Hey guys! Sorry for the late update. I was trying to shoot for once a day but that is a little too much so expect every other day from now on. Also, this chapter is a little cool down from the last chapter, and a warm up at the same time. I know that chapter two was like this and it was boring but you can't just have action all the time. This chapter was more for developing relationships and figuring things out. Well enough about me talking about it! (*DISCLAIMER* the medical procedures in this chapter are totally what I made on the fly so if there are any nurses or doctors or medical staff, I apologize.)

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"Honestly Mr. Mayor, I just don't think that-"

Frank got cut off by Baker running into his office.

"Hang on Mr. Mayor you'll have to excuse me for a moment. I'll call you back later." Frank hung up the phone and looked at the obviously out of breath Baker.

"This is important, I assume?" Frank asked. He was on unease ever since Danny called him about the new threat to their family, and the look on Baker's face did nothing to help his unease.

"Sir, I'm sorry, but I just heard."

"Heard what Baker?"

"There's been a fire at the hospital." Baker sputtered out.

"Has everyone been evacuated?" Frank asked trying to not let his concern for his son and daughter-in-law seep out.

"That's the thing sir, after the evacuation, there was a shooting outside," Baker stopped and turned on the TV. "It's all over the news."

"Jamie and Linda were down there. Is there any word on casualties?"

"Actually sir, Danny was there too." Baker said hesitantly.

Frank quickly sat down. "What else have you heard?"

"Just that both Officer Reagan and Linda exited the hospital, Detective Reagan and his partner were at the scene, and then a shooting occurred. I figured you would want to take a car to the scene?"

"Let's go." Frank responded grabbing his jacket.

Eddie Janko changed out of her uniform into her normal clothes. Her shift just ended, thankfully, and she was looking to going home, relaxing, enjoying her weekend off, and not thinking about a certain partner that happens to be in the hospital. It seems that ever since she visited Jamie he has captivated her thoughts. Now she's riding with Officer Johnson. Nothing against him, except that he is a total stick in the mud and not one for starting conversation with. It was an awkward day, full of silence.

"Heading out Janko?" Officer Bragg asked.

"Yeah, got the weekend off. You?"

"No, just got called to help with cleanup at a hospital shooting."

"What?" Eddie asked, shocked at the news.

"You haven't heard? I thought everyone had. It's all over the news."

"I just got off shift." Eddie started to panic. "Can I catch a ride with you?"

"Sure. You got family down there or something?" Bragg asked.

"No, but my partner is."

Erin Reagan sat at her office. "Look. Mr. Mitchell. You have to understand the pinch I'm in. You can't just-" Erin looked at her watch. She only had to deal with this for ten more minutes. Then she could enjoy a nice weekend to herself at the house. Nicky is gonna be staying at Frank's and help Henry babysit the boys while Danny and Linda work. She spun in her chair until a scene on the muted TV caught her attention. "Hang on Mr. Mitchell, I'm gonna have to call you back." Erin said as she dropped her phone despite the protests from Mr. Mitchell.

"The NYPD has dispatched dozens of officers to help with the scene." The news reported said. Erin stood, staring at the TV, shocked at the news. "The shooter didn't appear to have any targets although among the injured were NYPD Detective Daniel Reagan, son of Commissioner Frank Reagan. Also among the list is school teacher Thomas Smith, waitress Danica Young-"

Erin didn't hear the rest of the report, because at the mention of Danny's name, she was already out the door.

"Look. I'm okay. Seriously, there is no need to transport me to the nearest hospital or whatever." Danny said for the umpteenth time. "The bullet barley grazed me. It is not even that deep, okay?" At this point, Danny was done dealing with these people. "Jamie, please tell these people that I have been through worse and that I'm fine." Danny asked his brother.

"Danny, I'm not employed in the medical field. If the guy says you need to go to the hospital, then go." Jamie said eyeing his brother.

"Gee, what a help you are." Danny said. "Hey look Doc, if you need to be taking anyone to the hospital, it is this kid." He said pointing to Jamie. "he actually got shot point blank in the chest and leg the other day. He even died for a second there."

At this the doctor's eyebrows lifted. "Why aren't you in one of the transport vans?" the doctor asked Jamie.

"Because I'm fine now." Jamie said. "The doc was gonna let me go home in a few days." Jamie said honestly.

"I still think it would be better if I checked you out. You could have torn one of your stitches. I'll keep you here in one of the tents we set up for now, but if I need to, I will have to transport you." The doctor said directing Jamie towards one of the medical tents.

