Shana looked at him surprised and asked, "What?! What the devil happened?!"

William chucks his bag down and says, "Looks like a helicopter got shot down."

They all put our shoes and socks on, William smiles at Clelia. William says, "Hi, Miss. Who are you?"

Shana grabs his jacket and says, "We'll tell you later, let's go!" She looks at Clelia. "Clelia call the ambulance and don't worry about the fire brigade, we put it out with snow if it hasn't done so already. We got a phone in the basement; the door is under the mat in the mediation room."

Shana then runs out with the others, Clelia raises an eyebrow. Thinking in surprise, "They have a basement?!"

Clelia runs to the mediation room and throws back the rug, to see a door on the floor. Clelia opens it, pulling hard. Its really quite heavy and drops it back against the hardwood floor. Clelia sees steps leading down into the basement and she runs down, her jaw drops. In the basement is all these guns against the wall, spike knuckled trench knifes, swords a massive computer station with a phone on it and a locker. Clelia picks up the phone and calls the ambulance, asking them to come to near the ridge, to the road closer to there. That there's been a helicopter crash; they say they'll be there in fifteen minutes.

The operator says, "I'll get the fire brigade to come too, to investigate the scene. Ones they've taken the casualties. Do you know how many there are?"

Clelia says, "No, I haven't been to the actual site myself."

The operator says, "Well, they'll be there soon. Bye."

Clelia says, "Bye."

Clelia then runs out of the basement shutting the door and putting the rug back on, knowing they must like it private for a reason. Then she runs outside, Clelia sees no smoke. Thinking, "They must have put it out already."

Cleilia runs down towards the ridge of the mountain and sees a big thing covered up on the way. "I wonder what else they've got in this place I don't know about."

Clelia swishes her red hair in a ponytail back around and continues running, she stops at the bottom of their steps. To find they've made it up to the road already with two stretchers they obviously made from the wild, with two burnt people on them. One of them dead, his eyes are closed and it's obvious he's dead. The hole in his stomach with a helicopter piece sticking out of it and the bloods not flowing.

Clelia says, "You can put them down here, the ambulance and the fire brigade are coming up this road."

Sean and Snake-eyes put down the dead man; Clelia goes over to him looking at his chest not moving. Tears start escaping down her cheeks, Snake-eyes goes over to Clelia and turns her around. Clelia feels him put his arm around her and give her shoulder a gentle squeeze, Clelia looks at him and he mouths, "You alright?"

Clelia nods letting the tears fall.

He mouths, "Is this the first time you've seen death?"

Clelia says, "No, never."

Shana says from behind her, "It'll be okay Cecilia, lest this guy here. What's your name again?"

Clelia turns around and the other guy on the stretcher coughs and says, "Jamie. My names Jamie Whale, i was flying with my buddy here for a holiday to my mountain retreat when the engine went down." He starts into a fit of coughs again.

Shana rubs his shoulder and says, "It'll be alright buddy, we'll get you to the hospital soon enough."

Shana looks around and says, "Snake-eyes do you see the fire or ambulance yet?"

Snake-eyes look down the road and shakes his head.

Clelia says, "It'll take fifteen minutes from the time I called, they said fifteen minutes then."

Thomas says, "Well, good. I think I see them now coming up the road now."

The sirens can be heard as they can be seen coming up the road.

Shana says to Jamie, "It's going to be alright. You and your buddy will be at the hospital soon."

The fire engine came and stopped near them, the ambulance still coming up behind and parking. Snake-eyes ran to the firemen and signed, they didn't understand most of it. Till he pointed to the path to the ridge at the bottom of the mountain, they nodded and walked off that way. The man who is dead made them startled; they looked down at him and shook their heads in sadness. The ambulance people had parked their vehicle back facing out and they ran over with their medical supplies and looked down at the injured Jamie. The ambos got down and medicated the guy since the pain of the burns is troubling him; they then put him on their stretcher and took him to the ambulance vehicle.

Jamie whispered something to the ambulance driver and the ambulance driver motioned everyone over, they came over. There Jamie had passed out from the anesthesia and the ambulance driver said, "The guy told me to thank you all for helping him and his buddy out. And I agree you did good, pity about the other guy. We better get him Charlie. Let's go."

They went and put the other guy in the other ambulance van that had just pulled up and their co-workers had opened the van doors for them. Both vans then took off with both men and then a police vehicle turned pulled up. The firemen came and greeted them and pointed to the path.

