Chapter 5 – Blaze

Natasha stood gazing at the firehouse before walking into the building, she stopped to look at the memorial plaque that was on the wall before walking up the stairs to where Carlos, Holly & Kim Were sitting

"Excuse me, is Lieutenant Doherty around?"

Kim turned around and did a double take.

"Jasmine?"

"Umm no I'm Natasha, Jasmine is my twin."

"Ah right" Kim replied laughing "I do apologise, I take it Jasmine is your identical twin then."

"Yep, but don't worry about it I'm used to people getting us mixed up."

"So are you our new firefighter that Jimmy was talking about yesterday" Holly asked with a curious look on her face

"I am indeed."

"I'm Kim Zambrano, I'm the supervising Paramedic here. This is Holly Levine & Carlos Nieto, we have another paramedic Grace Foster, but she hasn't arrived yet."

"Nice to meet you all, hopefully I should be able to adapt to life over here, it's certainly a culture shock compared to London."

"May I ask why you moved over here?" Holly asked

"Sure, Jasmine moved over here after a few problems in the MET back home and she decided to move to NYC and I really started to miss her, so I decided to move over here as well, so here I am."

I'm just hoping that I will be able to adjust to the way FDNY operates, as I'm sure that everything is a lot different to back home in the LFB."

"What can be different about fighting fires?" Grace asked in a frosty tone as she walked into the Kitchen.

Natasha glanced across at Grace and smiled before speaking to her.

"I'm sorry but I don't think we have been introduced"

"I'm Grace Foster, one of the senior medics here at the 55"

"I'm Natasha Taylor-Walker, Former Crew Commander at Homerton Fire Station, London."

Grace looked at Natasha before stalking out of the room in a huff, feeling a bit threatened by the new arrival.

"So do you think of NYC so far Natasha ?" Kim asked as she motioned for Natasha to sit down next to her.

In The Precinct

"Hey Jasmine, how are you feeling today?" Faith asked Jasmine as she walked into the locker room.

"I'm feeling quite good actually Faith, at least there is no pain now, just lots of unsightly bruising that must have every colour of the rainbow in it." Jasmine replied with a little laugh.

Jasmine walked to her locker and opened before speaking again

"Have you heard how Bosco is Faith?"

"Well I spoke to his mom yesterday and they let him leave hospital, but he will be off work for at least another week, which I know for a fact that Bosco will not be very happy about, he's not a very good patient"

"Ah well, at least we may have a bit of peace and quiet," Faith said giggling as she fastened her shirt buttons.

As Jasmine got changed into her uniform the door opened and Sully & Ty walked into the locker room, Sully glanced at Jasmine's badly bruised ribs and winced "That must be painful Jasmine"

"Its not to bad now Sully the pain has gone its just bruising" Jasmine replied

"Anyhows I'm off to the roll call room see you guys in there" Jasmine said as she walked out of the room.

"I think we have a damn good officer there Faith" Sully said as he watched Jasmine walk out of the room

"I know sully and she has stunning looks to go with it, shes certainly going to put a certain persons nose out of joint" Faith replied before walking out of the locker room

"See you guys in roll call"

Roll Call Room

"OK Guys, we are on the lookout for this guy, His name is Jack Morgan and he is wanted in connection with the abduction of his son Stephen. Stephen lives with his mother & step-father who have recently moved over from the UK, lets keep an eye out for him" Lieutenant Swersky announced.

OK pairings for this shift are

"55 Boyd" Finney & McKenzie

"55 Charlie" Davis & Sullivan

"55 David" Boscorelli & Yokas

"55 Edward" Monroe & Walker

"Stay safe out there"

Firehouse

As Natasha got changed into her uniform, she glanced round the room and thought that the room wasn't much different to the one's back at Homerton, I'm really starting to miss though guys Natasha thought to herself as she closed her locker door, Glancing at the door she saw the name Alex Taylor on it and wondered who it was. Walking down the stairs she passed DK & Walsh, she smiled at them and said hello before she carried on walking down the stairs leaving the pair of them open mouthed and wondering who this woman was.

"Who do you think that was Billy Boy." DK asked as they watched Natasha walk down the stairs.

"I don't know DK, but she is stunning whoever she is" Billy responded as they continued to walk up the stairs.

Sitting down at the table Natasha took in her work surroundings, sighing she got up to get a drink, although she was happy in New York, she missed the laughing and joking of Blue Watch and wondered who had replaced her as Crew Commander.

"Earth to Natasha are you receiving?"

Natasha looked up to Rhiannon standing in front of try to get her attention.

"I'm fine, just thinking about the lads back at my…….."

Natasha was interrupted by the tannoy announcing a shout.

"Engine 55, Ladder 100, Adam 55-3, Boy 55-2, Fire in subway Amsterdam & West 72nd Street, Persons possibly trapped.

The whole of the 55 firehouse were soon on their way to the location of the fire, knowing that this was going to be serious, Natasha's stomach was doing somersaults, you will be fine Rhiannon said as they climbed aboard Engine 55, Natasha was sitting opposite DK, who smiled and introduced himself.

"Hi I'm DK, & the bloke driving like a Fruitloop is Billy Walsh"

"Hey I heard that! My driving is not that bad!" Billy protested

"I'm Natasha, it's nice to meet you." Natasha responded laughing at the banter that was flying around the Engine cab.

Throughout the journey to the scene of the fire DK could not take his eyes of Natasha, absolutely mesmerised by how beautiful she was.

When engine 55 pulled up outside the subway station DK jumped out of one side Engine 55 followed by Natasha & Rhiannon. Rhiannon had clocked DK checking Natasha out during the journey, and decided she was going to have some fun when they returned to the house.

Just as Rhiannon had slamed the door on the engine a huge explosion ripped through the subway station and then everything went black……………………