Stand-by Me

Saving a Life

"Okay... on my count...1...2...3, lift!" Iain announces as the lift the small female body off the ground, she young woman screams in pain as they lift her up and carry her free off the collapsed building. The woman grabs Iain's arm and looks up at him before trying to remove her oxygen mask, "Try not to speak" Iain smiles as he tries to comfort her.

"Go! Go! Go!" Josh shouts and all the paramedics and fire service feel the room which is about to collapse, the get outside and place the young woman on the stretcher down on the floor while they reattach the oxygen.

"Help me! I'm going to die!" She screams in absolute agony...

Her world spins as she looks up at paramedics looking down at her, "Sam... Sam... stay with me" Iain says as he takes hold of her hand.

Sam's eyes roll again and she loses consciousness. "Okay, we've lost output... let's get her to the ED pronto!" Iain shouts to Josh who is driving...

The following vital hours are a blur to everyone around Sam who's going their best to save the young Paramedic from losing her life. Iain who is still covered in Sam's blood stands at the resus doors watching the events unfold, He doesn't want to lose his only friend, well his closest friend and colleague.

Connie, David, Ethan and Alicia work tirelessly on the young paramedics' body, even though there seems to be no hope a miracle happens for the fourth time of her doing into cardiac arrest, she is stable and able to be monitored and sent off for vital scans that could indicate to the team of doctors and nurses what is happening to Sam.

"Come on Iain, let's get you into some clean clothes" A familiar voice speaks from behind him, Iain looks over his to see Charlie smiling at him happily.

Iain sighs and follows Charlie to the staffroom and finds him some clothes, "Look, Charlie, I appreciate your help but I don't want to be fussed over, she's my best friend.I... L..." Iain cuts himself off and gets up quickly realizing what he's about to say and runs out the ED, straight to the ambulance station and changes into his everyday clothes.

Iain decides to go back to the ED but decides against it when he realizes he's just being overprotective of his work mate. He then heads to the pub with Louise and David and sits drinking a pint. For the next two hours, he sits with colleagues drinking trying to forget how critically ill same is as David has given an update on Sam's condition.

"So, the neuro team has been called for Sam, she's got a serious bleed on the brain, they're not sure if she'll pull through or not," David says to the group of colleagues who have formed around a small table in the corner in the pub.

"Poor Girl, and she's got no one. Should we pay her a visit soon?" Noel says to the group.

"I don't see why we should, Sam could be dead in the morning... from what I heard she didn't have her helmet on when she fell, she was asking for a death sentence" Louise says cold-heartedly.

"You can't say that!" Alicia speaks up as she's noticed Iain sat glaring at her.

Iain feels the rage building up, he can't get over what Louise had said about Sam, He stands abruptly and speaks up "I'll have you know Louise, Sam was wearing a helmet. She fell through a floor... these injuries she's got are a result of what happened, the helmet saved her from dying instantly... and I thought you had a heart. Don't stick your nose it where it's not wanted... let's hope you don't fall through a floor while out with the ambo crew!" Iain says and then downs his pint and leaves the pub and heads straight home.