Lioness laid in her bed curled in her comforters with wide open eyes. She gazed out her window looking at the moonlight hit the glass and leave a slight shadow; the clear sky behind made the stars shine brighter keeping her awake.
Just a few hours ago they had returned home and waited on the rescue team. As she opened the door, all she got from them were bowed heads. They had not found shark in the river. Lee came over that night and comforted the team but a gloomy tone filled the room. She couldn't understand how the others would be able to sleep knowing that down the hall sharks' room was empty.
She flipped over turning her back on the moonlight. Her mind kept running over and over again the memories on the bridge, sharks figure rolling over the edge, his arms vanishing from the side, his tight grip loosen on her arm and his clear eyes staring into hers until they were lost. She pressed her head into her pillow, the moonlight even though it was pure and clear it reminded lioness of shark in a way. She moaned and rolled around trying every position possible to get comfortable.
Nothing was working so she just looked at the ceiling. Her room was still and quiet as night made its rounds putting people to sleep. The clock beside her bed clicked signifying it was midnight. She looked at it and sighed, this night was dragging on forever. She tightly grabbed the sheets and threw them off of her. She slipped on pants over the shorts she was sleeping in and grabbed a coat to put on over her tank top. She rushed out of her room and slipped out of the door softly closing it behind her.
On his face shark felt a soft pat of water break on his cheek. Opening his eyes he only saw darkness surrounding him and a small dim light directly above him. He went to try to sit up when his left arm, right leg, and chest would not move. He started to panic and when strangely enough he noticed a stream of bubbles come form his mouth outside his helmet.
Another drop of water fell onto his face. Quickening his breathe, bubbles, water, a freezing light weight feeling around him, he was underwater! He struggled but calmed himself down, he was in bad situations before but this was worse much worse. On his stomach, arm, and leg were pieces of metal and bridge holding him at the bottom of the river.
His diver helmet allowed him to breathe as more bubbles broke out through the calm waters. But the thing that was keeping him from drowning was starting to fall apart. A large crack down the middle of his helmet streaked across his vision, another drop of water shattered on his cheek and ran down his face. He sat there running through his thoughts thinking of what to do, in a crisis situation it is kind of hard to think.
He grabbed the metal holding his stomach and pushed it off feeling a great relief of pressure making it easier for him to breathe. He managed to pull his right arm out of a pile of rubble and he could feel his body start to slowly lift off of the river bed. He took a breather and watched a water droplet leak through his helmet for he was now standing up straight. His chest burned with every breath and he could feel the moisture on his face from breathing through his helmet.
"What time is it? How long was I knocked out?"
He put his hand to his helmet as he bobbed in place still being held down by his leg. Few fish swam around and he noticed a slight red haze around the area he was previously trapped in. He then looked at his leg and saw they were ripped, stained with blood, and burned. Blood hung around and it made him feel dizzy, he had lost so much blood that it caused him to feel nauseous.
But he felt slightly better for letting his muscles rest, Paines' touch had faded from his muscles at least. But he shivered and realized how cold he really was, the river water was freezing and he would catch hypothermia very, very, soon if he didn't already have it. Shark felt frozen and he quickly wrapped his arms around himself through the waters. The rips in his suit had let the water touch his bare skin making it give him more drag against the current forcing him to use the little energy he had.
"Dude it's cold," he shuddered keeping his voice low.
He looked up towards the shimmering water and he pushed the rubble holding him down off of his foot listening to the echoing clack it made. Shark looked around and saw the dark murky waters surrounding him and felt a strange sense. He pushed forward heading towards the surface, the straining feeling once again filled his muscles and he realized how tired he really was. The light grew brighter and he broke the surface of the river sending crystal droplets sprinkling the river.
He looked up and saw the moon and he tensed up, afraid he was lost for days. He looked around for any type of direction and he noticed the one double white light from ontop of the remaining bridge, the only light that was around. The current pushed against him and he saw the shadows of the bank coming closer to him as he made his way across the dark waters. Using all of his strength he fought against the current to get to the bank. He let his legs fall and he ran into the sandbank. He tried to stand out of the water and he managed to hang over with his arms dangling soaking wet as he hunched his back.
He lifted his heavy arms and pulled off his broken helmet letting the cold wind blow across his face and rustle his blond hair. He walked a little further until the weight got to him and he fell to his knees bending over himself as small waves crashed against his legs. He coughed once and his mind went to turn off as his brain wanted to sleep. It was dark around him as he started to fall asleep with the waves crashing against his legs like a lullaby. He sighed and felt himself fall forward as he fell asleep in exhaustion.
But as the waves crashed against the sandy bank, strangely enough shark never felt himself touch the sand, and only an imprint of his helmet was left upon the river bank.
Thanks for the reviews everybody! It's about time fanfiction put an A.T.O.M category up.
I am actually going to make another atom fic and i've kind of started on it. Its going to be kind of a more drama type thing but it is going to be really good! I already wrote the really sad part and it is so awesomeI cried myself!
