Drew was running like she had never run before. Casper was chasing her, wondering where she was going. Because she was next on the list.
Drew was running away from the street where Sam had just been mown down. She ran all the way to the park.
Only then did Casper realise what she was doing. This was where she had nearly been drowned under the tree, the afternoon that Zack had died.
She was going to kill herself.
Drew ran up to the fountain, and jumped in. Casper jumped in too.
"Drew!" he shouted at her. "What are you doing!"
"We're all going to die, right? Why try and delay it?" Tears were coursing down her cheeks.
Casper shook her. "No!" he yelled. "We're going to fight, and we're going to win! This isn't where it ends!"
However, here he was wrong.
Dead wrong.
Because this is where it ends.
The power lines were well-disguised in the trees to avoid them being an eyesore to the public.
A tractor had just reversed into one of the poles that supported them.
One of the live electric cables fell towards the fountain.
Casper saw it.
Drew saw it.
She raised her arms, and shouted, "Come on then, if you think you're hard enough!"
And Casper hit her. He actually punched her in the face.
Drew gasped, and fell backwards.
The cable hit the water.
There was a blinding flash.
Drew fell backwards…
Drew came to on a stretcher. She had fallen out of the fountain at the last second.
Looking over at a cluster of doctors and nurses, she saw, with a sinking heart, that Casper had been less fortunate. He had still been in the water when the electric cable hit it.
He had saved Drew, rather than herself.
Drew burst into tears.
She demanded that she be taken over to Casper at once.
She was wheeled over.
A doctor was still trying to revive him, but there was no reading on the ECG machine.
Drew jumped out of the stretcher and ran over.
Casper wasn't breathing.
This shouldn't have happened. Drew had slipped out of the fountain herself, technically. Death shouldn't have claimed Casper.
The idiot should never have jumped in the fountain in the first place.
"You bastard!" she screamed at him.
She hit him as hard as she could in the chest.
The ECG sprang to life.
"He's alive," said the doctor.
Casper opened his eyes, and looked at Drew.
Drew said, "New life."
She looked at him.
He looked back at her.
They smiled.