Part Six
Apologies in advance for any misspelled Spanish words - it's not my strongest subject!
"Hey sweetie what you doing in here? You're supposed to be outside with the others." Dave was trying so hard not to lose it, he felt like grabbing the child and throwing her out of the train.
The child looked at Dave with her big brown eyes full of fear; she was petrified and needed reassurance.
"Come on darling lets get you out of here." Dave extended his hand to the shaking form on the floor.
Luka paced nervously back and forth outside the train "Why had Dave gone back, he had no reason too?" He cringed inwardly as the tunnel creaked and a few more bricks tumbled to the ground.
"Luka what's going on?" Carter appeared next to Luka his face smeared with blood and his lips slightly blue from the cold night air.
"Dave found a party of children in one of the carriages, he went in the teacher was hurt, we thought we got all the kids but Dave said he heard another one so he went back in and the tunnels coming down and" Luka stopped seeing the look of confusion on Carters face.
"Dave is in THERE!" Luka screamed at the top of his voice as the bricks above them gave way and threw the carriage onto its side.
Dave's skull contacted with the top of the seat and his body twisted in ways no body ever should. He wanted to scream in agony, he wanted to bring his arms into his body so that his wrists wouldn't snap but neither of these things happened. Everything happened so quickly.
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"Dave, Dave open your eyes for me. Come on buddy just a bit." Carter's voice was faint and Dave's head thumped in rhythm with his heart.
"Dave please open your eyes. DAVE!" Now he was being shaken which made him hurt even more.
"No. Dormir."
"What did he say?" Carter questioned Luka.
"I'm not sure. Dave I know you can hear me so open your eyes."
He squeezed his hands into fists, he wouldn't give up..then it hit him the girl where was she.
"Charlie. Charlie." He whispered, each breath causing him agony, they had to find her.
"Its ok Dave we got her out she's going to be fine." Carter lied, Charlie had died a few minutes ago and her body still lay up the carriage. Luka shot him a look but Carter knew what would happen if he told Dave the truth, he would panic and hurt himself even more than he already was.
"Dave listen to me you've lost a lot of blood, you have to stay still. But don't worry we're going to take you to the best hospital in America." Luka grinned hoping Dave spirit could be lifted with a joke and a smile.
He knew they were talking, he could hear their voices but what they were saying he couldn't make out. He looked at the black above there was a burst of colour to his left then another to the right. it was fireworks. The same fireworks that had been shot into the November night when he was ten sitting in a blanket between his mother and father while his baby brother toddled around excited at finding his feet.
"Allí bonito." Dave panted "Justo como yo recordar."
Carter and Luka exchanged worried glances, Dave was hallucinating and they had no way to explain to him what was happening - they looked down as Dave continued to mumble in Spanish.
The train creaked shifting the large piece of metal Dave was impaled on causing blood to spurt from the wound in his side.
Apologies in advance for any misspelled Spanish words - it's not my strongest subject!
"Hey sweetie what you doing in here? You're supposed to be outside with the others." Dave was trying so hard not to lose it, he felt like grabbing the child and throwing her out of the train.
The child looked at Dave with her big brown eyes full of fear; she was petrified and needed reassurance.
"Come on darling lets get you out of here." Dave extended his hand to the shaking form on the floor.
Luka paced nervously back and forth outside the train "Why had Dave gone back, he had no reason too?" He cringed inwardly as the tunnel creaked and a few more bricks tumbled to the ground.
"Luka what's going on?" Carter appeared next to Luka his face smeared with blood and his lips slightly blue from the cold night air.
"Dave found a party of children in one of the carriages, he went in the teacher was hurt, we thought we got all the kids but Dave said he heard another one so he went back in and the tunnels coming down and" Luka stopped seeing the look of confusion on Carters face.
"Dave is in THERE!" Luka screamed at the top of his voice as the bricks above them gave way and threw the carriage onto its side.
Dave's skull contacted with the top of the seat and his body twisted in ways no body ever should. He wanted to scream in agony, he wanted to bring his arms into his body so that his wrists wouldn't snap but neither of these things happened. Everything happened so quickly.
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"Dave, Dave open your eyes for me. Come on buddy just a bit." Carter's voice was faint and Dave's head thumped in rhythm with his heart.
"Dave please open your eyes. DAVE!" Now he was being shaken which made him hurt even more.
"No. Dormir."
"What did he say?" Carter questioned Luka.
"I'm not sure. Dave I know you can hear me so open your eyes."
He squeezed his hands into fists, he wouldn't give up..then it hit him the girl where was she.
"Charlie. Charlie." He whispered, each breath causing him agony, they had to find her.
"Its ok Dave we got her out she's going to be fine." Carter lied, Charlie had died a few minutes ago and her body still lay up the carriage. Luka shot him a look but Carter knew what would happen if he told Dave the truth, he would panic and hurt himself even more than he already was.
"Dave listen to me you've lost a lot of blood, you have to stay still. But don't worry we're going to take you to the best hospital in America." Luka grinned hoping Dave spirit could be lifted with a joke and a smile.
He knew they were talking, he could hear their voices but what they were saying he couldn't make out. He looked at the black above there was a burst of colour to his left then another to the right. it was fireworks. The same fireworks that had been shot into the November night when he was ten sitting in a blanket between his mother and father while his baby brother toddled around excited at finding his feet.
"Allí bonito." Dave panted "Justo como yo recordar."
Carter and Luka exchanged worried glances, Dave was hallucinating and they had no way to explain to him what was happening - they looked down as Dave continued to mumble in Spanish.
The train creaked shifting the large piece of metal Dave was impaled on causing blood to spurt from the wound in his side.