Chapter 13 Paramedic School
They enjoyed their holiday to England and the arrest of Mrs Millicent Clop, who appeared handcuffed on the steps of the 35 precinct asleep one night.
"Jareau, Prentiss, your both at FDNY this shift learning your medical shit. Please, please do not come in my house dressed in fire turnout gear again OR ELSE!" Morgan warned the smiling officers
"It's re-qualifications, to be exact, Sarg, and we only wore our turnout gear because someone made us wash cars. It's the best waterproof gear to wear for the job and stay bone dry. Would we ever wear it just to wind you up?" Smiled a sweet and innocent JJ
Morgan looks at JJ and shakes his head, and about turns walking to his office muttering, 'they will be the death of me.'
"Come on, partner, even we can't get ourselves in trouble at the FDNY medical school. Just some tests to do and a few practice exams." Emily smiled at her partner
"Emily, you are delusional. We could get into trouble in a church full of priest's. just admit it, we are walking trouble magnets." JJ slaps Emily on the arm playfully "can I drive, partner?" JJ asked, smiling fluttering her eyelashes at Emily
"No chance I watched you in that dodgem car, not a chance in hell," Emily replied, fluttering her eyebrows and supporting her chin with both hands smiling.
"I hate you, woman. I'm a good driver." Posted JJ
"Yeah, dressed as a clown in your fall apart comedy car." Emily laughed. JJ slapped her on her arm. "You'll pay for that partner," JJ smirked
EJ
Emily pulled their RMP into a parking space. The journey had been silent, no conversation, not even the everyday radio chatter as they didn't need them today. JJ was sulking like a child.
"I'm sorry, but your being childish, not speaking to me all the way here is so grown up. Even the girls aren't so childish; maybe calling you a clown was a little too much." Emily apologies to JJ for trying to clear the air, or today might be difficult with a silent partner.
"FINE! But I do reserve the right to bring this up again when you next piss me off." JJ looked at Emily for the first time in 20 minutes.
"Are we locking our weapons in with our M4's in the trunk?" Emily asked
"No, I'd sooner keep them unloaded with us. I feel safer armed these days, and I can't get being left in that tank out of my mind yet, so she stays." JJ laughed, her hand absentmindedly caressing her Glock.
"Would you two like some alone time, and does your wife know about you cheating on her with your love piece.?" Emily laughed, indicating JJ's caressing her gun.
JJ looks down at her right hand, caressing her sidearm and instantly removes it. Her face starts to redden, and she takes a deep breath and looks at Emily
"You're not going to let me forget this are you?" JJ asked
"Not likely. I wonder if they caught it on camera for posterity." Smirked Emily
JJ started to open her mouth to reply but decided against saying anything as she had no chance of swaying Emily. She would have to wait for Emily to mess up to null this minor incident. The good thing about Emily being her partner was there was never a dull moment.
'WHOOP! WHOOP!'
Both ladies look up to see an RMP pulling out the loading dock escorting a delivery truck. They both wave as the two vehicles pass them on the way out.
"Well, Paramedic Jareau, shall we dazzle them with our knowledge?" Emily asked
"Yes, Paramedic Prentiss, let's save some dummy's lives." Smirked JJ
EJ
JJ hated the written testing aspect of the day, and she sat with her test paper in front of her twiddling her pen. She looked across at Emily. She had her head on her hands, resting her eyes. Neither ever had a problem with this test, as usual, they made it into a competition between themselves, this year prize the loser had to do the others bidding for a whole day no complaints.
"Pens down, please, hand your papers in as you leave and proceed to your practical test station," the examiner told them.
"God, I hate that bit reminds me too much of being in high school." JJ sighed
"I wouldn't know I hardly attend school. I ended up getting homeschooled to take my final exams. I got an ultimatum from my mother leaving school and joining the Royal Navy or being cut off and fending for myself. No brainer." Emily smiled. "I realised now what I missed."
