Alyssa opens her eyes. She feels pain all over. It hurts to breathe, it hurts to move. She was talking to her husband on the phone and before she knew it another explosion had gone off. The force flung her into the side of a house. She starts to rise to her feet, unable to completely stand up without hunching over in pain. She grasps her midsection right under her breasts. Even with small breaths each inhale causes stabbing-like pains in her chest.

She chokes on the dusty air. Instinctively she pulls the collar of her shirt up around her nose and mouth. She starts to stagger forward, shoving people out of her way, frantically looking for the three men there with her. "Alyssa!" she hears a voice behind her yell. She turns to the right and sees Aarif up against a beat up car. She hobbles over to him. As she gets close she notices he is wounded and bleeding from his leg. "Aarif!" she says as she get down on the ground beside him. "Oh my God, what happened?"

"I got hit with something," he says as he begins to whimper. "I don't want to look! How bad is it?" She scans his body over. He has a long piece of metal protruding from his leg.."You have some shrapnel stuck in your leg," she tells him. "Let's get you up."

Forgetting about her own pain she put Aarif's arms around her and begins to lift him up from the ground. He stands and she very slowly walks him around chunks of building and concrete scattered throughout the street. She sets him down right outside of the building. "Listen, I'm going to go in and look for Nick," she says.