Sara opened her eyes. She looked around but all she saw was an angry black sky. The rain had ceased for the moment, but by the looks of the sky it would most likely be back. Sara wondered if she should risk getting up. What time was it? How long had she been sleeping?

Finally she decided to get up. She needed to check on Zane and Catherine. Sara gritted her teeth as she propped herself up on her elbows. It gave her a searing pain in her head but she tried as hard as she could to ignore it. First she looked over at Catherine. By the looks of it she had not moved. As she looked closer, Sara could she Catherine's sides go up and down in even inhales and exhales of breath. She guessed she'd be waking up sometime soon.

Sara then looked over at Zane. He was lying on his side. She narrowed her eyes. Was that…metal sticking out of his back? How long had he been lying like that? Was he dead?

Quickly, ignoring the pain, Sara moved herself over to his side. She shook Zane fiercely.

" Zane! Zane! Wake up!"

She continued calling his name and shaking him until she saw Catherine move. Sara looked over at her.

" Catherine! Cat can you hear me?" She yelled.

" Yeah I can hear you, you're yelling loud enough!" Catherine said back groggily. Without thinking she sat up only to be forced back down by the pain in her arm and leg. She looked over at Sara who was still shaking Zane. Her eyes narrowed. " Is that a piece of metal?"

" Yeah. When the car exploded he was running down to get me and it impaled him. He brought me all the way back up here and then I guess he passed out."

" Sara I'm sorry to tell you this, but if he's been bleeding this whole time he's probably not still…" The reality of her own words hit Catherine. What was she saying? This wasn't just any victim. This was Zane! Her friend. She couldn't just give up on Zane, after all the times he'd been there for her.

" No! He's not dead! He's not allowed to be dead!" Sara yelled at Catherine, shaking Zane even harder.

" I know. I know. Keep calling his name. We need to get that piece of metal out of his abdomen."

Sara nodded and looked down at him. He looked peaceful in his sleep. Dead almost. No. That wasn't going to happen!

" Zane!" she called out as if she was yelling halfway across a football field.

Slowly his eye's started to open. He looked up to see Sara. He smiled and almost forgot until he tried sitting up and realized he was still impaled. He groaned. Suddenly Catherine came into his view. He was glad she was awake.

Catherine looked down at Zane. Something was wrong with him. He was burning hot to the touch, which was odd because Zane normally had no temperature at all. In fact, he usually was ice cold to the touch. And if it was possible, he looked a little paler than usual, which was also odd, because his skin was usually as pale as ivory. Catherine shook her head.

" Sara, we need to get the piece of metal out of him. Help me sit him up."

Carefully, using as much strength as they had left they sat Zane upright. Catherine looked at it. Then she looked at Sara. It seemed like her arm was broken.

" Sara you have to pull it out."

Sara's eyes widened as she look at Catherine. " What!"

" You have a broken arm, you can't hold him still so that means you have to pull it out."

" Cat…I don't know…I…I…"

" God dammit Sara! Now's not the time to be squeamish! We're talking about Zane's life here!"

Sara sighed and nodded. Slowly she gripped the cold metal. She looked at Zane who nodded.

" One quick motion Sar. It'll be fine." He assured her.

Sara shut her eyes tight. Quickly before she could talk herself out of it she pulled. Zane let out a groan and she stopped. She opened her eyes and looked down. The metal had only come out a little. She sighed and gripped again. With another nod from Zane she placed both her hands on the metal. Using all of her remaining strength Sara closed her eyes and pulled as hard as she could. The piece of metal came sliding out of Zane with a sickening squishing sound, along with his yell of pain. He also was still bleeding, so some excess blood splattered over Sara's clothes, hands, and face. Sara looked at her hands, covered in the crimson liquid oozing down her hands and she felt it on her face. Then she looked over at Zane who was still bleeding and Catherine, also splattered with a little blood. That's when she knew they'd never get out of there. Quickly Sara crawled away. She looked at the ground and threw up.

