A/N: Here's the next chapter!!!!!!! Yay!!!!! Thanks to Arcadia for Beta-Reading!!!!!! Your awesome!!!!!!! The first part's pretty depressing. Just warning you. Sooooooo.... Enjoy!!!!!!!
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And then...they hit.
The front half of the plane landed first in a massive heap of compacted metal.
The second half followed its path exactly crashing onto, rather than into, it's processor.
Immediately after there was silence, only to be broken by the cry of a baby.
Other children seemed to follow the firsts example, their yells and wails rising above the softer moans of the injured.
But worst of all were the screams of the dying.
Their shouts seemed to pierce the air and fill it with their pain and suffering. These were only to be silenced, not by bandages and comfort, but when death overtook them.
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Val awoke slowly, as if her unconscious knew what she would have to face when she did wake.
She took a mental inventory of her body. Nothing seemed to be broken. She began testing each joint and it was then that she realized her fingers were still intertwined with Tyler's. Smiling lightly at the thought, she carefully pulled her hand away.
Turning in her seat she tried to see if Tyler was hurt. It was so dark! Didn't they have emergency lights or something? But, then she remembered how all of the lights had shattered during the crash. It wasn't like they would work anyway in this wreck.
"Tyler," she whispered, leaning close to him. When that received no reaction, she reached out blindly for him.
She ran her fingers along his jaw, checking for injuries.
It was on Tyler's forehead that she discovered what she had been searching for but not wanting to find.
A large gash covered most of the left side of his forehead.
Her EMT skills kicking in she decided he must have a concussion and shouldn't be moved. If only she had some bandages to slow the bleeding.
Shrugging out of her jacket, she rolled it into a ball, leaving the sleeves out. (A/N: do you get that?) She was about to tie it around his head (yea, I know it would look really stupid) when the whole plane shifted, sending Val to the floor.
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Hell.
That's where Jamie decided he must be.
He'd died and gone to hell.
He knew it wasn't true but that's how he felt sitting in the cold, empty darkness. He wasn't in his seat anymore; he knew that for sure. He'd tried to stand up numerous times but had never succeeded.
He considered the fact that he might be paralyzed, but dismissed it after finding he could still move his ankles and toes. If only he could see where he was!
His mind was so fogged he couldn't even think straight to call for help. It seemed, to him, the only option was to sit and wait for help to come to him.
He tried not to think of the fact that he couldn't move, assuring himself that he, and his friends, would be fine. He couldn't even feel any pain.
Yet.
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Val stood shakily, reaching out in front of her and only finding metal.
Cold, hard metal.
Like a wall blocking her way.
She could hear people yelling on the other side, much as they were in this half of the plane.
Leaving Tyler where he was, she headed across the aisle towards Caitie's seat.
Val had to hold on to her seat to keep from falling as a second jolt shook the plane.
Moving from Tyler's seat out into the aisle she found that the wall, that was the other half of the plane, sloped towards her making her path smaller and smaller until it closed it off completely. The plane wall curved all the way in to meet Caitie's seat.
Caitie's empty seat.
Maybe she just fell on the floor, Val thought. She dropped to her knees to search even though she knew this was impossible without Caitie being trapped under the fold of plane. Caitie wasn't there anyway.
Standing back up Val began to climb over Caitie's seat, when she remembered Jamie had been sitting next to her.
She'd been so obsessed with finding Caitie she'd forgotten about Jamie.
Even in the pitch-black darkness she could sense that his seat was also empty.
"No!" She reached out wildly into the empty air. She almost cried when her hand brushed the back of Jamie's head. She hadn't lost both of them after all.
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Jamie could hear someone moving around behind him. Maybe it was Caitie.
He wanted to say something to let her know he was there but he couldn't get his lips to move.
Something was touching the back off his head. Lazily he lifted one arm to push whatever it was away.
Almost immediately he heard the all too familiar voice of Val.
And she was as perky as ever.
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"Jamie!"
Moonlight shone in through a crack in the plane and Val could just barely see the outline of his shape.
He sat on the floor with his back against what had been his seat. He looked as if he'd been dangling his legs over the edge of the plane when it had broken and then they'd crashed into the first half of the plane trapping his legs below the knee.
Val cringed at the sight. She leaned closer to him so he could hear her.
"How do you feel?" she asked.
Ignoring her, he asked the question that had been on his mind for sometime now, "Where's Caitie?"
Val swallowed. She'd been wondering the same thing.
Where was Caitie?
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That's it for now. The first chapter was a whole lot better than this. It focused mostly on Val and Jamie so next chapter I'll have more of the other characters and......Caitie!!!! Yay!!!! Where is she? Even I don't know yet. Hahaha. Thanks soooo much for all the reviews and keep them comin'!!!!!!!! Mucho amor!!!!!!!!