Jamie turned and looked at Danny with a I-will-get-you-back-somehow- look on his face and Danny started laughing when he winced and the doctor eyed him.

"And you can follow your brother to get treatment for that arm that was "barely grazed". I think you need stitches." The doctor said calling a nurse over to get Danny. It was Jamie's turn to smile now.

"Don't worry, I have an older brother too." The doctor said to Jamie with a smile.

Linda was emotionally done. After dealing with the kids almost being taken, and her husband almost taking a bullet, she needed a moment to herself. After the shooting was over, and they caught the suspect, she first ran to Danny. He assured her he was okay and that it was a little scratch. She saw him walking towards her tent where she was currently helping set up stations for the patients that were awaiting emergency transport. She walked passed Jamie and over to her husband.

"Hey, everything okay with him?" Linda asked referring to Jamie.

"Yeah, the doc is just checking him out. You sure you're okay?" Danny asked looking over his wife.

"I'm fine. You know, your brother literally died saving our kids, and he almost died saving me. You got a good brother. Make sure he stays around and make sure you are good to him you hear me?"

"I hear ya. I gotta talk with that kid." Danny said and then sighed.

"How's Jackie doing?" Linda asked concerned.

"Well, a little shocked. She would have died if it wasn't for our mystery man jumping in front of her." Danny responded. "I have a feeling he wasn't in on it."

"I talked with some of the other nurses. His name is Thomas Smith, goes by Tommie. He's a good kid. A little younger than Jamie. He volunteers at the hospital in the children's center and puts on plays and sings to them and stuff. That's why he was there today." Linda sighed. "I really hope he makes it."

Danny sighed. "Yeah. I do to."

Frank and Erin Reagan appeared at the scene of the shooting at the same time. Erin spotted her dad and ran up to him. "Dad!" She yelled.

"Erin. Good to see you." Frank said pulling Erin into a hug. "Have you heard anything?"

"All I heard was that Danny was hurt. Dad, we almost lost Jamie, what if..."

"No. I would know, you would know. When Joe died, I can't explain it.."

"I get it dad. But we got to make sure he's okay."

Frank and Erin ran into the tents hoping to see one of their family members. They saw Jamie laying on one of the make shift hospital beds being treated by doctors.

"Jamie!" Erin said running up and giving him a side hug despite the nasty looks from doctors that she was getting. "What happened? Are you okay? Are Danny and Linda okay? We heard on the news that Danny was hurt. Is he okay? Is-"

"Sis, I can't answer your questions if you don't let me answer. "

"Sorry." Erin mumbled.

"Danny's okay. In fact he's over there talking with Linda right now. He got grazed with a bullet in the arm. Linda is giving him stitches now. He's okay. Linda and I had a close call with the fire, but we're okay. Everyone is good."

Frank and Erin both sighed with relief.

"What about you, son?" Frank asked.

"Me? Well I'm good. Some of my stitches came out but no big deal." Jamie said with a shrug.

"Well from now on, you're staying at my place. Understood?" Frank said.

Jamie reluctantly agreed to staying at his father's house. Erin and Frank then went over to go see Danny. Before they got there, they saw him talking with a very worried looking Eddie Janko.

Eddie got out of the patrol car to the hospital. All around her was a scene of panic and chaos. She quickly searched the crowd for anyone that could help her. She walked over to the tents to see Danny getting stitched up by his wife.

"Umm... Detective Reagan- I mean Danny?" She said with more worry then she intended to let on. "You okay?" She asked.

"I'm fine." Danny responded with a smile. "And just so you know, Jamie is over there."

Eddie gave him a nervous smile and walked towards where he mentioned Jamie was. On his way there she gave a quick "Sir," and wave to Frank and Erin and walked over to Jamie's bed.

"Hey partner." She said quietly. "How ya doing?"

"Good. Tore a couple stitches, but I should get better soon. How you holding up without me?" Jamie asked.

"It's nice. My new partner isn't so judgmental. Doesn't eat rabbit food so much either." Eddie said trying to lighten the mood.

"Good to hear. I'm definitely enjoying some time alone without someone nagging me about food 24/7." He said in a joking matter.

"For real, I'm glad you're okay." Eddie said. "I don't know what I would have done if something happened to you."

"Hey, you would have been fine, Janko." Jamie said taking her hand.

