Chapter 2

Well here is chapter 2. Hope it is good, I think I have been doing a pretty good job on these. So anyways enjoy. I have been working on this in school during some of my free time and have been trying to make it good and somewhat believable so again keep the reviews coming and enjoy.

10 minutes after Eliza threw herself into her pillow Marianne came down trying to comfort her. Eliza hadn't calmed down one bit in those 10 minutes. She just couldn't stop this was her best friend that had been killed and she knew she would never get over this. Marianne came up to Eliza and put a hand on her shoulder, she looked up at her mom "Oh hi mom." Eliza said even more upset then before. Nigel came running into the room as Eliza started crying again. "Why did he have to go mom?" Eliza was desperately trying to keep control but she was losing. "Have either of you seen Donnie?" he said rather quickly. "You mean he is gone?" Eliza said. "I know he was still sleeping when I left this morning." Eliza said still crying. "Nigel we have to find him quick, this weather is to cold for anybody to stay in for a long time." She said frantically. Nigel took his wife by the shoulders and had to calm her down. "Marianne its ok he will be fine he is a tough little guy." "But Nigel without the proper clothing he could get hypothermia out there its to cold for him." She said. "Honey" he said "we will find him before anything happens. He just went for a little walk, trust me we will find him." He said comforting her. She had gotten teary-eyed and Nigel hugged her as they went to go find Donnie.

Donnie had now gotten a ride from some polar bears and they kept him a little bit warmer. Donnie was jumping around on the top of the bears jabbering his own tunes. He is out in the middle of a frozen tundra where every direction he looked their was only frozen ice and ice burgs all around and their was a blizzard that is on top of him. Still he kept going he was determined to find this Santa. Back at the commvee they were all frantically searching for him and a losing battle with a blizzard. The wind gusts were over 100 miles a hr. with just the winds alone at 60 and are now knocking the commvee back and forth and at one point it nearly knocked them over. Nigel had helped Marianne through the worst parts of the storm and it showed no signs of letting up anytime soon. The family had found a tiny spot under some ice and sat there for 5 hrs. without any letting up. Meanwhile Donnie was having his own struggles trying to find some shelter since the polar bears had dropped him off because they had had enough of his annoyance. He had found no shelter in the blizzard. By this point he has gotten so weak he has collapsed in the worst of the blizzard.

Back home things were only getting worse. Eliza had been still crying for both her best friend and her little brother. The commvee has now broken down from the extreme cold and the only other option was to abandon and get Donnie. Marianne and Nigel had to make a really tough decision whether to leave for the frigid cold and find him by themselves or stay and wait it out and let Donnie freeze to death if he hasn't already. "Nigel" Marianne started nearly in tears "we have to get him we can't let him freeze out there." "Come here" he said comforting. "We can't we would never find him, we would get ourselves lost out there and it would make the situation worse." Eliza thought they had to go chance it. Donnie could be dying out there and no way to safety. She thought it over as she listened to her parents. "Dad we have to go out ourselves, you even said all the search groups have been called off this might be his only chance." "Oh I don't know Eliza that storm is really bad it wouldn't do any good to get ourselves lost out there while looking for him." Marianne said. "But what other choices do we have?" Nigel said to his wife miserably. Eliza liked the way he was thinking the only other option was to get him themselves besides who knows maybe their would be some kind of miracle. After a long argument between her parents they all decided to find Donnie. They dressed as warmly as they possibly could just knowing what wind chill can do.

After 1 hr. of getting ready they were ready to look for little Donnie, at the moment the family had stepped outside the vehicle it was calm and no storms in sight, so taking the chance of being lost forever and a blizzard coming out of no where they went looking for him and calling his name. Eliza was still saddened by Darwin's death but now was not the time to be thinking about that she had to find her brother. On the other hand Debbie couldn't care either way she was busy listening to a song, if she had to be she would be more help and she knew he could take care of himself. Marianne was breaking down here and there and Nigel had to keep her up or something else would happen and they could lose another member.

They all had their camping stuff because they knew it was going to be long. "Dad we have to stop, I can't go another step." Debbie moaned and right then he knew they needed to quit for the night. Nigel was the only one that was able to put the camp together because the rest of the family was too weak. During the night a huge storm brewed in and nearly knocked over the tent it went on through the rest of the night and into the wee hrs. of the morning and kept them all awake. At 5:30 A.M. the storm had grown worse and Eliza and Debbie had to find Donnie, who knows if he was even still alive as bad as this storm was it could be down to –50 wind chill. "Debbie come on we are finding him now. Maybe we will have him before our parents get up." Debbie was shaky as she got up. "Will you be ok?" Debbie shook her head yes as they quietly unzipped the tent and stepped outside. It was pitch black outside, as the weather grew worse yet. Eliza and Debbie had held hands to keep close and not get lost; they looked for 1 mile when they realized it was going to be more dangerous so they headed back. It took 3 hrs. to get back to the tent and to a couple worried parents.

After the girls explained what happened they all agreed to wait it out some more. Eliza was scared to death at what they would find if they ever found Donnie. She was still shaken at what had happened to Darwin yesterday and she was still blaming herself. Images of what had happened to him made her cringe and just to think what did happen after. The images grew more intense about the quake and Darwin falling to his certain death and she started crying again. Her parents came up to her to comfort her and she began crying even more as the images were flushing through her mind like she couldn't get rid of them. She just knew she was going to have nightmares. "Why did he have to die?" Eliza yelled, as she cried even more not being able to control herself. "Honey" Marianne began "it couldn't have been prevented things happen like that." "I know but it should have been me not him he didn't do anything I was the one that dragged him out." Eliza just poured her heart out at this whole thing, when she was finished they all decided to get Donnie back.

To be continued… Well I will do the next one later