Devildog3479 you didn't miss anything, Greta is new and you will learn about her, she has something to do with Adam Hillgar.
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If anything happened to Jamie, she would blame herself, more than she already did. She should have just let Adam believe they were soul mates, now he was out there making a plan to kill Jamie. The only comfort she found was knowing that there was always a Reagan with him at all times, questioning everyone and everything at all times. She groaned in frustration yanking at the ropes again only to stop due to the agony it was causing. Why her, why did Adam choose her out of every other woman detective out there? She cursed herself again for not believing Jamie; she hated herself for believing Adam based on his charm and humor, his kindness that had been a front the whole time. She knew Jamie was in safe hands but there was no way to settle her uneasy feeling.
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"What is it Pop," Frank watched as his father kept a concerned look on his face, he hadn't looked away from the door since Frank had settled in an hour ago. He had been Linda's replacement and he felt as if he had missed something major the way Henry's gaze followed the nurses in the hall.
"Linda had a suspicion about one of the nurses that came in to the room earlier; she said she had never seen her before on this floor and that she didn't trust her."
"And that is why you've been watching her; you think she might be with Adam?"
"No Francis, I think she is in trouble," He responded bluntly.
"Why's that."
"The way she is pacing the hall, she has been passing the room looking in here with a worried look." He spotted her again, as she looked in the room, as soon as she saw him look back she looked away. "I don't think she is with Adam, I think Adam is blackmailing her or something."
"That is serious but why her?"
"I have no clue." Just as he spoke Nancy the day shift walked in, greeting them with a smile.
"Hello gentlemen, how are we today."
"Fine today, just waiting for some changes," Frank smiled.
"He is improving, I bet we can transfer him out of the ICU soon." Frank nodded with a smile and let her continue taking Jamie's vitals.
"Nancy, can I ask you something?"
"Of course," She replied placing the blood pressure cuff on Jamie.
"What do you know about that nurse, Greta," Henry asked.
"Greta Lewis, oh poor thing she is a sweetheart, she is actually a float nurse, I do believe she works on 2400."
"A float nurse huh, she looks upset everything okay with her?" Nancy leaned in and in a whisper relayed what she knew of Greta's past.
"He son is in jail, he is a good kid just a little lost after his father past, he has another month to go but from what I hear he isn't doing so well."
"Poor thing," Henry said giving Frank a knowing glance.
"Yeah, really she has been through a lot, I think knowing he will be out in a month is helping her anxiety but she worries obviously, she is a mother you know."
"Of course," Frank replied.
"If you need anything I will be out here, Jamie's vitals are looking good, I'll see you gentlemen later." As soon as she left, Frank pulled out his phone out and dialed Danny.
"You were right pop I think she is in trouble."
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"Anything on her," Danny asked as he rushed to his desk. He had just returned from the third precinct in Manhattan after getting a call from his father. Baez had been closer and quickly rushed back to look up Greta and her son Adrian.
"Well Greta is clean, she is loved by all on her floor and she is very charitable. As for her son it looks like one wrong mistake has sent him to juvie."
"What's he there for?"
"Of all things robbery which left the store owner dead, killed by a local gang member Julio Vasquez, he is doing hard time in Rikers."
"So Adrian was part of a gang and got caught up, now he is in jail and being used as black mail."
"Actually Adrian was a star student up until his father died in a drive by, just an innocent bystander, the gang was Los Reyes, the rival gang that Adrian was trying to join; The outlaws."
"Makes sense, kid wants revenge and is stupid enough to get himself in the mess."
"Exactly," She nodded, the kid had stated he made a mistake, he was just grieving and in the correctional facility, it was said that he was a good kid.
"How does Hillgar fit in?"
"Arresting officer of the drive by shooter which everyone suspects was wrong says that the supposed shooter Antonio Gonzalez is covering up for the leader's brother Ramone Fuentz."
"Alright we need to talk to Greta; she is our key to figuring out Adam's game plan."
"Whatever it is, my best guess is that it ends with Jamie being in the cross fires."
"That's what we need to avoid."
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Greta Lewis sat in the chair across from Danny and Baez, squirming uncomfortably. They sat in the hospital break room where Danny and Baez had cornered her trying to keep any knowledge of their encounter secret. Greta sat looking down at the tissues in her hand, tears brimming in her eyes; she knew why she was there.
"Greta, we know about Adrian," Baez said softly. She was going to be the good cop in this situation because by just a quick side-glance she could tell he was ready to go off. Greta looked up a tear slipping down her cheek as she let out a soft sob. "We know that this has to do with Adam Hillgar," Maria watched as Greta's emotions changed, her face showed fear but also hatred.
"We trusted that son of a bitch," She sobbed out. "When Jackson died my life was ripped to pieces, my son no longer had a father and I was a widow. I was lost and out of the blue this nice detective said he would help us through this." She scoffed as if to indicate that the idea was stupid. "My son changed, he got in trouble and Adam helped bring his sentence down, god I was so stupid."
"So he did something for you and said you owed him," Danny summed up.
"I knew I owed him but I never thought the cash in would be this horrible."
"How did Adam contact you," Baez asked softly.
"Yesterday I got a call, it was Adam, I'd seen the news, about a rogue cop and I couldn't imagine it being him!"
