Chapter Seven
The man who had ran over the boys was sitting down on the grass his whole body was shaking and tears where streaming down his face. He still couldn't believe that he had actually hit two babies. His mind couldn't get off of the wife and the three children he had at home, one of them looked around the same age as the children that he had hit. He could only imagine what hell these two father's were goin threw. If any one of these two boys died he didn't know what he would be able to do with himself.
Suddenly a sound of sirens filled the air, all the men looked up to see red and blue flashing lights coming down the street, along with another ambulance, a fire truck, and a police car behind them. Help had finally arrived.
The paramedics got out of the ambulance as fast as they could and grabbed their medical equipment, then rushed over to the boys. While the four paramedics (two for each boy) got busy working to stabilize them and have them ready for transportation , the police were interviewing and asking the man who hit them many questions about what exactly happened. While the fire men got to equipment they needed to get the car off the ground so they could get Aiden's arm free from under the tire., which they got free after about five minutes of working to get the car off the ground.
Lucas couldn't get his eyes off Aiden and the monitors that the paramedics had hooked up to him, they we're going haywire, which Lucas knew was not a good thing at all.
"Mr. Scott?" Lucas heard one of the paramedics say breaking threw the little haze he had been under.
"Huh?" was all Lucas could say, "sorry what?"
"We're going to have to get your son to a well equipped children's hospital as soon as possible, so we've having a helicopter to air him there. It's a lot faster and he'll have a better chance of surviving and the helicopter has more supplies and equipment to assist with his injuries."
"Uhhh Okay. Can I come with him?" Lucas asked dreading to hear what the answer might be.
"No sir, I'm sorry, but there is not enough room." The paramedic was crushed when she saw Lucas' expression, it was the same one she saw every time she had to tell a parent that they couldn't come with their child, and it broke her heart every time she had to say it.
Suddenly the heard the helicopter beginning to come touch down on the lot across the street. "We've got to move him now, he's becoming more unstable every second. He needs more blood!" The second paramedic yelled to the one who had just been talking to Lucas. They immediately set the critical child on the backboard and rolled him towards the helicopter.
Lucas watched them stop at the door of the helicopter to explain Aiden's condition to the paramedics on board, then they slowly loaded him into it, and within 20 seconds were back into the air and out of Lucas' site within a minute.
Jake who had been behind Lucas the whole time, reached up and put his hand on his best friends shoulder. Jake could feel Lucas shaking underneath his grasp.
"Come on Buddy lets go check on Nate." Jake said as he stood up. Lucas was shaking so hard he almost fell when he tried to stand up. Jake saw this and immediately caught him before he fell, then helped support him and they walked over to where Nathan was. Jake looked over at Dakota who was playing with one of the fireman's hats, it would have been a Kodak moment if the whole situation hadn't been so terrible.
They we're loading Ethan into the ambulance when Lucas and Jake got over there. Nathan was told that he could ride with Ethan to the hospital, Lucas didn't think that that was fair that he didn't get to go with his son, but his brother could, but he understood why.
"Which hospital Nathan?" Jake asked.
"Children's Memorial in Charlotte." Nathan replied right before one of the paramedics shut the double doors and the ambulance drove away, lights flashing and all.
"Okay, he's going to the same hospital as Aiden. Come on Luke we need to go it's gonna take us about 30 minutes to get there." Jake stated as he grabbed Dakota from the grass, thanked the fireman who had stayed with him, then rushed over to his Jeep, with Lucas right behind him.
Jake quickly put Dakota, who was crying because he wanted the fireman's hat back, into his car seat, then Jake got into the drivers seat and started the Jeep.
As soon as they got on the high way, Jake grabbed his cell phone from his pocket and said, "We've got to call them."
Jake pressed 6 on the speed dial and as it began to ring, both Lucas and Jake dreaded to see the girls reactions when they found out what happened, and how much trouble they were going to be into, when their wives got to the hospital.