Part 1
The watch sat down to eat the cottage pie that Maggie had spent
the last hour making for them.
"You spoken to Elaine yet?" Recall asks Adam quietly.
"Yeah, not that its any of your business."
"Good, she was worried sick, 'cos she thought you were never
gonna speak to her again."
"She should have thought about that before she gave me
up!" Adam hissed back at Recall, he wished Recall
would butt out.
The bells sounded and the watch got up and left another half
eaten meal.
"Sorry Mags, it was really nice, but duty calls," Adam
grins at Maggie as he shovels his last hurried mouth full of the
meal in to his mouth.
"I'm glad someone appreciates it," Maggie takes Adams
plate away, "I'll get indigestion."
"Fire at the old Forbes Manor, South Street, persons
trapped," shouts Recall.
The Watch pile into the appliances and speed out of the station.
The manor was completely derelict, set in an overgrown garden.
Flames where coming out of some of the top floor windows.
Pearce began barking orders at everyone. "Adam, Stuart, Rob,
Sally get into BA, Adam and Recall take the top floor, Sally and
Rob take the bottom floor."
Adam and Recall entered the building from a door at the back.
Inside there was a large entrance hall with what looked like half
of the ceiling on the floor. A large staircase went up one side
of the hall leading to a balcony at the top.
Adam approached the staircase followed by Recall. "Looks a
bit dodgy," comments Recall but Adam was already half way up
the rotten staircase so Recall followed.
They cautiously entered the first room they came to. It was
filled with smoke, and flames were licking the bottom of another
entrance to the room.
"Recall, I think I can see someone over there," Adam
ventured further into the room to find two casualties slouched
against the wall.
"Shit, Adam, look," Recall had spotted three gas
cylinders piled against the opposite wall. "Looks like
they've been living in here, we better hurry up before those
cylinders blow."
They each picked up one of the people and Adam reported that they
had found the casualties.
Recall reached the door first. "Shit," Adam cursed as
his foot went through one of the
rotten floorboards.
"You alright mate?" Recall calls back to Adam
"No, me foot's stuck," Adam smashes the rest of the
board with his other foot and manages to pull his foot out of the
floor, nearly loosing his balance in the process.
"Come on then get a move on, those cylinders could blow any
minute," Recall tries to hurry Adam up. Adam limped out into
the doorway.
"Everything alright in there?" Colemans voice came over
their radios as a huge explosion ripped through the top half of
the building.
Part 2
The crew outside ducked as glass from the windows rained down on
them. Coleman immediately got on to the radio there is no reply
from Recall or Adam. He tries Sally and Hyper where he gets a
reply confirming that they are fine and will look for Recall and
Adam.
Recall is slouched against the wall of the balcony.
Sally and Hyper stumble through in to the hall.
"Adam!" cries Sally as they spot two figures crumbled
on the floor. She rushes over to Adam and his casualty who are
lying motionless.
"Adam can you hear me?" she gets no response.
"Shit," breaths Hyper.
"Recall!" Hyper shouts as Sally gets on the radio to
report to Coleman.
"Rob, I'm up here," shouts back Recall.
"Thank God for that, you alright mate?"
"I think I'll live."
"Adam!, come on mate speak to me," Sally talks to Adam
grasping his hand tightly she really didn't want to loose someone
else.
A few seconds later two paramedics picked their way across the
debris kitted out in helmets and safety gear. Sally and Hyper
where moved out of the way to go and help Recall down the now
very precarious staircase.
The paramedics got Adam out of the building and into the
ambulance, the casualty had been killed from the fall from the
balcony.
"Stuart, I want you to go with them in the ambulance,"
Coleman advised Recall, who agreed and was making his way over to
the ambulance when a loud beeping noise came from the ambulance.
The whole watch turned round. Adam had arrested and the
paramedics where now trying to resuscitate him.
Part 3
"Come on you lot focus on the job," shouted Pearce. He
had got the rest of the watch putting out the fire with help from
Shadbrook.
Hyper, Sally and Hi-Ho stood staring in disbelief at the
ambulance.
"He'll be fine, you know what he's like, he wouldn't give up
just like that," Hyper reassured them with more confidence
than he actually felt.
As Recall approached the ambulance he was greeted by the steady
beeping of a heartbeat.
"Right, come on quick, we better be making a move," One
of the paramedics helped Recall in to the ambulance, and then
proceeded to stick various tubes into Adam.
After another two hours the watch where making there way to the
locker room to clean up in subdued silence.
"Whats with the long faces has somebody died?" Pitbull
greeted them. Sally glared at him and the grin disappeared from
his face. Hi-Ho explained to him and Maggie what had happened.
After an hour of waiting around and hearing nothing about Adam,
Recall demanded some information.
"Are you family?" asked the doctor.
"Ummm... well... yeah I'm his stepdad."
The doctor looked skeptical but proceeded to tell Recall about
Adams injuries, "He is currently awaiting surgery, he fell
on to his oxygen tank which has caused some damage to the spinal
cord and severe internal injuries he has lost a lot of blood, he
should be going for surgery in about an hour."
"He'll be alright though, I mean damage to the spinal cord,
he will be able to walk."
"It's really to early to say, but things are looking hopeful
at the moment."
"Can I see him?"
"Yes, but only for a few minutes."
Recall was lead into a dimly lit room. He could hardly recognize
Adam for the neck brace and all of the tubes.
"Adam, its Recall."
Adam opened one eye to look.
"How you feeling?"
"Shit."
Recall smiled.
"You all right?" asked Adam groggily.
"Yeah not too bad, bit of a bump to the head that I've gotta
get checked. I tried phoning Elaine but you know what its like in
the pub, you can't hear it, I'll ring the station get one of 'em
to go and talk to her."
The doctor walked in to the room followed by a good looking
nurse.
"Better go and leave you in the company of these lovely
people."
Adam grinned.
At the station the watch sat down to try and finish the meal that
they had left earlier when the phone rang. Coleman answered it in
his office.
"Hello... I'll talk to Elaine... how is Adam?... Ok...I'll
let them know, bye."
Coleman walked into the mess room to let the watch know the
latest news about Adam before going over to the
Twist, to let Elaine know what had happened.
Back at the hospital Recall sat down exhausted with a headache
coming on from the knock he'd received in the explosion.
"Elaine, I'm afraid I've got some bad news, is there
somewhere quieter where we can talk?" Coleman arrived at the
bar.
Elaine led him through to the back of the pub.
"There's been an accident," Coleman relayed what he
knew about the explosion. "Adam was right in the middle of
the explosion, Recall was lucky as he got out quicker than what
Adam did."
Coleman drove Elaine to the hospital.
In the A&E waiting room a doctor and several nurses where
hunched over a collapsed figure on the floor. After several
attempts to revive the figure the Doctor shook his head.
Elaine and Coleman arrived at the hospital where Elaine
immediately requested information about Adam and Recall.
"Your son is still in surgery you can see him as soon as he
comes out."
"And Stuart," prompted Elaine.
"Maybe you'd like to sit down. I'm afraid he died a short
while a go, we did everything we could to revive him but he died
of a brain hemorrhage caused by a blow to the head. I really am
very sorry"
Elaine slumps down into a seat behind her as the Doctor departs,
Coleman tries to comfort her. About an hour later the doctor
returns to inform Elaine that she can see Adam now. She wipes the
tears from her eyes.
"Ok," She replies to the doctor. She turns to Coleman,
"Thanks for everything, could you tell the others what has
happened?"
Coleman agrees, "Well if your sure you'll be alright."
She nods and Coleman departs.
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