35 Shot Down Under - 1d / 5sos Medical

Niall layed with his head over the edge of the couch watching the other boys getting dressed.

He scrolled on his social media and liked a few loving comments of the picture he just posted.

The boys were on the On The Road Again tour and this time they were in Sydney. It was their second show of this whole tour and the tension began to rise already.

Niall could feel something was going to happen tonight but he just couldn't lay his finger on it.

"Ni it's your turn," Zayn said as he scoffed Niall his feet away, "you are in line for the make-up now."

Niall smiled and got up from his, he must say, pretty comfortable couch.

"Thanks Zayn," Niall said as he stretched himself.

Niall left and saw Liam running into the halls. "What's happening Li," Niall asked as found it odd that Liam was running.

"Apperently we have a meat and great before the show," Liam sighed out of breath, "I was right now on my way towards you and Zayn."

Niall looked suspicious since they normally knew about these meat and greats but if even Liam didn't know than it was literally last minute planned.

"Why didn't we know about this," Niall wondered.

"The perks of this crap management," Liam spoke, "Zayn will be pissed."

"But is there a delay in our show or how did they think this was about to happen," Niall wondered as he followed Liam into their dressing room where Zayn was scrolling through his phone.

"Zayn," Liam sighed as he took his phone, "listen up bud."

Zayn looked up and looked suspicious towards Niall because he literally sent that bloke away towards the makeup room.

"We have a meet and greet before the show," Liam carefully brings knowing Zayn would be pissed because he already hated the management.

Harry and Louis came running into the dressing room as well sension the atmosphere there was.

"Okay," Zayn said taking the news extremely well to much surprise to all the boys, "how late?"

"A minute," Louis said as he menged himself into the discussion.

"Let's make the most of it," Zayn said as he heard their opening act starting and the crowd growing wild.

**

"What on earth," Harry said as he entered the hall. There was no one in the room and the lights were out.

"If this is are the Aussies playing a prank on us again they better step up their game," Louis said frustrated.

"No they couldn't make it," Liam started, "they had hospital shifts tonight."

Zayn and Niall weren't having the most of it and wanted to turn around but even before they got to the door they heard it being slammed shut.

Suddenly the light was flicked on and Niall quickly stood behind Zayn.

"Well well well," a man standing in the corner sat, "if that isn't our loved one direction."

Liam, who stood with his back towards the man, turned around an instant and saw the same man all the others saw.

"I'm sorry but ehh what is the meaning of this," Liam stated with his arms crossed over his chest.

Zayn got annoyed by the man and decided to step up a bit.

"I don't know what you want," Zayn started as he joined Liam, "but we have a show in like 30 minutes."

"Thats the whole problem," the man told, "you never have time for your fans. Not even for my daughter."

All the boys looked suspicious towards each other. Yes they were always in a rush but they definitely tried to make time for their fans.

"I'm sorry," Louis stepped in. The man suddenly got his hand into his pocket and got a suspicious object out of it.

Once Zayn looked twice he knew that it was a gun.

Before Zayn or the other boys could react, a loud shot filled the room.

All boys dug when there was a second shot being heard.

**

"Fuck," Zayn yelled out as he grabbed towards his leg.

"Holy shit Zayn," Liam said as he rushed over to his mate, "hold tight."

Liam looked up and saw Louis going pale and looking towards the spot where the man stood. Liam turned around and saw that the man was now laying in his own blood, dead.

"Harry," Liam said as he took off his shirt, "get Louis away from here because he can't handle blood and make sure to call an ambulance for Zayn."

Niall just stood there not knowing how to cope with the current situation.

"Ni get your ass here," Liam hissed. Zayn was currently in a state which shocked Liam as well. It looked like Zayn was going to pass out from pain any second.

"Alright what can I do?" Niall wondered having found the courage to make his way over to Zayn.

"Take of her belt," Liam instructed as he pointed towards Niall his belt, "and go sit behind Zayn so he will sit half up."

Niall immediately got his belt out of his jeans and passed it to Liam who was holding his shirt against Zayn his wound.

"It hurts Li," Zayn cried out, "make it stop."

Liam quickly wiped away his tears as he pulled the belt tight. Zayn screamed as Liam pulled the belt.

"Hey it's alright yeah," Niall said as he sat Zayn upright, "we got you buddy. We'll always be here."

"Ni," Zayn cried, "I really really don't feel good."

Niall shared a worried look at Laim who immediately shot into action.

"Zayn listen to my voice buddy," Liam spoke as he hold Zayn his chin into his own hands to make sure Zayn made eye contact with him, "you'll be fine. Ni is here and I'm here. We'll make sure nothing happens alright."

Liam noticed that Zayn his eyes were rolling back into his head.

Liam, being the gentleman himself, slapped Zayn across his face to mucb surprise to Niall.

"What on earth," Niall asked as he found the action of his band mate very odd, "where did you that for?" If it was Louis than Niall understood, believe Niall but those hits actually were quite painful.

