RESCUE - Part 2

Chapter 44 - your wife is dead

WHIP POV

"HELP" I ran over to the paramedics that had just arrived "I'm sorry sir, we need to see to a heart attack" "NO you NEED to see my sister over there who's got no pulse!" "Whip! Itch is here!" Spence shouted to me as the paramedics wen tower to the other patient, I ran back over to Charlie, Spence and now itch and maxi "my god how'd you get here?" "Itch stole a motorbike" "I didn't steal I borrowed..." I hugged them tightly "hey guys....I still can't feel a pulse and she isn't breathing" Itchi got out our equipment, I exposed her chest, the paps, shooting away, anything for a bit of juicy detail "I can't start CPR, the pressure we'd have to put in will cause more damage with the glass....maxi, get the defib" we carefully took her off the car, with the help of the lads and laid her carefully on the floor, placed pads on her chest and stood back "CLEAR!" Maxi cried as he pressed the button, her body lifted and dropped as Spence felt for a pulse, "go again" "CLEAR!" He shouted as her body took another shock "still noting, COME ON CHARLIE!" "One more time....maxi go" "CLEAR!" He shouted once more, as her body jumped violently "Spence?" I looked over to him, he felt for a pulse, hesitated, before shaking his head "....no...no no there's a pulse, there has to be a pulse!" "Whip...it's not there..." He looked at me before placing Charlie's hand across her chest "where is she?!" We suddenly heard voices trying to battle through the crowds "HERE!" I stood up to be met by paramedics "let us through tell me the basics" "she's been shocked three times, there's no Pulse she bled out a lot and please help her!" "Okay Dawson get me the epinephrine" "epinephrine what's that?!" "Spence step back...we're giving her a shot of adrenaline before we get her in the Ambo and start to defib her again, we'll get her back, have you alerted any kin?" "No I'll phone her husband now!" I fumbled around for my phone before dialling mouse, leaving bloodied fingerprints where I pressed the numbers on the screen *whip can't talk now, just about to eat bye* no...no he didn't just hang up on me, I dialled him again *whip I'm about t-* "YOUR WIFE IS DEAD AND YOU'RE MORE FUCKING BOTHERED ABOUT FOOD" there was a silence, it wasn't meant to come out like that *what...* it was barely audible "mouse...she...she's been in an accident and...and we can't get a pulse...she....the paramedics are working on her now...mouse I know you can't get here quick but for the love of god please try!" There was another silence "MOU-" *she...she's dead?....ar...are you joking me...is this some serious sick prank because-* "look online Michael....there's plenty of photos, Spence is in the Ambo with her, they've just set off, I'm gonna follow with itch and maxi" *whip she can't be dead....* "Michael I need to go" I hung up the phone and jumped onto the motorbike with maxi as Itchi had gone in the Ambo.

They'd whisked her off and left the four of us, stood there, covered in blood "hello are you injured?" "No...we....we came with Charlie...we, Charlie Jenkison...she, she was dead and we, we don't kn...know what, what they're doing is...is is she alive?" "Okay guys I need you to go to this room, as soon as she's done well bring her in, I can say they've brought her back to us, they've taken her into theatre, they're giving her the treatment she needs...follow me" she took us all into the room, and brought us refreshments.

Maxi was pacing, itch sat in the chair, Spence was greeting the firemen as they came in, one at a time after they'd been checked out, I just leant against the wall staring at the empty bed, "hey whip you alright?" "Yeah....no...I don't know" I looked at Cruz, who had his arm in a sling "she'll pull through" "but at what cost...she had no heart beat for a while, which means no oxygen got to her brain for a while and -" "you're panicking and over thinking....she'll be fi-" "and that's not including the big piece of bloody glass in her stomach!" "Whip....calm down, she'll pull through its Charlie, and we will deal with whatever it is we need to when we come to it" "I know I just, she's so much to me" "she's a lot to us all...look when they bring her in, she's not going to be herself for a while and we need to prepare ourselves for that, but she is still going to be Charlie, we can't treat her any differe-" he was stopped by the doctors wheeling her into the room, her eyes closed, her face scratches cleaned up and stitched, the blanket tucked in neatly around her frame, her arms down by her side "okay boys, it was a bit hit and miss in there she's lost a lot of blood, she'll be waking up shortly, we just need to let you know, and we will explain to Charlie when she wakes up, we've fixed her stomach, the glass hadn't caused any major damage, we've had to remove her appendix, and part of her liver, but the main issue is that the impact has caused some swelling around her spinal chord" "she's gonna be paralysed" Itchi stood up and walked over to her, "we don't know how long for, it could be forever, or she could get feeling back in her legs, but the percentage is low" there was a silence that went around the room, no one knew what to say, "when she wakes, we'll give her a check, make sure everything so okay and them well leave her to you, she'll need to stay in hospital for a while, just because of the severity of her injury, but she's in good hands with her friends, family and hospital" "thanks doc" I hugged him tightly before letting him walk out the door.

It Was late at night, maxi had gone to the tower to fill in the lads, Spence had gone to get us a load of food and Itchi was curled up asleep on the chair, I sat next to Charlie, just stroking the back of her soft hand, "any sign of her waking yet?" Spence handed me a bar of chocolate "no, she's just...sleeping....thanks mate" he sat down next to me "how well, is she gonna take being paralysed?" "Not very...." I signed into the coffee cup "we'll pull her through this" "can I ask you something?" I turned to Spence "sure shoot!" "Was she wearing a seatbelt?" "Yeah she was why?" "Why the hell did she fly through the window if she had a seatbelt on?!" You could see him thinking "there's no sign of her waking yo yet...fancy coming to look at the truck?" "Let's go" I nodded as we left Itchi asleep with a note.

When we got to the scene they'd swept a a lot of the glass up, police tape were cordoning off the area, "come on quick" Spence lifted the tale up as we both walked under it, climbing up the truck we looked inside, Spence shining his torch, I grabbed Charlie's belt..."Spence...." "Yeah?" I lifted the belt up "it's been cut...and restitched, but not enough to hold the force if anyone crashed..." "So you're saying that-" "someone...has tried to kill Charlie" I looked at Spence as I held the belt in my hand....