I don't own any of the SOA characters.
A/N I am not a medical expert so if any of the following doesn't quite ring true to anyone with medical knowledge, I apoligise in advance.
Inside the garage Tara had removed the 18 gauge needle from the bag, at the sight of the huge needle, Chibs went pale.
"Mother of God...Where are you going to stick that?"
"Into his heart Chibs."
"Jesus Christ."
"Doctor Marston, I've got the needle. I've never done this before so I'm in your hands."
"You need to find the xiphoid process.. you feel it."
Tara moving her hands over Juice's chest found what the Docotr had told her to look for.
"Found it."
"Good..now you have to go about two fingers to the left side of the Xiploid. You need to aim the needle at an angle towards his left shoulder, pushing it in gently, you don't want to hit the venticle or the lung."
"I got that."
Tara ever so gently but firmly pushed the big needle into Juices's chest and was relieved to see blood draining into the syringe. As the blood drained out of Juice's Pericardium his breathing became easier. Tara smiled to see Juice breathing easily again and removed the needle from his chest. Placing the cap back on the needle and placing it back in the bag for disposal later.
"Right it's done Doctor, Juice is breathing easier than he was a few seconds ago, I've checked where the metal is and we could do with removing it before we move him but I'm worried about him bleeding out!"
Doctor Marston thought for a moment what could be done, it was possible to remove the metal just a little bit but they would have to be very careful as they moved him. She got on the walkie Talkie to Tara.
"Right Tara, this is what I want you to do. Very, very gently move the bar out just an inch if you can and then you will have to pack some bandages around it and the wound to catch the bleeding. When you move him though you will have to be very careful, do you understand?"
"Yes Doctor."
As Tara pulled the bar an inch from Juices side, Chibs waited with some gauge in his hand ready to place it around the bar as soon as Tara told him to.
"Now Chibs."
He packed the wound with gauge and very carefully wrapped a bandage around Juice's middle to keep it all in place.
"Are you ready Chibs...we got to move him very carefully."
Chibs nodded and he and Tara between them started to very carefully move Juice out of the confined space where he had been for the past 23 hours. As they were moving down the tunnel that had been made in the debris to get to where Juice and Piney had been entombed, they were just a few meters from where they could see the entrance and people peering in to them when they felt movement. Chibs and Tara looked at other and without saying anything started to move faster, debris was falling in the tunnel and the both of them with Juice between them managed to make it out into the open when the reminder of the building came crashing down.
Around them they could hear people shouting in fright and dust bellowing out out the mound behind them. Tara checked Juice to make sure he was alright and saw that he was breathing and his eyes were open looking at her.
"Are you alright Juce?"
He blinked back and gave a small smile.
All across Charming people reacted with screams and shouts as another tremor hit Charming, Hale was still swinging down in the abyss and all he could do was hang onto the rope and the baby and pray like mad that what ever the rope was attached to didn't break. Or he and the baby he had just rescued would be gonners.
At the hospital Unser had just been about to get back in his cruiser and check on the rescue teams when the tremor hit and he ended on the ground again, he was so tired of ending up on the ground. He would be glad when this was finally over, in fact he would probaly not be the only one!
A/N Thats it for now, I think I have done three updates today of this story. So you might have to wait a few days before the next one. Lets us know what you thought about the last few chapters.