FALLING INTO YOU
Chapter Eleven
"Oh, God. Oh, God, no!" Rose said,
as Hockley let go of Rose.
Rose ran over to Jack and bent down on her
knees beside him. Rose looked into Jack's eyes. Jack could see that Rose wanted
to know if he was all right, but she couldn't say it.
Jack shook his head, and said, "It's not
that bad."
He took her hand, smiled, and kissed it. Rose
smiled, but she was scared what would happen next. Hockley came back over to
Rose, and grabbed her by the arm.
"All right, now it's time to die,"
Hockley said.
He chained Rose up to a wall, and cuffed her
to locks that were hanging from the wall.
Hockley then walked out of the room, and she
looked over at Jack who was still grasping his arm, and saying to himself, out
loud, "It's not that bad. It's not that bad."
Hockley came back in and set a bomb in front
of her.
"See this? You've got an hour left to
live, and then--KABOOM!" Hockley said, and laughed. Going over to Jack, he
said, "Take good care of that shoulder, and that girl," and he walked
out of the room.
Rose looked over at Jack, who was looking
sleepy.
"Jack. Jack! Come unlock me Jack, come
unlock me. Don't pass out on me, Jack. Come on, don't do it," Rose said,
trying to keep Jack awake.
Rose could move her arms around, since they
weren't chained up where her hands hung above her. They were just chained on a
wall with quite some slack. Jack stumbled up from the ground and grasped his
arm. He started crawling over to where Rose was, but he couldn't. He then saw a
huge old-fashioned ax, and he swung it over to Rose. Jack looked at Rose, and
Rose looked at Jack.
"I trust you," Jack said, and
collapsed back down on the floor.
"Jack. Jack! Jack, please wake up!"
Rose said.
Rose then remembered to get the ax, and with
one big swing one side of the chain that held Rose's right arm to the wall was
free. Now, it was time for the left side, and she swung, but also cutting some
of her white dress. Yet, her left arm was free, and now it was time to get her
and Jack out of this mansion. Rose went straight over to Jack, and tried to
feel a pulse.
"Oh, thank God!" Rose said out
loud, as she felt Jack's pulse beat steadily. Rose shook Jack, and said,
"Jack. Jack? I'm going to pick you up now, and you need to start to walk.
There is a bomb in here and we don't have much time to waste. I trust
you."
Rose kissed Jack's hand. Rose swung one of
Jack's arms over hers and helped Jack pull himself up. They started to stumble
over to the stairs, where there were tons of steps, and they were steep.
"Oh, God," Rose said to herself,
looking up at the stairs.
Rose started to go up the steps with Jack.
Rose looked over at Jack, and said,
"Don't take this personally, but I can tell that someone has been working
out."
Rose looked over at Jack, and he chuckled,
and mumbled something that seemed to say, "...you're pretty smart for a
supermodel."
Rose laughed, and kept on going up the steps.
Rose approached the last step, and came over to the two huge wooden doors. They
were locked, and Rose cursed under her breath. Rose decided to go back to the
bedroom that kept her captive for the first day here at the mansion. As Jack
and Rose started to go up another flight of stairs, she saw an elevator.
"Yes!" Rose said. "Look, Jack,
what do we have here?"
Jack looked up and mumbled, "...a bloody
lift."
Rose nodded, and said, "Close
enough," and they stepped into the elevator. "All right, let's go to
the next level up," Rose said, and pushed the button.
The elevator box jolted, and then started to
go up.
It then stopped, and the iron gate opened.
Rose could feel Jack leaning more against her, and she knew that she needed to
hurry up, and get out. She then found the room, and Jack and Rose went through
the door that she went through earlier, and then went down the steps. Jack and
Rose slipped a couple of times, but nothing that bad. Rose could feel that Jack
was starting to lose consciousness, and she went through the passage. She saw
red and blue lights. She knew that she and Jack did it.
"I need an ambulance!" Rose said.
And they brought one over, and they also
brought a blanket over for Rose.
"Are you okay? What happened to
Jack?" Fabrizio asked.
"Jack was shot by Hockley, and I'm
fine," Rose said, wrapping her the blanket around her more tightly.
Fabrizio nodded, and one of the medics looked
over at Rose, and asked, "Would you like to ride along in the
ambulance?"
Rose nodded her head, and said, "Yes,
please."
The medic helped her in, and they drove to
the hospital.