Emily slid her endotracheal tube past the vocal cords and inflated the balloon. She placed her stethoscope on the left side of the chest to see that she hadn't pushed her tube into the right main bronchus. Satisfied with everything, she nodded to her examiner that she had finished. The examiner checked everything and nodded to Emily
"That's fine, Emily. You are done for another year." She smiled
JJ had just put the chest drain in and connected it to the water bottle seal to allow the air to escape. She nodded to her examiner; she was finished. He checked her placement and nodded he was satisfied.
"Jennifer, that's you all done until next year." He smiled
EJ
A group of 10 people dressed as FDNY paramedics and firefighters entered the medical training division. The reception guard asked if he could help the group as they all stood reading the building directory on the wall
"Can I help you, ladies and gentlemen?" The man asked politely with a smile. His smile was soon wiped from his face when a noise suppressed gun was pointed at his face.
"Do exactly what I tell you, and you will live. We are here for the city's property, not yours. Please turn off the security cameras and bring the lift down to the ground level, and shut them down. I want Chief Teressa Till down here with the controlled drugs safe keys. DO YOU UNDERSTAND?" The man dressed as a firefighter asked. The terrified guard nodded and made a tannoy announcement for Chief Till.
One firefighter removed his turn out gear to reveal the same uniform as the reception guard. He removed the security guards lanyards with his various passes and placed them around his neck, and took the guards seat. The shocked natural guard was tied up and locked in the stationery cupboard. The remaining intruders spread out around the entrance waiting for Chief Till. The Chief arrived 10 minutes later, totally oblivious to the nine sets of eyes fixed on her approach to the reception desk
"Hi, I'm Chief Till Yo.." she was cut off by the gun pressed into her side.
"Listen very carefully, and you will see Bobby and Tye again!" The woman dressed as a paramedic placed a photograph of her two children tied to two chairs "you are going to open the controlled drugs safe and disable all alarms and open the loading dock. Do you understand me?" She asked
A terrified Teressa Till just nodded. She would do whatever they wanted to save her kids.
"Fireman 1 and 2 check the perimeter and remember to act casual do not fuck up. I've got too much invested in this heist. DO YOU UNDERSTAND?" The leader warned two of her men
"YES, BOSS!" They quickly replied and walked out the main doors, each going differently.
Teressa Till disarmed all alarms in her bulk drug storage area and opened the safes. The robbery had been timed perfectly as only this morning they had received three months supply of Morphine and Ketamine plus many other drugs quickly sold on the street. The final gates were unlocked leading to the delivery dock, and Teressa was taken back into her store and zip-tied to the storage rack and told to be quiet.
The two females dressed as paramedics instructed the remaining five firefighters to remove the drugs and load them into the bags they had brought with them. "BE CAREFUL!" The brunette shouted.
EJ
Fireman 2 walked around the building. When he reached the parked RMP of Emily and JJ, he tried looking through the glass of the rear window to see if there was anything worth stealing. He decided he didn't want to anger his two bosses and turned around to carry on walking.
"What's up planning on joining the NYPD? You do know we don't sleep at night?" The police officer joked through the window of his car. Fireman 2 panicked, thinking the cops had made him pull his weapon and open fire at the RMP. The officer slammed his vehicle into reverse and pulled away from the gunfire. After reaching a safe distance, he radioed in for urgent assistance and used his car to block the road.
Fireman 2 ran back into the building and found his two bosses, the cops made me, and I opened fire to get rid of them. Both females turned to fireman two and punched him, knocking him to the floor.
"STUPID! STUPID! Agghhh, what a cluster." The blonde paramedic shouted, kicking the fallen fireman again in his groin.
They could hear multiple police sirens closing. "Secure the doors, round up everyone and put them in a classroom," I ordered the brunette paramedic.
EJ
JJ smiled after passing and turned to Emily to find out her test scores.
'BANG! BANG! BANG!'
JJ and Emily drew their service weapons and inserted the loaded magazine, and pulled back the slides, chambering a round. Emily pulled out her cell, wishing they had signed out a personal radio this morning
"911, what is your emergency?"
"This is Officer Prentiss shield number 71717 shots fired FDNY medical school. Unknown number be advised uniformed officers on scene no police radio. Confirm identity with Sgt Morgan 35 precinct." Emily told the 911 dispatcher
"Units on the route and on-scene officer Prentiss, be careful."
