Authors Notes: I'm finally on vacation! I'll probably be doing a lot of updating this week, because I don't have to go to school.

dokushoka: Cliffhangers and angst. Two lovely things. Thanks for the review ^^ and I'm sorry to say there's another cliffie coming up..

CCChut81: Thanks ^^

hgill: Thanks for the reviews. When I read the thing about the elevator I got this weird senario in my mind that went something like -

Iris: Joan, there's something I have to tell you

Joan: Hm?

Iris: Adam's the father of my child

Joan: Liar!

Ah, soap opera drama. Gotta love it.

Admiral Lily: Killing Iris and Glynis? Now there's a plan!

And now I give you chapter 6 of Disaster Strikes

6. No Survivors?

6:43pm

"If I make it out of here alive, I'm going to start volunteer work at the hospital in the fire survivors wing," Grace told Luke as they climbed the stairs.

"We're gonna make it out of here alive," Luke told her. She pointed to a big silver door with the arm that wasn't wrapped around Luke's shoulders for support.

"We should go over there," she told him. They turned and headed for the door. Luke opened the door quickly and they fell in, then slammed the door.

"Fresh air.." Grace said, taking it in.

"Grace?" A voice called as Adam and Glynis came running down the stairs to them.

"Are you guys alright, yo?" Adam asked.

"I am, she's not," Luke told Adam.

"I'm fine," Grace told him.

"Grace, a ceiling fell on you!" Adam and Glynis looked at her.

"A ceiling did not fall on me. A ceiling almost fell on you, I pushed you out of the way and a bunch of wood and plaster and stuff fell on me!"

"From the ceiling! You even said it yourself. You think you sprained your leg," Luke told her.

"Look, that isn't important. We've got to find everyone else," Grace said.

"Glynis says that Joan and Iris are in an elevator somewhere."

*

"Jump!" Joan yelled. She and Iris jumped up in the air and slammed down on the floor. They felt the elevator fall down a little further.

"Okay, again!" Joan yelled. They went down further. "Now we've gotta get up there, fast." Joan and Iris climbed up onto the top of the elevator as fast as they could and Joan jumped through the elevator doors they had opened. The cable began to break further.

"Joan!" Iris yelled.

"Give me your hand!" Joan called to her, holding her hand out. Iris grabbed it just as the cable broke.

"Pull me up!!" Iris screamed.

"I'm trying!" Joan told her. Iris put her feet up against the side of the elevator shaft and grabbed Joan's other arm, using her as support, trying to climb the wall. Joan took a few steps back, and Iris climbed up.

"I owe you, my life," Iris told her.

"We're not out of the woods yet," Joan said, pointing out the flames that surrounded them.

"There's the door, come on!" Iris said as she and Joan ran through the hall, coughing and dodging flames. Joan opened the door and she and Iris ran in. They began running up the stairs, forgetting to close the door.

*

"I hate stairs," Grace said as Luke helped her up the stairs.

"Do you smell that?" Glynis asked.

"Dude, more smoke," Adam responded as they reached the fourteenth floor.

"Adam?!" two voices yelled together. Adam turned around and saw Iris and Joan running upstairs.

"Jane, Iris!" he called as they reached the group.

"We left the door opened. We're got to find the others and get out. Now," Iris said.

"Who are we missing?" Joan asked with a cough.

"Uh. .Clay and Freidman and Madison. Scott's outside," Adam said as another person ran up the stairs.

"There you are!" he yelled at Adam, coughing like mad. He looked at the other teenagers. "You found your friends, now you've all got to get to the roof! I'll call for a helicopter."

"Who are you?" Iris asked.

"I'm Ryan. A fireman. I followed your friend back in here," he said. "Now you all need to get to the roof, the fire's almost up to this floor.

"Freidman, Clay and Madison are still in here!" Joan said.

"I'll look for them, you kids keep going for the roof," ryan commanded. They considered it and agreed, heading for the roof.

*

The door to the roof opened as Joan, Luke, Adam, Grace, Iris and Glynis walked out onto it, all gasping and coughing, taking in the fresh air just as a helicopter landed on the roof. The pilot got out.

"There are only three seats. We're going to need to take more than one trip. How many are left in there?" he asked as the roof door opened once again and soot covered Freidman and Madison exited.

"No one," Freidman said. said.

"What do you mean no one? What about Clay and Ryan?" Joan asked him. He shook his head.

"We've got to take off, three of you get in," the pilot told them.

"Grace, you should go in, you're injured," Joan told her.

"Do I look like I care? The nerds should go, they're younger."

"Age has nothing to do with anything," Luke told her.

"We're just going to fight over this until the building blows up and we die! You three go!" Iris yelled, pointing to Madison, Freidman and Glynis. They didn't put up a fight and went with it. "Okay, when it comes back who's going on?"

"You are," Joan said.

"Who else then?" Iris asked.

"Luke, you're going. And Grace, you should,"Joan told her.

"No. Rove goes on the next one," Grace told her.

"Dude?" Adam questioned. Grace turned to him.

"Think about it Rove. We have no idea when this place is gonna blow. If it goes up with you still up here, think about what will happen. You'll die. How's your father gonna feel about that? With your mother and everything.. It's better if you go," Grace explained as the helicopter landed again.

"She's right, get on it Adam," Joan said. Adam began to protest, but Joan cut him off by kissing him. She broke the kiss and looked him in the eyes. "Go." He was about to say something, then changed his mind. As he was about to climb in, he stopped and looked at Joan.

"I love you Jane," he said. She smiled at him.

"I love you too Adam," Joan said as the helicopter took off. Adam, Luke and Iris looked out the window as it lifted into the air when another explosion went off and the hotel was consumed in a reddish cloud.