She reached up as far as she could, her finger-tips only just touching his. He leant down a little bit more and she clasped onto him, sighing with relief and letting out a happy smile. But an earthquake aftershock erupted through-out the hospital, causing the lift to grind further down the shoot and threw Chris to the floor. When she got up again, she looked at him with a desperate expression.

"I'm gonna get you out, just grab hold." he assured her before once again dropping down his hand, which she grabbed hold of for the second time. He pulled her up enough for her to sit on the edge of the hatch and pull herself up the rest of the way. he stood up on top of the little metal box and leant her a hand to get up also which she gratefully accepted. Once she was up he pulled her into a hug. "See i told you we would be ok." he breathed into her hair.

"I know, thank you." she whispered in his ear just as there was a tremor, not quite as bad as the last one but it shook the lift slightly.

"Come on, quickly." he spoke, pointing at the ladder which she began to climb up, shortly followed by hook, but as soon as his foot left the metal roof, another tremor erupted throughout the hospital and the lift slid a little bit further down, before scraping away a bit of the wall. Chris and Hook watched in horror as the lift slid loose and began to fall, faster and faster down the shoot before hitting the bottom with an almighty crash and exploded. Chris screamed slightly, but hook's voice had caught in his throat. As he watched, his eyes widened as he spotted something that he never thought could happen.

"chris?" he slowly called.

"yeh?" she answered.

"go!!! faster! as fast as you can go!!" he ordered and she obeyed before climbing up the rungs faster and faster but she was concentrating too much on getting out that she missed one of the rungs and almost fell but he stuck his arm out to stop her. she screamed.

Elmer stood by as his dad worked on lona, scared to move, scared to speak.

"Elmer, do something useful!" Louis Traff snapped as he began to tube lona. But Elmer continued to bite his nail and stand in the corner.

"Oh for gods sake!" Dr Traff yelled at him. "Go and get Dr Stegman!!"

"NO! I'm not letting him near her!" Elmer refused.
"Shut up! You do not decide her future, she's gonna die if you dont go and get a doctor!!!!" Dr Traff screamed at him and Elmer began to crack under the pressure.
"I am not gonna let Dr Stegman near her no matter what you say!" elmer announced.

"Fine, just go and get a doctor!" Traff sighed.

The fire was rising fast and they were still about half way up, causing her to panic, though usually so cool under pressure. Finally they got to the top and she lifted herself out of the shoot, before stopping to help him up also and then they began to run towards the door, faster and faster.