A/N: Hey, guys! Just wanted to thank you all who have reviewed and followed this story. I think every Monday I shall update? Just to give ya something to look forward to on Mondays? :P haha, I just might. Anyway, If you have not seen Poseidon, I recommend you to NOT watch the movie until this fiction is finished, okay? The deaths will be the same, and those are major spoilers. Let me just say, brace yourselves for your favourite characters to be gone. Not giving anything other that than away. Not proof read as usual. Sorry!
Disclaimer: I do not own Skins, the characters [besides Declan, he's mine] or the movie Poseidon.
Chapter two: The Aftermath
The screams were the first thing Emily had heard, she had fallen over with everyone else when the ship had overturned. She had also lost consciousness, her brain hurt that's what she had known from the start. It felt like her brain was pounding against her forehead, fighting to break out of her skull. The small red head had opened her eyes and she was now staring at what used to be the floor under her feet. But, now it was the ceiling to her. She slowly sat up and gently brushed her hair out of her eyes, and examined the room before her. Women were yelling out to their husbands, cries of pain and discomfort filled the air. Piercing screams were heard everywhere, and the young mother craned her neck as she observed her surroundings. Debris strewn out everywhere, chairs and tables were overturned. Glass had laid everywhere, and the chandeliers were flicking on and off. It looked like a tornado had blown threw the entire ballroom. Emily was too caught up in watching everyone scramble around her to even think of her son's wellbeing. She finally looked directly in front of her, and before her very eyes, laid a woman. She looked to be in her early forties, her dress and jewelry alone, said "rich and powerful" but she would no longer experience power again, because she was dead. Her eyes were wide open and the look of fear was permanently etched onto her facial features, she died fearing for her life. Emily couldn't help the sob that forced its way out of her throat, she had never seen a dead person in her life before. She began to frantically look around for her son, but he was nowhere to be seen, she began to panic.
"Declan?!" The young mother called out, there was movement to her left. Emily had quickly turned her head and she saw two bodies sit up and she watched in horror because she realized they were dead and suddenly Tony Stonem sat up; he was the one who moved them. He pushed them off his body and he too was quickly taking in his surroundings. His mouth was bleeding, but other than that the blue eyed man hadn't a scratch on his body. "Declan?" Emily had repeated as she got up of the makeshift floor. She knew she had to find her son quickly. She was afraid he did not make it, and that was her biggest fear; finding Declan deceased.
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In the club it was much worse than the ballroom. Mayhem was breaking out. People running everywhere, live electric wire was loose and shooting off bolts of electricity. There were few people who were impaled by the metal beams that had fallen from the ceiling when everything settled. Luckily for Effy Stonem she was in the ladies room when the rogue wave hit. She had fought her way out of the bathroom, and finally took in the site. She was scared for herself and Freddie. He was nowhere to be seen.
"Freddie?!" Effy yells out, she steps down off a 3 foot ledge, and frantically looks around for her lover. "Freddie?" She spotted him lying unconscious. She didn't act nor think, she quickly made her way over to him, she knelt down to his unconscious body. "Freddie, wake up." She said as she shook his shoulder, and he regained consciousness and looked up at her. Freddie's eyes were unfocused for a moment and his memory was hazy, but then the memories soon came back to him. He soon noticed the beam that lay on his leg, he felt a tremendous amount of pressure on his left leg. Freddie tried to pull himself out from under the huge beam, but his body didn't budge.
"Eff, my legs pinned, I can't get out." He said as he struggled against the metal beam. Pushing with all his might, but it did not budge. Effy wordlessly helped him try to move it, but even with her help, it didn't move.
"Fuck," Effy muttered and quickly stood up, diverting her attention to the copious amounts of people scurrying by them. "Someone help us, please." She asked, but no one stopped by them. She saw a blonde haired girl, holding her forehead as she walked by her. "Hey, help us, will you?" The brunette asked the blonde passerby. Effy had grabbed her arm to stop her and they made eye contact, as Effy looked into eyes similar to hers, the girl nodded quickly as if finally realizing she was being spoken to.
"I'm Pandora, but you can call me Panda." The girl said, she smiled down at Freddie as if the ship had not just turned around and there was a catastrophe happening to either of them. The three of them began trying to lift the large metal beam off Freddie's leg.
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Emily Fitch was continuing her search for her son, and the blue eyed man that awoke next to her decided to help her look for her son. Tony Stonem was his name. A few years older than Emily, he had very familiar blue eyes to her, almost like Naomi's but his eyed didn't make her heart thud against her ribcage like she had just ran a million miles.
