She reached for the cracked phone, cursing the fact that the small object had been thrown around and now lay in the cup holder away from her. The glass in her stomach shifted at her movement, scraping in and out ad making her cry out in pain.

"Yasu it hurts!" She didn't want to move, she didn't want to feel this horrible pain anymore!

"Please...Mai please..." Now she had to do it. She had to fight for her life and had to live with the pain as she fought because he said please. Yasu knew that was her weakness. She pushed the burning pain in her to the back of her head. This was nothing compared to the horror of third year essays. She stretched her fingers further and let out a gasp of relief when she drew her hand back with the phone clutched in her trembling fingers. She quickly dialed the familiar numbers and waited for someone to answer.

"119 What's your emergency?" A male voice echoed through the tiny speaker and she almost cried out in joy.

"I'm in a car that just flew off a cliff and I'm pinned to the seat by a piece of glass going through my stomach." She spoke quickly and waited to see how the operator would react.

"Oh. Well then tell me about yourself while we trace your phone. We'll have people on their way in minutes." Sighing with relief she began to speak.

"My best friend Yasuhara Omasu and I were on our way to visit my parents before we had to head towards the airport in the morning for England. We had both been accepted into Cambridge. On the way there we got caught in a storm. We pulled over near a cliff but right next to the side of a mountain so there would be less of a chance that we would be blown off." The memory flashed in her head.

~x-X-x~

"Yasu what should we do?" He shrugged as he pulled onto the side of the road. The car was small, only able to hold two people and some luggage. The had been heading around a curve when the storm hit, causing the edge of the cliff to cause a sense of unease to strike the girl's heart. A boy with black hair that fell into his eyes and thin wire glasses turned to look at his female companion. She had brown hair cut to her shoulders and warm brown eyes.

"I don't know what we can do Mai. For now we'll wait out the storm and hope that nothing horrible happens." He paused before turning to look at his friend. "We could review some more before we head over to England. I know you're nervous about the whole English speaking thing." She smiled, wondering how he could cheer her up with just a couple of words. Then again, he had always been able to do that. She blamed the fact that he was gay.

"Alright! What should we talk about though?" They switched from Japanese to English smoothly, barely registering in their heads the storm outside the car. Lightening flashed and the car shook from the thunderous boom that punctuated the sentence.

"Well tell me about your major. I heard that you were going to Cambridge to study the effects of-" He was cut off by a rumbling sound. He turned to look at Mai only to find her staring with wide eyes at him, looking much like a scared doe.

"What was that?!" They both searched for the sound that was growing louder. Then Mai sucked in a breath and he turned to see what had caused the sound to escape her. She was staring out the window up at the mountain. He went to unbuckle his seatbelt to lean over and look out her window when she began to scramble to put hers on.

"Mai what's wrong?" She didn't answer, simply reached over and buckled him back in, grasping his hand tightly before looking into his eyes and whispering,

"Landslide." It was then that the rush of rocks, mud and trees hit the car, causing them to be pushed towards the edge of the cliff.

They were going to die.

~x-X-x~

"Wow that's one great story kid. How about you tell me about you now?" She nodded even though he couldn't see her.

"My name is Taniyama Mai and I just turned 21 years old. I'm an orphan and I worked three jobs all through-" She was interrupted by a pain in her chest as she began to cough. Something metallic tasting melted into her mouth and she spat the substance out, freezing when she noticed that instead of shooting out like spit normally does, it dribbled and slowly fell down her chin. It was blood.

"Taniyama-San?" Chuckling she turned back to the phone.

"Please call me Mai, after all you may just be the last person I ever talk to before I die." The phone was silent for a minute before the voice came back.

"Hey kid, I'm sending the best team I could find out to ya. My fiance is even on the team and she's the best Paramedic around okay? Her partner John is pretty good too. Lin and Kazuya are heading on their way in a helicopter and they're gonna pull you out. My girl would kill me if you were dead when she got there. Besides, you can't die yet, I want to meet you."

~x-X-x~

Hosho Takigawa was a simple man. He had a job saving people's lives, a woman he loved, and a musical talent. Needless to say that when he got a call from a girl who survived being thrown off a cliff he decided that he would work overtime today.

"Ayako. I need you to head to this area and look for a landslide. A girl who just turned 21 survived and is waiting in her car in the crevice that the landslide pushed her into. She had a piece of glass embedded into her stomach so I'm sending Lin in with a helicopter, Kazuya is going with him." He hung up on the girl of his dreams and then went back to the girl who was fighting for her life.

"So tell me about your surroundings. I want to see if there's anything there that could be used as medical equipment." He waited as Mai moved around and cried out and gasped in pain multiple times. When she came back on to tell him that there was a bunch of cloth in the backseat as well as a pack of matches and .some candles that had survived, her voice was raspy and laced with pain.

"Good job Mai, now I'm telling you right now that the helicopter should be there soon so hold on okay?" He waited for a replay and when he didn't hear anything he panicked.

"Mai?!"

"Operator-San? The helicopter is here."

And here's a new story! This one is probably going to make a bunch of you hate me for doing that to Mai and Yasu but I couldn't resist! I'll make it up to you with a bunch of fluff though so don't worry!

What do you guys think? Is it good? Does Mai sound panic-y enough? Were you surprised that I made Yasu gay?

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Until next time my faithful readers!