Before I start, I wanted to mention a couple of things:
1. While I do have my 2 O/C's riding along, I understand this would be highly unlikely to happen in real life. Fanfiction is supposed to let authors "unleash their imagination" and that's exactly what I'm doing
2. I don't mean to imply that the Female Trainee was switched by Cap because of us. You know how in time-travel stories simply your presence in that time can change something? Well, that's what I meant. My 2 O/C's simply being in the past caused a change, namely, the Trainee was switched to a different station which happened to allow us to ride along
Of course, I do not own Emergency! This chapter will include the rescue of Roy from the episode The Indirect Method, though, but I made a few adjustments to the rescue to accommodate my O/C's. As usual, please R&R! Don't like the story? Don't read! Now for chapter 4!
The Klaxons started blaring. "Let's go, Pallies!" I said running to the squad.
Sam Lanier's voice came through dispatch. "Station 51, Engine 36, Engine 127, Structure Fire, 129 East Alhambra, cross street 9th, time-out 13:40"
"Oh dear! This is the house fire that Roy got electrocuted at! I wish I could warn him!" I thought. "But if I do then I might mess up the whole space-time-continuum thing!" We pulled up in front of the house. A couple came up to Capy.
"We had some fire upstairs," the husband started. "and now I'm not sure about downstairs."
"Anybody still in the house?" Capy asked him.
"No one's home downstairs, but my sister-in-law's upstairs. She's an invalid."
"Which room?" Johnny yelled.
"Corner room in the back!" the man yelled.
"OK, go bring her out. Use your air masks!" Capy told Johnny and Roy.
The man informed us, "Those are two separate residences. There's no stairway inside." Capy started giving orders to his men. Marco was going to cover Johnny and Roy. Pat helped Marco and Chet lay out the lines. Roy then told me to get the equipment.
"Drug box, biophone, defibrillator and O2, all right?"
"You got it, Roy." I said. "And be careful, both of you!" That was all I could do.
Mike charged the lines that Patty had helped lay out. Chet and Cap were manning one at the front door. They opened the door and there was a terrific explosion. It blew out the side window and lit the stairs to the apartment on fire. Johnny and Roy would not be able to come back down that way. The window would be the only way out. I hurried to get all of the equipment so I would be ready. The owner's friend had a ladder they were going to use so that Johnny and Roy could get out of the 2nd story window. Why they used a citizen's ladder when they have their own fire department ladders, I'll never know. Roy was stepping out the window onto the roof.
"Hand her down to me, OK, Johnny?" he said to Johnny who was still inside with the sister-in-law. When he stepped outside his foot slipped, he fell onto the live wires and got electrocuted. As he fell hard on the ground I grabbed the defibrillator and O2 and ran to him. "ROY!" I yelled as I ran. Patty helped me get the defibrillator set up. Once the defibrillator was charged, I yelled "CLEAR!" and I shocked him. "Phew! He's converted!" I said making sure to keep the paddles on him to check. Other firefighters were now getting Johnny and the sister-in-law out with a 'real' fire department ladder.
Johnny comes over and looks at me, as Patty gets Roy's vitals and puts him on O2. "He's got a pulse and is breathing on his own." I said grinning from ear to ear. Johnny gave me his classic crooked grin back and used his handi-talkie to call for an ambulance, fumbling as he got it out. Cap came over and looked at us.
"Everything's under control, Cap!" Johnny said grinning. Cap looked at me and Pat in complete amazement that we did that all on our own.
After Johnny got Roy all set up with an IV and let Rampart know what happened he said, "Come on, Brook! You can ride in the ambulance if you want. Chet's gonna bring the Squad over." Johnny said.
"Um, OK." I said. The shock of what Patty and I had just done was setting in. While we were on our way to the hospital, Roy woke up.
"Ugh! What happened?" Roy reached up, "Junior, I've got a huge headache!"
"Whoa! Whoa, Pally! You can't lift your arm! Man, you've got an IV in!"
"IV?! Johnny, what did you do to me?" I grinned at the banter between them.
"He put your IV in but I was the one who 'did' the most to you." I said with a slight smile. We were all trying to keep things light but there still was a measure of tension in the air.
"Look, I really appreciate you two trying to keep things light and not worry me, but, I need to know what really happened?" Roy asked us.
"You got electrocuted." Johnny said somberly.
"When you finally, um, landed, you were in V-fib." I said nervously. I was wondering what he'd think when he found out I was the one to shock him, not Johnny. I thought that he might be upset that two girls with no official paramedic training were the ones to treat him. Even though we did know how to use everything from watching the show, he didn't know that and I wondered if he'd be upset.
