My first fic, I've dabbled here and there with writing but never actually posted one. So here it goes. Part of the fic is in Parker's POV.
Climbing and scaling buildings has always been my release. When a con involves repelling down a fifty story building, I get this overwhelming joy inside my chest. Knowing that the only thing to stop you from completely falling and hitting the ground is a harness and rope gives a person such like myself such a rush.
"I can't believe you only want me to repel down a three story building, wouldn't just be easier to walk in and take what we need." Parker was hanging upside down on the side of the building talking with annoyance at the thought of her skills were just being wasted on this con.
Nate was rolling his eyes at her, "Parker please just do this real quick and we can get outta of here."
The rest of the team was waiting in the van, this was the last piece of the puzzle. All that was needed for this con to be over was the flash drive filled with the computers contents. They would turn it into the police and be on their way back home, this was just to easy for Parker and she couldn't believe it would be over with this final act.
As I have done a million times in my life and I took a run and jump off the side of the building. As a million times before I thought everything was going off without a hitch until the rope wasn't slowing my descent.
A panic sets in your chest when you realize that your plan has went all to hell.
The team probably didn't even know what was going on, it felt like I was falling for forever but in reality I knew I would have to react to save myself. I've fallen before but this was different, a three story fall would kill me it would kill anyone. I had to save myself, I gripped the rope knowing it would pull the skin off of my hands but I had to slow down my descent.
Nate had realized that something wasn't right and by the time he turned around he saw Parker's body slam into the ground.
"Eliot get out here NOW!" He started running towards her, he hasn't seen Parker fall ever. It comes as a huge shock that this young women they all had come to known and love has fell, something that has never happened on this team before.
The whole team rushing to her, Nate getting there first and then Eliot. "Don't touch her, you don't want to aggravate her injuries, she might have a spinal injury." In reality, Eliot thought, if she walked away without a spinal injury it would be a miracle.
Eliot carried her to the van and gently set her down to check for injuries, after realizing there was no spinal injury he told Hardison to drive to the hotel they were staying at.
After arriving Eliot laid her in his bed, telling Sophie and Nate to go get as much medical supplies they could they left for the task that had been given to them. Hardison had grabbed the medical bag that Eliot kept on hand for cases just like this.
"Parker can you here me?" Her face was contorted with pain and Eliot could tell a few injuries just by looking at her.
"Eliot?" The strained voice of their little thief pulled at the hitters heart.
Looking her over he could tell that her right shoulder was dislocated and her hands were torn up so badly that he knew she wouldn't be using them anytime soon. Without doing a full look over that was all he could tell.
"Hey Parker, I need to take a look and see what injuries you have. Can you tell me what hurts?"
"Everything but mostly...my...ribs" She struggled with every word.
"You okay with me looking over you?" He didn't want to push her knowing that she didn't like being touched.
Deciding that he would deal with aftermath of what this might bring on he started with his examination. Lifting her shirt he grimaced at the sight of her right side, pushing his hands on her ribs he figured that she had broken two ribs on her right side. Using the medical supplies that the rest of the team brought, he started to wrap her ribs making sure that the bandages weren't to tight. After putting antibiotic cream on her hands and wrapping them in gauze, he also found that she had badly bruised her right hip, along with a sprained knee. Eliot didn't want to set her dislocated shoulder until he could give her an IV and give her a dose of morphine to help with the pain.
"Parker, Parker hey are with me? I'm going to give you an IV and some morphine to help with pain, okay?"
"No," shaking her head vigorously, "no I don't want drugs."
"It will help it's okay we are all here and we won't let anything happen to you." Eliot continued with the process of putting the IV in and gave her the medicine. Once he was satisfied that the drugs had taken their affect he started to manipulate her arm to get the shoulder to pop back in and with the satisfying pop her shoulder was back in place. Putting her arm in a sling he left her laying on his bed in his hotel room he walked over to the conjoining room that was Nate's.
"How is she, does she need anything?" Sophie looked panicked and distraught. She had been pacing around the room like a caged animal waiting for Eliot to come in and give the news of how their thief was.
"She has two broken ribs, a dislocated shoulder which I reduced back into place, a badly bruised hip, and a sprained knee. I wrapped her hands, she tried to stop falling by holding onto the rope which burned her hands pretty badly. It looks like she landed on the right side of her body because that's where all the damage was but she'll be okay in a few weeks but we are gonna have to help her for a little while until she can get around better."
The solemn looks on their faces was from grief that a part of their family had been hurt and relief that she was going to be just fine after a few weeks of rest. And they would be there for her the whole way, like a family should be.