As the both of them made their way about, searching for Declan. Emily had spotted a familiar blonde, she lay in between poker tables. Her body looked lifeless and dead, Emily had saw the gaping wound on the side of her face and she felt sadness flow threw her body as she realized that woman was Naomi, and she now laid lifeless and dead. The redhead felt tears prick her eyes, and she was about to let them spill over when she felt a tap on her shoulder and she turned to Tony, who was looked up at the ceiling.
"Hey lady, is that your boy?" He had asked her, and she reverted her gaze up to the ceiling. And, sure enough there was Declan. He was hiding on the piano on the stage, it looked like it was bolted to the stage that was now on their ceiling. Declan was looking down at them with fresh tears in his brown eyes.
"Declan, don't worry. We'll get you down." Emily said and her voiced cracked.
"Declan?" Tony asked and grabbed the stage curtain that was still connected to the wall, he pulled it out and someone helped him with it and he held it open. "Don't worry ma'am, I used to be a firefighter." He reassured Emily, and looked up towards Declan. "Hey, bud. I'm gonna need you to jump into this curtain. Don't worry, you'll be alright." He hollered up to the frightened 8 year old. "Jump, now." Tony ordered in a stern voice.
Declan held his feet over the side of the piano and he psyched himself up and then he jumped the thirty feet or so into the beige curtain and landed inside. Safe and sound. Emily wasted no time in picking up her son into her arms and held him tightly against her. "Are you alright, Dec? You're not hurt are you?" She asked as she rubbed his back lovingly. His little body held on tightly to her and he cried against her shoulder, and shook his head.
Naomi was slowly regaining consciousness, her hearing slowly coming back to her as she rubbed her face. She felt something warm and sticky that covered her face, and the events of that day slowly flooded back to her. She quickly sat up and immediately began looking for Declan. She spotted him in Emily's arms, safe. She felt an overwhelming feeling of relief flow through her veins, and she finally let out a breath she had been holding.
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Back at the club, Effy and Panda still had no luck in getting the beam off Freddie's leg. They were heaving and grunting, no one even tried to help them. Funny how when life throws you a curveball and then suddenly it's every man for himself. They were continuing trying to remove the beam, but the screams of terror filled the air and they were forced to stop, the girls and Freddie quickly looked to their right and saw the live wire had touched the water that was flooding the floor. Electrocuting anyone who was unfortunate enough to come into contact with the deadly water, a few metal beams were in contact with it as well. And, some people tried to save their lives and climb onto the beams, but the electricity flowed through the metal beams and they were electrocuted to death. The girls watched in horror as they saw countless people die. Freddie quickly turned away as he saw the people die, he pushed harder and rattled against the beam and then he pounded his fists against it. "Come on!" He screamed out, pushing hard against the metal.
"We need something to leverage this." Effy said and she was going to go search for something, when Freddie grabbed her wrist and pulled her back.
"No." Was his only response as she gazed down at him, Panda looked between both of them.
"I'll go," She offered, as she glanced back at the massacre that was now eerily quiet. "It's just dead people, right?"
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"Now everyone please remain calm. We don't need anyone make unnecessary fuss about things, please." Captain Roberts had said as he stood on a chair and looked out at what was left of the people in the ballroom. "There is some good news and some bad. We were hit by what is known as a rogue wave. It's very rare and lethal. Luckily when the ship overturned emergency GPS tracking beacons were released to the coastguard. We have at most two to three hours to wait for help." He said and he heard a few people groan at the idea.
As Captain Roberts began explaining more of the situation Naomi Campbell was doing anything but paying attention, lucky for her she had stashed a bag in the ballroom, she had caught site of it when she had awoken. She had came prepared for this type of thing. Not to mention she had a bad feeling, and her sixth sense told her to be prepared for something. She finally located her bag and quickly leapt out of site and got changed into more respectable clothing. She had quickly pulled on her jeans, boots and t shirt. Trying to escape the ship in a tight cocktail dress was something she did not want to do. After the blonde had changed she located a map of the ship, and was examining it. She made up her mind of a route she could take to escape this ship. There was no way they could wait, this ship was going to sink and Naomi knew it.
Naomi was searching through the left over debris on the floor, she had found a nice pocket knife on a dead man. Of course a part of her felt guilty for taking from the dead, but desperate times calls for desperate measures. She had also found a flashlight, and was testing it out when a familiar voice interrupted her thoughts.
"Watcha doin?" An innocent voice asked her as she was kneeled down and she looked up at him, expecting to see Emily by Declan's side.
