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| With a whispered 'I love you', Rick slowly closed his eyes and collapsed against Evelyn. She gasped and caught him, holding onto him tightly. Evie began to cry, shaking her husband in her arms. "Rick...O'Connell, this isn't funny..." Evie choked out. "Rick open your damned eyes!!!" But he lay there...unmoving...not blinking...just laying there limp. And Evie then realized she and Alex were alone... ...now a widow and now a single mother... Desiree ([email protected]) May 3, 2002 Jonathan just sat there, staring at Gabrielle. But wait a second, was her chest moving? Was she breathing!? "Gabrielle! Gabrielle! Are you OK?! Please!" Jonathan screamed out as he heard her moan in pain. "Jonathan?" Gabrielle mumbled weakly. Nefret just gazed on in wonder when Jonathan started screaming in his language at the dead girl on the ground, and then she heard it too. Gabrielle had groaned! "She's alive! She's alive!" Jonathan started cradling and hugging the pained Gabrielle. "Oh, God. I thought I'd lost you." Nefret walked over to Jonathan and Gabrielle; she knelt down to inspect the wound. The girl was hurt, bad. Jonathan finally calmed down and came to his senses. "We need to get her to a hospital." Nefret had heard Jonathan speak, but she didn't know what he had said. Olympus then walked up behind them, and he scooped Gabrielle up into his arms. "Hey, what are you doing?" "She needs help, her wound is deep." Olympus started walking away from the city, and on to his home. Jonathan didn't want to leave Evie, but he had to stay with Gabrielle. Later, in Olympus's home, while Nefret was seeing to Gabrielle's wounds, Olympus and Jonathan were in a deep conversation. "You really love her? ...And she loves you?" "Yes, by God. I do love her. I love her more than, than, anything! Oh I don't know how to express this feeling, but I do know that she feels it too. I've seen it in her eyes." As much as it hurt him to say this, Olympus said, "I love her, too, but she does not love me. At least not like I want her to. So, I wish you both happiness, if she..." he couldn't finish the sentence, but Jonathan knew what the rest of the sentence was "...if she lives." He couldn't, wouldn't think of that. Gabrielle couldn't die, she couldn't leave him! Just then, Nefret walked into the room and started talking to Olympus in their language. "What? What's she saying?" "She says that Gabrielle is beyond her medical abilities." Olympus's words were heavy and slow with sorrow. "Then, we must get her to my time! We must get her to a doctor! Here let's go!" And they did. As soon as Olympus had translated to Nefret, they were on their way, Jonathan holding Gabrielle, to the tunnel before it could close. Nefret knew Jonathan couldn't do it alone, and she knew that she was the one who had to go with him. Nefret told Olympus of her plan, and she told him to tell the O�Connells and Ardeth where Jonathan, she, and Gabrielle had gone. As soon as Olympus started to turn away, Jonathan asked, "Hey, where's he going? Hey!" Nefret had started to pull on Jonathan's arm, and he ended up almost dropping Gabrielle. Nefret gave Jonathan a look that said to hurry, and Jonathan understood, she was coming with him through the tunnel. Milo ([email protected]) May 6, 2002 Jonathan hardly slept at all, in fact he didn't even want to sleep at all, but Nefret (after seeing him almost drop Gabrielle several times) persuaded him to take a rest. They had made it far from the tunnel, but in the whole picture they were hardly to civilization at all. They were in a small cavern now, big enough to have a fireplace and three bed mats not too close together. Nefret had already drifted off, and Jonathan was snoring slightly as he leaned against the cavern wall near Gabrielle's sleeping body. Or at least where Gabrielle's sleeping body had been minutes before. Now she was sitting up by the fire, wrapping her wound in her stomach with great pain. She had ripped the fabric from the bottom of her pants and was wrapping the white fabric, now turning red with blood, as many times as she could around her waist, knotting it off tightly when she ran out of fabric. After finishing her wound-tending she stood up and fetched her sais from a bag Jonathan had been carrying and snapped them in their place at her boots. She had to catch her breath a bit before she moved anymore and was about to wake Nefret when she turned around to see that the woman was already awake. "Nefret." Gabrielle gasped, startled a bit by the woman's standing presence. Nefret wasn't too tall, but she was much taller than Gabrielle's short stature. Gabrielle looked up into Nefret's Egyptian eyes similar to her own. "I have to go back and help the O'Connells-" She started. Nefret had not known that Gabrielle could speak her language and English both. She shrugged it aside, thinking that Olympus must have educated the girl in several languages. She replied in a simple, "No Gabrielle." "Nefret I have to. It's not in me to run from a fight." "You are wounded." |