On the Ice

The computer worked for a second and then a list came up on the screen. It was so much longer, that she had expected. How could so many people be lost like that? She scanned thought the list and could eliminate ten off them just by reading through their description, but still there were five left. They could all be Robin. Around same age, black hair, blue eyes…

"How is it going?"

She turned around and saw Cyborg, who just had come home from his job at Murdock's.

"I'm down to a list with five persons. I was just about to download their pictures."

She started the process and the computer began to work.

"Do you really think, that Robin still is alive?"

"Why not? It is Robin we are talking about!"

"I matched a DNA-sample from the body with DNA from Robin. They didn't match, but…"

"See, he is probably somewhere out there waiting for us to find him!"

"Maybe…but the fall from the bridge and shoot…he could still have died."

The computer finish and the first picture popped up on the screen. It didn't looked like Robin at all. The other one turned out to be a girl. The rest off the pictures popped up one by one, but none of them turned out to be their lost friend.

The telephone began to ring. It rang several times before Raven stood up and answered it. It was Gary.

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"Jake, we have been all over the city without finding him. Maybe he has already come home. Let us go home!"

"No, just a little more."

He began to walk down of the street, but Sam stopped him by taken his hand.

"Jake, it isn't your fault! You couldn't know it would happened."

He turned around and was about to protest, but then their eyes meet. He relaxed a little.

"You have right. We just take this street and then we go home."

Sam nodded and let go of his hand.

Their search had taken them to one of the wealthy part of the city. On each side of the street were there big apartment houses, which rose to the sky and stopped the last sunbeams from reaching the street.

They had come to the end of the street and was about to turn around, when they heard a familiar voice. It was Elmer. They followed it and found him in front of one of the last apartment houses on the street. He was arguing with a man in a blue suit. Sam immediately ran over and hugged Elmer. The man looked relieved to see them.

"Do you know that boy?"

Jake nodded.

"You should put him in a madhouse. Look what he had done!"

The man held his sleeve so Jake could see it. It was a hole in it.

"I'm so sorry, but…"

"Don't you know who I am?"

Both Jake and Sam had to shake their heads.

"I'm Ben Draco, vice director of "Travis and Hinton".

Jake recognized the name from what Gary had told them. The anger grew in him.

"You are the one who are taking a home away from us!"

First Ben didn't understand it, but then he remembered.

"So, you are kids from St. Johns?"

They nodded.

"The faster that terrible place can get demolish…"

Elmer, who Sam had held on to, slipped out off her hold and jumped at Ben.

"YOU ARE NOT TAKING MY HOME!!!!"

Ben tried to defend himself against Elmer, but the boy was able to hit him several times.

"GET HIM OFF ME!!!"

Jake stepped in and stopped Elmer. Unfortunately Ben hadn't seen it, so he still fought back. One of his blows hit Sam, who also was trying to stop Elmer, and sent her to the ground. She hit her head on the kerb and passed out.

They all stood paralysed for a moment, then Jake jumped over to her and checked her. She had hit her head very badly and there were blood in her hair. Ben saw it and became nervous.

"She is alright. Isn't she?"

"She needs an ambulance!"

Ben shook his head and began to search through his pockets for something.

"I drive her!"

Jake was about to protest, but Ben run off in the direction of a red sports car. He started it and shortly after he drove it up next to them.

"Come, put her in!"

It was against Jake's common sense, but then Sam woke up. First she didn't even want to go to the hospital, but then she agreed to go if Ben would drive her. Somehow were they all able to fit into the little car. Ben speeded up and they flew through the city.

They came to the highway, which just were next to the coastline. Ben pressed down the accelerator and the car increased the speed. They passed the other cars, which looked like they just stood still.

"Hold in there. Just five more min…"

Something suddenly ran over the highway. Ben tried to brake, but the car skidded out. The car came to the edge of the road. For a moment it looked like the crash fence was going to hold the car, but then it gave in and broke. The car fell out over the edge and rolled down the little cliff, which was between the highway and the ocean. It came to the end off the cliff and rolled out on the ice. Some distance out on the ice the car stopped rolling and lay still, but upside down.

Ben jumped out off the car and ran into the shore.

"Are you alright?"

Sam nodded, but Elmer, who was sitting on the backseat with Jake, was unconscious. There was a big gash in his head. Sam began to cry and move over to him, but a big crack stopped her.

"What was that?"

Jake looked out off the broken window and saw the ice, which had begun to crack.

"Sam, get out off here!!"

"Okay."

She stepped out off the car, but didn't move.

"RUN!! What are you waiting for?"

"You and Elmer, give him to me and…"

Jake realized she hadn't seen it and cut her off.

"Sam, I can't. We are stuck."

It took Sam a moment before she realized what it meant. She began to cry again and felt down on her knees.

"NO!!!"

"Sam, listen to me. Run into to the shore and call the police."

For a second she just sat there and looked at them, but then she came over and took Jake and Elmer's hands.

"Hold out! I will get help."

She let go off their hands and was just about to run away, but stopped. She leaned towards Jake and kissed him passionate. A big crack ended the kiss and she ran to the shore. Just as she reached the shore a chain reaction began and the ice broke into thousands of pieces. The car began to sink and after just a few seconds it was gone.


(The story dosen't end here, but I'm just taking a little break writing this story to write on my other story, "A Way of Life". Hope you like this story so far and please review. It's always fun to hear what others think of your story! I will be back soon - JoBO)