Disclaimer: I don't own Emergency

Chapter One

The rescue

Aurora Schultz looked peered over to her father noticing how drunk he was getting. Her little two year old mind couldn't understand why he would drink that horrible stuff and the fact that her mommie was out partying and doing drugs again was beyond the extreme. She quickly turned back to the televison as he glanced at her knowing if she caught his eye she'd be taught another lesson.

The squeak of the couch meant he was getting up and Aurora tensed. Her blonde hair lay around her face messily and was knotted because nobody ever brushed it. She wore the same pink shirt and pants but owned no shoes. Her hazel eyes were staring emptilly at the television as she silently trembled at what her dad was going to do. Daddy Mike was mad again because he couldn't pay bills again and he was going to throw off some steam she knew; it was only a matter of time.

She squealed when he turned off the television using the beer bottle and he glared at her disgustedly. He hated children and she was a smart girl, way to smart for her age. Smiling evilly he grabbed her by the hair and smashed her face into the screen.

"What did I say about talking or yelling or making any sound whatsoever! A child is supposed to be seen and not heard!" he yelled at her.

She didn't answer and he smacked her beside the back of her head.

"It's bad enough that I have to support your messed up mom but you shouldn't have been born darling. I hate you good you hear? Now tell me how bad a girl you are," He hollered in her face.

Aurora felt tears go down her face and was about to answer daddy Mike when he picked her up and started to shake her.

"You are a bad girl that deserved never to have been made. Your mommy has been with too many guys and all you do is drain my bills," he yelled.

He tossed her over to the couch and she didn't move afraid he was going to do some more damage. He came over and smacked her across the face. She started to cry now and couldn't stop. Over her crying she couldn't hear daddy Mike but was glad when everything went black.

"Roy I tell ya, that chick just isn't going to be able to reject me any longer. I'm getting to her and I'm sure it is going to be between today and tommorrow," Johnny ranted as Roy rolled his eyes glad they weren't heading for Rampart but couldn't wait to get back to the station..

"Just tell me one thing," Roy said stopping him midrant. "Is Raven going to take any more of it is the question."

"It's not Raven Roy, it's Sally. You haven't been listening-"

Squad 51, engine 51, fire structure, 3016 B Crystal Lane, repeat 3016B Crystal Lane, time out 1310

Roy silently thanked the interruption as Johnny responded to dispatch. Making a u turn, he didn't like the part of town the fire was located at. It was a part of town that nobody paid much attention to because there was a bunch of problems and they were bad. Child abuse was normal there as well as drunks, prostitiutes, and addicts.

As soon as they got there Cap was ordering them to check out a young woman who looked to be in her twenties. Johnny nodded and both he and Roy got their equipment before going over to see if she was alright.

"Mam can you tell us your name," Roy asked her.

"Mikkie and I can also tell you some other stuff I can give you," she said with a giggle.

Another female looked pretty much stoned too but was much more intuned with her surroundings for she struggled to get free when Johnny took her vitals.

"No, you don't understand, my little girl is still in there," She said close to tears.

Johnny glanced at Roy and then rushed to the Captain Stanley with the update.

"I don't know about the structure of this building. Look make it quick because it could come down at any time," Hank told him.

He went back to Laura and asked, "What apartment number is it?"

"Uh, it's 16A," she answered.

Roy watched as Johnny rushed in after donning the protection and hoped that this lady wasn't lying about her daughter being in there. He watched as a man who was obviously drunk came over to her and started shouting.

"How could you tell them about her. She's a drain on our money and if she isn't dead yet she will be," he yelled.

"What'd you do this time Mike, she's only a baby," Laura cried.

Mike, the drunk man, shrugged. Roy was suprised that he didn't seem to care about the daughter's welfare.

"Mike, the girl wasn't even your child, it was some one night stand with a stupid fireman and yet the she's the best I've ever done," she shrieked.

"Yet she was supposed to keep quiet, Laura that's the rule. Your child was supposed to be seen and not heard," He fought.

She just turned around crying and suddenly began to vomit. He just slapped her and that's when Hank with Roy got involved to split them up.

Meanwhile, Johnny looked around and desperate to find the child, looked everywhere. He looked upstairs just as the smoke got higher and he found her on the floor in the bedroom and she wasn't breathing. Her lips were turning a blue tinge so without a second thought, he took off his mask and started cpr. After some debrise almost fell on them, he was happy when she started to breath on her own. He placed the air mask on her and then rushed out as fast as he could and set her on the ground.

Mike, who had been angry at the firemen for interrupting the fight with his wife, looked on with disgust.

"Isn't she dead yet," he asked.

Roy and Hank shared a look but beyond that, they didn't give him an answer.

"Man this is bad Roy. She has two broken legs, a fractured skull at least from the judgement of truama to her head, cracked ribs, and there could be internal injuries too," Johnny told him.

Roy relayed that to Rampart and then waited while Johnny collected vital signs. It was hard to believe she had so much injuries but Roy looked back at Mike and could tell that he was probably the culprit. Mike Stoker came over to them and took in the sight of the child.

"Is there anything I could do," he asked offering to help.

"Besides taking twiddlie dumb to jail, I don't think so," Roy muttered as he glanced over to Jim from squad eighteen working on Laura and Mike complain that they shouldn't be paying attention to the 'drain on their money'.

He shook his head. Those people shouldn't even became parents.