A/N: Thank you to guest, Leonardo Di Caprio (loved you in Inception by the way :P) and LTSangy, your reviews make me so happy 3!
Chapter 14
Jack's POV
"She isn't okay!" laughed the lady, she grabbed my arm and pulled me away from Rachel,
Rachel stared at me, looking confused, the lady in white clung to my arm, she was a lot stronger than she appeared to be, both of her arms gripping me tightly and a strange smile on her face.
"Jack?" Rachel questioned, she looked unsteady on her feet from the fright that she had just experienced, her dark hair blowing in the wind.
Then I heard a creaking sound, the lady giggled loudly, Rachel turned to look for where the sound was coming from, the telegraph pole,
"No!" I called out, trying to get away from the lady and help Rachel away, but the lady was too strong.
Rachel looked over at the telegraph pole, the car had slammed into the base of it and it was creaking loudly, time didn't slow, I couldn't help her.
"This is it!" the lady hissed in my ear as she held my arm,
The pole fell quickly, its base cracked by the impact of the car. There was a sickening crack as it crushed her. Her small body dwarfed by the wood, the snapped wires from the top of it were strewn across the street. A pool of blood formed behind her head when she struck the pavement and the pole lay across her hips and chest. The whiteness of the snow destroyed by the shock of blood seeping out of Rachel. The lady let go of me and I ran to Rachel's side,
"I'm sorry!" sobbed the driver of the car, he couldn't see me or the lady, so he must have been speaking to Rachel, he ran towards the hospital, to get help.
Rachel's dark hair was wet with blood, her delicate bones cracked under the heavy pole, her eyes closed and a single tear on her cheek.
"No," I whispered, hoping for a reply,
Her mouth was open slightly and her hands were gently opened, she looked as if she could be asleep, I choked back tears, I had failed her, she was mine, she trusted me to look after her, I had promised her. I lifted one of her hands and kissed it, still warm, as she always was. My tears, that would be invisible to most people, dripped down onto her hand, cold, like the snow under her crushed body.
"Interesting, isn't it?" The lady asked, she had walked over to me and laid a hand on my shoulder as I crouched over Rachel, "It's not everyday you get to see something like this, you should be grateful!"
I looked up at the lady, knowing that she could see the tears in my eyes and the obvious hurt that I was feeling.
"I'm a failure…" I muttered, unsure of what I should say,
"Oh, Jack!" The lady laughed, "I like you, you are a rather nice man, so this is why I'm telling you this, you never should have let her see you! That's why this had to happen! It's not right that the living and dead should be…" she paused for thought, "In love."
"You did this," I glared at her, sickened by her,
The lady shrugged, "I had to, didn't I? I knew I couldn't trust you to be an angel, Mr Phillips, you just can't be trusted! Anyway, it's quite ironic that she should be ended by a telegraph pole, seeing as how telegraph used to mean quite a lot to you didn't it?"
"You, are a strange, deranged woman," I hissed at her,
She pretended to be shocked by my words, "Oh, Jack, don't say that! You know that I'm an angel," with these words, she smiled, looking extremely angelic, her dress blending in with the clean snow and an expression that contrasted her actions sharply.
The fire brigade had to be called to lift the post off her, they cut the pole in half and some rather strong men lifted it off her crushed body, her hips were obviously broken in many places, the people from Accident and Emergency arrived from across the road, put her gently onto a stretcher and then she was taken to the hospital,
"I can't believe she survived that," I heard one of the people from the hospital state,
Survived? A sense of relief washed over me, the possibility that there was still a chance for my love to live. I followed them to the hospital, the last time I had been in this building was when my sweet Rachel was born, the lady in white came as well, she was obviously interested in what was going on.
"See, Jack?" she laughed, as they shifted Rachel from a stretcher onto a hospital bed, "Isn't this fun?"
There was nothing I could say to that, they connected Rachel to a heart rate monitor and apparatus to help her breathe, she had broken many of her bones, she was in a coma and it was possible that she would never wake up. Her heart rate was slow and her breathing was laboured due to her broken bones, they were going to get a doctor to see to her, but they doubted that anything could be done to help her; they would have to contact her family. I didn't want to think about how they would take it, losing a daughter, a sister, a friend. I should have protected her more carefully; I wished that I could have stopped it. We hadn't had a long enough time together, there was so much more I wanted to tell her and show her. She would never kiss me again, she would never even talk to me again, it was all too horrible, I had seen some terrible things, but after I died, I hoped that that would be the end of them, that I could move on, but now I couldn't.
"What am I meant to do?" I asked the lady, trying to hold my tears back, I had to stay strong, "Can't I help her?"
"Well…" smiled the lady, "that does sound like a lot of fun!"
She had a sinister smile on her face, as if she was trying to come up with an idea, she pushed her hair back with one hand and put a finger to her lips as she thought, the room was silent apart from the steady 'bleep' of the heart rate monitor and Rachel's slow chokes for breath, I could barely take my eyes from her, she looked so weak, this never should have happened, it was my fault, if I had just never spoken to her, and stayed with her for her whole life without saying a word, then maybe she would have been alright, Chris would still love her, she could still look after her little brother,
"Ciaran," I muttered , I turned to the lady, "I'm not the only angel ever to have spoken to the person they are protecting!"
"Aw," She laughed, "I know, but you are such fun, Jack, you were always a strong character and I knew that you would be interesting, I have never paid as much attention to any other guardian angel! I've been keeping an eye on you, just to see what you've got up to… and I'm glad that I did!"
"You…" I muttered,
"Oh," she smiled, "Don't hate me, Jack; I could make things far worse!"
"Is this allowed?" I asked her, confused by her,
"Allowed?" she giggled, "You weren't allowed to fall for her in the first place!"
This silenced me, I shouldn't have, but I had to and it was too late for that.
"Is there nothing I can do? I would do anything for her," my eyes narrowed, "You know that."
The lady stopped to consider again, her blue eyes glanced to Rachel and then back to me,
"That settles it," she smiled, placing a hand on my arm and looking into my eyes, "I'll give both of you a second chance!"
A/N: hmm what could that mean? Heheh, you'll find out tomorrow :P