Avalanche By: Lauren Freeman

Note: Okay I have only seen two episodes of this series, and read a couple of fics, so if I am off on what the characters are like, I'm sorry. You should still read it anyway. Who knows you might like it!

Note 2: Please review but don't flame.

Disclaimer: I do not own anything from the TV show Everwood. I am not making any money from this.

Avalanche By: Lauren Freeman

Chapter One

"Oh crap!" Ephram yelled as he watched helplessly as a wall of snow rumbled down at him. Ephram looked around and found that he was trapped, there was no place to go, he was going to be buried alive. Ephram couldn't believe this was happening, he didn't have to come out here alone, but he just could not take his fathers lectures anymore. He had only planned to come over to the mountains for a few hours to clear his mind. Fear. Ephram regretted now that he did not tell anyone where he was going, or even that he was leaving. He knew that there was a slim chance that anyone would know where he was, let alone that he was in trouble again. Ephram curled up in a small cave hoping that it would shelter him enough from the blow. Everything went black.

Ephram opened his eye only to find that he could not see anything. He was stuck in the cave with nothing but his backpack. His backpack, Ephram was suddenly very thankful his dad made him carry around a first aid kit one that just happened to come with a small flashlight with extra batteries. Turing on the light he found he had cuts and bruises all over his body, he then noticed that he was sitting in a pool of blood. Ephram gasped and began to look for what could cause that much blood. This led him to realize that he could not feel any of the injuries. He may not have spent a lot of time listening to his father talk about work, but he new this was a bad thing. Anyone who had took the community First-Aid and CPR courses his school required its students to take, would know that.

It did not take long for Ephram to find out where all the blood was coming from, what he saw made his stomach flip as he gasped in shock. Apparently not only snow fell down the mountain, because a large piece of wood was sticking out of his right leg. The first thing he realized was that he needed to stop the bleeding, or he wasn't going to have to worry about freezing to death. Ephram grabbed bandage dressing from his kit and the gauze and began to wrap the wound, making sure he did not jar the wood. He noticed that the bandage was quickly soaked with blood, this was worse then he thought. A wave a dizziness passed over him and he took a deep calming breath, before cutting a long strap from his bag he tied it just above the wound around his leg firmly to try and slow the blood flow to the wound. He then began to cover more bandages over the other bandages. The bleeding began to slow down considerably. Ephram let go of a breath he did not know he was holding.

"I'm going to thank my first-aid teacher if I make it out of this alive."

Ephram began to clean his other wounds, and cover the ones he felt needed to be covered. Another wave of dizziness swept over him, and this time he put his hand on his head, only to find that he had a head injury also.

'Great. Just what I needed." Ephram put a bandage on the wound then put his hat and hood on, to try and get as warm as possible. He then began to place cotton balls in between his toes, to try and keep them from rubbing together, incase they were frost bitten. Putting on his extra pair of clothes over his dirty ones and making sure his jacket was tight. Ephram took a shaky breath, before sitting back against the wall where he immediately lost consciousness.