2020-04-25 - Resuscitative Measures

Its 3 AM and Lucas's bed is oddly empty, nothing there but a blanket in an odd shape, then suddenly, without a sound Lucas appears in bed again, looking like someone beat him within an inch of his life with a baseball bat. The firefighter does not stir, the only sound in the dark is his labored ragged breathing.

It's early in the morning and Stephanie can't sleep. She'd been on call too, and had been on the set of a movie where things definitely had not gone right. She was at first going to seek out Tyler, to see if he was doing okay after that particular situation. But when it didn't seem like he was in, she figures he went to the set on his off time, unlike her. She finds something else though, or rather, someone else, when she quietly sneaks into the firefighters' quarters. And it disturbs her to no end. Careful as to not awaken anyone else who might be in the room, Stephanie performs CPR on the unconscious Lucas, while also channeling her abilities. "Come on, Lucas."

Stephanie's training kicks in as she begins resuscitative measures while also applying some more...supernatural healing towards the problem areas. She seems to be able to clear up most of the wounds, or what seems like secondary damage, but the most severe of Lucas' injuries still remain. But the resuscitation plus some of the healing should at least give him a fighting chance.

Lucas responds to Stephanie's efforts, beginning to breath a little more stably as his ribs are magically mended slightly, his bruises beginning to recede some.

"Lucas, hey. Look at me. Do you know where you are?" Stephanie whispers at him after she's done wrapping him up, applying bandages.

Lucas is drowsy but his eyes open, "Steffy…." he gives a big smile, "I'm a princess"

"Hey, Lucky." Stephanie runs her fingers through his hair. "You know we're going to have to go to the hospital."

"Hospital..." his eyes clear a little, "did someone get hurt, did we get a call?" He tries to sit up, winces and then falls back on the bed, "We have to go help them" he weakly tries to get up again but fails, "Steffy I ...I don't feel so good"

"I know, Buddy. Do you remember what happened? Do you know how you got hurt?"

Stephanie sits at foot of the bed, available for him to lean against if he insists on sitting up.

"Asleep....princess....men with base ball bats...flaming axes....Ellie's boy....Katy...Faith...must protect the ladder..." He babbles a little when she asks, not making any coherent sense.

Stephanie is clearly having an off moment with her abilities. She shakes it off and decides that she'll seek some confirmation of her suspicions later. "Okay, you were scratched up pretty bad, but the worst of it is your broken ribs and I think you might have some abdominal internal bleeding that I feel you should get checked out."

"Internal bleeding? What's wrong with that...that's where the blood is supposed to be" He smiles weakly and attempts to sit up again, leaning on Stephanie to do so.

"All right, funny guy, if you don't cooperate with me, I'm going to start calling people myself, and you're not going to like it." As it turns out, Stephanie is in a unique position to be able to threaten Lucas with calling his parents if he refuses to seek out medical attention.

... Or god forbid his sister, his parents are at least safely in Florida, Ellie is just a few blocks away. "Ok Officer...I am cooperating" He protests as he buries his head in Stephanie's hair "You smell nice"

"All right, Lucky. I'm going to get you to the hospital. We're going to take my car. I'll have my partner cover for me." And Stephanie helps Lucas up to get him ready to get checked out at Addington Memorial.

"Ok Steffy … but one condition...." He smiles at her and says with a straight face "Your driving"

Stephanie rolls her eyes at Lucas. "Devlin always makes me drive. I always drive."