"Guardian Angel" - Chapter 4
Chapter: 4 ~ “Angels”
Author’s Notes: for the Heather
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The cold numbing feeling was still there when Calleigh opened her eyes. Her eyes, though, wouldn’t open completely, just a bit, and what she saw was blurry and confusing. She knew she was lying down, but didn’t feel the weight of the child on her. “Tim?” she whispered weakly reaching out with her hand. Trying to focus only makes her head hurt worse than it already does. Calleigh goes to open her mouth again to call for him, when she finds her hand increasingly warm. Someone was holding her hand, “Speed?”
“Shhh…it’s going to be okay now, Sweetheart.”
Though the voice is familiar, she knows that it isn’t Speed’s. Someone else… Fear and panic rush through her as she wonders where Matthew is. “Matthew…gone…” she managed to get out in a mumbled mess.
“The boy is just fine… He’s safe, Calleigh.”
As reassuring and comforting the voice is, Calleigh still fears that something isn’t right. Something was wrong, her head was screaming. Things were blurry, and she knew that before they weren’t. Warmth felt like it was slowly rushing through her body. She felt dry and warm… But was she safe? Had the storm passed? She had so many questions, but she couldn’t form the words…or the sentences… A hand on her forehead brought her eyes up to look for the face of the person trying to soothe her. A blurred figure was what she saw. Angel…it looked like an angel, the blue eyes were clearly broken through the blur that she saw through along with the bright hair. Another angel, she thought, and squeezed the hand that was holding hers.
“I promise, I’m not leaving…not again, Sweetheart. I’m here…”
Promises.
Calleigh had to keep a promise to Speed. She had promised him to help Horatio…to tell him what she had been told. That they needed to help each other through it and that they needed to be happy…to have lives… With her body feeling increasingly warm and a bright light now glaring all around her, panic started to rise, and Calleigh wondered if she had died… What if the voice was someone who had died? They were trying to ease her into the fact that she had died? Speed had told her that she could suffer from not only a concussion, but hypothermia as well.
She could feel the tears slipping down her cheeks and felt the hand on her forehead stroke her hair soothingly. Closing her eyes, she tried to sleep…or at least something close to it until she could see again…until she knew what was going on.
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The tears falling down her cheeks made him want to cry. The EMTs and Alexx had said that she probably wouldn’t be conscious let alone comprehend what was going on if she had been caught in the middle of the storm. They had found her and the boy, both soaked, and shivering. The boy’s body temperature, luckily, was up enough for him to be warmed with blankets and a bath, but Calleigh was going to take longer. The EMTs were already pumping warm saline into her to try to warm her internally along with all the blankets they had her wrapped in. They had stripped her down at the scene out of her clothes leaving her only in her bra and panties before bundling her. Her hair had been pulled up above her head and they had wrapped it up as well to try to keep her body from losing anymore heat.
“We’re almost there, Calleigh,” Horatio told her after seeing her eyes close. The fact that Calleigh was calling for Speedle worried Horatio, he was afraid that she’d suffered possible memory loss, but he also knew that that couldn’t be determined until she woke up. For all he knew, she could be dreaming.
Looking up at the EMT across from him, he looked for some sign of how she was doing. “She’s going to be alright, isn’t she?” Horatio asked in a more worried and panicked tone. He needed to know she would be. He had things he had to tell her… He had left her, when he would have never normally had dreamt of doing such a thing… He had needed to get the family to safety before the hurricane was too close, and he had tried frantically to get back to her…but roads had been damaged, trees had been down, and there had been flooding. Even with the Hummer, he hadn’t been able to get back to her until the storm had passed.
“The head injury has stopped bleeding, so that’s a good sign. We won’t know the extent of that damage until either she wakes up or we get her under a scan. We knew that it was a possibility of hypothermia when we came since we knew she had been possibly outside in the storm, so us warming her up on the way is giving her a better chance.” The EMT paused before continuing, “Hopefully, she’ll respond to the treatment and we’ll be able to get her temperature back up…you’re going to get a better answer from one of the docs at the hospital.”
Horatio nodded, he just wanted someone to tell him that she was going to be okay. Alexx wasn’t there, but she had been talking him through the possibilities he needed to be prepared to face including Calleigh dying. He had wished Alexx was in the ambulance with him. He knew that she really needed to be at the hurricane shelter with her family though, her kids needed her. He had promised to call her and update her once they got Calleigh to the hospital. Eric and the others would be called after, and Horatio just prayed that he had positive news for them.
“We’re pulling in,” the EMT told Horatio as he prepared the gurney for its departure from the ambulance and got Calleigh all set to be moved.
“Almost there,” Horatio whispered as he moved his other hand to cover the hand he was holding. It felt warmer, but he wasn’t sure if it was because he had been holding her hand or if it was because of the saline being pumped through her and the blankets.
