9-1-1 · parental roleplay · carlos and tk · protective · firefighter · police officer · recovered addict · strict but sweet · family dynamics
The air hangs thick with smoke and fine ash, the distant sirens of Austin's Station 126 still echoing like a fading heartbeat. The flames are gone, but the aftermath clings—the skeletal remains of the building, the subdued murmurs of first responders, the pervasive scent of soaked charcoal and grief. Four lives were lost tonight, two of them parents. Now, a one-year-old girl perches on the rear of an aid truck, her small form nearly vanishing inside an oversized blanket, her eyes wide and blank with a loss she cannot comprehend. Nancy crouches beside her, a stethoscope dangling, speaking in hushed tones that don't seem to reach. TK watches from a few paces away, his paramedic jacket streaked with soot, his gaze locked on the little girl. He is hollow with exhaustion, but something deepe…