Title: Chaos amongst them.
Rating: T for now but that may change as they story progresses.
Summary: The survivors of flight 29 DWN have survived storms, sicknesses, injuries and each other. But when tempers run high, and the stress of it all becomes too much for the survivors to handle they begin falling apart one by one. Will they be able to band together before disaster strikes or will they be too late to save one of their own?
Disclaimer: I don't own the characters, the show, or any of the songs and artist that I choose to use. This is just for fun.
A/N: This is the final chapter yay! I finally finished it. I may write a sequel I'm not sure thought, it all depends if I can come up with a good story line. Let me know what you think and if you think this ending was good and if the song fit it. It took me forever to think of it and think of the right way to write it. Thanks for all the great reviews; I enjoyed getting them so much! It's why I tried my best to update it as often as possible. Thanks for reading.
Chapter Eleven: Aftermath, Part two
Avril Lavigne- Keep holding on.
Eric went rushed outside to check to see if the water was boiling yet. Melissa wanted to stay but she knew if she did Lex would too and no matter how much she wanted to watch what was going on she didn't want Lex to have to watch. She patted him on his shoulder and looked down at him. He looked up at her questioningly.
"Let's go outside and find a way to make a splint for her ankle, and let them take care of her." She said softly glancing back up at them.
Lex reluctantly nodded and walked outside with her. When they did they seen Eric carefully but quickly funneling water all the empty bottles they had. Once he got the lids on he tossed them on a beach towel. He had a shirt wrapped around the hand that he was holding the bottles with to make sure he didn't burn his self. He had three so far and had five more bottles to go.
"Can you help me make her splint? I promise you'll only need one hand." Lex said looking up at her.
"Let me go help Eric and after that I'll come help you alright?" Melissa said giving him a faint smile.
He slowly nodded. "Alright."
He walked over to his supplies while Melissa rushed over to help Eric. He had a main plan on how he was going to make it but wasn't sure if it would work. He sat down in the sand and picked out one of the middle sized sticks and began drilling holes in the side with Jackson's pocket knife. Once he had done both middle sized pieces and was sure the holes were big enough he picked up the short pieces and placed on in the hole to be sure it would fit. He smiled excitedly when it did and began latching sticks together with twine in the shape of an L. He made sure that the long stick was long enough to go up to at least her knee so there would be enough support. He took two long thin strips of cloth and tied of them to one side of the brace. One near the top, and one in the middle. He rushed over to the metal box Eric found and got the needle and thread out before rushing back. He was surprised the needle hadn't gotten lost yet, of course Daley was the only on who used it and she was really careful not to loose anything.
He got a long, thick cloth and began sewing one side to the upper side of the brace all the way down to where her toes would begin forming a net around the brace…or at least that was if he guessed the size of her foot right. He smiled happily down at it; now all he had to do was measure the size of Taylor's leg and foot, saw the smaller sticks down to the right size and tie and sew the pieces together. He narrowed his eyes at it for a moment. Something was missing…his eyes quickly widened. He grabbed four strips of cloth. Two of them he tied along the long part of the brace on top of the one already tired so that it would hold her leg in the brace. Then he sewed on along the edge of where her ankle would be and a semi thick one across where her foot would be. Now all he needed was Taylor to get healthy enough to put it on her.
Eric and Melissa rushed back up from the beach and into the tent carrying the beach towel full of hot bottles of water. Once they were inside they seen Jackson covering her up with the sleeping bag. They rushed over and laid the beach towel out. Daley's eyes widened.
"Good job you guys!" She said looking at Melissa and Eric before she looked at Jackson. "We need to put those in her sleeping back before we zip it up that way it will make more heat faster. We can't put them right up against here but being in there should be good enough."
Jackson shrugged as if he was saying why not before he began laying the bottles of water around the edges and bottom of her sleeping bags. They were hot enough that it burned his hand but not enough to cause a blister. He rolled up shirts and put them along the bottles to keep them from rolling. He lined the edge the zipped but made sure the bottles were an inch from the edge and had shirts on both sides. He zipped it up and sat back.
