Mockingbird (9-1-1 Fanfic)

Sick

"Amelia! Get off of there!" Eddie shouts. 

Millie looks up, making eye contact with her dad. She'd climbed to the top of his truck, trying to reach the branches of the tree he parked under. 

"It's okay, daddy. I won't fall." Millie shouts, reaching up for the branch. 

Millie can't reach the tree well enough to grip it, so she steps forward, and within a second, she's slipping. "Millie!" Eddie is screaming, watching his daughter slip and fall to the ground—the cement. 

Before Millie reaches the ground, someone grabs her, holding her close to their chest. Millie lets out a sob. "Shh, you're okay. I caught you." Buck whispers, heading back to Eddie, who had been frozen in his spot. 

"Oh my God," Eddie mutters as Millie reaches for him. 

"She's fine, Eddie. Just a little shaken." Buck says. 

"I'm sorry, daddy. I'm sorry." Millie sobs. 

He holds Millie close to him until she stops crying before he takes her inside to stay with Maddie. 

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"Okay, you've officially reached Fort Knox-level security," Chim says, climbing the ladder. 

"Oh, you think it's too much?" Maddie asks, stopping in the middle of the stairs. 

"Three motion sensors in the living room? Maybe if you're trying to keep Tom Cruise from getting his hands on your NOC list." Chimney says, leaving Maddie and Millie to look at him confused. 

"Mission Impossible?" Chimney shrugs, wondering how neither of them got the joke. 

"Sorry, I haven't seen it," Maddie says.

"My daddy only lets me watch kid's movies." Millie shrugs, leaving the adults to find her dad.

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"Maybe we pop the hinges off the door?" Eddie suggests, leaning on the wall. 

"Or we use the jaws of life," Buck says. 

"No, It has to fit. I measured it twice." Maddie interrupts them, stepping around Millie. 

"Can't you guys, you know, turn it around the other way?" Maddie asks.  

"Then the pizza will slide off," Buck says, nodding at the pizza they could've taken inside before the couch. 

"You have pizza on my new sofa?" Maddie sighs, grabbing the boxes. 

"It's on the plastic," Buck says, not that made it better. 

"You're in trouble," Millie whispers, passing him and following Maddie inside. Buck sticks his tongue out at the girl, and Eddie laughs, making Millie glare at them. 

Millie watches as Buck and her dad come inside with the couch. 

"Lift with your legs," Chimney says.

"Yeah, lift with your legs," Millie repeats as the couch finally sits on the floor, right where Maddie wants it. 

"Plates?" Eddie asks, grabbing the pizzas. 

"Kitchen, on the counter," Maddie says. 

"Let's go eat, bug." He says, nudging Millie to walk ahead of him.

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Millie watches from inside the firetruck as her dad and the rest of the 118 stop near Athena, Bobby's girlfriend. They are in a field where a News helicopter has landed on the bleachers. Millie watches in awe from the truck as the team works to get everyone out and turn the helicopter's blades off.