A plane sailing through the sky at 10,000 feet was carrying a former queen and her new husband across the sea to morocco for their honeymoon. All was going well until they felt the plane shaking.
"What's going on?" Clarisse asked nobody in particular.
"I don't know, I'll try and find out," Joseph replied as he stood up from his seat and walked towards the front of the plane.
As she waited for him to return, she noticed that the shaking was getting worse and worse, and she felt as if she were being pulled into her seat. She tried to get up, but was immediately pushed back down by the force. She was starting to panic and wondered why Joseph was taking so long, so she screamed out to him but got no reply.
Eventually he carefully came out of the cabin and pulled his way towards her. Sitting down, he gently kissed her forehead and told her to listen to him carefully.
"Clarisse, this plane is ground bound which means we have to evacuate it immediately. Now I want you to put this on and when I tell you to, you're going to jump out that door, wait a few seconds then pull this cord."
He demonstrated which cord she needed to pull and continued, "Now if this cord fails, pull this one over here, okay?"
"Okay."
She directed her attention to the men who were opening the door and flying out one by one, while Joseph quickly strapped the parachute onto her back. He watched the last of the men fly out of the plane and held her hand, leading her to the door. Suddenly she noticed something that she hadn't noticed before, "Where's yours?"
"My what?"
"Your one of these."
"Oh, my parachute, I don't have one."
"What? Why not!"
"There are no more parachutes, this is the last one."
"W…what are you going to do then?"
"I'm going to stay here and try to get some sleep."
"You're going to go down with the plane?"
"Umm…yes, that sounds about right. Okay, jump now!"
She stood in front of the door and turned to him, "What do you mean you're going down with the plain? You can't die on me! Not like my husband! Not like my son!"
"Clarisse, there are no more parachutes left, now can you please just jump to safety?"
Her throat tightened, "NO! I'm not going without you! We can share this one?"
He shook his head, "The weight would be too great and we'd die on impact. Please darling, please just do this? For me…?"
"I am not going anywhere without you, I would sooner throw this thing out that door then let you die here alone, I've spent too many nights crying over the deaths of loved ones and I refuse to shed anymore tears over another human being!"
He lightly pushed her backwards in hopes that she might jump out, but she grabbed onto his arm and screamed, "If you push me out, I'm taking you with me!"
"Clarisse! Please! I want you to get to safety!"
"NO!
"NOW!"
"Nohoho!"
She clung onto his body and waited for him to give in.
"Darling, you're really not going to jump?"
"Not alone."
"But…"
He looked into her tear-stained eyes and gave her a long sweet kiss, "Tell you what, we'll jump down together and just…hope for the best."
"Oh," she squeaked.
He kissed her temples and picked her up. She wrapped her legs tightly around his waist and almost strangled him by constricting his neck with her arms. He slowly kissed her once more and backed slowly out the door.
Almost as soon as they left the plane, Joseph reached a hand up to pull the cord, which caused the parachute to open up. He looked down and felt that they were travelling towards the ground a little to quickly, so he attempted to struggle free from her clutches. He didn't have any luck though, so he was forced to listen to her screaming, "You let go and I swear I'll cut the cords on this thing."
"I'm still here!"
"DON'T LET GO! Promise me you won't let go."
"I promise."
He stared down at the fast approaching water and struggled some more, "Clarisse, I have to let go now or both of us will fall to our deaths."
"No!"
He struggled again and managed to free himself to the extent of which she grabbed his hands, "You promised!"
"I'm sorry."
"No, Joseph, no."
"I'll always love you..."
At last he released himself from her tight grasp and started falling towards the sea below.
"NOOOOOOOOOO!"
Tears started rolling down her face as she watched him fall, staring continuously down at the sea until she herself landed on a beach full of soft warm sand.
To be continued as this is a two-shot. That means there is one more chapter. This is just something I was thinking about writing last night AFTER I went to bed...rolls eyes
