All the family were sat in the waiting room, their minds coming up with different scenarios of what could happen to Jamie. Frank was sat thinking about the possibility of Jamie not making it; his two youngest boys would have been taken too soon through being shot. Now Frank wished he had made Jamie stay in Law, but Jamie was a Reagan and would have become a cop anyway, and Frank couldn't deny that every time Jamie talked about the job his eyes would light up. Frank then looked at his oldest children, Erin was sat holding hands with Henry and Nikki, and then Danny. Danny was away from the family pacing up and down the length of the room. Out of all of them Frank knew Danny was taking Jamie's shooting the hardest, even when they were growing up if Jamie got hurt Danny would take it upon himself to solve the situation, Joe would take care of Jamie, but in the background if Jamie had been pushed over Danny would sort the other kid out. Danny would even take the punishment Frank would give him without complaint.

At the sound of approaching footsteps everyone's head's snapped up to look at the Doctor. Out of the corner of his eye Frank saw Danny was barely keeping it together.

"What's Jamie's situation Doc?" asked Henry,

The Doctor sighed and said "Jamie was shot three times, once in the chest, once in the abdomen and once on his left side, the surgery is going to take a while".

"So how is it going Doc?" asked Frank,

"Everything is going well, but even if he survives surgery the next twenty-four hours will be criticall, and the reason why I am telling you this is because the only reason why he reached the hospital alive is because of a young woman who is a medic for the British Army".

"So what are you saying Doc?" asked Henry as he rose from his seat to stand beside Frank.

"What I'm saying is if Jamie makes it through surgery, there won't be much else we can do because it's up to Jamie and his will to live".

A gasp was heard from behind Frank and Henry, they turned around just as Danny said "I can't take much more of this" and Danny dashed out of the waiting room.

Linda got up to follow him but Frank said "let him go Linda, his squad caught the case, my bet is he's going there and he's going to get the piece of crap who did this". Linda nodded and sat back down to wait with the others.

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Danny walked into the squad room to see a bunch of people sat at desks giving statements; he noticed a young woman was wearing hospital scrubs standing near his desk.

"Excuse me are you ok?"

The girl looked at him and said "yes… oh you're asking because I'm wearing these scrubs, it's only because I had blood on my other clothes"

"Wait you're the one who kept Jamie alive?"

"Are you his family?"

"His older brother to be exact"

"I'm sorry"

"Thanks, what's your name?"

"Beth Powell, Corporal and medic of the British Army, what's your name?"

"Detective Danny Reagan" they shook hands, Danny was about to ask Beth to sit down so he could take her statement when Detective Ryan called across the room,

"Hey Danny you might want to see this"

"Alright I'm coming, I'll be back in a minute Miss Powell" Beth nodded and Danny made his way over to Ryan's desk.

"What's up Ryan?" Ryan gestured for Danny to take a seat,

"This is a clip from a CCTV camera which has a clear view of the shooting"

"And?" asked Danny,

"Just watch" Ryan then clicked play and Danny mentally prepared himself to watch Jamie getting shot. He saw Jamie and a group of people talking and laughing as they waited to cross the street, Danny noticed they were the people sat in the squad room. He then watched as Jamie crossed the street, everything seemed to be normal. But then Danny watched as Jamie's stance changed as he focused on something out of frame, and watched as Jamie reached for his off duty weapon. Danny also noticed Beth in the bottom of the frame who also seemed to take note of Jamie's change in stance. Danny then saw a flash of a gun being fired and Jamie sank to the floor still looking in the direction that the shots had come from. Beth then dashed over to Jamie followed by the group Jamie had just been talking to, one of them then ran to a grocery store, he came back and handed Beth something's that she then began using to patch Jamie up. Danny then saw the one who had run to the store see someone coming towards them with a gun. Danny knew the other guy was the cop who had also been shot, he then saw the guy with Beth grab Jamie's gun and fire at the cop who was in the process of pulling out his badge to identify himself. As the cop fell to the floor after being shot in the shoulder Danny saw two guys from the group make their way over and one of them punched the cop, knocking him out.

Ryan looked at Danny and said "what do you make of that then?"

"I think that group maybe had something to do with the shooting" replied Danny,

Danny then got up and made his way back over to Beth. "Sorry about that Miss Powell"

"It's ok"

Danny gestured for Beth to sit down, "I need to ask you a few questions about what happened" said Danny as he sat at his desk next to Beth, Beth nodded as she knew this was why she had to come to the Police Station.

"Ok Beth so what were you doing there?"

"We were sightseeing"

"So you didn't know Officer Reagan before you met him at that time?"

"No, we only just got into New York yesterday"

"There were other people around your group, why did you specifically talk to him?"

