Astrid POV

The car slowly rolled to a halt. I wasn't sure exactly where we were at but it was by the mine shaft or what was left of the mine shaft now there was only a pile of rubble with the dust still rising. Whatever had happened had happened very soon.

I then remembered why I was there. I was there for Sam. I quickly scanned the area and saw the group of soot covered survivors. My body sprang into action and I was suddenly with those survivors. Everyone seemed to be okay they still had a lot of blood on them but no wounds. Lana must have healed them already. But I only had eyes for the last one who was still on the ground, covered in blood and still bleeding, and was moaning in pain. Sam.

He looked like shit. Well that is the best way to describe it I'm not one to swear but that's the first thing that came to mind. It looked like he had gone through hell had resurrected and then through an explosion only worse. His face, well the little bit you could see that wasn't covered in blood, was as pale and white as sour cream. His hair looked like he had just got out of the shower but instead of water it was blood and sweat. His face was twisted up in agony and wasn't really focusing on anything in particular just the pain that was consuming him. Oh my gosh Sam! He's going to die. How can someone survive an ordeal like that I don't even know what he's gone through just that there's blood EVERYWHERE. He should have bleed out by now. I mean you can bleed out from breaking your femur bone in less then a minute how could he still be alive? A person can die instantly from all sorts of things an explosion, the effects of a heart attack not the heart attack itself as everyone assumes it's the after effects that kill them. Because when the heart stopped so did blood flow and then that caused other systems to malfunction...

Astrid! Pay attention to what's happening now! You need to help Sam not start freaking out and going all smart ass. Lana was still healing him but it didn't seem to be helping him at all he was still screaming in agony but he was conscience. He opened his eyes and seemed to realize the world around him not his pain filled one. His eyes then rested on me. I looked deeply in his eyes with so much concern and all I could say was... Sam.

He held my eyes for a second and seemed to try and say something but then his body writhed in agony. His back arched and it looked like he had been shocked by emergency shock pedals like you see on TV. But this was real. His body seemed to give up then and it fell back to the earth with a small thump that seemed to echo all across the desert. His eyes weren't open and he no longer made any movement.

Lana started yelling. I couldn't hear her though. I couldn't believe Sam was dead he couldn't be dead he was always here he was everything he was just there and he couldn't be gone it just couldn't be possible. Sam. Sam. Not Sam not Sam it just couldn't be Sam.

I stood there in stunned silence for who knows how long until Edilio brought me back to earth with a slap to the face.
"Do something!" he screamed at me.
"I don't know. He can't be dead. He just can't be!" I screamed at myself.
"Pull yourself together, Astrid, do you know CPR. We could still save him there is still hope you just have to help. Think," Edilio said in a panicked but calm voice. Yes there could still be hope they can bring people back using CPR all the time and electric shocks. There have been people dead for four hours and they still brought them back. I can do this. I can do this. I must save Sam. I must Save Sam's life everyone is depending on me.

I knelt down beside Sam's still body. It seemed so still but there was still hope. Lana had left his side as soon as he stopped breathing she seemed not to care in her own little world while Sam was DYING! I tried to remember my CPR training and got to work fast. Check pulse. Nothing. Tilt head back. Plug nose and breathe. I saw his chest rise and fall but then nothing else. I breathed again. Still nothing. Next do fifteen chest depressions. I slammed my fist right on his heart and still nothing. My eyes were blurring from tears but I still kept going one breathe another and chest depressions until I felt I couldn't any longer.

Then Edilio pushed me out of the way and took over.
"I think I got it from here Astrid. You were a big help," he said to me as I moved out of the way and sat on Sam's other side still not believing. Edilio gave another breathe and a few chest depressions then something I never thought possible happened. Sam coughed and coughed again. He opened his eyes and took a deep breathe and coughed again. Then he couldn't stop coughing he just couldn't stop then blood started coming with the coughs. He was a lot worse then I first imagined but at lest he's alive. He's alive!

Lana seemed to come out of her world and realized that Sam was back with the living and continued healing him but in his chest area now getting covered in blood during the process. Sam's coughs eventually subsided and he drifted off into a fevered haze. I sat there with him as Lana healed him laying his head in my lap. Murmuring to him all sorts of things knowing he couldn't hear me but knowing that if I didn't do something anything I would drive myself mad. The best thing I could do right now was just be with Sam so then just in case if something happened I would be there not that anything would happen of course. The worst should be over, shouldn't it?