"I'm going to get out of here." She said as she was rummaging around for some more useful tools.
"How? The ships turned upside down. That's why we're next to the chandeliers." Declan said as he watched Naomi in awe.
"Through the bottom, up there." Naomi pointed to the top of the now ceiling.
"How? That's the part that's all sealed up, right?" Naomi looked at Declan as he looked at her with a curious look on her face, she didn't feel an ounce of annoyance from his non-stop questions, the blonde actually found them amusing, so she decided to answer every single one of his questions. She smiled again for the third time that night as she began explaining how she could find her way out of the overturned ship.
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Tony Stonem was very adamant on finding his sister, and he really wasn't going to stop at anything. Not a stupid rogue wave could get in between him and protecting his little sister.
"How can I get to the club?" Tony asked Captain Roberts as they weaved their way through the many injured, and Captain Roberts was holding his shoulder in pain as they walked.
"You can't." The captain simply replied, he was finding this Stonem very annoying.
"I can, and I will. You just need to tell me how to go about this." Tony said as the Captain turned around and finally made eye contact with the Stonem brother.
"Look, Tony. You know safety proto calls. If I let you go, then soon everyone will be pilling through the door just to get to their family all over the ship. And you and I both know that will be very nasty."
"Look, I don't care what you say. I'm going to find my sister, and no matter what you say I will find her. Nothing's going to stop me." Tony said with anger now filling his body. Did this tosser actually think he could keep Tony from his sibling?
"I'm ordering you to stay here in this room." Captain Roberts challenged Tony.
"You order me?" Tony scoffed as the Captain nodded. "You can't stop me either, old man."
"It is in my jurisdiction to keep everyone safe."
"And, it is in my jurisdiction to keep my sister safe." Tony said as he stepped closer to the captain. "I don't care what you say, I'll bloody go find her my own sodding self."
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Declan had finally walked away from Naomi after she explained how she could get out, and Naomi was finally left to her own devices. She was about to climb up the stairs to make her way out of the ballroom when Declan's voice rang out and stopped her.
"Mum, see. She said she could get out through the bottom. The propellers area." Declan said as he rambled about something else, and Emily eyed her suspiciously.
"Please tell him, we actually can't." Emily said as she eyed Naomi.
"But, I can." Naomi said as she leaned against the stairwell as Declan was talking about boats. Naomi and Emily were too busying staring at each other to notice Tony eavesdropping on them.
"Yeah, these ships aren't necessarily designed to stay afloat upside down." A tall African boy piped up from the side of the stair well and everyone looked over at him. "I'm Thomas, please to meet you."
"You can get out of here?" Tony had asked, completely ignoring Thomas' remarks.
"Yes, I can." Naomi answered as she resisted an eyeroll, these people were being a huge nuisance to her, she just wanted to get out of there.
"Do you know how to get to the club?" Tony asked as he stepped closer to her and Naomi now couldn't resist fixing him with a scowl.
"I guess, what're you in the mood to go dancing?" She asked sarcastically.
"Take me with you, I need to find my sister." Tony declared and Naomi immediately shook her head.
"No offense, but I work better on my own."
"Come on." Tony said and saw a young woman beside them. She was dressed as an employee, black dress up pants and a white button up shirt, and her name tag read "Sophia" "Hey, look. Do you know your way around the ship?" Tony asked her and the girl named Sophia, set down a chair and walked over to the little group and nodded. "Whatever you make in a year, I'll double it." Tony offered and the girl raised three of her fingers as she looked at him expectantly and he ruefully nodded. "Alright, fine." He turned his attention towards Naomi who had watched. "See now you have a map, and we can go."
"Whatever, just keep up." Naomi muttered as she turned and walked up the stairwell, secretly hoping Emily and Declan would come with.
"Mum, are we going with them?" Declan asked hopefully as he looked up at his mother.
"Yeah, baby. Let's go." Emily said hesitantly and they followed them up the stairs. Followed by Thomas who had helped them both onto the stairwell. Little did they know everyone in the ballroom was watching them leave, as they made their way to the door. And, Captain Roberts was watching them as they retreated to the door and he was slightly angry that they didn't listen to them. He knew they were going to die, and he was going to be the one that was going to live.
"Seal the doors." He ordered what was left of the employees. The small group made their way into the kitchen, and the yellow emergency doors were sealed shut, closing with a loud bang and made Declan jump a little.
"Don't touch anything, Dec." Emily said as she saw the fire on the other side of the room, it wasn't a huge fire but it was definitely a sign that there was a fire before they entered the room. The kitchen looked to be very expensive and glamourous but now after the ship was hit, it had debris and cooking equipment scattered across the floor.
