Sergeant Polarski pressed the detonator but nothing happened. Marylin's lover pinned him to the ground thinking he could get over the latter, but what was to happen happened and the worst happened.

At the moment Sergeant Polarski pressed the detonator, nothing happened. But the panic had already start to win everyone in the bar. Some reacted quickly and ran out. Marylin's lover flung himself on the soldier. The latter being on the ground could not move. Betty used the rifle for the season, which she kept always hidden just in case. She raised the tone of her voice to make herself heard among the yells and shouted for everyone to go out. There were about sixty people that night in the bar, plus the few people who ate outside. The crowd dispersed between the main entrance and the emergency exit. Betty pushed Roxy out to the emergency exit and shouted for her to run. Denise was petrified. She could not move. With Claudia, they held hands, as if to pray that everything stops quickly. On the ground, Sergeant Polarski and Marylin's lover were fighting. The sergeant had his whole plan in mind and he knew it would stop only when he was dead. Roland analyzed the situation in a few seconds, it was impossible for him to bring the sergeant to his senses, he turned and began to push Claudia and Denise so that they leave quickly, but Claudia understood that Amanda was trapped between the crowd from the main door and the men who were fighting on the ground. Claudia pushed Roland and went behind him to get his daughter. Denise still did not move. She heard screams, Claudia call her daughter, Amanda cry. Marilyn was also petrified. She watched the fight on the ground and could not move. How could Georges have this idea? Roland shook Denise and pulled her out of her torpor. He told him to go out.

D: Roland! Claudia!
R: She'll go out! Denise course hurry up!

Denise began to run, without looking behind, followed by Roland. Virtually everyone was out, Betty turned around and saw Claudia running towards Amanda. Instead of going out, she went to them and Marylin to get them out. Betty had in mind to shoot at the sergeant in order to master it. But the fight on the ground got worse and the sergeant managed to push Marylin's lover to one side and pulled out a grenade. As he moved, he reactivated the bomb system on him. Amanda stepped over her, Betty was next to Marylin and taking her by the arm to pull her out, Claudia was coming towards her daughter. All at once people outside heard a violent explosion. Sergeant Polarski had exploded voluntarily. The six missing people were inside, lying on the ground. The lover of Marylin who had just got up, was completely eject against the bar and found himself lying on the ground, without life. Marylin was ejecting against a window and Betty against a table. Claudia was thrown to the side and her head hit a table violently. Debris of all kinds fell on each of them, wounding them on the head and arms. Amanda found herself against the front door. His clothes had partially burned. Roland, who had come back to see where Claudia was and who had entered the door of the emergency exit, felt a jolt and found himself against a tree behind the Hump Bar. The bar had shattered. And while the last people to go out had just won the outside, some received shards of glass, wood and were partially injured, like Denise. Everyone noticed the extent of the damage and could barely understand what had happened. A person had the reflex to call for help. Since there was a bar in the area where there were soldiers and in the sense that a soldier was at the origin of everything, the commander of the base was quickly informed. In front of the bar, was the stupor.

R: Denise! Denise are you okay?
D: Roxy, are you out?
A: Yes Betty pushed me out. Where are the others ?
D: Rolland has returned looking for Claudia and Amanda but ...
R: What about Claudia, Amanda? Where are they ?
D: Inside, I think I did not see them outside.
R: Oh my god!

Denise cried all the tears of her body. Roxy called Pamela. The latter warned Angie, and left the children to a neighbor. They arrived quickly at the scene of the accident. Relief was still not there and some men removed some debris.

P: Roxy!
R: Pamela! My god, Claudia and Amanda are still inside.
P: And Betty?
A: And Marylin?

Roxy realized that neither Betty nor Marylin had come out.

Pamela took Roxy in her arms and Angie was shocked by the state of the bar. Relief was called but a conversation was held with the base commander and the fire chief.