The stench of the fire and the mans burnt body still wafted in the air, making Clelia gag. She vomited on the road and Sean was suddenly by her side holding her hair for her. He says, "Don't worry I felt the same the first time after I had my first mission. Seeing all those dead men I had killed some of them, its hard to deal with Clelia."

Clelia looked at him, after wiping her mouth with a clean hankie he gave her. Clelia said, "Yeah, but you expect to see dead people because you're a soldier. I'm just a nanny."

Sean looked at her and asked, "Do you think that makes it an easier?"

Clelia said, "Yes."

Sean and the others gaped; Sean stormed off up the steps.

Clelia looked at the firemen and police officers talking about the helicopter crash, they then turned to Clelia and said, "Thank you, Ma'am for calling us." Then they looked at the others. "You guys are wonderful for taking out that fire and putting out those men and all. Looks like we'll need the guys engineer to come and look at his plane to see why the engine broke down. We can't help here anymore, bye folks."

They all said bye to the officers and firemen.

Shana then looked at Clelia and asked, "Why do you think it easy for us as soldiers to see dead people. Its not, I know you just saw your first dead person. But there's no reason to act like its hard for only you, imagine if you're a soldier and you had to see dead people all the time. It wouldn't be easy for you, would it?!"

Clelia felt like crying, she thought, "Why is Shana getting so mad at me?"

Clelia said, "But it would still be not a surprise to me, because I expected to see dead people as a soldier."

Shana went to talk, but Thomas put a hand on her arm and said to Clelia, "It isn't easy be a soldier and seeing your people die around you, it's just as hard for us. Even harder, because we are in a place we can also die. When we see our first dead person, it's just as hard as you seeing your first dead person today. Even if you didn't know you would see a dead person today. Okay, Clelia?"

Clelia nods and looks down feeling ashamed of the way she talked to Sean, she runs up the steps towards the garden at the front of the house to look for him there, when she hears something to the left of her in the forest. She goes in and walks in deeper into the forest till she founds Sean on a rock crying. Clelia thinks, "He's crying?!"

She walks over to him and gently touches him on the shoulder; he pulls away from her touch and wipes his tears away. Sean stands up and coldly stands not facing her, his hands balled into fists. Clelia thinks, "Gee's I've really got him angry."

Sean says, "Clelia, don't touch me. I don't think I could talk to you right now."

Clelia says, "Why? Sean I need to talk about this with you, why you wouldn't want me to at least to apologize. Because I'm sorry, I really am."

Sean turned around and walked to Clelia and stood right in front of her, looking like he wanted to touch her but didn't. Sean says, "You are sorry for saying it doesn't matter when I saw death for the first time because I'm a soldier, it's what I wanted!"

Clelia grabbed his arm and pulled him to her, saying as she holds him, "No, I never meant you wanted it. I never meant that, but I'm sorry if you thought I meant that and I'm sorry for saying it isn't hard for a soldier to see his first dead person, because death is part of your job. I'm so sorry. It was a mistake; I'm not good at relating to other adults."

Sean held Clelia tight and says, "I understand, you can't relate to me because I'm an adult and you've been hurt by adults. Your mother told me you were abused as a child, don't worry I understand my childhood wasn't perfect either. I lost my father at an early age, thanks to a terrorist group. I gained another father, but losing my father was still hard."

Clelia put her head against his chest and looked up into his eyes and then she said, "I'm sorry. Was that what you were crying about?"

Sean looked down into her eyes and sighed and then he says, "No, I was thinking of my buddies I lost on a mission that went wrong. I still miss them some times, if I hadn't come to your father to be an apprentice to him. I don't know if I would still be here."

Clelia felt sad now understanding his pain she caresses his cheek and says, "My mother told me about that. She never told me it affected you that bad though." Clelia kissed his cheek. "I'm glad you're here though, I'm glad you lived."

Sean held her up in his arms and swung her around; Clelia felt happy for the first time in ages and started laughing. Sean put her down and kissed her lips, then he parted gently from her lips and he says, "Mmm. I think you're beautiful too."

Clelia gently poked him on his flat stomach and she says, "Thanks, but I didn't call you beautiful. So you're getting a bit full yourself there."

Sean said, "Oh, really well we'll see about that uh."

Then Sean swung her body down and kissed her passionately, Clelia responding by holding her arms around his neck. She then kissed him back passionately, feeling his tongue in her mouth. She let her tongue swirl around his and then she heard, "Oh!"

Sean pulled her up quickly and they quickly part and look to see Shana there in between the trees from the same way Clelia had come looking surprised.