Catherine wanted to help Sara but first Zane needed to be bandaged. Catherine took off her jacket and ripped off a sleeve. Then she tore one side of the sleeve down the middle. She started to wrap it around Zane's waist when she realized it wouldn't be enough. She had medical supplies in the Tahoe. She looked up and realized it wasn't there.

" Zane, where's my car?"

" It blew up Cat."

Catherine sighed. She took the other sleeve of her jacket and did the same with the first. Soon he was all ready.

The wind picked up as the rain started to fall again. Zane took his coat off and gave it to Catherine.

" Here. You need it more than I do."

" Zane…Thank you." Was all she could muster as she slid his coat on. There was dried blood on the back but she didn't notice.

Zane looked over to Sara and realized she needed help. Slowly he stood up and limped over to her. He picked her up and carried her back over next to Catherine, who looked like she was going to drift off to sleep.

Zane looked over Sara critically. She obviously had a concussion, but he was unsure of how bad it was. It also looked like her arm was broken and her shoulder was dislocated.

" Sara, I need to pop your shoulder back into place."

She looked dazed and not really aware of what was going on. Her blood soaked hands were shaking and she did everything she could not to look at them. Normally the sight of blood didn't bother her. But this was different. This was Zane's blood. She knew Zane, he was one of her best friends and this was his blood on her hands. Suddenly Sara's memory flashed back to a couple years before.

It had been a year since Zane first arrived in the Las Vegas Crime Lab's custody. So far he proved to be a rebel without a cause and he liked to raise hell. The only one that he would allow in his cell was a CSI named Sara Sidle. Over that year they had became the best of friends and Sara enjoyed his company as much as he enjoyed hers. Sara was in Zane's cell, watching TV with him. It was her day off. Suddenly Grissom came up and knocked on the cell door.

" Sara, can I talk to you?"

" Yeah sure."

" In private?"

Sara gave Zane a look of question. He shrugged and nodded at her. She got up and followed Grissom out of Zane's cell. They walked all the way through the building out into the parking lot. Finally Grissom turned and faced her.

" Sara, I have something to ask you."

" What?"

" I've noticed how you and Zane have interacted over the past year. You seem to be the only one he trusts. What would you say if I put you in charge of supervising him?"

" Well what would I have to do exactly?"

" Just watch over him. If he looses it, you have to be the one to calm him down. Keep him in check and just make sure he doesn't stir up too much trouble. You seem to be the only one who can ever calm him down anyway. Think of it like, you're his probation officer."

" Alright. Yeah, okay. I'll do it."

" Great. Just remember, if anything happens to him, it's in your hands."

Now it really was in her hands, literally, on her hands. Something happened to her best friend and his blood was on her hands. The thought that Sara wasn't there to protect her best friend and he got hurt, badly hurt, and now his blood was soaking her hands, it was enough to make her sick. And it did.

Searing pain in her shoulder brought Sara back to reality as Zane popped it back into place. Luckily Sara snapped out of her thought bubble after there was the sickening popping sound. It took her about a minute but after that she had limited motion of her arm again.

Zane looked at the remains of Catherine's jacket, or what was her jacket, now it seemed more of a vest. Sara had some cuts on her face, a gash in her other arm, and there was a piece of glass in her stomach that she hadn't seemed to notice. But the could was probably numbing her up a little bit.

" Zane…it hurts…" she mumbled as he took hold of the glass.

" I know Sara. Just let me pull this glass out and then it won't hurt as much." Then under his breath he added "after a while."

He yanked the glass out and Sara yelled a little. He decided to save Catherine's jacket for something else. It was heavy and not really needed for the minor cuts. Instead he took off his own shirt. It was already bloody so it wouldn't matter if he got more blood on it.

Sara looked up at Zane. He was her friend but she had to admit, his body was in seriously great shape. He was ripped. Not to the point where he was too bulky but enough so that it was visible through a simple T-shirt. Despite their present situation Sara had to say to herself Daaaaaamn!