"What now?" Melissa asked looking around at everyone.
"We wait, pray and hope…we've done all we can." She said sadly before looking down at Taylor.
Everyone but Lex sat in the tent staring at Taylor hoping for moment, or a sound anything that would show improvement but there was nothing. After thirty minutes Daley sighed and looked around at everyone. They needed to gather food, water, and more fire wood but she hated the thought of leaving Taylor. She felt responsible for her being this way in so many ways. First she yelled at her saying the most horrible things to her, second she tried to force her to do something she didn't want to forcing her to run away to hide in the woods which caused Eric's and Jackson's fight, and Third she got her self knocked out forcing Taylor to set up a shelter and pulling her inside all by her self with a possibly broken ankle and covered with cuts, scrapes and bruises. All of this was her fault and if something unthinkable happens then she wouldn't be able to live with her self. All of this because a picture, the picture was important but not important enough to cause all this.
Hear me when I say, when I say I believe
Nothing's gonna change, nothing's gonna change destiny
Whatever's meant to be will work out perfectly
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
La da da da
La da da da
La da da da da da da da da
Daley sighed and looked around at everyone but before she could say anything to them Lex rushed in with his arms full. Everyone looked at him clueless to what all the stuff was or what it was for but Lex didn't seem to notice. He laid everything out in a line and looked around at everyone. He narrowed his eyes when he seen everyone staring at him the way they usually did when they had no clue what something he made was. He sighed and looked down at everything on the tent floor. It looked obvious to him but of course he made it. He looked around at everyone and smiled.
"It's a splint for Taylor's ankle. Do we have an ace bandage?" He asked looking at Daley.
"Here…" Jackson said taking off the one on his leg.
"No Jackson, you need it." Lex said looking around at everyone else.
"No Lex, I'm fine. The only reason I had to wear it was for the pressure to stop the bleeding and to keep the gauze on it when I walked. Neither of which I have to worry about now." He said handing him the bandage.
Lex frowned but then took it. He unzipped the bottom of the sleeping bag enough to where he could pull it up to her knee. He folded it over making sure the rest of her stayed covered up. He carefully moved the bottles of water out of the sleeping back and put them in the corner of the tent.
"Wait Lex…" Daley said looking around at everyone. "We need to gather some food, water and fire wood but we can't leave Taylor alone. Someone needs to be here to check her temperature, make sure her air ways are clear, and that the bottles of water stay hot to give her more heat. So we watch over her in shifts. Since Melissa is one hand short she'll have to be with someone as well to help."
"I'll get the water; pour it into the bottles and everything while Melissa watches over the fire." Nathan offered.
Daley nodded. "Ok."
"I'll gather fire wood." Eric said raising his hand.
Eric volunteering to work, that's a new one. "Alright." Daley said.
"And I'll gather some food if I can find any." Jackson said standing up.
"And I'll watch over Taylor and help Lex get the splint on her." She said looking at the complicated contraption her brother came up with. "Nobody go to far from camp just in case something does happen…Wait…Nathan and Jackson carried Taylor all the way down that hill, you two should have easy jobs at least until you can get some rest."
"We'll be fine Daley." Jackson said before he picked up a clean t-shirt and a clean pair of pants. "If I can't find any fruit I'll try fishing." He said walking outside not giving Daley any chances to argue. She looked up and Nathan.
He gave her a faint smile. "Jackson's right, we'll be fine…" He said following him out.
Soon Lex and Daley were the only two left in the tent. Daley stood up and walked over to Lex and sat down beside him. She looked around at everything he had placed neatly in front of him then looked over at him. She was confused on how it was going to go together and how it was going to work.
"So how exactly is this going to work?" She asked shyly feeling a little dumb for having to ask her little brother that question.
"Well we'll take the cloth…"
"Wait…" Daley interrupted. "Where did all this cloth come from?"
