Rhea Brenner's Story

Rhea felt helpless, sitting in a slightly burnt airplane chair with know one around to talk to. She wondered if any of her stuff had made it. There was a chance, she thought. Though everything next to her had exploded so... Ray looked down at her noodie, it was burnt obviously and had blood all across it, some off it probably wasn't even hers. Her shorts were barely shorts and no longer white but a more red and black color.
Rhea looked at the forest and see some shelters built by Timothy. They looked nice surprisingly. Tim had taken off his hat and gave it to the little Emily who was crying her eyes out at the moment. Leaving in the metal just a little longer was for the best. Rhea layed back and closed her eyes, shading her face with her arms. All she had to do was wait for the others to come back.

Rhea sat still waiting, but she saw Emily had passed out, it was also clear because the crying had stopped. The rest of the were on there way back from the wreckage. She was glad to see them and the water bottles they carried. Chloe looked tired, but it wasn't a tired look it was a 'haven't I done enough' look, with a touch or sadness. Rhea ignored it for now though. Then she looked up into the sky. There was dark clouds forming, rain clouds. When she'd been to the beach back at home at night you could see lighting out at sea but not near the land. Hopefully they weren't in for any tropical storms anytime soon.

Hearing thunder, Leo peered to the sky. "Well, that ain't snow." He wished it was. A tropical storm didn't sound fun to Leo. Looking back to Rhea, he knew they couldn't leave her there. "We gotta her under cover, damn," still surprised by the storm. "You take her legs?" It'd be better if he had some assistance, asking Tim or Chloe, though he knew it was likely going to be Tim.

Leo exited the plane, heading for Rhea wishing to get to her before the rain started. Seeing Emily fall, he pointed and gave out a laugh. Approaching Rhea, "Hey, you okay? We got this," holding up the first-aid kit. "Guessing you don't wanna be out in the rain though... How well can you move around? One of them will be here soon to help move. We can wrap you up once we're under something." Leo had no idea what he was doing, all he knew is they had to get out of the rain, and treat her burns. Didn't know how, but it had to happen soon.

Chloe walked over to Rhea with the rest of the group. The cowboy had joined now, which she didn't like that much. However, he offered to tend to her wound, which meant a little to her, but she figured it was all a part of his act. She didn't know exactly what his "act" was, but she was absolutely certain that he had one. "I can patch it up myself, thank you very much." She said this with as much ice as she could possibly add without giving up her exhausted facade.

When they got to Rhea, Leo said something about moving her. She held back a scoff at that one. Obviously she wasn't going to help. I mean, look at her, she was so worn out from today.

Seeing the storm, she freaked out just a bit. She saw the shelters that Tim had built. "Well, you guys can handle this girl, while I get the fuck out of here." She took off running towards the shelters, forgetting that she was supposed to be acting tired. She didn't really care anymore, there was no way she was going to get her hair wet today. She spent forever straightening it before they left.
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Devon stood up as Emily pulled him. She was in absolutely no condition to be walking, much less running like she seemed to be planning to do. Without thinking, asking, or waiting for her to respond, he lifted her up in his arms, cradling her kind of like a baby. "You aren't going to walk right now, and sitting outside in a storm probably isn't a good idea, so I'll get you to shelter this way." And with that, he walked with her towards the shelter.

Rhea waved to the group at they came back with water and the first aid kit. Leo walked to her saying "How well can you move around? One of them will be here soon to help move." She looked down at her leg, the muscles were burnt/torn. She wanted it to move as little as possible. "I can't move it at all but I can move everything else." To her it was dead weight, like a log almost, only it pulsed with pain. She watched Chloe run away and frowned. It's just her being her... Rhea eyed the sky and its rain clouds. "Yeah we need to get going..."

Overhearing the two, Leo caught "I can patch it up myself, thank you very much." Damn, least I didn't get much of that. Must of gotten off lucky. His assumptions were correct, she wouldn't be doing much. Well, look at her. "Well, you guys can handle this girl, while I get the fuck out of here." "Alright fine, meet you there then..." Leo knew better than to think she'd help. She seemed to be good at finding things.

Crouching with Rhea, she explained the state of her leg. "I can't move it at all but I can move everything else. Yea we need to get going..." Leo pondered again. "Hmm.. hobbling alright?" He positions himself, ready to hoist her up and assist her walking to the shelters. "What'll hurt the least?" He needed to know before going in and halfway up, it would be unbearable.

