There he stood across the room from her. His hair was different it was spiked up. She remembered him always being clean shaven but now he was sporting short facial hair. He like her looked ten years older but his eyes were the same. The first thing she ever noticed about him were his eyes.
"Leo….Leo…" she gasped.
Ryan and Jake's eyes met. They figured she was hallucinating. Jake gently pushed her face towards him turning her away from Leo. "Greenlee?" he could see tears in her eyes.
"Leo's here for me Jake. I've missed him so much…" he'd been gone for ten years but a day hadn't gone by where she didn't think about him.
"Greenlee if Leo's here it's to encourage you to fight. Leo loves you and he wants you to be happy and live a long and happy life" Jake didn't want her giving up to be with Leo.
She turned her head back over to where she had seen him expecting him to not be there anymore. But there he stood looking down at her.
She looked up at him and smiled up at him.
Jake looked over to where she was looking expecting to see an empty space where she was seeing his ghost. As he looked up he let oh out gasp, "OH MY GOD!"
Jake saw what Greenlee was seeing. Everyone else upon hearing Jake shout out looked over and saw him too. Leo du Pres was standing in the Chandler living room very much alive.
David wanted to go up to his brother and find out what he was doing there but Greenlee needed him now more than anyone else.
"Leo you can tell us later how it is that your still alive for now get your ass over here and convince her that you're still alive!"
Leo went over to her and kneeled in front of her. Greenlee lifted her hand up towards him. Her hand shook as she placed it on his cheek afraid her hand would go right through it. She felt the warmth of his face. As her hand laid there touching him for the first time in years, she couldn't stop the tears from streaming down her face.
"Hey Greens" Leo said looking down at her.
"No…no…you can't be here. I watched you fall. I was there. You're not real." She shook her head back and forth not believing this could really be him. She had lost him all those years ago.
"Greens it's me baby. I'm here I'm alive." He took her hand and put it on his chest next to his heart. "Can you feel that Greens? Do you feel my heart beating? That thump thump you feel is me. The skin you touched is mine. You know how I feel you know how my heart skips a beat when I'm with you. It's skipping beats right now. I can't believe I'm here with you again." He held her hand against his chest convincing her it was really him.
"I thought you were here once before. I was hanging off that cliff screaming your name. I thought you pulled me up. You told me you would never leave me….that our love was forever. But you left me Leo. It wasn't you that pulled me up. You weren't there then and now I'm dreaming of you again."
"Greens this isn't a dream. I'm here with you. I came back to you"
Ryan watched as Leo leaned into her and their lips met. Ryan didn't know how to feel about this. He knew that Leo being alive would give Greenlee another reason to fight for her life. Ryan remembered how in love Greenlee and Leo had been. She had never looked at him the way he saw her look at Leo. He remembered helping her take off Leo's wedding ring and how hard it was for her to move on. The man she gave her whole heart to was alive but what did that mean for him. Was their love strong enough or true enough to continue with her first husband being alive?
Slowly Leo pulled away from her not really wanting to end this moment. She looked up at him still scared this wasn't real afraid she would wake up and he would be gone.
"I love you Leo" she finally managed to say before slowly closing her eyes.
"Greens? Greenlee?" Leo tried to get her to open her eyes "Greenlee baby open your eyes"
Leo looked up and his eyes met Ryan's both scared she had given up thinking she would see Leo in heaven. Jake pushed Leo away and put his hand on her neck checking for a pulse.
"She's got a pulse. She's lost a lot of blood she's just passed out." Jake tried tapping her cheeks to wake her up again with no success.
Thankfully seconds later the front door of the burst open. Maria Grey ran into the front room with two EMT's pushing a stretcher loaded up with supplies.
Jake jumped up and ran to help the EMT's. "Maria I have never been so happy to see you, but what are you doing in Pine Valley."
"I was in Llanview on a consult and made a pit stop. Something about this place always calls us home. I was at the hospital when the call came in about the shooting. I waited around to see if I could help with anything when we heard the crews couldn't get through because of the accident. I got these guys to load up the rig. When we got to the site of the accident we veered off the road and went through the forest to get around the accident. We won't be able to do that with any patients in there but hopefully by the time we get there the accident will be clear enough to get through. Where should we start?"
Jake quickly started putting them to work, "How many can we take in the rig?"
