Oh God I am sooooooooo incredible sorry you've waited so long. There was work and babysitting oh and then there was my laziness which consisted of like a gazillion naps . but again I'm sorry so here it is without any delay LNR

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Danny rushed down the halls of the hospital, his heart beat faster than it ever had before. and why shouldn't it, he received a phone call from Erin which was a mess, the only words he could make out were Jamie and trouble. He finally rounded the corner to see his sister standing a few feet from Jamie's room with a look of terror and tears flowing down her face as she clutched her daughter; who wore a similar face for dear life. Once there eyes met though Erin let go of Nicki and ran to her brother almost knocking him over with a full force hug.

"What happened Erin?" he tried to ask calm but it was anything but. She released him from the death grip and stood back wiping her eyes with her trebling hand.

"I don't know I mean one minute his vitals where fine the next thing I know I hear the beeping in his room and see Nicki coming out crying, the doctors are working on him but they will let us know soon." She had simmered down a little and went back to Nicki. Danny admired her mothering skills as she consoled her hysterical daughter.

He slipped away for a minute calling his Dad, Grandfather, and wife, all of which would rush to them. Those calls where tough and he needed to make the them, but there was one more call he desperately wanted to make. he dialed the seven digit number immediately getting the voice mail,

"Hey this is Jamie sorry I missed your call but leave your message and I'll get back to you as soon as I can" A Wave of emotions hit Danny causing him to come crashing down, to the floor in a battle to keep back the tears, a battle in which he lost.

He cried, he cried like the time he got the news his Mother was diagnosed with cancer, like the time the doctor came out and said that there was nothing more they could do and that Joe had passed away, like the time his mother lost her battle and like the time Linda was taken. Memories flooded through his mind, the ones that he never wanted to revisit but his brain had other plans, but like all the other times he cried alone in order to keep the image of being strong present with the family. He redialed the number again listening to his brother's sweet voice unable to stop himself from hitting it again. He didn't even realize Linda walk into the abandoned room.

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Linda was a lot of things to the family, a caring mother, the great listener, the wise advice giver, the excellent cook, but most of all she was a wonderful wife to Danny. The minute she got up to the ICU she realized Danny's absents, she had hugged Erin and asked where he was. She walked around looking for him for about four minutes before finding him in an empty room, he was sitting against the wall holding on to his phone, listening to something that only lasted a minute and then he'd do it all over again. She knew exactly what he was doing, she slowly walked to his startling him she took his phone and slid down the wall next to him. No words were said she just held his hand and they sat in silence for a few minutes before he finally spoke.

"Did the find out what happened, is he okay?" Linda slowly looked up to him and wiped the tears from his face and gave him a fake smile.

"He had fluid in his lungs, and his oxygen levels where bad, they did a procedure on him to remove it, they drained the fluid but now they have to open him back up and find the source." Danny nodded and sniffled as he looked to his beautiful wife.

"I'm sorry you have to see me like this." She put up her hand in rejection to the statement.

"Don't you dare apologize Danny Reagan, this is a very hard time on all of us, and you don't think I haven't seen you like this before, sure you cried in front of us but I've always known. I've always know that this kind of crying existed, when Joe died and then your mom, I was always there but I wanted to give you space. Danny you and this family have been through more than any other family I know, and Jamie is the baby, you have the right to be terrified I sure as hell am, but you don't have to hide Danny because we are a family and we are here for each other." She stood up and offered out her hand to him helping him to his feet. He kissed her forehead and held her tight before they walked hand in hand to be with Family.

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Two more days passed since the scare and Erin was impatient, they found the bleed sure but her brother wasn't any better. His bones where healing up nice though but once he woke up the recovery time would be a long one. Danny walked into the room a coffee in hand and another one being reached out for her to take.

"Thank you." she said as her brother brought a chair next to her, " Any new on the case?" she asked in hopes that they would catch the basterd that had already killed three police officers and injured six more.

"They got a lead, Mick Chaves and officer said that he swore revenge on the precinct ever since they took down his gang four days before Jamie and Cruz's attack. Which reminds me any new on Cruz?"

"He is a wreck just like us, blames himself for begging Jamie to take the case still no matter how many times I tell him it's not his fault. He visited the other day, well almost he stood outside he was afraid to come in." she shrugged and let out a deep sigh.

"I can see what he is going through he is okay but Jamie he is well in this state."

"Yeah well the only person I blame is the one who set the fire, have they brought in this Chaves guy?"

"No he is in the wind which only adds on to the suspicion." Erin nodded and finally got up from the chair that she was stationed at for the past 37 hours.

"I'm gonna go home, dad is going to be on Jamie watch tonight, thanks for taking over I just have to go home and be with Nicki, Jack was nice enough to come back for a few days and watch her but right now I need her." She took a long look at Jamie, he still looked terrible but she knew he was obviously in good hands with Danny she kissed his fore head, hugged Danny and left.

She fought every urge to run back to be with Jamie, it was a battle she had to win. her daughter needed her, the person that meant to most to her. She was so excited to go home and shower and eat normal food. The parking garage was empty as her heals echoed within, it was actually the first time she was alone, in the hospital the doctor's swarmed her. She suddenly felt the over whelming emotions build up inside her, and there alone in the parking garage she cried.

However she was not alone, no she was being watched by a man who hid in the shadows, filling every stereotype of parking garages, this man was none other than Mick Chaves, and he began to slowly creep up on Erin with a knife in hand ready to kill the commissioners daughter to send a message to stop the investigation. But Erin heard him and turned around just in time to see him charging at her she jumped out of the way and began to run to the stares, but he was faster than her and he grabbed her arm and pushed her to the floor. she screamed as loud as she could trying to fight him off of her. He plunged the knife at her missing his intended target, as Erin was squirming and hit got her in the arm. He back handed her slicing her cheek and she tried to shove him off. She was in full Panic mode but with quick thinking she kneed him in the balls and got up.

Again he was faster and grabbed her ankle causing her to fall to the floor, she kept screaming hoping that someone would hear her by the echoes. he dragged her back and kneeled on her pinning her to the floor, she let tears flow down her face as she pleaded with him, but he had none of it. He raised the knife ignoring her screams for anyone around her and began to prepare himself for the final blow. Every memory she had flowed through her mind, the final on ending at the one of Nicki and Jamie when he taught her to drive and showed her Nicki's progress. Chaves gave an evil grin, Erin shut her eyes tight readying herself for what was to come, all before a shot rang through the air and she felt Chaves' body fall on top of her and hearing to knife clatter to the ground, she heard footsteps approaching and the knife being kicked away. She shoved the lifeless body of Mick Chaves off of her before focusing on her hero, There in front of her was Maria, Baez.

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Torn from leaving his brother, Danny went to the ER as he saw Baez's 911 page. And almost instantly he was glad he did. Erin sat on the bed, her arm in a sling from a fractured bone from Chaves kneeling on her.

"Erin oh my god what happened?"

"Chaves tried to kill her, he had the plan out in his apartment, once I saw it I ran to the parking garage and sure enough he was attacking her."

"Is he?"

"Yeah one shot to the head, I was lucky Baez found me when she did or else.." she let her voice trail off she gripped her brother in a one arm hug, soon Linda appeared and she took over the examination. Jack brought Nicki who clung to her mother and then the rest of the Reagan family followed as they were glad the man behind the murders and attacks were dead. Now all they had to do was wait.