Spent some time on scene with her at accidents and medical calls and such, but not like this.
He opened his mouth to say something, but the baby boy against his chest cried out, reminding him that this wasn't just a quiet moment with Harmony. It was all about him.
Harmony's expression softened even more. "You okay?"
He smiled and rubbed at the baby's back. The baby in turn, turned his head and rubbed his face against Crois' chest. "Yeah," he answered Harmony, "I don't think he knows that I'm not going to be able to feed him. He's going to be disappointed."
Harmony shook her head. "Not for long." She leaned over and started to look out the windows, but the ambulance startedto climb and she smiled. "We're almost there at the ER. Just another minute or so."
Crois knew that her words weren't for him alone. Allie was still on the gurney, her soft breaths ending in a groan off and on, the hand she had on Harmony's tightening to the point of white knuckles off and on.
"Thank you," Allie murmured to them both. "Thank you all. I... I don't know what I would have done."
"You did all the hard work," Harmony assured her. "We're just glad to help."
HARMONY
It was always hard for her to separate the pieces of a call like this.
A man had lost his life.
His wife didn’t know that he was… gone.
And now, they had a baby.
A baby who would never know what it felt like to he held by his father.
Still, Allie would pull through.
Harmony had to believe that. She just couldn’t imagine that the universe would take both parents like this.
“I can’t wait for Keith to see him.”
The wistful sound of Allie’s voice nearly cut her in two.
“We’ve been waiting for what feels like forever.”
Allie’s sigh was full of hope and dreams for the future.
Harmony felt like a coward, but it wasn’t the time to tell her that her husband had died on the scene.
Harmony had barely got her bleeding to stop. Stirring up her emotions would be cruel and only cause her to suffer.
The doctors would take care of the notifications when the time was right.
It just felt… wrong to let her wax poetic when she would soon have to deal with the pain of the truth.
The ambulance had barely come to a stop when the back doors were pulled open and Harmony’s training kicked in again.
She helped bring the gurney down to the ground, giving the attending personnel the breakdown of the birth on scene.
She caught sight of Doctor Kay Hata and a few nurses she knew as they got the gurney on the move.
Another group approached wheeling a mobile cradle to take the baby into their care.
A quick look at the ambulance showed her that Crois took great care to step down carefully, his large hands supporting the baby, holding him against his chest.
She’d know that Crois was a good officer, but to be honest, she knew more about his partner, Pilar Bravo.
