So Im glad you've gotten this far in the story. To answer some questions. Sam is a teen that Amy meets and takes her under her wing. Thanks mazerunner26, There deff be more linking to the characters from the story as I go. Amy and Jess are in their early twenties as well just in case anyone wanted to know. ... So glad your still here, leave a review after this chapter. I like to know what you think.

-Ray

Day 1- six or so hours later

"You should turn off the light. Save the battery." Jen ordered. So I switched off the light and I pulled jess closer to me. "She's in a mode already" Jess whispered. This cubby hole was starting to get warm, tensions were rising. "I heard that." Jen spat. I didn't like sitting in the dark. I don't know how long we've been down here. Hour's maybe. I could hear people moving outside. I don't know what was worse, coming down the stairs running from the sun flares seeing people in flames or hearing these panicked people. It was pitch black dark in the room without the light. We used those industrial flash lights. They last. The only thing helping me keep my composer now was Jess sitting next to me.

"We have to go see what's going on." Jen said, "Are you kidding me." Jess protested, sitting up out of my arms. "No we need to stay right here." Jess continued to argue. "I need to know the situation, I wanna know if this is it. I'm sure the flares are gone. We've been down here for more the a few hours." Jen explained, looking at her watch. "No, were not…". In the middle of Jess talking I flipped on the light. She shielded her eyes for a second. "Sorry but she's kind of right. If the flares are done. We should look for a way out." I added, Jess gave me a look. "I'm not agreeing with this." She muttered and I took out my gun from the back of my pants. I felt better knowing that Jen had a knife. Makes me a little more willing to go, so she would have back up if something popped off. But I'm leaving this with jess, she'll be alone. "Take it." I told her.

Jess took the gun and set it on the floor in front of her. Jen slipped out the door. I kissed Jess's cheek because she wouldn't look up at me and then moved to the door. Jen was standing a few feet down the tunnel but there was no one else. So we started to walk back the way we came and up the stairwell. The heat up here was awful. My shirt started to stick to my skin immediately. When we got to the long tunnel a boy ran full speed at us and went to pass us but Jen grabbed him. "What are you running from?" Jen asked, the boy tried to jerk away but Jen had a good grip on his arm. "There's a wave coming. Right for the city." he scrambled to get out of her grip. "How do you know?" I asked. "Some nerdy lookin kid an old guy with this group told me. But I gotta go find my mom. She's still down here." He said and Jen let him go. The boy kept running.

"C'mon." I said and pulled Jen back towards the stairwell. She looked down the tunnel longingly, like she wanted to run. I pulled on her shirt, not hard I just wanted her attention. "Jen we need you." I told her. She turned back to me, placing her hand on my shoulder briefly and then we both went hurdling back down the stairwell. Skipping steps here and there. Before I knew it we were back at the door but it was open. I scrambled to get inside the cubby hole we found. Jess was facing the wall and laying on her side. There is a small pool of blood by her leg. "I didn't hear a shot." Jen said. I moved slowly to her. The gun was gone, I couldn't find it. "Babe." I asked but she still didn't move. "We gotta get outta here." I said as I turned her over and pulled her onto my lap a little to prop her up against the wall. I looked to see where the blood was coming from when I noticed a large gash down the side of her thigh. I took off my belt and tied it off closer her hip. "She's in some kind of shock. Were gonna have to carry her." Jen said kneeling down next to us. I nodded and moved to pick her up by her arms, putting my forearms under her arm and Jen moved to her legs. We maneuvered our way out the door and jogged as fast as we could.

It took us longer because we were carrying Jess. She just wasn't waking up for me. "Jen, how much further." I asked her, because the last turn we took was different. She said were headed to a sky rise. "We won't make it out of the city but we can make it up into a building." she explained. I think we're trying to avoid people. I just followed Jen. I only wanted out of here. I stopped paying attention to where we were going. We haven't seen but a few people in this tunnel of the subtrans.

Then all of a sudden she stopped. "Were here?" Jen said an I looked up to see a ladder. Are you kidding me. Jen set Jess's legs down softly. She was still bleeding pretty badly. "It's an office building." Jen explained. "We don't know what's up there." I told her. "I'm going to go look." She said as she went to climb. A lot of these subtrans tunnels connected into the buildings. So that they can get the supplies they needed from the transports quicker. It was the new age loading dock. Most of the tunnels ran right under the buildings. This maintenance ladder was probably was part of one of them.

