Jackson and Matthew were sitting on a huge chunk of concrete that had once been the 404, waiting for the infusion to finish.
Dr Weaks, the OB, decided to wait with the ambulance and get things prepared for their patient.
They were listening to April, Meredith, and occasionally Lt. Green chit chat about baby Bailey, nursery furniture, health food stores, hair conditioners, pretty much anything and everything. They were like a group of school girls at a sleep over.
Every so often Jackson rolled his eyes at the quirky things the girls would talk about. He and Matt were definitely being entertained.
Jackson noticed that April's voice had sounded stronger from when he first heard it. That still didn't help his leg from nervously bouncing up and down.
He was listening as his wife just decided to tell a rather unpleasant episode of him having a panick attack about telling his mom they were expecting when he notice the rescue teams pointing and running from the back section of the slab.
"What's going on," he asked Matt as he too took notice.
"I dunno", he replied standing and looking in the direction Jackson was pointing.
Then the radio announcement that made them freeze.
"Evacuate immediately. Repeat, all units evacuate"
Matthew turned his mic to his mouth, "Katy get out now"...
Ooooooooooooooooooooo
Meredith had just hung the second unit of blood, and was going to give April another shot of Lidocaine so they could move her when they heard the announcement.
"We need to get out NOW," Katy said pushing herself out of the car. She didn't have time to respond to Matthew call.
"April take a deep breath", Meredith demanded as she was going to have to pull April from the dash.
Katy grabbed April's arms and said, "On my count, one, two, three."
"Awwwwwwww," April screamed as she was pulled from the car and onto the awaiting stretcher.
There was no time for the pressure bandage so Katy quickly put her hand on the open wound to stop the flow of blood.
"Out," she ordered Meredith as they turned the stretcher towards the opening.
Meredith moved as fast as she could on all fours. She could hear the stretcher rolling behind her.
All the sudden there was a dust cloud blinding them...
Oooooooooooooooooooo
Jackson and Matthew watched in horror as a part of the 404 started falling from the sky heading towards the back section of the slab.
There was nothing they could do. Helplessness like Jackson never knew. He was watching his wife die and there was nothing he could do.
"Noooooooo", he screamed as he tried to run forward.
He felt hands grab him and wrestled him to the ground.
Ooooooooooooooooooooo
Matt couldn't believe what he was seeing.
He and Jackson started running towards the opening. Flashbacks to a burning bus and a super storm, but this time he was the one being tackled.
Oooooooooooooooooooo
Both Jackson and Matthew pushed their assailants off themselves as they were engulfed in a dust cloud.
They couldn't see anything.
"April!" Jackson screamed, but there was no answer.
They heard coughing coming from the direction of the opening.
"Jackson!", Meredith hollered.
Jackson moved toward to the sound, fanning his hands in front of his face. It was useless.
There was no way to see anything unless you were right on top of it.
"She got out", he kept telling himself, "she got out".
After a few steps he was face to face with Meredith.
Grabbing the bottom of his shirt to cover his mouth.
"Where is she?" he implored trying to see past her.
"I don't know", she coughed, "they were right behind me."
Matt stumbled up to them, terror written all over his face.
Jackson was beside himself.
Just then the wind pick up, almost like a back draft clearing the dust enough that they could see.
There they were, at the edge of a pile of rubble.
Jackson launched himself toward the stretcher. "April." he groaned as he saw her condition.
They were covered in dust, and part of the stretcher was covered in blood from when Katy had to remove her hand from the wound to push them out at the last minute. April had lost consciousness from either the pain or loss of blood, he couldn't tell.
While the infusion pump was still working on the second unit Meredith had started, April's wound was pumping out as much as was going in.
Everyone started moving at once. Jackson put his hand over the wound and they all started pushing the stretcher towards the ambulance.
"We need to get another central line going and another unit of blood," Jackson ordered as he looked down at his frail wife.
Katy ran ahead of the stretcher to relay the orders to Dr. Weaks.
When they reached the ambulance everyone started working in unison.
Meredith started another central line, Dr. Weaks attached a heart monitor to April and a fetal monitor for the baby, Jackson poured saline over the wound than applied a pressure bandage, Matt put on a blood pressure cuff, while Katy took another bottle of saline and started cleaning the dust from April's nose and mouth and applied an oxygen mask.
Matthew called GSHM emergency room and got Dr. Hunt on the phone.
"Let's move," Jackson yelled to the driver as they packed themselves into the back.
Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
She coded. Halfway to the hospital he was putting paddles to his wife chest and calling clear.
It was like he left his own body and was watching from afar.
He was numb when he finally saw the heart monitor pick up a sinus rhythm.
She had been down for two minutes.
When the ambulance arrived at the hospital they were meet by every attending.
They push her directly to the OR. More hands grabbing him. This time it was Derek and Karev dragging him from the OR.
She could not leave him...he wouldn't let her...
