Trapped Alive!
Summary- A year later, during an excavation with the O'Connell family, Jonathan and Samantha get caught in a landslide which traps them in the Temple of Bast. With Samantha badly injured and unwell, father and daughter learn even more about each others lives while trying to escape.
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Chapter Four- Hope and Danger.
Pain. Hot, searing pain could be felt. But from where? Samantha tried moving her limbs, sucessfully moving both her arms and her left leg. But the right leg was in total agony. She could hear a noise of rocks shifting againest other rocks. She opened her eyes slowly and carefully, afraid of what she might see.
Jonathan was kneeling beside her, picking up rocks that covered her leg to get her free. He had a smallish gash on his forehead that was still slightly bleeding, but apart from this he was fine. He looked at Sam's face to see her awake and smiled "It's alright. I'll get them off you. Nearly there". A few seconds and rocks passed until Sam's leg became free, she tried moving it but sharp pain went up her leg, causing her to gasp.
Jonathan picked her up carefully in his arms and carried her over to a make shift area he made from his jacket and some torches he found. Jon laid her down and carefully check her leg, feeling for any breakages. Her leg was bleeding badly from a large gash and was covered in dirt and dust, which he washed with water from the canteen he carried by his side, but he knew it might already be infected.
"Well, you've got a fractured leg. Best not walk on it for a while" Jon then wrapped it up in a sleeve he ripped off his jacket and sat next to her. he looked over to his daughter, to motioned for him to come nearer to her.
"I'm sorry about your head, dad. You should let me clean it up for you for helping me" Jonathan smiled, and ripped the other sleeve off. He help Sam sit up and she clean the gash on his forehead, then wrapped it up "Listen, if you didn't pull me out off the way of those falling rocks, something worse could have happened. And of course I'm going to help you. I love you"
Samantha looked up at him "I love you too, dad. But, I thnk I'm going to go to sleep now. I feeling quite tired" Jon held her hand until she nodded off. He then got up and walked towards the hugh rock pile between them and the outside world. 'Right, Samantha needs medical help and there's only one way to get her to it' And he started to dig his way though the rocks, pulling them down and tossing them to the side.
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Inside the campsite, Evy never left her tent, even at mealtimes. Saying it wasn't right without Jonathan and Samantha there to tell jokes and cheer everyone up. She couldn't belived them were just taken from her, from the others just like that. Her only brother, her only niece, gone.They lived though Anubis, though Steve Green, only to have a rockslide take them out.
A noise at the entrance of her tent brought her out of her thoughts, Alex was standing there, tears still running down his face "Mom, I'm still sorry for what happened. I should have looked where I was going. If I did, maybe uncle John and Sam might still be..." He broke down in another fit of tears. Evy rushed up her son and hugged him firecely "Listen to me Alex. This isn't your fault, it's no-one's fault. It just happened, it was an accident".
They sobbed in each other's shoulders for a few minutes before Rick came in to check on them "Evy, dear. You should really come and eat something. We don't you getting ill as well" Evy nodded and followed Alex out of the tent. Ardeth sat by the fire, damp eyes staring at the entrance of the temple. "How long as he been like this?" Evy asked, suprized to see the Med-jai leader crying "Quite a while. He keeps staring at the entrance, like Jonathan and Sam are gonna walk out though it fine".
Rick touched Ardeth's shoulder, shocking him out of his thoughts. He smiled his sorries at the O'Connell's and sat nearer to them "Evy, I am so sorry about Jonathan, he is, I mean was a brave man. He might have been a bit of a coward, but he was an excellent friend. He always stood up for his family and was a wonderful teacher and father to Samantha" This made Evy cry more.
"Samantha was also brave, like her father. She was always pulling pranks on us growing up in my tribe, but she was a very good learner. When she was younger, the only thing she wanted was to find her father and your new family, Evelyn. She was always telling us about spending Christmas with you and Jonathan every year until our mother said no more" Alex, who had had enough of this conversation, got up and went into his parent's tent.
He spied one of his walkie-talkies on the floor and wondered where the other one was. Then he remembered, Samantha still had it in her rucksack. 'Maybe, just maybe' He press the button and spoke into it.
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Jonathan stopped what he was doing and looked around the entrance of the temple. He swore he could have heard a voice but the only other person with him was Samantha, and she was still unconcious. But something was wrong with her, her face was pale but with a slight flush. Sweat was running down her face and damping her hair, she was moaning out in pain.