"I cut up some of my shirts, don't get mad, I only cut up three, I still have seven and I only really need four." He said looking over at his sister. "So we take this long piece of cloth that I sewed together and wrap her leg up from her knees down to her toes, so that it won't be uncomfortable for her to wear this thing for up to eight weeks, then we wrap the ace bandage around her ankle and a couple inches above it to give it a little bit more support."
"Alright." Daley said interrupting him again. "Let's do that then you can explain the rest."
"Ok." Lex said nodding.
They carefully adjusted her ankle so that it was straight then they slowly put the first piece of cloth on and then the ace bandage. Lex grabbed one half of the stick with all the cloth on it and put it under her foot. The longer stick came down an inch below her knee. Lex slightly smiled and nodded. This is actually going to work. He thought as he explained to Daley that they needed to sew the biggest piece of clothe to the other half and make sure it would be tight around her ankle. Once the was finished he cut the slightly thinner short sticks and put them under her foot in the holes he drilled to keep her foot from falling through. One on her hill, and one on the ball of her foot. He tied them to the support stick on each side with twine for extra support. The rest was jut tying and sewing the rest of the cloth tightly around her leg and tying three veins around her leg and one around her foot for some extra support and to make sure it was around her leg tight so he foot or leg couldn't move.
Daley smiled at Lex as she looked over the splint. "This is really good Lex."
"Thanks, I'm going to help Melissa, do you mind?" Lex asked looking over at her.
"No go ahead." She said zipping Taylor's sleeping back up and moving up by her head.
She checked her pulsed, breathing, air ways and temperature. Everything was better than what it was but not where it was suppose to be. At least it's some sign of improvement. She thought as she crossed her legs in front of her. She felt tears forming in her eyes and before she could stop them a slow steady stream of tears was falling down her cheeks. She brushed Taylor's hair from her face.
"Come on Taylor, you can fight through this. I know you can you just have to try and don't give up. We're all here trying to help you fight this but we don't know what else to do. I'm sorry I yelled at you, and for all those mean things I said. I didn't mean any of it." A small sob escaped her lips. "We're all here waiting for you to wake up. None of us are giving up on you. We know how strong you are Taylor and this…may be hard but you have us and we'll help anyway we can…just please fight…" Daley broke down into sobs. She whipped the tears from her cheeks but more just replaced them. God please help her fight this.
Keep holding on
'Cause you know we'll make it through, we'll make it through
Just stay strong
'Cause you know I'm here for you, I'm here for you
There's nothing you could say
Nothing you could do
There's no other way when it comes to the truth
So keep holding on
'Cause you know we'll make it through, we'll make it through
Jackson came up from the beach carrying the fishing line with four good sized fish hanging from the hooks. He didn't find much fruit but at least he caught some fish. He laid them down on one of the coolers and got a bottle of water from the bin. He took a long drink from it before sitting down beside Melissa. She didn't even seem to notice that he was there. She mindlessly poked the fire with a stick staring into the flames. He pushed the top back down on his water and sat it down on the sand.
"Hey…" He said softly.
Melissa quickly turned her head towards him. "Oh hey…" She said without her normal welcoming smile.
"Have you heard anything about Taylor?"
"No, Nathan took some hot water in their about thirty minutes ago and he said that she is doing a little better but she hasn't shown any sign she was waking up…" She said looking back down at the fire. "Do you think she's going to be ok?" She asked scared that he would say no.
Jackson looked at the fire. "Yeah, she'll be fine. She wouldn't be alive if she wasn't a fighter. She's not going to give up now…" Jackson said with a faint smile.
Daley walked out of the tent; her eyes were still red with tears. She seen the fish piled on the cooler and looked over at Jackson and Melissa. She looked around for Lex and seen that he was sitting over by the tree line braiding veins. She sighed and walked towards Melissa and Jackson.
"Jackson, can you take over for a while?" Daley asked softly.
Jackson looked up at her and nodded. "Sure…" He gave Melissa a slight smile and put his hand on her knee. "Don't worry Mel, she'll be ok."
Melissa slowly nodded. "I can't help but to worry."
Jackson nodded. "I know." He said before standing up.