"Keep yourselves hidden from the door window and keep quiet. Lock the door when we leave and keep it locked, and only open it for us. Stacey, give me your cell number." JJ ordered the 15 people in the classroom. Stacey texted her cell number to Emily and JJ.
"Do you think they are after the drug shipment we received this morning?" Stacey asked
"What was delivered?" Emily asked
"3 months supply of morphine and ketamine amongst others ready for distribution when ordered by individual fires stations." She replied
"Mmh seems a bit coincidental they chose today." Emily states
Emily and JJ opened the door slowly and looked out in both directions to see if the hallway was clear. JJ tapped Emily on the shoulder, indicating she was ready. They both entered the hallway and pulled the door closed, hearing it lock immediately. Emily walked, hugging the wall to the remaining classroom on this floor. JJ walked backwards, covering Emily.
"Door!" Whispered Emily stopping. Emily slowly opened the door and entered the classroom, JJ clearing the room and its storage cupboards. They were safe now that no one had been up here so far.
"We need to see what we are facing, and we will take it slow and steady. Ready Partner?" JJ quietly asked Emily. Emily nodded and slowly opened the door to the stairwell.
EJ
The entrance doors had been secured with heavy-duty motorbike locks making it difficult for the police to enter the building. Fireman 2 had been given guard duty, a task he had gladly accepted after his beating by the two female bosses after his mistake with the police. He looked up as his attackers walked past, escorting two female instructors from the school into a room down the corridor.
"Strip NOW." He hears from behind the door. He just smirked to himself and returned to his guard duties, not wanting to suffer another beating at the hands of his bosses.
In the schoolroom, the two instructors have followed the orders of the two armed women and stripped down to their underwear. They are handing their clothes as instructed and watching the armed women strip their paramedic's uniforms off.
"Put these uniforms on and get on your knees and face the wall." The two instructors are ordered
The two petrified women do as they are told and put on the paramedic's uniforms, and get on their knees facing the wall.
"Good girls, don't worry, we won't hurt you." Smiled the blond as she screwed her silencer onto her pistol and then shot the two instructors in the back of their heads, killing them instantly.
Jill the blonde threw a fire axe at her partner Eve, and the pair started smashing the faces of the two dead instructors to slow down their identification later on. The two thief's stood naked in front of two heavily damaged bodies breathing heavily from their exertions. Pleased with their work, they stood facing each other and took turns in wiping the blood off each other's bodies. Glad they had removed the majority of the blood they redressed in the dead instructors clothing. Jill placed her hair in a high ponytail like the dead blonde, and Eve placed her hair in a bun and put on her dead instructor's glasses. Both thief's looked close enough like the security passes now adorning their necks and should give a cursory examination after the rescue.
"Fireman 2, can you give us a hand in here, please?" Jill asked from inside the classroom
"Yes, Ma'am," the fireman said, walking into the room. He turned and dropped dead to the floor with a bullet to his head.
"That's the only witness dealt with. Now we hide in a classroom and wait to be rescued. We should be able to slip away in confusion. I can't believe that's 2 million down the drain and a year's planning. Next time we only work with an all-female crew." Eve tells Jill
"Yeah, NO Y chromosome allowed. We need to get out of this cluster, free women first." Jill sighed
"Let's go and hide ." Jill pulled Eve to the door and walked up the stairs
EJ
Emily lay next to JJ, looking from the mezzanine towards the main doors to see if they had been booby-trapped. Seeing only the thick chain's on the motorbike locks and no guard. They could partially see into the camera room, noticing the dark monitors on the wall.
"We need to let outside know to come in from a ground floor window and not the main door," JJ tells Emily. Emily nods in agreement and pulls out her cell phone. They both move back into the stairwell, and Emily dials Morgan
"PRENTISS YOUR ON SPEAKER!"
"Sarg, we have an unknown number of perps who seem to be limited to the ground floor only. We have 15 safe in classroom two on the third floor. Third and second floor clear no other staff found to believe they were all rounded up. We believe they were here to steal drug delivery this morning. I suggest you get eyes inside to confirm. We are going to check the ground floor out very carefully. Recommend breaching through ground floor windows main doors secured with large motorbike locks." Emily tells everyone listening.
