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CHAPTER 4: De Luna and screams
"Doctor, we have to go now!" Axel huffed, carrying two monkeys.
"Yes, let's go!" Amy yelled to the students, looking around to see if there was anything left to do.
The group ran to the stairs that lead to the sixth floor. Dr. Brooks was already waiting for them there. He counted the students and professors that kept coming.
"Doctor Fowler, there are two people missing!" Dr. Brooks yelled, doing mental count of the people there. Amy rushed to climb the last flight of stairs with Ricky in arms.
"No way. Who's missing? I asked them all to not return."
"If my memory serves me right, they are Dorothy and McBride. They were with me just few minutes ago, they can't be very far." Brooks said, fixing his sight on the hallway looking for them. Due to the lack of electricity, the visibility was almost zero, they were guided by the lights that emitted their phones and nothing else. The darkness made the situation, which in itself was terrible, even more critical. Students were beginning to despair and they started to bombard their professors with questions about how they were supposed to open the door if it was metal and had several padlocks. A spark, a small hint of heated friction, could blow them apart.
Amy gave Ricky to Axel, giving him one last hug for comfort.
"Where could they be? Dorothy is the girl who is with you, am I right Axel?" Amy asked, clearly worried.
"She's my girlfriend, Doctor Fowler. Yes, she is with me. I have to find her!" Axel said, giving the monkeys to other students. He hurried down the stairs that lead to the fifth floor and then begin his search for his girlfriend.
"Brooks, you are in charge now. I have to go with him and find the others. I trust you and know you will be able to open the door without make the building explode. Consult with Arredondo and other doctors, please." Amy said, coming down the stairs to follow Axel.
"Fowler, be careful. The oxygen is almost finish, just left ten minutes approximately. If you breathe it too much time you know what could happen!" the Doctor said. Yes, we could die, thought the neurobiologist. When she reached the fifth floor she yelled to Axel. Since the building was full of laboratories, it had no windows, only ventilation systems which, obviously, were malfunctioning. The darkness of the fifth floor was terrifying.
"I'm here, Doctor Fowler," Axel said, getting closer to her. The boy was so scared, but still, he wasn't leaving without Dorothy.
"Fine, we only have less than ten minutes with the oxygen, from there, if we breathe the gas for more than fifteen minutes, we could pass out and die before we're found."
"Doctor, we better keep looking for them because you're not helping me, you're scaring me even more." Axel said, walking to the hallway.
"Oh, I'm sorry."
They divided the search. Axel checked laboratories and classrooms on the right side of the aisle and Amy the left side. When they finished, there were remaining only three minutes of oxygen.
"Ok, we need to look at the third and fourth floors. If we hurry maybe find them fast. What do you think Dorothy is doing with Dr. McBride? Were they friends? Amy asked, trying to distract the nervous student."
"No. Doctor McBride almost always reproves her, just because my girlfriend doesn't finish her work on time. What if she kidnapped her and wants to kill her? "Axel asked with horror.
"I don't think so, you better calm down. Okay, fourth floor, let's find them!" They repeated the strategy applied in the previous floor and oxygen was finished on the middle of the searching, they threw their masks down the aisle.
"Doctor Fowler, if I die before to find my dear Dorothy, could you tell her that she was the love of my life, and I didn't care that she doesn't wanted to marry me yet? Tell her that I was disposed to wait for her, tell her that I died looking for her."
"Axel De Luna! You are not dying, is that clear? Let's go to the third floor, nobody is here." Amy said, worried for Axel. Or the young man was a lunatic lover or the gas was already affecting him. In a way, Axel's words bring Sheldon to her mind. What if she dies? Would he miss her? She remembered the conversation earlier with him and smiled. Yes, he would. What she would give to be with him now and not be in this dangerous situation.
The pair went to the third floor. Amy cut the sleeves of her lab coat to make a kind of mask, one for Axel and the other for herself. The fabric filtered out a little gas, but not enough.
"Axel, try to breathe normally, restrain from breathing deeply and please be quiet. McBride might be up to something so we better be cautious." Axel just nodded and instinctively took Amy's hand. It had become a support for him, holding her hand felt safer.
"Doctor Fowler?"
"Yes, Axel?"
"Are we going to be ok?" he asked, even with the lack of light she could see a tear rolling down his cheek. His brown eyes were full with fear.
"We will be ok, I promise," Amy said almost in a whisper. She squeezed his hand as if to comfort him and make him feel secure. They hurriedly searched through the third floor until they reached McBride's lab. The smell was disgusting, clearly the gas continued to expand and the risk there was even bigger.
"Fowler! I thought you never come," said the crazy Doctor, sitting at her desk. Axel managed to see Dorothy who was gagged in a chair beside her. Dorothy made an attempt to get up to see him. McBride sat her back down again."
"I said don't move, dear," McBride scoffed.
"Doctor, what's going on? We have to go now. The building is about to explode, massive buildup of gas will make it explode by itself without an incentive if we don't hurry."
