It had been several months since Craig had left the firehouse. Everyone was
thankful to see him go and he definitely wasn't missed that's for sure. Kim
and Bobby had just come back to the station from their lunch break and Kim
was taking a sip from her soda bottle as she headed in. Craig had been
hiding out waiting on them to return and saw what she had and smiled
evilly, patting the pocket of his coat. Everyone had been sitting around
talking when all of a sudden they heard a scream from outside the
firehouse. Everyone inside rushed outside and found a young child who
appeared to be having a seizure, with his mother going hysterical, not
knowing what to do to help. Kim worked on trying to calm the mother down
while Doc, Carlos and Bobby worked on the little boy.
Having no one paying attention to what was happening in the firehouse, they failed to notice someone slip up the stairs to the kitchen area. Craig spotted the bottle Kim had carried in with her and slipped about 25 mg of cyanide powder into the bottle she had. It was still relatively full so he didn't have to worry about any of the powder clinging to the sides of the bottle. He thoroughly mixed the contents of the bottle with a straw long enough to fit all the way to the bottom of the bottle. After he was sure you couldn't tell anything had been added to the drink he headed back to his original hiding spot to wait for everyone to leave so he could slip out unnoticed.
Doc and Carlos got the boy stabilized and took him to the hospital as a precautionary measure even though the seizure was brief and ended a short time after it had started. Everyone else including Kim and Bobby headed back up to the kitchen and resumed their conversation. When the coast was clear Craig slipped out and watched from a distance what was going on. Kim drank about half of her bottle of coke and started feeling strange. Bobby looked over at her and asked, "Are you ok?"
"I think I'll be fine, just have to lay off the spicy foods for a bit because the coke isn't helping quench the fire," she replied jokingly.
Bobby took her word on it and thirty minutes later they got a call they had to respond to. Craig watched from near by with satisfaction, seeing the first signs that the powder was taking effect. Her breathing started to get slow and gasping as they headed out to the bus, which alarmed Bobby because just fifteen minutes ago she was just fine. Nonstop waves of nausea swept through her worse than the morning sickness she'd went through when she was pregnant with Keira.
"I feel like I'm going to be sick," she managed to gasp out, grasping onto the door handle of the bus for support, leaning her forehead against the glass.
The alarming rate that her condition had changed scared the shit out of Bobby and he scooped her up since she could hardly stand on her own and carried her back inside. Doc and Carlos took the call so they could figure out what was wrong with Kim. Her skin was flushed and a few minutes later she threw up. Everyone was scared because they had no clue what was wrong with her or what had caused this in the first place.
"Jimmy, you're driving the bus. We've got to get her to the hospital." Bobby replied picking her up as she started to drift into unconsciousness. Jimmy raced downstairs, Bobby following close behind. Alex went with them so she could help Bobby monitor her condition enroute to the hospital. They got her hooked to a heart monitor and saw her rhythms were very abnormal. They worked to get her stable as Jimmy raced them towards the ER. They got her on oxygen and hoped to help make it easier for her to breathe since her breaths were still coming very slowly but she fought to even get air in and monitored her vitals. Alex called the ER and told them they were coming in and there was a group waiting on them when they pulled up.
"What happened?" One of the doctors asked as they rushed into the ER.
"I don't know. One minute she's just fine and then 30 minutes later she's having trouble breathing, feeling nauseated and can hardly stand. Then she started going unconscious. I have no clue what happened to her. It can't be the heat because its not all that warm out here now that the heat wave is over." Bobby replied in panic at what was going on and how fast things had changed.
The three of them left and let the doctors work on her, trying to unravel the mystery as to what had caused her to fall ill all of a sudden. The three of them racked their brain to see if they could think of anything that could have happened that they were aware of but nothing clicked. An hour later the doctor came back out and asked, "Has she had anything to eat or drink recently?"
"Yeah, before this happened we had just returned from our lunch break at work and we all were sitting around talking, she was sipping on a bottle of soda. Then a kid outside the firehouse started having seizures so we all went out to help the kid and the mother and that took about 15 to 20 minutes. We went inside and she drank about half the bottle and complained that she should lay off the spicy foods because her mouth felt as if it were on fire, thinking it had to do with the food she had for lunch. Then we get a call and by the time we get to the bus she can hardly breathe." Bobby replied, not sure why the doctor had asked that.
