DISCLAIMER: I don't own Rescue. Otherwise if I did, pretty sure I'd be making out with Andrew Lees(Chase) heheheh;)
A/N: Italics are the person's thoughts. I've made a poll on my profile, check it out and vote for what you want in this story, the more votes, the faster update;) Another short chapter, I wanted to get another one up, because I'm swamped with assignments and probably won't get another one out till next week early sometime.
Dean sighed as he hoped into the driver side he looked over towards his younger sibling Lachie, there was no way that he was letting Lachie drive them home. He was the middle aged kid and Dean was the eldest being thirty-five, and then you had Lachie who was only twenty-eight and the baby of the family, Chase, being only twenty-two. They both looked out for Chase when he was young and it's carried on through to his twenties. Having protective brothers isn't always the best thing, especially when you were young, and brought a girl home from school. Although Lachie wasn't as little as Chase, Dean still looked out for him, being the eldest brother he knew he had to be and anyone who messed with a Gallagher would have to answer to him.
"We shouldn't tell Chase" Lachie stated interrupting the silence
Dean looked over from watching the road and turned to his brother "No Lachie. We have to tell him"
Lachie sighed "Okay". The short ride back to Dean's house was spent full of silence, apart from the general statement of a reckless driver that would merge in front without indicating. Pulling up outside the house, Lachie slowly got out of his side of the car quietly shutting the door behind him. Dean got out and made his way up the pathway that led to the front door. Opening it up, they found Chase sitting on the couch. He'd fallen asleep watching some reality t.v show.
"You can stay in the spare room" Dean said walking down the corridor. He opened up a door that was beside Chase's and tilted his head ushering him to go in and put his bags on the bed.
"Thanks" Lachie said chucking his bags onto the bed
"You're back" Chase grunted as he rubbed his eyes tiredly
"Chase" Dean sternly said glaring at his younger brother from behind Lachie, he shook his head meaning he didn't want any crap that Chase was about to cause
"Yeah mate. There's something I need to tell you" Lachie told him
"I don't care. Because we kept a secret from you, to benefit you" Chase scoffed and shook his head "You wanna know what" Chase nodded his head being a smartass
"Chase. Shut up" Dean sternly said as he came closer to him
"No Dean. I Won't shut up. You know what Lachie. I was in a car crash a few weeks ago, I was in a coma for days. But you know what? We didn't tell you because we didn't want to ruin your plans with your perfect wife-.." Chase was shouting before he was cut off by Dean
"That's enough Chase!" Dean shouted angered
"No…We didn't tell you because we didn't want you to wor-." Chase was explaining angered before he was cut off again
"She died" Lachie spoke shortly
Chase scoffed and shook his head "What the hell are you talking about?"
"Lacie…My wife. She died" Lachie said again
Chase stopped looking at Lachie and turned his eyes to the ground or well, anywhere else but Lachie's eyes "I…I'm so sorry Lachie"
"Let's go sit down" Dean said trying to usher his brothers out of the hallway and into the living room. Chase took a seat beside Lachie, he had millions of thoughts running through his mind.
Why the hell didn't I just shut up. I feel like absolute shit now. How could I do that to him?
"Chase…I would have come straight to the hospital if someone told me you were injured. You're my brother, and brothers come before any other people in this world" Lachie explained to his brother
Chase shook his head "I…You know I didn't mean anything I said. I…I was just angry. But I have nothing to be angry about"
"It's alright Chase" Lachie said smiling
17:00pm Rescue Headquarters
"See you tomorrow guys" Vince shouted out to Jordan and Heidi as they walked down the stairs
"See ya" Heidi and Jordan yelled out. Just two stairs from coming to the bottom on the headquarters, the back of Heidi's shoe got caught in the stair, as she tried to move she lost her balance, sending her falling down two stairs and rolling onto the ground.
"Heidi!" Jordan shouted as he ran down the last two stairs "Vince, I need help!" Jordan added shouting
'What's wro-..Shit!" Vince was startled as he ran down the stairs to see Heidi unconscious on the floor
"Heidi, open your eyes up for me" Jordan said shaking her shoulders
"Did she fall on her stomach?" Vince asked feeling around her stomach
"I…I…I don't..dont know" Jordan shakily said as he tried to wake Heidi up
"I've called the ambulance" Michelle said budding in through Vince and bending down to Heidi
After a few minutes of waiting for the ambulance Heidi began to regain consciousness. Slowly opening hey eyes, she felt the warmth coming from a blurry image's hand rub against her forehead.