I kneeled down next to jess. "Baby…baby you have to wake up. Jessica" I said as I shook her shoulder a little bit. "mmmm" she moaned, "Ahhhhhh" then she sat up an cried out in pain. Grabbing at the top of her leg. "Jess…Look at me Jess. Calm down." I told her. She was still crying a little she didn't say anything he just stared at me. "I put my belt around it for now. You're going to be fine baby...We have to go… you have to get up." I told her an she jus starred at me. There was something wrong with her. "Jen…" I called out to her Ex. She climbed back down the ladder. "We don't have time for this." She said, then I heard this loud rushing sound. "Jess…we gotta go…you gotta get up." Jen demanded as she went to pull on her arm. "No time to argue." Jen said, I went for the other arm an helped her stand. Jen went back for the ladder. I was a little bigger then Jess so I was confident that I could almost let her sit on my legs as we climbed.

I started to help push her up the ladder as Jen climbed up an d reached down. It was hard to tell at my angle but I did what I could. Then I saw it, down the tunnel. This wind hit me I could tell it was the water the boy was talking about before. "Jen…" I called out to her but I didn't see her. Then it came, and the searing hot water hit my feet throwing me off balance for a moment. I was high enough up that it wasn't able to take me with the flow. Moved up some more under Jess.

The water was muddy brown and still felt hot once I was out of it. Feeling the heat coming off of it is unsettling. What if it was just as bad where we're going? I went to climb another ladder rung when Jess was pulled up through the hole by someone. I starred up and climbed another rung when a hand was offered to me. I looked up to see it was some guy. He pulled me out of the ladder well.

When I got to my feet I looked around. Jess was laying a few feet away. Jen and another Woman sat over her. I moved to her head and held it. She was unconscious. "We need to get higher, there's more water coming." The woman said as continued to look over jess. "I can help her." She said, the man walked back over to us. "Let get moving then." He said as he went to pick up Jess off the floor. "Follow me, I work here." He said, and at that moment I felt lucky we ran into these people. They looked like one of those a married couples you see on TV.

We followed hem up this winding stairs, "Just have to make one stop then we'll go further up." He claimed. Two flights up we stopped on a floor and headed for what looked like something that used to be a restaurant. Most of the windows were blown out and the room looked like it had been through a huge explosion. Gust of hot wind blew into the room through the thrashed windows. I felt like I was in a desert up here. I thought the whole world would look just like this. How screwed are we. We probably did it to ourselves with killing the ozone and such.

"How did you survive in here?" I asked Sean as we walked. "This used to be a five star restaurant. My family and I was using a free dinner from the company when it hit. Chefs table. A Lucky table. Everyone else split but me and a few of the staff and my family rode it out in freezer. All metal super freezer. The cold box worked like a charm. Were all okay. Can't say he same for everyone who left. We sat in there for about six hours before we came out. An saw her downstairs." He explained as we moved through the burnt restaurant.

We walked through the large kitchen and down a stairwell, there was a large metal door. "This is my wife Lucy, I'm Sean. Your about to meet my rug-rats." He explained, his wife Lucy opened the big metal door and out ran a very young boy and older teenage girl. They were cute, and looked just like their parents. Another boy slowly walked out followed by a few more people in disheveled uniforms. The young boy was holding a baby girl. There was a body laying by the door that was covered with a jacket. It looked like he was badly burned. "C'mon guys let's get out of here it's safe." Lucy told her children. They all looked relieved and filed out past us into the restaurant.

We must have went up ten floors when the water came. A few levels below us was taken out. All of it, just gone. When it started to climb slowly we moved up few more floors, but it kept coming.

Sean an Lucy led us all upstairs out of harms way. When we stopped we were on a floor with a lot of offices. I ran to a nearby desk an shoved everything off of it. Something in me always wanted to do that. Sean placed Jess on the desk. "Sammy honey, you got my purse." Lucy asked as she went to look at Jess's leg. "She's could've bleed out down there if you guys didn't use this belt." She stated, as Sam came back with a small purse. "You're a doctor." I asked, "No, but I can sew this up with a small sewing kit. Didn't think I would ever use the thing. I'm more of a kitting type momma." she explained a she took it out a small kit a started looking for a needle. After she found a needle she pieced it together with some string. I couldn't watch the rest so I moved around to Jess's face. She was still asleep. Which was probably a good thing because I know this is going to hurt. What the hell happened? I shouldn't have left her alone.

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One love - Ray