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The remaining girls in Denver are waiting for their private plane for their flight to Tennessee to board, mere seconds later a flight attendant comes into the room where they’re all waiting and the lady says “Ladies your flight is ready to board” and Christen gets a sinking feeling in her stomach but pushes it off and grabs Tobins hand. They all walk out with their suitcases and hand them to the person packing the bags. All the girls text their families that they’re about to take off and that they will see them soon.
Moments pass and the captain comes back and gives the girls the safety talk and then goes to the cockpit and begins the take off process. The girls just chat and watch out the window as the world passes them by as they take off. Once they're in the air the tv’s come on and all the girls take advantage of that. Ashlyn just has a bad feeling in her gut so she doesn’t undo her seatbelt and Megan notices this and asks “Babe, are you okay, you know you can take off your seatbelt” as she goes to undo hers Ashlyn stops her and looks at her. Megan swears Ash looks like she's going to cry. So Megan brings her hands away from the belt and just holds onto Ash’s hand to try and put her at ease. The rest of the girls are okay. Becky and Alyssa and watching a movie they’ve never seen. Tobin and Christen are napping, and Alex and Kelley are talking about random stuff.
2 hours into their 3 hour journey the captain comes over the intercom and says “Ladies we will be experiencing some turbulence as of now so i please ask you to put your seatbelts on. All the girls quickly put the seatbelts on and go back to their activities but they are not more aware. Once the turbulence starts the girls know that something is wrong, they can hear talking up in the cockpit and soon they feel the plane start to go down. That’s when they all hear “BRACE FOR IMPACT” and everything goes black.
Tobin comes back to reality by someone screaming and Alex calling out to her, “TOBIN, TOBIN WAKE UP” and Tobin sits up slowly saying “What happened Alex” and Alex says with a wavering voice “We were in a crash Tobin and we have no cell service” and that’s when Tobin’s panic sets in “Where’s Christen?” and Alex says “I don’t know, I can only find Becky and she’s screaming” Tobin looks up and sees Becky writhing in pain, Tobin tries to stand up and is met with only pain and blood on her shirt. She walks a little on her ankle and finds a stick to use as a crutch. Tobin walks over to Alex and they both walk over to Becky and sees that her hip is clearly out of its place. Alex crouches down to help Becky sit up against the door of the plane that is conveniently right there and they leave her and see Megan still buckled into her seat and they wonder how her seatbelt stayed and no one else’s did. They shrug it off and try waking her up. Slowly but surely Megan wakes up and is confused but her hand goes straight for the back of her neck and Alex looks at the back of her neck and sees no obvious injuries and Tobin goes to help her unbuckle and they see that it’s jammed and that’s why so didn’t fly out like the rest of them.
They finally get Megan’s seatbelt undone and they start searching for the other girls. Tobin hobbles over to the wing of the plane and looks around it and she sees a foot peeking out and she walks around to see Alyssa unconscious with her leg under the wing of the plane. Tobin calls out to Megan and Alex and they come over as Alyssa comes to and she’s very quick to cry out in pain. So the girls try and lift the wing off of Alyssa’s leg and they are successful but only a little bit. Apparently that helped Lyssa’s pain because she calmed down slightly. They’d need Ashlyn to carry Becky over to Alyssa. If only they knew where Ashlyn was. So they settle on dragging Becky over to Alyssa which results in a lot of pai for all parties involved. Eventually they get Becky to Alyssa and they sit Becky up on the part of the wing that wouldn’t cause Alyssa pain and they both grab each other's hands and smile at each other. That cues the other girls to go find their significant others. If they only knew where to look…
Megan walks slowly to the beginning of the brush and sees a hobbling figure and it’s getting closer and she says “Who are you” as loud as she could with what she suspected were broken ribs and the person yells weakly back “CHRISTEN” and Tobin looks over and comes to Megan and walks as fast as she can over to Christen and they embrace is a soft hug. Alex and Megan look at each other and hug softly too, just wanting either Ash or Kelley.
