Title: To Kind a Heart
Author: Emo Barbie
Rating: T {For now}
Pairing: Perry/J.D
Summary: "One of these days your generosity is going to kill you." J.D's a kind person, always has been, always will be. But one of these days that kindness and generosity is going to kill him.
Disclaimer: I do not, never have, and never will own scrubs, though I would love to own Dr Cox, sadly I do not...This fic is purely fan made.
Extra: Though this fic is not exactly hinting at Jdox I assure you that eventually it will be. ^_^ So please enjoy.
Also I love reviews, they are what continues to make me writing, however I do know that I have bad grammar, and spelling, and I know that I need to work on it, but if your telling me this, Please show me EXACTLY what I need to work on, I mean it doesn't exactly help when all you say is that you need to work on grammar...
NEW NOTE: I am BACK :I After like...how long has it been? Three years? (Now 5? Holy crap) O_O...seriously? And I'm rereading and remaking{some} all of my old stories. My writing styles changed, I'd say I'm a little better but at the same time a little worse. I haven't TRULY REALLY tried hard to put anything towards my writing skills in the past three years sadly so please deal with my somewhat wanky style hopefully it's not that off the charts :I
Chapter 1:
Blazing Glory
With Carla and Turk having cut off his "allowance" and forcing him to fend for himself, J.D was finding it harder and harder to keep up with his own expenses. That was why he was picking up extra shifts, convincing Doug to let him have one of his shifts with the ambulance, though he was pretty sure he was doing them a favor with that. Doug was already accident prone when it came to medical tools, adding a moving high speed vehicle into that equation...well...you get it.
He hadn't really expected anything major to happen, a few old men with strokes, a few false alarms here and there, but when a fire had started up in an apartment building they were called into action. Time to be a hero.
As they neared the building J.D could just barely make out the outlines of windows as smoke pooled from their openings. The building was consumed by fire and it seemed like nothing the firefighters were doing could stop it. In fact it seemed like all of them had reverted to dragging out as many people as possible by this point, the hoses almost completely abandoned where they had thrown them on the street. Now only the varying few still tried desperately to quiet the raging fire.
"I need help here!" J.D's partner, a man who he had completely forgotten the name of, ushered him over towards a burn victim. J.D made a hustle towards them "She's having a hard time breathing." He nodded towards the women, she was hunched over, taking in raspy breathes as she tried to speak. The paramedic was trying to get her to take the oxygen mask from his grasp but she kept pushing it away, looking desperately at them as she tried to force words past her lips.
"My, my...my...my k..."
"Ma'am, please-" The paramedic stated. "Don't speak it will only make it worse." He tried to place the oxygen mask over her face once more but she pushed it away as she turned her frantic eyes up towards J.D, obviously having stopped trying to convince the other doctor.
"My kids...My kids..." She latched onto J.D's shirt. "My Kids are still...their still...THEIR STILL IN THERE!" She wailed, almost wrenching J.D to the ground as she whipped his shirt towards her. "Please-...pl...please!"
The paramedic was trying desperately to calm her, J.D however could only stare wide eyed as he turned to look at the building. The place was already taped off, no one was allowed in anymore. He knew what that meant, the building was a goner now, there was no stopping the fire that had engulfed the building. It was to unstable, he could hear as the building fell apart, beams falling, floors probably giving way, and there were those random sparks of sudden fires that roared through the smoke, lapping at the air outside for a moment before retreating back into the building. "Please!" J.D's eyes snapped from the building back towards the woman. "Ro-room, 204! Their there!...I-I;...I-I...I-I..."
"Ma'am! Ma'am!" She had suddenly went into a state of frenzy, grabbing at her chest as she let out gag after cough, Wheezing, trying to breathe. "J.D, I need...J.D, J.D!" The paramedic turned just in time to see J.D pass over the tape, three fire-fighters grabbing after him, but none were stupid enough to actually follow him, as he raced into the building.
J.D stepped into the building, the moment he did, smoke filled his lungs, and the flames licked at his skin, he suddenly regretted coming in unprepared...and the fact that he wore short sleeved scrubs today.
