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“Sean! Get back,” Aaron shouted, and began spraying the fire. Sean ducked, turned his back to the spray as he kept trying to cut the seat belt off the woman who was trapped.
Yancy had a knife as well, and together, they finally got her freed, but she was unconscious, and no way to tell where she was hurt. Moving her could make it worse. Her face was bloody from hitting the steering wheel, but the fire was almost out, and Wiley and his partner were now down at the site with their fire extinguishers, too. By the time the fire truck and ambulance arrived, the officers had the fire out and the woman was regaining consciousness.
Once all of the emergency response teams were on scene, Sean stepped aside. He’d already made one trip up the ravine to give the baby to Amalie, and the horror on her face when he went back down again was forever etched in his mind. This time when he reached the top, he went straight into Amalie’s arms.
“Where’s the baby?” he asked.
“EMTs already have her,” she said.
“We’ve got to stop meeting like this,” Sean said. “First the chopper, now the car.”
“Did she get burned?” Amalie asked.
Sean pulled back. “No, baby, no. I don’t know what injuries she has, but she didn’t get burned. How did you know?”
“Know what?” she asked.
“To walk in this direction? If you hadn’t listened to the voices, we would have walked the other way. If we’d walked the other way, we wouldn’t have been close enough to hear the wreck. If we hadn’t heard the wreck, they would have both burned to death before anyone ever knew the car was in that ravine.”
She was cold. So cold her face was numb, but the shock she was feeling came from realizing she’d been saying stuff about the voices aloud.
“I don’t know. Sometimes I just hear them.”
“Have you always heard them?” he asked.
“I don’t think so. The first time I can remember it was when I was trapped in the burning car. My pants were already burning, and I heard a voice say, ‘You’re going to be okay,’ and I was. Please don’t freak out on me about this.”
He hugged her again. “Darlin’, as far as I’m concerned, you’re just a shade on the light side of magic, and if you start throwing glitter, I want some fallin’ on me.”
She started to cry, soft tears. Tears of relief that he was safe. That the woman and child had been rescued. And that’s how Aaron found them. Standing on the side of the road, wrapped in each other’s arms.
He walked up behind Sean and then put a hand on his shoulder.
“You okay, brother?”
Sean nodded.
“Need a ride back somewhere?” he asked.
Sean nodded again, still holding her.
“Are we gonna go far?” Aaron asked.
Sean sighed. “No. Just three blocks from your house.”
“Got it,” Aaron said. “Give me a sec to let Yancy know, and I’ll be back with my patrol car.”
Sean gave Amalie a quick hug. “Got a tissue?”
She nodded.
“Then wipe your eyes and blow your nose. Big brother is about to give us a ride home and get you out of the cold.”
“Okay,” she mumbled, and dug in her coat pockets until she found a couple of wadded-up tissues and did as he suggested.
“You even blow your nose cute. It sounded a little like a mouse squeak.”
Amalie shook her head. “I may die from the ardent love words that you speak.”
