Uncertain Times
*~*~*~*~*
"The snow's coming down pretty hard out there." Carlos says to Nicole
Nicole moves into the living room of his apartment with two cups of coffee. She looks out the window. "Yeah it is." She acknowledges
Carlos moves to the couch and sits down with her, wrapping his arms around her. He kisses her neck.
"You know, you look really sexy in my old t-shirt." He smiles
"Oh I do now?" she giggles as they begin to make out.
The phone rings. Carlos pauses
"Don't answer it." Nicole pleads
Carlos looks at the ringing phone. He wished that it would just stop ringing. Finally out of frustration he grabs the phone.
"Hello?" he says hastily
Nicole asks, "Who is it?"
"Yes sir. I will be in as soon as I can." Carlos says into the phone.
"Well, there goes your day off." Nicole says
"I wouldn't be surprised if you don't get called in too." Carlos replies
Moments later her cell phone rings.
"I really shouldn't have given Doc this number." She laughs *~*~*~*~*
Taylor walks towards the firehouse. She is immediately pelted with snowballs thrown by DK and Jimmy.
"Hey, where's your husband?" DK asks teasingly
"Right here!" Walsh yells as he starts pelting his coworkers with snowballs.
Kim attempts to sneak in the door without being noticed, but Taylor hits her in the back of the head.
"Hey!" Kim squeals as she grabs a handful of snow and returns fire on Taylor.
Bosco and Faith are across the street watching the firefighters and medics interact.
"How come we never do fun stuff like that?" Bosco asks
"We're expected to lead by example." Faith replies
Just as she says that, Sully shoves a handful of snow down her jacket. And then laughs.
"Oh that's it." Faith yells as everyone else is laughing.
Before long the corner of King and Arthur becomes a giant snowball fight. Everyone is having a good time, but all good things must come to an end as the fire alarm sounds.
"Squad 55, Adam 55-3 MVA 123 and Lex."
"Well, that's us." Jimmy says to his coworkers
Walsh drops the armful of snowballs that he had and they all head in for the truck.
Bosco, Faith, Sully, and Davis watch as the truck pulls away followed by the bus.
"These slick streets are gonna cause a whole lot of headaches tonight." Sully says
"Yeah, for us." Bosco replies. *~*~*~*~*
Yesterday begins playing
The squad pulls onto the scene of the MVA. Another police unit is already there. There is a small fire burning from the engine of the small passenger car that is resting against a light pole. The occupants of the car sit on the sidewalk a little distance away. Taylor and Jimmy climb out of the truck and immediately set to putting out the fire of the car. Doc and Nicole walk up to the family.
"Are any of you hurt?" Doc asks
There is no response from the family.
"Can you understand me?" Doc asks again
There is still no response from the family.
"I don't think they understand English." Nicole says
"Apparently not. We need to find a translator." Doc says
Finally, in broken English the little boy of the family speaks. Doc and Nicole then use him to translate as they check the family for injuries. Jimmy and Taylor finally get the fire out.
"People need to be more careful in this weather." Jimmy says
"Yeah." Taylor replies as she looks up to Doc and Nicole who are with the family.
"You okay?" Jimmy asks
"Yeah. I'm fine." Taylor replies
"Okay." Jimmy says as he turns back towards the truck.
Taylor stands there thinking, not even realizing that she was standing alone. *~*~*~*~*
Bosco and Faith are patrolling Riverside in the RMP.
"Look at this! It's been snowing what, 3 hours? We've already got 8 inches of snow out there." Bosco gripes
"Come on Bosco, it's not that bad." Faith says.
"Yeah it is. I hate snow!" Bosco complains.
"Well then, I guess it is." Faith laughs. Faith's expression goes stone cold. "Bosco watch out!" Faith yells *~*~*~*~*
Sully and Davis are getting coffee
"So, you got any plans for the weekend?" Davis asks
"Davis, they're calling for 3 feet of snow. Do you really think that I'm gonna do anything this weekend?" Sully responds
"I didn't know if you had any honeys lined up to spend a little quality time with this weekend or not." Davis grins
Sully stares at him over his coffee cup.
"55 Charlie, MVA 98th and King" the radio crackles
Sully takes the radio. "98th and King, 55 Charlie." *~*~*~*~*
Taylor stands there thinking. The flames, the snow, it all took her back to her childhood.
