What If?

Chapter 58

But the exhaustion of the last few weeks was catching up with them as well. they couldn't help it, they'd have very little sleep during the last couple of weeks when they'd been here, they'd been here for three and a half weeks and they had worked their asses of.

And now they were caught under the rubble, their bodies exhaustion catching up with them and before they knew against their better judgement, they fell asleep.

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Back at base, everyone got back on their feet after the new earthquake was done shaking the earth beneath them. The biggest concern at the moment was another tsunami, everyone turned in the direction of the ocean which they could see from the park they had set up camp in. Everyone had worked their asses off to get everyone back on their feet somewhat and they didn't want it to be destroyed again by another quake, sure there had been smaller afterquakes here and there, but this was the biggest one and could it still be called an aftershock since the first one had hit nearly a month ago and it hadn't been a particular small one either.

When they got all clear about the possible danger of a new tsunami, sure there were bigger waves but none as big as the tsunami that hit a month ago.

Things went back to work however pretty soon after they had gotten the all clear from the danger of another tsunami. A stream of new people was trickling in slowly, with minor injuries from the quake, but nothing as bad as how it had been before. A couple of buildings had gone down, but those had mostly been deemed to unsafe after the initial quake, but there wasn't as much damage as before and it was a big relief to all of them.

Two hours after the earthquake however, they'd all been working on the people coming in with their minor injuries when the news started to trickle in from the soldiers who'd left camp to go and help around the city after the earthquake had hit. The orphanage all of them had been at one point or another had collapsed, the children's rescue house had been levelled to the ground.

They figured that it wasn't the location where Amelia and Steven had gone to since there were two of them. But when their team of two sniffer dogs had gone to look for survivors the news was confirmed to everyone's horror, the children's rescue house had gone down like a house of cards, all two floors of them and according to the stories that all of them were telling, Steven and Amelia had been inside of it, ordering everyone out to safety between the small and the then larger earthquake.

A nurse had told Mark and Jacob that Amelia and Steven had stopped their own escape to take two little girls with them who they'd come across on their way out, just before the second and much larger earthquake.

It was then that all of them sprang into action, most of the medical staff had to stay at camp, but a select few, including Frank who was beyond worry about the woman who he'd grown so close to in the last couple of weeks. They were sent over to take care of the injuries of the children, but most would help in digging them out, all of them were under the assumption that the two people they had all doubted at the very beginning would still be alive.

If there was anyone who thought quick on her feet, it was Amelia. She would have found something to hide under or to protect themselves from the collapse. It had been a mutual decision between the three countries that they would keep the fact of Amelia being the one under the building under wraps, which wasn't that easy since the press lived inside of their own camp, but they all did what they had to do to protect Amelia and Steven as well. They didn't need this story getting out, they'd find them soon enough and they'd make it seem like both Steven and Amelia had been the one's helping digging people out and taking care of the injured children.

And it worked for a time, but when they caught wind of the fact that two of their own response teams were now stuck under the rubble of the children's rescue house, they all headed to the location for the story.