"We can't let him faint," Liam said as he applied more pressure to the wound since it kept bleeding.

"How long does the ambo take here," Niall said getting frustrated as he got his hands through Zayn his hair. Every time Zayn seemed to pass out Niall made sure to sat him upright so he could talk to him.

"Ni," Zayn choked out, "don't leave me please."

Zayn cried in a mix of pain and fear. Niall also had a hard time swallowing his tears back.

**

"They're there," Harry said as he was followed by two sets of paramedics. The first set ran towards the death man while the second set was not close to Zayn since they came with the other ambulance and different gear.

Suddenly Liam noticed some quite familiar faces. The two male paramedics came running in and came to a halt being humiliated by the sight.

Liam his eyes were met with the eyes of Luke and Calum.

After a realization of two seconds, the Aussie boys ran towards Zayn who was still crying in Niall his arms.

"OMG Zayn," Luke told as he rushed beside their best mates, "how?"

Niall pointed towards the spot where the dead man was laying.

"We'll take care of you yeah," Calum softly spoke as he connected the wires and monitors to Zayn his chest.

"Alright Cal," Luke spoke as he hung an IV bag on Zayn, "start ABCDE on him. And Liam could you please hold this up?"

Both men nodded to Luke his questions. Calum came to sit next to Niall and laid a hand on his shoulder.

"If you could move for a moment," Calum spoke as he rubbed Niall his shoulder, "I need to check him over."

Niall wiped away the tears of his bloodshot eyes and nodded to Calum.

He moved away and Calum lowered Zayn to the ground, laying his head on Calum his jacket.

"Alright I'm starting now Luke," Calum said as Luke came to his side.

"Alright A(irway)?" Luke asked.

"Clear," Calum spoke as he watched Zayn his airway not being blocked by any sort of trauma.

"B(reathing) a bit labored," Luke spoke as he shot an eye to the saturation levels, "hook up the ventilation to provide some oxygen."

Calum nodded and grabbed the oxygen mask. He slowly tilted Zayn his head up to secure the mask.

"Mask is on," Calum sighed, "c(irculation) 50 over 30 BP. Extremely low due to GSW. 2 units of O negative will be provided in the ambulance."

Luke now knew that Zayn had to go fast to the hospital because his stats were nerve breaking.

"D(isability) on GCS is 10 but change of lower," Luke concluded as he moved on towards Zayn his eyes and shine it into his eyes and commanded Zayn to follow them, "no neurological damage on this behalve."

"E(xpose)," Calum spoke as he checked Zayn over, "GSW left thigh. No further exposing to GSW."

"We need to move him quickly," Calum spoke as he watched Zayn his stats drop.

"Should we call the chopper?" Calum wondered as Zayn began to loose his consciousness.

Luke shot an eye towards the stats and kept in mind the time it would take them to get to the hospital.

"Neh," Luke spoke, "they have nowhere to land and it's 20 minutes by road. You drive and I'll see what I can do in the back yeah."

Calum nodded and grabbed the vacuum thing for Zayn his leg.

"Alright Z," Calum spoke, "I'm going to lift up your leg a bit so that I can scoop this under your leg. Then I'll make sure that your leg can't be moved any more since it looks like you broke it as well."

Liam, who was still standing with the saline bag, wiped away his tears furiously.

" C-can I come with him?" Liam asked wiping away his tears while speaking. Niall rushed towards Liam his side to comfort the boy.

Luke looked up to Liam and nodded," but you need to sit with Cal since I don't know what I need to do in the back so I need my space. "

Luke packed up a few things as Calum strapped the leg up.

"Ni get the bed over here," Calum commanded Niall who stood there waiting for something to happen.

Niall nodded and grabbed the gurney Calum asked for.

Calum thanked Niall and lowered the gurney so they could lay Zayn on it.

Luke already was busy packing up the things and insirting a second IV line so that he could hang the blood quicker and didn't have to take the morphine of.

"Alright on my count," Luke said as Calum got by Zayn his head to lift, "3.2.1"

By one the boys lifted Zayn onto the gurney and Liam walked with Zayn towards the bed since he was still holding the morphine bag up high.

"Let's move," Luke yelled.

Niall quickly kissed Zayn on his head as he watched them leave into the ambulance.

Niall took some time to recollect himself before he made his way towards their dressing room.

"OMG Ni," Harry yelled as he watched the blond walk into their room, "how is he?"

Louis still sat on the couch, shocked by the amount of blood he was faced with today. Niall took place next to Louis and hold his head into his hands.

Harry came over as well and sat on the edge of the couch laying his arm over Niall his shoulder.

" It's alright," he whispered.

"He lost a lot of blood," Niall spoke up, "calum and Luke are with him to the hospital and so is Li. I don't know haz. Will he make it?" Niall was now full on crying. All the tears he had to keep in during the time he was with Zayn, because he didn't want to seem weak, came out all at once.

"He'll make it," Harry reassured, "it's Zayn. He'll always come back, no matter how hard he's been knocked down."

