I am sorry for the late update.I had lots of stuff on my mind and I forgot to update, until a friend reminded me of it.:)))

So here it is!Enjoy!

Chapter 10

Jesse was still lying on the ground and had not moved at all. Shalimar, who was waiting for Brennan, to tell her the state Jesse was in, and thought he had forgotten her, asked with an anxious voice:" Brennan?". Brennan seemed to be far away, but he reacted at her, hearing his name. He looked at her and then suddenly, he tear up Jesse's shirt.Again, he looked at her and said:" Shal, I need your help. Jesse is not breathing. We have to resuscitate him. If you will do the mouth to mouth, I'll do the chest." He told her in a straight voice. He didn't want her to argue with him. There was no time for that. Shalimar understood the situation and nodded. She tried to stand, but Brennan already was picking Jesse up and laid him next to her, so she was able to resuscitate him. Brennan placed his hand on the stomach of Jesse and let his fingers find their way to the bone near the heart and the ribs. When he found the bone, he put his other hand next to it and put his left hand then on the right hand. With his left, he took the fingers of the right and pushed them a little backwards. He looked at Shalimar.She was putting two fingers of her left hand on Jesse's nose wings and two fingers of her other hand were under his chin.They looked at each other for some comfort. Adam once told them how to resuscitate a person, but he also told them that that person almost never survived. Shalimar was looking at Jesse's face and that was for her, reason enough, for at least trying it. She took a deep breath and was bringing her face down towards Jesse. She put her mouth on his and breathed twice, separate from each other.Brennan started to do the chest compression and he counted to fifteen.When he was at fourteen, Shalimar brought her head back down. They did this several times and Brennan was checking Jesse's breathing.

Shalimar's eyes became wet of the tears. She couldn't cope with the idea, she might lose Jesse. He was her brother, her family. She already lost her father, losing a brother would be too much. Brennan was thinking about Jesse too. He wanted to propose to Shalimar and ask Jesse to be his best man. He wanted to tell him, but the road trip was getting in the way. He looked at Shalimar and saw she was getting tired. He also felt his arms and his hands. He saw the tears and wanted to kiss them away, but he couldn't just yet. He checked Jesse's breathing again and began to smile, when he felt Jesse's chest moving up and down. Shalimar watched Brennan smiling, understood the message that he sent and started to smile too. She forgot her own leg and took Jesse's head in her hands and put it on her legs. She was touching his face and put his hair and the mud out of his face. He had his eyes still closed, but they could see he was adjusting to his surroundings. Then he opened his eyes. Shalimar kissed him on his head and hold his head against her chest. Brennan laughed and said:" Shal, you're choking him." Shalimar loosened her grip and kissed him again. Jesse wanted to sit straight up, but Shalimar told him to take it easy.

Brennan, looking down at the two on the ground, saw Shalimar cringing and remembered her leg. He looked around him and searched for the cool box. The cool box was made of metal and maybe, just maybe, it might have survived the explosion. He was feeling very lucky, when he saw it lying down, almost near the place where he found Jesse. He walked towards the box, opened it and was checking it. Four bottles of water were still there. He grabbed the box and got back to the others. Shalimar and Jesse were still talking, but the look at Shalimar's face told him she was hurting.

He kneeled by her and put her leg against his knee. He rolled her trousers to her knee and looked at her wound. He ripped a piece of his shirt and opened one of the bottles in the box. He put some water on the piece of clothing and cleaned her wound. He checked the wound and said:" It isn't a very deep wound. I don't believe it did some serious damage, but I don't know for sure." He took another piece of his shirt and bonded it around the leg, covering the wound. He put Shalimar's trousers down over it and said:" That will do for now" Jesse was trying to sit up again and this time Shalimar let him. Jesse looked at the both of them and shrugged his shoulders. "I always thought that if a person was resuscitating, they were feeling........I don't know...not well, I guess. But I am feeling fine. No headaches, no nothing." With the help of Shalimar and Brennan, he then tried to stand up and he smiled. "I am feeling great. Unbelievable". Brennan and Shalimar were looking at each other. They were not sure how someone should feel after resuscitation. He seemed all right. Shalimar was feeling another presence and her eyes turned orange-yellow. She scanned the surroundings and saw the three men standing by the road above, at the same spot, the Cadillac drove in the ravine. They were looking down and spotted them and disappeared. "I saw the men just above us. They have seen us. We can't stay here." Brennan nodded and said:" You're right." He looked at Jesse and asked him:"Can you walk?" Jesse nodded and answered:" Like I said, I am feeling fine." Brennan looked in the direction of Shalimar, but she was looking at him with a Don't-you-dare-asking-me-that-question look and then passes him, so he just smiled at Jesse, shrugged his shoulders and then followed Jesse and Shalimar into the woods.