Virgil would react to the horses present. Virgil hesitated, then eventually nodded, he knew that Scott was still; having a few problems with claustrophobia since the incident in the mine, and wasn't sure how his brother might react to being underground in the mole. Still he would have to do it sooner or later.
"Phew sure is hot" Scott muttered to his brother when they began surfacing into the main building of the barn, Virgil was pleased that his brother didn't seem to have any reaction to the enclosed space, it was in fat Virgil's fear that surfaced first when as he opened the main hatch to the mole he came face to face with a rather large bay thoroughbred, who was racing around the debris bucking and rearing. Virgil stepped back involuntarily, however Scott's hand in his back gave him courage, and he took a deep breath before stepping out into the mayhem. The two boys looked around them, but could see no sign of the people they had come to rescue. Scott gently stroked the agitated horse before him and whispered soothing words, Virgil was amazed by how calm the horse became in his brother's presence.
"See he was just afraid is all, probably can't breath too good either huh fella?" Scott muttered to the gelding before him.
"How the hell are you planning on getting the horses out?" Virgil asked, when he caught Scott's eye and realised that he had no intention of leaving the animals behind.
"I'd rather deal with the humans first" Scott replied, still trying to think of an answer to his brother's question himself. "I think we better split up, cover more ground that way. I'll start over here you go over there" Scott commanded pointing as he spoke. Virgil nodded shortly, not completely pleased with the idea, but refraining from arguing. Scott walked firm footedly over the debris, it sure was hot, and especially in the fire retardant suits they wore. He could feel the sweat dipping down his brow, they would have to hurry. He moved his torch from left to right and called out, but got no reaction. It was then that the beam of his torch caught on a doorway, he moved towards it, and gently pushed it open. The light then caught on the faces of six frightened people, kneeling on the floor with cloths over their faces, and a very shocked young girl, of about Scott's age who stared straight back at her rescuers, mouth open in shock.
"Scott?" she whispered, almost afraid that if she spoke any louder she would wake up and he would be gone. He stared at her; she had not changed in the years they had been apart.
"Hello Lucy" he replied sadly to the only girl he had ever loved.
End of chapter Two
Hey I know it's pretty short, but come on I've had a hard day!! Please R+R though, an maybe you will get a very long chapter tomorrow since Celebrity has finished!!!!!!