AMAZING

I'm posting this for my friend who wrote it for me for Christams. Tell me what you thought about her first CSI fic. And yes, the main characters are based off of me and her. All reviews will be sent to her. You will see where I get my sense of humor…

Thanks

Chapter Four

"Greg! Greg!" Jess screamed, unbuckling her seatbelt and trying to open her car door.

"Jess! Let me stop the car!" Greg hit the break and turned the car off, leaving the keys in the ignition as they jumped out of the car into the pouring rain.

As Archie and Jamie moved farther down the road, the rain had become so hard that it made it almost impossible to see. Archie had slowed down, but the car coming toward them didn't and they hit head on.

"Jamie! Jamie!" Jess screamed, the rain causing her makeup to run and her clothes to cling to her skin. "Oh my God, Greg!" She sobbed.

Greg ran to the cars that were mangled beyond belief. "Archie! Archie, can you hear me?" He yelled, trying to see through the web-shattered glass of the windows. "Jess, call 9-1-1!"

Jess dove back into the car and pulled out her cell phone, fumbling for the right buttons then becoming tongue-tied in horror as she tried to talk to the dispatcher.

Greg walked around the accident looking for some blunt object. He was soaked to the bone and cold. But his friends were in that car. Finally he found half of a bumper laying several feet away. He grabbed it and ran back to Archie's car.

Archie and Jamie were both in the front of the car so the back windows were safe to bust in. He ran to Jamie's side of the car, since Archie had turned it just in time for the other car to hit his side, and threw the bumper into the back window. The glass shattered and he pulled the bumper back out, casting it aside as he climbed through the window. He rested on his back, ignoring the fact that he was laying on a mound of shattered glass, and kicked the door open with all his might.

Jess ran to the car, not knowing what to do. The Ambulance and the police were on their way, but it would take them minutes to get here. In the mean time, all Archie, Jamie, and the passengers of the other car had was them.

"We have to get them out, Jess! But the car is slammed in, they're both stuck!" Greg said, afraid to touch Archie or Jamie. He didn't know the extent of their injuries. All he could do was check for a pulse.

"Jamie has a pulse, Jess! So does Archie!" Greg yelled over the rolling thunder and the incisive tapping of the rain.

Jess relaxed a bit, knowing Jamie and Archie were still alive. But they could die due to internal bleeding, or an aneurism, or a ruptured organ…Jess could go on with all the injuries her friends could be facing. Not to mention broken bones.

"They're legs are broken, that's obvious. Neither of them will be walking for a while when they get out of this," Greg said.

Jess was quiet as she stood shivering in the rain. 'He's using future tense…he knows they'll get out of this…' she thought. "Jamie! Jamie!" She ran to the front door and tried to pull it open. It wouldn't budge and she wouldn't bust in the window. So she climbed into the back of the car and began to speak to Jamie. "Listen to me, you bitch!" She cried. "Wake up! I will not let you leave me here!"

Greg was crying, but his tears mixed in with the rain. There was nothing they could do. Archie and Jamie were trapped in a car that wouldn't open. Jess wasn't helping much, she was hysteric.

"God damn it, Jamie, get your ass up! You've had worse than this! You know it! Please, wake up!" She cried, gripping the shoulders of the seat Jamie sat in. "You're my best friend! What the hell am I going to do if you leave me? Wake up!"

"Miss, come on, get out of the car," a man said from behind Jess.

Jess turned around. She hadn't noticed the blinking red, white, and blue lights, not to mention that repulsive siren.

"Get her out…Save her! Save Jamie!" Jess screamed as Greg climbed out of the car behind her, pulling her away from the accident.

"Come here," Greg said, pulling her close.

"No! God damn it, no!" Jess cried, fighting against Greg to let her go. "Please! Save her! Save Jamie!"

Jess sat in the waiting room of the Trauma unit of the nearest hospital in a daze. Her hands were folded neatly in her lap and her ankles were crossed. She worse a pair of extra scrubs as Greg did, and she was wrapped in a warm blanket. Her eyes were glazed over as she stared at random inanimate objects, her lips slightly parted and dry.

Greg was pacing the room back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. He was incredibly afraid as he stood there in front of Jess. She was in another world, she wouldn't respond to anything he said.

"Greg!" Sara ran into the room and into Greg's arms.

Jess's eyes flickered up to look at them but then they quickly returned to some cigarette butt that had missed the ashtray and resided on the floor.

"What the hell happened?" Nick followed behind Sara who had begun to cry at the sight of Jess. He took Sara from Greg and pulled her into his arms, kissing the top of her head as he looked at Greg.

"Some bastard was speeding down the road, we couldn't see. It was so fast…they hit so hard…" Greg whispered.

"God…" Catherine heaved a heavy sigh and fell back into an empty chair.

"Why doesn't anyone listen to the damn road signs?" Warrick leaned against the wall and crossed his arms.

"Rick," Tina, Warrick's wife curled into his arms, she too horribly afraid.

"Are you two okay?" Grissom grabbed Greg's shoulders, causing the distraught man to look him in the eyes.