Chief: Commander, we were informed of an accident in a bar training for responsible a soldier of the base!
Commander: What kind of accident?
Ch: An explosion sir!
Co: Go immediately to the scene, I inform my team and we leave directly.
Ch: Well sir!

Relief soon arrived on the scene. They pulled all the people behind a security perimeter. The road was barred the time of the intervention. Reinforcements from surrounding cities arrived in their turn. Some took care of people who had already gone out. The Charleston police arrived and began to question the people who were able to do so. Basically, the Base Commander called the Division Commander and Brigadier General, Michael, at an emergency meeting. Michael arrived quickly and the meeting began with the few soldiers who remained on the base and whose help was requested. The base commander explained the facts.

Co: An explosion took place at the Hump Bar about half an hour ago.
M: An explosion?
Division Commander: That is, sir?
Co: According to the call for help, a soldier blew himself up in the bar.
Co D: Was the bar full?
Co: Apparently about sixty people were there tonight.
M: Do we know the damage? Are there any victims?
Co: Six people could not get out of the bar, obviously the soldier in question. And apparently a seventh would be missing. Otherwise we could go out. We leave directly to help the relief to manage on the one hand the people around, on the other hand to enter the bar and find the victims.

The division commander, Joan warned, so that she came in case of need. She did not know who the victims were. The convoy left quickly. Once there, the commander gave his orders. Michael was shocked at the extent of the damage, not knowing what was waiting for him to discover. Michael to go help to interview those present. He looked stupidly at Denise, Roxy and Pamela.

M: Denise?
D: Michael!
M: What are you doing here?
D: I had a drink with Roxy and ...
A: Roland has joined us.
M: Where is Roland?
D: We do not know.
M: Is the missing person his?

The girls nodded. Denise was shaking. Roxy was looking at her. She had to tell him.

M: What happened?
D: Michael ... Claudia was there, she was coming to give a check to Betty ...
M: What?

Michael turned around and saw Claudia's car, Amanda's luggage. But Amanda was not in the car.

M: Where is Amanda?
A: She wanted to join her mother in the bar.

Denise was crying and she saw Michael's gaze changed from stupefied to immense fear.

M: Oh my god! Where were they the last time you saw Denise?

Denise could not speak.

M: Denise!
A: Claudia was running to Amanda to get her out and the last thing I saw was Amanda who did not dare to move.
M: Oh lord!

Michael crouched down on the ground and tears began to roll on his cheeks. The commander had just learned the names of the people who were in the bar. He came to Michael.

Co: Holden!

Seeing that he did not get up, he crouched at his height.

Co: You are relieved of your duties for tonight.

The commander left and ordered the Division Commander to help empty the bar as quickly as possible. Michael got up and took Denise in his arms. How could this happen? Why was Claudia in this bar with Amanda? They should have arrived in Virginia at this time. Everything was mixed in his head but he understood quickly. The theft of ammunition was not a terrorist act but an isolated act and it was used to prepare this explosion. And that could have happened anywhere also on the base. The helpers who first observed the surroundings quickly found Roland. The latter was put on a stretcher. Denise saw it.

D: Roland!

Michael ran to him. The fireman assured him that he was unconscious, and that he probably had broken sides but that he was alive. Michael thought of Joan. She had to be warned. He phoned her and informed him of what had happened. Joan then joins Roland in the hospital. On site, the firefighters had managed to open the emergency door and clear the entrance. On the other side, firefighters found Marylin, whose body was lying on a window. He noticed his death quickly. His body was taken quickly. Michael who saw the black plastic felt his pulse pick up. He ran to see the police officer who was recording the information as and when.

M: Can you tell me who it is?
Po: Marylin Polarski sir.
M: All right, thank you.

He came back to the girls.

M: This is Marylin Polarski.

