Not a lot of Nathan and Maxie stories, so I'm doing one.
I don't own the copyrights to any sentences that I use. They solely belong to GH and ABC.
I'm not a medical student or doctor and I pretend to play one when I write. Any medical term that I'm not using correctly, feel free to tell me and I'll correct it.
My imagery beta is more than willing to correct any errors that need to be corrected.
I didn't like how they had the judge tell Maxie that she couldn't see Nathan on their first date or how he and his spies watching Maxie's every moves, so they have no bearing in this story. My rant about the current Naxie s/l will follow this chapter.
General Hospital: Nathan and Maxie(Naxie)
The Shot: True Love Comes Once in a Lifetime
Chapter 1
Anna, Dante and Nathan were waiting on the final arrangement on transporting of Fiason when suddenly there was a hail of shots coming from the entrance to the PCPD. They looked around as they took cover where they could.
"Drop your weapon and come out with your hands up." an officer calls out
"Hand me the keys or the hostage will died," the kidnapper shouts out the reply.
"You don't want to add that to the already list of crimes you have done." replies Anna.
"Next shot is to her head if yo don't throw me the keys to the van," he answers back.
The next thing they hear is the masked man coming out from behind the armed van and shoots the gun in Anna's direction as she takes cover.
An officer looks around and spots Nathan lying down and yells, "We got a man down."
Anna turns and see Nathan on the ground with his hand trying to stop the blood from escaping.
"Stop shooting," she yells. "Nathan, are you okay?"
"I'm fine" he tells her.
"Dante, give him the keys"
"Anna, there are seven of us. We can take him." Dante states.
"Just give him the keys before he kills Sam." she explains.
Dante tosses the keys and the gunman throws Sam against the wall knocking her unconscious.
They shoot at the van as it leaves the driveway.
Anna hollers at them to stop firing their weapons and they immediately stop.
She tells one of the officers to call the ambulance and asks for his handkerchief to stop the bleeding from the wound.
"How are you doing, Nathan?"
"I'm fine, ma'am"
"Don't ma'am, me! If you don't remember when I hired you; I told you to call me Anna, not ma'am."
"Yes, Anna."
"Someone check on Sam", she asks. "How is she?"
Dante goes to where Sam is down and he calls her name. "Sam, are you okay?" asked Dante.
Sam groans as she replies that she is a little sore but okay. He helps her walk over to where Nathan and the police commissioner are. Anna helps Sam kneel besides Nathan and asks Sam to keep pressure on the wound.
Again Anna asks for an update to where the ambulance is.
The officer on his walkie-talkie replies, "They are about ten minutes out."
"If they don't get here soon, we'll going to have to take him ourselves."
"How are you holding up?" asked Sam. "I hate to tell you this but I'm not a very good nurse and I hope you don't bleed out because of it."
"I'm sure you'll do fine," responds Nathan as he tries taking a deep breathe as its getting harder for him to breath and staying awake.
"How are you doing?" asks Nathan
"ME? I'm doing fine. I'm not the one sporting a bullet wound to the chest," replies Sam.
Nathan's breathe hitches as he tries keeping his eyes open.
"Nathan!" Sam shouts. "Don't close your eyes. Focus on me."
"I'm trying..." says Nathan as he tries to focus on taking a breathing.
"Nathan, PLEASE don't do this to Maxie! I don't think you want to be on Maxie's bad side, do you?" the former hostage asks.
"No, I don't but... I can't hold on much longer... Sam... tell Maxie... make a good mother and I lo..."
"Nathan... Nathan, stay with me. I'm not going to be the one to tell Maxie that you didn't make it, Sam shouts, "Hurry... He's not breathing"
The ambulance pulls up to the police station and the paramedics get out and rushes to their patient.
"What his name?" one of the medics asks.
Sam replies, "Detective Nathan West."
"Nathan, can you hear us?" They got no respond.
They first stabilized his neck with a C-collar and his back with a backboard for precaution reasons in case the bullet had bounced around and hit his spine.
"He has a GSW to the upper right chest," explains one medic.
The other one hooks the heart monitor to Nathan's chest and started an IV drip and checks his blood pressure and calls out, "BP is 190 to 120. He's tachycardia."
The paramedic gets out the defibrillator to shock his patient's heart twice before it started beating correctly. They do final checks before Nat is safe to be loaded on the stretcher and in the ambulance for transport to GH.
Against their better judgment, they allow Sam into the ambulance. She didn't want Nathan to be alone and hoped that Maxie would see him before it was too late.
Lulu waited around the police station until Dante comes back from chase after the van.
"I was worried that you were hurt."
"I'm fine. How's Nathan?" asked Dante
"His heart stop but they got it started again, but it doesn't look good."
As Lulu was giving Dante an update on Nathan's condition, Anna comes up to them and says, "I just got a call telling me that Fiason was seen at pier 54."
Lulu left for the hospital to check on Nathan; as Anna and Dante went to pier 54.
About two minutes into the ride, Nathan's heart stop beating again and they start CPR.
As the paramedics enter the emergency area of General Hospital, his heart stopped again.
"Charging the paddles to 300... 320...
"He's back!" Bob declares just as trauma team opens the ambulance's door. Once the gurney is unloaded, a nurse jumped on and proceeds with the CPR.
"Let's get him into cubicle 1, as the ER personal and paramedics wheeled the gurney into the hospital.
The paramedics start given the run down on what they did at the scene and the ambulance.
"When we got there, he had just stopped breathing. We started CPR. When that didn't work we injected him with diltiazem and then we used the paddles. He coded twice in route and was without oxygen for over ten minutes."
ER doc listens to Nathan's heart and to be on the safe side, decides to intubate him. He tilts Nathan's head back and inserts endotracheal tube into his throat.
A nurse then checks Nathan's eyes and declares, "pupils are equal and reactive to light."
Lulu arrived and went looking for Sam and found her pacing outside the cubicle waiting for answers.
"Sam, how is he?"
"It's not looking good. His heart stopped twice in route to the hospital and as we were pulling into the emergency entrance. They are still working on stabilizing him before they can take him up to the OR."
Lulu remembers that she hadn't called Maxie. She spoke out, "I don't know if I should call Maxie until we have some news on Nathan?"
Sam spoke up. "Lulu, it's not your decision to make in telling Maxie about Nat. It should be her decision whether or not she should come."
Just as Lulu was about to call Maxie, she comes running in and demanded someone to tell her where Nathan was. Sam was about to tell her when she spotted the gurney along with the doctors and nurses coming out of cubicle one.
"Wait!, yelled Maxie as she runs to the gurney, I need to see him before you take him up."
"I'm sorry ma'am, but if we don't hurry to the OR, he won't make it.
My rant: I didn't like the fact that Maxie couldn't see Georgie because a judge's rules only applies to the city or state he resides in. Since Spinelli is living in Portland, OR; there is no way the judge's ultimatum applies here, so Maxie, without having to get his approval, could have visited Georgie whenever she wanted to.
The Spinelli that I know, could have called Maxie anytime he wanted to and told her that she could visit Georgie even if the judge didn't like it. He's considered to be a computer wiz that he could have made it impossible for the judge ever to find out that Maxie went against his rules. And why now is Spinelli following the law when he never followed it before? I think Ellie is part of the blame and I don't like this "new" Spinelli, either. The rant is done.