Ash comes to and sees Kelley with a stick in her foot and she was screaming and she couldn’t see the rest of the plane. Ash gets up and goes over to a screaming Kelley and just picks her up, even though it kills her wrist and starts to walk in a direction, hoping it was right. As Ash walked her Ankle was slightly throbbing and Kelley was no longer screaming which was nice. She heard a distinct yell of “CHRISTEN” and put Kelley down and looked around and she saw smoke coming from somewhere in the distance and she also saw a flash of lilac and knew it was her lilac haired girlfriend and she picked up Kelley and started walking towards the smoke.
Tobin finally lets Christen go and looks her over and sees that her shoulder is hanging down and that seems to be her only major injury. Tobin opened her mouth to say something but nothing came out. So Christen says “I’m glad I found you all, I wasn’t sure I was following the right path” and Tobin just gives Christen a dopey grin and they walk together to the makeshift camp they've set up by Alyssa and Becky. Tobin gets Christen situated with a makeshift sling and they look over long enough to see Alex and Megan take off running towards only god knows what.
Alex and Megan were staring into the distance when Alex sees a flash of bright orange and remembers that Kelley is wearing her bright orange hat and takes off running and out of panic Megan follows her, not wanting to be alone any longer. Megan almost stops when she sees what they are running at but doesn’t only because she wants Ash’s protective arms around her. After a few more seconds of running the Alex and Megan reach their lovers and Ash sets Kelley down carefully and goes over to a now crying Megan and just hugs her. Megan winces when Ash first hugs her which makes Ash pull away and Megan looks up at Ash and says “My ribs might be broken and I have some pretty bad whiplash” Ash thinks back and remembers that she didn’t let Megan take her seatbelt off. She looks at Megan and Megan says “It was jammed, I wasn’t going anywhere” Ash just hugs Megan again, but much softer this time.
Alex leans down and brings Kelley into her arms and they hug. After a few moments of just holding each other Kelley says “Al, there’s something in my foot” and Alex looks down and as Kelley said. There was a stick in her foot, Alex started to cry and hugged her girlfriend again whispering that she was sorry that she couldn’t protect her from this. Kelley shushes her by kissing her and says “take me back to the plane so we can be more comfortable” Alex just nods and picks Kelley up and looks over and Megan and Ash and says “ We should get back to check on the others” and they nod and the four head back for “camp”.
The four make it back to camp and they go over to Christen, Tobin, Alyssa, and Becky and Alex sets Kelley down beside Christen leaning against the wing. “Ash says “Where’s Lyss” and Ash hears the small voice come from the ground and she gasps as she sees Alyssa’s leg being crushed by the plane. Ash speaks again “We have to get her out of there” and Tobin says “We’ve already tried Ash, it’s too heavy, and Christen and Becky can’t help and neither can Kelley, we’d really only be adding you” and Ash looks at the ground and says “It’s worth a shot” and they slowly move Becky and Kelley and Christen and they lift the with and Alyssa shifts away from where the wing held her captive and she gets away from it and the girls slowly drop it to the ground and rush to Alyssa who is now crying in agony.
Alyssa calms down and they slowly migrate over to the body of the plane and they get the girls in seats, bit not the same one’s they were sitting in earlier and they open up the cabinets and notice blankets and flashlights and matches and water and snacks. Alex and Megan grab all the stuff and then open another once to reveal more blankets and water. The third cabinet held a first aid kit. The fourth held more food. The fifth held a phone and Megan picked it up and dialed the number on the phone and someone picks up “Hello Denver airport, how can I direct your call” and Megan says “hello, my name is Megan Rapinoe and we've been in a crash” Megan swears she heard the woman drop her pen and then she quickly says “don’t hang up, we’re tracking the phones location, what are the injuries?” Megan says “No crew is with us anymore but all passengers are alive and injured, one has a dislocated hip and another a shoulder and one was stuck under the wing, please hurry!!” and the woman says “It’s going to be okay Megan, I know where you are now, people are coming to get you, If this phone rings, please answer it” and Megan says “okay do i hang up now” and the woman says yes and Megan hangs up the phone and smiles at Alex and says “Someone’s coming for us”.
