The New P.D. Member ↠ will halstead

She's Coming To Intelligence?

When she came to, she couldn't hear. There was only a whistle in her mind. Fire was surrounding her as she laid on the floor. She must have hit her head pretty hard when the explosion made her fall back, but she couldn't remember that.

She started coughing, her lungs as if they were on fire. She needed air quickly, otherwise she would suffocate to death with the smoke. Teresa held onto the memories of the gas chamber. She had survived worse things, she was a goddamn Marine. She had to come out of a fire alive.

She started getting up and looking around, to find a way out, but it seemed like the fire was blocking all exits.

"Shit!" She could barely hear her own word when she saw a pregnant woman on the floor.

Teresa got to the woman and tried to check if she had any pulse or if she was breathing. She couldn't be sure, but she knew the woman had to get out of there as quickly as possible for both her and the baby to make it. Taking all her strength she had she put her arms below the woman's armpits and stood up, making most of the woman's body to be lifted, just like she did a thousand times in the Marines, either in practice or action. But, she had almost no oxygen going in her lungs since the smoke was everywhere, and as it was hard for her to breathe, it was super hard to carry the woman.

She put the woman down and they pulled her up back again with a scream. She looked at what seemed an opening between the flames. Just when she was looking someone showed up. A firefighter. Finally.

Teresa fell, softening the unconscious woman's fall in the process so that there was no extra danger for the baby. The firefighter she had seen was followed by two others. He gave some orders and the other two went deeper into the restaurant and into the flames and approached Teresa.

"I'm going to help you." He had his mask on but made sure Teresa could hear. "I got this woman. You just follow me close okay?"

Teresa nods, unable to speak.

She sees the firefighter easily pick up the woman and carry her. Teresa stood up as well and then the firefighter turned his back on her and started walking to the door, leading the way for Teresa to walk through safely. At first, that was what she did, but the lack of oxygen and the amount of smoke in her body quickly took its tool and she fell unconscious.

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Teresa woke up with a deep gasp, since the last thing she remember was not being able to breathe. And then she panicked as she realized she had a tube down her throat. Her heart rate rose even more when she started remembering what had happened and the feeling of not being able to get air in her lungs.

Quickly, a nurse came to her side soon followed by a doctor.

"Teresa, I'm doctor Will Halstead." The red-headed says quickly. "I'll take the intubation out so you can breathe on your own, okay?"

He waited for her to nod and carefully made her lay back down again and started removing the tube with the right next to him to help Teresa when the tube was completely out. Will Halstead passed the tube to the nurse and took from her some paper towels to help Teresa with the saliva that was coming out because of the intubation.

"Just breathe normally, you're fine." He caresses her back and she leans forward to breath better. Will gets his stethoscope and puts it on her back to hear her breathing as she tried to calm down.

"Deep breath in, Teresa. Just calm down. You're fine."

Slowly but surely Teresa breathing regulates, and she lays back down in her bed.

"You inhaled a lot of smoke, but you'll be fine. You did stop breathing and that caused your heart to stop, but the paramedics were quick to respond when the firefighters got you out of the restaurant. They gave you oxygen and did compressions on your chest. When you got here, I had to shock you, but after one your heart was back to beating and you continued to get oxygen in your lungs with the intubation that was needed to aid you since you could barely breathe on your own."