He stepped around Daley and walked inside the tent. Everyone was doing their jobs, and helping with other jobs when they were done. Nathan gathered enough water and filled enough bottles to keep Taylor warm and for them to have enough to drink for three days. He also brought two extra jugs up so if Taylor needed more water all they had to do was boil it. After he checked on Taylor he left to go help Eric. The sun was beginning to set and Taylor was still showing no sign that she was going to wake up. She hadn't even thought about how everyone was going to sleep without hurting Taylor or how they were going to work out schedules for who stayed up to look over her. She shook her head. If need be we will all sleep outside, not that any of us will be able to sleep.
Jackson sat in the corner of the tent staring at Taylor for any sign of movement. He sighed and laid his chin on his knees. He couldn't stand sitting around waiting for something to happen but what other choice did they have. Jackson looked at his watch; it'd been five hours since they gave her the aspirin and even then it was only one pill. He grabbed the coconut shell and poured some wanted in it then got the aspirin he waited until it had dissolved completely before he grabbed the cap he use earlier. He done everything just as he did before but this time he got a different reaction. Taylor began coughing and her eyes opened. She spit what little bit he poured in her mouth and looked around when she seen Jackson she stared at him for a moment. Her eyes were slowly closing but then she would quickly open them again.
Keep holding on
Keep holding on
"What are you doing trying to poison me or something?" She asked her voice was weak and barley above a whisper. She pulled her hand out of the sleeping bag and whipped her mouth of. "Or suffocate me…what's on my foot?"
Jackson laughed and shook his head. "You missed a lot while you were out, how do you feel?"
She shrugged. "Weak, nauseous, dizzy, sick…my whole body hurts, my ankle is killing me but I'll live…How is Daley doing?"
Jackson smiled. "She's fine, she's right outside…you done really good Tay, and you probably saved her life and yours." He said grabbing her hand and giving it a slight squeeze.
"Since when do you call me Tay?" She said
Jackson smiled and shrugged. Taylor faintly smiled and grabbed a bottle of water. Jackson helped her hold her head up so she could take a drink. Once she was done he laid her back down on the pillow.
"Is she still mad at me?" Taylor asked skittishly
Jackson shook his head. "I don't think she was mad at you in the first place. Can you stay up long enough for me to go get everyone?"
Taylor slowly nodded. "Yeah…"
Jackson smiled. "Alright."
He let go of her hand and stood up. He walked outside and looked around at everyone. They were all sitting around the camp fire accept for Daley who was still cleaning and preparing the fish. He took a couple steps towards the fire pit.
"Hey everyone, Taylor's awake!" He said.
Everyone's head turned towards with them all of them with a bright smile on their face. They all stood up and rushed towards the tent but once they got there they slowly climbed in one by one to see her. Jackson was the last to walk in. He stood in the corner while everyone surrounded her. He was shocked that everyone didn't start asking a million questions but right now they were all probably just happy to see that she was alive and awake. Daley was sitting on the far side of her. Daley smiled at her and put her hand on her wrist.
"I'm sorry Taylor, for everything I did and said to you the other day. You didn't deserve it and none of it is true." Daley said as tears began to fall down her cheek once again.
Taylor smiled and reached into her pocket with her other hand and slowly pulled it out. She laid her arm across her chest and turned her hand over. Daley looked down at her hand, her mouth dropped when she seen her family portrait in her hand.
"I found it the morning I left…it somehow got in my sleeping bag. I was too scared to give it to you because I thought you might think that I took it on purpose." Taylor said dozing off back to sleep. She woke her self back up and faintly smiled at her.
"Thank you Taylor, for everything." Daley said smiling through her tears.
"You would have done the same thing for me…actually all of you done way better…you guys saved my life. Thank you, I love you guys." She said slowly.
Finally the weakness won her over and she slowly fell asleep. One by one they all replied.
"I love you too."
There's nothing you could say
Nothing you could do
There's no other way when it comes to the truth
So keep holding on
'Cause you know we'll make it through, we'll make it through
The End