If the room is 204, then it should be the fourth room on the second floor...
J.D glanced around in search of stairs.
There...
It was a narrow path, the fire had obviously been going strong for quite some time now because it had already engulfed most of the floor and walls and from the looks of it outside the fire had started on a higher floor. Still there was just enough space where J.D could get to the stairs without catching on fire himself. Hopefully.
I should have never put on so much hair gel today.
J.D pushed through the space, he could feel the heat of the fire wash over him, baking his skin, hair, and clothes.
Or hairspray.
He smelled it before he felt it, the stench of burning hair and his hand automatically moved up and he let out a rather girly shriek to bat at a corner of his hair that had unfortunately caught fire.
Or moose.
The fire was smothered, thankfully with little effort. He promised himself to lay off hair products for the next century. Before his eyes caught sight of the stairwell he had originally been aiming for. He rushed up the flight of stairs in a huff, his head killing him, a mix of the heat that bared down on him and the smoke that was not only making his eyes water but was starting to make him feel a little to dizzy for his comfort.
"Hello? He-" J.D had taken in a lung full of smoke and suddenly found himself hacking up a storm, trying to still make his way through the maze of fallen timbers and flames. This was horrifying. He felt like he was walking through hell itself.
What I wouldn't do for Elliot's cold hands right now...
J.D passed the room, it wasn't until he realized that he had reached room 206, that he turned back, scanning the numbers till he found the right room. "Hello!" He called again, there was a large pile of fallen lumber before the door, so J.D was forced to reach around it and grab the handle. "Damn!" J.D let out a hiss as the hot metal scorched his fingers, quickly retracting his hand. With a snarl he tried again, this time he turned the handle, trying to ignore the hot searing pain that engulfed his hand and arm at the prolonged contact it took to turn the doorknob. Why was it only now that it seemed to take an eternity to open a damn door?
J.D swung open the door, only to be greeted by large scorching flames that reared out at him like a beast suddenly being released from it's cage. He stumbled back, arms moving to cover his face for that fleeting second before the flames calmed once more and he wasted no time in trying to maneuver his way through the lumber and into the apartment.
"Hello! Anyone!" He was starting to get desperate, he wanted out of there, he had only been in there for a few minutes, he could only imagine what it must be like for the children trapped inside. "Hel-" He stopped at the sudden sound of coughing, panic over took him as he pushed through what was once a living room towards the bedrooms. "Hello!"
"Here..." It was a weak reply but it was still there, J.D grabbed onto the first door, thanking heaven that it wasn't boiling and turned. The room wasn't as engulfed as the living room, but there was definitely fire, and enough smoke to leave him almost blind. "Hello?" He called again, this time there was the sudden sound of something being thrown and J.D made his way closer into the room, until finally through the smoke he was able to see two figures, both children. One of the looks of 8, the other no older then 3. The small one was being cradled within his sisters arms, the small girl huddled into a ball, her face ashen with wet tears streaking down like rivers towards her chin.
He grabbed them.
Then something exploded.
TOO KIND A HEART
A third and fourth ambulance arrived, backup had finally arrived to help. However what one might not have expected, was the fact that out of the back of the third stepped none other then Dr Perry Cox, a scowl on his face as he turned to glare up at the burning building. "How long has he been in there." Perry muttered, never taking his eyes from the building as a fire-fighter joined his side. The reason for the back up had been do to a reckless paramedic who had apparently taken it upon himself to play superhero that day.
"It's been almost 10 minutes, the building was falling, and it would go at any minute, we had to tape it off, but he went in anyways.."
That was really something the other didn't want to hear at the moment.
That stupid...stupid...
Perry felt his hands shaking, the ones that he had up until now hidden inside the pockets of his doctor's coat.
"How long-" He was about to ask how long it would be before it went, when suddenly there was an explosion, sending quite a few of the firefighters onto their backs, as a sudden chain of explosions followed.
