Everyone screamed as glass shattered through the window and they saw the burning building engulf in flames. "Ronnie!" Jack yelled . Roxy began to cry and sobbed on Peggy's shoulder. "Aunty Peg, Ron's in there!" she sobbed hysterically and ran towards the building but Jack pushed her aside. "Stay there, I'll go find her!" he cried frantically and putting his coat over his head, he raced inside the burning building to find and save the love of his life before it was too late.
Roxy sobbed hysterically on Peggy's shoulder as Sam and Peggy looked on in fear at the burning building. Still sobbing, Roxy broke away from Peggy and took Amy from Billy, cradling her daughter and sobbing, fear and tears in her eyes. If Ronnie died, Roxy would be nothing. Her and sister were like twins. They were so close. After Danielle had "died" Ronnie had bottled up her emotions for so long, pretending she was ok and she had moved on, but Roxy could tell she hadn't really.
Ronnie didn't like to let her guard down in front of people. She was scared of letting her façade drop and It wasn't too many people she opened up to about Danielle's death. If Roxy lost Ronnie shed didn't know how she would be able to cope.
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"Ron!" Jack shouted and coughed as he ran into the club. The club was now engulfed with flames. "Oh my God, Ronnie!" he cried. Ronnie was lying unconscious near the door of the office. Her forehead was bleeding and her face had cuts and bruises on it. "Ron!" Jack cried tearfully. He lifted Ronnie up and ran out of the club, with Ronnie in his arms. "Ronnie!" Roxy sobbed, handing Amy to Peggy, as she rushed towards her sister at lightening speed. "Ron, please wake up!" she wept, shaking her sister. Jack fought back tears as her gripped Ronnie's hands and checked to see if she was breathing.
"She's not breathing!" he shouted tearfully. Peggy and Sam placed their hands over their mouths and looked on in horror, while the other residents cast horrified looks at Ronnie. "C'mon, Ron, I love you, please stay with Ronnie, I love you, I can't live without you!" Jack said tearfully as he began to resuscitate Ronnie. After a few seconds Ronnie began to cough. Jack and Roxy wiped their tear stained faces, while Peggy and Sam breathed a sigh of relief. Jack gently kissed Ronnie's cheek as Roxy wrapped her arms around her sister. After a few moments of coughing, Ronnie cautiously sat up. "Oh, Ron, I thought I'd lost you!" Roxy said tearfully. Ronnie squeezed her sister's hand and froze
. "Danielle" she said slowly. She frantically looked around for her daughte."Where's Danielle?!" she demanded frantically. Stacey rushed up to Ronnie and showed her the locket and the letter. "She's still alive Ronnie, you've got to believe me!" Ronnie stared transfixed at the letter and kissed the locket.
"Where is she?" she asked. "Where is my baby?!" Jack looked at Ronnie. "Ron, is Danielle inside the club?" he asked softly. He didn't know how Danielle could be alive but the last thing she needed was geeting hyped up. "Ron, Danielle didn't come out of the club. Ron, she's-" Before Roxy finished her sentence, Ronnie scrambled off the ground, sobbing. "Danielle, my baby, she's still in there, I've got to find her!" she sobbed hysterically and started to run towards the building. "Ron!" Jack yanked her back. "Get off me, I have to get my baby out!" Ronnie screamed, sobbing. "Danielle!" "Ron, it's too dangerous for you to go in there" Jack said, holding Ronnie back. "I lost my little girl two times and I'm not going to lose her again!" Ronnie sobbed.
Just as she broke free from Jack, Archie came out coughing with…. Danielle in his arms. There was a shocked gasp that vibrated around the square. Janine looked flabbergasted and ran her fingers through her dark hair. "Oh my God!" she gasped, clamping a hand over her mouth. "Dan!" Stacey cried, rushing towards her". "Baby!" Ronnie sobbed as Archie laid a limp Danielle on the floor.
Her eyes were snapped shut, with dusts of smoke,bruises and cuts on her face. Archie leaned against the wall, coughing while Peggy rushed up to him. "You saved Danielle" she said quietly. "Thank you" she whispered. Archie managed to give Peggy a smile, but soon all attention was on Daniell e"Sweetie, please wake up, please Danielle!" Ronnie sobbed hysterically as she placed Danielle's head on her knees and supported her daughter's head with one hand, while stroking her cheek with the other. "Sweetie, please wake up, I can't lose you again!"
Ronnie sobbed and took Danielle's hand, not letting go. "Ron" Jack said gently, as the ambulance pulled up along with the fire birgade. A fire man jumped out of the truck and yelled "Is everyone out?!" "Yes, yes!" Peggy shouted. As the firemen began putting the fire out, Peggy beckoned over a paramedic. "Hurry, this yong girl, she's seriously injured she's-"
"She's not breathing!" Ronnie sobbed hysterically. "miss?" a paramedic tapped her on the shoulder. Ronnie looked at them, her eyevs swimming with tears. "Please save her, she's my little girl" she sobbed as Jack pulled her away. "Get off me!" she yelled hysterically and watched anxiously as the paramedics worked on Danielle. "We've got a heartbeat!" one announced seconds later. Ronnie broke down in sobs. Roxy rushed to hair and pulled her sister's hair out of her eyes. "Ssh, Ron, DanI's going to be ok, she's strong" Roxy reassured her as Ronnie leant on her shoulder and sobbed.
Danielle was carefully hoisted onto a stretcher and an oxygen mask was draped over her mouth. Ronnie broke away from Roxy and rushed to her daughter, immediately clasping her hand. She had promised Danielle she would never leave her again and that she would protect her- it was a promise Ronnie was more than capeable of carrying out. Ronnie gently smoothed back Danielle's hair and stroked her hair. "Everything is going to be ok, sweetie" she whispered tearfully as Danielle's stretcher was lifted into the ambulance. "I need to go with her, she's my daughter!" Ronnie said frantically. A female paramedic turned towards her and smiled. "Of course" she said kindly. "I've met this girl before and faced Ronnie again.
"This young girl had a car accident a few months ago. Her grandfather came to the hospital with her, to make sure she was ok She was in a coma for a few months, but she's a fighter. I'm sure you were relieved to find out she was ok" she smiled. Suddenly, everything fell into place for Ronnie. She turned to look at her father who was talking to a male paramedic and draping an oxygen mask over his mouth. Her Dad, must have come out of the Vic and see Danielle in the ambulance, then realizing she had been revived, went to the hospital with her, paid those caretakers off to put Danielle on the morgue table and stage a funeral and maliciously not even telling Ronnie, letting his daughter think Danielle was dead. As much as she wanted to go up and knock 7 bells out of her Dad, he had saved her daughter's life. Ronnie was grateful for him for that, but words couldn't describe how angry she felt wirth him, How could he have disclosed so much vital information?
But Archie was the least of Ronnie's worries. "Is she going to be ok?" she asked anxiously. "We have to get her to the hospital and carry out a few scans, we don't know how much smoke your daughter has inhaled, so we really need to get to the hospital very quickly." She looked at Ronnie. "And it wouldn't do any harm, to check you over as well, love". Ronnie nodded and climbed into the ambulance. "Everything is going to be ok, sweetie", she whispered gently to Danielle as she held her hand tightly. Roxy ran her fingers through her hair. "I can't believe it, Aunty Peg" she said hoarsely to Peggy. Archie came over to her and Roxy hugged. "You saved Danielle, Dad" she said quietly. Archie kissed his youngest daughter on the forehead and said gently, "Yeah, well let's just hope and pray she'll be ok, darling"
The ambulance started up and the sirens blared as It tore off, with the shocked and stunned residents staring after it.
