I honestly don't know who the older brother is. In Chicago Pd episode "Say Her Name" I swear I hear older, younger or only brother when Will comes up to th break room. I have seen articles that stated that Jay was getting an older brother before Will even come in. Wikipedia says Jay is older. So who really knows.

For the purpose of this story, I am going to leave out mentioning whose older.


Jay looks up at Connor praying that it is good news or at least decent news, his brother is going to be okay. He doesn't know what he will do if Will doesn't make it. His PTSD may be bad now but manageable. If Will dies, his emotions will go to hell in a hand basket. Antonio puts his hand on Jay's shoulder for comfort.

"The surgery was touch and go. We had to remove his spleen and a kidney; however he is going to be okay." Connor explains.

Jay lets out the breath he was holding while Connor was talking. Will is going to be okay. Voight looks at Ruzek who had come in. He found something, but that something is going to have to wait. He wants more information about Will and Dr. Patrick Barry that is current before diving into past information.

"Dr. Rhodes, you contacted Jay about Will before this. Will has been off, how so?" Voight asks

Connor thinks about how to answer that. He can't put his finger on it, they just saw a change in Will lately and one that was not for the better. He had become quiet, distant, withdrawn and not confrontational. It just wasn't Will, the lack of confrontation had been nice but they miss it. Will puts his patients above everything else and he fights for them. He asked Dr. Charles opinion, maybe he can say more. Sharon Goodwin and Daniel Charles approached the group but stayed in the background when Connor came in.

"Dr. Charles, what do you think?" Connor asks.

"I would say that whatever differences that were between Will and Patrick goes back to Med School days. Will's change in behavior started as soon as Patrick came. I have seen Will take his break on the hospital roof without his jacket, if Patrick was in the doctor lounge. Will would peek through the window to the cafeteria to see if Patrick was there before going in. If he was, Will wouldn't enter." Dr. Charles explains before stopping to think. "It is almost like saying that for whatever reason Will is afraid of Patrick."

Jay didn't know Patrick, only met him today, but he is having a hard time believing that Will is afraid of him. Will never backs down to bullying. He for the most part goes about his day and to hell with the bullies. Sometimes he was beaten up and other times he wasn't. What makes Patrick so different?

"Maybe he was afraid of him and for good reason." Ruzek speaks up holding 2 folders. "This is Will's medical file from Med School in New York."

Connor takes the file from Adam and starts to read it. He lets out a whistle.

"Man, that is some concussion." He states before realizing that everybody in the room isn't seeing what he is. "Will suffered a severe concussion when he fell down a flight of stairs, the body was in shock so he was put in a medical coma for 3 days. When the medication for the medical coma stopped, Will fell into a coma for a week and a half."

Jay couldn't believe what he was hearing. His brother had been injured and spent 2 weeks in a coma, he didn't know. Why didn't he know, why didn't Will tell him. "When was he in the coma?"

Connor check the medical file for the dates. "He fell on March 7, 2011 woke up on the 22nd."

Now Jay really thought he will pass out as he became white as a ghost. Antonio and Hank helped Jay to sit down. " Our mother died March 10th and her funeral was on the 14th. I called Will he didn't answer. I left him message after message. He didn't call me back, he wasn't at the funeral. I was so angry at him for making me go through this alone and my last few messages that I left him stated that. When I did finally speak to him again, he said that med school has kept him so busy and there were parties all weekend long. I had heard enough and hung up on him." Jay spoke the tears streaming down his face as he thought about that time.

"Now I find out that he wasn't partying, while I faced mom's death alone. He wasn't there because he couldn't be there. He was in a hospital bed in New York in a coma. I yelled at him, I shouldn't have yelled."

"Jay, you didn't know. You can't blame yourself for being angry. Given what you do know and thought at the time, you had a right to be angry with him." Antonio comforts.

"Would you have kept something like that from Gabby?" Jay questions.

"Are you kidding me, you know my sister. She would kill me, she can have quite a temper on her." Antonio teases.

"Why wouldn't Will tell me that the reason he didn't make it to mom's funeral was because he had been in a coma. Instead he fueled my anger pulling us apart at a time when we needed each other."

Connor continues to look through his colleague medical record. As he flip the page, he wonders how is it that Will is an ED doctor. Does Goodwin know? Would she allow him to be in the ED if she did? When she finds out, will she kick him out.


I do not know when their mother died. I tried doing the math, but it just got to complicated making Jay and Will older than I think they are. I think they are both in their 30's.