Nick looked around at his surroundings, or at least he tried. The wind whipped the rain around so fast that everything was a grey blur. The drops that connected with his exposed skin left little red marks and water filled his eyes as fast as he could brush it away.

The log was huge, at least 2 ½ feet in diameter and 50 feet long, solid wood, spanning the entire length of the clearing four feet above the ground. To his right Sara and Catherine were leaning over Greg, he couldn't see what they were doing. Grissom and Lee were rolling stones and branches onto the edges of the parachute that Dave and Dani had spread out over the log and were now securing it to the surrounding trees with the cords that dangled at even intervals.

Giving himself a mental shake, he stumbled forward to help them, tying the parachute onto the bases of nearby trees. After ten minutes his hands were numb from cold, his clothes had been soaked through and their shelter was as secure as any of them could make it. Dani approached him and took off the pack that he'd forgotten he'd been carrying, she shouted something he couldn't hear. So in the end she dragged him through the opening of their makeshift tent.

"C'mon, get inside man" someone said as multiple sets of hands helped him in, the girl behind him stumbled in and tied the edges of the flaps together.

Sleep was almost inevitable, despite the wind howling overhead and the booming thunder echoing in his ears, the quickly erected held up under the pounding it was receiving. Someone had gone through a pack and produced a sleeping bag and some energy bars which were greedily consumed. Another sleeping bag found it's way out and Nick was snuggled in between two warm bodies. The waves breaking on the rocks four hundred feet away gently lulling him into a restless sleep.

(Dani)

Dani awoke with a start, unsure of what had jerked her out of slumberland. A scraping noise reached her ears, then the sound of people talking, she didn't want to get up, she was too tired, sick of the responsibilities she'd been forced to take on in the last 24 hours, she'd gotten them away from the plane. Now it was someone else's turn to take the lead. She heard the strike of a match and snuggled closer to the person behind her, surprised when an arm, unmistakably male, snaked protectively around her waist, pulling her closer.

Heart thudding she twisted in his arms and came face to face with a sleeping Nick. With a heavy sigh, she wriggled out of the 'tent' and surveyed the scene before her. The right wing of the plane had narrowly missed them, landing atop a bunch of palm trees ten feet away, creating the image of a veranda, she could see more parts of the plane, dotted along the hillside, gleaming white in the early morning sun, a fire was lit inside a small circle of stones and,

She did a double take,

And had to do a triple check to make sure she wasn't hallucinating...

"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING"