Within seconds the whole scene is full of cars and people. Right with the ambulance the police also arrive at the scene and take care of small amount of traffic still on the street.
Blair is still holding the woman's hand as the paramedics arrive.
"Help is here now. I will let them take care of you now."
After that Blair releases her hand and crawls back out of the car, while the paramedics rush down to her. Blair gets up on his feet again and looks towards Jim's car as suddenly someone starts talking to him.
"Sir. Are you ok? Do you need any help?
Blair looks to the side and realizes that a police officer is talking with him but he does not really hear what he is saying. The police officer looks at him with a questionable and worried look but Blair does not react. The officer reaches forward and grabs Blair's shoulder.
"Sir! Are you ok? You need any help?"
Suddenly Blair snaps out of his personal shock. He looks over to Jim's car again, where Jim is still sitting without the slightest movement, then back to the officer.
"I am fine!"
After that Blair immediately starts running across the streets to Jim's car. He can hear the officer behind him shout but does not recognize what he says.
Jim is watching the scene in front of him. He heard Blair shouting but he could not move. Then he saw Blair kneeling down and he stretches out his hearing. First he catches Blair's heartbeat which was actually racing. Then he heard the other heartbeat. It sounds fast but also strong. A slight feeling of relief is floating through him.
"Thank god she is still alive. Please keep breathing. Please don't die!"
While he concentrates on the foreign heartbeat everything around him goes dark and finally the guilt was gone as well. All he could hear was the steady heartbeat.
"Jim! Jim! Come on big guy listen to me!"
Blair is now standing next to Jim's car at the open driver's door and talks with the not moving Jim Ellison. From behind the officer, who talked with Blair a few seconds before arrives as well.
"Do you need any help here?"
As Blair is not reacting but still talking with Jim who is not moving, the officer turns around and shouts for some paramedics and he waves his hands.
After this Blair immediately turns around and looks at the officer with an angry look.
"We don't need any paramedics here. Just leave us alone for a minute."
Blair points towards Jim.
"This is Detective James Ellison from Major Crimes and I am Blair Sandburg observer there. We will be with you in a moment but for now just leave us alone!"
The police office was unsure what to do for a moment but then he turns around with a silent "OK" and he takes with him the paramedics who had already arrived at the car.
Blair immediately turns around and talks with Jim again.
"Come on Jim. Listen to me. Follow my voice. Snap out of it"
While talking with Jim for minutes with nothing happening Blair looks down at the floor frustrated and his look stops at his own left hand. Blood is dropping down from his palm. He must have cut it with a piece of broken glass from the car.
While still talking with Jim he reaches out his bloody left hand and holds it under Jim's nose. Suddenly Jim's arms which are still clutching the wheel weaken and he slumps forward a bit. He shakes his head several times and then leans back into his seat. His right hand grabs Blair's wrist and then Jim looks directly at Blair.
"Chief, you are bleeding. We need to get this cleaned up."
"That's just a scratch don't worry. But Jim you were in a real deep zone-out just now. The last one like this was ages ago, what happened?"
As Blair is speaking it seems Jim finally becomes aware of the situation around him again. His breathing goes faster while he starts stuttering.
"Oh my god. … Did I kill her? … Is she dead? … I …"
"Calm down Jim! She is alive and it was not your fault it was the damn driver of that truck who ignored the red light."
"But I pushed her. It was my fault! Did I kill her?"
After that Blair grabs Jim by both shoulders and turns him around so he needs to look directly into Blair's eyes.
"Listen to me now Jim! SHE … IS … ALIVE!"
"She is alive?"
Blair nods and points behind him where one ambulance is just leaving the scene towards the hospital.
"They are taking her to the hospital right now and they will take care of her."
"I need to go there. Come on Chief: Get in, we need to follow the ambulance to the hospital."
"No Jim! We need to talk to the police officers over there so they can look for the damn truck and its driver that did this."
