AN: So I hope nobody minds but this is another chapter back with the group that was not on the plane. It will probably be pretty long so get ready to read. I would love to hear if you enjoy how I'm writing it or not. What do you think about Alex's roll in this?"
Chapter 8
Marks POV
With everyone sitting around the table, Callie, Alex and Jeff watching him Mark stands at the head of the table to pitch his idea. "Well it does not seem like we will be reviving any help from those people, so I say we do it ourselves. A friend of mine is an aviation mechanic. I am sure he would let me barrow one is I found a pilot. Everyone looks at him with mouths gapping open in shock.
Alex breaks he silence. "No need to find a one, I can drive a helicopter, I have a license too." That surprised them all too. How much did they not know about Alex Karav? Mark decides to move on. "Ok great we will follow you directions out to look for our doctors. We will need someone here to watch the kids, someone to navigate our flight so we don't hit other planes or get lost ourselves and maybe one more person to come along to help. We also have to keep this secret so no one tries to drive stop us. They all nod.
Callie no longer looks like she will die of grief, she looks determined to save her wife. I am sure Bailey would be willing to watch the girls. You could tell her that I am having a really tuff time and that you needed to just focus on me." "Yes, that's perfect." Mark paces around the room. "If you get me the equipment I can do the navigation thing, I took a class on it in collage. We just have to make sure nobody knows I helped you, good or bad outcome, I could get fired." "Our lips are sealed."
Mark turns to Alex for the last answer. "Ah, I guess we could bring April." Yah, she will work. Everyone go work on your jobs. Jeff you need to choose a private place here in the hospital to set up you station. Maybe a janitor closet or my office. When you have found it drive to 'Coops air craft repair.' Alex you find April and get her on board. Get medical supplies from bandages to suture kits to stuff to splint broken bones. We don't know what we will find out there. You also should meet us at Coops and we will take off there. Ok everyone lets get going."
They all go their separate ways except for Mark and Callie. He would never leave his best friend when she was hurt so deeply. Their first stop is to give the children to Bailey. They find her standing next to the nurse's station in her everyday cloth; Tucker and Ben are standing next to her. Callie grabs Marks hand again; with the other she clutches a sleeping Sophia and puts on a blank face. She is confident that her eyes were still red from crying and that her makeup was streaked with tears. She urges herself not to feel bad about what she was doing, it was for a great cause." They approach Bailey ready to beg if they needed to.
"Bailey, I bet you heard the news." Bailey turns to see Mark holding a very tearful and distant looking Callie's hand. "Yes, of course I heard. Is their anything I can do for you to make this a little easier?" The short woman is pained when she sees lone tear slip down Callie's expressionless face. "Oh, I don't know. I am trying to get her home. She has had a really tuff time. I want to just get her to bed so she can rest." Mark puts Zola on the ground and moves to have his arm around Callie's shoulder. Baileys heart breaks for the two. "How about Ben and I take the kids for tonight? You just focus on her." Bailey touch's Callie's arm softy to show support and Callie gives her a look of pain. "Oh thank you, this will make life a million times easier!" Ben reaches down and scoops up Zola. "If you guys need anything else, Miranda and I would be happy to do it. Just give us a call." "Oh thanks." Mark carefully removes Sophia from Callie's arms, pretending Callie is so fragile she may lose it if anything else she loves gets taken away from her. Bailey reaches out for the small child and cradles her in a hug. "I just want to thank you again, you don't know how much of a help this is. To tell you the truth I am a little scared, I have never seen her like this before." The couple in front of him reassures them that it is their pleasure. Mark turns to Callie talking slowly and close to her face. "Come of Cal, we are going to go home now." He walks with his arm around her shoulder down the hallway.
When they get outside they drop the act "The car is over here let's go." They hop in the car and drive fast toward the place Marks friend works. Mark calls his friend while he drives. "Hey Cooper, it's Mark. I know it's been a while. Sorry it's so late, are you still at the shop?" Great, do you think you could do me a favor? Do you have a helicopter of something that can hold about ten people? Yes. Ok thanks you so much. I owe you bug time!" Mark hangs up the phone.
