Many thanks go to RF-Fast for his editing and suggestions that enhanced the story. Any bad grammar left is wholly on me and my artistic style.
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Copyright (c) 2020 by Acup
The disclaimers have been moved to the end of the story for my A D D readers.
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For the love of Candy
It's the little things that can kill you.
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Floating, moving but not going anywhere... knocked around like a bowling pin...
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BURNING PAIN IN MY LEGS... gotta get away... legs won't work right...
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Something poking me in my side... elbows hurt... going to ruin my good suit...
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Sirens behind me... I smell something burning... something nasty...
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Turning my head just in time not to puke right in front of me, didn't want to crawl through my own puke...
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Evergreen right in front of me, low to the ground... I can just get under... Nice and dry...
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Willie pulled up in the emergency lane laying on the horn.
"What's crawled up your ass Willie?"
Willie pointed to the back of his truck. I looked in and there was a guy in pretty bad shape with an old long eared hound lying next to him. "Callie found him under a tree down in Woodson's holler."
I gave her a scratching of the ears then turned back to grab a gurney. "What, that old hound? I thought you would have retired her long ago."
"You wish, she runs your Nate into the ground every year."
I pulled back the tarp, "DAMN Willie, what'd you do this guy?" I reached down just to make sure he had a pulse.
"Don't look at me, that's the way Callie found him. Had to drag him out on a skid."
"By yourself?"
"Of course. What do you think I am, some young kid that don't know no better?"
The attendant and I managed to slide him out of the truck bed and onto the gurney. This guy was in BAD shape. Just cursory glance told me both legs were broke, and probably in several places. The arms didn't look too bad, but the side of his head looked like somebody had tried to beat him to a pulp with a hammer.
I turned back to Willie as the attendant wheeled him off. "You take care old man," I grinned. "And we'll see whose hound beats whose in a couple of months."
Willie just laughed and waived as he crawled back into his old truck. Ya gotta love the old guy. He owns more than half the county, and still drove around in that old beater. And that dog! She was just a mutt he got from the pound before they put her down, but that old girl could track and hunt with the best of the young pups...
But on to more important work. Damn Willie! I was going to be in there for quite a while from the looks of that guy.
By the time I got back inside, they had him stripped down and had most of the blood cleaned off of him.
Yeah, he had it bad. How he had managed not to bleed to death is a miracle all on its own. Two broken femurs, one cracked and one broken tibia. Several cracked ribs, another badly cracked if not broken. One cracked and one broken humerus, one broken ulna, and a cracked radius on the other side.
And then there was his skull with large patches of skin missing. The x-rays showed several hairline fractures, luckily all minor, no major breaks or intrusions. We were still going to have to drill to relieve some of the pressure his brain was under. A small bright spot considering everything else that was wrong with him, he was comatose and wouldn't feel all his broken bones.
If he had been some college guy and not a two hundred and thirty pound older guy I would be calling the cops to see who pushed who down the hill in a porta potty.
Damn that guy was a jig saw puzzle. Several hours later, and a few beyond my normal shift, we had him patched back together. Whoever had done this did it up right. All the broken bones on one side, and his femur broken in three places. He was never going to go through a metal detector again without setting off all sorts of alarms. Even the pins in his arm were nothing to sneeze at.
But my part was done, keep him under until his brain swelling subsided, and then it was up to the therapists to get him back into shape. I don't envy him the pain that is going to be experiencing.
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"Hey Caroline!"
"Hey Cindy," Caroline looked at me, then grinned. "Well aren't you in a good mood. You have a good time last night?"
"Who me? Whatever do you mean?"
"Uh huh, I'll make you talk. Us old broads have to live vicariously through you young hussys!"
We just laughed, Caroline was only four years older than me, but she'd had a hard life. Pregnant at sixteen, and again at nineteen. When she was all bright and happy like today she looked her thirty one years. But on a down day, or a day when we got a particularly bad accident, she looked nearly fifty.
"I'll never talk, well at least not much." She knew given a little while I would spill all the lovely horny details of my weekend with Brian. She was my surrogate mom and sister all rolled into one.
I was glancing at the patient charts. "So what's the story on this guy... Jeez! What'd he get hit by? A Mac truck?"
"Don't know, Willie brought him in. Callie found him under a tree."
I scanned the chart some more, then flipped back to the front page and chuckled. "Jack Doe."
She just smiled, "I'm not a John type."
I kept my mouth shut. Caroline's first husband was named John. It was not a good relationship, and there were rumors he beat her. He ran off when Robby turned five and she was on her own but free. She met Reginald a few years later and they've had a story book life ever since.
I made my rounds, and stuck my head into Jack's room. I knew it was coming, but I still had to stop and look. Was there even a body under all that? About the only thing that wasn't bandaged or in a cast was his pecker, and that had a catheter.
So I made my rounds, checked on our regular patients, and life went on.
I worked my shifts, saw Brian when he was in town, and told MOST of the sordid details to Caroline. She was pretty open minded, but sticking my butt in the air and wanting Brian to fuck my ass was not something she would ever consider. But hey, when he's only in town for a few days between runs and I'm on my period you gotta make do.
On the work front, Jack was making some progress. Just very slow progress.
The doctor had taken him off the medications to keep him under over a week ago, but he showed no signs of waking up. He still had casts on both arms and legs. Some of the bandages had come off his head, but what was left still looked like he'd been put through a meat grinder. He was going to have a decent sized bare patch on his left temple all the way back over his ear.
But he did have the loveliest light blue eyes, almost like there was a bit of gray in there. Mmmm, and that pecker. Now he wasn't a John Homes, but he wasn't Tiny Tim either. And that was barely firm!
Not that I would have ever taken extra time making sure his pecker was VERY clean. However, I am very dedicated in my job... he, he, he.
It didn't help Brian was shifted to a different run. Between his home time being shifted a little further apart by a few more days every time, we weren't seeing that much of each other.
And then there was 'that day'. On the bright side, Jack's head bandages had come off, so I would be able to give him a proper shave so he wouldn't look like a lopsided lumberjack.
On what should have been another bright side, I missed my period. I was going to wait to tell Brian, but in my haste I left the test kit on the bathroom counter. I came home to find Brian home two days early sitting on the couch with a beer. And he looked like he'd already had a few.
"Hey babe," I said giving him a kiss on the cheek, not wanting a beer kiss.
"Hey."
"I thought you weren't going to be home until Thursday."
"Yeah. Jacob was in an accident. They asked me to make his runs to Seattle for a while."
"He okay?"
"Yeah, banged up a bit, but nothing serious. He'll be out of commission for a few weeks though."
"So when will you be back?"
"Well that depends," and tossed the test strip on the coffee table.
I looked at the positive test strip, and then at Brian. I was hoping for a hopeful look. That wasn't what I saw. "I just tested myself the other night. I was going to test again tomorrow just to be sure. What do you..." that was a far as I got.
"Is it mine?"
I was too shocked to respond immediately, and then it hit me. "IS IT YOURS?! What the hell is that supposed to mean?"
He took another swig of his beer. "Well you said you were on the pill, and I'm on the road a lot..."