Cristian was driving to the hospital to see if Al had made any progress around one in the afternoon when he drove by a rode and saw skid marks in the snow. Something made Cristian stop his car and when he looked down he saw that there was a steep drop and then he saw a car and a body laying next to it. He searched for his cell-phone and cursed himself when he realized he had left it at home. He wasted no time making his way down the hill. He immediately went to the person sprawled out in the snow and through a mass of red hair and blood he saw Natalie.
"Natalie! NATALIE! Wake up!" he yelled seeing the blue cast to her skin and lips as he lightly tapped her cheeks to get a response from her..
"Seth? I knew you...you won't leave, love me?" she mumbled her eyes still closed..
"Thank God you're alive. He have to get you to the hospital. Natalie, can you hear me?" she made no response. .
"Natalie?" he asked leaning over her to see if she was breathing, and she wasn't..
His heart dropped to his stomach and panic momentarily paralyzed him. He took a deep breath and remembered that he had to get her to breath. He put his mouth over hers and blew air into her lifeless body, he checked again and again as he kept breathing for her to keep her alive. Finally she gave a weak a cough and he said a silent prayer to God, thanking him. Cristian knew that he shouldn't move her but he had to get her to the hospital as fast as he could so he scooped her up and carried her to his car. He put her into the back seat and covered her up with a blanket he kept in the back. Opening the trunk he found another blanket and he used his coat for more warmth. He turned on the heater as high as it would go and he pushed on the break. .
He drove to the hospital and hoped that she would still be alive by the time he got there. "Natalie, can you hear me?" he asked as they stopped at a red light. "Natalie, try to wake up please," he said reaching back and shaking her.

She couldn't move, everything seemed slow in her mind, she heard a voice but it wasn't Seth's, she tried to place it and cursed her brain for being so slow, she knew that voice, soft, gentle, but urgent. She tried to concentrate on the words but they escaped her, all she knew was that it was a beautiful voice. Cristian, that name floated around in her head, that's who it was, her friend, maybe the only one she ever had, but something was wrong, she could hear it in his voice, his soft, kind voice. She was still so cold, she wanted to listen to his voice and just go to sleep, and be warm, and see Seth, that was all she wanted..
"Natalie!".
Her name went through her head like a knife, and it roused her awake. She tried to make her mouth move to form words but she couldn't, nothing came out..
Warm arms wrapped around her and she basked in the comfort of his arms, she could hear his heart beating as he held her against his chest. He smelled wonderful and she breathed in the comforting scent, but then his closeness was gone and she was alone. "Cristian," she made herself say.

Cristian ran carrying Natalie through the hospital doors. "My friend needs help, now," he said to the nearest doctor which happened to be Troy MacIver..
"I need a gurney!" said Troy rushing to Natalie's aid..
"Do you know what happened?" asked Troy checking for a pulse and finding a faint one..
"I found her car off the road, she was laying in the snow, is she going to be okay?" he asked laying her on a gurney. .
"Cristian,".
He heard her whisper and bent down so he could her hear her, she whispered his name again..
"It's okay, I'm here, you're at the hospital, they'll take care of you, I promise.".
"Don't...leave.".
"I won't, I promise," he said taking her freezing hand in his own. .
"Do you know how long she was outside?" asked Troy as he lifted Natalie's eyelids and checked them with a light..
Cristian tried to remember when she had left his apartment, it had been around 5 or six, if only she would have let him drive her. "Maybe eight hours, I don't know. She stopped breathing when I found her, but she's going to be okay now, right?" he asked as he followed them into the emergency room doors where they wouldn't let him go any farther..
"I promised I wouldn't leave her!".
"I'm sorry, it's hospital policy, you can see her as soon as we're done.".
Cristian called Ben and Viki and then he sat down in the waiting room with his head between his hands. He had been so stupid, he shouldn't have let her leave so early, he should have driven her home, he knew she had been upset, he was so stupid, if she died it would be all of his fault, in three weeks he was responsible for two people ending up in the hospital, what was wrong with him?