"Okay, so a priest, a raabi, and a nun walk into a bar-stop me if you've heard this one", Leah Conners was immediately gagged during her attempt at a joke. Steering with her knees, and using her other hand to turn the volume up on the radio, her best friend Robin Chase rolled her eyes, but in a lighthearted way and sang along to the voice of Andy Griggs singing," She thinks she needs me".

Once Robin's hand removed itself from Leah's mouth, Leah broke into a grin. "Wow...our first road trip."

"Yea and any more of your lame jokes and it'll turn into your last," warned Robin checking her side mirrors for any cars behind her and turning into another exit. They had been planning this trip since they were kids. After they graduated from high school they were going to travel the world in Robin's white "grocery getter" to celebrate their freedom.

Leah was average height for someone her age, maybe a tad bit shorter. She had long bleach blonde hair with deep blue eyes and fair skin. Right now she was in her ripped jeans with a hollister short sleeved shirt on her back and her sunglasses perched on her nose.

Robin was a couple inches shorter than Leah, her hair longer and more dirty blonde. She had pale blue eyes and her skin was dark from years of tanning. She had on baggy flared jeans with a black tanktop and a necklace with a november birthstone on it.

As Robin fiddled around with the radio stations, Leah fumbled in the backpack on her lap. Grinning triaumphantly, she pulled out her copy of Master and Commander. Robin took one look and groaned.

"You're reading that again? Isn't it enough to have read it at least 20 times already?"

Leah snorted. "Of course not. Plus if we're heading up to Boston, i want to brush up on my ships before i see the ships out on the dock!" Turning to a random chapter she began reading until one of her favorite songs came on the radio. "DUDE! Turn it up!" She immediately began singing along, as obnoxiously as she could:

And since the day I left Milwaulkee..

Lynchburg, Bordeaux, France

I've been making the bars

Lot's of big money

And helping white people dance

I got you in trouble in high school

College now that was a ball

You had some of the best times

You'll never remember with me

Alcohol! Alcohol!

"God that is so going to be you someday," Robin laughed as Leah finished the song.

"Phst! What do you mean "someday"?"

It would be the last thing they'd ever say to each other.

A moment later, the driver in a red SUV lost control of the vehicle, and swerved over to hit Robin and Leah. The last thing Leah remembered was hearing her best friend's screams, and feeling herself being forced through the windshield. Then pain. Then nothing.

Leah thought she couldn't be dead because she could hear voices. They sounded distant, and she was unable to decipher what they were saying exactly, but they were voices just the same. Hushed voices. Her head throbbed painfully, and her eyelids felt heavy. Oh my God, I can't feel my body, thought Leah terrified. Her mind unfogged and she recalled the last thing that had happened. Her and Robin had been driving, and a car had smashed into them. She remembered being hurled out of the car, but what had become of Robin? She struggled with opening her eyes and moaned, turning her body to get the feeling of blood flowing. She could hear footsteps approach her.

A voice that was all too familiar but unable to place spoke softly," Careful. You've suffered from a concussion to your head. Your wrist was broken when we found you. Just rest easy now. Your in very good hands, Miss."

Leah's eyelids fluttered, and opened enough so she could she her rescuer. Whatever she was laying on kept rocking back and forth. Her vision cleared, and if she had had the strength to, she would've given a double-take. Standing over her, with a look of deep sympathy in his eyes, was the doctor of the Surprise, played by Paul Bettany in real life.

"Where the hell am I?" Leah muttered before her eyes closed involuntarily and she drifted off to sleep.