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Tunnel slowed his pace moderately, and Sebastian and I worked side by side running fluids, taking vitals, and staunching blood flow the entire way to the hospital.
When we arrived, we took our patients to different rooms before giving our reports to the nurses and walking back out to the medic.
“God, I hate those now.” Sebastian sounded like he’d been beaten.
Babies and children were hard for anyone to work on, but when you had a child of your own, comparisons start to be made, and you end up making yourself sick at the potential of your own children being hurt like that.
My eyes flicked to my best friends’ before returning to Tunnel who was practically bouncing up and down on the balls of his feet, beside the truck.
“It’s never been easy to see babies, but now I’m sure it’ll always be hard for you, Ian. I’m sorry.” I said, genuinely sorry for my friend.
“Did they live?” Tunnel asked as soon as they were within a distance that he didn’t have to yell.
Sebastian snorted. “This kid has to be as green as they come. What the hell were you thinking?”
I was currently sponsoring Tunnel. Tunnel was his given name, too; one that Tunnel hated with every fiber of his being.
I saw something in the kid that I’d seen in myself quite a few years ago.
Tunnel, like me, had been kicked out of his parent’s house when he was eighteen for dating a little Mexican girl and getting her pregnant.
Just like I had...I shut my mind down before it could go back to that dark place. That wasn’t something that I wanted to think about right now, especially when I’d just ran a call on young kids.
Particularly one that dealt with a young mother that didn’t have the first clue on how to take care of her kids.
What the fuck was that woman thinking not putting her kids in child restraints? Although not 100 percent effective, most of the previous call could’ve been prevented. All it took was one lone instant in time to change the course of those childrens’ lives.
My own baby wasn’t...
“Kettle!” Sebastian growled snapping my fingers in front of my face. “Where’d you go?”
“To hell.” I muttered before stepping into the passenger side of the medic.
To hell indeed.
“You can drop me off at the station. They took my rig back to headquarters.” Tunnel explained quickly.
Sebastian nodded, but didn’t comment on the fact that the two places were right the fuck next to each other.
Looking down, I studied my clothes and grimaced. These would need to be sent to the dry cleaning service the department utilized. There was too much blood...and other stuff, to let Adeline wash them.
Speaking of Adeline, my phone started vibrating in my pocket, and I pulled it out carefully, avoiding the blood that practically coated my pants leg.
“Hello?” I answered.
“Tiago?” She coughed.
“Addy, what’s wrong? Are you okay?” I asked quickly.
Sebastian’s foot let up on the accelerator slightly, gauging what was going on to see what he needed to do next.
“I’m fine,” she said. “I’m going home sick, though. I don’t feel well at all. My head feels like it’s the size of a small turbo jet, my sinuses are killing me, and my body aches.”
I relaxed slightly and returned my back to the seat once more and felt Sebastian resume my pace. “Sounds like the flu. Did you get your flu shot?”
She snorted. “Yeah, right. I’ve had the flu every year since I started teaching and had the flu shot for half of those. What would be the point?”
“Umm,” I had the resist the urge to laugh. “Possibly not having the flu right now?”