"I just got the lab results back and they found cyanide in her system. Could you bring in the bottle so we can run tests on it?" The doctor asked.
"Yeah, sure." Bobby replied in shock, the fact that Kim had been poisoned still sinking in.
"How could she have been poisoned?" Alex asked; "We all were outside at the same time, none of us were by ourselves to do it."
"Good point Alex," Jimmy noted.
Bobby called down to the station and had one of the guys bring the bottle she'd been drinking down. Several minutes later D.K arrived with the soda bottle and gave it to Bobby and sat down next to Jimmy and Alex and asked, "Why do they need that?"
"She was poisoned D.K. They want to run tests on the bottle to see if that's what caused it." Jimmy said angrily.
"What with?" he asked, a shocked expression crossing his face.
"Cyanide," Alex replied looking at Bobby coming back over.
"Dear God who could have done it?" D.K asked.
"We don't know. Could you see if any of the guys across the street saw anyone suspicious around the building before the kid showed up or afterwards to see if it was an outside job?" Bobby asked.
"Sure thing," he replied; "You want me to tell the others at the station or wait?"
"Go ahead and tell them. I don't know how long we'll be here." Bobby replied slumping down in the chair he was in, unable to believe what was happening.
D.K nodded his head in response and headed back to the station with the bad news.
When he arrived everyone was sitting around silently, waiting for any updates on how she was. Before D.K headed into the firehouse he went across the street and asked to have Officers Yokas, Boscarelli, Davis and Sullivan sent over so they could see if they saw anything since they'd all stopped in the precinct around the same time this happened. D.K headed back across the street, bringing bad news and waiting for the four officers to arrive so they could talk.
"Well how is she?" Lombardo asked.
"You guys aren't going to believe this, but she was poisoned." D.K said, still unable to grasp what had happened.
"Poisoned?!" everyone exclaimed in disbelief.
"That's what the test results show," D.K said softly.
"With what?" Walsh asked stunned.
"Cyanide," he responded.
"Who could have done it? None of us could ever do that to her. Plus we all were together the whole time so none of us had the opportunity to do it." Lombardo replied exasperated.
"I know, I've got 4 officers coming over from across the street to see if they can get anything out of their colleagues." D.K said trying to ease his colleague's worries.
"God I hope she's ok. From what I've heard that is some pretty nasty shit to mess with." Walsh said in downcast spirits.
Everyone silently nodded their heads in agreement when they heard the 4 officers coming in.
"Hello where is everybody!" Ty called out.
"Up here," D.K replied in a saddened voice.
"What's wrong with you all?" Bosco asked, looking at the dreary faces of the firefighters.
"We need you all to see if anyone across the street saw anything suspicious after that boy that went into seizures in front of the station left for the hospital." D.K said.
"And why do we have to do that?" Bosco retorted.
"Because Kim was poisoned you jackass!" Lombardo hissed, glaring at Bosco.
"Whoa, what did you just say!" Faith replied appalled.
"Kim was poisoned today, she's at Mercy right now in the ER. The preliminary lab results say it was cyanide that was found in her system." D.K said to Faith.
"Is she going to be ok?" Sully asked in a concerned manner.
"We don't know yet." D.K said, sadly.
"We'll go back over to the precinct and see if anyone saw anything and see what we can do to help out." Faith replied, determined to find out who had done this.
As the four officers left, they were stunned to hear what had happened. They knew that none of the guys in the firehouse would want to hurt Kim. To them she was just one of the guys, just like Alex was and everyone got along with everyone. Faith headed towards the serge's office and quietly rapped on the door, entering when her knock was acknowledged.
"Sir I was wondering if I could speak to you for a moment." Faith asked.
"Sure, have a seat." He replied, getting up and closing the door.
"I was approached by several members of the firehouse across the street to help find out who poisoned one of their medics this afternoon. Could we bring this up in roll call tomorrow to see if anyone remembers anything?" she asked, hoping to be able to help out.
"Who was poisoned and with what." the serge asked.
"It was Kim, Bobby's wife. She was poisoned with cyanide." She replied.
"How is she doing?" he questioned.
"Right now sir I don't know. They didn't have a lot of details at the moment." Faith said in response.
