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Long Term Care by Rose Po and Mary Morris (PG-13)
Fandom: EMERGENCY!
Pairing: Gage/none, Brice/OC
Author on LJ: Rose is unknown. Mary is![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
kamiki_seto
Author Website: http://www.geocities.com/toddfe2002/brice.html
http://www.emergencyuniverse.com/orphans.html
Why this must be read:
Paramedic Craig Brice turned up in three episodes of Emergency! An annoying, by-the-book perfectionist, he spawned legions of fic that characterized him as... well... an annoying, by-the-book perfectionist.
But in "Long Term Care", Brice will make you cry and laugh and rage against the injustice of the world. Fate has brought him and John Gage together in medicine's version of hell, and Roy can't handle it:
Gage and Brice will die. The question that the authors pose so heartbreakingly well is, will Roy ever come to terms with the fact that that aren't dead yet?
Long Term Care, Part 1
Long Term Care, Part 2
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Pairing: Gage/none, Brice/OC
Author on LJ: Rose is unknown. Mary is
kamiki_seto Author Website: http://www.geocities.com/toddfe2002/brice.html
http://www.emergencyuniverse.com/orphans.html
Why this must be read:
Paramedic Craig Brice turned up in three episodes of Emergency! An annoying, by-the-book perfectionist, he spawned legions of fic that characterized him as... well... an annoying, by-the-book perfectionist.
But in "Long Term Care", Brice will make you cry and laugh and rage against the injustice of the world. Fate has brought him and John Gage together in medicine's version of hell, and Roy can't handle it:
"If you can't be bothered to visit on a regular basis, don't bother at all. This is where we all end up, sooner or later. Someday it will be you."
"I'm not all alone," I reply softly, unkindly reminding Brice he is the one with no one who cares. The butterflies, which have been fluttering in my stomach since I arrived, turn into huge black crows flapping beneath my breastbone.
"This isn't the 19th century, we don't die at home surrounded by our families any more. You can't scoop and run on this one. Gage isn't going to get better."
Anger squeezes every muscle in my body. I fantasize about punching a certain officious jerk in the mouth. "Don't you think I know that?"
"Then deal with the results of your rescue, DeSoto. Or did you really mean what you told me back the first time we worked together, about helping people?"
"John doesn't understand...."
"Gage understands plenty; it's you that doesn't understand." Brice slaps the arm of his chair. "You have the great privilege of mobility. You can go where you please, drive, talk, make love to your wife, control your own life.... Your friend wakes up every morning to face a day of TV reruns, applesauce, loneliness and watching the odd person die. And you wonder why he's starving himself to death?"
"I'm not all alone," I reply softly, unkindly reminding Brice he is the one with no one who cares. The butterflies, which have been fluttering in my stomach since I arrived, turn into huge black crows flapping beneath my breastbone.
"This isn't the 19th century, we don't die at home surrounded by our families any more. You can't scoop and run on this one. Gage isn't going to get better."
Anger squeezes every muscle in my body. I fantasize about punching a certain officious jerk in the mouth. "Don't you think I know that?"
"Then deal with the results of your rescue, DeSoto. Or did you really mean what you told me back the first time we worked together, about helping people?"
"John doesn't understand...."
"Gage understands plenty; it's you that doesn't understand." Brice slaps the arm of his chair. "You have the great privilege of mobility. You can go where you please, drive, talk, make love to your wife, control your own life.... Your friend wakes up every morning to face a day of TV reruns, applesauce, loneliness and watching the odd person die. And you wonder why he's starving himself to death?"
Gage and Brice will die. The question that the authors pose so heartbreakingly well is, will Roy ever come to terms with the fact that that aren't dead yet?
Long Term Care, Part 1
Long Term Care, Part 2
.
.
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