"Angus, you have a visitor." Beth Taylor says
"Who is it Daddy?" Alex asks as she bounds down the stairs
"I don't know honey." Angus says as he heads for the door.
He finds two men from the fire department, standing on the snow-
covered porch. At this time Angus was a Lieutenant at the 84th.
The one gentleman speaks, "Lieutenant Taylor"
"Yes, I'm Lieutenant Taylor." Angus replies
"I'm afraid that I have some bad news." The gentleman says, "May we
come in?"
Alex looks out the door and can see smoke in the distance. The door
closes heavily. "Alex, why don't you and Adam go upstairs?" Beth
suggests
Alex and her brother head up the stairs. The two men sit on the couch
in the den.
"Lieutenant Taylor. I am afraid to tell you that your father has been
killed in the line of duty." The gentleman says
Angus looks at them, his heart sinks.
"What is it Adam?" Alex asks as they are listening at the top of the
stairs.
"That man just told father that Pappy was killed." Adam says
"Taylor!" Lieutenant Johnson yells
Taylor stands there, still absorbed in her thoughts.
"Taylor!" Lieu yells again
"Yeah Lieu?" Taylor spins
"Let's go, we got another call." Lieutenant Johnson says
"Right." Taylor replies and heads to the truck
Yesterday ends
*~*~*~*~*
Bosco jerks the steering wheel hard to the right.
"Hold on!" Bosco yells as the RMP gets hit by the 4 x 4, that Faith had seen barreling towards them, and goes rolling down the embankment towards the river. The RMP flips over several times, tossing Bosco and Faith like rag dolls. The RMP finally comes to a rest on its roof, teetering on the bank to the river. The horn is sounding, and the siren yelps.
The 4 x 4 ends up about 50 feet away from the RMP. It sits on its side in the snow. The driver slowly crawls from the truck and staggers away, obviously drunk.
The radio creaks across "55 David, Domestic Dispute 1818 108th."
There is a long silence
"55 David, Domestic Dispute 1818 108th." The radio calls again. *~*~*~*~*
"Hey, wonder why Bosco and Faith aren't answering the radio." Davis says
"Knowing Bosco, they're ducking calls again." Sully responds as he is directing traffic around the accident.
"You really think that he'd do that in this type of weather?" Davis asks
"It's Bosco, what do you think?" Sully questions
They hear the call go across the radio again, this time, the dispatcher's voice is a little anxious. "55 David, Domestic Dispute 1818 108th."
Again, no response.
"Central, 55 Charlie, we'll respond to the domestic." Sully radios
"10-4 Charlie. 1818 108th." The radio returns
"1818 108th, 55 Charlie." Sully finishes. *~*~*~*~*
The Squad returns to the house.
"We shouldn't get too comfortable, I'm sure we'll be heading back out again soon." Jimmy says
"Hey, Lieu. Weren't we supposed to get a new guy today?" Walsh asks
"Yeah. He should be here already." Lieu replies
"Um, Lieu, it's 8 o'clock. isn't he a bit late for his shift?" DK asks
"It's 8 already?" Lieu asks
"Yeah." Walsh replies
"So who's the new guy?" Jimmy asks
"Prescott." Lieu responds
"He's back here? On our squad?" Walsh asks
"Yeah Walsh, didn't he hit on your future wife the last time he worked here?" DK asks teasingly
"Come on guys! Prescott's a good guy." Taylor chimes in
"Uh oh!" DK chuckles. *~*~*~*~*
"Central, do you have a last known location of 55 David?" Sully radios, clearly concerned by the radio silence.
"Last known position was 109th Charlie." The dispatcher's voice comes over the radio.
"10-4 Central, we're gonna go check the area to see if we can find them." Sully replies
"10-4 Charlie." The radio replies.
"So what, we go looking for them now?" Davis asks
"You got a better idea?" Sully asks
"There's over 2 feet of snow out there now." Davis complains
"You think they wouldn't do the same thing for us?" Sully asks
"No, they'd have been out looking for us an hour ago." Davis replies *~*~*~*~*
The horn on the RMP has gone silent. Nightfall sets in over the overturned RMP. The nose still teetering over the bank of the river. Faith is lying unconscious, bleeding; Bosco comes to a semi conscious state.
