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The drive up to Vermont had taken longer than they had expected due to the fact that it had begun to snow quite heavily. It was about 5:00 and the sun had set about 15 minutes earlier. Karen was asleep still holding Will's hand, but the weather was getting bad, especially now that it was dark, and as much as he hated doing it he gently removed his hand from hers so he could maneuver the steering wheel with both hands.

As he removed his hand Karen who had been asleep for about 45 minutes woke up. "Oh, the snow got bad. How much longer until we get there?"

"With this weather probably about half an hour." Will said as he drove slowly down the icy road.

"Ughhh... I'm sick of being in the car!"

"I know Karen, but we'll be there soon and once we..."

"Will look out!" Karen screamed as a deer ran out in the middle of the road. To avoid hitting the deer Will swerved to the left, but the road was icy causing the car to veer off of the road and hit a tree head on.

"Oh my God Karen are you okay!" he asked panicked.

"Yeah I just hit my head. Are you okay?" she was breathing heavily, still quite shaken over what had just happened.

"I'm fine, lets get out of the car so I can get a better look at your head." as they stepped out of the car they saw that the front of the car was completely destroyed.

"Come here, let me see your head." she stepped towards him and he reached a hand towards the spot on her forehead where she hit it. He gently ran his thumb over the bump squinting because the shattered headlights were still on.

"Owww!" she yelped

"I'm sorry... you're bleeding but it doesn't look too bad. Listen, we don't get any service on our phones out here so we're gonna have to walk the rest of the way. It should only take about an hour okay?"

"Okay. You know this sucks! It's freezing, we're in the middle of a friggen blizzard, and we have no phone and no car!"

" I know, come on, the sooner we get going the sooner we get there."

After about twenty minutes of walking in the snow Karen started to get really cold and her feet were hurting her from walking the rough terrain in her heels. "Honey, I'm so cold and my feet are killing me, and so is my head. How much longer?"

"Not much longer. Come here," he held out his arm gesturing for her to come closer to him. She did so and he wrapped his arm around her hoping that it would help keep her warm.

Fifteen minutes later he could feel her shivering into his side, and she was leaning most of her weight on him because of the pain in her feet. He stopped and kneeled down.

"Honey what are you doing?" she asked confused.

"Get on my back."

"What?"

"Your feet hurt and it will help keep us both warm so hop on." she climbed onto his back and he was surprised at how little she weighed.

"God Karen do you eat?" he teased her

"Are you sure you don't mind, because I can walk if you can't carry me. It's not a big..."

"Karen it's fine, plus we'll get there sooner without you limping the whole way."

"I won't argue with you there." a gust of wind pierced through the two of them and Karen tightened her hold on Will's neck. She buried her face into the side of his neck and hoped that they would get to the cabin soon.

Forty minutes later and covered in snow they reached Karen's cabin. Karen was asleep on Will's back her face still buried into his neck. He knew she was asleep and he hated to wake her because he knew she'd had a rough night, they both had, but he needed to know where the spare key was.

He turned his head to try to look at her "Karen... Karen... wake up."

"Hmmm... are we here?"

"Yeah, where's the spare key?" she hopped off of his back and brushed the inches of snow off of a few rocks and flipped one over revealing a key. She handed it to him and he opened the door and turned on the lights.

She took off her shoes and yelped at the pain in her feet. Her cheeks were red from the sudden change of temperature, her hair was messy from the wind, and there was dry blood smeared on her forehead. She sat down on a chair that was in the kitchen and took off her coat.

Will noticed her distressed state and went to the sink got a wet paper towel and kneeled down in front of her and wiped at the blood on her forehead. She tensed up and he got it all off as gently and quickly as he could.

" I'm gonna go start a fire."

"Thank you."

"You're welcome."

"No, I mean for everything. You've been really sweet to me tonight."

"You're welcome" he said smiling at her.

Once he finished building the fire, he was about to call Karen over when he realized that she was asleep. She had her face down on the kitchen table and her arm curled around her face. Will smiled at how sweet she looked. He went over to her, picked her up and laid her down on the couch in front of the fire. He laid down on the love seat on the other side of the room.

He didn't know what was happening to him lately. "Could I be attracted to Karen?"

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