"Johnny? How did you get down fast enough to shock me?" Roy said suspiciously.
"I, uh, didn't, Roy. She did. Now, before you get upset, Roy, I need to tell you that she did a great job and if she hadn't done that, you would have, well…" Johnny went on with his rant about how I saved Roy's life. I wanted to interject and say that Vickie helped me but I couldn't get a word in edgewise. I COULDN'T GET A WORD IN EDGEWISE! ME! BROOKLYN "TALKATIVE" LANES! Roy then decided to try his hand at saying something.
"Johnny! I'm not upset!" he said. But, Johnny continued with his rant. "I'M NOT UPSET, JOHNNY!" Roy said louder, but Johnny didn't hear. Roy looked at me and nodded his head. "JOHNNY!" We yelled together. He looked at us.
"What?"
"I'm not upset, Johnny! I really appreciate her doing that! She saved my life!" Roy said.
"Well, Patty did help me a lot. She got the paddles ready and after I shocked you, she put the oxygen on." I said, glad to give Patty credit too. "Hey, look! We're here at Rampart!"
"You and Patty can check up on Jim once we get Roy settled, OK?" Johnny said as the ambulance backed-up to the ER doors.
"OK, great!" We lifted Roy out and wheeled him in.
"Take him to treatment 2!" Dixie told us. I'd seen her the last time we were here but didn't get to meet her. "Roy, what are you doing on the stretcher? Isn't that usually Johnny?" She asked Roy. He chuckled.
"Yeah, but I guess I made the mistake of feeling sorry for him so I took the hit this time." Roy replied trying not to grin. Unfortunately, he failed. When Roy looked at Johnny he told Dix, "I think I just started the rant machine. I'm sorry, Dix." We chuckled. We, excluding Johnny. He started on his rant!
"I'm not the only one to get hurt! Everybody else has gotten hurt. Well, except Mike, which is weird. And I do get hurt more, I guess…" Yep! He was off on another rant.
Once we got Roy settled in, which by the way, he needs to stay overnight, Patty and I went to see Jim. "Hey, Jim! How's it goin?" I asked as I poked my head in the door.
"Hey, guys! What's up? You both enjoying the past?"
"Yeah, it's pretty cool!" Pat said. "Brook realized that we are in one of the episodes of Emergency! It's really neat but it's hard to not say what's going to happen! Well, for Brook not to say what's gonna happen! She's the Emergency! Expert" She said. We all chuckled.
"That would be tough!" Jim replied. "Dr. Brackett says that I'll be out of here in about a week, so, we can go home then," He informed us.
"A WEEK?!" We said. "We get to have a whole week here?!" I added. "Whoopie! This is gonna be great! We get to hang out with Emergency! characters for a whole week!"
"Just remember," Patty said, "that means I'll be hanging out with'the phantom' for a whole week!"
"Oh boy! I'm in trouble!" I replied. "Um, how long have you been there?" I said turning around to Johnny standing in the doorway.
"Long enough! Uh, what did he mean by 'the past'? Now, I don't think he meant the 'past' few hours! What's going on, man?" Johnny exclaimed.
"Um, first of all, we're 10-8 (10-8 means available), right?" He nodded. "Good, why don't we go get a nice hot cup of coffee and we'll try to explain. OK?" All Johnny could do was nod, so I gently gave him a push in the direction if the doctors' lounge.
"Hey, Johnny? How about you serve us a couple of cups while I talk with Brook real quick? OK?" Patty asked him.
"OK. But, you will tell me, right?"
"Yeah, man! We just need to talk for a minute!" I told him. Patty and I walked out of the lounge and down the hall a bit. "Look, Patty, I'm not going to tell him everything. I'm just gonna say this…" We went back to the lounge and got our cups of coffee. "OK, Johnny, we have some explaining to do." I started. "You see, Patty and I are from Ohio. We came here to see a special exhibit at a movie/tv memorabilia museum. This exhibit is for a time travel movie. You can take rides in the time machine. Oh, and by the way, this time travel movie came out in 1985." Johnny's jaw dropped to the floor, almost.
"So you're telling me you two are from the, the FUTURE?!" Beep, beep. Beep, beep. "We'll finish this discussion later." Yep, the future would have to wait for a while.
Hope you enjoyed chapter 4! If you have questions, some may be answered in the next chapter...feel free to review and ask there, though! I try to respond to reviews so if you have a question please sign in before reviewing me so I can respond! Thanks!
