A plan in 'Vain' {A Skip Beat! FanFic}

Fire Fight

Hello my sweeties,

OK this story is probably completely unlikely and perhaps even impossible

but hey I could not get it out of my head so give it a chance :P

Enjoy.

Neh xxx

I do not own Skip Beat! or Music used.

No one was sure how it started. It was just one of those freak accidents. The fire seemed to start from the lower floors. Some said it was something to do with an electrical shortage and then the oil tanks. That's why the emergency sprinkler systems didn't go off because of the original location. But there was one thing for sure. LME was on fire and with over 300 staff to get out and catalogue it was going to be a terrifying task until everyone was accounted for.

Ren had been driving back from a shoot that day when the smoke had filled the sky in the centre of Tokyo. It was just something Yashiro noticed and when Ren turned on the radio to find out what was going on his heart plummeted. When the traffic got too congested Ren simply dumped his car and ran the rest of the way there with Yashiro behind him.

It was Lory he saw first standing there watching his magnificent building in flames as names were

ticked off via a small machine Sebastian was holding.

"How many?" Lory asked as he looked at the screen over Sebastian's shoulder.

"27 unaccounted for." Ren heard the total as the Tokyo fire department fought to control the blaze.

"They're still in there aren't they?" Sebastian didn't need to ask who Lory was talking about. He knew that Lory had asked the Love Me ladies to sort through the old stored scripts room. This room was only 3 floors above where the oil tanks had exploded, probably 2 floors lower than anyone else would have been as Lory watched one of the fire crews pull another 5 people from one of the 3rd story windows and to safety.

"22 unaccounted for." Sebastian stated quietly as he ticked off the names of the rescued.

"Lory!" Lory almost blanched at the sound of Ren's voice. He never turned away from scanning the building windows hoping and praying to see someone... anyone, but most of all he was praying to see the vivid pink of a Love Me uniform.

"What happened?" Ren asked as he skidded to a halt before the man, "Is everyone out?" Lory really didn't want to answer him as he watched fire crews trying to control the blaze in his beautiful building.

"19 unaccounted for." Sebastian said softly making Lory look towards the ambulances which had just arrived as fire crews half carried the 3 people who must have escaped down one of the fire exits, side windows or side doors.

"19?!" Ren asked in disbelief as he looked at the building. The fear in his eyes was a joint thing as Lory decided he had better answer the man.

"We are not sure how it started, but it started near the oil tanks in the lower basement. By the time we realised anything was amiss it was already too late. One of the tanks had exploded which set off a chain reaction until all 5 tanks had exploded. We are still missing 19 people..." Ren could see the look in Lory's eyes.

"Who?" he asked needing to know, even if in his heart he really didn't want to.

Sebastian listed off the names of the missing. The last 3 were ones that Ren and Yashiro had feared.

"Amamiya Chiori, Kotonami Kanae and Mogami Kyoko."

No one saw Ren anymore. One moment he was there the next he was gone. Firefighters did try and stop a dark haired, well built man from entering the building. But he slipped past them like a phantom swallowed up from view by the darkness beyond the doors where large clouds of black, billowing smoke was rising.