FAIT ACCOMPLI

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Honey stumbles out of the smoke-breathing tunnel where the carnage of the tram remains. She pants and holds her right wrist in absolute agony. Weakly being held in her left hand is her mobile phone. The pain is intolerable. She lets out a massive scream before dropping her phone on the tram track. The phone smashes.

Suddenly, Honey sees the dancing of flames arise from a car - it's the car containing Jamie and Elaine.

"Oh my God." She says, before limping over to the ignited vehicle. She peers into the car and sees the pair hanging from the ceiling, blood dripping from their faces. Immediately searching for a pulse, Honey feels the intense heat of the flames. She finds a pulse on Jamie. She goes round to the other side and frantically searches for a pulse on Elaine. There's nothing.

"No. Oh, no, please, no..." A tear streams from Honey's face, realising the young girl has passed away. She looks back up at the top of the car - and by this time the flames have engulfed the majority of the car. It's make or break time - she either saves a young, innocent female with little chance of survival or a young male with a weak pulse, who has a greater survival rate.

"I need to get him out." Mutters Honey under her breath. She limps back to Jamie's side of the car and without thinking undoes his seat belt. He free falls to the overturned roof of the car. She then drags him by his right hand out of the vehicle. Glass impales his back as he is dragged. Jamie's in a critical condition. She continues to drag the young boy further and further away from the car, until...

Like a firework, the car abruptly explodes. Flames grow further and further up into the sky, turning the surrounding scenery a luminous yellow. Honey is thrown to the floor as the power of the explosion hits her. The flames dissolve in the sky, and the car remains consumed by the burning red-yellow flames. Another weak explosion occurs. The car continues to burn vigorously.

Honey looks over her shoulder and sobs uncontrollably, as the realisation the young girl's life is completely over. Blown to smithereens. Nothing left but the good times, the happy memories, the photographs.

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