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Chapter 12

SPOV

Dan beamed his flashlight in front of us as we walked up a never ending tunnel. After a minute or two there was a light ahead. This was not the first time I had walked down this tunnel. How these people managed to walk in the dark tunnels without a light was still a mystery to me. I talked to Amy the whole telling her about the cave system and anything I hadn't hit on already.

"Why is Alex so tired?" she asked.

"Well, Dan and I sorta fell asleep, but he stayed up the entire time waiting for you to wake up." She had no response for that and looked a bit embarrassed and just stared ahead. I remembered and had a stab of jealousy the way Alex took care of Amy.

"Alex, she'll be okay trust me on this one"

"It's all my fault Sandra if I hadn't been so stupid she would be bouncing around just as you are."

"Alex you have to eat something"

"Go away Dan. I'll eat later."

"At least get some rest."

"Not until she wakes up."

He had sat by Amy's bedside all morning and afternoon. Ah Alex I wish I had a brother like you. Well he was my brother, but not completely. But, I had Dan. I sighed. What would I do without Dan?

I looked ahead. There was light shining through. Finally! We had passed no one. Thank God! Because if we had they would have probably stopped and asked nosy questions and delayed us or insist one helping us find the way. Which I think, we would know by now from walking down it the hundredth time today. I thought sourly.

I walked into the mess hall or whatever it was. I bounded into the kitchen. I was overjoyed to see that Trudy was still cleaning up from lunch and planning dinner. She looked up when she saw me

"Can I help you?" she asked pleasantly.

I put on my best smile. "Yes you could. Amy is awake and I was wondering if there was anything you had anything for her to eat."

"I think so," she said looking past my shoulder to Amy, "But I'm afraid it's not very much."

"Anything is fine" piped up Amy from behind me.

Trudy continued on talking to Amy while she ruffled through cabinets hunting for food "You gave you're family quite a scare with all your injuries there sweetie, but Doc fixed you up fine I hope." She looked up momentarily to see Amy nod before going on. "I hope you like it here in the caves. You were lucky when we found you all in our, well I guess you could call it our 'parking garage.' The others had just come back from a raid and Geoffrey and I were assigned to take the van back. Well, there!"

She had piled some left over rolls, cold soup and meat on to a tray and handed it to Amy.

'Thank you" she said before we left the room.

"Where are you going I asked her?" I asked Amy when she walked right past the tables and counters.

"I'm taking this food to Dan."

"Aren't you going to eat it?"

"No. And if he asks say I already ate"

I rolled my eyes. There would be no talking her out of it. Dan came up to me and grabbed my hand.

"You know I hate it when you do that," he said.

"Do what?"

"Charm people. You bound into a place with your dark curly hair flying and then you stare at them with dark puppy brown eyes, but on a perfect smile and say 'Oh please.' He said mimicking me. I laughed. He switched on the light as we entered again into the tunnel.

"Hey guys?" Amy asked as we were devoured by darkness. "No turning off the light and making out ok? I want to get to the other end with out being mentally scared for life."

Why did I tell her about Dan kissing me again? Oh yeah, I can't keep secrets.

A/N: I liked this chapter because it has Sandra in it. Review please. Consider it an early Christmas present.