Chapter 5

Sorry it's been ages!

"RUTH! CAN YOU HERE ME?" Dixie shouted into the radio, naively hoping she would get a reply, instead all she got was a lot of crackling.

"Jac, are you there?" Joseph was doing the same thing, trying to reach Jac, perhaps not quite as desperately as Dixie.

Dixie looked and Jeff hoping her partner in crime might have a cunning plan to find the two doctors.

"Do you think we should get Charlie to send some more help?" Offered Jeff, trying to be helpful.

Dixie nodded and Curtis went off the call for a couple more doctors to come and help them search for Jac and Ruth.

Meanwhile inside the collapsed building, Ruth was desperately trying to wake up an unconscious Jac. "C'mon, please don't do this to me now, we're already gonna be a in a load of trouble." She was shaking her a bit harder than maybe she should have been, but eventually it worked, Jac slowly came round, just in time to see a bit more more of the building collapse, narrowly missing them, but trapping them in a very confined space.

Back outside, Charlie had sent Toby De Silva and Zoe Hana to the scene. It had been decided that Toby and Jeff would go with the fire fighters to look for Ruth and Jac and Zoe would stay outside with Joseph to help the other casualties.

Jeff put on his helmet and put the medical kit on his pack and gave Toby a thumbs up. Toby less that enthusiastically slowly put his helmet on and put his hand over his mouth as if he was about to be sick.

"C'mon mate, now's no time to be getting nervous, let's go and be heroes!" joked Jeff as he patted Toby on the back.

"Ok, let's just find them and get out of there," muttered Toby in very unherioc voice.

Meanwhile, Jac was beginning to freak out. "Are you okay?" Ruth asked, then backtracked to say "sorry stupid question really."

"Yeah, I'm fine, it's just... small spaces..." Jac replied feeling ashamed, "the other kids in the foster home used to lock me in cupboards and stuff when I was younger, I guess it's kinda stuck with me."

"Oh right," said Ruth not really knowing what to say, as she was more afraid of not being found that the small space.



"Do you think they'll come for us soon?" asked Jac, secretly thinking that no one would care about her, she just hoped Ruth was more popular.

"Probably, I guess they all came through for me before," Ruth wasn't as sure as she sounded, since she hadn't really been very grateful when she woke up from her coma, maybe they wouldn't bother this time, and she knew what people thought about Jac, so it wasn't like they'd be a massive loss.

"Came through for you before? Was that when you tried to top yourself?" Jac asked, quickly realising Ruth didn't know she knew about that.

"How do you know about that?" Asked Ruth, suddenly feeling very exposed.

"Everyone knows, it was a junior doctor from the E.D, Harry Harper sold your journal to the press, he felt the hospital had let you down or something, I only realised it was you today though, it's not like everyone knows exactly who you are." Jac replied, trying not to sound too stalkerish. "I mean it's not like people don't know stuff about me, I saw your face, when they said my name, word get's around in this place."

"It would seem that way, I guess people think they know everything about me now, but I don't think they ever will," said Ruth shaking her head. "The reason I don't find small spaces scary is because I used to hide in the cupboard, when my Dad was drunk and shouting at my mum, I see them as safe places, I bet no one knew that."

"There's so much people don't about me too, I'm not always a complete..." Jac began but was quickly interrupted but Toby and Jeff.

"RUTH! JAC! ARE YOU IN HERE, IT'S JEFF AND TOBY" Jeff was shouting into the building, he was only metres away but he couldn't see them.

Jac and Ruth both breathed a sigh of relief for someone had come for them after all.