"But …"
"There is no but Jim. We can't do anything for her at the hospital at the moment but we can do something here!"
Jim leans back again in his car seat for a moment and then gets out of the car.
"You are right chief. Let's do this!"
Blair nods satisfied, lays his right hand on Jims shoulder and then they walk across the street to the police officers standing there by the crashed car. The officer who talked with Blair earlier walks towards them as he saw them coming.
"Sorry officer I hate losing it before but we needed a few minutes to calm down a bit."
"Don't worry its fine after witnessing something like this I think anyone would be shocked."
The officer reaches his hand towards Jim and Blair.
"Officer Mitchel. What can you tell me about what happened here?"
Jim grabs Mitchel's hand first.
"Detective James Ellison from Major Crimes. My partner Blair Sandburg"
Jim points at Blair and officer Mitchel shakes his hand too.
"This was a clear hit and run. The car in front of us was on the way to cross the street. The truck from the left ignored the red light and hit the car with full effort. Without even the slightest hesitation the truck just keeps going."
"What can you tell me about the truck?"
"It was just a tractor unit, no trailer on it. It was red. I did not see any signs or lettering on it and also could not see the license plate. Blair anything to add."
"Unfortunately not. It all happened too fast. I must admit I am not even really sure about the color. I was concentrating too much on the car in front of us and was hoping she would see it as well and get the chance to get out of the way!"
"So you two saw the truck coming and stopped driving right under the traffic light because of it. How did you know he would not stop!"
"It was just a hunch. He seemed to be going too fast and it made me nervous so I stopped and waited."
"Why do you think the woman did not see the truck coming? Don't get me wrong I don't think in the slightest it's her fault, but why do you think she didn't stop too? Did you warn her about the danger, maybe with the horn?"
Jim slightly winces at the officers words. Blair again lays one arm on his shoulder.
"Yes we hit the horn but unfortunately not to warn her."
Mitchel looks at Blair with a questionable look on his face.
"We missed a green light because she was not driving. First we wanted to take a look to if she needed some help but then we decided to just hit the horn for the …"
"Don't put yourself into this Chief! It was my decision to hit the horn. You wanted to get out and look and see if she needed any help. I decided that it was not necessary and forced you to stay in the car. And I hit the horn and I pushed her."
Jim nearly shouts the words and then just turns around and walks back to his car.
"Sorry Officer. He feels guilty about what happened"
"Keep telling him that the driver of the truck is the only guilty person here!"
"I am doing that but it will take a while until he believes me. Anyway back to what happened. As I said we hit the horn the next time the traffic light was green. Just after that the car in front of us starts moving. We just thought the horn helped. We followed her but then Jim saw the lights of the truck from the left and he instinctively stopped. I was looking at the truck as well and then back to the car in front of us. I know I was shouting out loud out of my own panic that he didn't seem to be trying to slow down and then it was over. The car was lying on its roof and the truck was rushing down the streets to the right in a hurry. I am sorry that's everything we can tell you."
"Thank you Mr. Sandburg. If anything comes to mind about the truck please let me know. Every detail can help. But I don't need to tell you or your partner this, you know that."
Blair nods and takes the card Mitchel hands him. Then they shake hands again.
"Thank you Mr. Mitchel we will let you know if we remember anything else. Is it ok if we go now?"
'"Of course. I wish you a good rest of night and take care of your partner!"
"Will do. Thanks!"
After that Blair turns around and he walks to Jim's car, in which Jim is already waiting. As Blair comes closer Jim has already started the engine and not even a second after Blair has closed the car behind him sitting in the passenger side, Jim had started driving away.
"Sorry Blair. I couldn't stay and I really want to go to the hospital now!"
"Its ok Jim I told him everything I know and if we remember any more information we can just call him."
The two are drive silently to the hospital. There they are remain quiet walking to the emergency entrance and in there directly to the nurse station.
