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Chapter 21

Inside the Tunnel

A loud explosion rang out behind Jesse, sending him flying through the air until he landed on the cold hard ground. Then everything went dark after that. Smoke from the explosion fogged up the tunnel so that you weren't able to see in front of you, behind and to either side. All that could that be seen was a dark, unconsious form lying to the side of the tunnel.

"What day is it? And in what month?
This clock never seemed so alive
I can't keep up and I can't back down
I've been losing so much time"

The body lay completely still. Nothing moved except for the occasional falling of rocks knocked loose from the explosion. The figure had reopened the wound on the side of their face, more particularly the part near their eye. His breathing was shallow, but at least he was alive. Cough. Cough. Jesse's eyes flickered a few times and then finally opened. He winced at the pain near his eye when his eye opened. He moved into a sitting position, and touched his eye with his hand and felt blood.

Jesse staggered to his feet, but immediately fell back down to the ground from dizziness. The cut must be deeper and dangerously closer to my eye than I thought, he thought. Jesse tried to stand up again and succeeded by keeping a hand on the wall of the tunnel to steady him. He squinted his eyes to look around the dark and smoke filled tunnel. Jesse coughed again and saw something near the wall a few feet away.

He walked cautiously toward it, silently hoping and praying that it would be Susannah. When he was close enough, Jesse saw that what it was it was buried in dirt and rocks. Jesse knelt down and brushed the dirt off and pushed the rocks away. His heart nearly stopped at the next thing he saw. Brown hair. Jesse rushed to get the rest of the dirt and rocks and wound up coughing a few more times. Sure enough, there she was.

"Cause it's you and me and all of the people with nothing to do
Nothing to lose
And it's you and me and all of the people
And I don't know why, I can't keep my eyes off of you"

Jesse rolled her on to her back and gasped. Susannah's beautiful face was smeared in blood with her long brown hair sticking it. Forcing himself to look away from her bloodied face, he took her wrist in his hand and felt for a pulse.

"Come on, Susannah," Jesse urged in a whisper as he searched frantically for a pulse. He stared at her lifeless face, waiting in anticipation for her to wake up. She never did. Jesse refused to give up and so he did anything he could to revive his querida. Then the most wonderful thing happened.

Susannah's eyes fluttered once, twice, then slowly opened. "Jesse?" It came out in hoarse whisper, but he still heard it.

"All of the things that I want to say just aren't coming out right
I'm tripping on words
You've got my head spinning
I don't know where to go from here"

Jesse's eyes filled with tears of happiness and he went down to her and engulfed her into a hug. "Susannah, querida, I'm so glad you're okay," Jesse whispered into her hair as tears ran down her cheeks. He pulled back and just cradled her in his arms. Suze brought her hand up and touched his wound. Jesse flinched.

"Where's--(cough)--where's everybody else?" Suze asked stroking his cheek.

"They're safe. I came back in to find you," Jesse explained taking her hand and rubbed his thumb over her soft and dusty skin.

Suze was going to say something, but she quickly shut her eyes and squeezed them.

"Susannah? Querida, are you okay?" Jesse asked worriedly.

Suze shook her head and held her side as tear escaped from her closed eyelids. Jesse wiped the tears from her eyes and decided to see what was causing her pain. He unzipped her sweatshirt and pushed her tang top up off her stomach. The bandages were torn and started to fall off. Jesse tore off some fragments hanging off the bandages and saw something underneath the bandages. A bruise. He pushed back more of the bandages and gasped.

"What's wrong?" Suze asked with her still closed.

"I think you did more damage to your ribs," Jesse explained running his hand over the bridge and Suze flinched from his touch.

"Is it bad?" Suze asked again, opening her eyes and looking at Jesse for the truth.

"Well, I don't know for sure, but your ribs could wind up puncturing your lungs," Jesse explained again, taking her hand again and squeezing it.

"Cause it's you and me and all of the people with nothing to do
Nothing to prove
And it's you and me and all of the people
And I don't know why, I can't keep my eyes off of you"

"Why did any of this have to happen?" Suze questioned tears filling her eyes once again and one sliding down cheek.

"I don't know, Susannah," Jesse whispered, "I just don't know." He wiped her tears away, but his own tears slid slowly down his cheek as he watched her squeeze her eyes in pain. Jesse pulled her into hug and just held her. Held her and not letting her go, not wanting to ever lose her.

Did you like it? I'm sorry if the chapter is short, if it's a good length that's fine too. But I hopefully think that the next chapter will be longer. Now on to everybody's favorite lines. Will Suze and Jesse make it out or will they die in the tunnel in each other's arms? Find out in the next chapter of Sacred Memories.