Hook looked at Chris who looked at Elmer who was moping in the corner. Chris sighed before walking over to him and sitting beside him.

"Elmer.." she softly spoke but he didnt look up.

"I'm fine." he insisted but Hook and Christine knew he was lying.

Chris slowly got up before walking back over to Hook, who also didnt know what to do.

"Let me talk to him." he mumbled and she nodded. "Elmer, listen to me women are very complicated, I've never been unable to understand them, Lona is another woman, another complex person. Why dont you try finding someone who is more understandable?"

Christine stood by, rolling her eyes at Hook.

"But i dont want anyone else!!" Elmer exclaimed.

"elmer, i think of you as a friend and i dont want you to get hurt, Lona doesnt feel the same way about you and you are just gonna have to get over it and move on." he insisted but elmer looked at him, giving him a desperate look.

"I can't move on!!" Elmer sighed and hook patted him on the back.

"I know you'll do the right thing." Hook told him before getting up and leaving the room hurriedly, followed by Chris.

"What the hell was that?!" she hissed when they were out of ear shot.

"What was what?" he asked, pushing the button on the elevator.

"Women are complicated! I've never been able to understand them!Lona's a very complex woman!??" she sarcastically mocked him in a pathetic voice.

"I was trying to make him feel better." Hook spoke in a matter-of-fact tone as the lift opened and he stepped in. She hesitated before also stepping in and leaning over him to press the level 8 button before standing with her arms crossed.

He looked at her, tilting his head to one side slightly, waiting for her to turn and look at him, when she finally did, she couldnt help but smile slightly.

"Shut up!" she grinned and he laughed.

"Im not talking."

She turned to face the wall so her back was to him, making him smile even more, knowing that she was trying to conceal the fact she was smiling. Suddenly she abruptly turned around and thrust herself at him, pressing her lips against his, pushing him against the side of the lift. His hands wandered from her lower back until they were in her hair. He tried to pull away from the wall slightly but as the lift came to a grinding hault they were thrown back against it.

"What was that?" she breathed, her face only inches away from his but he looked as shocked as she did.

"I dont know." he looked at, obviously worried. When they thought everything had come to a stand-still, something jolted into the side of the lift, denting it badly and Christine screamed as she fell against the wall. Hook couldnt move, he was stuck on the spot, staring at the huge dent in the lift doors. Whatever it had been had dented it so much the doors had buckled and he could see in between floors where the doors had buckled so much they had come open slightly. The only sounds he could hear were Christine's heavy breathing and her slight sobs, the rest of the world had disappeared in his mind, he was only concentrating on Christine and himself getting out alive.

Lona brushed her dusty blonde hair out of her eyes before taking one look at the lifts and decided to take the stairs instead. She rushed down the stairs to the sleep lab but as she set off down them, an earthquake hit the hospital once again but she hung onto the banister before laughing slightly. She heard a cracking noise and she was thrown into termoil when the stairs collapsed, pulling her with them, almost crushing her instantly.

Elmer was still sulking as he walked to the stairs to descend to the medical record center. He began to panic when he noticed the stairs had suddenly...gone. Even more alarmed when he saw sombody in the midst of the rubble, someone with dusty blonde hair. He gasped when he finally realised before climbing down the remaining banister onto the piles of broken concrete. When he reached her, the sight of her blood was too much for him and he began to hyperventilate.

"Lona! No, no, no, no, please god no, dont be dead." he cried as he gently touched her now blood stained dusty blonde hair.

"mmmmmmm." she groaned before moving slightly and opened her eyes to look at him. "elmer...." she spoke breathlessly but he couldnt answer for the lump producing in his throat disabled him from doing so.

"please tell me this lift wont go plummeting to the ground." christine begged hook who looked at her before looking back at the dent in the door.

"Shouldnt do." he answered.

"Shouldnt do? Shouldnt do?!" she exclaimed.

"I dont know ok?" he asked and she slumped against the wall, tears forming in her eyes.

"I'm scared hook." she admitted and he looked at her before moving towards her, opening his arms and she walked into them, laying her head on his shoulder.

"i know, i'm sorry." he breathed, he wrapped his arm around her waist before using his other hand to rub her neck and back. "I've pressed the alarm 4 times and nobody is coming, im afraid we are gonna have to climb out the top." he told her and she raised her head.

"what?" she breathed and he repeated his idea. "i cant get up there."

"I'll help you up." he insisted but she still refused.

"I cant!!" she exclaimed.

"Listen to me chris, when i said i dunno when you asked about this thing plummeting to the floor, the truth is, it is very possible." he told her, and she pulled away from him before banging her head against the wall. As if on cue, the lift started to grind and move at which point she flung her arms out and attempted to hold onto the metal walls. "Please Chris!"

Elmer looked at his watch, he had called for a doctor over half an hour ago, and he knew lona was losing blood fast. Desperate not to lose her, he began to dig away at the rubble, pulling lumps of rock away from her body with his bare hands. He didnt even realise how strong he really was until faced with the possibility of losing lona massingale. When he had cleared enough rubble, he managed to pull out her almost lifeless body.

"come on lona." he begged as he loosely picked her up, and hugged her close to his body.

Hook put his hands together to propell her up onto the roof, but she was still too scared so he pulled his hands apart and pulled her close to him.

"Come on, if we dont get out of here, we could go down with this thing and most definately die." he told her and she looked at him.

"Ok.." she agreed and breathed in deeply before exhaling and he once again knitted his fingers together to make a foot well in which she placed her right foot. She used this to push herself up but couldnt move the metal grate that covered up the only entrance they would be able to escape through.

"I cant move it!" she panicked.

"Ok, thats fine, thats fine, get down." he told her and she obeyed.

"What are we gonna do??" she panicked but he took her hand firmly in his.

"I am gonna go up, push the metal grill up, jump on top of the lift and then come and get you ok?" He explained.

"You promise you wont leave me?" she begged.

"I promise." he softly told her and she nodded.

Elmer moved as fast as he could whilst carrying lona's body, trying to find an available doctor. Though he ended up outside his dad's office before hurriedly knocking anxiously. He waited for a few minutes and then finally Dr Traff came to the door and opened it angrily, until he saw Elmer with Lona's pale body in his arms, blood smeared on his face.

"dad, you gotta help me!" he cried.

Hook stood on the top of the lift, holding onto the rope as the lift began to move again. He looked down to see chris panicking again.

"Ready to come up?" he called.

"Definately!" she yelled and he leaned close to the roof of the metal bodied lift, poking his arm down the hatch for her to grab hold of.