Never mind the ED, the entire hospital was a wreck. Nothing but a pile of rubble remained.

If you were part of the crowd of spectators and news teams, which were camped out at the end of the car park, you may just see a giant pile of bricks and a few shattered panes of glass glinting in the watery sunlight. But if you were part of the rescue operation or members of the army trying to ascertain the exact location of the blast by climbing onto the pile of rubble, things may look a little different to you.

That giant mound of bricks and glass is transformed into wallpaper, desks, computers, needles, sparking wires and an array of hospital equipment. But worst of all every now and then you come across a human hand or foot, covered in blood and/or with fingers and toes missing. If you're Jeff the paramedic you find yourself clambering around with your wife on the rubble, praying that the next person you dig up isn't someone you know, and then when they are not you help excavate them from whatever predicament they find themselves in, hating yourself for wishing death on someone else.

"Got another one over here, Dix." Jeff called out to his partner in crime as he stared at a crumpled hand.

Dixie quickly moved to his side and sighed. "Pulse?"

Jeff slowly shook his head as he felt the limp wrist for any sign of life. Dixie sighed once more before signalling to the fire department that there was another dead body. They had developed two different signals, one of anything live and another for anyone dead. So far they had uncovered three live people, 2 of which died in the ambulance on the way to St James, the last in critical condition.

"Wait…" Jeff muttered with his fingers still clamped around the wrist. "They still have a pulse! It's extremely weak, but it's there!"

Dixie quickly signalled over to the fireman once more, and they suddenly went for somewhat lethargically getting ready to dig their hundredth or so dead body to rushing around like maniacs, gathering shovels and ropes.

In a matter of minutes the limp form was pulled from the wreckage and laid on flat ground nearby. The second Jeff got a good look at him he froze.

"Dix! It's Jamie!" He said as he set to work on his injured colleague.

Around 20 minutes later Jamie was lying on a hospital bed in St James with Zoe shoving the ED doctor out of the way and nodding as Dixie read out his obs.

".. He briefly K'od on route but we were able to revive him in under a minute."

"Ok thanks Dixie. You! Get a line in and I was a full set of bloods." Zoe barked at a nearby nurse as she tested every one of the Jamie's ribs. "He needs a full body X-ray."

"But all scans are-" Began another nurse.

"Yes, yes I know. They are all booked up for 2 days. This is a priority. You better tell them that they better start pushing the queue back or I swear they'll be lucky to get as job cleaning windows in a hospital when this is all over!"

"Y-yes Dr."

"It's Dr Hanna!"

"Right, sorry Dr Hanna!" The flustered nurse said as she hurried to a nearby phone.

"Zoe, is he gonna live?" Jeff asked, watching Jamie's pale face for any sign on life.

"I don't know Jeff. We'll know more once the tests have come back and I've made a full assessment of his injuries." Zoe said gently, a stark contrast to her previous tone. "For now... Just get back there. I don't want some stranger finding another member of my ED. Robyn and Aoife are still unaccounted for."

Jeff switched back in a paramedic mode, his glassy eyes focussed and he gave stiff nod. "Right. Just promise me one thing."

"What?"

"Promise me you'll save him." Jeff pleaded, his paramedic demeanour slipping once more.

"I'll do my best, Jeff."

"Then I know he'll make it."

Jeff gave Zoe a brief smile before walking out of the ED with Dixie in tow.

"You sure you're up for this mate?" Dixie asked, placing a hand on his shoulder.

Jeff paused by St James' ED doors, looking around at the fifty or so live people they had already bought in with cuts on the faces and broken wrists.

"Come on." He said stubbornly, ignoring her question. "We have a job to do."

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The next chapter will be back to focussing on Sam, I just thought it was a little weird talking about an entire building collapsing and only having four characters from the ED in the story.

Thanks for reading and I appreciate your reviews as always :)