Chapter 9 The sound and sight of that swerve was the last thing Kathryn could remember before blacking out as they hit a nearby tree. It may have been the middle of nowhere, but they managed to swerve just where a group of trees decided to grow!. Maybe if there had been nothing there to hit, then Richard would have got control of the wheel again. Who knows?. Slowly, Kathryn saw vision again. She felt something shaking her and she heard a voice: "Kathryn...are you all right?". It was Sebastian. He was like a guardian angel at the point in time. "Kathryn?...Kathryn, how are you feelings?". It was those words that struck!. Suddenly she remembered what had happened!. She looked around. Broken glass, blood everywhere and the parents both unconscious in the front seats. "What have I done?" she exclaimed. She went over to her dad - a natural reaction! - and shook him. "Daddy?...Daddy?". Kathryn tried Isobel. "Isobel!...Isobel!.I'm sorry wake up!". "I've already tried my mum...she wouldn't wake!...We need to get help!". Kathryn looked at him. "What can WE do???" she whinned.

A boy and a girl were walking along a mountain. Their names were Valmont and Merteuil. Not Isobel Valmont and Richard Merteuil! - but the young pair who left those two individuals behind in a crashed up car.

The strange thing was they were strangers. Sure they'd met a couple of times when their parents had thrown them together at secret liaisons or social functions, but they were only brief occasions!. Sure they'd spent the last two days in a car and motel together, but they didn't bare to utter many words to each other!-too much was going on!. But now suddenly they weren't a foursome or surrounded by a social function - it was just the two of them!. The only person there to comfort each other was the other one. The only one there to protect the other one was the other person. It was scary journey to make together alone, but it was ten times more scary solo alone!!!!!. They were dependent on each other for survival and company whenever they liked it or not!. And yet, they did like it. Both of them. From the moment Sebastian had awoken her and started talking to her Kathryn felt she begun to know him!. Suddenly he was no longer Isobel's son. But he was a living, breathing person with emotions. Their impulses didn't feel like strangers. Not as they walked along and Sebastian tried to make random jokes and Kathryn laughed at them. Kathryn's natural impulse was to wrap her arms round Sebastian and cry her eyes out. But he was stranger, she couldn't do that!. Sebastian's was to put his arms round her and comfort, too. But what would she think?. They both trusted each other in some unexplainable way. Yet, neither of them knew they felt the same. All they could feel was that bond!. The heart wrenching, body shingling feeling of that bond. A relationship! Out of nothing!.