Jonathan rushed over to her and felt her forehead, withdrawing it very quickly. She was burning up with a firece fever 'Infection must have set in' thought Jonathan, as he wet a hankerchief he fished out his jacket pocket and put it gently on Sam's forehead.
Again he hear a voice, faint but he could hear out the name Samantha. He found the source of the voice coming from his daughter's backpack. Jon opened it up and fished out a plastic box, from which the sound was coming from "You have to press the button on the side and talk into it" Came a whisper from his side. Jonathan jumped and found Sam awake, but with pain in her eyes.
Jonathan pressed the side and spoke "Hello?" "Uncle John?" Came the reply. "Who is this?" Asked Jon. "It's Alex O'Connell. Is this uncle John?"
Jonathan smiled and said back "Yes it is. Go on put your mother on this thing" He heard a whoop of joy and then silence. A moment later a female voice became clear "Jonathan?" Jon could feel tears threatening to fall.
"Yes, Old Mum. It's me!" He could hear faint sobs on the other side of the transmisson. "God, Jonathan. We thought you were dead. And Samantha".
"No, Sam's alive as well, but she isn't looking to good. She sustained a large gash on her leg and it's became infected, she's got a bad fever. I don't know what to do, Evy. I'm worried" He looked down at Sam to see that she screwed her eyes up in pain. Jonathan quickly got the hankerchief and wet it again, replacing it again gently on his daughter's forehead.
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Evy sat by the fire again with Rick sitting beside her, Ardeth, who had just heard the news, sitting her other side and Alex, sitting at her feet.
"I've tried shifting some of the stones out of the way of the entrance, but it'll take too long to get though" Evy could now definatly hear genuine worry in her brother. Her mind was screaming out ideas to her for helping get her brother and niece out of the temple. But only one idea stuck out.
"Hang on, Jon. Rick and Ardeth will help shift some of the rocks from this side of the pile. Combined, we might be able to get you guys out more earlier. As for Sam, keep giving her plenty of water, try to cool her down and keep cleaning her wound. We'll try and be as quick as we can".
"Ok. Thanks Evy, Rick, Ardeth and Alex. Well done for thinking of using these things" Alex grinned, knowing he did well. Then, they could hear a female voice, weak but determined, asking Jonathan to hand over the walkie-talkie.
"Hey, everybody" Sam's voice was pained and weak "Alex, remember that backpack I tossed you before? Go and get it now" Her cousion got up and bought the heavy backpack out of his and his parent's tent "Now, open it up and give the statue to aunt Evy".
Everyone's blood ran cold when Alex pulled out the golden cat statue, shining in the Eygptian sun. "Oh, God. You shouldn't have picked this up, Sam"
"Why not?" Came the reply. "Because whoever picked it up has three days to place it in a special alter, before the curse consumates them" Ardeth explained, remembering the room he and Alex explored in the temple.
There was silence, until "Bugger! Are you sure?" "Yes, I am sure, Dear sister. I'm sorry". Then Jonathan's voice came back on "We better get to work on shifting these rocks. We need to get that statue back in here, fast". For once, the others didn't argue back to him. They stood up, placed the statue back into the backpack and walked over to the temple.
Rick and Ardeth began shifting some of the larger rocks, Evy shifted some medium sized rocks. Even Alex helped by shifting some smaller rocks. All the while keeping the walkie-talkie with them, just incase.
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Inside the temple, Jonathan placed the wlakie-talkie down next to Sam, and with new strength and determination, began shifting the rocks again.
"Dad, I'm sorry about the statue. I didn't know, and now I might have killed us both" He sighed and looked back at his daughter, who was crying. Tears were making paths down her dusty face. Jon ran down to her and hugged her close.
"You have not done anything wrong, I didn't even know myself. Besides, Rick and the other's are helping us dig our way out now. We'll be out of here soon. Why don't you get some sleep and I'll keep moving some rocks" Samantha couldn't help nodding her head sleepily and was asleep in five seconds flat.
Jonathan kissed her forehead and laid her down again, then walked back over to the pile and started moving rocks again.
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All day the two familes dug though the rock pile getting closer and closer to each other, but soon grew tired. They gave up for the night and retired to sleep, hopefully refreshed enough in the morning to start digging out again.
At midnight, the full moon shone down on the temple. In the treasure room, the giant cat statue stood still. Then the yellow-gemstone eyes shone bright and a growl could be heard from inside the statue.
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Here is the forth chapter. I would like to take this opportunity to ask my faithful reviewers if they have any ideas for my fifth chapter. I got the mother of all writer's block. Thanks. From chugirl2526.