Episode 9: Disaster

Everything was a disaster area and Elena would be lying if she said she wasn't panicking. She looked over her shoulder as Enzo shouted instructions at her. It seemed that the injured people were coming by the dozen and Elena's scrubs and hands were already soaked with blood.

"Gilbert!" Enzo called out. "We need more people here."

Elena nodded, feeling a little sick to her stomach as she watched them wheel a two-year-old who was missing their arm. She shook her head and told herself, focus Elena, focus she could not be affording to freak out at the moment.

Elena approach Enzo who was standing over a patient with burns all over their body. The patient couldn't be more than nineteen years old and the boy was trembling all over obviously in pain.

Damon as the head of Plastic Surgery was standing over near the boy trying to clean his wounds as best as possible, but much to Elena's relief he was acting professional which meant that he was concentrating on how to prevent the skin from peeling off.

"Gilbert," Enzo quizzed. "The patient suffers from severe burns all over his body and blood lost what's the best approach?"

Elena's whole medical school knowledge went towards her head. "We need to clean up his burns as best as we can to avoid infection, give him some morphine, and some blood to make up for the blood lost, and then take him to CT to make sure that there isn't any head damage."

Damon looked impressed and Enzo nodded. "Good, once Dr. Salvatore is finished take him to CT and then follow what Dr. Salvatore has to say to you will be working with him from now on. This is you patient, Gilbert don't let me down."

Elena shook her head, loving the praise even though she was going to end up working with Damon. "Understood sir I will do my best." She could see that Damon was trying to catch her eye, but she ignored him. She need to focus on her patient first.

Back towards where the disaster had happened, things seemed to going from bad to worse. As soon as Freya opened the door Katherine, Caroline, Stefan, and Klaus were witnesses to a disaster bigger than any of them had realized.

The firefighters were still trying to put off the fire that was still present on half of the ferryboat while some of them were trying to rescue everyone that had fallen oversea. They could see rows and rows of rows of beds on the floor and people crying out, even Katherine and Freya looked a little peaked.

"All right, fan out everyone," Freya ordered as she put her blond hair into a ponytail. "Everyone here needs our help and we are going to help them, don't just sit there and dawdle. Spread on, if you need anything page me!"

Everyone spread out and Stefan out of instinct and by thinking slightly on Rebekah went towards the children first. He saw a little boy crying and he panicked slightly. "What's wrong, are you hurt?"

The boy kept crying. "My daddy is over there!" He hiccupped as he pointed towards the water. Stefan turned around and saw that the boy was right, there was a man trapped under the pile of wood and metal that had detached itself from the ferryboat.

"Help me," the man choked out. "Help me, please."

"We will be right there, sir." Stefan told him as he climb down the pier, silently thankful that he had taken several swimming lessons when he was young and that he had swam in the swim team in college.

He managed to get to the man easily because the waves weren't too bad. "Sir," Stefan told the panic man. "I need you to calm down, my name is Dr. Stefan Salvatore. I going to help you, but I need you to try your best to relax. What hurts?"

"Everything," the man moaned. "My name is Nick, please you have to help me I have a wife and two children."

"I'm going to do everything in my power to help you ok, sir, but I need you to calm down," Stefan inspected the injury and notice that only the man's leg seemed to be crushed. "Sir, is anything else hurting besides your leg, does anything else feel funny or painful?"

"No," Nick said. "I don't think so."

"All right," Stefan said. The pole wasn't that big and Stefan felt that he could lift it. "Nick, I'm going to lift that pole away from your body. Let me know if there's any pain at all and I will stop immediately. Understand?" Nick nodded. "One, two, three."

The pole was heavier than Stefan had anticipated. He freed the man, but felt the pole move as it felt down on his left leg. Stefan let out a series of curses. Great, fuck. This day could not get any worse.

Everywhere where Katherine looked she saw hysterical people, some were crying, some were screaming. But there was blood everyone. She grabbed the arm of a woman who had a huge gash across her face. "Ma'am," Katherine said. "I'm Dr. Pierce, let me help you- "

The woman was too hysterical, she was flinging her arms everywhere even though Katherine tried her best to calm her down. Katherine felt her fist hit the back of her skull and then everything went completely dark.

Caroline had no idea how she had gotten towards the remains of the ferryboat. At first she had just been trying to get away from Klaus and his scowling. But then she heard it weeping and crying. And it was coming from the remains of the ferryboat. Not everyone had gotten off.

Caroline had left the dock and swam towards the remains of the ferryboat even though every part of her mind screamed that it was dangerous. She couldn't let that man die. Thankfully, the currents weren't that big. The man was in his late eighties and obviously having a heart attack, because he kept clutching his chest and his eyes were wild.

"Sir," Caroline said. "I need you to calm down while I take your blood pressure. Just relax and breathe. Just breathe." His blood pressure was rising and Caroline bit her lip. She needed a first aid kit.

Through the corner of her eyes she saw a small white box with a red cross even though it was on the other half side of the broken ferryboat. Caroline reassured the man that she would be back soon and tried to cross to the other side as carefully as possible.

She felt her legs break down through the remaining piece of the ferryboat, ice cold water hit her veins and she felt herself go under.

-End of Chapter Nine-