Thank you so much for all your reviews and alerts for my lowly, little chapter 1!

So here's chapter 2 – Danny enters the fray. Hope it makes sense.

The name of the bank is fictitious – please let me know otherwise!

Slight mention of events from my Cheesy Puffs story, but you don't have to have read it to get what's happening.

Building Bridges – chapter 2

Danny Reagan dropped a sandwich on his partner's desk and handed her a cup of coffee. Jackie looked at it appreciatively, "Hey, it's the good coffee," she took a quick drink, "Ok Reagan, what did you do this time?"

Danny gave her his best hurt look, one that he had used many times before, "Can't a guy just buy his favourite partner a cup of good coffee for once…"

He noticed that Jackie's attention had been drawn elsewhere, "Hey Danny, you got an account at 2nd National Bank?"

Danny looked at her in confusion, "Huh?" They had just been talking about coffee!

"It's not rocket science Reagan. Do you or don't you have an account at that bank?"

"Yeah, I guess but there's never anything in it!"

"I hear ya. Only the branch around the corner is currently being robbed and the media are there before we are!"

Danny walked round the desks to get a better look as the action unfolded. As the camera pulled back, Danny's heart froze – Jackie, of course, noticed, "Reagan?"

"See that old car parked right outside? It's Jamie's…"

"No way," Jackie gasped in astonishment.

"What are the odds…" he mumbled as he grabbed his phone and punched in a number.

"Hey sis – yeah – look, I don't suppose you're having lunch with Jamie are you?" He listened intently, his eyes staring blankly at the floor. Jackie, who was watching her partner closely, became concerned when he closed his eyes and lowered himself into his chair, "There's a robbery happening at a bank…Jamie's car is parked right outside…ok Erin, calm down just a little…you know Jamie would not let anything happen to her…ok you do that, I'll call dad."

He ended the call and took a calming breath. When he finally opened his eyes, he saw the concern etched on his partner's face, "He's got Nicki with him," he said simply.

"Oh god, I guess we're going down there?"

"Yeah, I gotta phone dad…God Jackie, he's only just got back on his feet after the stabbing…" he left his sentence unfinished as he hit his father's number on the speed dial.

Thirty minutes later Danny and Jackie were in the back of a SWAT truck with an extremely anxious police commissioner and an equally anxious ADA, namely his father and sister. They were going over footage from the cameras in the bank.

They saw them lining the hostages up – searching them one by one. They tensed when they saw the taller one getting in Jamie's face – anger radiated off the Reagan's as the tall one turned his attention to Nicki.

Danny allowed himself a small smile of pride as he watched his brother throw the guy to the other side of the room almost, but pride soon turned to anger and concern when he saw his brother go down thanks to that knock on the head. Relief flooded through him when he saw Jamie sit up almost straight away, helped by the elderly couple and Nicki.

"Detective Reagan – we've made contact," an officer told him as he passed the phone along.

"This is detective Danny Reagan, who am I speaking to?"

He waited as patiently as he could. He could hear muttering over the phone line, "Reagan you say," Came a voice, "Any relation to the 'have a go hero' cop we've got here?"

Danny wasn't about to give anything away, "Can you tell me if everyone's alright?" Danny asked, his patience already starting to wear thin.

"I guess so … pregnant lady is not looking so hot," was all he said before he disconnected the line. Danny slammed the phone down in frustration.

"Stay calm son, we've got the live feed…"

They could see that the pregnant woman was in some discomfort, "It looks like she could be in early labour," Erin surmised.

"You need to let her go – she needs a hospital!" They heard Jamie plead with the robbers. The Reagan's and Jackie let out a small sigh of relief at hearing their youngests voice, but that soon turned to horror when, on the monitor, they watched as the taller one whirled round to Jamie's voice and because his itchy finger was on the trigger, the gun went off, sending shockwaves through the truck.

Jamie had obviously known what was about to happen because he had thrown himself onto Nicki, knocking her to the floor.

"Nicki…" Erin gasped, her had to her mouth, her knees threatening to buckle. Frank solemnly put his arm around his distraught daughter.

Danny, however, almost lost it completely, "Jamie!"

Just a short one – so will the next one. Was going to merge the two chapters, but then I think it would be to long then.

Hope it was ok, I'm sure you'll let me know one way or another.

Thanks for reading.