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Thanks for the reviews. Here is the next bit let me know what you think. And hopefully this time my breaks will actually be in the story.

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Ty felt his phone vibrate in his pocket, grabbing it out he saw it was Melissa. "hello."

"Where are you? I'm at the hospital." Melissa asked the worry still clear in her voice.

"Emergency waiting room."

A few minutes later Melissa walked into the waiting room automatically seeing her husband covered in blood. "Baby." She said rushing up to him.

"I'm fine. It's not my blood." He said softly. He wrapped his arms around her. He needed to feel another human. He wanted to feel her and know that everything was going to be ok even if it wasn't. He whispered into her ear, "I love you. I missed you so much."

Pulling out of the embrace she kissed him, "I love you and I missed you too." She pulled away from him, "Let's get you out of those clothes." She couldn't but help notice all of the blood.

"I want to wait for Dean and Jamie to get back so that someone is here." He said looking around the two should have been back by now. He really hoped that they did not sneak off somewhere to have sex. He would not put it past the two. The tension between them had been thick ever since Jamie started working with the team.

Jamie was the first to come back. Dean stopped along the way to use the restroom. She handed Ty his coffee looking at the woman next to him. She deduced that it must be his wife. It was strange for all of them to be together outside of the shop. Not safe for all of their active covers, and it actually was a rule, one of the rules that Carter had put into place.

"I'm going to go get changed." Ty said setting his coffee down. "Melissa this is Jamie. Jamie this is my wife Melissa." Ty introduced the two before leaving.

"So you work with Ty?" Melissa asked.

"Yeah I'm new to the team." Jamie answered looking at Melissa. S he didn't seem like the type of woman who would marry a cop. More of the type of woman who's father would kill the cop before he got near his daughter.

The tension was quickly abated by Dean entering the waiting room. "Melissa." Dean smiled at her. The last time he saw her she had just married Ty. "How have you been?"

"Good." She answered. It was an uncomfortable situation. The two people before her were strangers. They were her husband's co-workers and that is al she really knew about them. They rarely saw each other. Ty never talked about his co-workers other than Carter. The lives they led did not allow for backyard barbeques with co-workers.

The awkwardness was quickly fixed by the appearance of Captain Maynard. "What happened?" He asked looking at Jamie and Dean.

"Carter was shot by one of the suspects." Dean answered not offering more information. He was not sure exactly how Carter and Ty's covers were blown, he had an idea, but he was not willing to put it forth yet.

Jamie just looked clueless, she was good at doing that when she needed to be.

"Have you heard from the doctors yet?"

"no." Ty answered walking back into the room in his clean clothes.

"How bad was it?" Captain Maynard asked looking at Ty.

"Not good." Ty answered.

"You all go back to the safe house do the paper work. I want reports on my desk before morning. Then go home." Captain Maynard order looking at Jamie and Dean.

Dean was getting ready to protest when the Captain continued, "I'll update both of you as soon as we know something."

Ty shook his head, "I'm not leaving. The reason Carter is in the operating room is because of me. I'm not leaving."

Dean stated, "If he's not leaving then I'm not leaving."

"I cannot have you all here. You know Carter would say the same. If someone happens to see you all together covers will be blown."

"We can make new ones then." Dean said knowing it was not good enough. Just being exposed would be enough to put an end to all of their undercover careers.

"This is not a request it's an order." Captain Maynard stated.

"Come on Dean. Let's go." Jamie said grabbing his arm and pulling her with him.

"Ty." The Captain said looking at him.

"I'm not leaving." Ty said sitting down next to Melissa. "My cover is already blown for the current case. And I do not have any other active covers right now." Ty looked at the Captain almost pleading for him to just give in.

"Fine. But as soon as we get some news you are going to give me a full report on what happened tonight." The Captain said walking away to pace in the hallway. He already tried to get the lady at the reception desk to get a report for them. She only stated that he would know as soon as anyone else knew. The doctors were still working.

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What seemed like hours passed since Dean and Jamie had left. The Captain had finally taken a seat and was resting his head against the wall when he heard footsteps and then someone call out "Carter Shaw's family?"

The Captain and Ty both stood up walking towards the doctor in blue scrubs. Melissa was on Ty's side her arm around him. Her best attempt to comfort him.

"How is he?"

"Are you family?" The doctor asked highly doubting either man was related to the man he has just spent hours operating on.

"The closest thing he has. I am Carters commanding officer." Captain Maynard said pulling out his badge.