"Cooper will have it ready when we get there." "Great, but will how dark it is be a problem when we are searching?" Callie asks courously. "It may be a struggle but we will be very thorough." They pull up to a huge garage that is very lit. "I will go talk to Coop. You call Alex and see if they are on their way."
Right then a car pulls in next to them. They see Jeff in the driver seat. "Hey I came as fast as I could. I also saw Alex with a red head and they said they would be on there way shortly." "Great then you two should come with me so that we can get instructions from Coop. They both move to get out of the cars and follow Mark.
When they walk in the open door of a garage they see huge helicopter and a plane and other forms of transportation they could not identify. Just then a middle aged me with black hair comes out of an office built into the wall and hugs Mark. "Hey, it has been so long what have you been up to over the years?" Well not to much, you know just being a doctor and all." Behind him a blond woman walks out form the same office. Mark looks surprised. "You married Charlotte? Wow I did not see that one coming." Mark hugs Charlotte also. "Long time no see. Now aren't you gunna to introduce us to you little friends?" She says I a thick country accent. "Oh yah this is Callie, my best friend I think I have talked to you about her before and this is Jeff, he is a police officer trying to help me."
A big smile crosses Coops face, which confuses Callie. "First off I don't want to hear what crazy plan you are coming up with Mark, so if you get in trouble I don't. Second I do remember you talking about Callie about four or five years ago. But it didn't seem like you were just friends." Callie thinks back to here residency when Mark and her were not only friends. She could understand why this stranger would think differently about their relationship.
Mark narrows his eyes at his friend to signal for him to stop this conversation. "Yes but now we are just best friends. She is married and I kind of have a girlfriend. So how about you show us the helicopter we are going to use." "Ok it's over here." Cooper walks out of the garage and onto a flat piece of land covered in grass. There is a huge helicopter, bigger then any one they had ever seen. It was a dark shade of green. "So this design is special, its back opens full into a ramp. Do you think it will work?" "Of course thanks you so much!" "No problem! Now come on Char we do not want to see what they are doing with this plane." They both wave as they walk back towards they garage they came from.
All three of them explore the helicopter. It is tall so everyone can stand up when they are in it and the back is completely open for the exception of bench seats along the wall. This will be perfect for all of the injured doctors to sit in. At the front there is a closed off pilot seat and room for a copilot. There are so many buttons and switches they all pray that Alex knew what he had signed up for.
Just as they are all making there way out of the plane a car driving really fast pulls next to them and April and Alex hope out. "Great, you're here. Alex you should go check out the helicopter, we will unload all of the supplies." Alex nods and heads off. Callie, Mark, Jeff and April load arm full of medical supplies into the back of the helicopter. Once they are done they get ready for take off. Jeff hops off of the plane. "Good luck guys, I will be able to talk to you the whole time threw this speaker once I get back to the hospital." The door in the back pulls up once he is out and the count down begins.
Alex is in the driver seat, Mark is sitting copilot next to him and Callie and April are in the back. They take off smoothly and make their journey to one of the palaces Alex thought they could have crashed. When they are over a thick forest Alex brings the plane down closer to the treetops where it was easier to see threw the foliage. If you look hard it is possible to see the ground.
After two hours of craning their eyes for any sight of a crashed plane they start to leave the heavily wooded area and enter one with roads. It is about four in the morning. "I think I will turn back and start heading toward the second place I thought they may be. It takes them twenty minutes to fly to the next location. Callie and April sit in the back of the helicopter setting up supplies for when they finally rescue their friends. The once hard floor is now covered in soft blankets for people to sit on. "I think they are around here. This may sound crazy but I think I can feel it. I can feel that this is the place." Callie says in a soft voice to April. "I feel it to. I think we will have luck here." The entire crew looks out of the windows, silently hoping that their prayers would be answered. Sure enough when they are losing hope once again the light from the helicopters headlights reflects off of something on the ground catching the attention of everyone.
AN: So I was right this chapter was a long one. What did you think of Marks new plan? Did you like the size of this chapter and think I should always have them this long or should I keep them short like I did in the past? I probably won't have any chapters as long as this one except maybe the next. It think it will be long to.