The Bermudas

Part 4

by Rondabunny

The Tail part of the plane:

Jack and Sharon have found an inflatable escape chute which they secured on two steel hooks that jutted out from the floor in both sides of the door. They unrolled it for the chute to reach the ground and Chase pulled a ring on the chute. It inflated automatically. Thirteen was the first who jumped in the middle of chute and slid down to the ground. Others led her example. Within a minute five persons stood in a forest. It was humid and hot in here. Clothes immediately became wet and stuck to the body. Jack already killed two mosquitoes on his arm. Air was full of buzzing sound, sound of birds singing in the trees and a distant roar of some kind of strong and maybe big animal.

"What now?" Cameron asked looking around. "What way should we go?"

Thirteen took a long hard stick from the ground. "I don't know where are we, but I think that blue stripe showing out from the leaves looks like water." Everybody looked at that direction and agreed with Remy.

Man took sticks strong enough to move apart the branches of trees. They passed one hundred fifty meters and went out off the forest. A long not too wide sandy beach stretched in front of them. Chase saw a strange huge white object lying on the sand maybe in four hundred meters from them. It had a wide black hole in it.

"Isn't it..?" He hasn't managed to finish the sentence.

"It's the front part of our plane." Cameron said.

The group hurried to the plane. Thirteen was in the head of the group followed by Jack and Sharon. Chase and Cameron walked slowly. It was hard for the injured doctor to walk faster.

Remy entered the plane and found Cuddy and Wilson on the floor beside a young woman. Both doctors split her arm from shoulder to the broken fingers.

"Thirteen!" House immediately recognized the woman. "Where are the others?" He asked as if they went for a walk and agreed to meet within an hour here.

"Chase and Cameron will come soon. Taub is dead." She looked at the tattooed man then the young woman on the floor. "Where is Foreman?"

House pointed to the seats in the head of cabin. Jack and Sharon entered the plane followed by Chase and Cameron. Cuddy and Wilson finished with Livia's arm. They stood up and Cuddy hugged Cameron. Thirteen came to the seat where Foreman's dead body was still sitting. She touched his face and gasped. The woman understood, he was dead. She sat on the floor leaning her back on the arm-rest and hid her face in her hands. Wilson watched the young doctor. He came closer, squatted beside her.

"Thirteen, I'm so sorry!" He said and put his hand on her shoulder.

"I'm fine. Don't worry." She looked at him without tears on her face. She just couldn't cry in front of her boss and his friends. "What the hell happened here? Where are we?"

"I don't know. We have to find out. They'll find us. I'm sure." Wilson wasn't sure of the words he spoke. He wanted to calm her down.

"I need some fresh air." Dr. Hadley stood up and went outside. Sharon followed her worried by Thirteen's pale face.

"Are you ok?" the middle-aged woman asked trying to catch up with doctor's pace.

"Yes, I'm fine." She lied. Remy started coughing and suffocating but she went fast away from the plane. Her lips went blue, her face was pale and Sharon saw veins through her skin. Doctor's eyes were widely open. She gulped air with an open mouth but it only caused her more coughing.

"Stop!" Sharon pulled Remy's shoulder to make her stop.

Thirteen bent putting hands on her knees.

"Can't… breathe." She exhaled. "Asthma…" Another attack of coughing embraced her body.

Sharon ran as fast as she could to the plane.

"Remy! She's got an asthma attack!" Sharon yelled at the men talking outside.

Jack saw Hadley was sitting on the sand rocking back and forth in maybe 200 meters from the plane. He rushed to her not knowing how help the woman but he couldn't stay and wait for others to react.

"Chase, get adrenaline from the aid kit. It's in the cabin on the floor!" House commanded.

Robert ran into the cabin and within several seconds he was out with a syringe and an ampoule in his hands. He ran towards Jack and Thirteen followed by Wilson. Suddenly they stopped abruptly half-way to the suffocating doctor. A big tiger ran from the forest and was heading towards Dr. Hadley. Thirteen didn't see the big cat. She concentrated on inhaling and exhaling the air. The woman couldn't fight the tears streaming down her face. It was a reflex caused by the strong attempts to breathe. Jack saw the beast too clearly. Without thinking he unfastened the belt on his jeans, took it in his hands and when the creature approached, he hit the tiger with it. The tiger roared. Thirteen hadn't time to understand what was happening. Jack ran to the ocean. Tiger jumped over Remy and ran after his prey. Chase hurried to Hadley. Derek took the knife out and ran after the tiger. House, Cuddy and Cameron watched the situation in disbelief.

When Chase was making an injection, Jack was near the ocean and he jumped into the water, but the tiger ran after him. The man swam as fast as he could, tiger swam close enough to bite him. Jack dived, swam under the monster and came up to the surface in two meters from the animal. The tiger saw him and turned to him but Deebo, who came up just behind the cat stuck him with the knife in its neck. Tiger grabbed Derek with its paw and they began to sink. Jack dived again and pulled the tiger's back paws causing the animal to release the tattooed man. Deebo jabbed the beast with his knife once again. The blow was fatal. Tiger sank.

Both men tired went out of water. Deep gashes from tiger's claws decorated left arm of the big man. Cuddy, House and Wilson were already on the beach with an aid kit. Thirteen's breathing became normal and she stopped coughing uncontrollably.

After stitching Deebo's arm and making Remy, Cameron and Livia sit on the coverlet near the broken wing of the plane the group surrounded them to decide what to do next.

To be continued…

My education-hell begins in Moscow. So, I won't be able to write the next chapter till my winter vacation. I apologies to the readers who like the fic.