Title: Too Brave (for Her Own Good)

Jessica Angell Survives the shooting

A/N: You will notice that most of this chapter will be verbatim from "Pay Up" but I am just trying to establish the story line, and lead off from there. I do not own CSI: NY, I am in no way affiliated with it's writers, producers, and any of its cast & crew. Just simply a fan of the show that was pissed off that they decided to kill of Jessica.

"Flack" I answered my Phone

"Tonight - - you, me, a bottle of wine. I wear that black negligee I know you like" Jess said

"Mom?" I asked…I knew who it was but I didn't want my former CI to know who I was talking to.

"Ugh. Never mind. What are you doing?" she asked

"Breaking up with an old friend…you?"

"Babysitting. Taking Conner Dunbrook over to the grand jury with a murder rap hanging over his head he's decided to save his own ass and testify against daddy…It'll be enough Robert Dunbrook away for at least 20 years...the good son is treating us to breakfast." She said

"Oh Yea? Let me guess Tillary diner two eggs over easy, turkey bacon on the crispy side, a glass of O.J" Guessing what she ordered.

"Am I that predictable?" she asked

"Ha-ha, yes you are that predictable" laughing because I was right at what she ordered.

"Ha-ha" she laughed.

"all right well tonight sounds great…I'll pick up some stuff, I'll be over to your place about…"

Loud crash as 18-wheeler crashes into the Tillary diner & Gun Fire

"Jess??!!!!!!" screaming into the phone

"Get out now! Get out!" I screamed to my CI to get him the hell out of my car so I can get to the scene as fast as I could.

When I got there I started to run into the smashed up dinner trying to find Jess.

"Jess! Jess!" running past the truck and then knocking over a table as I got to her.

"Hey Hey Babe Hey. Hey Hey Will you look at me? Hey Hey I'm here" I told her

"WHERE'S the ABULANCE!?!" I screamed at my fell NYPD members, noticing that she was loosing a lot of blood glanced at her wounds and then I picked her up and started to carry her out.

"You are gonna be all right. Everything's going to be all right I got you, I got you, I got you" I told her as we reached the outside of the diner.

"I need help. Help me open the door Get the door Help me get her in the car." My fellow members of the on scene NYPD opened the back seat of their car and helped me put her in then I climbed in holding her stomach wound.

"Drive…Drive!!" I yelled at them, they threw on their sirens and we hauled ass off to Queen of Mercy Hospital

"Jess Stay with me." I kept repeating to her.

When we reached the hospital ER loading zone I already had Jess in my arms ready to run into the hospital. The Uniforms could not open the door fast enough for me. Once the door was opened I shot out of the back seat like a bat out of hell.

" I need a doctor!!!" once inside the ER.

"What happened?!!" 2 doctors and 3 Nurses came running with a gurney ready to roll.

"NYPD sustained multiple GSWs to the shoulder, and stomach during a kidnapping of a witness" I explained as I placed her on the gurney, and they head off towards swinging doors I went as far as I could before the nurse stopped me.

Back at the Scene of the crime

Mac, Stella, Sheldon, and Lindsay

"She's tough Mac. She'll pull through"

".09 millimeter, standard issue. She went down fighting…emptied her clip"

"Got a .50 caliber hollow point…found a bunch of .45s over there"

"These guys weren't fooling around"

"every witness says the same thing…truck comes barreling through…two guys dressed in all black get out," Lindsay says and then sighs when she sees jess' blood on the floor "two others follow them inside" she continues on

"the two from the truck start firing, the other two made a beeline for Conner Dunbrook…took him Hostage"

"Smash & Grab" Stella said

"once they grabbed him, they fled to a black hummer with no plate"

"took off down Tillary, made a right on Flatbush…we've got every officer in the city looking for that car."

Conner was due to testify against his father in the grand jury today

If his son decided to testify against him…Dunbrook has all the motive and certainly the means to pull this off

And the transfer from to the courthouse was probably the only opportunity, all the motive in the world isn't going to do us any good were going to need something that connects Dunbrook to the gunman

"There's got to be an easier way" Sheldon said

"Not if Conner was held up in jail"

"Is uh Flack at the hospital?"

