Where We Want To Be. A LINSTEAD Story

Chapter 29

Erin's pov

Just then Jay puts his hand on mine and squeezes. The color is starting to drain out of his face and he is having a hard time breathing and keeping his eyes open.

"Er I... I love you." He says before he closes his eyes and his grip on my hand loosens.

"No, no, no Jay. Jay stay with me. Where is that medic." I yell as a tear starts to run down my cheek.

We couldn't have come this close just to loose him.

After a couple more seconds the medics arrive with a stretcher. And hank comes up beside me.

"Erin, come on we have to go." He says gently lifting me by my arms.

Hank starts leading me out towards the door but I stop him.

"No. I'm staying with him." I say letting him know I'm not going to take my eyes off of Jay.

I step to the side and lean against the wall so I can watch the medics with Jay.

They now have him lying down on the backboard on the ground. They take the sweater off his chest and cut open his shirt. My heart sinks at what I see. Jays chest is covered with burns, bruises and cuts and it as a tinge of red because of all the dried blood. And to top it off he has a cut from one side to the other on his chest that is still bleeding.

"Get the pads." The first medic says.

The second one goes into their bag and grabs the defibrillator and the pads along with gauze and tape.

One puts the gauze over his cut and tapes it on while the other puts the pads in the right spots.

"He has no pulse. Start compressions." The other medical does as he is told and begins doing cpr.

I can see the line on the monitor shoot up every time he pushes down indicating a beat of his heart.

"Hold compressions." The first medic says. "Clear." She says as she places the paddles on the pads.

She shocks him and his back arches and his chest rises in the air and falls back down.

"Still nothing." The first one says as the second restarts cpr.

"Clear" She says again. The same thing as last time happens.

But this time I hear a Beep from the monitor then another. I look up and see the line is no longer flat on the monitor.

"We have a pulse. Let's get him to med now. Call them and tell them we are on our way." The woman says before they place themselves at the top and bottom of the backboard.

"Once my count. One, two, three" She says and on three they lift him up and place him on the stretcher.

They do up the straps to strap him into place then start rolling out to the ambulance.

"You can come in with us." The woman says to me as they pass us.

I make my way out and follow them to the ambulance. The lift him up and roll him in the back. I then jump in behind them and sit on the bench beside Jay.

I reach over and grab his hand squeezing it tight.

"Jay just stay with me it all going to be alright." I say as the doors to the Ambo close behind me.

After a minute I can feel the tries start to roll below me and the sirens turn on above.

It was a five minute drive to med from where we were.