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I'm no doctor so I'm sorry if the medical information is incorrect, I have a feeling it is. I don't own the characters, they belong to the BBC.


The Secret Life Of Casualty.

Chapter 487

Iain had managed to sit himself beside Ruby, in the small space there was, not wanting her to feel frightened.

Ethan walked over to him. "Iain, we need to leave"

"I'm not leaving her, " Iain replied.

"Iain, you have to" Ethan replied.

"What if it was Cal?"Iain replied. "Would you leave him?"

"No, I'd stay with him, he's my brother" Ethan replied.

"She's my wife, Ethan. "

"Go," Ruby whispered, taking off her oxygen mask. "With Ethan"

"Ruby, you need to keep that on, " Iain told her, adjusting it over her face. He'd feel better when he got her in to RESUS, so he could see what damage there was. He'd guess at broken bones, internal bleeding, a head injury (although he'd hoped the hard hat would have protected her from that)

"Iain " She replied, tiredly. "I'm not getting out of here"

Iain squeesed her hand. "I'm getting you out of here"

To Ethan, Iain whispered. "We need to find a way to start shifting these rocks"

"We can't, Iain" Ethan replied.

But Iain started digging, only for more to fall.

"Iain, wait for the fire bridage" Ethan told him, as if something went wrong, Iain would be held responsible.

Finally, she was free. "I need a spinal board." Iain ordered and one was brought to him.

He placed a now unconcious Ruby on to the board and strapped her on to it, putting a collar over her neck, a pulse oximeter on her finger. Before placing it on the stretcher. "Lets move"

Blue sirens were switched on as Ethan drove the ambulance back. The team had been alerted it was one of their own that was trapped and Connie, Charlie, Alicia were all waiting for her.

"This is Ruby Dean, 28, involved in the roof collaspe. Trapped under rubble. BP is low, GSC is 3. Given morphine at the scene" Iain said, he had to stay proffesinal.

"Iain, we've got this, " Said Connie.

"Is that Ruby?" Robyn asked, noticing the trolley being wheeled towards RESUS, Iain followed. .

Iain nodded, "Yeah"

"Iain, you can't be in there, " She told him.

"Mrs Beachaump, I need to be in there" Said Iain. "I can help "

"She's in the best hands " Connie told him.

"I'm going in, " Iain defied her as he burst in.

Charlie was by her bed, fitting her with a ventilator, fluids were hung. Tests were ordered.

Connie looked at her CT. "There is bruising on her brain. "

Connie undid the frac pac on her leg, it was definitely dislocated. "She'll need to go up to surgery to have this reduced. "

Iain nodded.

"Theatre is backed up, " Said Robyn, who was on the phone.

Connie sighed, the longer she waited, the more damaged her leg could become. "Tell them, it's urgent. " She snapped at the red head.

"Iain went in the lift with his wife, when a slot come free for a bed.

"Mr Dean, you can't come in. " Said the surgeon.

Iain sighed, kissed Ruby and waited in the relatives room, while Gem brought him cups of coffee and Robyn sandwhiches.


I'll try and get another update out tonight.