"Look, I know we all want to be with Angell, but were going to need to stay focused if we're going to track these guys down

"Right Lindsay, you and I will take ballistics

"Hawkes you take the truck, anything that can give us a name or location…if Dunbrook is behind this he's still in the city

while processing the scene the team discovered that Jess got off one shot on the shooter

"Linds…Put the word out we're looking for a cop shooter with a 9 mil in him"

Queen of Mercy Hospital Surgery Wing

Don Flack

From this point on…is where it deviates from the show plot line

"Don" Danny said walking towards me.

"They don't think She's …gonna make it" I told him

Danny's look went from concerned to pissed off in .02 seconds and he turned towards the wall and slammed it.

"I can't loose her Danny… I was going to ask her to marry me tonight." I told him pulling the ring box out of my pocket and handing it to him.

"Don…She's a fighter…Don't give up hope…She's gonna wear this ring you picked out…Don't give up hope" Danny said pulling me into a tight hug.

Back at the Scene

Mac & the Team

"A short while ago, Jessica Angell was brought into Queen of Mercy, for injuries suffered in the line of duty. She was a damn good cop…who displayed exceptional bravery, honor and devotion while keeping the people in this city safe she fought hard. It's as important now that we fight equally as hard to find the cowards who did this. You're the eyes and ears of this department. I want you pressing every informant, every new arrest, every crook who owes you a favor, rattle cages do what ever you have to do. No one pulls off a job like this with out leaving some footprints. We have a proud history in the NYPD. When one of our own is taken from us or almost taken from us, we always get our man…Always. No go out and do what you do best. Her family is counting on us." Mac said to the restaurant full of NYPD

"Mac a couple of uniforms just found the hummer that those bastards took off in it was abandon on Jay street near the Manhattan bridge" Danny said coming over to Mac

"Any witnesses?" Mac asked Danny

"They're not holding anyone" Danny said shaking his head

"Call em back tell em no one touches the car until we get there." Mac said urgently as he followed Danny out the front door.

"Right" Danny said calling back the Uniforms

Less than 5 minutes later Danny and Mac arrived to the Manhattan Bridge

"Looks like somebody got a piece of these scumbags as they took off, huh?" Danny asked Mac

"9 millimeter should have gone right through…Bulletproof" Mac said then knocked on the glass

Mac and Danny both turned their heads as they heard the tires squeal as Don arrive on scene

(Don's POV)

"I need to be here" I told Mac

"Sure, Don" Mac Said nodding with understanding

I saw Danny walk around to the other side of the car and open the door.

"Armored with ballistic steel panels in the doors." Danny said

"Bullet proof tires" Mac said

"This thing is completely tricked out, Mac" Danny told him

"These guys were prepared for the worst Angell tagged one of them before he got in the car looks like he was bleeding badly" Mac told me

"Atta girl" Danny & I said at the same time, Mac smiled and then picked up a white-filled blood bag

"What is that stuff?" I asked

"Artificial blood. Contains up to 50x more oxygen than regular blood, military uses it for trauma situations. .50 caliber hollow point bullets, armored humvee in and out of the diner in 30 seconds while attempting to kill a cop and taking Connor Dunbrook" Mac answered

"What are we dealing with here Mac?" Danny Asked

"If they're military, better get ready for war" Mac answered

Ballistic Lab…NYPD

Sheldon & Lindsay

(Lindsay POV)

I was working on trying to find prints on all of the shell casings when Sheldon came in

"Lindsay, tell me you got something?" Sheldon asked me

"Not much…Three of the guys were using. 45s…the guy who shot jess was using this kind of gun" I said placing my gloved hand on top of it "a .50 caliber desert eagle"

"Gun like this she doesn't stand a chance"

"No prints on any of the casings and I ran all the bullets through IBIS, no match"

"Damn it! Every minute that passes these bastards get farther away" Sheldon exclaimed

"So what about the blood at the scene? The guy that Angell hit - - was he in the system?"

