Thanks for all the great reviews, please keep them coming. As said before I don't own these characters L . I hope you enjoy, sorry it took so long to update.
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That night after work D.K. took Ty home. Jimmy, Walsh and Lombardo all went out for a drink and Kim and Bobby went to pick up Joey on their way home since it had been agreed upon that with the current circumstances it would be best for him to stay with them. Carlos and Doc were still at the house since they were working a double shift.
Once the others had left Alex grabbed her duffle bag headed across the street to the precinct. In front of the house Ty, Bosco and Faith were gathered together waiting on her.
" Hey baby" Ty said giving her a hug and a quick kiss on the lips " What's wrong?" he asked looking into her eyes seeing the sadness that was their. After a minute to collect her thoughts Alex told them what had happened that day. Together the two couples went to a near by bar to have a few drinks and then have an early night.
The next day Alex, Faith, and Kim met up and decided to pay Ty a visit at home. They knocked on her front door for several minutes before a very groggy and disheveled woman opened the door.
" Hi guys, what are you doing here? Did I forget about an early morning breakfast?"
" No, we just thought we'd stop by." Faith replied.
Moving away from the door " Come on in guys, make yourself comfortable, I'm gonna grab a quick shower."
The girls all sat down in the living room. " Hey do you have any coffee?" Alex asked.
" Yeah, in the kitchen, Mi Casa es su Casa. Be back in five." Ty said heading towards her bedroom to grab a quick shower.
Ty joined the others ten minutes later in her living room wearing a tight pair of blue jeans, black healed boots, and a black crop top that read 'Some like it HOT and Wet' and had a picture of a firefighter underneath it.
" Oh I love that shirt" Faith exclaimed when Ty walked in.
" Thanks" Ty replied grinning " I got it from my old roommate in Florida. Calliegh had a wicked sense of humor. So did you guys bring me breakfast?"
" What do you take us for? Of course we brought you breakfast." Kim stated indignantly handing Ty a bag filled with bagels with cream cheese on top.
" Ok, what happened yesterday is off limits as far as conversation topics go. I know your all here for me and I have your support but I just can't drag it all up again."
" Fair enough."
" Ty are you working Friday night?"
" No, why?"
" Because I want to take Bosco out for a romantic dinner for two. Emily and Charlie are both spending the night at a friends house but I don't have anyone to watch Kyla that night." Faith said with a huge puppy dog expression on her face.
" Sure I'll watch your little angle for the night."
" You're the best, Romano."
" Yeah and don't you forget it Boscorelli."
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A month after the incident at the house things had returned to normal for the most part. Jimmy and Brook had separated and he was now staying with D.K. and crashing on her couch.
" Whose turn is it to cook diner?"
" Mine, Walsh. Why?" Ty replied.
" Just wondering if I was going to need to get my stomach pumped again. Since I know Carlos's turn to cook is coming up soon."
" Well don't worry Walsh, your safe with me. No ones ever gotten sick or died from my cooking."
" So what are you making?" Bobby asked.
" I'm making this Cuban dish my roommates boyfriend taught me how to make. It's great with lots of flavor I think you boys might like it."
Then all of a sudden the alarm sounded " Engine 57, Boyd 55-3, Adam 55-3 Residential Fire 321 Jameson and Park Ave."
When they pulled up to the scene they found a 2-story house on fire. There were several people in front coughing from the smoke, there was also an RMP parked near by and its officers were helping the people.
" Boscorelli, what have we got?" Lieu asked.
" Most of the people are. The tenants and landlord say there is an elderly man on the second floor in the back bedroom. Also we believe their may be a couple in the basement apartment, no one has seen them today."
" Thanks Bosco, also can you call for more people, we need to set a perimeter to get these people to back up."
" Sure." Bosco then turned around and headed back over to Faith who was arguing with an on looker who wouldn't back up.
" Hey jackass didn't you hear the lady she told you to back up."
" Yeah, what ever man I just wanted to look."
