Eva “Papi” Torres

Just as Papi had managed to match Carmen’s speed, she went faster. Sighing from the strain they were both putting on themselves just to get to this woman, Papi quickened her pace as well. She wasn’t sure where she got the extra burst of energy, maybe it was the excessive coffee drinking on the plane, but she was happy to have it when she was able to reach out and grab Carmen’s ankle.

She felt Carmen tense up and that brought back a whole other set of memories. The kind that brought an inappropriate smile to her face. "Whoa, slow down chica."

Phyllis Kroll

"Excuse me, I’m…"

"Hold this down tight, lady! We have to stop the bleeding!

Phyllis scrunched up her nose at the man, and pushed her sunglasses up her nose further after seeing the bleeding woman he was standing over. "I don’t think so. I’m looking for my husband."

The stressed, overwrought man grabbed her by her expensive collar and dragged her down to the sand. He forcefully placed Phyllis’ hand on top of the gaping wound in his wife’s abdomen. "Lady, if you know what’s good for you, you’ll stay there and hold that tight while I go find that doctor."

"Do you know who I am?!" Phyllis shrieked and pulled her now bloodied hand away from the dying woman. "Besides, I might have considered helping her, but just look, she’s already gone."

Wailing with sorrow, the man angrily wrapped his hands around both of her arms, shaking her. "It’s all your fault! If you had just shut the fuck up and helped!"

Phyllis, rather abruptly, kneed him in the groin and left him squirming in the sand. She thought briefly about the certificate of completion she received for a self-defence course and smiled.

Shay McCutcheon

"Sorry, mom, did I hurt you?" He pulled his hand back, a bit freaked out by the bloody cloth.

Paige Sobel

"Jared! Please be okay." Paige’s voice was getting hoarse from the little bit of salt water she had swallowed, but she kept yelling anyway. "Jared Michael Sobel!" Her eyes were flittering all around the wreckage faster than her brain could catch up with the images and she finally realized she needed to just slow down.