"Fowler, Fowler, Fowler, dear," McBride said, standing up. Axel squeezed her hand tighter in a panic. "You have no idea what you're asking, I can't leave, honey! Took me over seven years looking for this chemical, and you ask me to leave? Ha-ha, how funny. Well, no. I have this beautiful hostage so that we could be rescued and I could rescue my precious creations, I'll be rich and we all live. We all win, don't you think?" Said the Doctor. Amy opened her eyes stunned. She couldn't believe what she was hearing, this lunatic scientist was completely out of her mind. She needed to think on something, fast.
"You are right, McBride," Amy said.
"Doctor Fowler, she's crazy! Don't listen to her! We have to go now, otherwise this thing will explode and surely kill us!" Axel screamed, terrified.
"No, Axel. They would come for us, you will see. Go and sit next to Dorothy. We can wait here with Doctor McBride, only if she wants us, of course," Amy said squeezing twice his hand, on signal to follow her in the game. Axel nodded once, almost imperceptible and went and sat next to his girlfriend, holding her.
"Oh, really honey? Of course you are welcome, right Dory?" said Jennifer McBride, with a devilish smile in her face. Dorothy nodded several times and then turned again with Axel. "I hope you don't have other intentions, Fowler. If you make something silly, we all could have a nice fly all over UCLA, and these pumpkins don't want to die, right?" McBride said pulling a gun on the desktop. "Give me your phone, honey." Amy felt the blood was coming to her feet, she pulled the phone from her pocket and gave it to her. Dorothy gave a little cry while Axel hugged her tighter and tighter. The fear was almost palpable and all was in silence.
"Hurry up, Howard!" Sheldon said, desperate.
"Calm down, Sheldon. You are distracting him. If we crash it will take longer to go with Amy." Raj said, trying to calm his friend.
"Yes, Penny. We are on our way… Howard, we are going with Howard… no, she doesn't know, could you tell her? ...okay, love you too. Call me when you get there." Leonard said, ending the call. Apparently neither of the two girls had heard the news. Penny was a bundle of nerves.
"She knows now. She said she would call Bernadette and then she will take her to UCLA. Are we almost there?"
"According to the GPS, we will be there in five minutes." Howard said.
"We have just been informed that students and teachers trapped in the Biology building are being rescued by the helicopter, it will lead them to the nearest hospitals to be attended. The officials in charge of nuclear substances have been unable identify the nature of this gas. Without first knowing what is it they're facing, they can't enter the building. The campus is evacuated almost to one hundred per cent and the entry is restricted only to civil protection personnel and nuclear substances..." it was heard on the radio.
"Oh, thank you Lord!" Sheldon yelled, he jumped on his seat.
"Unbelievable!" Raj said almost crying.
"Look! There's the campus!" Howard said.
"I told you everything would be okay, buddy." Leonard said smiling. The friends began celebrating when they heard the name of Amy on the radio. Everything went silent.
"…we just had been told that not all people who occupied the building are outside. Apparently the leader Dr. Amy Farrah Fowler is still there with two other students and the PhD in petrochemical, Jennifer McBride, the author of this chaos. The teacher who gave us this information is the Doctor of Microbiology, Adam Brooks. He says they were about to go up to the roof when they noticed that McBride and a student, were missing. Dr. Fowler and a student decided to go for them. To this time, the oxygen that they were carrying is had run out...
"No! She's still there, Howard go faster! Please!" Sheldon yelled.
"Sheldon calm down! You won't achieve anything acting like that!" Leonard said.
"How do you want me to calm down when the woman that I love is there trapped in that stupid building? Pull to the side, Howard."
"What? No, we're almost there!"
"Wolowitz, I said pull to the side!" He screamed. Howard complained. Sheldon got out of the car and ran through UCLA. The other followed him on the car, when they finally were there the officers barred the pass and had to park two blocks behind. Sheldon saw Amy's boss and ran to him, he wanted answers.
"Dr. Cooper, calm down! I can't understand you," Said the professor.
"I said I need to know how they plan to get my girlfriend out of the building!" Sheldon said in an annoyed tone.
"They still can't go to rescue them because we do not know what kind of gas is this, believe me I am just as concerned as you. If all goes well, your girlfriend will be out soon, but Dr. Cooper you need to calm down."
"Why do you insist I calm down? I'll be calmed when I see my Amy here, healthy, with me." Sheldon said.
He left the Professor and tried to get as close as he could to the building, to the officers allowed. He recalled knowing that she had her cellphone and dialed. After several rings, he withdrew. She didn't answer. This made him even more nervous, what if she was lying on the floor poisoned? What if she...?
POOOOM!
There was a loud bang. The curious people that had surrounded the police fence ran and others fell to the ground. Sheldon too fell from the impact. Leonard, Howard and Raj ran for him and took him across the street. Sheldon was in shock. There were flying pieces of the structure around the campus, and a big black cloud covered the sky. Windows, chairs, tables ... countless objects. The structure was, although unrecognizable, well grounded. Leonard thought was a good thing. There was hope that she was in one of those floors, alive.
The cry of the people near Sheldon brought him back to reality.
"NO, NO AMY!" he shouted as tears formed in his eyes.
Perhaps this would be the one time he bowed his head to pray.
Yeep, chapter four. Thanks to the amazing and wonderful beta WildCityGirl, she makes this story shine.
… Long Live The Shamy? :l
