A/N And here's the second chapter of Survive! I thank everyone who has reviewed/followed this story. I hope you'll like this chapter too.

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Shanna stared at the complete ravage in front of her. The pole on which the cableway circled around had fallen down. The cable holding the cabins was broken at several places and was randomly spread down the mountain. Cabins were lying around it, most of the time with shattered windows, or doors ripped of. Thick clouds of smoke were rising in the distance. What on earth had happened? After a couple of minutes just staring at the mess, she regained her senses. What if there were people in those cabins?

She ran forward to the first cabin. Thank God, it was empty. The next four cabins were empty too, and Shanna started to get hope that no-one was using the cableway at the moment of crashing, until she looked into the next cabin. A man was lying there, unconscious, maybe dead, with blood flowing out of one of his legs. She quickly climbed into the cabin trough the ripped of door and checked his pulse. His heartbeat was weak but there. Thank God. Immediately she tried to stop the bleeding with her hands, starting to panic. What if he'd die on her watch? When she realized it didn't help at all, she pulled of her jacket and tore the t-shirt she was wearing under it to long strips. Using them as a bandage, she tied several layers around his wound.

Quickly, she inspected the rest of the body, searching for any more injuries. When she didn't find one, she folded her jacket and put it as a pillow under his head. Oh, that was cold! She was only wearing a thin shirt now. She didn't want to leave him all alone, but she had to inspect the other cabins, so she climbed out of the cabin, casting one last glance at the man, and jogged to the nearest other one.

There were about twenty cabins Shanna could reach. Before arriving at the mountaintop and the end station with the cableway, you had to cross an enormous cliff, which stretched out for almost fifteen hundred feet steep down. It was almost impossible to cross this without the cableway. If anyone had been in the cabins that were crossing that cliff when they fell down, they had most certainly died. The only other way down the mountain was through a thick forest in which almost no paths were made. That mountainside was also very steep, but it was doable. It took a lot of time and afford though. If people wanted to go up the mountain, they always took the cableway. That wasn't really a possibility now anymore though.

Jogging from cabin to cabin, Shanna checked for any more survivers of whatever it had been that had made everything crash down. Luckily, all the other cabins were empty. She could only hope that the cabins that were crossing the cliff on the time of falling had been empty too. After casting one last glance over the cliff she jogged back to the cabin in which she had found the unknown man, finding him still unconcious. His bandages were still holding up and since she was getting really cold in only her shirt, she crawled down next to him, welcoming the bodyheat. The exercise and stress had left her warn out, and quickly she fell into a restless slumber.

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When Gabe heard about the destruction of the cableway he was in shock for a couple of minutes. Not for long though. Determined to find help for Toby, he raced to the scene of the accident and tried to contact every police officer he could find. He wasn't gonna abandon Toby. He was going to get him help, or die trying. Okay, maybe that was a bit melodramatic, but you got the idea. It didn't really work as planned though. Every cop he contacted just brushed him of; saying they were busy, that he should contact someone else or just plain rude saying he should piss of. Most of the time the last one.

Just as he was about to contact what felt like the thousandth cop, someone grabbed his arm. Turning around, he found it was a tall blonde girl, not as tall as him though, with blue eyes. Probably about his age. He guessed she was really pretty when smiling, but she wasn't at the moment. Her eues wer red and puffy from crying and she clung to his arm desperately.

'I heard you were searching help for your friend up at the mountain.' She stated in a weak voice. Gabe pulled her arm of, annoyed. Normally he wouldn't act like this, but he had more important things to worry about than concerned girls.

'You heard right. Now, if you'll excuse me, I really need to get going.' He started to walk away, but stopped in his tracks when the girl called him back with a breaking voice.

'Stop, please! My friend is up there too!' He slowly turned around and walked back.

'Say again?'

'My friend is up there too. She left the camping we stay at just before…' She swallowed and waved with her arms in the direction of the smoke. 'this happened.' She finished her sentence.

Gabe thought about this for a second. She obviously wanted to help her friend get down too. Maybe she could help him persuade on of those freaking cops to listen to him. People tend to listen to pretty crying girls. 'Okay. Come on, you can help me talk to the freaking cops. Persuade them to send a helicopter or something up there.' He walked away, motioning for her to follow, but stopped when she again called him back.

'Stop! Just think about this for a second!' She urged. 'They're obviously not going to listen to us now. We should make a plan or something.' Gabe started to get really annoyed with this girl. Didn't she realize what's at stake here? 'You realize that the longer we wait, the slimmer the chances of survival for you and my friend get! We don't have the time to make a plan!' He shouted, desperate for her to understand. Toby could be dying now, or maybe even… No. He wasn't going to think like that. Toby was alive. Maybe letting her help him wasn't as good as he initially thought.

'But trying to talk to random cops is even more a waste of time!' She argued. 'They won't listen to us now. We have to do something that'll actually help them. Not run around like headless chickens!' Gabe sighed. He had to admit, there was some truth in what she said.

'Then what do you propose we should do?'

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Toby's vision was pitch black. Apart from the color-changing dots dancing through the darkness of course. He felt strange. Like he was lying on something hard, but at the same time floating in the air. There were buzzing noises all around him, but it wasn't unpleasant. He actually felt quite comfortable. That's why he protested when the darkness slowly turned into whiteness, and the floating sensation dissapeared. Now, he only felt like he was lying on hard, stinging ground. Also, the numbness of the earlier situation dissapeared. Suddenly, he was fully hit by a wave of nausea and had to surpress the urge to puke. Also, his leg started to sting incredibly. What had happened?

That question was quickly answered as the whiteness made place for some actual vision. He was lying in a crunshed, erm, thing. What was it? How did he get here? Then it hit him. The crash. The cableway had started shaking, and he had fallen to the ground. Wait, if he could see and feel this, than that ment he was still alive! He didn't die! Toby felt like shouting out in joy, but that urge was wiped out when another wave of nausea hit him. Also, the pain in his leg intensified. He very slowly lifted his head up, and cast a glance at his leg. To his surprise, he didn't see a bloody wound, but some neat green bandages. Wait, since when were bandages green? And who had wrapped them around his leg? That question was also answered when he noticed something very warm lying next to him. He was too engrossed in his leg to notice it before, but when he slowly looked to the side, he saw a girl lying there, sleeping. She had dark, straight hair that slowly moved up and down in unison with her breath.

Just at that moment, she started to stir and slowly opened her eyes, revealing two deep green orbs. He had probably woken her up with his movements. She jawned and slowly looked at him. Her eyes widened, realizing he was awake.

'You're awake! Great! That must be a good sign.' She said, sounding happy and serious at the same time. She shuddered. Toby just realized she was only wearing a shirt. She must be freezing! Wait. Who was she?

'I guess-' Toby tried to say more, but was interrupted by a coughing fit.

'Are you okay?' The girl asked concerned. 'You're hurt pretty badly…'

'I'm fine.' Toby answered after he was done coughing. ' I mean, apart from the leg wound and nausea, of course. Who are you by the way?'

'I'm Shanna.' She answered. 'You?'

'Toby. Nice to meet you.'

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A/N And that, ladies and gentlemen, was the second chapter of Survive. I hope you all enjoyed reading this, and I wish you all a good day. A review or response in any way would be very much appreciated, and I apologize for any mistakes I might have made. Have a good day! Peace of!