"Okay hobbling sounds good..." Ray murmured and started to pull herself up with Leos help. As she did it began to rain. Little cold drops of water landed on her forehead. "Lets hurry" She said kind of joking. Her burn throbbed and she couldn't move it at all, her foot swept the sand and she scrunched her eyebrows, confused that she hadn't felt the sand on her foot. She used Leo for most of her support and she let her leg drag behind her in the sand as she hopped with her right foot. Her left arm was swung over Leos shoulder and she held his hand with her right hand.

"Okay hobbling sounds good" All Leo needed to hear. They were up and she was braced on him as the rain began. "Dang, forgot my hat. 'Let's turn around.'" He laughed and kept going. Seeing the pain on her face, he felt bad again that he couldn't do anything. If his other arm was free of the first aid kit, he would support her more, but with her shoulder over him and their hands locked, it seemed to do alright. "Holding hands.. long walks on the beach.." He would nudge her, but then they'd fall.

Approaching the shelters, he saw two were occupied. Not wanting to harm her, he asked Rhea first. "Ready?"

Rhea laughed as he said he needed to turn around. They walked together across the beach slowly but surely reaching the shelter. "Yeah I'm ready..." She knew she'd have to bend down or more like fall slowly onto the ground. She just wanted to avoid getting sand on the burn and would do anything to prevent it. The shelter looked good actually, it had a roof and was big enough for 2 or 3 people.

"Okay, lets go then." Lowering the first aid kit, Leo slid her arm off his shoulder. Moving his arm behind her back, he held her legs with the other as he lowered her to the ground. "Sorry," knowing he'd caused some discomfort. "Everything alright? Well, besides.. yea." Opening the kit was another mess, and just like the plane, he was unfamiliar with it's contents. "Umm.. sorry, I don't know." Turning it and exposing its contents to Rhea, "Look like anything you could use there?" Gosh, you've gotten burned before, but that was only solder on the finger, not all up your body.

Ray let Leo move her into the shelter, she could tell he was being careful so she didn't say anything about the pain. He then opened the first aid kit and said "Look like anything you could use there?" Then he pushed it towards her. Rhea thought for a moment "hmmm well we can definitely wrap it up but what can we put directly on to it..." She sighed and picked through the case, looking at all the small bottles of medicine. "here read some of the labels..." She directed him and took out a few bottles reading the herself.

Leo was thankful she had an idea of what to do. "we can definitely wrap it up but what can we put directly on to it..here read some of these labels." "But I can't read," joking of course. Taking a handful from the kit, he dropped them in front of him. Miscellaneous ointments and pads at his feet. "gotta love bandaids.." searching through, he raised a question. "What's hydrocortisone?" Continuing on the search, he flipped and threw many things until finding 'burn'. He wasn't too intent on reading all the labels, and resorted to skimming. "Here we go. Now how we gonna do this?" Leo would do it, though he was still afraid of hurting her. Rubbing a girl's legs wasn't what Leo was worried about, but the pain was.

Rhea laughed a little bit at his joke, gee he really likes to lighten the mood. "You'd think they'd make it easier to read, what were they expecting...a plane full of doctors?" Rhea laughed it was true though why bother labeling this stuff when you could right BURNS, BLOOD LOSS and NAUSEA in big letters across each bottle. "Here we go. Now how we gonna do this?" She stopped looking through bottle and looked at the one he was holding "Here, you take this pad" She reached into the kit and gave him a gau "Put the stuff on the pad and damp it onto the burn" Rhea wasn't afraid of the pain, she just wanted the wound to heal as quickly as possible so she could walk right again. So she said casually "When ever your ready"

Leo took her laughter as a success. She'd turned her attention from the bottle to him. "Here, you take this pad." She was speaking more than she had before. Least she's not complaining. Damn, she's one tough son-of-a-gun. Taking the gauze, he listened to her directions. "Whenever you're ready"

"So, put it on the pad..." pouring some from the bottle to the pad. "..and on the burn." He paused shortly, forgetting that she had given him the okay. Leo was still careful when he started at her knee. "Like that?" What a stupid place to start. You'll have to go up then down, or down, then back up. Idiot

Ray watched him he was doing a good job and didn't seem like he needed any more instruction so she laid back and took in the pain grimacing as he padded the burn."Good job" She said while grinding her teeth. It was pouring pretty hard outside at this point and she figured it would be easier to fall asleep to rain. Ray could feel him continue to pad. He had started at her knees, going up to her thigh which was the worst part and then going back down the the easier part below her knee.

