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Chapter Thirty: Believing

Chicago Public Library, Illinois

Stella sat near the window, humming a song quietly. She didn't know what song it was; she just remembered the way it sounded. Mac, who was sitting next to her, was looking at her, with one eyebrow raised. She turned to look at his questioning stare. "What song are you humming?" he asked.

"I don't know," she admitted. "I remember how the song goes, but not the lyrics or the name of the song."

They had been at the library for a week now, waiting for the storm to be over. Help hadn't come, even though Scotty had said it would, which had made Flack even more upset than he had already been. They had been eating very little food that week and had very little to drink, which made Stella wonder how they had gotten through the week at all. But she had convinced herself that if she had to stay there for a long time, she would be fine, as long as Mac was by her side. She turned to look at Flack, who was pacing back and forth by the door.

"We're never going to get out of here," he was mumbling. "I should have never trusted for help to come."

Scotty tried his luck at reassuring him. "Help will come; you just have to be patient."

"Patient?" questioned Flack, turning around to face him. "I've been patient for the last week and nothing happened besides the storm getting worse! You said help would come in four days, but no one came. They've forgotten about us. No one is going to help us."

"Lindsay will," Stella said, interrupting the conversation between the two.

"Yeah, sure she will," said Flack sarcastically. "It's a no wonder why were not getting help. She shouldn't have sent us here."

"This is not Lindsay's fault!" Stella yelled, defending Lindsay even though she wasn't there. "Do you think we're the only ones on the earth suffering from this? This is actually being caused by global cooling and global warming and Lindsay has done nothing but help us prepare for the storm. But no one trusted her. If we'd listened to her, we wouldn't even be here. Besides, she didn't tell us to come to the library; we just followed a bunch of worried people here."

"And Montana is a better place to be?" questioned Flack.

"It might have been," Scotty answered angrily.

Before Stella could shout out anything else, Mac took her hand and nodded to the door. She glanced at the door and realized that someone was knocking on its wooden surface. Someone was there to save them. Flack had been wrong. She rushed to the door and immediately opened it. Cameron appeared at her side and waved to the newcomers. "Wilson," she said. "Did you just get here?"

"No," replied Wilson. "But I just figured out you guys were sheltering in here."

Cameron turned her gaze on Kutner and Taub. "You seriously didn't know we were here?"

Kutner nodded.

"I guess Wilson was too dumb to not know that," said Taub. "I knew you guys were here."

"What?" Wilson questioned. "You knew and you didn't tell me?"

Taub shrugged. "Next time you should listen to me then." He walked pass Cameron and Stella, leaving them alone with Kutner and Wilson.

"I'm assuming they're not help?" Stella asked Cameron.

"No," replied Cameron. "They're just more doctors that I work with."

Wilson was still mumbling to himself. "He didn't tell me…" He shook his head and then walked away from the three. Kutner looked up at Cameron.

"Go on," she said, signaling him over to the other group of doctors. When he was gone, she turned to Stella. "Sorry, if you were expecting help."

"It's okay," said Stella. "It's nothing you have to apologize for."

Cameron nodded. "I noticed your argument with…Flack, that's his name right?"

Stella nodded.

"Well, I'm sorry he's giving you such a hard time. But that was just Kutner, Taub, and Wilson who came, and I don't think they'll be much of help at all."

Stella thought she saw Kutner look back at Cameron, like he was about to protest that he wouldn't be much help. But he didn't say anything and only turned back to talk with the other doctors. "It's nothing," she said. "Flack, he's just in a bad mood right now."

"A lot of us are," Cameron replied. "It has been a long time, having to stay in this library."

"We're going to make it," Stella reassured her. "I know it."

"And I believe it," Cameron agreed, turning to walk back over to Wilson and the others. "And believing is what is going to help us get through this storm."

"That's what has got us this far," Stella said.

Cameron nodded her agreement and then walked over to the others. But she stayed there, right by the door, believing that help would come. If she believed that help would come, they would appear at the door in few minutes. But she was wrong.

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A/N: The next chapter will check in on Lindsay and the others in Montana. It should be up either tomorrow or Sunday!