"We can get one on a stretcher and if you have someone mobile that can sit up we can put another one in the extra seat for EMT's. We can possibly one non critical in the front seat. But the hospital is short staffed so if they can wait for the next bus I'd like to take 3 doctors with us. I'll go back to the hospital with you guys and leave one of the EMT's here." She surveyed the scene take back by the carnage before her. They had no idea how bad the shooting really had been.
"Ok. Our three critical are Greenlee, Brooke, and Marissa. Greenlee and Brooke are immobile but we could probably put Marissa in the EMT's seat. Brooke's got a gunshot to the shoulder. If we move her wrong it could move. She's stable for now. Greenlee's got two gunshot wounds. One to her lower back and one hit her left side and punctured her lung. We had to do CPR earlier after we lost her pulse and now she's unconscious. Can you help David with Brooke? Angie and I will get Greenlee loaded up. Your EMT's can get Marissa ready to be moved."
"You got it." Maria grabbed one of the equipment bags and ran over to Brooke.
The EMT's, John and Seth, grabbed the other bag and went over to help Cara. Seth looked at Cara, "What do we have?"
Cara quickly gave them the run down, "Woman mid 20's. Single GSW to the abdomen. Loss of consciousness. She's lost a lot of blood. I'm worried about her going into shock."
John grabbed a package of gauze pad's and removed the towel from Marissa's abdomen and pressed down hard with the gauze. Marissa whimpered at the pain it caused. "I'm sorry mam' but we gotta keep the bleeding to a minimum."
She breathed in deeply, "its ok, I understand."
John took out an IV bag and started to look for a good vein. "This is just IV fluids. We need to get some fluids in you before we transport you. Also once we get some fluids in we can get you something for the pain." As he got the IV in he turned to Seth, "We're going to need some O2. Bring in all the portables from the bus I'm sure the other two will need it."
Seth ran out of the room passing by Jake and Angie.
Jake had already grabbed the third medical bag that Maria had brought with them. "We need to get some fluids in her" he said to Angie.
Angie tried to find a vein and wasn't having much success. "Jake she's lost a lot of blood I'm having a hard time finding a good vein." Just then they got their first bit of luck when she found one. Angie hooked up the IV and pushed hard on the bag trying to get fluids in Greenlee as fast as possible.
Once the IV was in they rolled her over onto her right side. Jake put a bunch of gauze pads over the entrance wound to her back. They then took the back board and rolled it under her, slowly lowering her onto the board. The same care that Jake took with the wound on her back he took to the one on her left side.
As Seth ran back into the room he dropped off an O2 tank with them. Angie put the oxygen mask over her nose and mouth getting her some much needed oxygen.
"When we get her to the hospital she's going to need to get a chest tube put in and we'll probably have to intubate her." Jake nodded at the other doctor's recommendation.
Jake hooked Greenlee up to a heart monitor and then they worked together and strapped her to the backboard. He then turned to Ryan and Leo, "Can you guys help me lift her onto the stretcher."
Both men stood up and the four of them gently lifted her onto the stretcher.
With Greenlee ready to go Seth gently picked up Marissa. They needed to load her into the ambulance first. John followed closely behind Seth carrying the IV bag and the portable O2.
Seth put Marissa inside the chair in the back of the ambulance and then got into the Driver's seat getting ready to rush to the hospital.
John ran back inside and helped Jake wheel Greenlee out to the ambulance and load her in. In the back of the ambulance there was a bench that could hold one to two EMTs but tonight Maria, Jake, and Angie all squeezed back there. Joe climbed into the front passenger seat. Jake slammed the door shut and sat back down next to Angie and told Seth to get them out of there.
Leo and Ryan both stood at the door watching the ambulance speed down the drive way towards PVH. They looked at each other both thinking the same thing, they couldn't lose her.
As Leo went back inside to check on everyone else Ryan pulled out his phone to call Jackson. He knew Erica and Bianca had already called him but figured Jack had ignored their calls. But just like Bianca and Erica he was unsuccessful and got his voice mail.
"Jack its Ryan. Greenlee's hurt. They just took her to PVH. Meet us there as soon as you can." He slammed his phone shut and went to join the other's praying the other's ambulances would be there soon so he could get to the hospital and check on his wife.
Seth sped down the road as fast as he safely could. He knew both patients were in grave danger. He was grateful to see two ambulances speed past him going towards the Chandler mansion. The other victims would get help soon and this also meant they could get past the accident.