"It's captain Rossi, Prentiss, Jareau. Be careful and proceed." Rossi ordered
JJ smiled at Emily "come on, let's go take a look, age before beauty." Smiled JJ as she indicated Emily should go first.
They slowly descended the stairs to the ground floor, weapons at the ready. Reaching the ground floor fire door, they pause to listen for sound from the other side. They hear footsteps closing on the door quickly. Emily and JJ stand and push their bodies tightly to the wall. The door opens, and two women walk through the door. Both women are suddenly grabbed and pulled into the stairwell
"NYPD hands on the wall and keep quiet!" Whispered JJ. Both women are pushed against the wall and searched for weapons. Finding nothing, they turn the two women around to face them, and they both gasp as they look at their doppelgänger's. Pulling doth security passed from their necks and examined the photo to the owners.
"Sarg, check on Jill Jefferson and Eve Granger, both civilian instructors here," Emily asked once Morgan answered his phone.
"Both down as staff members, security pass photos text to your phones." Morgan answered, "be careful."
JJ pulled out her phone and opened the received photos, and compared them to the two women. Turning to Emily, she nodded, confirming their identity.
"Jill, Eve, what can you tell us about the hostage-takers. Numbers, location, anything you think will help" JJ asked the civilian instructors
"They started with 10 in total eight men dressed in turn out gear and two women dressed as paramedics. They referred to each other as fireman 1-8 and paramedic 1-2 no names." Eve told them
"That's good. Anything else?" Emily asked
"They took us both with the two females dressed as paramedics into a schoolroom and tied us up. The one they referred to as fireman 2 came in and shot the two paramedics shouting about the bitches not getting away with beating him. He then took a fire axe and started hitting them in their faces like a crazy man. We managed to loosen our bonds and get loose. I grabbed the gun on the desk and pointed it at him. He lunged at the gun, and it just went off in my hands, shooting him in the head; H-he just dropped dead. We both ran. That's when we found you both." A distraught Eve told them.
JJ put her hand on Eve's arm, gently rubbing it "you did what you needed to. "Where are the remaining 7?" She asked
"They are in the bulk drug storage room. They said it would be easily defended." Jill answered, smiling internally at how easily played these two female officers were.
Emily phoned Morgan and passed on all the intelligence gained from Eve and Jill. Morgan told them ESU was going to breach in 10 minutes. Morgan had ordered them to go to a classroom on the first floor and wait for ESU and under no circumstances risk the lives of the two civilians.
"Ladies, I want you to place your hand on my back and Jennifer's back; you do everything we do or tell you, do you both understand?" Emily asked. Both women confirm with a nod. The group of four secured themselves in a classroom on the first floor without any incident. Precisely on time, ESU breached and entered the bulk drug storage unit. The remaining firemen all choose to fight, not go to prison. The superior training of the Emergency Service Unit had the standoff concluded in five minutes. None of the remaining seven firefighters lived, but Chief Teressa Till was found alive, but the firemen had entertained themselves by using various drugs on her waiting for the police.
EJ
Emily and JJ offered to take Eve and Jill home after being cleared by Strauss and the paramedics. JJ noticed Emily was unusually silent on the drive to drop the two women off.
"She's not usually this quiet normally. You can't shut her up. You ok, partner?" JJ asked Emily
"Yeah, just tired, I guess. Roll on home time." Emily answered, forcing a smile on her face.
JJ continues to chat with Eve and Jill on the way to their home. Emily concentrates on driving something not feeling right, unable to find an answer. She puts it to the back of her mind until later.
"Just here on the left," Jill announces from the backseat
Emily pulls the RMP over to the side, where JJ opens the rear doors and lets Jill and Eve out. "Thank you for your assistance. You were both courageous. Have a nice day." JJ thanks them for watching them enter their house. The two women wave as Emily and JJ pull away in their RMP.