"No, Jamie, I wouldn't. I think the universe is trying to tell me something. We don't know how much time we have, Jamie. Twice you could have died, hell, you actually did die!" Eddie said starting to escalate in volume. "I couldn't stop thinking about how if you died, you wouldn't have known how I felt about you."

"Eddie, you don't need to tell me." Jamie said. "I know. I feel the same way."

"You do?" Eddie asked.

"Of course I do, Janko."

"What are we gonna do about that, Reagan?"

"I don't know."

"I'm glad we all could make it tonight." Frank said at the Sunday diner table. A lot had happened in the past week. The break in and then the shooting on Friday. Everyone was still shaken up, no one necessarily in a mood to talk. Linda was working until Saturday night trying to fix the mess at the hospital. Danny had to be dragged away from the case long enough to come to Sunday dinner. And Jamie, well, he was already at the house so he came to dinner despite the crutches and bed rest command.

"I'm glad everyone is safe." Henry added. "A suspect was caught, right Danny?"

"Yeah. But not K." Danny responded then continued eating his food angrily.

"Okay changing the topic." Linda said. "It looks like Tommie Smith is gonna make it."

"That's good to hear." Jamie said. "I wanted to visit him to thank him."

After that, the rest of the night was virtually quiet, no one knowing exactly what to say.

"One of my friends at school broke his arm jumping off the roof after a bet." Sean said breaking the silence.

"That reminds me of one time, when your Uncle Jamie almost killed himself jumping off the shed." Erin said making the adults at the table chuckle at the memory and Jamie smile sheepishly.

"It's true. Jamie was really into superheroes after watching this kid's show right? So he would take mom's sheets and run around the house pretending to fly." Danny quipped in.

"Really Uncle Jamie?" Jack asked.

"Unfortunately, yes." Jamie said.

"That's so cute!" Nicky said.

"So anyway, me, Danny, and Joe are tired of him running around the house screaming and running into things so we go and tell him that he can't really fly and he needs to stop pretending. " Erin said.

"Which was not a good thing to tell a stubborn six year old, especially Jamie." Frank said remembering the incident.

"So then," Danny continued with a smile," your Uncle decides to prove us wrong. He, somehow, got to the top of the shed and yells for us to come out and watch him fly." Danny said laughing. " I thought he was just joking you know? But after a while, Joe goes out there and sees him and comes in yelling, 'He's on the shed! He's gonna jump!'. So Erin, Mom, Dad, and I run out just as Jamie leaps off the shed and miraculously lands on a pile of leaves. Sprains his wrist, and gets grounded for two weeks and lectured about jumping off things." Danny ends laughing about the memory.

By now, all the table is in a better mood, and Jamie, being embarrassed by the story, decides to tell an equally embarrassing one about his older brother, engaging the rest of the family in laughs along the way.

"Okay, the kids are in the other room with Nicky while we sit in here and talk." Frank said sitting on his chair. "We need a moment to re group and figure out what we have here. And then stop it." Frank added.

"I really think that Jackie should be here." Danny said. "Jackie and Eddie. They both should be in the know."

At the mention of Eddie, Jamie perked up. "I can stop by Eddie's place and fill her in later." Jamie said. Then, realizing it would be a little difficult to drive with crutches, added "Or I can have her pick me up and we can meet."

"At the moment, I just want to have a family discussion, Danny. You can fill in your partner tomorrow." Frank said.

"So, what do we know at this point?" Henry said hoping to steer the conversation towards the right direction.

"Well," Danny said standing up, "It seems that whoever tried to take the kids and shot Jamie, is the same person as the one who started the hospital fire and the shooting. All we know so far is that the ring leader goes by K. So far the body count is up to four. We need to stop this thing before it goes any further. It seems like K is after Linda and I, but since Mr. Invincible over there accidentally shot one of them, K is after Jamie now too."

"Wait, four? How do you get four bodies?" Erin asked.

This time Jamie answered. "The one that I shot that later died and the one that Danny 's two. Then a kid died in the hospital fire, and a waitress died in the shooting." Jamie finished with a quiet voice and looked down at his shoes while the rest of the room remained silent until Erin broke it.

"What about our mystery man? The one that saved Linda and Jackie?"

"His name is Tommie Smith." Linda said. "He volunteers at the children's section of the hospital. Works as a drama teacher at the high and middle school, and he runs a drama center for at risk kids."

"Sounds like a good kid." Henry said. "Is he gonna make it?"

