Hawaii Five-0
Stuck
Chapter 11
"So what's this name you and Steve have in mind?" April asked after over hearing Steve over the phone.
"Before I can answer that I want to ask you something first" Catherine replied.
"Ask away" said April.
"Okay, what's your middle name?" Catherine asked.
"My middle name?" April asked.
"Well it would be a little confusing for everyone if Steve and I named her April" Catherine replied.
"You want to name your daughter after me?" April asked, starting to feel a little flattered. "Why?"
"Because not only did you deliver my baby, you've managed to keep Mary alive while suffering from a concussion" Catherine replied.
"Wow" April exclaimed, now starting to blush.
"Okay then, ah my middle name is Lucy; after my grandmother"
"Lucy?" Catherine asked with a smile.
"Yeah" April replied.
"Lucy….I like that" Catherine stated. "Lucy"
"Well, welcome to the world Lucy" said April, still with a broad smile across her face before the moment was then interrupted when elevator reached the ground floor of the shopping centre and jolted them slightly.
"Finally, we're back on solid ground" Mary stated after the jolt of the elevator landing on the ground floor alerted her to what was going on.
Seconds later, the elevator doors opened up to reveal Kono and Chin standing on the other side with EMS waiting right behind them.
"Hey guys" said April as she looked up at them. "What took you so long?" she asked with a smile.
"How are you guys doing?" Kono asked as she walked over to Catherine and Lucy while Chin knelt down beside April and Mary.
"Cath, the baby and I are okay, but we need to get Mary out of here" April replied.
"Chin, you're going to help her get up" she said as she made her way to her feet.
"You got it" Chin replied, offering his hand to her to help her get up off of the floor.
"Thanks" said April leaning up against the wall to steady herself as the dizziness struck again while she watched Chin kneel back down to help Mary.
"Hey Mary, are you with me?" Chin asked before getting a response from her.
"Hey Chin" said Mary as she opened her eyes.
"I'm going to pick you up and get you some help, okay" said Chin kneeling down, placing one of his arms under her knees and the other underneath her uninjured shoulder before lifting her up to take her over to the paramedics.
April followed them out of the elevator so she could fill in the two paramedics on what had happened to Mary and what she had done to keep her to keep her from bleeding out; as well as getting herself checked out as well. Back in the elevator, Kono had sat herself down beside Catherine and the baby while they waited for the other paramedics to arrive.
"So, have you decided on a name for her yet?" Kono asked.
"Yeah" Catherine replied. "I decided to name her after April"
"So her name's April?" Kono asked, worried about the confusion about having to April's around.
"Actually it's Lucy" Catherine replied.
"April's middle name; you should have seen the look on her face when I told her I was naming my daughter after her"
"I can imagine" said Kono. "Lucy, I like it too, it definitely suits her"
After making their way down the last flight of stairs, Steve and Danny ran through the stairwell door. As they got closer to the elevator the girls had been trapped for several agonising hours, the commotion started to build up with police, paramedics and everyone in between everywhere. Danny and Steve looked around, desperate to find their loved ones. Once they had made their way through the commotion, Steve spotted Mary on a gurney with April by her side while helping the two paramedics treated her.
"Danny, over here!" Steve called before heading over in their direction while Danny went after him.
As Steve got closer he saw that April's hands and striped summer dress was stained with his sister's blood. He was hoping it was one of those situations where it wasn't as bad as it looked; Danny was hoping the same thing as well when he saw the blood all over his sister.
"Hey April!" Steve yelled before April looked up over her shoulder after she heard the familiar voice calling her name.
"Hey!" April yelled in return as Steve approached them with Danny not too far behind.
"Hey Mary, how are you doing?" Steve asked as he came to a stop next to April and placing a hand on Mary's shoulder.
"Better now" Mary replied, sounding muffled by the oxygen mask covering her face and weak from the ordeal.
"Yeah, now that you've got some proper medical treatment, you're vital signs have started to improve" April explained.
"I hate to be a buzz kill though, but you're still not entirely out of the woods yet Mary" she added.
"Buzz kill" said Mary, after pulling the mask off her face.
"Put it back on Mary" Steve ordered her.