He shook his head. "I just watched Archie and Jamie get slammed by some bastard who was speeding down a road! Do you think I'm okay? Look at her! She's so horribly distraught that she's in another world! She can't even stand up without throwing up from crying so hard!"

"Greg, stop it!" Grissom shoved him into a chair. "You're getting everyone upset! Just calm down! You know Archie will get through this. And you all know Jamie. She's a tough-ass bitch."

"She is…" Jess whispered.

Everyone looked at Jess.

"She's a bitch. She's the biggest bitch I have ever met. I'm so glad I met her…"

"What are you saying?" Greg looked at Jess.

"I'm saying that I love her with all my heart! If she leaves, I'm moving back to Maryland…"

Everyone gasped at her comment.

"You can't go!" Sara looked at her, wiping her eyes.

"Jamie needs you here," Nick said. "We all do."

"Do you really think I could go to work without Jamie? Without her walls of Japanese rockers that she drools over constantly? Without her going on about her boobs? Without her making some sick joke or teasing Greg? Without her blasting music at levels unheard of while dancing and completing an autopsy? Do you think I could go home to the condo we shared and live a happy life knowing that my best friend in all the world lived there and I watched her die?"

Catherine approached Jess and slapped her hard across the face. "If you say Jamie's a bitch, speak for yourself."

Jess was utterly stunned, her cheek red and stinging from tears and the new sharp trauma.

"Jamie will come out of this, you know that, Jess. She is your best friend, and friends to all of us," Catherine said. "I may not approve of her methods or her behavior sometimes, but she did lighten up the lab a bit. And she does, and she will. Because Jamie is one tough girl. Not many things can put a dent in her heart. And if she doesn't come out of it, she'll want you to go on here. She knows you love to be a Lab Tech, and that you want to be a CSI one day. You can't do that if you leave here. Maybe somewhere else, but we love you here. We love you both."

Jess's eyes welled with tears again as she took in several short breaths, her lip quivering. "I can't loose her!"

Catherine sat down beside her and pulled her into her arms. "I know…"

Sara wrapped her arms tighter around Nick's waist and cried. "Why did this happen…?"

Nick rocked her back and forth and tried to hold back tears. "Come on, Archie…Jamie...let's go…"

Several hours had passed. There had been scarcely any word on the condition of Archie and Jamie. Jess had finally fallen asleep with her head in Greg's lap. Nick and Warrick were standing by a row of chairs where Sara and Tina slept. Catherine and Grissom were sitting across from each other by the window.

"Are you here for Archie Johnson and Jamie Thomas?" A doctor who wore light blue scrubs and carried a stethoscope around her next walked up to the large group.

Jess lifted her head and stood up with everyone else. "Yes, are they alright? What's going on?"

The nurse looked at them and sat down beside Jess and Greg. "I have good news and bad news."

Everyone sat down again but this time closer to the doctor.

"My name is Dr. Chase Martin. I'm an attending," she said. "Both of your friends survived the crash."

Everyone relaxed.

"They've been moved up to the ICU to be monitored. They both suffered broken legs and lacerations over their bodies. Jamie has a broken collar bone and a broken wrist."

"She grabbed the dashboard," Jess choked on a laugh.

"What's the bad news, Doc?" Nick asked, holding Sara close to him.

Sara curled her fingers through one of the belt loops on Nick's hip and leaned her head against his chest. Warrick put his arm around Tina who held his hand. Grissom and Catherine stood side-by-side. Greg held Jess close.

"The bad news is that we had to put Archie in a medical-induced coma," Dr. Chase said.

Jess's hand somehow managed to find its way to her mouth on its own. "Archie…" she whispered.

"We will wake him up in a few days, but for now he'll be rid of the pain." Dr. Chase sighed. "I have seen worse cases than this, but this is one of the few cases I've seen in which the driver takes the brunt of the force to save the other," she looked around the room.

"He took the brunt of the force?" Grissom asked the doctor.

"Yeah, he turned the car so Jamie wouldn't get hurt," Greg said quietly. "How is Jamie?"

"She's still asleep but she should be waking up in the next hour or so," the Doctor stood up.

"I want to go sit with her, may I do that?" Jess asked.

The doctor nodded. "Yes, you can all come. Only two people can go in at once, but there is a comfortable waiting room outside the ICU," she turned away from the group. "Lillie, would you take this group of people up to the floor?"

A nurse with long blond hair and rose red lips smiled and nodded. "Yes, follow me."

Greg stood outside the hospital room Jamie slept in with Nick and Warrick. Jess, Tina, and Sara were inside the room standing by Jamie.

"I can't believe it. It happened so fast," Greg said quietly, watching Jess climb onto the bed beside Jamie and place her arm across the unconscious woman's stomach. "And Jess completely lost it."

"She never had it to begin with," Nick said, trying to lighten things up.

Grissom and Catherine walked down the hall and stopped in front of Jamie's room.

"We just saw Archie. He's a mess," Grissom sighed. "Apparently he really cares for Jamie."

Jess walked into the hall. "Yeah. He just asked her out tonight. He's madly in love with her."

Grissom, Catherine, Warrick, and Nick watched as Jess walked down the hall and disappeared through the doors.