Angie started to cry, Pamela and Roxy too. This nightmare was probably going to stop, it's at least what everyone hoped for, but all this was real. The rescuers finally arrived at the rear of the emergency exit. In the bar, everything had almost burned up, the ceiling, the top of the walls, half the bar. The water pipes had exploded, and everything was mixing with the fire hoses that the firefighters were projecting on the roof so that the fire did not restart. A noise was heard. Outside, the fire chief shouted to stop the spears. Indeed, the weight of the water on the roof threatened that the latter collapses. The firemen, inside, found a first person, it was Claudia. They called a stretcher and she was soon out. They found that she was still alive but there was significant bleeding in her head. She was riding in a fire truck to stabilize the bleeding, and to know who she was. As one of the firefighters came down the truck, Michael had just arrived when he saw that his wife had just been inside.

M: Sir, how is she?
P: Are you?
M: It's my wife, Claudia Joy Holden.

Upon hearing the name, the firefighter understood that it was the woman of the number three from the Fort Marshall base. He took his time to explain to Michael in great detail.

P: Very good. First of all, rest assured, she is alive.
M: Oh Lord! Thank you !
P: Now she has an important wound in her head, she was probably thrown against the table at the foot of which we found it. She is, however, unconscious, and suffered from our first findings a head trauma, which has plunged into coma.

Michael put a hand to his mouth. Claudia was in a coma. A firefighter came out to say that she was stabilized and that she had to go quickly to the hospital.

Po: Are you accompanying us?
M: I ... I can not, my daughter is always inside, I ...
Po: We take care of it, everything will be fine.

Michael watched the truck move away, his heart completely broken. But already a new, lifeless body was out of the bar again. It was Marylin's lover. A new victim. The firefighters quickly removed Sergeant Polarski's body. Everyone was looking at this black bag, thinking that all this happened because of this man, this soldier. At that moment there was an immense silence. But soon, we thought of the firefighters still inside. Indeed time passed and they did not stand out. There were still two people to find, Betty and Amanda. But despite their effort, they could not be found. Half an hour passed, then three quarters of an hour, and an hour. But soon Betty was found behind the bar under a board of wood. He was quickly taken to the hospital because it was partially burned to the first degree. At the point of explosion, there were a large number of debris. And reinforcements had to go on helping them again. Amanda was found at the main door, which was broken, and the place was covered with glass, wood, jail. But Michael did not immediately understand that it was his daughter. But when he heard the fire department say that the person was badly burned, he understood that it was Amanda they were talking about. The truck left even before Michael could see it. But one of the firemen went to see the policeman to tell him that the last victim had been found. The officer informed him that it was Amanda Joy Holden, the daughter of Brigadier General Michael Holden. The fireman went to Michael.

P: Sir, we just transferred your daughter very quickly to the hospital because we had trouble stabilizing her on the spot.
M: How is it?
P: She was burned to the second degree, and she struggled to cope with this trauma, her heart rate was not satisfactory. I am sorry.

Michael was hit hard by this news. He did not even know what to answer. He leaned against a security fence, his breath stopped for a few seconds. He had trouble catching his breath. Denise came immediately to him.

D: Michael, it's okay. They will get by.
The latter got up and hugged Denise against him. His life had just collapsed, in the space of a few hours, two of the people he loved most in this world were between life and death. How was he going to survive his, at that time? Denise reminded him that another of his daughters needed to know.

D: Michael, you must warn Emmalin.
M: I ... I'll do it tomorrow, she's gone on vacation. I have to go to the hospital, I have to go and see Claudia and Amanda, see how they are doing, make them feel like I'm close to her.

Pamela proposed to take everyone there. They found themselves in the waiting room, to know, Michael, Denise, Pamela and Roxy. Michael and Denise had forgotten that Roland and Betty were there too, only Claudia and Amanda counted for them at that moment. Roxy also thought of Betty and Pamela reminded him that Roland must surely be in a room here. In the waiting room, they were all sleeping soon, except Denise, who could not sleep. The waiting time was relatively long. A doctor arrived, he was looking for Michael. Denise saw that he was still sleeping and thought that during that time he was calm. She explained to the doctor who told him to come back later. But she begged him to tell him ... Claudia was his best friend and Amanda his son's girlfriend. She will send the message to Michael. The doctor agreed. They retreated into the hallway.