-crzychica
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And then...they hit.
The front half of the plane landed first in a massive heap of compacted metal.
The second half followed its path exactly crashing onto, rather than into, it's processor.
Immediately after there was silence, only to be broken by the cry of a baby.
Other children seemed to follow the firsts example, their yells and wails rising above the softer moans of the injured.
But worst of all were the screams of the dying.
Their shouts seemed to pierce the air and fill it with their pain and suffering. These were only to be silenced, not by bandages and comfort, but when death overtook them.
..........................................................................................................................................
Val awoke slowly, as if her unconscious knew what she would have to face when she did wake.
She took a mental inventory of her body. Nothing seemed to be broken. She began testing each joint and it was then that she realized her fingers were still intertwined with Tyler's. Smiling lightly at the thought, she carefully pulled her hand away.
Turning in her seat she tried to see if Tyler was hurt. It was so dark! Didn't they have emergency lights or something? But, then she remembered how all of the lights had shattered during the crash. It wasn't like they would work anyway in this wreck.
"Tyler," she whispered, leaning close to him. When that received no reaction, she reached out blindly for him.
She ran her fingers along his jaw, checking for injuries.
It was on Tyler's forehead that she discovered what she had been searching for but not wanting to find.
A large gash covered most of the left side of his forehead.
Her EMT skills kicking in she decided he must have a concussion and shouldn't be moved. If only she had some bandages to slow the bleeding.
Shrugging out of her jacket, she rolled it into a ball, leaving the sleeves out. (A/N: do you get that?) She was about to tie it around his head (yea, I know it would look really stupid) when the whole plane shifted, sending Val to the floor.
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Hell.
That's where Jamie decided he must be.
He'd died and gone to hell.
He knew it wasn't true but that's how he felt sitting in the cold, empty darkness. He wasn't in his seat anymore; he knew that for sure. He'd tried to stand up numerous times but had never succeeded.
He considered the fact that he might be paralyzed, but dismissed it after finding he could still move his ankles and toes. If only he could see where he was!
His mind was so fogged he couldn't even think straight to call for help. It seemed, to him, the only option was to sit and wait for help to come to him.
He tried not to think of the fact that he couldn't move, assuring himself that he, and his friends, would be fine. He couldn't even feel any pain.
Yet.
..........................................................................................................................................
Val stood shakily, reaching out in front of her and only finding metal.
Cold, hard metal.
Like a wall blocking her way.
She could hear people yelling on the other side, much as they were in this half of the plane.
Leaving Tyler where he was, she headed across the aisle towards Caitie's seat.
Val had to hold on to her seat to keep from falling as a second jolt shook the plane.
Moving from Tyler's seat out into the aisle she found that the wall, that was the other half of the plane, sloped towards her making her path smaller and smaller until it closed it off completely. The plane wall curved all the way in to meet Caitie's seat.
Caitie's empty seat.
Maybe she just fell on the floor, Val thought. She dropped to her knees to search even though she knew this was impossible without Caitie being trapped under the fold of plane. Caitie wasn't there anyway.
Standing back up Val began to climb over Caitie's seat, when she remembered Jamie had been sitting next to her.
She'd been so obsessed with finding Caitie she'd forgotten about Jamie.
Even in the pitch-black darkness she could sense that his seat was also empty.
"No!" She reached out wildly into the empty air. She almost cried when her hand brushed the back of Jamie's head. She hadn't lost both of them after all.
..........................................................................................................................................
Jamie could hear someone moving around behind him. Maybe it was Caitie.
He wanted to say something to let her know he was there but he couldn't get his lips to move.
Something was touching the back off his head. Lazily he lifted one arm to push whatever it was away.
Almost immediately he heard the all too familiar voice of Val.
And she was as perky as ever.
..........................................................................................................................................
"Jamie!"
Moonlight shone in through a crack in the plane and Val could just barely see the outline of his shape.
He sat on the floor with his back against what had been his seat. He looked as if he'd been dangling his legs over the edge of the plane when it had broken and then they'd crashed into the first half of the plane trapping his legs below the knee.
Val cringed at the sight. She leaned closer to him so he could hear her.
"How do you feel?" she asked.
Ignoring her, he asked the question that had been on his mind for sometime now, "Where's Caitie?"
Val swallowed. She'd been wondering the same thing.
Where was Caitie?
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That's it for now. The first chapter was a whole lot better than this. It focused mostly on Val and Jamie so next chapter I'll have more of the other characters and......Caitie!!!! Yay!!!! Where is she? Even I don't know yet. Hahaha. Thanks soooo much for all the reviews and keep them comin'!!!!!!!! Mucho amor!!!!!!!!
-crzychica