"No"

Outside the Precinct

Don Flack

I got out of my car and was walking back toward the front of the precinct

"Paper?" some bum asked me

"Not Now" I said and kept walking towards the front of the building

"Yo Paper!" he said again giving me a glimce of his face and pushed me towards the wall

"what the hell are you doing…I told you were done." I told Terrence

"Yeah, man. I'm trying to help your thick-headed ass, if you tried answering my calls, I would have to be out here slumming like some damn fool" he told me

"I got no time for you right now, Terrence" I flipped at him

"You got time for some dope on those cop killers; I seen what happened on the news, man. That cop that got shot, the girl you were on the phone with…that was your girl, right?" he fired back with

"What do you got for me?" I asked giving in

"An Italian named crazy Tony came into the club bragging about how he helped trick out a hummer for those mugs who snuffed your girl." He told me

"What else?" I asked him

"They put a couple of traps in my escalade back in the day, so they're definitely equipped to trick out a hummer like that. All right, now I don't think Tony's running with those Rambo dudes, but he damn sure should know who they are." He told me

"Tony got a last name, an address?" I asked

"Read the classifieds." With that he walked away

"Wait a minute! Wait a minute!" I said and flipped to the classified section and in red block writing read:

VOSSI AUTO BODY

EAST 7TH, CANARSLE

CRAZY TONY TARDALLA

I closed and folded up the paper and then picked up my phone and called Mac

"Mac, It's Don. Change of plans." I told him about Crazy Tony and the info Terrence gave me.

Vossi Auto Body

Don, Danny, & Mac

"NYPD! Freeze! Get on the Ground!" Swat said as they came barreling through the doors to the shop

"Get on the ground now! Let me see your hands!" Mac said

"You don't mind if we take a look around, do you? ... I'll take that as a yes."

Mac walked around and finally found Tony

"You should have called a head I would have put on a pot of espresso" this smart ass punk responded

"No games, I want the names of the men who hired you to bullet proof that hummer" Mac flipped out

"Are you sure you got the right guy? I run a reputable establishment here." He fired back with

This mother fucker was pissing me off, and I was about beat the shit out of him.

"When a cop gunned down in this city resources that we normally don't have suddenly become available to us. We get what ever we need like 30 guys from Auto crime in here picking through every inch of this place. How many stolen parts you think are in here? … I'll lock up your damn grandmother if I don't start hearing some names" I threatened

"Haha my grams is stand-up. She'll do the big and keep her mouth shut" the punk answered, this time Mac was the one who flipped out, he shoved him back against the car.

"You think this is a game? Start talking" Mac said

"Couple of guys come in the shop. About a week ago, wanted the presidential package on a hummer" he says

"What's that?" asking him to explain in detail what type of package that is

"Armor plating, Bullet proof tires, bullet resistant glass" he explained to us

"Is this one of them?" Mac asked holding up a picture

He looked at it and said: "yea, hey look man I had no idea they were going to use it to kill a cop"

"Oh no no no no no you thought he was getting it ready for a family vacation." I responded back sarcastically

"Yo Genius those tires come off the hummer?" Danny asked kneeling on the floor in-between 4 tires

He nods yes and I'm about ready to punch this idiot when my phone starts ringing

"Mac…It's the hospital, I need to take this" I said

Mac nods ok and I answer my phone

"Yeah Flack" I said

"Detective, this is Doctor Elizabeth Petrelli at Queen of Mercy….I'm calling in regards to Detective Jessica Angell." She explained

"Yeah, how is Jess?" I asked praying that I didn't loose her.

"Detective Angell made it through Surgery however she has fallen into a coma. No one thought that she would make it out of surgery so we are hopeful that she will make it. I think right now she needs to be around friends and family to encourage her to keep fighting." She explained.

"Ill be right there" I said and hung up the phone

"Mac…She made it through the surgery. But she's in a coma; I'm on my way up to the hospital now." I said and then took off to the hospital to be with her. Didn't wait for Mac to say it was ok, and I don't care.

What do you think?

Should I keep on?

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Are you pissed of that in the finally they killed of Jess Angell?