Disclaimer: They're not mine.
The lyrics in this song, which also don't belong to me, are awesome and they're from a song by one republic and actually from a song that I first heard when watching an amazing E/O video on youtube.
They just seem to fit this story perfectly so that is why they are there. Hope you enjoy and feel the same.
Chapter 9
Step out the door and it feels like rain
That's the sound (that's the sound) on your window pane
Take to the streets but you can't ignore
That's the sound (that's the sound) you're waiting for
If ever your world starts crashing down
Whenever your world starts crashing down
Whenever your world starts crashing down
That's where you'll find me
It was dark now and the street outside Boomer's clock shop was filled with police cars, fire engines, ambulances, CSU vans and cars, reporters vans. Police officers stood making a human barrier to stop onlookers and the media getting close to the building that fire fighters fought to save from burning to a crisp.
Fin, Munch and Cragen were stood as close as they were allowed to get to it. None of them could take their eyes away from the building. It was a wreck now, anyone inside it would need to be wrapped up in Gods hands to stand a chance of surviving in it. They prayed he was watching tonight, as far as they knew Olivia and Elliot were still in there.
So far no one had stood a chance in going in to try and find them and bring them out to safety. No one had even got close…
Yeah God love your soul and your aching bones
Take a breath, take a step, meet me down below
Everyone's the same
our fingers to our toes
We just can't get it right
But we're on the road
If ever your will starts crashing down
Whenever your will starts crashing down
Whenever your will starts crashing down
That's when you find me.
Finally a group of firefighters ran into the building as the others still worked on controlling the fires coming from it. The three men stood holding their breaths praying for a miracle tonight.
It seemed to take forever, forever of deadly silence even as a fire roared and workers worked protecting and controlling the scene and reporters reported and onlookers gasped in horror. Still the men stood waiting, none of them had the guts to speak.
Suddenly from among the shadows and the smoke two firemen ran out, Elliot dangled between them, coughing, bloodied and burnt and looking like he'd just taken a trip to hells kitchen, but he was alive.
The three men ran over to him, closely followed by two paramedics who wheeled a stretcher over to him, ready to assist him…
(Yeah) Lost till you're found
Swim till you drown
Know that we all fall down
Love till you hate
Strong till you break
Know that we all fall down
Elliot looked back at the fiery building as the firemen left him and ran back inside. The medics pushed Elliot down onto the stretcher but even as he coughed his guts up he fought them.
"Olivia's inside there. I need to go back in. Olivia and the baby are in there. I gotta help them."
"Elliot you need to go to hospital." Cragen told him, not ignoring what he had said about Olivia and the baby.
"They're in there." he managed between pain filled coughs just as another part of the building collapsed.
"Elliot let them save her." Fin said.
Elliot wanted to get up but they all held him down and so they all just looked on at the scene of horror in front of them. Elliot's tears made clear tracks down his sooty face and silently he too prayed to God for a miracle, he begged him to spare Olivia and their baby.
He thought when the bombs went off it was the ones on Olivia but it wasn't. It was bombs that seemed to be everywhere, all over the building. Somehow they had become separated trying to get out. He had promised her inside he wouldn't let go of her hand but part of the building collapsed and then she was gone, he couldn't see her and the roaring fire had muffled any of her cries.
Now all they could do was watch…and pray…
If ever your will starts crashing down
Whenever your will starts crashing down
If ever your will starts crashing down
That's when you'll find (find) me
Lost till you're found
Swim till you drown
Know that we all fall down
Love till you hate
Strong till you break
Know that we all fall down
Still they watched and prayed. It would take someone special to survive this, someone who was fighting with the Gods and elements to live.
All fall down, we all fall down, all fall down
We all fall down, all fall down, all fall down
Finally a fireman ran out carrying her in his arms, she wasn't moving much but she was coughing which meant she was alive. One arm lay protectively over her stomach. It amazed Elliot that even at death's door she was still protecting her unborn child. He managed to push himself free from the others and began walking over to her.
The medics ran past them and allowed the fireman to put her down on the stretcher recently occupied by Elliot. Although supported by the others he walked with them as they pushed the stretcher towards an ambulance. Now he held her hand and an earthquake wouldn't separate them this time.
The medics loaded the stretcher into the back of the bus and the others helped Elliot climb in. A medic quickly joined him and the other ran round and jumped in. Fin closed the doors and the three of them stood watching as it drove away.
"We got another one!" a fireman shouted as he ran out of the building.
They turned round and watched as two men carried out a very lifeless looking Merritt Rook. They all walked over to where they put him down, but the firemen just walked away from him. "We were too late for him." one of the men said to the three of them. Still they walked over to where Merritt's body lay on a patch of grass.
They all looked down at him, they couldn't swear to it but he had what seemed like a satisfied smile on his face, none of them knew why.
Lost till you're found
Swim till you drown
Know that we all fall down
Love till you hate
Strong till you break
Know that we all fall down
None of them knew or would ever know that Merritt's last thought had been 'Juliet now I'm going to be with you.'
TBC
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