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"Alright," Luke yelled as he ran towards the cubicle, "22 year old Zayn Malik. GSW to left thigh. BP at scene 50 over 30. 20cc of morphine and 2 units of O neg blood given during ride. GCS on scene 10 now 8."

Ashton, the trauma surgeon on shift, nodded at everything and looked towards Zayn. Liam was there as well and wasn't leaving his side any time soon.

"Alright let's wheel him into the OR," Ashton told. Liam shot up and watched how Calum and Luke wheeled Zayn away. Ashton waited a moment in order to get Liam the information he needed about Zayn and the shooting.

"Li," Ashton said scraping his tone, "how did this happen."

Liam looked at Ashton with tears in his eyes.

"I was searching for the boys because I got a text from the management," Liam spoke out, "it was an anonymous text but I didn't think something about it since we have new tour managers. Once we got into the room the door got shut and Zayn got shot himself. The man killed himself not much later."

Ashton, who sat on the bed on the opposite side of Liam, sighed and got his hand through his hair.

" Okay," he sighed," I think Michael is almost done with prepping the anastetic. You want to watch or wait in the waiting room? "

"Watch," Liam spoke as he wiped away his tears furiously. Ashton nodded and walked with Liam towards the theater.

"I'll come and get you once I'm done okay?" Ashton said as he stood against the door post.

Liam nodded and watched Ashton leave. He let his eyes travel down and saw Michael talking to Calum and Luke who were on their way out.

Ashton walked in and secured his mouthpiece.

" Alright Michael you can start," Ashton said as he secured the röntgen material, "put him under while I'll start making the pictures."

Michael nodded and pushed the white substance into Zayn his system.

Ashton made the picture and waited for them to develop.

As he waited he watched Michael doing his job. "Could you give me the tube please?" Michael asked Ashton. Michael had to intubate Zayn so he didn't need to bag him all the time.

As Michael put the jaw spreader into Zayn his mouth, Ashton gave him the tube.

Once Michael pulled the tube into the mouth of Zayn, Ashton watched the developed pictures.

Once Michael connected the tube onto the ventilator he came to stand next to Ashton.

"Here," Ashton told as he pointed to the bullet on the x-ray, "it's not as tricky to operate as we thought."

"What you recon?" Michael wondered.

"Leave a tube to be sure of his wounds," Ashton told as he watched Zayn laying on the table, "and than we will close him up and get the rest of the surgery done tomorrow."

Michael nodded and walked towards Zayn.

"Scalpel," Ashton ordered one of the nurses. She handed it over and Ashton started the procedure.

Liam stood against the glass and watched every single movement performed by Ashton.

**

"Alright and we are done," Ashton said as he watched the intern doing the last stich on Zayn.

Liam still stood against the glass window.

Ashton sighed and nuged to Michael. Michael also looked up and saw the same crying face Ashton was met with.

"Wheel him into the ICU I'll meet you there," Ashton told the people as he teared of his mouthpiece.

"Go to Li together?" Michael wondered, "or you want to go alone?"

"We'll do this together," Ashton said as he pushed open the door, "maybe the others are in the normal waiting room so if you could collect them and meet me in cubicle 2."

Michael nodded and watched as Ashton walked up the stairs to the theater. Michael sighed and walked through the hallway, which seemed to get longer by the days, towards the  waiting room.

" Li," Ashton said knocking in the door," come with me."

Liam, who's hand was still on the window, turned around and looked Ashton dead serious in the eye.

"Is he," Liam started off, "will he make it?"

Ashton sighed at the question but still insisted for Liam to follow him.

"We'll talk about it when the others are there as well yeah."

Liam nodded and followed Ashton towards the cubicle where Michael had led the other three guys in.

"Alright Li," Ashton said as he watched Michael and all the others, "take a seat." Liam did as Ashton asked and took place on the bed next to Louis since the chairs were occupied by Niall and Harry.

"Alright boys," Ashton started of, "Zayn made it. We preformed an emergency surgery on him which means he needs to be cut open again. I left a tube in his thigh so the fluids could drain easily. After he got surgery again you guys need to know his recovery road will take him a long time."

"When you're speaking of long what do you mean?" Niall answered.

"let's say about 5 to 6 months," Ashton sighed.

"But that's like our whole tour," Louis protested.

Ashton nodded sadly. "So he won't be able to go on tour anymore this year?" Harry wondered.

"I'm afraid not," Michael told the boys. All the boys got tears in their eyes and were thinking how they needed to catch up with that lose.

Liam saw what the boys were doing. "Well at least he's still alive," Liam cried everything he had buckled up out, "and that's the main thing."

Alright so this isn't what you guys are used to read. It was hard to do research on such things since there was not much and the things I did find were not specific. That's how my writings are based, on facts and I try to be correct when it comes to medical procedures. That's why this one isn't as long and took a long time to finish. I hope my updates will be quicker but as you now maybe understand I'm maybe 80% of my time busy with making sure everything is correct regarding to procedures and medical facts.

Stay strong and healthy.

Xx