Chapter Eight: A Dangerous Ride
She had her eyes closed tight, thinking she'd been shot again. But she opened her eyes and saw that the car was stopped. Rick had shot the tire so Jack couldn't go anywhere. Jack was furious. He opened his door, grabbed Evy and pulled her across the car and out his door. He held her facing Rick with a gun to her. He had his arm around her neck so she couldn't get away, but nevertheless she put her hands on his arm trying to pull him off. But let's face it, Jack's a lot stronger than her. Jack yelled to Rick, "Don't move! You move one muscle and you'll never see here again!" Rick stood still, but his gun was still aimed at Jack's head. Jack slowly moved backwards down the rest of the driveway and into the street. When the next car came by, they had to stop to avoid hitting them. Jack turned his gun to the driver and ordered him out of the car. He quickly got out and ran away down the street. Jack threw Evy in the passenger seat and drove off. He soon looked in the rear view mirror and saw Rick following them in his car. He cursed himself for leaving the keys in it. It quickly turned into a high speed chase. As Rick was following them, he thought to himself, 'Where are the damn cops when you need them!'
The chase went on all the way through town. They were now on a country road. Jack took a curve at a high speed and ran off the road. He then overcorrected going across the road and the car flipped. It rolled down a giant hill, which led to a river. Rick stopped on the road, got out of his car and ran after them hoping they would stop before hitting the river. But, unfortunately he wasn't that lucky. The car plunged into the water and was totally submerged before Rick could get halfway down the hill.
Evy took one big breath before the water covered her head. She quickly reached for the window and rolled it down. She swam out but before she got out her foot got caught on something. She looked down and saw that Jack had her by her ankle. She struggled to get away which made her wound hurt terribly. And she started running out of air fast. She felt someone grab her hand, looked up and saw Rick trying to pull up to the surface.
He pulled at her but she didn't come up. She must've been stuck on something. He swam down and found the problem. Jack was trying to pull her back into the car because he couldn't get out. He knew what Jack was thinking. If he was gonna die here, so was she.
Rick couldn't shoot him underwater, so he reached down to his boot and pulled out a knife. He brought it up and stabbed Jack straight through the wrist. He quickly let go of Evy who started swimming for the surface, and the water was filled with blood. Rick knew Jack wouldn't be able to stop the bleeding or would run out of air and wound never get out of that river.
Rick followed Evy to the surface and swam to her. She was leaning on the shore, still catching her breath. "Are you ok?" he asked, getting out of the water and reaching for her hand. She reached for him but quickly pulled away, holding her wound and wincing in pain. "What happened?" he asked, concerned.
"I think my wound opened again. And the bandages are no good wet." That was soon confirmed as they both saw the water around her turn red. Rick reached down, grabbed her under her arms and lifted her to shore. She now lay on the ground, getting weak from the loss of blood and the pain. Rick put his hand on the wound for pressure. Then quickly took his shirt off and wrapped it around her, covering the wound. She started to close her eyes.
"Evy? Evy stay with me! Come on!" He shook her a little. She opened her eyes again but not very much. Rick picked her up and carried her to his car at the top of the hill. He put her in and raced to the hospital.
Back at the river, a little downstream from the accident, the car finally hit bottom and was stuck there for good. At the surface just above the car, Jack popped out of the water. He slowly pulled himself onto the shore and staggered up the hill.