"Hello! I am Detective James Ellison. A short time ago a young woman would have been brought in here a victim of a RTC. We would like to know how she is doing!"
Jim is holding his badge towards the nurse behind the computer who is looking at it and then gets up from her seat.
"Give me a second detective I will see what I can find out for you!"
After that the nurse rushes away towards the treatment rooms. Jim is waiting nervously at the nurse station and Blair is laying a hand on his shoulder again to calm him down. It is just a moment before the nurse is coming back to them.
"The woman has already gone down to surgery"
After that she sits down behind her computer again.
"Can you help us with her identity? We still don't know who she is."
"Surgery? What's her condition? How bad is it?"
"Sorry Sir! I am not authorized to give you any of that information. For now we need to know who she is, so we can contact her family and after the surgery the doctor can tell you more about her condition."
Jim is turning around in frustration and sinks down on one of the plastic chairs in the waiting room. Blair looks after him and then back to the nurse.
"Sorry we don't know who she is either but we are in contact with the officers at the scene of the collision and will see if they have found anything indicating her identity."
Blair turns around and sits down next to Jim. He grabs into his backpack and takes out his cell phone. Then he takes the card from Officer Mitchel and dials the number. It does not take long until he answers the phone.
"Mr. Mitchel. It's Blair Sandburg. We are at the hospital now and they need some identification for the woman in the car so they can contact her family."
Blair listens to Mr. Mitchel on the other side of the line and then hangs up with a short "Thanks" and then turns to Jim.
"They will send an officer over with the papers."
Jim is leaning with his elbows on his knees and his thumbs are massaging his temples. He holds his head a slight bit to the side. Blair immediately knew what he was trying and immediately puts an arm on his shoulder.
"Jim! No! You are in no condition at the moment and even under normal circumstances it's nearly impossible to find her in the hospital."
Jim sighs and then leans back again his eyes closed.
"I know Blair! I just hope she will be ok."
He now finally looks into Blair's eyes again and Blair could see the pain in Jims. Then Jims gaze goes down to Blair's left hands. He grabs forward, the blood on it has already dried.
"This needs to be cleaned and bandaged. Come on Chief!"
Jim pulls Blair up from his seat and walks to the nurse station again.
"Sorry Mam. My partner got a nasty cut here and could need some medical care!"
"It's just a scratch Jim. We can take care about it at home!"
"No Blair! It needs to be cleaned and we are in a hospital already so why not take the help."
Blair sighs and the nurse behind the computer smiles a bit.
"We will take care of your partner Sir. But you will have to wait as other patients have been waiting longer. I will need his insurance card and then we will let you know when it is your turn."
Jim still holding Blair's injured hand starts now to grab with his free hand into Blair's backpack.
"The card Chief?"
Blair sighs again but he also knows that Jim will not change his mind.
"In my wallet in my trouser pocket."
Jim grabs into Blair's pocket, takes out the wallet and from there the insurance card which he hands to the nurse, who takes it with an even wider smile on her face. She puts something into the computer and hands the card back.
"Please take a seat Gentlemen. Someone will be with you as soon as we can!"
As Jim and Blair turn around again a police officer rushes into the emergency room carrying a handbag. He walks directly to the nurse station. Jim and Blair stopped besides it.
"This is the handbag from the RTC victim. Her name is Rebecca Jaimaison. The wallet with her papers is in it. We have already sent a unit to her home address."
The nurse takes the handbag and thanks the officer who immediately turns around again and leaves the emergency room quickly. Jim and Blair can just watch him leave. Then both sit back down on the plastic chairs in the waiting area, sitting silently next to each other knowing all they can do now is wait. Just Jims mumbling can be heard from time to time.
"Rebecca Jaimaison, please keep fighting. Please stay alive!"
Authors Note:
More parts are nearly done but I would like to know if its worth to put more energy in it. Means I would like to know if there are readers out there who would like to read the rest. Thanks