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Pandora Moon was slow making her way across the room that was now laid with dead bodies. And, she was muttering a prayer as she held her cross that laid against her chest. She was more than terrified; she was now stepping over people she had seen die. Her heart was pounding against her chest, and her breathing was labored like she had run a marathon.
"Please God, if you let me live through this, I promise I will never surf and turf with a boy again." Panda said quietly and then spotted a beam to climb on and saw a piece of metal that was sticking out. She could use that to leverage the beam to get Freddie out. She was slowly and hesitantly climbing the beam, praying to God that the beam wouldn't electrocute her as she climbed it. She was making her way up the beam, and suddenly someone grabbed her wrist tightly. She jumped and screamed so loud people would think someone was murdering her. Panda looked to the culprit who had grabbed her. Whoever the hand belonged to, pushed a few dead people off of him, and it was none other than Cook. He gasped and looked around quickly. Shock and horror appeared across his facial features and then looked up at Pandora.
"What the hell d'you go on and do to all these people?"
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The group spotted a service elevator that could lead them to the club. Tony had gotten a big knife and stuck it in between the elevator doors and pried them open. He and Thomas pushed them open. Naomi stuck her head out and looked down. She could see the various bits of sharp metals jutting out from the bottom of the elevator shaft.
"Christ." Was all Naomi said, and she looked up and spotted an elevator that was on fire and looked to be on the verge of falling. "Better do this quick then." She had said to no one in particular. She pulled Sophia over to her side and pointed to the opening across from her. "Where's that lead to?"
"Another set of stairs." Sophia answered. Tony and Thomas were already on finding something that would help them cross and get to the other side. They had found a long table that would fit across, it was full metal and looked sturdy enough, so they turned It over and pushed it across the opening. Naomi was fully set on trying hard to get out of this sodding boat. So she quickly yet very carefully crossed over the makeshift bridge as Sophia held onto the table. Naomi had the very same knife Tony had used to open the doors. She was trying her hardest to push the knife through but it wouldn't go through. The others were watching as she did so. She had no luck, and Naomi looked up at the next floor and the elevator doors directly above her were slightly ajar.
"Is this the side of the club?" She asked as she kept examining the doors.
"Yes it is." Sophia added as she held on tightly to the table. Emily had found a knife and ripped open her maroon dress so it'd be easier for her to walk or run as they would progress. Thomas made his way over their makeshift bridge and he helped Naomi up to the floor above them and she pushed open the doors and pulled herself up on the level.
"Alright, come on Declan." Naomi said as she turned on her stomach and held out her hands. Thomas held onto Declan's wrist as he made his way over.
"It's okay, don't look down." Thomas said soothingly as he lifted the boy up to Naomi. Soon Emily and Tony make their way over and up to the floor, now it was Sophia's turn to go. She slowly let go of the table and walked over to Thomas and he held out his hand for her. Being the push over Sophia was, she didn't want Thomas to have to push up another person.
"You go." She said and stood her ground until he reluctantly agreed to go. Sophia had pushed up his leg as he was almost up. None of them knew it but the elevator a few stories above them, lost friction and fell one story and came to an abrupt halt. Shaking the elevator shaft and their makeshift bridge fell to the bottom of the elevator shaft, and Sophia immediately grabbed ahold of one of Thomas' legs. He cried out in pain as she did so. Naomi was now holding both of them up, and her body was sliding forward, all three of them would have fallen to their death if Tony didn't wrap a cloth around Naomi's ankle and hold onto the wall beside him. The blonde was now red in the face from holding two bodies up. She wasn't used to holding all this weight. Emily and Declan watched helplessly as the four people were struggling to hang on.
Thomas tried to reach down his side to take one of Sophia's hands, but Naomi's grip began to slip when he let go. He had no choice but to grab ahold of Naomi's wrist again. Sophia was sobbing now, she was terrified, she didn't want to die. She still had the rest of her life to live. Sophia Moore had yet to really live, no one's loved her yet. She didn't leave her mark on the world yet. She wasn't ready to die yet.
The elevator now lost the entire friction it had and was now hurtling towards the three of them, Naomi looked up and saw it racing its way towards them. She had to act fast or they would all die.
"Let go." She said through gritted teeth, and Thomas looked at her in horror. "Let go or you both die." Thomas had only seconds to act. It was now eat or be eaten. And, he still had reasons to live, many of them. Even if his mother didn't approve of his lifestyle. He inevitably began to kick his leg hit Sophia in the chest to push her off.