Zane saw Sara checking him out. He smiled as he ripped off the sleeve of his T-shirt. Gently he leaned over and got close to Sara's face so he could inspect her cuts. He dabbed them and wiped the blood away, seeing that most of them had stopped bleeding. Then he moved down to Sara's stomach area where the small chunk of glass had been. He wiped away the blood and saw that a scab had already started to form. Pulling out the chunk of glass must have got her blood flowing again and formed a scab. There wasn't much he could do about her broken arm so instead he moved on to the other arm with the large gash on it. Silently he began to wipe away the blood. He ripped off the part of his shirt that was soaked with his own blood and threw it aside. He ripped off another strip and wrapped it around Sara's forehead where she was bleeding. Then he ripped off another strip of his shirt. He tore one end so it was one long strip. Gently he started to wrap the gash on Sara's arm.

" How long has it been, since the accident?" Sara asked as she stared up at the sky.

"Well, I'd say…no more than an hour." Zane answered as he continued wrapping her arm.

" How do you know?"

He sighed and looked up at the sky. " Well we left the station at nine. We crashed at nine- forty-three. At that time the moon would have been there." Zane explained as he pointed to a spot in the sky. " Right now, the moon is there," he pointed to a different point in the sky close to but not quite the same spot as before. " The moon travels around the earth on a 360 degree circle. If you take 360 degrees and divide by twenty-four hours in a day you get fifteen degrees. Which means that the moon moves fifteen degrees every hour. There is about a fifteen-degree difference in the spot where the moon is now and where it was when we crashed. Therefore, it has been no more than an hour since we crashed."

" Wow, you're fast. But Zane…It's raining, which means it's cloudy. How do you know where the moon is?"

"Sara, I've lived my life by the moon for a long time. Clouds don't stop me. Let's just say I have a certain sense for it. Trust me, I know where it is." He winked.

" That's all well and good but Sara isn't the only one with injuries you know!" Catherine called out to Zane.

" Sorry Cat, I'll be right there."

He finished tying the bandage and smiled at Sara. " You're done. You're ankle is broken but there isn't much I can do about that."

" Are you sure broken ankles are supposed to cause this much pain?" Sara moaned.

Zane looked at it more closely and realized he missed something. Sara's pant leg had been torn open all the way up to her thigh and her leg had burn marks all over it. He realized it must have been from when the car exploded. She wasn't far enough away to avoid a burn.

" Sara, you have a large burn on your leg. Try not to move it okay?"

" Well that explains it."

" Still need help over here!" Catherine called. She really didn't think her condition was as bad as Sara's but she was tired of her getting all the attention. She told herself that was stupid, she could have lost Sara or Zane and all she was worried about was getting attention from a handsome gentleman with no shirt on.

Zane smiled at Sara, who smiled back, before he walked over and sized up Catherine's condition like he had with Sara.

" Okay Cat, your leg is defiantly broken. There's a nasty gash on your leg from when it went through the windshield. You may have a concussion as well, looks like you hit your head on the steering wheel at one point. Other than that everything else is just small cuts and bruises.

Zane bandaged up the gash on Cat's leg, bandaged her head, and wiped the blood away from the cuts.

After a while he started to shiver. " Zane, aren't you freezing?" Catherine asked, her maternal instincts taking over. He was sitting close to her and she could feel him shiver.

" Nah, I'm fine." He said as he finished wiping away the blood on her small cuts. He threw the cloth to the side.

"Bullshit, you're shivering. Put on what's left of my jacket at least."

" I'm fine Cat really. I've lived through worse."

" That's what I'm worried about. Everything you've been through Zane…it's gonna catch up with you eventually. I'm just looking out for you Zane."

" I know Cat, and thanks. But I'm fine really."

She shrugged.

" Listen, get some sleep okay? In the morning if I have the strength I'll go see if I can flag down a car or something."

" What makes you think you're going alone?"

" I'm the only on that can walk. And I ain't carrying you fatasses up that hill!" He said jokingly.

Catherine punched him in the arm.

He smiled. " Sorry. But you have a broken leg and Sara has a broken ankle, not to mention a burn."

" Alright, alright you got me. How is Sara? I can't see her." It was the dead of night and next to pitch black. Zane was in a spot in between the two girls. At one point Sara had fell asleep and rolled closer to Zane so she was pushing up against him. He looked down at her. Being what he was, he could see everything as plain as if it were day.

