A screech pierces my ears. At first I think it's Tazer having a nightmare. But the piercing noise ends, then starts back up again at the same annoying pitch. I realize, with dawning horror, that it's an alarm.

"Taze! Honey, get up!" An unknown head pops in.

"Move, people! We're getting bombed! Go underground!" Well that's not backwards. Aren't we already underground? How can we go any deeper. I yank a drowsy Tazer out of bed and limp with her in my arms to the door.

I follow the crowd, but I'm so confused. Hw can we be bombed when we're underground?

That's when the first one hits. An experience I've never felt full scale in my life. The first bomb explodes, and I see one woman not attached to her leg, another man already dead with his head off.

The force of the blast had smashed me into the ground, Tazer-side first. My leg hurts now more than ever, but I'm more concerned about Taze. She's beginning to really wake up, and with a nasty nosebleed and what I think may be a dislocated shoulder.

A strong hand shoves me forward, and I realize it's the crowd pushing against me from another blast.

I stumble, and it doesn't do much to help my leg, which is recovering from my hip being re-dislocated and then popped back into the right spot. They had to tear a few muscles in the process.

Finally, I see some doors at the end of a long flight of steps. Forced to take two steps at a time, I trip my way down the treacherous stairs to the doors that are closing. Why would they close the doors on us? We just got here, and now we're about to die?

With renewed energy, I fly down the steps three at a time and as the people filter in the closing doors- I realize the crowd has thinned tremendously- I take a giant leap through the doors that are now only a foot wide.

I won't be able to fit through with Tazer.

And though I make the decision in a split second it seems like eternity when I thrust the small girl's body through the tiny gap and dive through myself.

The world spins. Tazer may have been the last person to get to safety.

I hear more explosions go off.