"I'm so sorry!" He cried as he finally kicked her off of him.
"No!" Sophia cried as she was now falling towards the sharp metal. She was killed on impact. Naomi managed to pull Thomas up quickly before the Elevator struck them. It raced passed them at an incredibly fast speed. Tony and Naomi managed to shut the door quickly as it crashed sending flames up towards them.
After the impact the ship begins shaking off its axis now, they stay still as the ship finally settles. Their breath were caught in their throats as they waited. Thoughts running through their minds, many of them scary and what would have happened in Naomi didn't spot the elevator. Thomas pushed open the doors with his jacket and blew on his hands, the metal doors heated quickly and he was pretty sure he now had minor burns. He stuck his head out into the elevator shaft and looked down at the rubble, where Sophia's body lay mangled and stabbed. He was thankful he didn't see that sight. Thomas probably wouldn't have had any control over his sobs if he saw what he caused. He killed her, he thought. Naomi appeared by his side and they shared a silent conversation with their eyes. Thomas didn't blame Naomi, she was only acting on what saved his and her life. But, they had to sacrifice Sophia's in return, and for that he was ashamed.
Tony quickly brushed Sophia's death off and began looking around the room, he spotted a door and pried it open with his knife. He pushed the debris out of the way and pushed himself through the door, he examined the corridor. He knew the club wasn't far away now. Tony Stonem was now closer than ever to his sister and he felt it. He stuck his head back into the room with the others. "Come on, I found a way out."
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Effy and Panda now had leverage with the pipe they found, but it wasn't any help. It was still harder than ever to get that goddamn beam off Freddie's leg.
"Haven't you skirts ever changed a tyre before?" Cook asked as he brought a speaker over to them. And, he was smirking at them.
"Come on show us then." Panda said. Cook nodded and took ahold of the pipe, took it out of the spot it was on.
"Gotta have a lot better leverage than that, sweets." Cook said and moved it up a foot and laid it there. "There we go. Just like that."
"Come on, just move the damn thing." Freddie yelled as he pushed against the metal again.
"Don't get your knickers in a twist." Cook deadpanned as they now began to push down against the pole, as hard as they could. They stopped as it didn't even move a budge.
"Come on, again. We barely even tried." Effy countered as they tried for the third time already. Now the three of them pushed down on the pole, and Freddie pushed as hard as he could and they finally lifted the beam up and Freddie was free.
Effy hugged Freddie tightly as she smiled against his shoulder, he was finally free. The four of them made their way out of the club, very careful of not touching the water. The girls helped Freddie down the corridor, and Cook didn't even offer any more of his services as he followed them out. Effy looked up as she saw a stream of light coming towards them, she saw several figures making their way towards them. She thought it was help, but as they got closer she realized it was something even better. It was her brother Tony Stonem, and he had people with him. They had laid Freddie down, and Effy hugged Tony tight as everyone was reunited.
"Glad you finally came, Tone." Effy said and she knelt down beside Freddie as did Emily and Tony. Emily was examining Freddie's wound, it was a small cut but it looked like it would have some massive bruising in the meantime. She knew if she didn't clean it, it would get infected or maybe even as worse as blood poisoning and she didn't want that for him. Even if he was someone she had just met.
"It looks like it's just a cut, but I want to clean it anyway, okay?" Emily said and she saw Naomi looking at her as she tore open Freddie's jeans just above his knee. Freddie had winced and Emily hadn't taken her eyes off of Naomi. "What? I'm a school nurse." Naomi said nothing but she half smirked and smiled at Emily. This little redhead could be the death of her.
"Freddie." Tony started to say as he caught Effy's eyes and they stared at each other. "Thank you, for saving her." Freddie looked at Tony in disbelief and then towards Effy as he smiled slightly.
"She saved me." Freddie said as they leant their forehead's together and Tony smiled for once as he watched them together.
The finish of yet another long as hell chapter; I hope it lived up to your expectations. I had yet another sleepless night, slaving over it :P haha. Hopefully I wasn't too bad this time, anyway Skins: Fire is tonight. Who's ready to be heartbroken? I have mentally prepared myself for *SPOILER* Naomi's death, because she has cancer and I believe she may die. Let's just hope not because that would mean poor Emily would have to live without her Naomi. And, that's just no acceptable for anyone, am I right?
Sorry for the lack of Naomily :[ Leave a review? It would make my day and my slaving over it well worth it, I've been writing this since 3am, and it's now going on 5am. Haha.
Nicholas xx