"I will bring this up tomorrow. For now you and your partner ask around the precinct just to get the word flowing to see if anyone saw anything today. Keep me posted if you hear anything on how she's doing." The serge replied.
"Yes sir," Faith said as she stood up to leave.
Back at the hospital, they'd let the three from the firehouse come in and see Kim briefly, Bobby spending the most time with her. They'd positively identified cyanide in the bottle of soda. All they could do is give her antidotes to counteract the effects the poisons were having in her system. Bobby sat next to her holding her hand in his and softly whispered near her ear,
"Venga en Kimmy, usted ha obtenido para luchar esto. Sé que usted puede. Todos apoyan en la casa está preocupado por usted tan por favor malvado fuera. Usted ha obtenido a una hija magnífica que espera en usted en casa así como un hijo fino que necesita usted. No mencionar a todos sus amigos y la familia que son concernidos para cómo usted hace. Y sobre todo, yo lo necesito. A pesar de la pelea que tuvimos un rato espalda, usted es mi vida. Sin usted una parte de mí pierde, es por favor fuerte y la pelea este tan podemos ser una familia una vez más." {Come on Kimmy, you have got to fight this. I know you can. Everyone back at the house is worried about you so please tough it out. You've got a gorgeous daughter waiting on you at home as well as a fine son that need you. Not to mention all your friends and family that are concerned for how you are doing. And above all, I need you. Despite the fight we had a while back, you are my life. Without you a part of me is missing, please be strong and fight this so we can be a family once more.}
Spanish Translations:
Venga en Kimmy, usted ha obtenido para luchar esto. Sé que usted puede. Todos apoyan en la casa está preocupado por usted tan por favor malvado fuera. Usted ha obtenido a una hija magnífica que espera en usted en casa así como un hijo fino que necesita usted. No mencionar a todos sus amigos y la familia que son concernidos para cómo usted hace. Y sobre todo, yo lo necesito. A pesar de la pelea que tuvimos un rato espalda, usted es mi vida. Sin usted una parte de mí pierde, es por favor fuerte y la pelea este tan podemos ser una familia una vez más.
Come on Kimmy, you have got to fight this. I know you can. Everyone back at the house is worried about you so please tough it out. You've got a gorgeous daughter waiting on you at home as well as a fine son that need you. Not to mention all your friends and family that are concerned for how you are doing. And above all, I need you. Despite the fight we had a while back, you are my life. Without you a part of me is missing, please be strong and fight this so we can be a family once more.
Having no one paying attention to what was happening in the firehouse, they failed to notice someone slip up the stairs to the kitchen area. Craig spotted the bottle Kim had carried in with her and slipped about 25 mg of cyanide powder into the bottle she had. It was still relatively full so he didn't have to worry about any of the powder clinging to the sides of the bottle. He thoroughly mixed the contents of the bottle with a straw long enough to fit all the way to the bottom of the bottle. After he was sure you couldn't tell anything had been added to the drink he headed back to his original hiding spot to wait for everyone to leave so he could slip out unnoticed.
Doc and Carlos got the boy stabilized and took him to the hospital as a precautionary measure even though the seizure was brief and ended a short time after it had started. Everyone else including Kim and Bobby headed back up to the kitchen and resumed their conversation. When the coast was clear Craig slipped out and watched from a distance what was going on. Kim drank about half of her bottle of coke and started feeling strange. Bobby looked over at her and asked, "Are you ok?"
"I think I'll be fine, just have to lay off the spicy foods for a bit because the coke isn't helping quench the fire," she replied jokingly.
Bobby took her word on it and thirty minutes later they got a call they had to respond to. Craig watched from near by with satisfaction, seeing the first signs that the powder was taking effect. Her breathing started to get slow and gasping as they headed out to the bus, which alarmed Bobby because just fifteen minutes ago she was just fine. Nonstop waves of nausea swept through her worse than the morning sickness she'd went through when she was pregnant with Keira.
"I feel like I'm going to be sick," she managed to gasp out, grasping onto the door handle of the bus for support, leaning her forehead against the glass.
The alarming rate that her condition had changed scared the shit out of Bobby and he scooped her up since she could hardly stand on her own and carried her back inside. Doc and Carlos took the call so they could figure out what was wrong with Kim. Her skin was flushed and a few minutes later she threw up. Everyone was scared because they had no clue what was wrong with her or what had caused this in the first place.
