Okay, here is the next chapter. I hope that you all like it too.

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Jess and Benton pulled up to the scene of the explosion. It was all chaos, people running and crying while police officers tried to keep them away from the immediate area. It was pretty wild at the moment. The building had exploded about fifteen minutes ago, but CSI and Homeland Security were already on the scene.

Benton led Jess over to a group of people by the ambulances. "Angell, stay here and help the EMT's with the wounded and take any statements you can get." He saw the look on her face and cut her off before she could say anything. "You're not official today, if anything happened to you before you could officially start, Captain Mallery would have my butt. Now stick close to this area and be ready to get statements." He told her as he hurried off.

Jess pulled her notebook out and went about doing what she was told. "Men! I swear, if I was a man, I'd be over there with him trying to help." She mumbled as she walked around an ambulance. She saw a woman sitting in the back of it with a bandage on her forehead. She looked up when she heard Jess mumbling.

Lindsay was just thinking the same thing that Jess was saying a moment ago. "You're right, you know. If I were a man, I wouldn't have been sent to have my head checked out. I'd be out there helping them find Mac and Flack." She said as she carefully got out of the ambulance. She missed the weird look on Jess's face.

Jess was surprised when she heard Flack's name. Was that the same Flack that she had met earlier? He did talk to someone named Mac on the phone. She looked back at Lindsay. "Hey there, my name is Detective Angell, can you tell me what happened? Were you in the building when it exploded?" She asked her.

Lindsay wobbled a bit, but then got her balance back. She looked up at Jess and processed what she had just asked. "Lindsay Monroe, I'm with the crime lab. I was with Mac and Flack at first, but Mac sent me outside. He called me and told me to clear the area because he found a bomb. I was telling everyone that they needed to clear the area, but they weren't moving much, so I yelled that there was a bomb and that's when they all scattered. I turned to see if Mac or Flack were coming out when the building exploded. I got knocked off of my feet and hit my head. They're still in there." She said as she closed her eyes.

Jess placed her hand on Lindsay's arm. "I'm sure that they'll be alright." She tried to comfort the other woman. She hoped that she was right and they'd be alright. For some reason, thinking that something had happened to Flack made her stomach hurt. She wasn't sure why, she'd only just barely met him.

"I should have been in there with them." Lindsay told her. She looked like she was going to cry, but she didn't fall apart like most women would.

"If you'd been in there, then the people out here wouldn't have gotten clear of the explosion and there's be more injured people or worse. We'd also be looking for you inside there too. You did what you were told to do." She could tell that her words were kind of helping Lindsay.

Just then a stretcher came out of the building with Flack on it, and he didn't look so good. He was unconscious and there was a lot of blood. Jess didn't know why, but her heart almost stopped at the sight of him like that. She wanted to see him open his blue eyes and look at her. She wanted to see him smile again.

Lindsay moved over to the other man and woman who followed the stretcher. "Mac, are you okay? How is he?" She asked him quickly.

"Slow down Lindsay. I'm okay, but Don's lost a lot of blood. He's a fighter and I'm sure he'll pull through." He didn't look too confident and it broke Jess's heart. "I'm supposed to tell a Detective Angell to go with him to the hospital so he's not alone if he wakes up." He said as he turned to Jess. "You Angell?" He asked her.

She nodded. "Yeah, I'm Detective Angell."

"Mac Taylor, and this is Stella Bonasera from the crime lab. Benton said that you should go with Flack to the hospital in case something happens. He said something about you not being official yet and that you shouldn't be here. He said that he'd come and get you when he was done here, and when he can get someone to stay with Don." Mac watched them load Don into the ambulance, and then Jess got in behind him.

Jess once again wanted to complain that she could be more help here, but she knew that she had to follow orders if she wanted to keep her job. So she went with Flack to the hospital.

In the back of the ambulance, Jess watched the EMT work on Flack. She couldn't shake the way this was effecting her. She never reacted to a practical stranger like she seemed to be reacting to him. She hoped that he made it, maybe he could explain it to her.

The ambulance made it to the hospital within minutes and Jess jumped out before they pulled Don out. She got out of the way so that they could take him into the building. She watched and followed the parade of medics, one of them calling out his vitals and injuries. The last she saw of Detective Don Flack, was just before the doors closed.

A nurse walked up to her and led her to a waiting room. "Are you Mrs. Flack?" She asked Jess.

Jess's heart skipped a beat at what the nurse asked her. "No, I work with him, I'm Detective Angell. Is he going to be alright Nurse Mitchell?" She asked looking at her badge.

"I'm not sure, they took him right into surgery. They'll be setting up an area for friends and family to donate blood if you'd like to help out. I can show you where it is." Nurse Mitchell told her.

Jess nodded and followed her. "Will he be in there long? I wanna be near if he needs anything. I really don't know him that well, today is actually my first day." She explained to the nurse.

"Well co-workers are welcome to donate blood too. Every little bit helps, especially if you're the same blood type." She told Jess.

Jess donated some blood and then went back and sat in the waiting room. When Flack was out of surgery, they told her that she could sit outside his room and wait. Slowly some of his friends from the crime lab started showing up. Mac and Stella were the first to show up.

"Detective Angell, you're still here?" Mac asked her as he and Stella sat next to her.

Jess stretched and yawned. "Yeah, I was told to wait here until someone showed up to relieve me and my ride isn't here yet. Detective Flack made it through surgery, but no one has come by to tell me anything yet." She told them.

"Hawkes is on it, he knows who and what to ask." Mac said.

"Well thank you for staying here with him. It was nice to know he wasn't alone. I hear that today was you first day, sorry you had to spend most of it at the hospital." Stella told her.

Jess could tell that they were all really close, almost like a family. She thought that they were all very lucky to have each other. "That's alright, tomorrow is my official first day really. I was just supposed to shadow Benton today. He sent me here to stay with Detective Flack. He said he'd come and get me when he was done, but either he forgot about me or he's still working. Oh, and they've set up a station for the friends and family of Detective Flack to donate blood." She told them. "I've already donated some." She showed them her bandage.

"Great, I'm up first then." Stella said as she went in search of a nurse to point her in the direction to donate some blood. She saw Danny and Lindsay coming down the hall and grabbed them to go with her.

Mac closed his eyes, he was so tired. "Thanks again Angell, and welcome to the team." He gave her a tired smile.

Jess noticed that he had kind eyes. "Thank you, I'll look forward to working with you and your team. I hope that Detective Flack is going to be okay." She saw Benton coming down the hall, he stopped to talk to a nurse. "Well there's my ride. I'll be seeing you Detective Taylor." And she walked off to catch her ride home.

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So, what do you all think? Should I continue?