Kaleo turned his head slightly, but he knew he couldn't see Vega. He could only hear him.
"Me, too." He sighed softly.
"We're coming up on the ER entrance. I'm going to pull off to the side just in case they need better access for anyone coming up after us."
Vega really was a good driver. Kaleo barely felt it when they stopped.
"I'll come around and open the doors, Harm."
Harmony gave Kaleo a soft smile. "I'm not worried about her condition," she let him know. "She's calmed down a lot and if she was in pain, we'd see or hear signs of it by now."
Kaleo nodded, agreeing with her. "That's good to know."
"But, as always, I'm going to wait for the final word from the doctors inside."
The doors at the back of the ambulance opened up and Harmony moved past him to get down out of the way.
It took him a moment to shift around and put his feet on the floor of the ambulance.
He'd never spent much time with children other than his sister and his younger cousins, but he realized that he was woefully out of practice carrying a child.
Well, if he'd ever been 'in' practice he didn't know.
By the time he stepped down to the ground with the little girl safely in his arms, he looked up to see someone looking back at him.
"Lexie."
TEN
LEXIE
When they received word about the crash on the railroad tracks, Lexie felt her stomach sink.
She'd seen news coverage of similar accidents before and none of them were easy on the eyes.
Or her heart.
Even with the images cropped or worst of them covered by a bar censoring it, the story the image told was horrifying.
At least those news organizations didn't wantonly show blood or deceased bodies on the cover of their newspapers.
Unsure of how many survivors they would have, Doctors Kay Hata and Roan Ashley had deftly cleared the Emergency Room, shifting non-emergency patients to other departments.
It wasn't until they had radio communication with the one ambulance headed in their direction that the whole Emergency department had a moment to relax.
It wasn't a good moment.
On one hand, having a single ambulance headed their way meant that they could open to new patients coming into the E.R.
Some of the patients they'd assigned to other departments could easily come back if necessary.
The other side of the coin told the depressing story that those who could be saved were only what could fit in a single ambulance.
Quiet in an Emergency Room was a double-edged sword.
When Ambo Nineteen radioed in that they were approaching the Emergency Room with a child, Lexie was thrilled that Doctor Ashley asked her to go with him to assist with the incoming patient.
They reached the automatic doors early enough to see the ambulance climbing incline up to the receiving area.
