My first story here on fanfiction! Hopefully you enjoy it :)
"Hey Doc, do you have a second?"
Doc Robbins turned around and nodded. "Of course Greg, come on in."
Greg Sanders smiled slightly as he came into the morgue. He'd checked that no one was with Doc before speaking. "I need to ask you something."
"Okay, about your victim?" Doc asked, closing up a body on his table.
"Er, no. This is going to sound pathetic, but I've had this cough for weeks, probably a month now, and everybody has picked me up on it. It's probably nothing, but I sometimes have chest pains if it carries on for a while and my doctor just dismissed it for the flu. And, I was gonna leave it but earlier I had a coughing fit and blood came up. Not just a little bit either." Greg explained to him.
Doc frowned in concern and waved him closer. "Come and sit down here, let me take a look."
Greg did as instructed and sat down on the chair at doc's desk. He watched as doc got some things and then came over to him again. He opened his mouth and waited as doc looked down his throat. "Well, from what I can see, there doesn't seem to be much wrong."
Greg nodded but ended up coughing. A lot. He coughed and coughed and by the time he had done, his hand was bright red. "See, this isn't normal is it?" He said to Doc as he showed him his hand. Doc looked at it with a bit of worry and shook his head. "You need to go back to your doctor, tell them about this and they should run some tests, possibly give you a scan."
"Kay. Thanks Doc. Can you not tell the others? They're already on my case." Greg asked him with a sideways smile, washing his hands.
Doc smiled. "I won't say a word."
"Alright, thanks Doc."
Three hours later
"Greg, Greg, can you hear me? Greg?"
"Can you open your eyes for me?"
"That's it, come on, open your eyes. Thatta boy, Greggo. Has someone called the medics?"
"Yeah, they're on their way."
Greg's eyes flickered open and he was surprised to find himself on the floor, the rest of the team staring down at him.
He had been walking through the lab, on his way to get some coffee, feeling fatigue wash over him after being awake and working a double shift. However, he had to stop as he began to feel funny. He felt nauseous and could feel himself fighting it back but it was no good. He vomited right there in the hallway. He put his hands on his knees as he tried to catch his breath, but ended up coughing again, much like many other previous times.
Russell came out of his office, hearing someone retching in the hall and found Greg puking again, but this time, with blood. He went over to his young team member who was swaying heavily. "Alright, alright, let's sit you down bud."
He was about to guide him into a nearby room, but didn't have time before Greg collapsed into a heap on the floor.
Russell immediately bent down next to him and shouted, "Some one call a medic! NOW!"
Henry, the lab tech, came running out of his lab and quickly joined Russell next to Greg. "Oh my God, is he ok? Did he puke that up?" He asked referring to the blood.
Russell nodded. "Yeah, he did. His head's clammy and he's burning up too. Something's wrong." He commented shaking his head.
Nick and Catherine rounded the corner, bringing back bags of evidence from their scene and as soon as they saw the three people on the floor, they both put their bags on the floor and went over. "What happened?"
"He just collapsed. I came out of my office to find him being sick and just as we were about to go and sit down he dropped." Russell told them. Catherine looked worried as hell and grabbed Greg's arm.
"We need to put him in the recovery position, just in case he's sick again."
They all turned Greg on his side and Nick started to talk to him.
"Greg, Greg, can you hear me? Greg?" He said, trying to coax him awake. "Can you open your eyes for me?"
"That's it, come on, open your eyes. Thatta boy, Greggo. Has someone called the medics?" Nick then asked Russell.
Henry nodded. "Yeah, they're on their way."
Nick nodded back and rubbed Greg's side. "Hey man, medics are on their way alright?" He told Greg as he looked up at him confused.
"Do you feel okay, Greg? Do you think you might be sick again?" Catherine asked him.
Greg shook his head on his arm and pushed himself up.
"Woah, woah, woah, just lie still until the medics get here." Russell told him, trying to gently push him back down, but Greg pushed himself up fully anyway.
Now sat up, Greg shuffled slightly on the floor so that he could lean on the wall. He began coughing again and leaned forward, so Catherine moved behind him and began rubbing his back comfortingly.
Just then, the medics arrived, with the receptionist bringing them, showing them where to go. "Mr Sanders, my name's Rob and this is Hanna. Are you alright, Sir?"
Greg nodded, still coughing. "Just put this on." Hanna, the medic told him, placing an oxygen mask around the back of his head. "How old are you?"
"Twenty-six." He told her as he braked in his coughing.
"Okay. The woman at the front desk told us you'd passed out, is that right?"
He nodded again as his coughing died down. "Okay, how long for?"
Greg shook his head and looked to the others briefly. "Not long."
"It was about three minutes." Russell told them.
Hanna nodded and then looked back to Greg. "Rob..."
The male medic looked to her, turning around from the bag where he was trying to find something. He looked to his patient and saw red on the mask over his mouth. "Mr Sanders, how long have you been coughing like this?"
"I've had it... probably a month." Greg told him, coughing in between.
"And how long has blood been coming out?"
"Today... er, yesterday." Greg told him.
The medic nodded. "Alright, have you been sick before this time? Recently?"
Greg shook his head and began to feel nauseous again. He quickly whipped the oxygen mask off his face and leant to the side, as he emptied his stomach again on the floor. Nick patted him on the back with a frown as the medics quickly gave him a bowl. "There's quite a lot of blood in there. We're going to take you to the hospital now, okay?"
Greg didn't even answer them, couldn't answer them, as he once again began coughing. Coughing blood.
Hope you enjoyed this first chapter. Please let me know what you thought of this :)