"The doctors are saying that it's most likely he'll recover, when or if he ever wakes up." Linda responded.

"Does he have family staying with him?" Frank asked. "Having a family there makes a big difference."

"His fiancé is staying there with him. His parents are coming in and out and his brother and niece are flying in from Washington to be there. He's also got a lot of students there too."

"That's good." Frank said.

The room was quiet for a second, before Henry decided to speak up.

"So, do we have an ID on the guy that Danny killed yet?"

"Glad you asked, Pop." Danny said standing up again. "His name is Dmitri Allen. Multiple priors, and I'm talking assault, battery, domestic abuse, animal abuse, and countless others. Needless to say, this was not a nice guy. And as far as connecting him to anyone, the guy went completely off grid two weeks before the attempted kidnapping. No one heard from him, no electronic trail, no nothing. Jack's gonna follow up on some leads, but Allen became a ghost."

"Have you gotten the DNA report back from the blood that was on the window from the guy Jamie shot?" Erin asked.

"Still waiting for that. You know how long it normally takes. Jackie is gonna see if she can get them to hurry up a bit."

"Enough about the middlemen." Frank said. "I want to know everything we got on this K figure." Frank said eyeing his oldest. "Especially since he seems to have a vendetta against you."

"He or she, dad." Jamie said.

"And Danny is not the only one K has a vendetta against either, Francis." Henry reminded his son.

"Yes, dad I know that, but this hole thing started with K having a score to settle with Danny and Linda. Only recently has he or she dragged Jamie into this."

"That's what I don't get." Erin said. "Someone on a vendetta against Danny I believe. But Danny and Linda? Could it be an ex."

"Danny already asked me about that." Linda said. "I dated four guys before Danny. Two are married with kids, one is a company CEO worth millions, and the other is the U.K. as a travel reporter for the Times. I don't think any of them would do something like this."

"Danny what about you? Any crazy exes we should look into?" Jamie asked his brother half joking.

"None that I can think of, smart ass." Danny responded.

"What he means is that it'll take too long." Erin joked nudging Danny.

"Okay, okay but in all seriousness, no I don't think it is one of them." Danny said.

"Which means were on square one." Frank said.

"Not exactly." Jamie said.

"Spill it, kid what do you mean?" Danny said.

"Well I've been thinking. Whoever K is has to have knowledge on the hospital. That closet was not an easy access, at the end of the hallway only some knew about it. Also, they had to have known that I had a guard at my door so they could get past them."

"What ever happened to the guard?" Henry asked.

Frank spoke up. "Someone drugged him and he ended up in a different closet. Woke up when the fire alarm went off and went outside. He's been apologizing like crazy since the whole thing, blaming himself. Can't give a description because he never even saw the drugs enter his coffee."

"Right so I'm thinking, K works at the hospital, or knows someone at the hospital. We can cross check that with anyone that Danny and Linda know or that might have something against them, and then we can work from there." Jamie finished.

"Smart thinking, Harvard." Danny said with a grin.

"Now onto protection. Jamie is going to be staying here with us and we will have an armed guard with us at all times. The kids, including Nicky, will be escorted to and from school. Linda will have a uniform I personally know with her at all times, the same with Erin. Do I make myself clear? I'm not taking any chances." Frank said.

The rest of the family agreed.

"I think that's all we can do for tonight." Henry said. "I'll go get the boys."

"Come on Jamie, I'll help get you set up for tonight." Frank said.

"All right sir. See you guys later." Jamie said to the rest of the people in the room.

Danny and Linda said goodbye to Erin and the rest of the Reagan clan and left, soon followed by Erin and Nicky. None of them would have driven straight to their homes if they had noticed the silver minivan with tinted windows that was parked on the street, watching every movement inside the house.

"Just as I planned." K said. "A little twist here and there, but I like a good surprise." K looked back at a box buckled up in the seat behind the one he/she was sitting in. "And what a surprise this will be."

Well, there it is. A little cliffy. What's in the box? A bomb? A dangerous animal? A misinterpreted Christmas present? (JK) As I said, a little more focused on the relationships and a bridge for the next chapters. From now on, I think that the even chapters are gonna be like this, and then the odd are gonna have more action to them. That will help keep it organized. Also, I love the reviews and can't thank y'all enough! I have a vision for the next chapter and kinda the end of the story so as long as you guys like it, I can keep writing!

Thank you!

~Stoney