Casualties - An Emergency! Fanfiction

our story begins

"Bye Dad!" Chris says, and I crouch down to hug him goodbye. "Bye Chris. Be good for your mother." I say, and Chris grins and runs back to his room.
I turn to Joanne. She smiles and stands on her tiptoes to kiss me briefly before saying, "bye, Roy. I love you-"
"Joanne." I interrupt her. "I know it's not early enough, but if you need anything, anything at all... You call me. Do you understand?" Jo rolls her eyes but smiles. "Yeah, all right, Roy. I'll be fine though, I'm only, like, 2 weeks in. You are aware." I nod. "You know it's just cause I don't want to come home to a grumpy you, an upset Chris, and left over pizza for dinner. Oh yeah, and that I love you. That's another pretty good reason." I shrug sarcastically and kiss her on the cheek one last time before i head out the door and into my nice, gleaming white ford and drive into Carson for work.

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I'm the first one to work that morning, I'm even before the cap. C-Shift is on a run, so I'm pretty lucky at that. I'm alone. That's because I wanted to get here early so I could tell Johnny the big news before I told any of the other guys. I called him and told him to get here early.
When John gets here, he has already dressed at his house. I'm already tying my boots. He smiles his famous crooked smile. "Mornin.'"
"Morning."
"What's the news?" he says. I grin.
"Jo's expecting." Johnny looks awestruck. "Again?! Boy or girl?" I grin again. We'd both been hoping for a girl. "Well, we don't know yet."
"God, I hope it's a girl."

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All the guys are delighted, and we've been brainstorming names.
I personally like the names Rebecca and Matthew, ever since I was young, Chet likes the names Gertrude and Leonard, Marco likes Maya and Juan, Mike likes Joanne Jr. or Roy Jr.
But Cap has some sense when it comes to names, having a set of fraternal twins a few years ago with his wife, Emily. Their names were Connor and Morgan. He suggested the names Emmalyn and Thomas.
I really like the name Johnny thought of, which was Cherokee. We'd call her Cher for short. It reminded me of the fact that Johnny and I are best buddies. He and our family are extremely close. Chris calls him "Uncle Johnny." For a boy, he really liked the name Kevin.
As I'm debating these name options in my head, deciding which ones to take to Joanne, I hear it. Johnny and Chet are at it again, this time arguing over THEIR names for MY child.

Then the alarm sounds. "Saved by the bell," I muse, and get into the driver's seat of the squad to listen to the man tell us where we need to go. "Squad 51. Woman down. 999007 Green St. 99007 Green St. Cross street Beach. Time out 7: 23."
"Squad 51, KMG 365."