| " An injury for life By: Barb Part: 3 Rated: PG ......... Everyone stopped except for Johnny who lay on his belly and slowly eased him self toward the whole. As they had all figured it was part of an old mine that was now covered with grass and dirt. Once he got to the hole he looked down there was the poor man who was cutting him grass when the earth opened up and swallowed him. "Sir Can you hear me?" John called out? "Yes" was the only words John heard "Are you hurt any were?" "My leg! I think it�s broken, I'm stuck in here pretty good!" The poor man was scared "Alright don't move ill be down to get you out in a moment, alright but don�t move!" John wants the man to be calm so he didn't fall down further in to the earth "Okay but hurry!!" John and the rest of the crew of 51 got out the ropes and the rest of the gear they needed for the decent. Roy got busy getting all the equipment for treating the man out and set up, and then he contacted Rampart and had them stand by for the victim once they got him out. It didn�t take long for John to get ready to be lowered in to the ground. This was nothing new to John Gage he had been lowered in to more holes then he could remember or even want to for that matter. Today though it seemed like such a long drop to the man. Ever were on him seemed to hurt today and the rope around his legs and waist just seemed to make him hurt more mostly a round him back, it seemed to hurt a little bit more then it had all day. "More slack� he yelled out once he put the pain in his back away for right now he had worked to do. He was down to the man finally �Hi how ya doing?" "HURTS will it be much longer?" John knew the man was in great pain, matter of fact he didn't feel to hot him self right now. �Going to get you out of here right now� John wanted to go too but that ride back up wow not going to be fun the thought to him self. "Can you move at all?" "Some� was all the reply he got. After a several minutes John was ready for the man to be pulled out. The hole was not that wide so the man would have to be pulled up first then John could be pulled out after that. John was a little thankful his back could use the break. His break wasn't very long soon he was being pulled out of the hole. After contacting Rampart and starting an IV. Johnny followed the ambulance and Roy to the hospital in the squad. Once in at the hospital John went straight for the coffee. Soon Dixie walked up to her station desk �Hey Johnny I see you made it to work finally!" Dix couldn't help but smile at Johnny "Hey Dix. How are those people from that wreck this morning by the way?" "There all going to be fine." Dixie looked at Johnny he seemed a little quite when he spoke, like maybe he was hurt, "Hey John? Roy said you got a little scrapped up at the wreck this morning are you alright?" "Yeah Dix, Roy cleared me, I'm fine just a little tired that's all its been a long day so far with the wreck and all I'm sure that once I get back to the station get something to eat and get in to a nice warm bed, ill feel better real fast." With that said John was off to find Roy. John knew that Dixie was prying and he really didn't want that, be sides he was starving, like that were something new were John was involved. Soon John and Roy were back at the station. Dinner was on the table and the crew had just sat down to eat when the boys joined them. Dinner was quite for once. Matter of fact the whole shift had been to quite. After dinner it was John and Roy's turn for the dishes. John had lost the coin toss so he got the job of washing while Roy dried the dishes. Roy couldn�t help but think to him self as he dried the dishes he had notice little things thought the course of the shift. He had notice that John was quite to quite and was some what stiff. These were things that were out of character for John.Roy couldn't help but think that there was more to that accident this morning then what John was tell him. "Roy? Earth to Roy?" "What? Sorry I was thinking." "Man Roy you were out there, here dry this your way behind� John said pushing a plate in to Roy's hand to dry. " "Oh yeah" "Roy are you alright man you were out in left field?� Roy couldn't help but laugh a little " I was going to ask you the same question." Roy watched John to see if he tried to hide his face or any thing. "Yeah I'm fine a little hot from standing over this sink doing these dishes." "Hot John it�s not hot in here are you running a fever?" Roy could see that John was a little flushed and reached for his fore head, "No fever" that Roy could feel . "Not sick, matter of fact must of just been a hot flash, from all the activity I've been doing seems that lately when I get to working of real active I get a hot flash, it flashes and then its gone I must be getting old " John laughed. Roy didn't think John was funny. Hot flashes Johnny what was up with him? Roy decided to pry as much as he could out of his partner "Hey John for a man who was starving you sure didn't eat that much at dinner?" "Well neither did you, what was that stuff Chet made anyway? At least it didn't taste as bad as it smelled that's for sure!" "Not much better." they both laughed. John turned back toward the sink, the little laugh reminded him of the pain in his back and he didn't want Roy to see the pain on his face. There for a moment he had for gotten his pain, but only for a moment. |