casualty Ruby & Archie

Chapter 8

Ruby's POV

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Archie and I have decided to keep our relationship a secret until we've figured out what this is. i text her good morning and head to work I'm a bit early so i have time to take the handover from the nightshift, usually they just leave it on the break room desk or Jan does it. As they leave Iain arrives "hi Ruby, good weekend?" i blush remembering waking up to Archie cooking breakfast "yeah, you?" "not too bad went golfing with some mates". Then we get a callout "let the madness begin, 3006 to control, what've we got?" he says as we jump in and get moving. 20 minutes later we crash through resus my eyes immediately search for Archie. I find her and push the trolly towards the empty bed "Jack Garrwenn 24, came off his motorcycle 20 minutes ago in a collision with a cyclist who is on her way in the second ambulance with minor injuries, He has 5 broken ribs, a broken arm and a nasty head wound, he's had 10 mils of saline and 15 mills of Codine". I say and help lift him over to the bed thanks guys we'll take it from here, the familiar voice of Ciaran says and i can feel the power of Archie's eyes rolling even with my back turned. i move out with Iain and mouth "good luck" to Arcie, she grins and gets on with treating the patient. "i didn't know you and Archie were friends" Iain says i slightly panic underneath but reply, cool as a cucumber "yeah she trains with me at the Gym upstairs, well before it got water damaged." "Oh that's nice" he says later on after a fairly quiet shift the radio crackles to life "All available ambulances, respond to a multiple  train collision near Holby train station", "ok folks"Ciaran says "we need all hands on deck Archie i want you to go out with Iain and Ruby as a paramedic doctor and Jade as nurse, now let's get to work". 

Archie's POV 

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I jump into action throwing on the green coat and sprinting out with Ruby and Iain, the scene is utter carnage two trains collided with each other. tipping one over and smashing and derailing the other we're first on the scene so I set up triage not the tracks while Iain and ruby go on search and rescue, 5 more ambulances arrive in the space of 10 minutes some ferry critical patients back to Holby and St. James's and other bring teams of doctors from our hospital and others, i finally get a break and go to help Ruby free a trapped  woman. "Hi Red, what do you need me to do as i survey the complex way things have fallen on the poor woman, moving one could result in the entire wall collapsing on her, it's like a dangerous game of Jenga.  "hod this while removing that and i'll do the same on the other side, the fire department is working on making sure the train, doesn't collapse on triage" she sighs worriedly, "ruby, you've got this" I say placing my hand on hers. " yeah, I've got this" she says and starts clearing away the debris, with my help. finally after 6 hours everyone has been taken to hospital as, i do a final sweep making sure there isn't anyone left i take in the the white sheets covering the 30 people who didn't make it, which will be taken to the mortuary before the camera crews start buzzing around. "you can't save everyone Archie, but we probably gave more people a chance to pull through" Iain says, I stay silent watching Ruby pack up the ambulance. "plus, I know Ruby's grateful for your help, she's really looking forward to your date tomorrow" he says smiling "how did you....?" I ask "Ruby's a terrible liar I guessed there was something going on after you kept giving her '"lifts'" home" he says "come on or she'll have our guts for garters for letting her pack up all by herself". I smile and help Ruby now we just have to get past the press.

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