Dr. Redheaded Neighbor - Will Halstead

Code Red

A few weeks later

Pushing opened the building door I let Maxon walk out first and I let it shut closed behind me. I walked down the steps and onto the sidewalk since I had made it a routine to walk him. Maxon's tail wagged happily from side to side. Will had already gone into work and he wouldn't be back until really late tonight. My phone started ringing in my pocket till I pulled it out. "Hey Will, what's up?"

"I was just wanting to hear your voice. I'm on my lunch break so I had time to call you." He responded through the phone.

I smiled even though he couldn't see it. "Awe that's nice."

"Well, you wanna know something else. I think it's time you officially meet my brother in person." He suggested.

I snorted out a laugh thinking about most of the stories he told me about Jay. "Will, I love the idea. But don't you think that I've basically already met your brother by the number of stories you told me."

"Maybe. But you should still meet him officially in person. Now that you aren't clear across the world looking for explosives."

I sighed sitting down on one of the nearby benches. Maxon sat down at my feet with his ears pointed almost upright in the air. "I suppose you're right."

"I'm a doctor so."

"William!" I scolded.

He came back at me hating when I called him that. "You know how I feel about that."

"I'm sorry. How can I get you to forgive me?" I chuckled back at him.

He replied back. "Come to Molly's later and meet my brother in person."

"Fine Halstead. Just don't be so pushy about it - ah!" I winced feeling some pain in my right leg where I moved my hand over the brace and the bandage that was underneath. I had been instructed somewhat on how to change the bandage and put the whole brace back together by Dr. Owen.

Somehow Will could sense something wasn't right. "Mallory, talk to me. Are you okay?"

"It's just some pain in my leg." I winced a second time looking down at my leg hoping it would pass.

Will's concerned voice came back at me. "Mallory, hey. You should call an ambulance and they'll bring you here."

"Will, I'll be okay - ah shit!" I attempted to just get up and start walking it off but the next time I looked down at my leg a third time noticing some blood coming from my bandages. Maxon began barking and caught my body before it hit the sidewalk and I blacked out. "Will, call an ambulance..."

The next time I opened my eyes I was blinded by the ED emergency entrance lights that hung above my head. My back was laying on a push gurney and I heard a few medics gathered on either side of me. "Female in her early 30's, bleeding from her right thigh, passed out in the ambulance briefly. Got the call from someone in this ED"

"That'd be me. Dr. Halstead." I blinked through some tears looking forward to see Will rushing over to me. "Mallory, oh geez. Okay do you know where you are?"

I coughed out. "ED - Will where's - Maxon?"

"She had a dog with her when you found her correct?"

A paramedic replied. "Yes."

"Where's the dog now?" He asked her.

Another person from the ambulance came inside the door escorting Maxon towards me on a leash. "Here he is, Dr. Halstead."