Fight for your life

Part 4

Sam's eyes filled with tears as he listened to what he felt was Cameron's goodbye. He let his eyes slip closed for a moment, shaking his head as he thought about what could possibly happen. It scared him. Scared him more than he ever thought possible. The thought of losing his brothers and the love of his life too much for him to handle. He stepped back slowly, taking a shaky breath as he gave a nod, "I love you with all my fucking heart, baby" he started, trying to compose himself "we're going to get through this. I promise" he said, unsure whether he was trying to convince himself or Cameron.

Danny immediately grabbed Ben's hand again, bringing it up to his lips to gently kiss over each knuckle slowly. "Please, don't leave me baby." He began softly, "you're my entire world I can not live without you. Please don't you dare leave me" he glanced over to James, tears slipping down his cheeks as he looked at Jakes body.

Sam hurried toward the bus, grabbing Cameron's hand to climb onto the bus. He was in pain, but he wouldn't be able to rest until everyone was out of there safely. "I'm fine, baby" he assured him with a nod, glancing back at the guys behind them. "What do you want us to do?!" One asked from behind them.

Cameron looked back toward the group, calling out orders. "Someone call the medics," he stated, as though it were the most obvious thing, and he was sure it had already been done, but in the event that no one had thought to do so, he wanted to make sure it was done. "We need muscle, we have two unconscious, we can't move Ben," he explained quickly, turning back to hold the flashlight between his teeth while he tried to break the remaining shards of glass from the window. Finally grabbing the metal light from his mouth, he used the end of it to bust the rest out, ignoring the scratches to his wrists and arms. As he felt the shift of the bus with the weight of bodies climbing on to help, he looked back into the bus at James and Jake, then at Sam. "We need to get him out or there's no way we'll get Jake out," he explained. He'd only seen this once before with James, the complete mental shut down when they were so sure that Danny was on the brink of death, and pulling him out of it had been nearly impossible. Coupling Jake and Ben and James' discovery of both, Cameron wasn't entirely sure they'd be able to hold his attention long enough to give him instruction.

James wasn't sure he'd ever mentioned claustrophobia, but being trapped in the bus was enough to set it off. Resigning himself to staying by Jake's side, he moved his arm to lay his cheek against it, slowly stroking Jake's hair back from his face. Whispering to him softly, his words never stopping or pausing, fixated on making sure that Jake understood, "I love you, Jake. I love you so much, I can't lose you," he cried softly, shifting his gaze up to the faces in the window momentarily.

Sam nodded. He got closer to the window, his eyes finally falling on James lifeless body. He had to turn away for a moment, the sight in front of him too much to handle. Taking a few quick breaths he turned back to James. He knew leaving jake would be hard, & he wasn't sure if in the same situation he could leave Cameron. But, he knew they needed to get them all out of there as soon as possible. "James?" He called out. He knew James tended to listen to him, most of the time, so he hoped this time wouldn't be any different. "I need you to do me a favor, okay? I need you to come here. We need you out here. As soon as you're out here, we can work on getting jake out. Okay?" He said, despite his panic his voice was soothingly calm.

Danny layed next to Ben's body, fingers lightly running across his arm. He kept a finger close to his nose, just to make sure he was breathing. "Ben, please. You need to open those beautiful eyes baby. I can't do this without you. I won't" he promised as he began to shut down. The thought of losing Ben too much.

James stayed still beside Jake for a minute longer, tracing his thumb slowly over the smoothed back hair at his temple. Closing his eyes while he said a silent prayer, he kissed his temple again gently. "Please, Jake," he pleaded softly, pushing himself up slowly. Looking up at the window, he felt beyond defeated at the distance between him and the ledge. "I can't reach. Danny isn't leaving, why doesn't he have to leave?" He questioned loudly, his voice broken through his tears despite trying to reach the frame of the window. Dropping his arms back down when he couldn't reach, he hung his head quickly, covering his face with his bloody hands.

The exchange was breaking Cameron's heart more and more by the second. Looking back at Sam and the crew, he reached back to put Sam's hands over his ankles, ignoring the shooting pain when it was touched. "Don't let go," he instructed, keeping his eyes focused on Sam. "No matter what happens, what's said or any screams, no matter what, do not let go." He laid on his stomach, breathing slowly to calm himself while he carefully lowered the top half of his body to hang over the edge of the window, reaching for James' hands. "I need you to help me, James. Climb on anything you can. We need Danny to help get Jake out, but we need you out here," he tried to reason with him, grabbing for his wrists when James reached up again, struggling to get his footing against the leather couch. Cameron gripped his wrists tightly, pulling him up with the help of what traction he could get. There was a sharp, splitting pain in his side, but he pushed through it until James' hands were outside the window with crew waiting to pull him up with extra leverage.

Once James was safely out of the bus, Cameron pushed himself up again, turning back to Sam once more. "Are you sure you're okay?" He questioned again, moving his hand to lay against Sam's cheek momentarily. Leaning closer to kiss him quickly, he took a deep breath, dropping his legs through the window again. "I need light," he instructed, passing off the flashlight to the first hand he came in contact with to shine it into the bus. Pushing himself to drop down into the bus again, he moved as quickly as he could, finding the coffee table to turn it upright again. Moving into the hallway, he knelt beside Danny, laying his hand between his shoulder blades. "Danny? Danny the medics are on the way to help Ben, but I need your help to get Jake out of here," he requested softly.


Sam did as instructed, keeping his hands wrapped tightly around his ankles. He took several deep breaths, thankful his reasoning seemed to have worked since James was getting out. He let out a sigh of relief when James was pulled out, his eyes slipping closed for a moment until he heard Cameron's voice again. "I'm fine, baby" he said softly, bringing his hands up to cup either side of cams face "please be careful" he started, leaning in to whisper against his ear "I can't lose you. You hear me?" He asked, nodding as he headed back inside the bus. Keeping close to the door, he wrapped his arms around James, lightly running across his back "everything's going to be okay mate" he said softly "I promise"

Danny looked up slowly, wiping at his eyes with the back of his hand when he heard the guitarist. He nodded as he pressed a kiss to Ben's lips, "I'll be back baby. I promise. We're going to get you out of here" he got up slowly, shaking his head as he looked down at jake, then back to Cameron. "He doesn't look good, Cameron" he said, tears continuing to slide down his cheek. He glanced back at Ben once more, speaking softly "how are we going to do this?" He asked as he turned to Cameron once more.