Natalie had been hooking up with her teammate for some time, though they never made things official. Part of Natalie wanted to, yet things remained casual.

Until the crash, when Natalie’s mind had been changed. She’d realized just how precious their lives were, how quickly they could be gone.

Yet she was paralyzed with fear, frozen by the trauma, and nearly unable to speak. But Natalie wanted to approach her more than anything, to have her by her side.