On arrival, Alec took his seatbelt off and opened the car door once she had parked up. He had hoped the ache and tightness across his chest would of eased off by now, it had been a while since he took the tablets and knew they'd of normally kicked in by now. Ellie got out of the car and closed the door, she rummaged through her set of keys to find the one for her front door. Hearing a small gasp and a slight sudden movement from Alec caught her eye, it drew her attention. "Sir, wh..what's wrong?" she asked hurrying over to him. Her voice echoed through him as he tried to look at her, his eyes widened quickly desperate to stay focused on her. It was too much of an effort to even stutter his words out, it was just a load of gibberish. "Sh.. oh god" Ellie muttered as she tried to hold him upright.
"Don't you do this to me again!" She raised her voice as she spoke. Ellie gulped hearing Alec's gasps and sudden chokes as he tried to get as much oxygen in as he could. "Stay with me, open your bloody eyes!" she yelled tapping his face gently as she still had hold of him. "Im calling an ambulance.." she muttered and carefully guided him to the ground rather than letting him fall. Ellie took her phone out "Typical!" She cursed seeing her battery was dead on it. "Alec I need your phone!" Panic had taken over a little, it was noticeable in her voice and with barely little response from him, she began to check his pockets soon to find his phone. "How the hell do you work these things?" she asked herself and eventually unlocked the phone. Ellie bit down on her lip as she spotted the wallpaper on the screen, it was himself and his daughter. Shaking her head she dialed 999 "Oi, you better still be breathing.." she nudged Alec who's frail body remained still. "Respond to me you Scottish idiot! Sorry not you.." she replied instantly after hearing the operator talking on the other end of the phone.
Ellie had been given instructions by the operator after she had explained Alec's condition, or at least what she knew of it and the current situation he was in down the phone. Placing the phone on loud speaker she set it on the ground and followed his instructions, checking he was breathing was the first one (other than her telling him he was no longer conscious). "NO!" she yelled. The odd curtain twitched as the commotion was heard from inside people's houses. The operator began to give her steps to follow in order to resuscitate him. "Gee don't make me kiss him, he'd hate that as much as I would.." she muttered before being reassured that it was now 'hands only CPR'.
The counting went on and on as she pressed her hands down onto Alec's chest, by this point people had come outside to see what was going on. Tom opened the front door to their house and hurried out "Mum? Wh-what's happened?" he asked a little startled. "Tom, just go back inside sweetheart with Auntie Lucy.." his mother replied still trying to remain focused on the number of compressions she was on. Lost for words, Tom backed away and headed inside the house again where he explained to his Auntie what was going on, or atleast what he thought was going on.
"Don't bloody die on me for Christ sake!" Ellie yelled becoming somewhat emotional, her arms were becoming tired yet she continued the compressions. "Where is that sodding ambulance?!" she hissed and quietened quickly as she heard the sirens finally echoing through the town, gradually getting closer and closer.
Ellie found herself being moved aside as the paramedics took over from her, firstly unbuttoning his shirt. She stood over them all just watching on at their attempts to bring him back. She wiped her dampened cheeks slowly, she was crying. "Ok, clear" she over heard the medic and frowned before stumbling back seeing Alec's body jerking a little, the pads on his bare chest had just shocked his heart. "Oh my god.." she muttered looking away. It felt like forever to Ellie but finally the words "we've got him back" sounded in her ears and she gave a huge sigh of relief as she looked back down to the three of them.