"Where am I?" He asks himself looking at the blood on his hands. The reality sets in that he is sitting in his overturned RMP. He tries to open the door. Panic sets in. "Faith?" he yells, looking at his partner. He grabs for his radio, the cord has been severed by a piece of glass. He can't see anything but the snow that is around the RMP.
"We're trapped." Bosco says. He reaches for the radio his partner has on her shoulder.
"55 David to Central. 10-13, I repeat 10-13." Bosco frantically radios
The radio returns nothing but static. "Dammit!" Bosco exclaims, "There's got to be a way out of here."
Bosco struggles to get untangled from the seatbelt. Then he realizes that he is pinned between the dash and the floorboard. He uses too much energy and slowly slips back into unconsciousness. *~*~*~*~*
"55 David, 55 Charlie, what is your location?" Davis asks into he radio. Davis is clearly frustrated. "Why won't they respond?" He asks
Sully shakes his head. "Okay, they're not on 109th, we've checked 108th. Now where?"
"You wanna try Riverside?" Davis asks
"Why not?" Sully replies *~*~*~*~*
"So what are we talking about?" Kim asks as she grabs a chip from the bag that Jimmy is holding.
"The new guy." DK says
"New guy?" Kim asks
"Yeah, Prescott's coming back onto the squad." Jimmy replies
"Prescott, wait a minute. You mean the cute one who spent like a month here before getting transferred?" Kim asks
"Yeah, that one." Taylor replies
Everyone looks at her. "What? That's the only way I know how to respond to Kim."
"Okay, I think we should find a new subject." DK says
"Yes! New subject." Taylor adds looking towards Walsh. *~*~*~*~*
Sully and Davis carefully scan Riverside. The road is covered in about 4 inches of new fallen snow.
"This is useless!" Sully says "We'd have better luck on foot."
"Whoa! Whoa! Whoa Sully!" Davis exclaims
"What?" Sully asks.
Davis jumps out of the car; he notices the tires of the overturned 4 x 4. Then spots the four tires of the overturned RMP.
"55 Charlie to Central. We have a location on 55 David. We need Fire and EMS on a rush to Riverside Avenue." Davis radios as he trudges through the snow to the overturned RMP.
Nicole moves into the living room of his apartment with two cups of coffee. She looks out the window. "Yeah it is." She acknowledges
Carlos moves to the couch and sits down with her, wrapping his arms around her. He kisses her neck.
"You know, you look really sexy in my old t-shirt." He smiles
"Oh I do now?" she giggles as they begin to make out.
The phone rings. Carlos pauses
"Don't answer it." Nicole pleads
Carlos looks at the ringing phone. He wished that it would just stop ringing. Finally out of frustration he grabs the phone.
"Hello?" he says hastily
Nicole asks, "Who is it?"
"Yes sir. I will be in as soon as I can." Carlos says into the phone.
"Well, there goes your day off." Nicole says
"I wouldn't be surprised if you don't get called in too." Carlos replies
Moments later her cell phone rings.
"I really shouldn't have given Doc this number." She laughs *~*~*~*~*
Taylor walks towards the firehouse. She is immediately pelted with snowballs thrown by DK and Jimmy.
"Hey, where's your husband?" DK asks teasingly
"Right here!" Walsh yells as he starts pelting his coworkers with snowballs.
Kim attempts to sneak in the door without being noticed, but Taylor hits her in the back of the head.
"Hey!" Kim squeals as she grabs a handful of snow and returns fire on Taylor.
Bosco and Faith are across the street watching the firefighters and medics interact.
"How come we never do fun stuff like that?" Bosco asks
"We're expected to lead by example." Faith replies
Just as she says that, Sully shoves a handful of snow down her jacket. And then laughs.
"Oh that's it." Faith yells as everyone else is laughing.
Before long the corner of King and Arthur becomes a giant snowball fight. Everyone is having a good time, but all good things must come to an end as the fire alarm sounds.
"Squad 55, Adam 55-3 MVA 123 and Lex."
"Well, that's us." Jimmy says to his coworkers
Walsh drops the armful of snowballs that he had and they all head in for the truck.
Bosco, Faith, Sully, and Davis watch as the truck pulls away followed by the bus.