" Well look from behind the barricade."
" FINE!" The man yelled and stomped off.
" Can you believe these idiots?" Bosco grumbled.
" Calm down babe. Did Lieu need us to do anything?" Faith asked calmly quickly changing the subject before Bosco went off on one of his tirades.
" Yeah, he needs us to get a couple more RMP's out here on crowd control."
When he said this she grabbed her radio " Central this is 55-David 10-85 request other patrols to this location for crowd control."
" 10-4, 55-David sending 55-Charlie to your location."
" 10-4 Central." Then turning to Bosco " Sully and Davis are on their way."
" I'll let Lieu know."
While all of that was going on Lieu turned to his crew " Doherty, Taylor there's an elderly gentleman trapped on the second floor in the back bedroom" as soon as he said that they headed towards the house. " Romano, Walsh and D.K. checkout the basement apartment, their maybe two people in there." So off they went as well.
Ten minutes later Jimmy and Alex emerged from the building carrying the elderly man, they carried him over to Kim and Bobby, who were waiting with a gurney. Once he was secured on the gurney Kim checked his vitals while Bobby put an oxygen mask on him, they then loaded into the ambulance and headed for Mercy.
At the same time their was an explosion in the house causing part of it to collapse with three firefighters still inside.
" Are you guys ok?" D.K. asked coughing a little from the dust that had arisen due to the falling debris.
" Yeah, I'm good." Billy replied crawling over to D.K. " You?"
" I'm fine, I think I may have cracked rib or two, but that's it. Ty you ok?" he asked again. But there was still no reply. " Can you see her Billy?"
" I think so." He said off towards the figure he saw. " Yeah, it's her man." he then quickly checked her over. " She's breathing but it's shallow and her pulse is pretty weak. Also a beam landed on her abdomen, I'm gonna try and move it off of her."
" Ok, I'll see if I can raise anyone over the radio." D.K. replied.
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Outside of the house everyone was frantic and worried about there friends inside the building. After the explosion other firefighters quickly tried to get the blaze under control. Where as Lieu was on the radio trying to raise those trapped.
" Romano, D.K., Walsh can any of you hear me."
" I hear you loud and clear Lieu." D.K. replied. Making everyone breathe a sigh of relief.
" What's the situation?"
" Well we're the only ones down here…"
" Is anyone hurt?" Interrupted Alex, who was anxiously awaiting news on her sister.
" I've got a couple cracked ribs, Walsh is fine, but Ty's hurt bad. She's unconscious, Billy says her breathing is shallow and that her pulse is weak. There was a beam that fell across her abdomen but he got it off of her. So the sooner you can get us out of here the better."
" Alright."
" Doherty, Taylor get back in there and bring them out. I want you guys to be careful, that building isn't stable."
They both put their SCBA masks on, grabbed a spinal board and headed back into the building. Fifteen minutes later they emerged from the building. Once they were clear Doc and Carlos approached them with a gurney. They immediately placed the spinal board carrying Ty on the gurney and rushed to the waiting bus, also taking D.K. and Walsh with them.
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As soon as they returned to the house Lieu called in several people from another watch so that Alex and Jimmy could go to the hospital. When they arrived they found Chief Taylor, his wife Susan, Sully, Ty, Faith and Bosco in one of the waiting rooms.
" Is there any news?" Alex asked after hugging both of her parents.
" No honey, none." Susan replied in a voice barely above a whisper.
" Come on guys, she'll be fine. She's just as hard headed and stubborn as I am if not more so." Bosco stated causing everyone to agree.
Half an hour later the doctor entered the room. " Hello I'm Dr. Anne Cortez, first off we've managed to stabilize her, but she is still in a critical condition. She has several cracked and broken ribs due to the falling beam. One of her broken ribs punctured her lung, which is why her breathing was shallow at the scene. She also has a head wound on the back of her head; we believe that she hit her air tank when she fell. We've run a CT scan and she doesn't have a skull fracture, however, there is some evidence of swelling to the brain. She still hasn't regained consciousness, which does have me worried. I'll be honest with you, the sooner she regains consciousness the better, longer she doesn't the higher the risk of brain damage. Know if her condition improves over night she'll be moved out of the ICU into a room."