"I don't know, I guess because he was smiling so we figured he was friendly"

Danny realized he wasn't getting anywhere with the answers he was receiving to be able to prove the group had something to do with Jamie's shooting. "So you expect me to believe it wasn't planned to speak to Officer Reagan?"

"Yeah" said Beth starting to become suspicious about the questions and Danny's reactions to her answers. She had noticed after he had gone over to that other Detective his body language and manner towards her had changed and she didn't know why.

Danny sighed in frustration, he knew he had to get Beth to admit to having something to do with the shooting even if she had only been approached and asked to distract Jamie by talking to him, but the answers she was giving. It was like she was purposefully freezing him out because she was heavily involved in his baby brother's shooting.

"So after Officer Reagan crossed the street why did you continue looking in his direction?"

"Because I thought he was cute". If Danny hadn't been so focused on getting Beth's confession and Jamie wasn't fighting for his life in surgery Danny would have laughed and used the comment to tease Jamie at the next family Sunday dinner.

"On the CCTV footage it shows you reacting to something before the gunshots while you were looking at Officer Reagan. What was that about?"

"From experience I felt something was wrong and his body language changed"

"You seemed to know exactly what you needed to have to save Officer Reagan while in a city, what did you use?"

"Cling film and tampons"

Danny then did a double take, ok that was most defiantly the answer he did not expect, he was only trying to catch Beth out so he thought she would just say a first aid kit and give him a 'no duh' look, but the look on Beth's face showed she wasn't lying. "You dressed him like a Christmas turkey?"

"If that's how you want to put it then yes"

Danny then composed himself, not needing the metal image of Jamie dressed like a Christmas turkey, but the thought of Jamie fighting for his life sobered Danny's thoughts up quickly, although once Jamie recovered Danny was so not letting this slide.

"Why did one of your friends shot another cop who was in the process of showing his badge?"

"I don't know! I was looking after Officer Reagan!"

"Wait so you're telling me and expect me to believe that you didn't notice your friend who was knelt next to you take Officer Reagan's gun and shoot someone in front of you"

"No I was just concentrating on Officer Reagan who was shot, that is what we're trained to do!"

"The other cop was wounded thanks to your friend, why didn't you go to him?"

"Because I was concentrating on Officer Reagan and I was afraid he was going to die and I didn't know the other cop had been shot" Danny shuddered when he heard Beth mention she was afraid Jamie would die, Danny would always be thankful to her for saving Jamie, but he knew she and the group had something to do with it!

"So you also didn't notice two of your friends go over and then knock that other cop out?"

"No! Like I already told you I was concentrating on Officer Reagan!"

Danny then stood up and threw his coffee mug on the ground and shouted at a stunned Beth in the now silent Squad room "look I know you had something to do with the shooting, SO JUST TELL ME THE TRUTH!"

Beth's friends Taffy, Moll, Jock and Mitch (the ones who hadn't been arrested, Smudge and Paddy had been arrested for their part in sending the other cop to hospital) came over saying simultaneously:

"Hey you leave her alone!"

"All she did was save that cop!"

"Just because two cops were injured doesn't mean you have to take it out on her!"

"Don't you dare mess with her!"

Beth then raised her hands in the air and said "look guys I'm fine! Just go and sit down!"

Danny then drew up to his full height and snarled "unless you want to join your friends I suggest you back off!"

Jackie then rushed over and shouted "alright enough! You lot go back and sit down and Danny just go back to the hospital before you start a riot!"

Danny just glared at the soldiers and muttered "fine" before taking his jacket and storming out of the Squad.

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Frank had known something had angered Danny while he was at his Squad, but he would just let Linda calm Danny down and the family had still yet to hear Jamie was out of surgery. Just at that moment Jamie's doctor came into the waiting room and went over to the Reagans and said "Jamie has made it through the surgery, but we have put him under sedation to help his body recover from the wounds and the shock"

The Doctor then showed them to the room Jamie had been put in. Each member of the family went to Jamie's head and told him a message, the boys said what a good day at school they had and thanked Jamie for helping them with some homework which they got B's and A's in. Nikki said she hoped he got better soon because she needed someone to talk to other than her mother who would go all lawyer on her. Linda and Erin both kissed his forehead and told him to get better soon, Henry held Jamie's hand and whispered something no one else heard at Frank's questioning look Henry replied "it's just something between my youngest grandson and me". They then went home for some rest so that they could take over from Frank and Danny in the morning to watch over Jamie.

When Frank went to get some coffee Danny held Jamie's hand and said "don't worry Jamie I'll get whoever did this to you and trust me they're going be sorry".