Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 11:42:39 +1000 (EST) From: Christina Fraser Subject: Submit:part 6 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII wow thank you all for emailing me, it is good to see that people are reading and enjoying my story, well with out further wait, here is the next part. p.s another great story to read is coma, it is one of my faviorties. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- For the next two hours, Al talked to Sam. He talked about some past leaps and about home. He told Sam hoe everyone back at the program missed him and how they all sent their love. He talked until he was horse. Ziggy informed Al that odds of Sam waking up had jumped from 10% to 40%. Gooshie came in and gave Al a bottle of water and a sandwich. Al found it difficult to swallow his food as he watched his friend fight for life. While Al was into a story about his days at M.I.T, the man who Al knew to be Jeffery John Maputo entered the room. Al stood up and took a defensive stance infont of Sam. " You #*~! Nozzle, you keep away from him, you hear me you #*@! head!! " Turning to Sam Al called out loudly. " Sam wake up, come on kid, you have to wake up!! " Not seeing or hearing Al, Jeffery walked straight through him and knelt beside Sam. " Wakey, wakey sleeply head, time to wake up. " When Sam made no move, or indication that he had heard, Jeffery slapped Sam across the face. This also brought no reaction from Sam except for breaking open his lip again, making it bleed. Al was pacing up and down, yelling and cursing, wishing he could do something but knowing that all he could do was watch his friend suffer at Jeffery's hand. After a few tense minutes, Jeffery got sick of his unresponsive prisoner. He gave Sam an ultimatum. " Listen you stupid, worthless #@%^&, either you be awake the next time I come in, or you will never wake up. You understand, NEVER!! " As a parting farewell, Jeffery kicked Sam once again in the stomach. Grunting in satisfaction he walked out the door and left his prisoner once more in the dark. After an hour of yelling and pacing, Al heard a beeping from his hand link. He was told that if he he talked to Sam and told him how he would personally, honestly fell if Sam was to die and how it would effect him, then there is a 98.89% chance that Dr. Beckett would wake up, because Sam cared that much for Al. Taking a deep breath and sitting down next to his friend, Al went on to talk about his feelings. How he felt when he saw Michelle in such a bad condition. He talked about other leaps where he thought Sam might die. He talked about the time that Sam recevid Shock treatment and how it took three weeks in Dr. Beeks office, before he got over the face that he had forced Sam to take another treatment. He admitted to Sam that every leap that Sam was in danger, it was like a crushing weight on his soul. About half an hour later, Al heard Sam moan. It was only softly and without much energy, but Al clung to it like a lifeboat. " Sam can you hear me? Open you eyes Sam. Open your eyes! " Al waited and was soon rewarded by a slight flutter. After a few more words of encouragement, Sam opened them. " Al..." Sam croaked. His voice full of happiness Al replied, " Yea kid, it's me. What did you think you were doing lying down on the job. " Taking a painful breath Sam weakly said. " Al where are you... I..I can't see you .." The happy expression was wiped right out of Al's eyes, Al typed a message to Ziggy. " I'm here Sam, it must be to dark for you to see just yet, give it time." " Al I cant see anything, I'm blind " The last was said with a fear and Sam went into a coughing fit, which took a lot of Sam's energy and also left him breathing heavily with great pain. " Take it easy Sam, take slow short breaths. Sorry it took so long to find you, but Michelle, oh, that's your name, was unable to answer any questions. It would seem that you are here to see that Michelle gets out of this, and that Nozzle brought to justice. Sam...how do you feel? " Struggling to form a rhythm to his breathing, Sam took a brief stock take of his body. " Al, I can't see, I have a punched lung and at least three broken ribs. My fingers lost all circulation days ago, and I have not eaten or hand anything to drink since I leaped in. I am so tired Al, sooo tired. " " Sam you have to keep awake, focus on my voice, I'll figure some way of getting you out of here." " Al, don't leave me!! " It tore Al's heart to see his friend like this. " Sam, I am going to run a few ideas by Ziggy and Gooshie, I will leave the door open, if you want me just call out, I will hear you. " Sounding like a small child Sam said okay in a small voice. The sound of the Chamber door opening could be heard in the quite room. Sam strained to hear the sound of it closing, but was only greeted with silence. Sam was happy that Al had found him, but he knew the situation was hopeless, Al was a hologram, he could not go and simply call the local police. Sam would have to somehow rescue himself. Al was not gone long, he cam close to Sam and talked quietly, trying not to frighten him. " Sam, I think we have come up with an idea. Do you remember the time, you leaped and a lady was able to see you because she was psychic, well we know that the only people who can see me are people in Alpha states of mind and she was one of them. Ziggy has been running a few ideas through the history records and we found the name of a woman, who in five years time will go public, with information that she is psychic and will go to the police and help them in find missing people. I was thinking of paying her a little visit, and starting her career early, there would be plenty of people who would benefit. Her name is Alex Jane Carter. She lives not far from here. " " What if..." " Sam don't worry, I am going to get you out of this, trust me. Now I want you to stay awake. I'll come back as soon as I can. Sam promise me you will stay awake. " " Okay, Al...Don't be long." The last was said at a bare wisper, Al had to do something fast. Al took one last look at his badly beaten friend and then typed in the command that would take him to Alex's house.