"Jimmy, you're driving the bus. We've got to get her to the hospital." Bobby replied picking her up as she started to drift into unconsciousness. Jimmy raced downstairs, Bobby following close behind. Alex went with them so she could help Bobby monitor her condition enroute to the hospital. They got her hooked to a heart monitor and saw her rhythms were very abnormal. They worked to get her stable as Jimmy raced them towards the ER. They got her on oxygen and hoped to help make it easier for her to breathe since her breaths were still coming very slowly but she fought to even get air in and monitored her vitals. Alex called the ER and told them they were coming in and there was a group waiting on them when they pulled up.
"What happened?" One of the doctors asked as they rushed into the ER.
"I don't know. One minute she's just fine and then 30 minutes later she's having trouble breathing, feeling nauseated and can hardly stand. Then she started going unconscious. I have no clue what happened to her. It can't be the heat because its not all that warm out here now that the heat wave is over." Bobby replied in panic at what was going on and how fast things had changed.
The three of them left and let the doctors work on her, trying to unravel the mystery as to what had caused her to fall ill all of a sudden. The three of them racked their brain to see if they could think of anything that could have happened that they were aware of but nothing clicked. An hour later the doctor came back out and asked, "Has she had anything to eat or drink recently?"
"Yeah, before this happened we had just returned from our lunch break at work and we all were sitting around talking, she was sipping on a bottle of soda. Then a kid outside the firehouse started having seizures so we all went out to help the kid and the mother and that took about 15 to 20 minutes. We went inside and she drank about half the bottle and complained that she should lay off the spicy foods because her mouth felt as if it were on fire, thinking it had to do with the food she had for lunch. Then we get a call and by the time we get to the bus she can hardly breathe." Bobby replied, not sure why the doctor had asked that.
"I just got the lab results back and they found cyanide in her system. Could you bring in the bottle so we can run tests on it?" The doctor asked.
"Yeah, sure." Bobby replied in shock, the fact that Kim had been poisoned still sinking in.
"How could she have been poisoned?" Alex asked; "We all were outside at the same time, none of us were by ourselves to do it."
"Good point Alex," Jimmy noted.
Bobby called down to the station and had one of the guys bring the bottle she'd been drinking down. Several minutes later D.K arrived with the soda bottle and gave it to Bobby and sat down next to Jimmy and Alex and asked, "Why do they need that?"
"She was poisoned D.K. They want to run tests on the bottle to see if that's what caused it." Jimmy said angrily.
"What with?" he asked, a shocked expression crossing his face.
"Cyanide," Alex replied looking at Bobby coming back over.
"Dear God who could have done it?" D.K asked.
"We don't know. Could you see if any of the guys across the street saw anyone suspicious around the building before the kid showed up or afterwards to see if it was an outside job?" Bobby asked.
"Sure thing," he replied; "You want me to tell the others at the station or wait?"
"Go ahead and tell them. I don't know how long we'll be here." Bobby replied slumping down in the chair he was in, unable to believe what was happening.
D.K nodded his head in response and headed back to the station with the bad news.
When he arrived everyone was sitting around silently, waiting for any updates on how she was. Before D.K headed into the firehouse he went across the street and asked to have Officers Yokas, Boscarelli, Davis and Sullivan sent over so they could see if they saw anything since they'd all stopped in the precinct around the same time this happened. D.K headed back across the street, bringing bad news and waiting for the four officers to arrive so they could talk.
"Well how is she?" Lombardo asked.
"You guys aren't going to believe this, but she was poisoned." D.K said, still unable to grasp what had happened.
"Poisoned?!" everyone exclaimed in disbelief.
"That's what the test results show," D.K said softly.
"With what?" Walsh asked stunned.
"Cyanide," he responded.
"Who could have done it? None of us could ever do that to her. Plus we all were together the whole time so none of us had the opportunity to do it." Lombardo replied exasperated.
"I know, I've got 4 officers coming over from across the street to see if they can get anything out of their colleagues." D.K said trying to ease his colleague's worries.
"God I hope she's ok. From what I've heard that is some pretty nasty shit to mess with." Walsh said in downcast spirits.