D: How are they?
Dr: Regarding Mrs. Holden, she's stabilized. She is in a stage 1 coma. It is the shock that has plunged her into this coma, and it will be enough for her head hematoma to fade and she will wake up in the next few days. Her heart rate is normal and stable, she breathes alone, and she has no other trauma. She suffered a head injury but was of low intensity and she will have no sequelae.
D: Very good. And Amanda?
Dr: Regarding the girl, I'm a little more on the reserve. She had no trauma proper but was burned in the second degree on practically all the body. His heart could not stand and his heart rate was falling dangerously. We have managed to stabilize it and it is assisted by an automatic breathing system so that it oxygenates properly. After several examinations, it was found that the burn had reached some organs but without too much gravity and as it has stabilized, it should not get worse. It's his heartbeat that worries us.
D: My god! Is it possible to go see them?
Dr: Not at the moment. Mrs. Holden must have stayed calm at least tonight and for Amanda, a nurse is present every minute and the day before because she has to be watched closely. Amanda is in a stage 3 coma due to this extensive burn and the trauma of falling against the glass and the wall must not suffer any external aggression. It is possible that she will hear our voices and this could cause her to fall quickly.
D: All right, I understand. Thank you Doctor.

Denise went back to the waiting room. Her best friend was in a coma and Amanda was between life and death. Meanwhile Roxy and Pamela were awake and had heard from Roland. The latter is sedated because several sides of broken and must remain bedridden but he is well. For Betty, nothing had been said yet. Two hours later, Michael woke up.

M: Any news?
D: Yes, the doctor has been here for two hours now.
M: What? But Denise you should have woken me up.
D: No, you needed to sleep Michael. I'll wake you up if you should have done it.
M: What did the doctor say?
D: Claudia is in a stage 1 coma, shocked when she was thrown against the table. She has no other injuries if it's only a burn to one forearm but really very partial and some scratches. The doctor is positive when waking up in the next few days.
M: And Amanda?

Michael was waiting for the worst.

D: According to the doctor, she would be in a stage 3 coma. She is burned to the second degree on almost the whole body and ...
Denise paused. Everything was so difficult to bear.

D: And that reached some organs. The doctor says that what worries them most is her heart rate but they have managed to stabilize her and a nurse is watching her every moment. I'm sorry Michael.

Michael got his head in his hands. These images were unbearable to him.

M: I have to go see them.
D: Michael, we can not ask the doctor.
M: I do not care about the doctor's opinion. My daughter is between Denise's life and death ...

Michael went to the front desk and asked to speak to the doctor on call. The latter arrived quickly.

Dr: Sir, you wanted to talk to me.
M: Yes I would like to go see my wife and my daughter.
Dr: I just checked their constants, you can go see your wife but it's impossible for me to let you into your daughter's room.

Michael nodded. The doctor took him to Claudia's room. Seeing his wife in this state, Michael sighed a big blow, but the tears were not far away. He came to kiss her on the forehead and watched her breathe quietly, as if she were just asleep.

Dr: I have good hope that she wakes up in the next few days. His condition does not worry me too much, it must of course monitor but there is no particular concern.

Claudia's heartbeat changed slightly. Michael worried immediately but after checking the doctor's reassurance.

Dr: She must have felt your presence. Do not hesitate to talk to her, she surely hears you and reassures her too.

The doctor left Claudia's room but called Michael back one last time. The latter went to the door and the doctor whispered a last recommendation.

Dr: Do not mention the condition of your daughter, she could react badly and I can not say the consequences that could be.
M: Very good doctor.

The doctor came out and let Michael calm down with Claudia. The latter sat down beside him and took Claudia's hand in his.

M: Honey, I was so scared. The doctor told me that you would probably hear me so I hope that is the case. I am here, I watch over you, I do not leave you, I promise you. But why were you in this bar Claudia, why were you there?

