Life List 4
"Right up. shouldn't we see if it's a real fire first?"
"Alexis if we go down we might not be able to get back up and I don't want her to get hurt. ... Besides if it's a false alarm I don't want Kristina to be scared. I want her to feel the love that I have for her."
"She knows how much you love her." they reach the stairway and start the ascend.
"How can she know that when I haven't even seen her or touched her or held her in my arms?"
Alexis is out of breath from crying and walking up the stairs at the same time. She takes a deep breath in and says " Because I tell her about you." they pass the 16th floor and smoke fills the air but they are too busy arguing to notice.
"Why? What do you tell her."
"I tell her about all the wonderful things you do... no pun intended... and of all the love you have in your heart..." An explosion rocks the hotel causing the electricity to go.
"Lexis!!"
"I'm right here." she says reaching her hand out. He takes it and leads the way up the half flight of stairs. He feels for the handle of the door and burns his hand.
"Damn it"
"What?"
"The door's hot. The fire must be real and right out that door."
"What about Kristina?" her voice cracking as she questioned.
"You got your phone?"
"Un Huh"
"Hoes Nik?"
"I think so"
"Give it here."
and with that Sonny used Nextel technology to talk to Nikolas via walkie talkie. "Nikolas?"
"Who's this?"
"Sonny and Alexis. Do you have Kristina?"
"Yeah... we're stuck on the 17th floor waiting to be evacuated."
"Ok we'll be there in a minute." Sonny ends the conection. " Damn it she's still here." he kicks the door open and another explosion rocks the hotel this time knocking debris on Alexis and Sonny
Alexis came around first, gasping for air. "Sonny!" Flames glowed near Sonny's figure. "Sonny wake up. Sonny!" He grunts and finally opens his eyes. "Thank goodness. Come on let's keep moving."
"Small problem."
"Yeah what's that?"
"There's a beam on my leg." Alexis tried to remove it without success "Alexis I know you're strong and all but go get Nikolas cuz he's stronger."
"I'm not leaving you."
"You're coming back. Relax. Just get him and Kristina."
"Fine." She goes down the smokey hall way to the Versaille room. "Nikolas! We have to help Sonny. He's stuck."
"Ok Lucky and I will go get him."
"He's in the stair well... wait where's Kristina?"
"Alexis she's right here." Emily said.
"Oh good. Come here Kristina. Mommy loves you and Daddy's going to get us out of here ok." Sonny, Nikolas, and Lucky come back coughing and breathing heavily.
"There's no way we're getting out that way... is this her?"
"Yeah... Sonny this is your daughter Kristina. Kristina this is your Daddy." The reunion was brief and interrupted by yet another explosion.
"That's it we're going down the service stairs on the south side. The cameras there show that they're the clearest." The ten people that had not been evacuated travelled together down the 17 floors. Explosions shoke the building every 2 floors. When they were all out of the stair well, it collapsed. They were greatful to be alive. Most only suffered from smoke inhalation. At the hospital Sonny reconnects with Alexis and Kristina where he askes the infamous question, "Now what?"
Alexis sighed "I don't know. Right now I'm just glad we're all alive. I don't think we should discuss this now until we know Kristina's ok."
"She's going to be ok. She's a fighter and this is going to make her even stronger."
"Sonny she's already faught so much. I don't know how this will affect her tiny body." she starts sobbing into her hands. Sonny rubs her back and tries to relive some tension. Then the doctor walks in...