"Excuse me" said the young female paramedic. "We've got to get going"
"Okay" said Steve.
"I'm going to go find Cath and the baby; I'll meet at you at the hospital soon, okay"
"Okay" said Mary before being wheeled away by the paramedics.
"Hey April, where's Cath and the baby?" Steve asked.
"They should be still in the elevator" April replied. "Chin and Kono should be there too"
"Okay thanks" said Steve before making his way over to the elevator to meet his newborn daughter.
"Hey, get yourself checked out okay"
"Yeah, will do" April replied.
"April!" Danny yelled to her from behind.
"Danny" said April after she turned around when she heard her brother's voice.
Danny quickly walked over to his sister and wrapped his arms around her in relief; April doing the same. Almost immediately after embracing her brother, April began to sob after everything that happened that day finally came crashing down on her.
"Hey it's okay….it's okay" Danny assured her. "You're okay…everything's okay…it's all over"
Over at the elevator, Catherine was being led out by both a female and male paramedic to gurney while Kono held Lucy for her after Chin and the paramedics assisted Catherine in getting up. When Steve arrived, Catherine was being assisted on to the gurney by the paramedics before Kono placed Lucy back in her arms and blanket was placed over her legs.
"Cath!" Steve yelled across the crowd of people before she turned to look where Steve was.
Steve ran the rest of the way over to his girlfriend and child; desperately wanting to wrap his arms around both of them. Once at their side, he wrapped his arms around Catherine's shoulders, bringing here in close and placing a kiss on top of her head. Then, after pulling out of the hug, Steve looked down at his beautiful baby girl, lying quietly in her mother's arms.
"Do you want to hold your daughter?" Catherine asked, lifting Lucy up towards Steve.
"That's the best question I've been asked all day" Steve replied, smiling from ear to ear as Catherine gently handed Lucy into her father's arms while Kono and Chin looked on.
Holding his little baby girl made Steve feel like a giant and when she opened her big brown eyes; definitely getting those from her mother, the whole world seemed to stop momentarily before asked Catherine about her name.
"So what's April's middle name?" Steve asked, continuing to look down at his baby girl.
"Lucy" Catherine replied, smiling.
"Lucy?" Steve asked.
"Yeah" Catherine replied.
"I like it" Steve stated. "In fact, it's perfect, come here" he said as he leant over to kiss Catherine.
Finally loosening her grip of her arms around her brother, April then pulled out of the hug so she could wipe her eyes.
"You know Cath and Steve named their baby Lucy" April explained.
"Lucy huh?" Danny asked.
"Yeah" April replied.
"That wouldn't have anything to do with your middle name being Lucy would it?" Danny asked.
"Actually, it has everything to do with my middle name being Lucy Danny" April replied.
"Cath insisted on naming her daughter after me" she added.
"Really?" Danny asked.
"Yeah Danny she really did" April replied.
"Well considering what you did in there and how you handled yourself, I would've done the same thing" said Danny as he saw April beginning to blush.
"I was just doing what I've been trained to do in those kinds of situations" said April.
"But thanks for the compliment" she said, tapping Danny on the arm before feeling another wave of pain in her stomach. "Ow!" she exclaimed, grabbing her stomach and bending over.
"Woe! Are you alright?" Danny asked with concern while placing his hand on her back.
"Ah no, no I don't think so" April replied, raising her head back up.
"By some miracle I thought it had stopped"
"But judging by the look of things it didn't, let's get you checked out" Danny suggested.
"Come on" he said, steering April in the opposite direction with his arm around her shoulders.
"Sounds like a plan" April agreed as the intense dizziness and nausea reared its ugly head again, causing her stop; but it was much worse this time around.
"April, what's wrong?" Danny asked as he stood in front of her to see the blood draining from her face.
"Everything's spinning Danny" April replied as she latched onto Danny's body.
"I can't see properly" she said before everything started to go black and then passing out.
"April…April!...April!" Danny panicked as his little sister collapsed right in front of him, grabbing her before she hit the ground.
"Help! I need some help over here!" he yelled, as he lay April gently on the floor before touching her neck to check for a pulse; relieved when he felt one.
"Stay with me April, you're going to be okay" he said, placing his hand on her forehead.