Treacherous Temptations [Chaennie]

Mayday

"MAYDAY! MAYDAY!"

Everyone outside the house froze as the panicked shout came over the radio. Jennie looked up from the mother she was fitting an oxygen mask to, her heart beating wildly as she looked around for a glimpse of blonde hair.

"Talk to me Whitlock," Jeon said.

"The stairs collapsed under Park. She has the boy wrapped in her jacket. She's lying in the hallway not moving. I'm trapped on the second floor."

"LET'S GO!" Jeon shouted to Taehyung and Martin and the three men ran immediately into the house.

"Luccas and Hart, grab the ten foot ladder and follow them in to get Whitlock," Byun instructed.

The two members of Engine 17 nodded mutely and dropped their hose to pick up the ladder before following Taehyung, Martin and Jeon. Just as the three leading men crossed the threshold the ominous piercing sound of a firefighter's mobility alarm sounded. Roseanne hadn't moved for thirty seconds.

The smoke was thick but the intense flames meant the hallway was surprisingly well lit. It didn't take long for Taehyung to spot a dark figure on the floor and point Jeon and Martin over to it. As the three men approached they saw Roseanne's helmet lying a few feet away from her.

"Park," Jeon said, leaning over and checking her pulse. "She's unconscious but alive."

"Check the kid," Martin advised.

Unzipping Roseanne's coat, Taehyung let out a sigh of relief as Kevin turned his petrified face to look up into his own.

"Alive and conscious. We're gonna get you out of here, buddy," Taehyung said with a reassuring grin before he zipped Roseanne's coat back up to keep the child protected from the brutal heat of the fire.

"Whitlock, you ok?" Jeon shouted up to the firefighter anxiously watching from above.

"Peachy," he replied.

"Here you go, Whitlock," Luccas called, as she and Hart propped the ladder against the splintered floorboards above.

"Right, get them out of here," Jeon said, pointing to Roseanne and the boy before turning to watch his other firefighter descend safely.

Taehyung nodded and wordlessly lifted Roseanne's limp body bridal style and made his way outside just as Whitlock began to climb back down the ladder.

As soon as Taehyung appeared from the flames, Jennie began to run. She left Kang who was checking the father's vitals and the mother who as sobbing hysterically, asking over and over again where her son was. A paramedic from another ambulance already had a stretcher and backboard set up to receive Roseanne but Jennie didn't care. As soon as Taehyung had laid the unconscious woman down, Jennie was by her side, pulling off the cumbersome oxygen mask, checking her pulse and looking desperately at the woman's eyelids, willing them to open and reveal sparkling green eyes.

"The kid's inside her jacket," Taehyung said as he pulled off his mask and wiped his sweaty face.

Jennie quickly unzipped Roseanne's protective coat and the small boy immediately wrapped her arms around her neck.

"Hey," Jennie said softly. "It's ok. You're safe."

The boy was crying. Jennie could feel his tears against her neck as she lifted him off Roseanne. She suddenly felt her own eyes begin to prickle.

"We've got this," the other paramedic said. "You take the kid and keep the family together."

Jennie couldn't argue with the logic but she hated the thought of leaving Roseanne, especially as she had just noticed a small pool of blood gathering beneath the blonde's head.