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TBC…
Author’s Notes: for the Heather
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The cold numbing feeling was still there when Calleigh opened her eyes. Her eyes, though, wouldn’t open completely, just a bit, and what she saw was blurry and confusing. She knew she was lying down, but didn’t feel the weight of the child on her. “Tim?” she whispered weakly reaching out with her hand. Trying to focus only makes her head hurt worse than it already does. Calleigh goes to open her mouth again to call for him, when she finds her hand increasingly warm. Someone was holding her hand, “Speed?”
“Shhh…it’s going to be okay now, Sweetheart.”
Though the voice is familiar, she knows that it isn’t Speed’s. Someone else… Fear and panic rush through her as she wonders where Matthew is. “Matthew…gone…” she managed to get out in a mumbled mess.
“The boy is just fine… He’s safe, Calleigh.”
As reassuring and comforting the voice is, Calleigh still fears that something isn’t right. Something was wrong, her head was screaming. Things were blurry, and she knew that before they weren’t. Warmth felt like it was slowly rushing through her body. She felt dry and warm… But was she safe? Had the storm passed? She had so many questions, but she couldn’t form the words…or the sentences… A hand on her forehead brought her eyes up to look for the face of the person trying to soothe her. A blurred figure was what she saw. Angel…it looked like an angel, the blue eyes were clearly broken through the blur that she saw through along with the bright hair. Another angel, she thought, and squeezed the hand that was holding hers.
“I promise, I’m not leaving…not again, Sweetheart. I’m here…”
Promises.
Calleigh had to keep a promise to Speed. She had promised him to help Horatio…to tell him what she had been told. That they needed to help each other through it and that they needed to be happy…to have lives… With her body feeling increasingly warm and a bright light now glaring all around her, panic started to rise, and Calleigh wondered if she had died… What if the voice was someone who had died? They were trying to ease her into the fact that she had died? Speed had told her that she could suffer from not only a concussion, but hypothermia as well.
She could feel the tears slipping down her cheeks and felt the hand on her forehead stroke her hair soothingly. Closing her eyes, she tried to sleep…or at least something close to it until she could see again…until she knew what was going on.
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The tears falling down her cheeks made him want to cry. The EMTs and Alexx had said that she probably wouldn’t be conscious let alone comprehend what was going on if she had been caught in the middle of the storm. They had found her and the boy, both soaked, and shivering. The boy’s body temperature, luckily, was up enough for him to be warmed with blankets and a bath, but Calleigh was going to take longer. The EMTs were already pumping warm saline into her to try to warm her internally along with all the blankets they had her wrapped in. They had stripped her down at the scene out of her clothes leaving her only in her bra and panties before bundling her. Her hair had been pulled up above her head and they had wrapped it up as well to try to keep her body from losing anymore heat.
“We’re almost there, Calleigh,” Horatio told her after seeing her eyes close. The fact that Calleigh was calling for Speedle worried Horatio, he was afraid that she’d suffered possible memory loss, but he also knew that that couldn’t be determined until she woke up. For all he knew, she could be dreaming.
Looking up at the EMT across from him, he looked for some sign of how she was doing. “She’s going to be alright, isn’t she?” Horatio asked in a more worried and panicked tone. He needed to know she would be. He had things he had to tell her… He had left her, when he would have never normally had dreamt of doing such a thing… He had needed to get the family to safety before the hurricane was too close, and he had tried frantically to get back to her…but roads had been damaged, trees had been down, and there had been flooding. Even with the Hummer, he hadn’t been able to get back to her until the storm had passed.
“The head injury has stopped bleeding, so that’s a good sign. We won’t know the extent of that damage until either she wakes up or we get her under a scan. We knew that it was a possibility of hypothermia when we came since we knew she had been possibly outside in the storm, so us warming her up on the way is giving her a better chance.” The EMT paused before continuing, “Hopefully, she’ll respond to the treatment and we’ll be able to get her temperature back up…you’re going to get a better answer from one of the docs at the hospital.”
Horatio nodded, he just wanted someone to tell him that she was going to be okay. Alexx wasn’t there, but she had been talking him through the possibilities he needed to be prepared to face including Calleigh dying. He had wished Alexx was in the ambulance with him. He knew that she really needed to be at the hurricane shelter with her family though, her kids needed her. He had promised to call her and update her once they got Calleigh to the hospital. Eric and the others would be called after, and Horatio just prayed that he had positive news for them.
“We’re pulling in,” the EMT told Horatio as he prepared the gurney for its departure from the ambulance and got Calleigh all set to be moved.
“Almost there,” Horatio whispered as he moved his other hand to cover the hand he was holding. It felt warmer, but he wasn’t sure if it was because he had been holding her hand or if it was because of the saline being pumped through her and the blankets.
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TBC…