Chapter 10.

Sven never waited to hear the sound of a body crashing through the water from that distance, he pulled on his skis again and hurried down the hill towards his car. He needed to get away from here, and he needed to get away now.

The second he had disappeared, Kamili sprung towards the edge of the cliff, as fast as she could in the deep snow. The snow hardly seemed to bother her anymore, the pain in her hip that she had injured not to long ago was gone as she forced herself towards the edge.

By the edge of the cliff she tossed herself down onto her stomach in the snow, looking down towards the deep abyss.

The sight in front of her was a sight that for a long time would get stuck in her brain.

Sandra was hanging onto a piece of rock that was sticking out from the mountain, she was holding onto it with one hand, fear and horror in her eyes as she was counting the seconds before she would fall to a safe death.

"Sandra!" Kamili screamed, trying to out power the strong wind that also made it hard for Sandra to hold onto the rock.

Sandra looked up, panic shown all over her beautiful features as she looked up at Kamili. Tears were streaming down her face and she had to remind herself to take a breath.

"KAM! Help me!" Sandra screamed back, although it was nothing she had to ask for.

Kamili crawled even closer to the edge on her stomach and reached down a hand for Sandra to grab. Sandra tried to get her free hand up, and she swung herself carefully, not wanting to let go of the rock by mistake. She felt her cold fingers slip and she wondered how many more seconds they had. Not many.

But no matter how hard she tried, she could not reach Kamili's fingers that were stretching as far as they could to reach her friend. Kamili let out a roar in frustration as she suddenly rose up on her knees, then up on her feet and disappeared out of sight.

Sandra closed her eyes hard, tears making their ways out as she held on for dear life. The pain in her leg had been replaced by the pain in her arm, in her muscles that were keeping her entire body weight up with just the fingers. She had felt something snap in some of the fingers as she grabbed onto the rock, and she could see blood on her arms, from when she had scratched against the hard mountain, trying to get a grip onto something.

She opened her eyes, wishing that Kamili would come back. She had left. She had left her here. Where had she gone? Was she coming back? Of course she was. Sandra had to tell herself that of course Kamili hadn't left her there, she would return in a few seconds. Sandra just wondered if she had any more seconds. Her numb fingers were slowly sliding on the piece of rock, the glove didn't really get a good grip. She looked around on the edge of the cliff, wondering if there was something else she could grab in case she fell.

Nothing.

"KAM!?" Sandra screamed in fear, her heart beating faster. Where was she?

Kamili suddenly reappeared by the edge of the cliff, and this time she lowered down a rope. Theodor's rope. Sandra knew Theo always carried a rope with him, a rope he could use to lower himself down from higher levels at the mountain, among other things. Kamili had tied a loop by the end of the rope and Sandra pulled her free arm through it, holding onto the rope. Kamili immediately laid back and began to pull her friend up. Sandra climbed with her good leg, and grabbed onto everything she could with her numb arm as Kamili pulled with all she was worth. Luckily Kamili was bigger than Sandra in all levels, and also had more muscles than slim Sandra, and a few minutes later, Sandra found herself lying on top of Kamili, laughing out in sheer relief in the snow.

"You did it! You're awesome!" Sandra yelled as she hugged her friend who was breathing hard in exhaustion as she was lying on her back in the snow, hugging her friend, happy that she was safe.

They both rolled around in the snow, hugging each other close before they ended up on their backs next to each other in the deep snow.

"I don't think I've ever been so happy to see a person." Sandra whispered, out of breath.

"I don't think I've ever seen anything that scary." Kamili whispered back.

Sandra tried to sit up, putting her right hand towards the ground and instantly cried out in pain. Her fingers and arm was hurting a lot. Kamili immediately sat up and helped Sandra to sit straight as Sandra cradled her right arm into her left.

"Let me take a look." Kamili whispered as she took Sandra's hand into hers.

Sandra winced as Kamili pulled of the gloves, immediately seeing the problem. At least three of the fingers were injured. Kamili carefully pulled away Sandra's torn sleeve to take a look at the arm after seeing the blood.

