"Bomb squad says it was probably a homemade bomb, the damage was huge but not that large, that all we will know 'til forensics come back with results." Kim said walking into the tent with Antonio by her side.
"Any leads on the cameras?" Voight asked Adam and Kevin who still were trying to cover the footage.
"No yet. Couldn't find any pattern or anything suspicious" Kevin said.
Voight sighed.
"Any idea what the bomb was made of?"
"Gotta wait for the forensics." Antonio said.
"I want that forensics to be made in record time, understand me?"
"Yes, sir." Kim said. In the moment she was walking out of the tent Hailey walked in with sadness written all over her face. The whole unit got in silence waiting for words.
"They...They found Will." She was almost crying. "Doesn't look good. They took him to the hospital, but they wanted to black tag him."
They all were in silence. Suddenly the pressure on the unit was bigger than before, if possible. Still, everyone stopped what they were doing for a minute and allowed each other to look at the ground and to digest the information for an instant.
"He's not dead?" Voight asked.
"No, but-"
"Then we don't grief him yet. We do our work. We get whoever did this and get Will and all the victims' justice! " Voight said and they all nodded.
"I've found something." Announced Adam and the team gathered around his computer. "Male. Late 40-ties. Check it out. Last night he parked his car in front of this store, got out. This is a video from another angle. He surrounded the hospital, only returned two hours late."
"So this was probably planned beforehand?" Hailey asked.
"I'm running face recognition, seeing if I can get any I.D." Adam said after he nodded to Hailey.
"Right now he's our number one suspect." Voight announced.
Hailey took a deep breath.
"Will's injuries were compatible with a high order explosives."
"Great, we have somewhere to start." Voight said. "Kevin and Antonio go check any place legal or ilegal that sells TNT, C-4, Semtex, nitroglycerin, dynamite, anything like this"
The duo walked out of the room as Hailey took her position in front the computer.
The drive on the ambulance was the worst moment in Jay's life. Nobody knew the extent of Will's injuries, but lungs were in a bad shape, abdominal hemorrhage and a concussion were clear. It was bad in general.
After Will was loud in the ambulance, Jay's body went in automatic. It was as if he was just a muppet following someone's order, without any thought. A stranger in his own body. When he sat down on the ambulance he tried to grab Will's hand, but the paramedic got in front of him and started to make chest compressions.
Maybe Jay's mind couldn't take the scene in front of him and started to wander to the moments he shared with his brother.
When he told Will about his first girlfriend, the hug they shared before Jay left to go to war. "Be careful" Will told him back in the day. When he came back and had the biggest fight he ever had with Will 'cause he just couldn't understand how Will acted like nothing had happened and the Will left him. He hated Will so much back in the day, but then again, he never hated him, was only mad.
He was taken off his thoughts when the ambulance stopped by the Hospital's entrance. Doctors came by his brother encounter, he knew they would've wanted to black tag him again, but one more time he wouldn't let them. He would do what was necessary.
"Blast lung, probably internal bleeding. Pupils unresponsive and Glascow 3" The paramedic said leading the stretcher out of the ambulance. The doctor was a young woman, her curly hair in a bun, with hazel eyes. She looked like she had been running for the last hour, and she probably had.
"Take him to trauma 2. Who are you?" She looked at Jay.
"His brothers, He-"
"Does he have any allergies. Anything that I should know?"
"No. He-"
"Ok. Move him on my count and get his brother out of here." She said when they made into the room.
"I'm not leaving!"
She sighed. It was a long night; those who by-passed the initial triage on the field were coming to the hospital, not to mention the ones who already were a patient in Med in the time of the bombing. Gladly, only a few were in rough shape, and previous to Will, one patient arrived in critical condition. Today she had seem more blood, head concussions and broken bones them she had in all her 3 years of being an E.D doctor and she really didn't have time to fight with family members.
"Then stay by the door. Don't cross it."
Jay nodded.
"X-Ray in place, clear"
"Blast lung confirmed!" She said looking how Will's lungs were almost forming a white butterfly in the screen. "100% oxygen, Need a thoracotomy."
She started to put a chest tube in him, both sides. Jay couldn't help but look away. One of the nurses was with a ultrasound on Will's abdomen.
"Belly full of blood too."
"Need to get him into a CT" A skinny young man said. He was wearing scrubs like the the other doctor while he pointed a small flashlight on Will's eyes.
"Give him EPI, we need to rise his heart rate!"
The female doctor grabbed the stapler and started to close the wound on Will's chest, stopping the blood coming out of it. It was poorly made, but they didn't have time for stitches.
Jay was almost losing it, in the doorway he could see everything. The bleeding, the running, the noises coming from the monitors. He closed his eyes and prayed.
"Jay! Jay!" He heard someone call his name and he opened his eyes to see Natalie running towards him. He hugged her tight, when she opened her mouth to ask about Will she heard screams and people rolling off the hospital bed with Will on it. "Oh my God..."As all she could say.
Jay took a deep breath and watched as Will disappeared on the distance, being rolled by the doctors further into the hospital.
He fell on the ground, his legs failing him. He didn't want to fall apart in front of Natalie, but all he could do was sob and hide his face while doing so.
Natalie had her eyes on the place where Will vanished. She couldn't look at Jay falling apart or how her friends were being treated in rooms near by.
"The last time I saw him, he was getting on a bay to treat a patient. I watched him on the outside as he sat down besides the patient and talked to him...Jay!" She screamed his name 'til he stopped crying and looked at her. "Jay! Will was closest to the blast. He flew by during it. I think the bomber was his patient."
Jay took a moment before he jumped out of the floor and called Voight saying the exact words Natalie told him, passing the phone to her. She told him everything she could remember. Clothes, skin color, everything.
When she returned the phone to Jay, Voight told him that the description gave by Natalie matched their suspects and the whole team were already looking into it. The only thing Jay could do was to ask his boss to keep him updated.
When Voight turned off the phone, Burguess walked into the room with perfect timing, holding a file in her hand.
"Patrick Stamp. 51 years old. Wife was admitted at Chicago Med three weeks ago and passed away. She had a difficult heart condition, signed DNR and died a few hours after coming in." The whole team already knew where this was going. "Will Halstead was her doctor."
So, Will was the target. However, why to take an entire hospital for only one doctor. It would be easier to shot Will or something, so why a bomb? That were the thoughts in Voight's mind.
They started to discuss the possibilities on the why and how Patrick could've had the access to the kind of materials when Adam stepped out of his computer getting everyone's attention.
"This is a post on a forum in deep web, where P.S. announced that tomorrow they would pay." He explained while the team gathered around the screen. "He was encouraged by someone under the name Exodus."
"I want this Exodus's location NOW!" Voight shouted and the team started to move.
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