Chapter 21
"Help! He's bleeding out, help!" Screams filled
the land, cries echoed, tears cascaded down mourning passengers.
Geet groaned, the impact of the crash was enormous, she
had fallen out of her seat and across the aisle and through the cracked space
and fell a few feet down onto the dry land.
Her whole body was aching as she tried to refocus her
attention and try to get up.
She turned onto her left and looked around, there were
passengers bleeding, some seemed unconscious whilst others didn't look like
they'd survived.
She dragged herself up in a sitting position holding her
head in pain, it felt as if someone had bashed her head in with a massive rock.
She stood up with great difficulty shaking her legs as
she couldn't feel them for a few seconds, she glanced around and saw Hira and
Max running to passengers. She noticed Josh attending to an injured child. In
the distance she noticed Sophia lying on the ground, she started moving towards
her and picked up her pace.
"Sophia" she called as she reached near her. "Sophia"
she tapped her cheek, her cheek tilted to the side and Geet noticed the blood
underneath her head.
"Sophia" Geet called as she pressed her fingers
to Sophia's pulse, there was a very faint pulse. She glanced around for
something to put beneath Sophia's head to stop the bleeding but couldn't see
anything nearby, she couldn't even call for help as passengers were in distress
and there were others running to one another trying to help. The wound beneath
her head was minor, so it wouldn't need stitching but it would require bandages
and dressing to heal properly.
"Sophia..." Geet groaned, she found a sharp glass
piece and sliced open Sophia's shirt sleeve and wrapped it around Sophia's head
trying to stop the blood from flowing so much.
Once she'd done that, she started on trying to
resuscitating her colleague, she started on compressions then blowing air into
Sophia's mouth.
"Sophia" Taylor rushed over. "What
happened?"
"She's bleeding from her head, I need something
cotton to stop the bleeding" Geet looked up. "Find something,
anything" she looked at him. "Make sure it's wet with water"
"Sir..." Kirsten looked down at Aaron who was
bleeding profusely, a metal piece sliced through his jacket and across his
stomach. "Somebody do something" she yelled.
"Where the f**k are we?" Kelsey yelled. "How
aren't there ambulances coming?"
"Where's Maan?" Kirsten looked around, she
couldn't move and look around for him as she was keeping the pressure on
Aaron's stomach to stop him from bleeding. "Kelsey, find him"
Kelsey groaned and stood, she glanced around. There were
numerous people running around, she couldn't recognise Maan from any of them.
"Taylor" Geet called as she looked around for
him, Sophia's wound seemed to have deepened as she continued to lose more
blood. "Tay..." she paused when she saw Maan come over pressing a
bunched up wet cotton shirt underneath Sophia's head.
"You need to hold this tightly, it's a little cold
but the material needs to be breathable so it doesn't cause any infections"
he told her. "I'll start the compressions".
Geet nodded and held the bunched shirt to Sophia's head
whilst Maan done the compressions.
"We need to start getting the blood flowing and
reaching her brain, so tilt her a little" he told her, his mind focused on
helping Sophia.
"Geet..." Taylor rushed back to their side.
"Give that shirt here" Geet took the shirt he
had wanting to put more pressure on Sophia's wound. "Taylor, go help the
passengers" she looked at him firmly.
"But... I've not done the medical training... I don't..."
he looked at her panicked.
"Tay, listen to me" Geet spoke firmly, "Remember
the 2nd year training, I made you all do?"
He nodded swallowing thickly.
"Put all of that into training, remember the basics
and you'll know what to do. Now go"
"Is she going to be okay?" Taylor asked.
"We're doing the best we can" she answered.
"She needs to be okay" he murmured. "She's
pregnant..."
Geet looked at him shocked and felt the pressure of
saving Sophia even more. "Alright, now go" she replied tightly.
"Okay, she's stabilised for now" Maan sighed
heavily.
"Thanks" Geet murmured and looked at the wound
on Sophia's head. She was now breathing properly, though unconscious, her pulse
had gone back to normal.
"I need a belt" Maan looked around. "So we
wrap the belt around her head and keep the shirt there as gauze, it'd stop the
bleeding eventually".
"Josh" Geet noticed him and called him over.
"A minute" Josh called back as wrapped his
t-shirt around a child's arm which had been cut with the shards of glass. Once
he'd wrapped it he stood and hurried over to Geet.
"I need a belt" Geet told him.
Josh unbuckled his belt and handed it to Maan who held
out his hand, once Maan had the belt he wrapped the belt around Sophia's head
twice and secured the shirts in place. The bleeding had slowed down and it'd
now eventually stop.
Once Sophia's wound was tended to, they lay her down
ensuring no shards of glass or broken metal pieces were near her then stood and
dispersed in different directions and tended to other passengers.
Four hours in, it was confirmed 38 passengers, 7 crew
members died on impact, Josh and Max ensured they were laid to rest properly.