Perry almost bolted, the sudden horror getting to him, but the fire-fighter was obviously already aware of it, because even before he had moved he had felt the hand that tightly gripped him. "Newbie..." He felt his eyes roam the now falling building, the front doors still standing empty as the building fell around it. "Newbie..." He swallowed, this wasn't supposed to be how it ended, the kid was supposed to grow up to be some grand doctor, some marvel that the world would one day bow down to. "J.D..." His eyes fell back onto the door but there was nothing but flames that met his eyes. He was suppose to become better then anyone, better then him... "J.D..." He didn't know why he kept whispering the others name, as if it might conger up the other somehow, but he couldn't help it, without even realizing it he had almost started to chant the others name, his eyes searching frantically for any sign of the young doctor.
Dr Cox squinted his eyes at the entrance, his eyes wouldn't play tricks on him, they couldn't, not at a time like this. But that moving shadow, the one in the flames and surrounded by smoke...His mind wouldn't play such a horrid trick, it wouldn't...
Out of the entrance, clothes scorched, skin blackened and hair a mess, stepped none other then J.D, two small children held in his arms. It was the first time Perry had been able to breathe easy, and release the breathe that he hadn't realized he had held to begin with.
|TOO KIND A HEART|
"Idiot-" There was a loud smack the resonated throughout his skull, and no sooner then he had put down the kids. J.D placed a hand to his now sore head, well...SORER head (if that was even a word), turning to look at Perry.
"Dr Cox!" J.D grinned at the other. "Look, I'm like a hero!"
However, the scowl that was planted on the others face didn't budge an inch, in fact, if anything it only hardened. "You idiot! I gave all my patients over to Nervous guy, Nervous Guy, Newbie. So that I could come here, expecting to have to clean up a char coaled Newbie, and instead I find you walking out of an exploding building with two brats."
"But I had no choice." J.D pouted. "They were in there, and everyone else was out here, I had to go in and save them."
"You can't do that!" Perry snapped. "Do you understand me! You are a doctor, you are the only hope for these people, you are the one who has to save the people that are here!" Perry motioned towards the burn victims and others that were huddled around the ambulances, it was a pretty big building so there was obviously going to be a lot of them. "You can't just go and put your life on the line to rescue those who didn't have the right mind to leave a burning hellhole!"
"But, if I hadn't saved them those children would have died!" J.D injected.
"Yes! But what if you had died? Then all three of you would have died and all these people that need you here, would have died as well! They would have died because of your irresponsibility! You should have left it up to the firefighters! That's their job."
"But they couldn't do it! And if I hadn't, those kids would have-"
"Who cares! You are more important then them, then anyone!" Perry cut the other off.
"Not to their familys! Not to them-"
"NO!" Perry snapped. "TO ME!"
Both of them fell silent, though J.D now had a wide smile on his face.
"D-don't look at me like that." Perry snapped at the other.
"I'm important to you?" J.D cocked his head to the side, a large smile on his face.
"No." Perry snarled, but he couldn't stop the ting of pink that crossed his cheeks. "I just need someone to load my patients off on is all."
"You care about me." J.D stated in somewhat of a sing-song voice.
"Drop dead." He glowered, however Newbie apparently took it to literally, as he suddenly fell forwards. "Hey! Hey! Newbie...J.D!"
JD: "You killed me!"
No, no of course I didn't, your to much of an airhead to be killed. I simply made you pass out.
Perry: "Be thankful, I believe this story would have been much better if you had really died.
JD: "HEY!"
Anyways, XD, sorry, I just love using characters to describe things XD, but this is only the first chapter, the second should be coming soon...when I don't know, I have plenty of other unfinished scrubs, but it's only because I keep getting more and more ideas, I will not be leaving any Jdox, fic unfinished!{Oh yes I will :I} well maybe not my old ones, there's so long ago and stupid... Other then that all recent fics will be finished...soon...maybe not the 100 compliments, that will take some time, but the other ones, yeah...okay, okay, maybe I should stop trying to make promises I'm most definitely gonna break. :I
(It's 5 years later...I'm sorry, but this promise was DEFINITELY BROKEN)