Chapter 2
Gabby Dawson woke up to the sound of cries all around her. Her head was pounding and there was a sharp pain radiating from her stomach. She could hear the frantic voices coming from the darkness. Despite the pain she was able to shift onto her knees and crawl over to Shay's still body a few feet away from me. "Shay are you okay?" she asked worried.
"Yeah. I think so." Shay sat up and brushed the dust off of her face. "Wait the victim." She moved over to him. He was crushed partially under the pile of rubble we were surrounded in. Shay stuck her fingers to his neck feeling for a pulse. "Nothing, Gabby are you alright?" she asked turning around and seeing the pained face of Gabby who was clutching her stomach.
"Yeah, just got hit in the stomach with some rubble." She let out a breath as her radio cracked to life.
"Dawson, Shay." McFarlin called over the radio. "61 please respond. Where are you guys?"
"We're trapped on the first floor. It's just me and Shay we lost the victim." Dawson reported into the radio.
"Dawson, Shay you guys okay?" Boden's voice came through the radio next. In the background she could hear the shouts of a fight.
"We're fine but are you guys?" She asked a little bit of hesitancy in her voice.
"We're fine. They're going to get you guys out." Boden said through the speaker quickly followed by the shouts, "Severide let me go now!" that belonged to Casey.
Dawson bit her tongue back at the sound of Matt's distress. "Shay Dawson call out!" a voice called through the large pile of concrete.
"We're in here!" Shay screamed at the top of her lungs.
"Get under something!" the voice yelled back and we both scurried behind a rock that was sticking out from the pile of debris. You could hear the sound of a saw starting and see sparks bouncing in from the cracks. The two terrified paramedics trembled as the vibrations from the saw caused the overhead concrete to shift and tremble as it threatened to come in at any moment.
Eventually more and more light started to come in through the cracks as they widened. Chunks of rubble were being pulled off and eventually there was a space big enough to fit through. The girls move forward coughing in the smoke as a hand reached through the gap. Dawson pushed Shay forward and she gratefully took the hand that was offered to her. Within seconds Shay disappeared through the gap and was escorted out of the building to the other waiting paramedics.
"Okay Dawson, your turn." The firefighter called and she shimmied her way through the tight gap in the pile. When she was free McFarlin kept a steadying hand on her shoulder. "You good Dawson?" he questioned examining her.
"Yeah," she breathed out a sigh of relief. She could hear her pounding heart in her ears as she tried to slow the adrenaline coursing through her veins. "Let's get out of here." She looked at the paramedic and smiled.
Dawson turned and walked toward the light coming from the door way. As she was almost to the door she felt the adrenaline start to slow as the pain in her abdomen started to quickly worsen. At the door she looked up and saw Matt struggling against Severide, Hermann and Mills. He was staring feverishly at the door and as she walked out he broke through the wall of men and ran towards her. He had tears brimming in his blue eyes as he collided with Dawson wrapping his strong arms around her and pulling her into his chest, giving her a passionate kiss.
"Oh God. I love you baby." He said, but that impact was the last straw for Dawson's fragile body. Something popped and Dawson felt her knees start to give way. A whimper escaped her lips that quickly turned into a pathetic attempt to muffle the pain in her screams. Casey's face went from relief to horror as he watched the love of his life wither in pain and collapse in his arms. Dawson curled up into a small ball and fell to the ground. Matt pulled her into him in a panic wanting to absolve all of her pain into his own body. "Gabby? Baby what is it?" he asked but she couldn't answer through the thick tears streaming down her beautiful face. "Help!" Casey screamed back at the men who were already almost to them. "Hang on baby." Casey cried as he watched helplessly as Gabby withered in pain in his arms.