"These slick streets are gonna cause a whole lot of headaches tonight." Sully says
"Yeah, for us." Bosco replies. *~*~*~*~*
Yesterday begins playing
The squad pulls onto the scene of the MVA. Another police unit is already there. There is a small fire burning from the engine of the small passenger car that is resting against a light pole. The occupants of the car sit on the sidewalk a little distance away. Taylor and Jimmy climb out of the truck and immediately set to putting out the fire of the car. Doc and Nicole walk up to the family.
"Are any of you hurt?" Doc asks
There is no response from the family.
"Can you understand me?" Doc asks again
There is still no response from the family.
"I don't think they understand English." Nicole says
"Apparently not. We need to find a translator." Doc says
Finally, in broken English the little boy of the family speaks. Doc and Nicole then use him to translate as they check the family for injuries. Jimmy and Taylor finally get the fire out.
"People need to be more careful in this weather." Jimmy says
"Yeah." Taylor replies as she looks up to Doc and Nicole who are with the family.
"You okay?" Jimmy asks
"Yeah. I'm fine." Taylor replies
"Okay." Jimmy says as he turns back towards the truck.
Taylor stands there thinking, not even realizing that she was standing alone. *~*~*~*~*
Bosco and Faith are patrolling Riverside in the RMP.
"Look at this! It's been snowing what, 3 hours? We've already got 8 inches of snow out there." Bosco gripes
"Come on Bosco, it's not that bad." Faith says.
"Yeah it is. I hate snow!" Bosco complains.
"Well then, I guess it is." Faith laughs. Faith's expression goes stone cold. "Bosco watch out!" Faith yells *~*~*~*~*
Sully and Davis are getting coffee
"So, you got any plans for the weekend?" Davis asks
"Davis, they're calling for 3 feet of snow. Do you really think that I'm gonna do anything this weekend?" Sully responds
"I didn't know if you had any honeys lined up to spend a little quality time with this weekend or not." Davis grins
Sully stares at him over his coffee cup.
"55 Charlie, MVA 98th and King" the radio crackles
Sully takes the radio. "98th and King, 55 Charlie." *~*~*~*~*
Taylor stands there thinking. The flames, the snow, it all took her back to her childhood.
"Angus, you have a visitor." Beth Taylor says
"Who is it Daddy?" Alex asks as she bounds down the stairs
"I don't know honey." Angus says as he heads for the door.
He finds two men from the fire department, standing on the snow-
covered porch. At this time Angus was a Lieutenant at the 84th.
The one gentleman speaks, "Lieutenant Taylor"
"Yes, I'm Lieutenant Taylor." Angus replies
"I'm afraid that I have some bad news." The gentleman says, "May we
come in?"
Alex looks out the door and can see smoke in the distance. The door
closes heavily. "Alex, why don't you and Adam go upstairs?" Beth
suggests
Alex and her brother head up the stairs. The two men sit on the couch
in the den.
"Lieutenant Taylor. I am afraid to tell you that your father has been
killed in the line of duty." The gentleman says
Angus looks at them, his heart sinks.
"What is it Adam?" Alex asks as they are listening at the top of the
stairs.
"That man just told father that Pappy was killed." Adam says
"Taylor!" Lieutenant Johnson yells
Taylor stands there, still absorbed in her thoughts.
"Taylor!" Lieu yells again
"Yeah Lieu?" Taylor spins
"Let's go, we got another call." Lieutenant Johnson says
"Right." Taylor replies and heads to the truck
Yesterday ends
*~*~*~*~*
Bosco jerks the steering wheel hard to the right.
"Hold on!" Bosco yells as the RMP gets hit by the 4 x 4, that Faith had seen barreling towards them, and goes rolling down the embankment towards the river. The RMP flips over several times, tossing Bosco and Faith like rag dolls. The RMP finally comes to a rest on its roof, teetering on the bank to the river. The horn is sounding, and the siren yelps.
The 4 x 4 ends up about 50 feet away from the RMP. It sits on its side in the snow. The driver slowly crawls from the truck and staggers away, obviously drunk.
The radio creaks across "55 David, Domestic Dispute 1818 108th."
There is a long silence
"55 David, Domestic Dispute 1818 108th." The radio calls again. *~*~*~*~*
"Hey, wonder why Bosco and Faith aren't answering the radio." Davis says
"Knowing Bosco, they're ducking calls again." Sully responds as he is directing traffic around the accident.