"Just grazes." Kamili said reassuringly as she pulled of her scarf and pulled it around Sandra's wrist.

Kamili rose to her feet and brushed the snow off her legs, then grabbed Sandra's good hand and helped her stand. Sandra got up, then fell back into the snow.

"Where are you hurt?" Kamili asked as she immediately sat down next to Sandra of her knees in the deep snow.

"My shin." Sandra cried as she leaned forward and tried to pull her pants up. "Theo stopped me by slamming something against my leg when I was skiing."

Kamili nodded as she pulled up Sandra's pants. The shin was swollen and already discolored. Kamili pulled the pants back down and took Sandra's face into her hands. Sandra was crying out of pain, exhaustion, pain of knowing her father was into shady business and that the fact that a man that she had seen as an uncle had killed Theodor and almost her, and the adrenaline was wearing off. Sandra was a wreck.

"Sandra. Sandra, look at me."

Sandra looked up at Kamili and then swallowed hard.

"I will get you down the mountain, okay? Just hang onto me and we will make it even if it means I'm gonna carry you down." Kamili said.

Sandra nodded, took a few deep breaths before she managed to rise to her feet with Kamili's help. Sandra pulled her good arm around Kamili's shoulders and Kamili put an arm around Sandra's waist as they slowly began making their way down the mountain.


It took them over an hour to get down to the car, and they decided to leave Sandra's car at the scene. Driving to the hospital, they saw Jill, Kris and Kelly's rental cars parked outside the hospital and they both got worried. But 'first things first' Kamili strictly told Sandra as she helped her to the ER where the staff took care of her, in the same time as Kamili went to see if she could find the others.

Kamili walked up to a desk and asked if there were any Americans anywhere. The nurse behind the desk smiled to her and gave her a room number. Kamili walked over to it, a million thoughts going through her mind. This was not one of her better vacations – Sandra was being taken to x-ray at another part of the hospital and now everyone else seemed to be here. She had seen Jill's, Kelly's and Kris' car, but not Janet's, which made her come to a painful conclusion that Janet had been injured. She found the room number and didn't hesitate as she pulled the door up.

She smiled worried to Janet who was lying in bed underneath several covers and blankets, having an IV-tube going in underneath all of them. Janet turned her head to Kamili as she came in, and a smile spread across her tired lips.

No one spoke for a few seconds as Kamili walked up to the bed and sat down in the bed next to Janet, putting her hand onto her stomach.

"What happened? How are you doing?" Kamili asked gently.

"I crashed the car into the water, but I'll be fine. How did you know I was here?" Janet whispered as she looked confused at Kamili.

"I saw everyone's cars outside so I guess you guys were here."

"We've been trying to get in touch with you and Sandra for the last hour or so..." Kelly said, no need to finish her sentence.

"Yeah, eum, Sandra met up with Theodor and Sven up on a mountain, or well, she was only planning to follow Sven and then Theodor cut her off… Sven killed Theodor and then pushed Sandra off the cliff before taking off… Sandra managed to hold on to a rock while I got a rope and pulled her up."

Everyone stared at Kamili for a few quiet seconds. That was not really what they thought had happened.

"Where is Sandra now?" Janet whispered quietly, suddenly feeling a strong need to be with her friend.

"X-ray, Theodor obviously made her crash with her skis by tripping her as she was skiing in full speed, she hit her leg into something. And she hurt her arm when she grabbed onto the rock."

"Why don't you go and keep her company?" Janet suggested, and Kamili nodded, then patted Janet's stomach a little more.

"Sure you're okay?"

"I'll be fine. Go to Sandra." Janet smiled tiredly, and Kamili rose to her feet, beginning to walk out of the room. Just as she reached the door, she felt a hand on her back, and as she turned around she met Kelly's green eyes.

"I'll keep you company."

Kamili smiled to Kelly and the two of them walked back to the ER to try and find Sandra.