Michael was looking at her on the hospital bed and wondering how life could not hold on to such a small thread. In a moment their family life had just tipped over. When they got up that morning, they were all four together in the kitchen for breakfast. Emmalin had gone on holiday in the morning not knowing that a few hours later her mother and sister would be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Michael fell asleep on Claudia's bed, his hand in his. For their part, the others had just heard from Betty. The latter were in stage 1 coma as well and had been partially burned. She was under surveillance so her burning did not get worse. For the moment nobody could go to see the different victims of this explosion. Only Michael had been able to see Claudia. He awoke in the night with his wife. He told her that he was coming back quickly and out to join Denise and the others. Coming out of Claudia's room, he thought that Amanda should not be far. He went to the opposite of the exit and a few feet, fell on the room of his daughter. He could not go in, but could see through the window. He saw his daughter in a coma, lying on a bed, under respiratory assistance, burned. He cried all the tears of his body. He could not stand seeing his daughter in this state. The nurse who lives a man crying, out.

I: Do you know this person?
M: It's my daughter, he said to the nurse, still watching through the window.
I: I'm sorry. But we managed to stabilize it and for the moment everything is going well.
M: Can not I see her for a few minutes?
I: If she feels your presence, hears your voice, she may react and her heart rate may accelerate, which is what concerns us the most, so for her sake it is not better for you to come back in his room.
M: Okay.
I: You know you have a girl who is very strong.
M: I know, but she wants her from her mother. She looks so much like him.
I: Your wife must be very pretty in this case.
M: Beautiful, Amanda is the spitting image of her mother.

The nurse saw the worry in Michael's eyes. She knew that the person who was in the next room was this girl's mother and by implication, Michael's wife. She tried to reassure him.

I: Your daughter will be fine. This night is decisive. We will know more tomorrow in the morning. You should go to rest a little.
M: You are right.

Michael left for the exit and joined the others in the waiting room. When he went through the doors, he left this interview with the doctor behind them, got hold of himself and did not know anything. Michael will never discuss this announcement and his decision again.

D: How's Claudia?
M: She is stable.
P: And Amanda?
M: They managed to stabilize it for the moment.
D: Michael, you should go back to sleep. We all need to sleep. If anything happens, we will warn you.
M: You're right. I'll say goodbye to Claudia.

Michael went back to his wife's room and told him that he was going to sleep, that he would be back in a few hours. Pamela took everyone home. Denise decided to sleep at Michael's, and Pamela stayed at Roxy's. Everyone fell asleep quickly, despite the doubts and fears they felt at that moment. The next day they went back to the hospital but there was no improvement for anyone. Denise, Roxy and Pamela tried to join their husband, without success. In the early afternoon, Michael called Emmalin.

E: Hey hi daddy!
M: Hello treasure.
E: Dad, it's not okay?
M: Emmalin, you have to go home urgently, something bad happened.
E: What, what's going on?
M: There was an accident at the Hump Bar while your mother and sister were there. You have to go home sweatheart.

Emmalin started to cry at the end of the line. But she has to get in quickly. In the afternoon, Michael visited his workplace at headquarters, where Joan was.

J: You should not be here, sir.
M: Hello Joan. I come to the news about the investigation.
J: It is Polarski who stole the ammunition for the sole purpose of causing this explosion.
M: Working helps me forget.
J: As you wish sir. A press conference is being held this afternoon at the entrance to Fort Marshall.
M: I understand that it will be late afternoon.
J: That's right.

In the early afternoon, Michael went home, Emmalin waiting for him under the porch of the house. They hugged each other. They returned and Emmalin asked his father for explanations.

E: Dad, what's going on?
M: A soldier blew himself up in the Hump. Many people were there, including your mother and your sister.
E: Oh my god dad!
M: I know sweatheart, I know.
E: How's mom?
M: Mom and Amanda are both in a coma but will they get along okay?

Emmalin nodded and her father took her in his arms. Long moments of waiting began.