The doctor continued, "He lost a lot of blood. He went into cardiac arrest while on the table. We were able to get his heart started again." The doctor could see the shock and fear he was use to seeing in family members eyes when he told them of their loved one. The doubt, was this the speech that told them their loved one would not be back, "He was shot twice. One bullet to the right shoulder. It was more of a graze but it took chunk of flesh and muscle with it. The other bullet was the issue. It entered in his lower left abdomen. It lodged itself into a rib. He was lucky that it was not one of his already broken ribs. It appeared that they were healing when they were broken again, the ribs. Unfortunately, the bullet did clip his lung. It collapsed probably even before the paramedics arrived. Luckily, there was a trained surgeon riding with the paramedics that night and he was able to insert a chest tube while in transport. That probably saved your friends life. Right now we are filling him with antibiotics and pain killers. We are going to watch him closely tonight. If no other complications arise then he has a good chance at recovery. "

"Can we see him?" The Captain asked.

"he is in recovery right now. He will be moved to ICU once he is stable enough. " The doctor paused, he knew cops typically would not leave unless they got to see their man, "He still has a breathing tube breathing for him. We want his injured lung to have a break for awhile. It's not a pretty sight."

"Please I just let us see him."

"Only a few minutes. It's against protocol."

"Thank you doctor." Captain said.

"Once he is moved into ICU one person can stay." The doctor said not knowing if anyone would stay with the patient.

They all walked to the recovery room that Carter was located in. The lower portion of his body was covered by a sterile white sheet. The upper portion, abdomen on up was uncovered on the bed. It was difficult for Captain Maynard to see his friend on the bed, bandages and wires covering him. There was two chest tubes sticking out of him, a tube running through his mouth. It was a hard sight to see, almost as bad as when he saw Carter at Carter's wife's funeral.

Carter looked too pale against the stark white sheets of the hospital bed. It was a weird sight to take in for Ty. He was so use to seeing Carter alive and moving. Constantly arguing with him over whatever was going on in the latest case. Carter was larger than life, the prince of darkness, and now he looked fragile.

Ty closed his eyes trying to will it all away. He screwed up, and he knew this was on him. He had gone to lunch with his wife while undercover. It was a rookie mistake that could cost Carter his life. Carter had taken the bullets for him. Ty was the one who's cover had been blown. The people just assumed Carter was too stupid to know any better.

"Ok folks you have to leave now. He'll probably be in a room in the ICU in a few hours." The doctor said waiting for the visitors to leave.

The all filed out of the room. The Captain grabbed Ty's arm, "What happened?" There was no judgment nor anger in his voice, concern.

"I'll file a report by morning." Ty said.

"Give me the reader's digest version. I'm the one who's going to have to explain this."

Ty looked to Melissa, "babe do you think you could go get something to eat for me."

"Sure." Melissa knew that Ty wanted to be on his own with the Captain. He always tried to shield her from the dangers of his job. That included the reality of how bad things were in the world.

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Dean was driving the car that Jamie and he had rode to the hospital in.

"It really just was sex for you?" Jamie asked, hurt by the fact that what they had done meant nothing to Dean. From his earlier statements she knew she was right in going back to Scott. He was a good guy. When they made love it meant something to him. But the downside of being with Scott is that he knew nothing of what she did before she became Jamie Allen. He could never know because he would never understand. His family never would understand. They would probably not accept her as she is now as Jamie Allen. There was also Scott's dreams of running for office one day. If she was Mrs. Scott, it was likely her past would come to light.

"Yeah." Dean answered keeping his eyes on the road. He didn't know why she kept pushing the point. She was the one who ended it by going back to Scott. It wasn't like he told her to get lost. She had told him. It was for the better, he thought, because Carter would have a fit if he knew about the two hooking up. There was also the job. Not having connections made the job a lot easier. Carter had taught him that much. Connections made you weak, made you make mistakes, like Ty did. And mistakes always led to someone getting hurt. Tonight was a great example of what connections could do.

"Fine whatever." Jamie said turning to look out her window avoiding looking a Dean.

"Hey sweetheart." Dean said in a sarcastic voice, "You have no right to be pissed at me. You ended it not me."

"It would never have worked out. Carter would have ditched one of us. And it would have been me. He respects you. " She said, "we learned that much already. One word from you and I was shut out of the operation."

"No you were shut out of the operation because you are still learning." Dean tried to control the anger bubbling under the surface, "You still have a lot to learn little girl. Carter is not going to send you in unless he is sure you can handle and sure that he can trust you."

"What does that mean?"

"It means there is a thin line between going under and stepping over, and he isn't sure which side you will fall on."

"If he felt that way he never would have brought me in. I know which side I want to be on."

"That's all fine an daddy saying it in the car, but what about when you are under and there is a lot of money to be made? What then?"

"I'm not doing this to get away from my mommy and daddy. I didn't join to impress my parents." Jamie said hinting at her knowledge of Dean's family and their disapproval of what he does. "I'm doing this because I need to do this."

"And why is that?" Dean said not taking the bait.

"Because I want to make a few things right."

"There we are back to the cryptic statement about your past. What are you making right?"

"Nothing." She said trying to ignore Dean's piercing stare. They rode the rest of the way to the safe house in silence.