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There was no possible way for him to survive this.
It was dark and cold and he was going to die.
Neal knew that, underneath the level of panic and desperation, he knew…Peter wouldn’t rescue him in time.
He was going to die, drowning (drowning, I’m drowning!), as the water filled the room around him, and he had nowhere else to go.
There was absolutely nowhere he could be to tread water, and he wasn’t one for holding his breath for long periods of time either.
He could already feel that burning pressure of ‘not enough time’.
It wasn’t fair.
Then again, most cases usually wound up to the point that ‘it wasn’t fair’ so that statement was more than a bit redundant.
Neal had reached the ceiling.
This was it.
Hold your breath and count to ten.
Sometimes he hated his brain, when it decided to play songs at random.
Adele’s voice in the background really wasn’t helping.
He had tickets to go see her in concert, but Peter wouldn’t let him go because they’d been in the middle of a case at the time.
He’d been rather disappointed he couldn’t go see her in person.
Maybe if he survived, he would ask Peter again to go and see her while the tickets were still good.
He tried to ignore his stupid brain as he searched frantically for some means of getting out of this little room, but the door was jammed.
It could only be opened from the outside.
There were no windows.
He was screwed.
Sorry, Peter, I tried…
Blackness began to overtake him, but right before he passed out, he thought for a moment that he could see light…
And then Kate’s fingers were reaching out to help him.
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The End