It is only four and I'm like dead tired. I woke at 12... Ok I know that there hasn't been much medical stuff but come on, I'm only sixteen (just about 17) there will be some soon but right now I am torturing Avery and Snake Eyes with unattended to lust. Well it's attended to but no sex, yet. ;) wait for several weeks to have past :P I'm a complete bitch to Avery aren't I? Dear god, I started this when I was sixteen?! I'M 18 NOW! Oh as I work on this ch I must make note of how sleep deprived I am. Had no sleep last night and it's now 606 am

Chapter Fifteen:

"Hey, Doc." Avery called cheerily and waved as she entered the office. "Need any help?" Doc turned to her and eyes her warily. "No, I'm not in any way shape or form injured or sick. I just came because Alpha Team's lacking any missions meaning my life has become tedious. So I humbly offer up any service I can offer to make this process of caring for the sick any easier upon you while it make my life entertaining." She bowed deeply with sarcasm even in her movements. "I am but your humble servant for the day."

"No." Doc said forsaking her entire speech and turning back to his computer.

"Oh come on, Doc! Please! I've even taken to training nearly twenty-four seven. I only stop to take in nutrients, piss and sleep. It's so boring. I ache for something else, something new! If I have to sit here any longer I'll return to grunt work." Jumping up onto his desk she sat on a nice pile of papers that he had been eying awhile typing. "Oh, I'm sorry," She said when he seemed to growl at her. "Were you using these or something? I'm just so sick of doing nothing that I need you to cure me."

"Fine!" He yelled at her and she got off of his papers for him. "There's been a collapse of part of the building and several people are still missing. You as a medic and field operative should be able to handle at least digging up bodies."

Looking forlorn she nodded. "You should have came to me before. You know your medics are better put to use here and those grunts have other things to do than work there."

"Yeah well Erik is there. He's as good as you if not better." Doc held himself up pridefully. "Trained him myself."

"Ginger?" She perked up and looked him. "Mr. Ginger is there? Ah good times with him. Beating him and getting this painfully boring spot on Alpha team and all." She grinned at Doc and the man became flustered. HE must have forgotten about that. "Anyway which team was put on grunt work there?"

"The only team with nothing to do making their lives very... tedious." Doc smirked at her wide eyed gawping expression. "Seems that Alpha team doesn't need a medic, even for such menial work." He teased. He had become very much like a family member. Or rather that friend that was close enough to be family yet if they were she'd hate him.

"Well I'd best be going to make their lives more stimulating." She left the office slamming the door behind her.

.~:*:~.

"I- I don't know." An Irish accented voice sputtered out as a man lay in front of him dying. "He's not breathing, I don't know what to do!" Panic entered his voice and Alpha team stood bye.

Suddenly a pen was slammed down into the man's throat and a melodic voice said with sardonic humor, "Oh come on now, even a six year old could do this. How about you take a break there Ginger and let us with the big boy diapers do the heavy lifting. All you gotta do is hold this here pen, just like this, and he'll live." Erik looked up in shock as the Alpha team's medic sat on the poor mans legs. "Good thing here this man's wind pipe was crushed and not his legs, eh?"

"Avery!" Erik holler in shock. He'd been told that Alpha Teams medic was resting from a nasty fight two days ago. "Aren't you supposed to be resting?"

"And leave all of this joyous fun to you, hell no. Besides who killed me and you my doctor?" She patted his unruly red lock then took his hand and made him hold the pen. "Now remember, that moves even a fraction of an inch, and you just killed this guy." Giving him two thumbs up and a wide false grin in a mocking manner she stood up and went to leave.

"Wait, what?" Erik called but she didn't reply and soon enough he was holding the pen afraid to do anything.

Avery chuckled to herself as she walked away, it wasn't right to act like that to him but they'd already tried to replace her! Her hands clenched into fists and she breathed deeply. Anger would not control her.

As she made her way into the collapse further and further she didn't notice her team at all yet many of injured men left to sit in pain. To say it took her a while to make it anywhere near the worst of the collapse was an understatement. Two hours and forty-seven minutes later she saw Duke. "Nice of you all to invite me to this large old party." She called out and spread her arms wide. Duke looked at her with watery eyes and all humor left her. "What happened?"

"Anna, she's under there, Rip and Snakes too." Avery looked at all of the inter wound boards and noticed that if one was removed the rest would fall, if one fell they all did. "Ash," He nodded to a man Avery recognized as a Carpenter. "He said that it'll collapse if we dig or anything. They're old weak and rotted. It couldn't even hold a hundred pounds!" His tears fell faster. "I love her yet-"

"A hundred you say?" Avery asked then she took in a breath and made the sign of the cross upon her torso. "I've never been one to believe in God or anything, but if he's there may he help us." She looked around and tried to figure something out. "If it could have held lets say you, how would you have been able to get them out?"

"They'd put heavy steal bars in up there so that we could drop rope down but the only hole big enough for any of them to fit though is there, too far to toss into and we cant just walk over there and drop it down." Avery walked over to look at the ropes, she pointed acting like she was surprised at the ropes. Three of them to drop down to each person. Duke nodded. "They're too far away to be able to hear us so I can't speak to Anna."

"You'd lost her, what, twice now?" He nodded. "Well let's not try for a third, huh?" He just sniffed. "Ya know, these bored can hold ninety-one pounds?" Avery held onto the three ropes and she walked across. "Cause I'm like eight -six or so and these ropes are about five each, they fat rope." She laughed as she nimbly walked quickly across the bored with the ropes in hand. "Good thing I'd trained so much this passed week, lost five pounds ya know."

"Avery!" Duke called but she ignored his pleas for her to return unto she nearly lost her concentration and fell. "They'll find a way please just come back."

"They won't find it in time. By then it could collapse. You want her to become your wife or not?" Duke nodded. "Then shut the fuck up and let me do what I was trained to do." Finally she reached the hole and saw a light. "Yo?" She called down and the light shined at her.

"Avery!" Anna called. "How? We thought that it couldn't hold people."

"Yeah well unlike everyone else I'm not fat. Plus no one's noticed me besides Duke yet. How's everyone?"

"I'm fine and so is Snake Eyes but Rip, we don't know. Something stabbed him and-" She hesitated and Avery looked to Duke. "He's bleeding, really bad."

Alright I'm throwing ropes down, You and Snakes come up, but don't touch the floor. My skinny ass is only eight-six pounds and it moaning and groaning." She tossed down the ropes and got onto one. She called out to Duke, "Duke! Toss my bag and toss it high." He did as told and she caught it. "Hey, don't look so glum, I'm here so everything will be alright. I'm a bloody angel, ya know?" She was indeed covered in blood dirt and grime. With her smile that radiated to him he gave little smile himself.

She began her decent.