Everyone silently nodded their heads in agreement when they heard the 4 officers coming in.
"Hello where is everybody!" Ty called out.
"Up here," D.K replied in a saddened voice.
"What's wrong with you all?" Bosco asked, looking at the dreary faces of the firefighters.
"We need you all to see if anyone across the street saw anything suspicious after that boy that went into seizures in front of the station left for the hospital." D.K said.
"And why do we have to do that?" Bosco retorted.
"Because Kim was poisoned you jackass!" Lombardo hissed, glaring at Bosco.
"Whoa, what did you just say!" Faith replied appalled.
"Kim was poisoned today, she's at Mercy right now in the ER. The preliminary lab results say it was cyanide that was found in her system." D.K said to Faith.
"Is she going to be ok?" Sully asked in a concerned manner.
"We don't know yet." D.K said, sadly.
"We'll go back over to the precinct and see if anyone saw anything and see what we can do to help out." Faith replied, determined to find out who had done this.
As the four officers left, they were stunned to hear what had happened. They knew that none of the guys in the firehouse would want to hurt Kim. To them she was just one of the guys, just like Alex was and everyone got along with everyone. Faith headed towards the serge's office and quietly rapped on the door, entering when her knock was acknowledged.
"Sir I was wondering if I could speak to you for a moment." Faith asked.
"Sure, have a seat." He replied, getting up and closing the door.
"I was approached by several members of the firehouse across the street to help find out who poisoned one of their medics this afternoon. Could we bring this up in roll call tomorrow to see if anyone remembers anything?" she asked, hoping to be able to help out.
"Who was poisoned and with what." the serge asked.
"It was Kim, Bobby's wife. She was poisoned with cyanide." She replied.
"How is she doing?" he questioned.
"Right now sir I don't know. They didn't have a lot of details at the moment." Faith said in response.
"I will bring this up tomorrow. For now you and your partner ask around the precinct just to get the word flowing to see if anyone saw anything today. Keep me posted if you hear anything on how she's doing." The serge replied.
"Yes sir," Faith said as she stood up to leave.
Back at the hospital, they'd let the three from the firehouse come in and see Kim briefly, Bobby spending the most time with her. They'd positively identified cyanide in the bottle of soda. All they could do is give her antidotes to counteract the effects the poisons were having in her system. Bobby sat next to her holding her hand in his and softly whispered near her ear,
"Venga en Kimmy, usted ha obtenido para luchar esto. Sé que usted puede. Todos apoyan en la casa está preocupado por usted tan por favor malvado fuera. Usted ha obtenido a una hija magnífica que espera en usted en casa así como un hijo fino que necesita usted. No mencionar a todos sus amigos y la familia que son concernidos para cómo usted hace. Y sobre todo, yo lo necesito. A pesar de la pelea que tuvimos un rato espalda, usted es mi vida. Sin usted una parte de mí pierde, es por favor fuerte y la pelea este tan podemos ser una familia una vez más." {Come on Kimmy, you have got to fight this. I know you can. Everyone back at the house is worried about you so please tough it out. You've got a gorgeous daughter waiting on you at home as well as a fine son that need you. Not to mention all your friends and family that are concerned for how you are doing. And above all, I need you. Despite the fight we had a while back, you are my life. Without you a part of me is missing, please be strong and fight this so we can be a family once more.}
Spanish Translations:
Venga en Kimmy, usted ha obtenido para luchar esto. Sé que usted puede. Todos apoyan en la casa está preocupado por usted tan por favor malvado fuera. Usted ha obtenido a una hija magnífica que espera en usted en casa así como un hijo fino que necesita usted. No mencionar a todos sus amigos y la familia que son concernidos para cómo usted hace. Y sobre todo, yo lo necesito. A pesar de la pelea que tuvimos un rato espalda, usted es mi vida. Sin usted una parte de mí pierde, es por favor fuerte y la pelea este tan podemos ser una familia una vez más.
Come on Kimmy, you have got to fight this. I know you can. Everyone back at the house is worried about you so please tough it out. You've got a gorgeous daughter waiting on you at home as well as a fine son that need you. Not to mention all your friends and family that are concerned for how you are doing. And above all, I need you. Despite the fight we had a while back, you are my life. Without you a part of me is missing, please be strong and fight this so we can be a family once more.