Open Ocean

"You can't be serious." Jackie replied.

"I am completely serious, my lady." The Gentleman said, his gun outstretched. "Do you doubt my sincerity?" Both women, looking at their captor's gun, shook their heads. "Well, I'm glad that's settled, then. Well, ladies, it's been quite a remarkable time, and I hate to see you leave this early, but I've got business to deal with. Fare thee well, maidens."

Jackie and Evelyn stood, straining to turn their necks and look at each other. Both just looked out the open door and back to the Gentleman, confused. The Gentleman turned back, realization dawning on his face. "Oh, yes, just step out if you can. I'd prefer not to get forceful."

The handcuffed women shuffled in the plane , looking down to the water below and back at each other's naked bodies. Noticing this, the Gentleman sighed. "Though perhaps I must. My apologies, but I'm afraid we must part ways now."

Before Jackie and Evelyn could ask what he meant, the plane suddenly shifted to the right and they found themselves falling through the air, tumbling over each other.

Seeing the water quickly approaching, Jackie tried to reach back and grab the cord that would deploy the parachute, but Evelyn's arms were in the way. "Evie!" She yelled over the blowing wind. "We need to pull the chute." Evie just nodded, tears streaming down her face and flying up above her.

The two pilots reached back to the cord on the parachute in unison, their handcuffed wrists keeping them in lockstep. At the same time, they pulled the cord and saw their momentum reduce drastically as the parachute deployed. Since the pack was wrapped around Jackie, Evelyn was hanging below her as they fell, holding onto her fiance's hands for dear life.

As the two pilots caught their breath, they looked up to watch their plane recede into the distance, their purloiner at the controls. Resignedly, they looked down just in time to be swallowed up by the waves, the water freezing to their naked skin.

The parachute fell onto them, covering their vision as the two humiliated castaways were left alone to wonder: what now?