"She's sleeping. She looks okay but I'm worried."

" Me too. A person with a concussion like that shouldn't sleep so much. She might not wake up."

" Exactly." Zane was using what was left of his soaking wet shirt to clean himself up a little. He started to shiver again and Catherine could feel it.

" That's it. Zane don't take this the wrong way." She said as she pulled him down so he was lying down next to her. She started to rub his chest, creating body heat.

The motion woke Sara up.

" Cat, Zane?"

" We're here Sara." Cat said. " Listen, Sara can you feel Zane right next to you?"

" Yeah."

" Well the moron doesn't have a shirt on and he gave me his jacket. He's shivering and loosing what body heat he ever had. We need to warm him up."

Sara caught on and started rubbing Zane as well. He couldn't suppress a chuckle.

" What's so funny?" Catherine asked.

" Well nothing…except…this is every man's dream. To be out completely alone with two gorgeous woman and having them massaging him."

" We're saving your life you idiot!" Catherine said to him.

" You think we're gorgeous?" Sara asked, smiling.

" The two most gorgeous women I have ever laid my eyes on!" he said.

" Bite me." Catherine said before she realized whom exactly she was talking to.

" Is that an offer?" he asked, intrigued.

" Absolutely not!" she yelled.

" I'm just kidding, don't worry."

They kept rubbing Zane for a while before both of them fell asleep, and Zane as well.

"Are they letting anyone on the road yet?" Nick asked as he saw Warrick coming back from his search.

" No. The road is flooded in two spots. Until the rain stops and the water reseeds no one is allowed past." Warrick said as he stepped out of his car.

Nick sighed. " So what have we got? They didn't show up at their assigned crime scene. We didn't find them, Catherine's car, or any sign of a crash on either side of the floods. We have no idea if they are alive or dead. Where does that leave us?"

"The same place we were when we found out they were missing." Warrick also sighed.

Zane was the first one to wake up. He looked up at the sky. The rain had stopped and it was day. It was still cloudy but he could tell where the sun was. From its position, he guessed it was about noon. He tried sitting up when he realized there was weight on his chest. He looked and saw Sara's head on his chest and one of Catherine's arms. He smiled as he carefully moved Catherine's arm to her side. The movement woke up Sara.

" Zane?" she said groggily. Her concussion must have been having and affect on her.

" I'm going to go up and flag down a car Sara. I'll be back soon. Don't worry."

She laid her head back down on the ground and he wondered if she had really heard him at all. He sighed and started to walk up the steep hill. It was a lot of pain on his legs, which were still not recovered. But he gritted his teeth and kept walking.

Why was his healing process working so slowly? Was he really that exhausted? He wondered as he kept walking.

It was about five minutes before he reached the top of the hill, but that's only because he was walking so slowly. He got up on the side of the road and expected to see at least a few cars going by. He was wrong. The road was completely disserted. He looked back down the hill. Neither of them was moving. He decided to walk down the road.

It was about fifteen minutes before he saw the reason why no cars where on the road. The ground had leveled out and the road was flooded. Zane looked at the raging water. If the rain stopped soon then the water would start to reseed. But until then they were out of luck. But why hadn't and cars come from the other way?

About a half an hour walk back in the other direction gave him the answer. The same river that had flooded the road in the other direction had also flooded the road here. Zane sighed. How was he going to tell this to the girls?

He walked back to the road where the metal guardrail was broken. He began his decent back down to Sara and Catherine. Soon they would need food. What would he give them?

Catherine was awake and sitting up when he came back.

" So?" she asked.

" The road is flooded in two spots on the road. No cars will be coming anytime soon." It broke Zane's heart to watch her face drop with disappointment.

She looked over at Sara. " Without food we won't survive out here very long."

Zane nodded. " I know."

And there is chapter two. I hope you liked it. Spring break is over today and I have to go back to school tomorrow. So the next chapter will probably be up by next weekend. Maybe before. Please Read and Review and I'll catch you in the next chapter!

Until then,

Ravyn