It was a rainy day in the suburbs of Sydney for everyone it was a gloomy day and like some people most people have to work in poor weather conditions such as cate McMasters and here co-worker Heath valega, both paramedics sat in the ambulance driving back to the hospital, as they drive through the roughest part of town they see things happen in broad daylight, they see men handing young children bags of a white unknown substance, the children are reluctant to take it but then the burly white guy pulls out a weapon and points it in the lads face.
"Oh my god we have to go and help that poor kid" says Cate trying to act fast at what she has just seen.
"don't if we go and intervene then we could end up being injured or worse, we should just drive on and head back to the hospital" says Heath gripping cates arm holding her back from what she was about to do.
"But that lad was no more than fifteen all three of them looked to me under the age of 16, what do you supposed I do carry on like I have seen nothing" says Cate.
"no what I was trying to say is we go back to the hospital then call the police and tell them what we saw" says Heath.
"oh ok but what is this world coming to kids being forced into drug dealing at the age of fifteen by men they hardly know, how can I bring a child into this world" huffs out cate.
Heath looks to cate after hearing her last rant about children, he recalls her exact words and is shocked at what he just heard his partner say, heath sits in the driver's seat trying to get over the fact his partner may have told him something personal about her.
"Right let's get back to the hospital, and maybe we can stop and have a bit of dinner we need to keep our strength up" says Heath acting cheery.
"Yeah let's do maybe we might bump into Constable Saunders when we are there" says Cate.
Heath starts to drive the ambulance and soon they arrive at the hospital, heath parks the ambulance in the designated spaces provided, as they both exit the vehicle they see PC Saunders walking past them ready to leave the hospital, as soon as cate sees him she jumps out the vehicle fast as a bolt of lightning and then she nearly pounces on him like a cat, cate catches upto him and speaks to him, after telling him what she saw he talks to her gently but tells her that there is nothing they can do because there has been no reports so far and he leaves it at that but he wrote down her complaint for notes purposes because deep down he was a softy and he too hated to see kids being used as drug couriers.
Cate walks back to the ambulance where she sees her partner stood leaning against the van waiting for her to return, once there she glares at him waiting for him to say told you so, but he didn't.
"So are we going to have some lunch before we get another call out" asks Heath?
"Yeah you can but I will pass on food" says Cate.
"You do know you need to eat or you will not have enough energy to work, and I don't need you collapsing on me when I have a patient to treat" explains Heath.
"Yes mother I know my stomach just feels queasy today, and the thought of food makes me want to vomit" answers Cate rubbing her stomach absentmindedly.
"Does this sick feel relate to what you told me earlier" asks Heath hinting to there earlier chat.
"You heard what I accidentally blurted out" asks Cate looking to her partner in discussed.
"yeah I did but you have my word I will not breathe a word of this to anyone, but if something happens to you and you need medical intervention I have to tell people then" says Heath.
"I know but at the moment I don't want people knowing at all saints" says Cate.
"ok it just stays between me and you for now, but now that we are having this conversation I now you don't feel like eating but for the baby's sake please just have something to eat even if it is just something light" says Heath trying to persuade cate to eat.
"Fine can you get me a soup from the canteen, I feel like sitting here in the quiet" answers cate.
"Sure be back in five minutes, and don't go anywhere" says Heath
Heath wonders off to the canteen to get himself a sandwich and as cate requested a soup, but he goes against her wishes and he buys her an orange juice and an energy bar, whether she liked it or not, and so heath stuck to his promise and he only took five minutes, as he approaches the truck he looks into the driver's seat and sees cate deep in thought, he opens the door to the driver's seat and climbs in disturbing cate in her thoughts.
"Oh you're back so soon" says Cate looking to her partner.
"Well I didn't take my time because I knew you weren't feeling to great and I think that if you get something inside your stomach you may feel better" says Heath.
"Right so what did you get" asks cate looking at the amount of food in the bag?
"Oh I know you said you only wanted some soup but I think you might need sugar so I got you a pure orange juice and an energy bar" says Heath handing over the energy bar and the juice.
"Thanks for thinking of me, I will save them for later" says Cate taking the goods and puts them inside the glove compartment.
"You not going to eat the energy bar now" asks Heath?
"No I want to be careful of what I can keep down" answers Cate.
Just before the pair are about to take a bite or spoonful of their food a call comes in on the radio.
"Car 978 is you clear for a call out" asks operations through the radio.
"Car 978 clear for call out over" answers cate responding to the radio call.
"Call to residential address women found unconscious at home the address is Franklyn Street the caller said he would stand outside waiting for you over" answers Operations.
"Received car 978 on way" says Cate through the radio and places the radio on the dash board.
Heath takes a bite of his sandwich and puts it in the wrapper until later, but cate manages to eat her soup while heath drove to their next call out.
