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Missusmesser, sugar230, bene, Unlikely-to-bear-it

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Catherine sat holding Sara's limp body in her rams.

"Sara. Wake up" screamed Catherine shaking her limp form. Tears muddled with the rain already streaming down her face. She could only tell Sara was still alive with the rhythmic rising and falling of her chest but even this seemed slow.

"Sara please, I'm sorry PLEASE" she shuck her again willing her to wake up.

"I'm sorry please. It's my fault please Sara" desperation sounded in her voice as it cracked becoming faster and harder to understand.

"Please wake up. I need you to wake up don't…please Sara. I'm sorry for always having a go at you. I'm sorry for everything. You stopped it from been me hurt, please wake up" Catherine was lent over her holding her firmly in her arms so that Sara's head lay against her chest as Catherine sobbed.

"You never let me or Lindsey down, you just saved her mum's life you could never let us down, Sara" it was now Catherine realised it was unlikely Sara would wake up. Cath would have curled up into a ball herself until she felt a slight pressure against her arm. Sara's hand was gripping it weakly as her eye's fluttered open. She was conscious but barley. Sara's eyes kept rolling round to the back of her head as the world went in and out of focus.

"Cath" croaked Sara trying to focus on her.

"SARA" Catherine grabbed hold of her gripping so tight that her nails dug in.

"You don't get rid that easy," croaked Sara her voice nearly drowned out by the wind and rain. Catherine clung onto her until Sara spoke again

"The water's rising" Catherine looked down to see the water level was now less than a foot below them and rising fast. Braches and leaves were been swept along with the mud in the fast torrent.

"We need to move up," announced Catherine pulling Sara so she was sat lent against her.

"Cath I can't"

"You can I'll help"

"NO"

"Sara don't go all heroic on we now we are moving" Said Catherine once again tears were running down her face as she attempted to drag Sara only resulting in causing the mud at the side to give way.

"I'm not been heroic but I can't break a promise" Catherine stopped and looked at her water running off her nose like a waterfall.

"I promised I would never let you or Lindsey down again and if you stay then I will"

"I'm not leaving you"

"Yes you are. Cath if you stay then we have no chance" Catherine just sat staring at her like a lost child. She had never felt so helpless, Catherine was always the leader but now she was no more prepared than anyone.

"The guys are probably at the top, you'll get there and then you come back for me," said Sara attempting a smile that looked more like she was in pain. Catherine looked at Sara, she knew that she had to go but she was scared.

"I'm scared" she whispered barley audible.

"So am I. Its ok the guys are coming"

"Yer, they probably just past the top" replied Catherine. Neither of them really believed this but it helped to say it despite the fact it wasn't going to happen.

"I'm coming back," said Catherine hugging Sara before turning and grabbing the steep hill face with her hands and scrambling with her feet. The ground was so soft she couldn't get much of a grip as she managed to grab a few rock embedded in the side but she was losing her footing until something lifted her right foot so she was able to grab the higher more sturdy rock. She looked down to see Sara pushing with all her strength her foot up the rock face.

"THANKS" shouted Catherine although it was lost in the wind, as Sara collapsed back onto the ground. Her body seemed to sink into the mud. The ground felt strangely warm compared to the rest of her body. Sara could no longer control the trembling through out her as her hands only shuck more the harder she tried to hold them still. From a distance it looked like she was having convulsions as her body shuck with the cold that had taken hold. Water ran off her making a moat round where she lay. The mud was slipping down the bank so that slowly Sara was leaning further to the right threatening to slide down. Any movement now would only make it worse not which she had the strength to anyway. Sara lay not even bothering to move the mated wet hair that lay across her face.

Catherine sat at the top taking deep breaths trying to calm her self down. Her hands shuck both with fear and cold. She could see Sara laying on the hillside her whole body was trembling if it wasn't for that Catherine would have thought she was dead, she looked like a small child curled up. She had to move and she had to move now. Lightening was striking in the distance again followed by claps of thunder. The ground had turned to sludge making it even harder to stand. Her ankle could hardly bare weight now and her wrist had turned into a block of ice. Cath looked down examining it, through the half light she could already make out purple bruises and it was twice the size of her other, her fingers were so swollen that her rings were cutting into them one was even bleeding.

"Stop feeling sorry for yourself and move," shouted Catherine willing her body to keep going despite each step sending a pain like a knife through her foot. She managed to walk a bit further until her ankle gave way and she was forced to stop.

"NO" she screamed at her self, punching her own leg in a desperate to get herself moving. It was no use her breath was catching in her throat and the cold had spread through her body so that her hands and feet almost felt detached. She could feel herself losing consciousness as the world swayed.

"Row, row, row your boat" Catherine began singing to herself, anyone seeing her now would have though she had lost her marbles but it was the only way to keep a grip and stop her self from slipping into sleep. Little did she know that behind her and down the hill Sara was doing the same thing.

"Twinkle, twinkle little star" Sara sang quietly her voice blending in with the wind as she lay staring at the stars, she had never noticed the stars before usually to busy looking at dead bodies, she had never realized how amazing they really were.

"How I wonder what you are" her voice became nothing but a whisper as her lips turned an icy blue along with her fingers and toes.

TBC…..