Jackass: Don't Let Me Go

Paring: Steve-O/OC

Rating: PG

Summary: Steve-O falls head over heals for the Jackass family's new medic and she just might love him back.

6th January 2001

Chapter 1

Sitting there in the cold winter air a cigarette in one hand and her warm coffee in the other, Vanessa Taylor sat desperate for the stunt to begin. Her pale face had just about gone blue and her nose a bright shade of red all surrounded by her golden curls; she was ready to go home.

She loved her new job, as the medic to the Jackass crew (or family as they liked to call it) and was starting to fit in well. She was on good terms with most of the crew and a few of the stars. She didn't have any emergences to deal with any more, just a few minor injures, so she got to sit and watch most of the time. And best of all she got be on TV, not many nurses did you know.

It was the last stunt of the day and was all a bit last minute for the final episode of the second series. Steve-O was supposed to roller-skate down the handrail of the town hall steps. It was dark by this point so they'd set up lights around the steps and with it being winter the rail was slightly frosty. She'd asked if they were going to fix it but Bam Magera had just said "Nah, it'll slide better," with a knowing look towards Ryan Dunn. Which unsettled her. She would've made more of a fuss, she did have the right to question things as team medic, but it was cold and she was craving her warm sheets. So she left it alone.

"OK places people!" Jeff shouted, "You ready Steve-O?"

"Sure am!" he replied walking into view. He took off his black dressing gown to reveal nothing but a bright red thong with matching skates and light up wheels.

Vanessa hadn't worked with Steve-O much as he'd got most of his stunts done during the summer, before she'd started. She couldn't help but feel flushed looking at his impressive body, she'd seen most of the other guys full frontal by now but there was something about Steve-O. Something... risky.

He climbed up onto the frozen railing with a little help from Dave England. While he tried to get his balance to say his introduction, he slipped but was luckily caught by Preston Lacy and was pushed back up. He turned to the camera and smiled his toothy grin, bringing some colour back to Vanessa face. She couldn't help but think how good it looked.

"Hi. I'm Steve-O and this is the blade rail," he said hysterically, "Oh fuck."

He let go of the rail and shakily tried to stand up. He immediately began to fall backwards. There was nothing anyone could but watch as his head slammed into the edge of the railing. There was no sound except the loud thud as his body hit the concrete steps and his nose crashed into a corner.

His blood stained the ice.

"MEDIC!" was screamed.

She wasted no time, throwing her self from her chair, and letting it fall with her cigarette and coffee. Racing towards the injured stunt man.

"No-one touch him. He could have neck injuries," she ordered as she crouched beside him.

All sort of attraction was temporarily gone now. She was the professional 24 year old from the ward again. She began the checks carefully as not to move his head. He was unconscious and bleeding heavily, she had to move fast.

"An ambulance is on its way," said Dunn.

This was the first time she'd looked at the crew since the accident, they all had pale and desperate faces but that didn't matter because her patient needer her. She tried her best to stop the bleeding and put his head in a restraint but she knew there was nothing she could do, if his neck was damaged he was screwed. The other medic was there then to help her lift him onto a stretcher.

"1...2...3...Go!"

"It's here!"

"What's here?" Steve-O said groggily looking around through hazy eyes until they rested on Vanessa, "Wow. If this is heaven I should have died ages ago."

She didn't even bother to stop the smile and blush that appeared on her beautiful features. "Not quite sweetheart," she said in her soothing British accent while squeezing his hand, "how's the pain?"

"Not to bad, but some morphine would be nice," he said as she injected him, "perfect."

The paramedics took over and she stepped back slightly and began explaining what had happened, no-one else understanding her technical jargon. Steve-O was looking at her the whole time as the medics worked on him. He couldn't believe he'd never seen her before, she was so gorgeous. No wonder he thought she was an angel.

They began putting him in the ambulance, and everyone could feel the sense of relief that washed over the group as the neck brace had been removed and he was sitting up slightly. Johnny Knoxville promptly followed him into the ambulance, but Steve-O protested.

"No man. I want her," he said pointing in Vanessa's direction.

"Jeez Steve-O, trust you to try and get laid after a serious accident," Johnny joked.

"Hey. She knows what's going on and you know shit. The fact that she's a looker's just a bonus," he said with a playful wink.

"Calm down love, your head needs as much blood as it can get so don't go wasting it downstairs," she said winking back.

"Wwwwoooooowwww!" the crew chorused while laughing.

The ambulance doors shut with Steve-O looking into Vanessa's eyes with the same toothy grin he'd had 20 minutes previously.