Disclaimer: I do not own any of the One Chicago universe characters or the few accident stories I will borrow from real CF episodes.
Authors note: This is a Chicago Fire fic set is type of alternative universe. Shay is alive and well, working in Firehouse 51 with Brett as her partner. Dawson doesn't work at the Firehouse, she is a Doc that just moved back to her hometown of Chicago and started working in the ER of Chicago Med.
Let me know how you like the story! So without further ado let's get on with the story, shall we?
Ambulance 61 returned from their call and both Shay and Sylvie jumped out of the rig. But Shay looked happier than usual.
"What got Shay so excited?" Severide asked Brett as she walked past the squad table.
"We met the new ER doc today at Chicago Med. And Shay is convinced that she is her soulmate." Replied Brett leaving confused Severide to fallow her inside the common room of Firehouse 51.
".. and she was so gorgeous. Mocha skin, dark hair and beautiful brown eyes. " Severide heard the end of the story Shay was telling the rest of the guys and thought that she must be talking about the new doc.
"Is she even gay though, Shay?" asked Otis wanting to know himself because that new doc sounded hot.
"I don't know. But if she is not I bet I can convince her to be." She smirked at Otis and left the room.
"Okay now we need to see this new doc. Let's Google her. What's her name Brett?" Otis asked all excited and everyone gathered around the laptop. Even Lieutenant Matt Casey who usually didn't get involved in Otis's antics stood so that he could see the screen.
"I think her last name is Dawson" Sylvie responded and Otis typed Doctor Dawson into the search engine.
But as he was about to hit enter the sirens called the firefighters and paramedics to work. Accident on 24th street.
As the firehouse 51 arrived on scene Lieutenant Casey jumped out of the firetruck and asked the wife of the victim what exactly happened as he saw a man with one leg pinned under a large moving container. The victim was conscious and told that the cable had snapped and the container had just come down on him. Shay and Brett rushed to the scene.
After quick assessment the plan was to dig around the leg and slide it out because the container was too big to just lift it off of the victim. They went to work and dug away the dirt around the victims' leg but as the firefighters were about to lift the container just a tiny bit to slide the victims leg out from under the container Shay yelled them to stop.
"You can't lift it off of him. He is going into crush syndrome." When none of the firefighters understood what she meant, she explained "as soon as you free his leg he is going into cardiac arrest."
And then it dawned on everybody that the only way they could save the man was to take off his leg and Brett radioed in for trauma surgeon.
"61 to main. Send a trauma surgeon to our location for an amputation."
They had to wait only a few minutes as Chicago Med was fairly close to the location of the accident.
As soon as the car arrived a woman in scrubs jumped out fallowed by a nurse.
"Hi I am Doctor Dawson. Give me the lowdown." She asked the paramedics so that she could get to work as soon as possible.
"We gave him a liter of fluids and an amp bicarb." Shay responded silently thanking the universe that they sent Doctor Dawson to do the amputation.
"Are we in contact with the family?" Dawson continued to ask in strong steady voice.
Shay nodded her head towards the direction where the patient's wife was and Dawson turned to the closest available firefighter to say that she will need consent. And it just happened to be Lieutenant Matt Casey who was utterly stunned by the attractive doctor but quickly snapped out of it to ask for the wife's consent.
He had to do some negations but he finally managed to convince the victims wife that the amputation of her husband's leg was the only option they had and Doctor Dawson got to work.
All the firefighters and paramedics were impressed by how quickly and efficiently she worked. She didn't hesitate to get to work, and from the bystanders perspective it seemed like she have been doing amputations her whole life. And that was partly true because this wasn't Dawsons first field amputation so she knew that there was no time to waste and her hesitation or dislike for the scene wouldn't help anybody. So she quickly took off the leg and the patient was lifted into the ambo to drive to Chicago Med mere minutes later.
Once the Ambo left with the patient, paramedics and Doctor Dawson inside, the firefighters couldn't help but discuss the events that just took place.
"We didn't need to Google her after all." Otis remarked.
"Yeah we met the real live model and I can see why Shay was so obsessed. Who wouldn't?" chimed in Cruz. And the rest of the firefighters couldn't agree more.
The topic of Doctor Dawson continued even after they had returned to the firehouse.
".. and, and did you see how efficiently she worked. She looks like a total bad-ass." Otis continued to rave about the doc.
"Well she definitely is out of your league." Laughed Herrmann which finally closed the subject of Doctor Dawson. But Matt Casey couldn't get her out of his head. He was single and have been for a while but a girl like that probably was taken, hell she might even be gay as Shay had hoped for. But he still thought about her the rest of the shift and well after that.