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Bluebottles [Trent ‘Maxi’ Maxwell]
Description: Y/N saves a babies life and hurts herself doing so. Maxi takes care of her.
Warnings: CPR, near drowning, bluebottles.
Y/N was standing by Jesse in front of Backpackers Rip while they helped a mother look for her teenage son. She'd been trying to keep an eye on the water, but the woman was screaming and causing a whole mess.
"Ma'am, calm down, we will find him." Jesse tries to calm her down, but she continues screaming. Y/N scans the water for the boy again when her eyes land on a woman struggling in the rip. She rips her black pullover off and grabs the rescue board. Just as she does that, Deano radios from the tower.
"Bondi Central to Blue Rhino, you've got a woman in backpackers with what looks to be a baby. She's about ready to go under."
"Jesse call for backup!" She yells as she runs towards the water. The baby is her first priority. As she quickly paddles out she tries to avoid the floating bluebottles. She reaches the screaming mother and she grabs onto the board. "Where's the baby?!"
"Water!" The woman screams.
Y/N immediately jumps into the water and swims to the baby girl. When she reaches the baby her eyes are closed. She pulls her into her arms and looks up. A swarm of bluebottles has floated in by her board, and she can't avoid them, so she wraps herself around the baby and goes through them. When she breaks the surface she sees Maxi with the mother on his board. She puts the baby on her board and gets on herself. She ignores Maxi's concerned questions and catches a wave in. She drags the baby in with the board and she immediately starts CPR. Harries runs up with a bag and Jesse slides in beside them.
"Y/N you've got stingers all over you." Jesse points out.
"I'm fine." She brushes him off and keeps going.
Maxi brings the mother to shore and makes sure she's okay before rushing over to the group. Y/N absolutely refused to let anyone switch her, even though her body was covered in stings.
After four sets of sixty compressions and eight breaths the baby has a pulse, is responsive and crying. Right in time for the ambulance to arrive.
"Call the police." Y/N says as she stands up. "That was pure child endangerment."
She starts walking to the tower and about halfway up the adrenaline wears off and she's about to drop. Maxi had followed her on the quad and grabs her before she can. He wraps her pullover around her and sits her in front of him, then speeds up to the tower. Once they get up the stairs Maxi immediately grabs a pair of gloves to pick the stingers off of her.
Y/N starts brushing the ones on her chest off as she grits her teeth.
"Let me help." Maxi says as he starts picking the stingers from her neck and back.
"Who the hell brings a six month old baby into deep water, let alone a rip?!" Y/N rants as she continues brushing off stingers aggressively.
"I don't know sweetheart, but the baby is alright. That's all that matters. Now we're worried about you."
"I'll be fine." She groans. "I just need to shower."
"You're covered in bluebottle stings, you're going to hurt for a bit." Deano says as he turns around from dealing with another rescue. "You did amazing Bug." He compliments. "But you're going to start hurting, so Maxi, help her in the showers please." Maxi nods and follows her. Y/N sits on the cold tiles in the shower, not being able to stand because of the pain.
"God, this sucks." She groans.
"I know." Maxi says. He turns the water onto the hot setting and sits next to Y/N on the floor. As she sits there, hunched over in pain as the toxins reach her glands, Maxi takes one of her hair ties and puts her hair in a top knot. "Do you want to sit up?" He asks her. She shakes her head no Maxi scoots closer. "Sweetheart, your neck and back are going to hurt if you stay like that." She doesn’t reply, so, he changes his tactics. "Do you want to sit in my lap?"
She looks up.
"Can I?" Her voice has gotten much quieter.
"Anything for you." Maxi replies.
Y/N has always said that skin to skin contact, or even just being close to another person helps comfort some people, and she was one of them. So, she quickly sits on Maxi's left thigh and brings her legs closer to her chest so her feet are on the other side of them, and head lays on his shoulder. Maxi has an arm around her and a hand on the back of her head.
After they've situated themselves, they sit there in silence while the hot water streams over both of them.
Unfortunately, Maxi was called out for a mass rescue and Y/N was still in a great amount of pain.
Deano had suggested giving her the Green Whistle and sending her to the hospital, but she refused and is now curled up in the corner of the tower. Taco had almost stepped on her, because she’d covered herself in her jackets.
Eventually Jesse, and Maxi come back into the tower and Maxi goes back towards the shower to see if she was still there, and he was confused when he’d seen a empty room.
"Where’d Bug go?" Maxi asks Deano. Deano, turns and points at her.
Jesse laughs when he looks over. Maxi wants to, but he doesn’t. Covered in her black jacket and blue pullover, Y/N had pulled the hood over her head, trying to wish away the sensation in peace. She looked like a box.
"I offered the Green Whistle, but she refused."
"Y/N you know being in pain for this long from a bluebottle sting isn’t normal." Jesse says.
"Give me like thirty minutes and I’ll be good to go."
"You said that an hour ago." Maxi says, and sits in the chair next to her spot on the floor.
"At least now I can talk." She points out.
"Alright Bug, whatever you say."
Finally, three hours left on her shift and the pain has gone away. Now Y/N is patrolling North Bondi with Maxi.
"Thanks for helping me earlier, I appreciate it." Y/N says as they scan the water.
"You’re welcome, but you know I’d do anything for you." Maxi replies.
"And I’d do anything for you."
Maxi stops scanning the water and thinks.
Perfect segway.
"You wanna do something for me?" He asks, and sets his radio on the seat.
"Anything." Y/N nods.
"Go on a date with me tomorrow."