AN: Sorry for the delay guys! Here is the next chapter. Hope you like it. Thanks to my beta ncisabbylove
Flack followed Mac and arrived at his side just as he started to talk to the paramedics.
"Hello, we're Detectives Taylor and Flack, we're here to talk about Anthony Messer" Mac stated.
"Okay. What do you want to know?" one of them asked.
"Where you found him, at what time and who called you" Flack replied.
"Truth is that the call was anonymous; it said that a boy was bleeding a lot near Central Park. That was around 2 am. It took us like ten minutes to arrive and there he was. Looked around sixteen or seventeen years old. He had several injuries, so we moved him here." the other answered.
"And how recent were his injuries?" Mac wanted to know.
"I'm not totally sure, but I guess no more than an hour and a half" replied the first one.
"Okay, thanks" Flack said "give us a number just in case".
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After Mac and Flack left to talk to the paramedics, Stella and Hawkes entered into Tony's room, and even though because of their job they had become accustom with it, what they saw shocked them.
Tony had his head in a bandage, just like his right arm. His left leg in plaster and a multitude of cuts and bruises in the chest. Truth be told, the scene gave goosebumps.
"Well" Stella started trying to overcome what she was seeing "ehh… the nurses have left the bags with Tony's clothes and personal belongings, so we're gonna have to keep an eye on them before we go to the lab".
"Okay, but Stell, shouldn't we process the body? I mean, he's gonna have evidence on him." Hawkes said.
"You're right, but sincerely, I don't think it's gonna be a lot because among paramedics, nurses and doctors, if there was something, it's going to be gone.
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"Well Danny, why don't we sit down awhile?" Lindsay asked after Stella and Hawkes went to Tony's room.
"No thanks, I rather stay here…" Danny said without stop looking at his brother's room.
"Danny please, sit down a bit, you need to rest." Lindsay begged
"Rest?" and a bitter smile appeared on his face "Do you really think that I'm gonna rest while my brother is here fighting for his life?
"Danny listen, I know it's very difficult, but…"
"You know it's difficult, huh?" Danny cut her off "Look Lindsay, you have no idea what…"
"Hey Danny" it was her turn to cut him off "even if you don't believe it, I do know what I'm talking about and I can assure you that if you want to be there for your brother when he wakes up you need to rest, and for that, at least, you have to sit down here and sleep, I'm not saying to go home because I know you're not going to go, but at least sleep here awhile." Lindsay replied surprising him.
After a
few minutes Danny answered:
"Wow, I'm… I'm sorry Linds, I…
I don't know what's going on with me, I'm sorry, I really am"
"Don't worry Danny, I understand you. I know what you're going through" she said.
"Yeah well, but… look at Stella and Hawkes, processing him as if… as if he wasn't here anymore" Danny stated with sadness in his voice.
"You know that's what we have to do in this kind of situations."
"I know, but even so…" Danny replied at the same time he sat.
"Look, rest awhile, I'm gonna be here with you, and when you wake up, we'll talk about who could do this to Tony, I don't think Mac will mind."
"So… you're gonna be here with me?" Danny asked.
"Yes, I'm not going to anywhere."
"Thanks" he said looking into her eyes "really."
And with that, he closed his eyes while his mind wandered to happier places.