Others were injured, some had minor bruises and cuts whilst others suffered
with deep cuts and unfortunately right now there wasn't any suture materials
available to stitch them. From the first aid boxes they found, their wounds
were bandaged securely. The passengers were now scared, the panic had subsided
between them once Max and Josh assured them help is going to come soon.
Geet, Hira and Taylor had gone around the broken pieces
of the plane to find the food containers which were still securely closed in
their boxes and started handing them out.
Josh and Max worked on trying to get a signal and trying
to call for help using their radios and satellite phones which should've still
worked but it turns out that was affected by the fire.
"What's going on?" Aaron asked as he looked
around. "How doesn't anybody know we're here?"
"We've landed in uninhabited land" Kelsey
informed.
"The headquarters would've gotten some coordinates
from the captains before we crashed though, they should've found us by now"
Helen responded.
"Where's Kirsten?" Aaron asked.
"She's with Maan, over there" Kelsey pointed, a
few feet away Maan and Kirsten were sat near the water and it seemed like Maan
was tending to Kirsten.
"I think I've fallen in love with you even more hot
chocolate wafer" Kirsten commented watching Maan work on the minor
scratches she'd received during the crash.
"Mmhmm" Maan hummed as he cleaned the scraped
skin getting rid of the soil that'd stuck to her skin when she'd gone around
helping whoever she can.
"You look very handsome, really focused" she
muttered.
"You're bruised and cut and you're focusing on my
face?" Maan looked up at her.
Kirsten chuckled and winked which made him smile faintly.
He grabbed the bottle of water and washed her skin then wrapped a dressing
around her forearm to prevent any infections.
Maan stretched out his legs groaning quietly.
"How are you feeling?" Kirsten asked in concern
touching his knee.
"I just need to rest my legs a little now, way too
much exercise today" he murmured.
"You've got two cuts on your temple and forehead..."
Kirsten pointed.
"They're minor" Maan responded, "Which I
could fix myself".
"You should get the doctor" she winked
gesturing to Geet.
"I can fix myself" he reiterated making her
rolls her eyes at him.
"Hey you okay?" Josh approached.
"Yeah, I'm fine" Maan replied nodding his head.
"Need some help fixing that?" he asked.
"It's okay, I've got it all here" he pointed to
the bandage and the clean water bottle.
"Alright, thanks for you help today man" Josh
held out his hand. "Especially with Sophia"
"It was nothing" Maan shook Josh's hand.
"You saved Sophia and her baby, it means a lot"
Josh responded. "You're not a medic are you?" he asked curiously. "Because
you knew certainly knew what you were doing, not many passengers do know much
about survival training"
"He was in the army" Kirsten boasted. "Captain
and he's done medical training as part of becoming a captain. 4 years"
"What she said" Maan shook his head at his
friend.
"Nice, you guys must be hungry" Josh glanced
over his shoulder. "Hira, pass 2 containers here"
"We'll share one" Maan told Josh, "I'm not
that hungry and others would need it more".
"There's more than enough" Josh replied, he
didn't need to add the unsaid words. There were only extras due to the dead
people. Hira came over with two containers of food then returned to give out
the rest of the containers.
"What is being done Max to find us?" Geet
settled besides him with her container of food, Sophia had her wound cleaned
twice every hour and she was kept hydrated. She was now sleeping, she'd come
out of her unconsciousness but was told to keep lying still as they didn't know
how much of her was hurt.
"I don't know" he groaned brushing a hand
through his hair. "Everything was done by the book, every single f**king
thing and we couldn't save..." he looked over at the lined dead people that
were on the other side covered with sheets and clothing.
"Do you know where we are?" she asked placing
the container of food down unable to eat.
"I only managed to give them a partial coordinate. I
don't know where we're at. Everything is burned out in the cockpit" he
responded.
"Just so you and Josh know, I die here single and
without a baby I'm going to haunt you and Josh, believe me" she turned
to him. "I came out here to enjoy and I'm stuck in a f**king island that
doesn't have people. Is there such things out there anymore?" she asked.
"Apparently" Max chuckled. "C'mon eat up, we
need the energy" he grabbed his container and peeled the lid open. "After
we've ate, we need to gather clothing from whatever can find and set something
up for sleeping"
Geet nodded in agreement and looked over at Sophia.
"Did you know she was pregnant?" she asked Max.
"Do you think I'd have let her fly if I had known?"
Max arched his brows.
"What is with my team? They know they're not allowed
to fly yet they're jumping on aboard".
"Once you've got into flying, do you see yourself
doing something else?" Max asked her.
Geet considered it for a moment and shook her head, "I
don't think I'd ever be able to stop this job. I love it far too much" she
smiled. "Despite all of this..." she pointed to around them. "It's
given some satisfaction that we've managed to help them at least"
Max agreed, "The airline is so going to lose a lot
of money though".
"It's years of investigation, do you know they'd
even be able to determine this? It's all crashed and burned" she
questioned.
