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I stare at the words written on the paper that I grasp in my hands, the same words as last time.
We're coming Jamie, very soon. Your days are numbered.
I crumble the piece of paper tucking it in my back pocket as I leave my apartment making sure it was locked.
The same letter had showed up at my door last week. I just figured it was some prank, no big deal but now this was starting to unsettle me. If one of my coworkers were pulling a prank they wouldn't take it this far, would they?
I decide to walk to work needing the fresh air to think things over. I could bring this up to Danny but he'll just flip, Erin would never leave me alone and my dad was so busy I didn't want to bother him with something that could be just some joke.
I arrive at the station and quickly change making sure to keep the letter safely tucked away in my breast pocket.
We line up for roll call but mind keeps wondering back to the note. Who could pull such a cruel joke? My gut told me that it might very well be more than just a simple joke.
"Regan, you ready?" Jenko asks smiling at me, anxious to get the day started.
I nod and start to follow her but my gut keeps telling me to run and give Danny the note, carrying it in my pocket, knowing that it might not be some kind of joke made it hard to breath. I couldn't put my family though losing another member.
"Hold on Jenko." I run back to my locker leaving the letter in it making sure it was safely locked away. I will talk to Danny about it after my shift. I promise myself before following Jenko out to the patrol car.
Danny's POV
I look around my desk searching for my damn car keys. It has been a very dull day of desk work. I had a head ache and wanted to go home for lunch to ease some of the stress by seeing Linda
"What are you looking for?" Jackie asks getting silently laughing at me as I search everywhere.
"My damn car keys." I grumble looking under the desk.
"Don't you have a spare?" she asks helping me look.
"No I gave my last spare to Jamie." I grumble standing up.
"Would it be in his locker?" she suggests.
"Worth a shot." I say as I head over to the locker room in search of my keys, being me I knew exactly where Jamie's locker was and combination. I open the locker with ease. I begin digging though his stuff already finding the spare taped inside, neatly labeled.
I smile at some old photos of us as kids with the entire family enjoying dinner.
"Danny are you seriously digging through his locker?" Jackie asks annoyed.
I don't reply as my eye lands on a folded piece of paper carefully tucked under his street clothes.
I read it over my mind fills with fear and anger directed at my baby brother. Looks like I just might be staying here for lunch to have a talk with a certain officer. Clutch the letter in my hand, slamming the locker door I stalk back out to the office. My appetite was gone, all I could think about was Jamie.
? POV
He was such a beautiful young man, such a good boy unlike are Chris. Mary and Frank had an angel for a son. I watched silently with my husband by my side as we watch him talk to his partner a smile as bright the sun making my heart fill with joy. Why didn't my son ever smile like that? Why didn't he go to Harvard like Jamie? Did just not care?
I smile knowing I will never have to worry about that with my Jamie. He was such a good boy. Frank has another son. He won't miss Jamie. I tell myself as we watch our boy.
Jamie's POV
"What a dry day." Jenko says as we head back to the station.
"Hey I would rather have a dry day than people dying." I reply as we walk into the station.
"Jamie!" I hear Danny's familiar voice yell at me. What did I do know? I head over to his desk where he is impatiently waiting.
"What's this?" Danny yells holding the ominous letter in front of my face.
"I can explain Danny…" he cuts me off before I can get another word in.
"Why didn't you tell anybody?!"
"It could be just some stupid prank and I knew you would react like this, Erin would hold me captive and Dad has enough on his plate as it is." I snap.
"Oh so you would rather Dad gets a phone call saying another son is dead?! Why couldn't you be like Joe and actually listen! You know Joe listened, you don't, sometimes I wish it was you that night! At least you would have learned a lesson!" Danny yells at me making everything slow down. My heart sank. Does Danny really wish I died and not Joe.
"Where did you even get the note from?" I ask trying to hide the hurt in my voice.
"Your locker."
"You went into my locker without my permission?" I ask "Isn't there any privacy in this god damn family?" I storm off not even taking a second look at Danny.