Chloe joined Rhea and Leo in the shelter just as it started to rain. She had been outside looking at the waves for quite awhile, not going in until she absolutely had to. She sat down next to Leo, who was busy wrapping up Rhea with a long bandage. Now that she was looking at it, it was a really bad burn.

"Wow, that burn is so... gross looking. I would hate to have that on my leg." She didn't really mean this in a rude way, she was just saying what was on her mind.
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Devon looked outside at the downpour of rain. "Stop. Just sit for a minute and rest your ankle, okay?" Emily said to him. She was right, his ankle was really starting to throb. Sitting down on the ground, he kicked off his shoe. Then, pulling off his sock, he grimaced a bit at the sight. It had turned a sick purple-green color. It probably didn't help that he carried Emily across a beach, but that was beside the point now.

"Yeah, maybe I could stand to rest this for a little while..." He agreed. Standing up, he hobbled over to the entrance. He let his head out into the rain, allowing the water to wash off the dried blood that had caked into his hair and made everything difficult. After he was sure it was clean, he stepped back in and shook his hair off like a dog.

"Well, that feels a lot better on my face now."

(OOC: I don't think the shelters have beds, considering that's too much to build)

Leo paused wrapping Rhea's leg only to watch Chloe enter the shelter. "Good job." "Thanks.." he mumbled. He continued to wrap her leg, a bit more cautious on her thigh, as it must of been a bit awkward on the other end. Got that over with. Going back down from her knee to her ankle, because of his poor planning. Rhea was now laying down as Chloe sat with him.

"Wow, that burn is so...gross looking. I would hate to have that on my leg." Leo agreed, though he wouldn't put it so harsh. "Is a bit gnarly ain't it. You're a trooper, I can tell you that." Finishing her leg, he put the rest of the supplies back in the kit. "All done. Think that'll help?"

Ray ignored Chloe's comments and could feel that Leo has about done wrapping it. She sat up as Leo said "Is a bit gnarly ain't it. You're a trooper, I can tell you that." She half smiled "Thanks" He had finished wrapping at it seemed tight enough, it wasn't bleeding very much so that helped. The stinging continued but she wasn't concerned, it would go down in time. After touching the wrap lightly she approve and layed back down eager to fall asleep and wake up to a new day of new obstacles. "Don't mind me I'm probably going to fall asleep" She said closing her eyes and adjusting her position slightly.

Timothy went and grabbed bottles of water and started carrying them back to the shelters. There was no way that Chloe girl was tired. He shrugged, trying to push all negative thoughts outside of his head. His mother had taught him better. That was when the rain started.

Forgetting the waters, he ran and took shelter with Leo, Rhea and Chloe.. "Darn...didn't think about this rain being so bad..." He'd say casually as the water dripped down his face and hair. The rain had washed away most of that soot and ash on his face. "Nothin like a shower right?" He'd say giving an awkward laugh. He was honestly trying to get out of the rain, and this just happened to be the shelter he ran into.

He held a bottle of water in his hand, though he was thirsty beyond a doubt, he was sure one of the girls needed the drink more than him. Coughing he'd hold it up. "Is anyone thirsty?" He'd carefully sit down and unwrap his shirt from his ankle. It was swollen that was for sure, a little discoloring not much, but did it THROB when it was unwrapped.

Grimacing he'd try to rub it, but changed his mind. All he did was rewrap it, and place the bottle of water in the middle of the circle.

Chloe thought she would be tired by now, since she had been doing so much work all day. Instead, she was quite the opposite. She slumped back and sighed very loudly. "I'm so booooored!" She said irritably. "I wanna dooo somethiiing!" She pouted and crossed her arms, sort of like a child who didn't want to go to bed.

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Devon turned to look at Emily. He really didn't feel like talking about rain to a chick. That didn't sound like him at all. "Well, I guess it's alright." He looked at the home-made bandage around her abdomen made out of his shirt. "Tomorrow we should probably get a proper bandage on that. I don't think that my shirt is too sterile..."

He lay down in the sand and looked up. The shelter wasn't completely sturdy, and he got the occasional drop of rain that fell onto his face. The day had gone by so fast that he didn't really take time to reflect on the fact that they were stranded on an island, and nobody would know where to find them. It was terrifying.

"I think we're all pretty much fucked."