Alex and Megan hug and they bring the stuff to the other girls and do the basic first aid that they know and divide up the blankets, lucky there’s enough for everyone. Megan finally sits down with Ash and leans into Ash’s chest and Ashlyn covers them up and for the first time in the last few hours Megan feels at peace. Alyssa on the other hand is freaking out that her career is over and looks at Becky who is laying beside her on the airplane floor and says “is my career over” and Becky shakes her head no, then Becky asks “is mine over” and Alyssa shakes her head no and they grab each other’s hands and just talk about anything else but what’s going on. Tobin and Christen and just staring into each other’s eyes like a newly married couple on their honeymoon, no talking or crying, just staring. Alex and Kelley are talking as well about absolutely nothing important. Suddenly Alex brings up babies and they start talking about a family.
Hours pass and the sun has set and rose and they hear helicopters landing outside. So Alex and Megan get up and see a bunch of medical personnel get out and come over to them and ask them questions and slowly Megan goes over to Ash, and Alex goes to Kelley. The people come in and take one couple at a time. Ashlyn, Megan, Kelley, Alex in one helicopter and Tobin, Christen, Alyssa, Becky in the other. They slowly take off and safely make it to Tennessee and to a hospital there. The second helicopter circles around the city a little bit while the first one unloads and soon the first one takes off so the second one lands on the helipad and the girls are taken in one by one in the hospital.
Becky wakes up to the sound of beeping and looks over to see Alyssa sleeping peacefully in the bed next to her and tries to reach out to her and she hears a voice “Hey Becky, it’s Julie can you hear me” and Becky nods and Julie says “she’s okay, they gave her a sedative because she was freaking out that you weren’t awake after your surgery so they had to put her out” and Becky nods and looks at Julie who looks like she hadn’t slept for 3 days and Becky reaches a hand to Julie who grabs it and says “It’s gonna be okay now Jules, it has to be” Julie nods not knowing what to say to her best friend.
Kelley instantly feels that her foot is no longer the heaviest limb on her body and looks down and wiggles her toes, just to make sure. Bad idea, it hurt a lot and Kelley hears a voice “Now why would you do that” and she looks over and Alex has a bandage on her head and a bandage on her nose. Kelley reaches for Alex and is gifted with Alex’s hand and smiles and says “I had a stick in my boot” in a horrible western accent. Which makes Alex and Kelley laugh, they’re interrupted with a voice that makes them remember that they are safe “Good to know kell will still be making her jokes” and Allie smiles at them and all feels okay again.
Ashlyn wakes up, looks over to her right immediately and sees Megan looking back at her. Ash smiles at Megan and she smiles back and says “I missed you while you slept babe” and Ash says “I missed you while i slept baby” and they hear a voice that drags them from each other’s loving gaze, “good to know that you two will still be just as sappy” and they both giggle a little at Syd’s words and they go back to staring into each other's eyes. Syd just rolls her eyes and goes back to thanking every god that her best friends are okay.
Christen wakes up with a start and yells out for Tobin and she is calmed by a voice that she knows really well “I’m right here baby girl, I’m right here” and she lays down as a nurse comes in and check son them “you guys okay in here” and Tobin responds “As okay as we can be” and the nurse nods and walks away, another voice can be heard and Christen swears her heart sunk even more when she heard the tears in Mal’s voice “I’m sorry Chris, I wish I could have been there to help you” and Christen shakes her head at the teenage girl and reaches a hand out, Mal accepts Christen's hand and Christen says “Mallory, I never want you to be in the situation I was in, okay, that would kill me” and Mal nods and holds Christens hand as Tobin holds Christen and some normalcy floods back into their now even crazier lives.