Lights and Sirens

Falling

They were all in their own little world when the klaxon went off.'Suicide attempt' was the only thing that stuck in their heads. It took them all a moment to register that they had just got a call. They all ran to the trucks, climbed in and raced to the scene of the call. The trucks were swerving in and out of of cars and flying through red lights. They came to a sudden stop just at the base of 4 story building and everyone jumped out and looked up to see a man holding onto the rail of a balcony on the top floor.

"Ambo 61, Truck 81 and Squad 3 are on scene!" Gabby said into the radio.

"Ten-four" Dispatch replied.

"Truck. Squad. You go up to the fourth floor and get clipped in. Brett and i will stay on the ground and try and talk him down." She ordered.

"You sure that you got this?" Matt asked beginning to walk over to her.

"Yeah, just like any other call!" She answered with a smile. He nodded and began to walk away, leading his team into the building, with a worried look on his face.

When Truck and Squad were in position up behind the man, Gabby began to shout over the wind to try and talk him down. "Sir!"

"Don't talk to me!" He yelled back.

"We are here to help you! For a start, why don't you tell me your name and why you're up there!"

"My name is Adam, and I had an argument with my girlfriend. She told me that i should go and kill myself!"

"Would you listen to your girlfriend if she told you to go and jump off a cliff?.." Gabby paused and thought. "Wait, sorry, that was a bad example!"

A few of the guys laughed under their breath.

"What i am trying to say is that im sure that your girl wasn't being serious!"

"Oh, you don't know Bella!"

"Im sure that Bella loves you more than you realise." Dawson yelled over the icy breeze.

"Yeah, well i'm not so su...."

At that moment Adam slipped on the ledge and lost his footing, he was hanging on by a hand and was screaming. She grabbed her radio just as Casey and Severide surged forward and desperately tried to pull him up but it was too late. Adam plummeted to the ground and the whole team let out a breath of shock. Gabby and Brett watched helpless as he desperately grabbed onto anything he could to stop him from falling to his death but the ground was coming fast and a deep thud came through the air and a deep rubble through the floor. Everyone was frozen in their space then Gabby's voice came through the air.

"Guys, we need you down here!" She yelled grabbing the Ambu-bag and running over to Adam's side.

It was obvious that he was unconscious if not dead but she checked for his pulse anyway.

"I have a pulse!" She called out to Brett who was making her way over with the backboard and neck brace in her hands.

"We need to get him on that board as soon as we can." She said desperately as she tried to put the brace on.

Once they had got him onto the board and into the back of the Ambo, Dawson got into the driver's seat and sped her way to Chicago Med.

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After she and Brett had completed the handover Gabby made her way out to the desk to fill out the run form. Just as she picked up the pen she felt someone place their hand on her shoulder. She dropped the pen and turned around.

"Lisa?" She said, a little taken back.

"I thought it was you! How are you?" She asked. Lisa was about the same height as Gabby. She had olive skin and long, brown, straight hair.