Exulansis #JustWriteIt #EarthLove

:-> 10

10 yrs later

"Get down!" I yelled to the girl across the room as parts of the building came crashing down brick by brick, blocking my path to reach her. Her eyes scurried her surroundings wildly, and I could hear her insides screaming out to me for help.

I reached by my side and reached for the communication device attached to my side. I pressed a button on the top and reached out to my team, asking if any of them were near the top floor which we were in. Unfortunately, all of them were on the first floor or outside. I guess everything's in my hands. I looked back at the girl and tears pooled down her face.

A large part of the ceiling was breaking apart right above her. I yelled at her to run but she was too frozen with shock to move. I made five wide steps backwards and ran towards her, with my hands crossed in front of my face, crashing into and successfully avoiding some of the obstacles in my way. The piece of ceiling crumbling down was merely two feet above the still shocked girl. I sped up, colliding into her and crashing us both onto the floor. I managed to roll us out of the way just in time.

"Aaaaaah!" a earsplitting scream emitted from me as the falling object came in contact with my left leg, crushing it. Pain shot through me and I counted the seconds before my foot would become completely immobilized.

I fumbled for a pocket knife at the back of my waistband and handed it to the shaken up girl. She stared at me in complete bewilderment, her hands going limp and the knife falling from it. She knelt before me and cupped my face with her hands, repeatedly asking if I was okay. I know people react differently to shock, but not now! We'll die if she continues like this.

I reached upwards and pulled on her blouse, dragging her down towards me. "Look," I gritted, "the building is tearing apart and we have less than a minute before everything comes crashing down on us. I need you to get a hold of yourself. Now take up that knife!" I commanded her, staring to my right, where she had dropped the knife.

She nodded and took it up with trembling fingers and was mumbling a pilestock of bull that didn't completely make sense. "Now," I swallowed, my throat going dry, "I want you to cut my leg right where that thing fell." She looked at me as if I was crazy, as if she didn't just hear right. I get that a lot , thank you.

"Do you wanna die?!" I barked angrily.

She scurried behind me, repeatedly mumbling "Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god".

I felt the knife slice through my flesh and I screamed out, my body washing with sweat. "Continue!" I barked, pain rocking my body left and right. Since my knife was extremely sharp, it wouldn't take her long to do it.

"There's so much bloeten (blood)!" She squealed terrified. "You'll probably blouet (bleed) to death." Her voice was laced with terror and fear. "Isn't there another way?" she asked.

"DO IT NOW!" I barked, enunciating each word.

The knife made an angry wound through my skin, pain riveting through me. My eyes were watery and my breathing came out in sharp, shallow rasps. Sweat dripped down the side of my face and covered my foreheard in a thin sheen.

The pain was so crippling, I didn't even noticed she had stopped cutting until she was kneeling in front of me, offering to help me up. "Let's drag you out of here," she said more calmly, with an outstretched hand. My stomach churned at the griping pain riveting through my body. Everything was so torturous but I squeezed my eyes hard, trying to shut out the pain.

"Oh how stupid of me," she scolded herself. "I didn't wrap it to slow the bloueten (bleeding)."

I grabbed her hand before she could move, and demanded through gritted teeth, "Get us out of here!"

She grabbed on to my hand, slinging it across her shoulder as she slowly helped me to drag my body up. We crawled our way to the edge of the top floor, trying our best to side step the fallen pieces of concrete. As we reached the edge of the floor, she placed me on the floor with my back leant against the wall leg and my right leg slinging over the edge. I dug into my pocket, searching for the rectangular communication device and pressed the button at the top.

"Supreme Commander here," I said, talking into the device.

"Number seven...four...thirteen here, over" came a string of responses, some I didn't hear or care to hear.

"I need a safety net at the side of the building," I instructed. "Myself and another victim are at the top floor with no way out except to jump," I told them. "And hurry!" I barked as a piece of wall crumbled nearby.

I heard her gasp and the fright was visible in her eyes. My eyes were lidded and my vision blurred. I blinked multiple times, trying to keep focused.

"Are you alright?" I heard her fading voice ask, lace with fear, as everything went black.