"Don't know but the airline isn't going to give the
money out until they've investigated properly. If it goes to court, it's most
likely going to find it was accidental and the families would receive a small
compensation" he replied.
"It's not going to bring back them though would it?"
she sighed.
"No, it wouldn't" he nodded.
"Help" Kirsten screamed.
Geet and Max looked over and saw that Maan was lying on
the ground, they both stood and hurried over, Josh tried to resuscitate.
"What happened to him?" Kirsten cried as she
watched Maan simply lie on his back. "He's just fell back and isn't
breathing".
"There isn't any visible wounds..." Josh looked
at Max and Geet as they joined him. "Max, pull open his shirt" he
lifted his hands pausing the compressions. Max tore open Maan's shirt and there
wasn't any wound. Geet crouched down noticing the wet spot on his leg.
"Max" she pointed.
Grabbing a sharp glass Max tore his pants from the bottom
whilst Josh restarted the chest compressions. There was a large deep wound
that'd cut through the skin and muscles and he was bleeding a lot, it seemed
infected.
"Shit" Max cursed and looked at Geet.
"We need water, get me a few bottles of water"
Geet looked at Kirsten. "Quick" she raised her voice seeing Kirsten
frozen. She then turned to Max, I need something sharp and it needs to be
sterilised" she told him. "It could be anything, a pin, a metal
hanger. Anything metal and sterilised"
Max called Hira over to help, whilst he boiled water on
one of the fires they'd sparked, Hira searched for something metal and sharp.
She was in luck as she found a couple of safety pins and a metal tweezer. Once
Max sterilised it, he rushed over to Geet's side.
Geet had cleaned the wound with the water, she looked up
at Max and Hira as they joined her side.
"Is it sterile?" she asked as she washed her
hands with the bottled water and took the gloves Kirsten passed to her from the
first aid box.
"Yeah" they answered.
Taking the pin, Geet closed her eyes shooting up a quick
prayer, hoping her first aid training all works right now, she opened her eyes
and made a large cut across the wound and darkened clotted blood leaked out
from the wound.
"Kirsten splash this water over the wound whilst I
clean it out" Geet told her taking the tweezers and cleaning out his
wound. Once she'd cleaned it as best as she could, Geet covered his wound with
warm compress and wrapped it with clean white bandage.
Josh had managed to resuscitate Maan, once he'd done that
he offered Maan some water to hydrate him to make up for the blood he'd lost.
"It's clean and fixed for now, but he's going to
need stitches on this" Geet whispered to Max.
Kirsten sighed in relief when Maan slowly opened his eyes
and rushed to his side touching his shoulder, "I'm going to kill you for
scaring me" she hissed.
"What happened..." he groaned pressing a hand to
his temple.
"Pass me some water" Josh said taking the
bottle from Max. "We need to clean these two"
"No, I can do it" Maan tried to push Josh's
hand.
"You said that before and then nearly died"
Josh countered narrowing his eyes. "I'm not having someone else die on me
today".
Maan sighed and nodded, his eyes drew to Geet then to his
leg. He looked away, his scars were all on show, his marked skin were visible
to anyone who was looking over at him.
Geet watched Josh clean the wounds on Maan's temple then
cover it up with plasters, she glanced down at the wound she'd covered then
looked at Maan who'd averted his eyes from everyone. Her eyes drew to his body,
there were lines across the left side of his chest and from his exposed leg,
she noticed the marred skin around his knee. It piqued her curiosity but she
was polite enough to keep quiet and stay focused on helping.
"Keep him hydrated" Josh told Geet as he stood
to see to other passengers who'd need their wounds looked over as it'd been
over an hour now.
"Get whatever blankets and pillows you can find and
pass them out" Geet told Hira then turned to Max. "We need some more
fires"
"Alright" he nodded and rushed back gathering
any wooden items he could find.
Geet then turned to Maan, "we need to move closer to
them, we shouldn't be near this water. We don't know how safe it is" she
told him. "Are you able to move?"
"Yeah" he nodded, Kirsten helped him to his
feet and Geet held his arm supporting his weight and he hobbled back towards
the others.
Hira placed a blanket and pillow down on the sandy dry
land and Maan crouched down trying to keep his wounded leg straight and lied
down with the help of Geet and Kirsten.
"I'm going to get the water" Geet excused
herself and grabbed the bottles of water, she looked up at the sky hoping to
hear some sound of the rescue team but there wasn't any life above them. It was
now getting darker and it was with the help of fires Max was making that they
were able to see through the dark. All the phones that were on the flight were
damaged extensively by the fire.
Geet returned to Kirsten and Maan's side placing the
bottles of water down, "keep him hydrated. Only make him drink a few sips
every few minutes" she told Kirsten. "I need to help Josh" she
told them and stood to her feet to aide Josh.
Edited by --B00KW0RM-- - 6 years ago
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