"You really think that he'd do that in this type of weather?" Davis asks
"It's Bosco, what do you think?" Sully questions
They hear the call go across the radio again, this time, the dispatcher's voice is a little anxious. "55 David, Domestic Dispute 1818 108th."
Again, no response.
"Central, 55 Charlie, we'll respond to the domestic." Sully radios
"10-4 Charlie. 1818 108th." The radio returns
"1818 108th, 55 Charlie." Sully finishes. *~*~*~*~*
The Squad returns to the house.
"We shouldn't get too comfortable, I'm sure we'll be heading back out again soon." Jimmy says
"Hey, Lieu. Weren't we supposed to get a new guy today?" Walsh asks
"Yeah. He should be here already." Lieu replies
"Um, Lieu, it's 8 o'clock. isn't he a bit late for his shift?" DK asks
"It's 8 already?" Lieu asks
"Yeah." Walsh replies
"So who's the new guy?" Jimmy asks
"Prescott." Lieu responds
"He's back here? On our squad?" Walsh asks
"Yeah Walsh, didn't he hit on your future wife the last time he worked here?" DK asks teasingly
"Come on guys! Prescott's a good guy." Taylor chimes in
"Uh oh!" DK chuckles. *~*~*~*~*
"Central, do you have a last known location of 55 David?" Sully radios, clearly concerned by the radio silence.
"Last known position was 109th Charlie." The dispatcher's voice comes over the radio.
"10-4 Central, we're gonna go check the area to see if we can find them." Sully replies
"10-4 Charlie." The radio replies.
"So what, we go looking for them now?" Davis asks
"You got a better idea?" Sully asks
"There's over 2 feet of snow out there now." Davis complains
"You think they wouldn't do the same thing for us?" Sully asks
"No, they'd have been out looking for us an hour ago." Davis replies *~*~*~*~*
The horn on the RMP has gone silent. Nightfall sets in over the overturned RMP. The nose still teetering over the bank of the river. Faith is lying unconscious, bleeding; Bosco comes to a semi conscious state.
"Where am I?" He asks himself looking at the blood on his hands. The reality sets in that he is sitting in his overturned RMP. He tries to open the door. Panic sets in. "Faith?" he yells, looking at his partner. He grabs for his radio, the cord has been severed by a piece of glass. He can't see anything but the snow that is around the RMP.
"We're trapped." Bosco says. He reaches for the radio his partner has on her shoulder.
"55 David to Central. 10-13, I repeat 10-13." Bosco frantically radios
The radio returns nothing but static. "Dammit!" Bosco exclaims, "There's got to be a way out of here."
Bosco struggles to get untangled from the seatbelt. Then he realizes that he is pinned between the dash and the floorboard. He uses too much energy and slowly slips back into unconsciousness. *~*~*~*~*
"55 David, 55 Charlie, what is your location?" Davis asks into he radio. Davis is clearly frustrated. "Why won't they respond?" He asks
Sully shakes his head. "Okay, they're not on 109th, we've checked 108th. Now where?"
"You wanna try Riverside?" Davis asks
"Why not?" Sully replies *~*~*~*~*
"So what are we talking about?" Kim asks as she grabs a chip from the bag that Jimmy is holding.
"The new guy." DK says
"New guy?" Kim asks
"Yeah, Prescott's coming back onto the squad." Jimmy replies
"Prescott, wait a minute. You mean the cute one who spent like a month here before getting transferred?" Kim asks
"Yeah, that one." Taylor replies
Everyone looks at her. "What? That's the only way I know how to respond to Kim."
"Okay, I think we should find a new subject." DK says
"Yes! New subject." Taylor adds looking towards Walsh. *~*~*~*~*
Sully and Davis carefully scan Riverside. The road is covered in about 4 inches of new fallen snow.
"This is useless!" Sully says "We'd have better luck on foot."
"Whoa! Whoa! Whoa Sully!" Davis exclaims
"What?" Sully asks.
Davis jumps out of the car; he notices the tires of the overturned 4 x 4. Then spots the four tires of the overturned RMP.
"55 Charlie to Central. We have a location on 55 David. We need Fire and EMS on a rush to Riverside Avenue." Davis radios as he trudges through the snow to the overturned RMP.
