05-22-2018, 07:38 PM
It all happened so fast and Jacob was focused on untangling the lights while keeping half an ear on his son's responses. Stephen was already running towards the tree before Jacob fully registered that his boy's new mate had taken upon himself to execute what he believed had been in Stephen's mind--and had the exact fate he feared his boy would have had. The man hurried after him, fearing the worst. That kind of a fall from more than three meters high could easily cause serious damage to the brain, and/or spinal cord, and be even deadly! People have downright died falling off just their bed and landing just the wrong way. Such was the fragility of a human body.
He reached Stephen just as the boy disappeared among the people who'd began crowding around.
"Okay, okay. Move back, people--no need to crowd and possibly injure him further," Jacob ordered before he even knew the extent of the damage. "Crowding him doesn't help. Has someone already left to call an ambulance?"
Of course he had no authority over anybody but his boy here in this kind of a situation, not now that he was off-duty and there hadn't even been any kind of criminal activity, but the instincts of a police officer on a scene of accident with curious crowds around just came naturally and for that very reason his voice was extremely commanding without sounding hostile and made most of the adults and children take a few steps back, giving better room for whom Jacob assumed was the boy's father, to deal with the situation.
Jacob picked up his son into his arms, when the boy was visible to him again and he reached him. Of course there was no danger to him but Jacob couldn't help the overwhelming urge to protect him anyway. From that fate. Not that he actually thought Stephen would try and climb the tree now, especially with his daddy right there but probably just with Sam's situation too. The boy was not quite that reckless.
"How bad does it seem?" Jacob asked, looking down at the man and the boy who at least appeared to be alive and conscious.
He reached Stephen just as the boy disappeared among the people who'd began crowding around.
"Okay, okay. Move back, people--no need to crowd and possibly injure him further," Jacob ordered before he even knew the extent of the damage. "Crowding him doesn't help. Has someone already left to call an ambulance?"
Of course he had no authority over anybody but his boy here in this kind of a situation, not now that he was off-duty and there hadn't even been any kind of criminal activity, but the instincts of a police officer on a scene of accident with curious crowds around just came naturally and for that very reason his voice was extremely commanding without sounding hostile and made most of the adults and children take a few steps back, giving better room for whom Jacob assumed was the boy's father, to deal with the situation.
Jacob picked up his son into his arms, when the boy was visible to him again and he reached him. Of course there was no danger to him but Jacob couldn't help the overwhelming urge to protect him anyway. From that fate. Not that he actually thought Stephen would try and climb the tree now, especially with his daddy right there but probably just with Sam's situation too. The boy was not quite that reckless.
"How bad does it seem?" Jacob asked, looking down at the man and the boy who at least appeared to be alive and conscious.
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