"Stupid blond bitch, let's get rid of the kids and get out of here before they realise who we are," Eve told Jill
"Sweetheart, don't forget I'm a blonde. Hurry up inside. Let's get Ewing to kill the kids, and then we can help him join his brother." Smirked Jill
EJ
Driving away from the house, Emily was still thinking and being silent. JJ looked across at her partner in time to see a frown appear on her face
"BLOOD!, There was no blood. BITCHES!" Emily suddenly pulls the RMP over to the side of the road " Neither of them had blood on their clothes or faces. They witnessed the blitz attack without a single drop of blood on their clothes. They ran after killing the fireman and then bumped into us, with no chance to clean up. THEY ARE NOT WHO THEY SAY THEY ARE." Emily shouts
JJ contemplated what Emily had just told her and paled. JJ exited the car and opened the trunk unlocking the secure stowage for their M4's and removed both, and climbed back into the passenger seat. JJ turned to Emily "The pair of BITCHES! Let's go and knock." A pissed JJ told her partner. JJ called Morgan and told him what Emily had told her and requested backup, and Morgan had ordered them to wait for backup. Emily told JJ about Morgan's order. The partners looked at each other and smiled, knowing that they had to finish this themselves.
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"Tie them to those plastic chairs next to the swimming pool," Eve ordered Ewing. He nodded and dragged both children to the indoor swimming pool and tied them to the plastic patio chairs
Jill entered the room. Now a redhead with brown eyes throws a black wig to Eve and throws her a contact lens case across. "You get changed so we can get out of here once we drown these brats," Jill tells her emotionless
Eve leaves to get changed but runs back in suddenly "there back, they have just got out their car with M4's they know. EWING, GET TO THE DOOR AND SORT THEM OUT!" Eve shouted, running up to the plastic chairs.
Ewing grabbed his gun and nodded at his two bosses, and left the room towards the front door.
EJ
Emily has her M4 raised at the door covering JJ while she picks the lock so they can make silent entry. JJ opens the lock and slowly opens the door, suddenly noticing a man entering the room with a gun.
"GUN!" JJ yells and drops to the floor. Emily raised her M4, took aim and fired a 4 round burst at the armed man's head. He collapsed to the floor, dropping his weapon. "CLEAR!" Yelled Emily
JJ got up and checked the man was dead and kicked his weapon away, and they continued into the house, finding the two women in the pool room. JJ enters and sees Jill and Eve push the two chairs to the children tied into the water.
"Arrest us or save the kids your choice, but you can't do both officers, tick-tock the airs running out." Jill waves at Emily and JJ
Without a thought, Emily and JJ dive into the pool and kick down towards the kids sitting on the bottom of the pool. Letting go of their rifles to use both hands to cut the zip ties on the kid's arms and legs. Both children have stopped fighting and are motionless in the chairs, and they free the children with their lungs demanding oxygen. They bend their knees and push on the pool bottom with all they are worth. They propelled themselves to the surface. Emily felt two hands pull her out of the pool and up on the side.
Emily looked up into the face of her wife, gasping for breath. All she could do was stroke the side of her face. Controlling her breathing, she looked across at the two children coughing, and some paramedics gave oxygen—Emily and JJ were moved across to the wall by Tracey and Hotch.
"Our M4's are on the bottom of the pool," JJ tells Hotch
"YOU TWO JUST CANNOT FOLLOW ORDERS!" Shouted Morgan
For once, Emily and JJ looked very embarrassed and didn't answer Morgan back. They both looked ashamed they had nearly cost the children their lives and let the two perpetrators escape.
"What not snappy remark, my god Mark this date down Jareau and Prentiss are speechless. You were both suspended pending a review of your actions by Lt Strauss. Do you both understand?" An extremely annoyed Morgan tells Emily and JJ
"Yes, Sargent." They reply in unison, both handing Morgan their shields and sidearms. Both women walk out humiliated.
Tracey follows Emily and JJ out " they both vanished, we will find them they just executed two mothers leaving five kids without. You both did what you thought was best, but your overconfidence nearly cost two children their lives. Get yourselves home. I will see you both at the end of my tour." Tracey smiled.
EJ
The following morning Strauss had visited and told them they had a ten-day suspension for direct disobedience. They both accept their punishment without complaining.