Betrayed

Teamwork is needed

Hello everyone! At the start I want to apolise for the low action in this chapter. It is probably one of the worst I've ever written. But I don't have better version and I really want to achieve my goal, so here it is anyway...
I hope you will have at least a little fun while reading:)

Immediately Arnold and Elvis put out the fire on the branch of a tree while Sam and Ellie ran after the branch to see how Penny encouragely smiled at Emily, however the younger woman avoided her gaze. Sam and Ellie streched out their hands to help Penny stand up after they noticed with relief that she seemed healthy.

"Are you alright, Penny?" Sam asked worriedly when Penny stood next to him and looked him in the eye.

"Yes, nothing happens to me" she answered hardly, because Ellie gave her such tight hug. "Are you alright, Emily?" Penny turned around to strech her hand to Emily as well. The woman shyly looked up at Penny and hesitantly took it.

"Why did you risk your life after what I did to you?" Emily asked guilty.

"All life matters, no matter to who it belongs to" Penny replied briefly, shrugging her shoulders. Then she looked directly at Sam once again. "Do you need help?" Penny asked and Sam had to smile at the thought how similar they both were. She also couldn't keep herself away from work if she had an oppurnity.

"It will be pleasure for us" Sam answered embarrassed. Penny quickly changed and came to her friends. "Alright team, we still have a lot of to do. Elvis and I go to the shed as long as it is still safe of fire. Ellie, Arnold and Penny, you try to take this fire under control" Sam ordered when Tom helped them with water from the air. It put out some part of fire, but there were still work to be done.

"Wait a moment, Sam. Have you forgotten Emily is also here?" Penny asked surprised. It wasn't in Sam's style, at least in that Sam's side he has shown her. As the answer, Sam shrugged his shoulders and wanted to go to Jupiter, but hesitated when he felt Penny's heavy gaze laid on him. "Sam, we need all hands, so why you didn't order Emily what to do?" Penny asked a little angryly.

"After what she did to you" Sam and the rest of Penny's friends were speechless. And they stood without word even when Penny came to Emily, who were sitting on the ground with her back leaning on Jupiter, and helped her stand up, then Penny leaded her to the team. "Teamwork is needed here. So lay all the mistakes behind and do what we need to do. Besides I'm now here and as it seems now we have to do it, because as a team we can fight this fire, but alone not" Penny said sternly.

"Roger that, Penny!" all firefighters replied, standing straight. Then the rescue action started. Sam and Elvis quickly helped Norman, Sarah, James and Mandy get out of the shed and then leaded them to Hydrus when they waited while Sam and Elvis came back to help extinguishing the fire. Emily kept the look on pressure of water while Ellie and Penny fought the fire with Jupiter's hoses, Arnold with Venus' ones. With help of Wallaby 2 the fire fall asleep soon. Sam brought the children back to Pontypandy on Hydrus, Elvis and Ellie and Arnold packed all the hosses to vehicles when Penny tried to talk with Emily, but without any success. Even when she decided it was a time to go back to fire station and sat after the wheel of Venus with Emily on the other seat, it was still heavy silence between two women, only interupting by either Elvis or Ellie or Arnold calling Emily over the radio, when they lost the view of Venus in Jupiter's looking-glass.

Penny was so thoughtful that she didn't notice how quickly they reached the Pontypandy Fire Station. She was insecure when she thought what would wait for her there. She got a phone call from Boyce to come to fire station this afternoon right before she saved Emily's life. When she finally decided to go off the Venus, Chief Fire Officer Boyce and Station Officer Steele had alrady been waiting for her. She felt how the gazes of team laid on her, but to her own surprise they weren't heavy.

"I'm sorry, firefighter Morris. As I heard you did amazing job today" Chief Fire Officer Boyce shook her hand in congratulations.

"I was just doing what was meant to do. Of course if I could do it back again"

"We're proud we have someone like you, firefighter Morris, as a part of our firefighting family" Chief Fire Officer Boyce ended, taking step back to let Penny's friends a little space to greet their colleague back with them.

"And what goes for you, Emily Jacobs..." Chief Fire Officer Steele continued, turning around to look at younger firefighter. "As a result for your actions, I mean cutting security lines of stage, risking people's lifes and getting you teammate in trouble which cost her her job, you can't be a firefighter anymore" he announced. Emily turned in her helmet, walkie talkie and badge. She knew it has to be that way and she agreed with her fate.

When Chief Fire Officer Boyce went on the street, all Pontypandy firefighters gathered around Penny and they were happy she was back. Radar jumped around them, barking and frisking while they talked how good is to have Penny back as a second team leader.

"I told you everything would be back to normal someday" Sam joked teasingly.

"You all told" Penny answered mischeviously and when she looked at Sam in this shy way he loved he noticed she slightly blushed. Or only his eyes were playing wrong game with him at that moment? "Excuse me for a moment" Penny apoligise and managed to go back to Venus where she found Emily.

"Are you alright?" Penny asked sitting next to her old friend on the floor.

"Yes" Emily mumbled weaping her eyes. "Why are you asking me if I'm good after what I did to you?"

"I'm not a kind of person who hate people. I forgive" Penny replied casually.

"Could you... Could you forgive me?" Emily asked when the tears began to run down her cheeks again.

"Of course" Penny gave Emily a friendly hug.

"You forgive really too easyly, don't you?" Ellie's mischevious voice broke a short moment of silence. She kneelted down next to them and, to their both surprises, she gave them hug too.

"I know" Penny answered playfully and three women laughed.