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My medical knowledge isn’t really up to scratch… so some of this may not be accurate… but please use your imagination.Chapter 10As they all dropped to the floor, Luka let himself drop in the corner he was standing in, Abby dived to the other corner of the elevator and the other three people fell around were they where standing. There was silence for a few moments until somebody at the other side of the elevator being coughing.
“Abby?” Luka sat himself up against the wall in the lift. “Abby!”
“I’m fine” Abby sat against the lift doors. “Well I think so anyway” Abby touched her head, which she had hit on the way down. Luka pulled his torch out the top pocket of his lab coat and shone it in the direction Abby’s voice had come.
“Come here…” Abby slid over on her bum beside Luka.
“I think I might have cut my head” Abby said touching it again.
“Let’s see” Luka looked at her head in the little light they had
“Is it deep?”
“Might need a few stitches, good news though…”
“There is good news then” Abby asked a little sarcastically in the circumstances.
“…You’ll only need 2 or 3” Luka said moving his hand from her head down her cheek.
“Is everyone else ok” Abby asked just becoming aware they weren’t the only one’s in the lift.
“I’m ok” A man from another corner answered.
“I think I might have bruised my ass but I’m fine,” A teenagers voice answered.
“Wasn’t there someone else?” Abby asked anyone in general. Luka shone his torch to see a women sitting in the corner with her eyes closed.
“Are you ok?” Luka moved from beside Abby and over to the women and took her place. “Pulse is slow” Luka put the torch in his mouth and put on his stethoscope listening for breathe sounds.
“Any breath sounds?” Abby asked while using her own torch to look at buttons on the elevator until she found the alarm bell, pressing it made a ringing go off. “Sorry about that” Abby imagined them covering their ears.
“She’s breathing… think she just passed out” Luka sat back on the wall. “I’ll keep checking her”
“Hello” A voice came from the box in the wall. “Hello” A familiar voice.
“Frank?”
“Who’s that?” Frank asked with a mouth full of food.
“It’s Abby…Frank?”
“Yeh, Yeh, I’m here, you stuck in the lift I take it” Frank didn’t seem too interested.
“Yes Frank”
“Is it just you?”
“No, Luka’s here too…”
“We’ve been looking for him”
“Well now you know he’s here…Frank any idea how long it’s going to be, we have another three people here, and one needs medical attention?”
“There working on it, I told you this morning…problem with the electrics” They all heard Frank take another bit of what he was eating.
“Thanks Frank” Abby said sitting under the buttons. She could see an outline of Luka across from her. The static from the intercom stopped and Abby turned to ring the bell again.
“Don’t bother Abby” Luka said. “It’ll be the electric’s again” He sighed, putting his head against the wall.
“What we supposed to do” The boy in the lift asked.
“Wait” Was Luka’s very short and to the point answer.
After a while he leaned over again and check the women again.
“Any change?”
“Pulse is stronger” Luka said leaning back, with his legs open, bent and resting his elbows on his knees with his head in his hands. Abby slid over in front of him, putting her hands on his legs and moving them up holding his arms. Luka took his head out his hands and looked up to see an outline of Abby in front of him.
“You ok?” Abby asked moving her hands up and taking his hands from the middle of the air and bringing them down in between his legs.
“Just thinking” Luka said rubbing the top of Abby’s hands with his thumbs.
“About?”
“Ana…everything really”
“She’ll be fine… and if Frank remembers to mention to anyone we’re in here I’m sure Neela will cheek on her” Abby said squeezing his hands.
“I know. Come here” Luka pulled Abby in she turned on her bum and moved in between his legs against his body leaning her head on his shoulder.
“You ok over there?” Abby asked seeing as the pair of them had barely spoken.
“I’m good, just bored” The boy said tapping the floor in between his legs.
“Sorry we can’t provide entertainment for you son” The older man said shifting himself.
“It’s fine. I’m Tim by the way,” The boy added just for conversation.
“Hi Tim, Abby and he’s Luka” Abby said even though they had said there names to each other she thought she may as well.
“I’m Colin” The older man spoke up.
After about 20 minutes the lights above them started to spark a little but didn’t go on fully. Luka sat stroking Abby’s arm and lightly kissing her head. The lights all of a sudden came on and light was restored to the lift.
“At least we have light,” Tim said sitting up a little and taking a look at Abby and Luka. Abby didn’t say anything just lay her head on Luka’s shoulder.
“Is she ok?” Colin asked looking at Abby. Luka moved Abby’s head off his shoulder and moved himself to look at Abby. She looked a little pale.
“Abby?” Luka looked at her again. “Abby! Wake up Abby!”