" Thank you doctor, when can we see our daughter?" Asked Chief Taylor.
" I'll have a nurse let you in, in a few minutes. You can see her one at a time, but immediate family only."
" Thanks, Doc." Alex said.
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Both Alex and Jimmy kept a vigil at Ty's bedside over the next two weeks. One night near the end of the second week Jimmy was in the room alone with Ty since Alex had gone to meet Kim and Faith in the hospital cafeteria for lunch. Since the doctor had recommended talking to her and said it might help wake her up Jimmy decided to try it.
" Hey beautiful. First off Joey wanted me to tell you 'Hi' and that he love and misses you very much. He also made you a get well card, he taped the picture of the tree of us from the 4th of July on the inside, I've put it on the table with the others. I don't know if you can hear me or not but if you can please wake up. There is so much that I've wanted to say to you but figured I'd have the time to. Well I wish like hell that I hadn't waited, I'm still in love with you, I never stopped. You've been one of the best things in my life and I never should have let you go. Since you come back into my life I've been thinking about where we'd be today if Michael hadn't died, I'm pretty sure we'd be married with a couple more kids. Or if you'd stuck around, would we have gotten married like we planned. Hell I don't know and I guess it doesn't matter. But what does matter is that I love you and I still want to spend the rest of my life with you, grow old together and all those other things we had planned. Please wake up" he begged " right know I wouldn't even mind you listening to you yell at me or giving me one of your safety lectures if it meant you being awake." He said the last part with tears in his eyes.
When she was sure he was done Alex slowly walked into the room carrying two cups of black coffee. " So you two were really close?"
" If you mean did I love your sister or was she just one of my flings the answer is I was and still am in love with her."
" Sorry, just we are pretty close, yet she never told me everything. So what I've learned since she moved back home has surprised me, I can't believe she's kept most of this from me."
" Nothing to be sorry about. If you have any questions that you want answered I'll try to answer them as best I can."
" How did you meet?"
" Like we told Brook we met when I gave a talk at the Academy. Afterwards we got to talking and things progressed from their. I fell for her and we started going out. Then she got pregnant, we were both happy about Michael, he may not have been planned but we were stilled thrilled. When she was four months pregnant I asked her to marry me and she said yes. We made plans like you do and then when she was eight and a half months she went into labor and gave birth to our son." Jimmy took out his wallet and removed a picture of himself, Ty, Joey and Michael " This was taken two hours before he died."
" He was beautiful, he looked a lot like you."
" Thanks Alex, he had your sisters eyes though."
" What did he die of, if you don't mind my asking?"
" He died of Congenital Heart Disease. His condition was so severe that their wasn't anything that the doctors could do for him."
" So when was he born?"
" He was born March 16th at 2 in the afternoon. I guess you also want to know what happened between Ty and I?"
" If you'll tell me, I'll listen but I know it's none of my business."
" After Michael died Ty shut down and shut me out. And the more I tried to be their for her the further apart we grew until one day I came home from work and found a letter on the kitchen table. With it was the engagement ring I'd given her, and inside the note she said she couldn't handle us anymore. That she felt claustrophobic and had to leave. She also said that she wasn't coming back and that she was sorry for hurting me."
" Ouch."
" Yeah, it hurt but I understood so I never got mad or anything."
" Well I'm glad you're here for her know. And just for the record she's still in love with you, but she won't say anything for two reasons, first off you're married to that bitch, sorry I meant to say Brook. Secondly she's scared shitless."
" What makes you think it's me and not some other guy.?"
" When she moved back home I tried to set her up on some dates but she refused saying she was in love with someone already. But that it was over because she'd walked out on him and she doubted that he would ever forgive her. So unless she left another guy it's you."