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When Will had awoken he was surprised to find Karen in his arms still holding him tightly. It took him a moment to remember what had happened, but once he did he remembered it all too clearly. He glanced down at his watch to check the time, remembering that it was almost five in the evening when he and Karen had drifted off to sleep. His watch read 2 a.m., and he could still hear wind and rain roaring on the outside of the demolished house.

He debated on whether or not to wake Karen, but decided against the idea figuring that she needed as much rest as possible in her condition. Several hours passed and when Will checked his watch for the time again it was almost 8 a.m. he was worried about how long Karen had been sleeping for. She had been asleep for nearly fifteen hours, and Will was beginning to wonder if her excessive slumber was due to any head injury she may have suffered when she was hurt. He decided that now would be a good time to wake her, and make sure that she was alright. He did feel bad doing it though, she looked so peaceful. The mask of stone and ice that she always wore was non existent in her sleep. As he observed her face he realized this, and he also realized that this woman who he often bickered excessively with and showed great dislike towards was human.

He tapped her back lightly trying to wake her gently, making sure not to hurt her. She just nuzzled herself further into his chest and groaned slightly. He did the same thing again, but once again she didn't wake up.

"Karen…" he paused waiting for a response, but received none. "Karen… Come on, time to wake up." He said shifting his body so hers would do the same in turn waking her. She whimpered softly as her eyes slowly batted open. Will brushed a stray piece of hair away from her face and looked at her sympathetically. He felt horrible about the whole situation; he wished that there was something, anything he could do to make her feel less pain.

"How are you feeling?" he asked her.

"Awful…" she said her voice still heavy with sleep.

"Is there anything I can do Karen?"

"In the pillow that you're lying on there should be a bottle of pills and under the bed there should be a bottle of vodka, want to get those for me? That is if they aren't completely destroyed."

Will smiled at the fact that she had pills and booze stashed away in a bedroom, it was so Karen. "Yeah, but I have to move you if I'm going to get up." He gently lifted her shoulders off of him and placed her on the spot of the bed that was next to where he was.

He reached into the pillow and found a bottle of pills, just like she said. He handed it to her then got off of the bed and knelt down so that he could see beneath it, and once again just like she had said there was a bottle of vodka underneath the bed, he handed that to her as well, then climbed back onto the bed next to her.

"Thank God I put those in safe places where they didn't get crushed." Karen said dramatically.

"Yeah, thank God…" he said rolling his eyes. She opened the bottle of pills and popped two of them into her mouth, followed by a large sip of the vodka. She sighed heavily as she seemed to noticeably relax beside him.

"That really helped didn't it?" he asked.

"Yeah honey, it did… want some?" she said holding the bottle of vodka out towards him. He took it willingly and placed the mouth of the bottle to his lips taking a large sip himself. He wrapped his arm around her and handed her the bottle. She took it and they repeated the pattern until the entire bottle was gone.

They were both drunk… well Will was drunk, Karen was just tipsy, she was a woman who could hold her liquor after all. They sat laughing and talking, completely forgetting the severity of the situation that they were in. Karen was leaning on Will's shoulder and she was absentmindedly tracing patterns on his chest with her index finger.

"Oh… oh… and Karen, remember… remember..." he could barely speak because he was laughing so hard, "remember when I went to your country club with you… and… and you told everybody that I was… your… your whore!" he finished laughing hysterically. Karen was laughing equally as hard.

An hour or so later their buzz began to wear off and they just became very tired. Karen was struggling to keep her eyes open as Will continued to talk to her, he noticed this and finished what he was saying then stopped talking so she could sleep. When she fell asleep he decided that it would be a good idea to do the same. He sunk down into the bed so that his face was level with hers; he placed a soft kiss on the corner of her mouth then fell asleep himself.

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Grace and Jack sat in silence both fighting to hold back their tears. They had no idea if Will and Karen were even alive at this point, all they could do was hope that they were alright, and that the hurricane would end soon.

As they sat there the man who headed the rescue parties approached them once again. They both shot up out of their seats hoping that he was going to tell them some good news.

"Can they send out a rescue party now?" Jack said immediately

"Mr. McFarland, Ms. Adler, we are really doing the best that we can to get a party out there to help your friends, but it appears that the hurricane is not going to be letting up for at least another 48 hours, if not more. I'm sorry, but at the moment there is still nothing that we can do." He walked away from the two, and left them to wait to see if they would ever see their two best friends again.

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Will woke up to the sound of rushing water, he looked around the room and saw that there was a foot of water on the floor, and it was still rising. He had no idea where it was coming from, but it was coming in fast. He shook Karen awake, and she woke up with a start. As she looked around the room she saw the water, it was rising rapidly and it was soon at the level of the top of the bed where they sat.

The water soon reached a point that it was above the level of the bed and they were partly submerged.

"Will, Will, what's happening?" she said as she held his body tightly, "It's so cold." She said as her teeth began to chatter.

"Oh my God…"

"What? What's wrong?" she asked d frantically.

"The water, it's salt water… it's from the ocean." He said staring down at the water that was submerging them as it rose.

"What does that mean?" she asked softly.

"It means if we don't find a way out of this room, we're going to drown…"

Author's Note: Hello my lovelies! I'm sorry that this took so long, I've been very busy. I hope you enjoyed the chapter. Review my dears! I'm going to try to get an update in before I leave for Aruba on Thursday… if I can't though, I'm sorry. I'll be back on august 5th if I can't update before Thursday you should get one around then.