"What happened?" Heidi asked confused as she tried to sit her self, but was pushed gently back down by Jordan
"You fell babe" Jordan said calmly, not trying to scare Heidi "We called the ambulance" he added
"What, why?" Heidi said annoyed
"Because you need to get yourself checked out and the baby too" Michelle said sternly she gave Heidi a warm smile after to show that she was going to be okay.
You need to be more careful Heidi-Ho" Vince said. After a few minutes the ambulance pulled up and put Heidi in the van, much to her disapproving. They loaded her up and Jordan sat in the back holding onto her hand.
(…..)
"Your baby is doing fine Miss Wilson. You just need to take it easy for the next few days and then if you have any more problems, just come straight back here" The OB said smiling at Heidi and Jordan, trying to ease their nerves.
"Okay, thank you" Heidi said holding onto Jordan's hand. They both walked out of the hospital and out the front where Vince and Michelle were waiting for them. They had waited to drive them back to the HQ where Jordan's car was.
It was around midnight, when it was just Lachie and Dean still up. Chase had gone to bed early, not because it wanted to, but because his older brothers made him. He felt as though he was back to being a little boy again. Everything felt right.
"We were just coming out of the round about when a car on the right to us, hadn't given way. The last thing that I remember was seeing a bright light and hearing the screams of Lacie and then everything went black. The next moment I am waking up in the hospital with doctors swarming around me" Lachie explained to his brothers
"Lachie, I'm really sorry you had to go through all that" Dean said trying to comfort his younger brother
"It's fine. I'd prefer not to talk about it. I'd rather hear about what happened to Chase" Lachie tried brushing off the topic. Dean knew that if Lachie wanted to talk about it and when he did Dean would be there for him
Dean sighed "Well. We had a call out, and Chase was working with Heidi. There was little kids involved, they both got one out but she started crashing when they put her on the ground. They lost her, and Chase flipped out at Heidi because she missed that the kid had a huge bleed to the back of her head….So anyway. Chase went to go and apologise to Heidi, and she just turned him down, then they started fighting and Chase wanted to go and fix it up. He followed her downstairs into the patrol car, and hopped in. A couple of minutes later we heard screeching and a loud bang following the crunching of metal and the breaking of glass. We all ran out to see the car smashed up on the side… Lachie I have never ran so fast in my whole life, my heart felt like it was going to jump out of my chest. The thought of Chase being hurt frazzled me"
"Shit" Lachie sighed
"Then, we got to the car and he was all squished up, slumped over the dashboard he had a huge laceration to his forehead and the blood was dripping onto the floor of the car, meanwhile there was broken glass all around him. Heidi wasn't even half as bad, but they were both unconscious. Jordan and Lara got Heidi out fine, but it took me and Vince several goes to get Chase out. Then the worst thing happened, he started crashing…I froze. I couldn't do anything. We defibbed him a few times before he came back, he was only out for maybe one and a half minutes, but it felt like ages. Then he had to be rushed to have surgery. I wouldn't even look at Heidi, I blamed her for everything. Chase had to be put into a coma, I was with him every night, I probably managed only three hours a night. Heidi then became really weird herself, the next thing she collapsed in front of me at the headquarters and began shaking. She bloody O.D, Chase finally woke up. Being his usual self, he was more worried about Heidi…That's all that really happened" Dean explained
"Shit…I wish I knew. I would have been here straight away. Was he okay after it, like was he shaken up?" Lachie asked concerned
Dean shook his head "He was more worried about Heidi and her condition"
"mm. Typical Chase…Well, I'm pretty buggered. So I'm going to head off to bed" Lachie said getting up, he made his way into the spare room and fell asleep straight away. Dean followed closely after.
The next morning
"Morning beautiful" Jordan said leaning across to his his girlfriend
"Morning Jord" Heidi said smiling as she gave him a kiss back
"How you feeling? Jordan asked concerned about her
"I feel fine. I want to be joining you at work" Heidi sighed as she pulled the blankets closer up to her chin
"Yeah, well you're not. You get to stay home and rest all day" Jordan said with a big grin on his face. He stroked Heidi's cheek bone while she laid snuggled up beside him.
"Can you stay longer with me, please?" Heidi begged
"Uh-uh" Jordan said shaking his head sadly "Vince would be so angry, you know that?" he added
Heidi sulked "Okay" She pulled herself up onto Jordan's chest and gave him multiple kisses before he started to become late for work.