Saving the Dead

Saving the Dead by Christopher Chancy

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of a haul!”  He picked up the mic. “Triple-Three en route to One-Hundred-Seventeenth and Kirkman on a chest pain.”  He released the trigger. “Assholes!”
    He flipped on the lights and sirens and the entire neighborhood was bathed in strobe lights.  Drifts continued his tirade. “You cannot tell me that we are the closest fucking unit!”
    “We’re not,” said Ramirez.
    “What!  How do you know?”
    Ramirez shrugged. “There are four rigs between us and this call, but dispatch values your exceptional patient care so much that they gave this call to you.  You are, after all, a big softy.”
    Drifts shot the medic a withering look. “I liked it a whole lot better when you let me bitch in peace.”
    Ramirez smiled. “I figured as much.”
    Behind them Justin snorted.
    “Hey keep it up back there, and I’ll pull over and set your ass out on the curb.  Hell, I bet I could get a decent price pimping your skinny ass out!”
    “He’s still in fairly pristine condition. I bet you could get at least two hundred dollars for him,” added Ramirez.
    “Oh, at least,” said Drifts.
    “Umm, you realize that I can hear you guys talking about me?” Justin asked.
    “Quiet kid, we’re talking business,” Drifts told him. “I bet if we go to the right place in town, we could get at least five hundred dollars for him.”
    “You really think so?” Ramirez asked over the map book.
    “Definitely! We can get more if he still has his cherry.”  The EMT looked at Justin through the rearview mirror. “Hey kid, are you still a virgin?”
    “No!” Justin said indignantly.
    Drifts asked Ramirez in a mock whisper, “Do you think he’s lying?”
    “Hey!”
    Ramirez shrugged. “Don’t know.  Probably.”
    “Hey, I am not a virgin.  I’ll have you know . . .”
    “Quiet!” Drifts interjected as he turned up the volume of the dispatch radio.
    “Unit Three-Forty-Two, Three-Four-Two, respond code two to the corner of Matheson and Twelfth for a code two abdominal pain!”
    “Three-Four-Two responding!” came the other crew’s voice.
    “I knew it!  I knew it!  I will bet you a hundred dollars that was the hooker outside our first call!” exclaimed Drifts.
    Ramirez shook his head. “Sucker bet.  Was that Ryan?  Keep an ear out and see if he transports.”
    “Yeah, that’s Ryan.  If it’s bullshit, he’ll do whatever he can to get out of transporting her.”
    “We’ll ask next time we see him if it’s her,” said Ramirez.
    “You know it is!”
    Drifts continued to gripe as he drove the Triple-Three hot down the road.  As they progressed north, the hookers and drug dealers became less and less frequent as the street lights grew more and more numerous.  The urban sprawl’s rundown apartments gave way to suburban houses and well-tended yards.
    Ramirez directed them into a manicured subdivision.   They weaved their way through the maze-like streets.
    “I think that’s it.”  The medic pointed to a house where the outside lights were on and a fat man stood in the driveway waving at them.
    “What was your first clue?” Drifts picked up the mic. “Triple-Three on scene.”
    He put the rig in park in front of the driveway and the man rushed up to the driver side door as Drifts stepped out.
    “Sir, you must hurry.”
    With a calculated slowness, Drifts asked him, “What seems to be the problem, sir?”
    “It’s my mother.  I think she might be having a heart attack.  I’ve been trying to get her to see the doctor for a while.  I tell her time and again that these pains she’s having are not good for her and that the doctors can help her feel better.  She just will not listen to me.  No, she has simply let this go on for far too long.  She is having a heart attack I just know it.”
    Ramirez and Justin stepped around the corner with a medical bag and stretcher.  Ramirez asked, “What’s going on Sam?”
    Drifts looked at his partner with a subdued expression. “This,” he

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