"Fine you don't want to talk to me then you can talk to dad!" Danny threatens. I ignore him. He wouldn't really call dad down here would he?
After showering and changing into my street clothes I walk out to find the whole department at a standstill and my father talking to Danny.
I stop in my tracks. He seriously called dad over a stupid note? Janko notices me and looks at me wide eyed sensing the tension running between my father and brother there for making the entire department tense. I really did not want to have an argument in front of the entire department so I turn trying to sneak out the back door when my father's voice stops me.
"Officer Jamie, come here." Was all he said but I knew with him addressing me as officer things would not be good.
"Yes Commissioner?" I ask using the formal title like he had.
"Why didn't you tell me that you received this note?" he asks not meeting my eyes.
"I felt it wasn't important sir. It was the only letter I received, I just figured it was some joke." I say sending up a silent prayer that he didn't know about the other one.
"You lie to me. Danny found the second letter Jamie. You received over week an ago according to the date on the back." My heart sinks. He knows.
" Dad I…" I couldn't come up with a response shame filling me. "….I'm sorry…" I finally whisper starring at the floor not meeting his eyes.
"Jamie I know you are and to be fair I probably would have done the same thing. Jamie this is no joke if this is the second one and even I would have immediately told somebody so I am giving you two options, you can either continue working on desk duty and stay with me and your grandfather or you can argue with me and force me to take you shield till this entire thing is figured out." My dad meets my eyes letting me know just how serious he really is.
"Dad, would you do that if it was Danny?!" I ask frustration and fear fill me knowing that my father was taking this very seriously.
"You are the one I am worried about not Danny." He stands up straight looking me directly in the eye.
"You're avoiding the question. It feels like all you people do is worry about me, it feels like I can't do anything without you people watching my every move."
"Maybe that's because we care, Jamie! I will not lose another son, especially not my youngest. Jamie you remind me so much of your mother losing you would be like losing Joe and Mary again all at once and I know for a fact that it would be the same for the others. Sometimes it feels like you are the glue that holds this family together." My father confesses. "We can't lose you Jamie. So yes we all watch over you and I will do anything to make you safe even if that means you hating me."
I stand there in silence not knowing how to process this information. Then Danny speaks up.
"Jamie, you're the youngest so of course we're going to be protective of you, plus you were always a trouble magnet, Giving us all heart attacks with you getting ill all the time or breaking something or falling of something, running into things, getting beat up by kids at school for standing up to them, pissing off the wrong people or getting the wrong people to like you. I swear we had to take you to the hospital at least twice every year."
I don't say anything I just set down at Danny's desk suddenly feeling very exposed and tired.
"Can I get my stuff from my place?" I ask.
"Yes but take Jankco with you. You'll have to go outside and grab her for I believe all of our fellow officers left to give us privacy. If you're not back in 30 minutes Danny will come looking for you. Take Janko's car seeing as you walked." My father gives me a smile and my shoulder a squeeze.
For the first time I look up to find our surrounding empty. I slowly stand heading outside to find half the police station waiting outside talking anxiously, seeing me arrive they all grow silent.
"Come on Janko, you have to give me a ride to my place." I tell her already heading towards her car. She follows close behind and during our drive she stays silent much to my appreciation.
Janko stays in the car at my request as I head up the stairs to my apartment. As I approach the door another note is taped to it.
Very soon Jamie….very soon….
I rip it off the door crumbling it tears of fear and frustration filling me. I quickly grab my stuff knowing my dad will stay to his word and send Danny. I give my face a good wash making sure all signs of tears had disappeared.
I head back out to the kitchen grabbing a bottle of water from the fried. My hand stops frozen in midair. Written on my fridge in black mark are four words that made my heart race.
We see you….
I take off slamming the door behind me hurrying down the steps back into the safety of Janko's car. I set in the passenger seat panting my hands shaking as I buckle my seat belt.
"Reagan! What is going on?" Janko looks over at me in concern.
"Just go." I manage to say.
They had been in my house. What if I was there? What if they never left?