"But it was, what did he say," Danny demanded. Baez gave him a warning glare; they weren't going to get anything out of her if he yelled at her.
"He told me that I owed him, that if it weren't for him my life would be shit, I wouldn't be how I am today and my son would be dead." She grinded her teeth as she tried to settle the rage. "I told him to never call again but then he said if I didn't help him…"
"He would hurt Adrian," Danny finished her sentence.
"Not hurt, KILL," She let out a sob. "I am so sorry, I'm not a killer, I went into Officer Reagan's room to do as I was told but then I looked at him and I couldn't do it."
"My wife stopped you," Danny corrected her.
"No and yes, I've heard about Linda, sweet woman but I don't see her I work in brain injury which is almost a separate place, we don't get out of there."
"What brought you to ICU?"
"He hurt a nurse, Ashley, they are already short staffed everywhere and brain injury isn't so when they needed to pull a nurse I volunteered." She shook her head as she wiped her tears from her face. "Like I said I took one look at your family and I thought about what it would be like if someone did this to my son and I stopped, that's when your wife questioned me and kicked me out."
"We have reports saying you were pacing in front of his door, why?" Danny had lost his anger, this woman was not a killer and she knew it but she also did not tell them about Adam's plan.
"I think he has a back up on the floor in case I don't do it, I was worried."
"Do you know who?"
"I had my suspicions, I think it maybe Al the nurse, he is a great guy but his brother is troubled, I just wanted to be sure."
"Okay are you sure?"
"I'm sure I was wrong, before you pulled me in I was watching Al, he hasn't been near officer Reagan's room, I think I'm being paranoid, I have that mother instinct, I can't watch an innocent man be killed."
"You should have come to us."
"And say what?" She asked still crying. "Hi, I'm Greta and I was sent to kill your son, please arrest me now."
"We wouldn't have arrested you, but you lied and are impeding an investigation."
"Please, please don't arrest me, if you take me out of here is cuffs Adam will be watching and I will lose my son. He only has a month left there, he is almost done, please I didn't hurt your brother don't let him hurt my son," She pleaded through sobs collapsing back in her chair. Danny looked at her, he knew he had to help her, he had an instinct in him to, if it were his son he'd want the help too.
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The locks on the doors were being unlocked; he was back, he was coming back, and did that mean Jamie was dead? Eddie started to hyperventilate tears brimming in her eyes as she waited or Adam to walk down those stairs. The door opened and for a moment she was blinded by a light, from the brightness she guessed it was a flashlight, a large one.
"Hello my love," Adam sang in a cheery tone as he made his way to her. She wanted nothing more than to yell at him but her voice was long gone. Instead, she glared at him intensely, pulling away at his attempt to caress her cheek.
"Now now Eddie, there is no need for fits." He smiled throwing a paper bag on a tray and brought it to her. "I have has such a long day, dodging the police's eye is hard work but planning is even harder." Her eyes grew wider and she lunged forward only to be yanked back by the handcuffs, a small squeak meant to be a scream on pain came out.
"It will be over soon my love, you'll see you and I were meant to be." He pulled out the food from the back and prepared it. She could not believe he was so delusional, she was so angry and she most definitely did not want anything from him. With his free hand, she threw the food over to the floor. "Damn it!" He yelled standing up and wiping the soup off his pants. She felt a quick ting of pride, which was short live because he raised his fist and began to beat her. She tried to deflect the blows, kicking him as hard as she could but it was no lose. The whole ordeal only lasted a few minutes but by the Eddie laid on the floor sobbing, still protecting herself in a fetal position.
"You should stop being so stubborn, I don't want to do this but it's the only way you will learn and I am not bringing you anything if you won't appreciate it," His voice now calm scared her. He went to kiss her on the head and she quickly flinched away.
"Fine I will leave you alone but sooner or later you will have to learn I am not the bad guy." He picked up the containers and mopped quickly, she never removed herself from that fetal position, she just laid there and cried.
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"BP is dropping," A doctor yelled running beside Jamie. In the corner, Linda held Henry's hand sobbing as she watched Jamie begin the spiral. Danny ran in quickly and looked at the scene, fear worn evidently.
"What the hell happened, he was okay, what happened?" Linda shook her head, she did not know, she could not understand it.
"I am so sorry I have to have you leave," The nurse began to push them out as the doctor began to yell something about an amp of Epinephrine. As soon as they were out the nurse gave them a sympathetic look, which only gave them a larger uneasy feeling as she quickly shut the door. The last thing any of them was one of the doctors over Jamie doing compressions and the monitor letting out loud alarm beeps. Linda collapsed in Danny's arms crying into his shoulder, he was still in shock. Nicki walked into the unit as soon as it happened, nose in a book but as soon as she looked up at her family outside her stomach dropped.
"What happened," She asked. When no one answered, she felt her breath become quickened as well as her heartbeat.
"Oh honey," Linda let go of Danny and wrapped her arms around her niece. Nicki dropped her book to the floor and clutched hard onto her aunt as they both sobbed. "They are the best at what they do," Linda reassured her even though at that moment she was terrified. Their embrace soon became a group hug as they silently prayed.
Linda knew the doctor who had just walked out of Jamie's room; he was a doctor that used to work in the ED during her internship when she had first started. He was a kind man, one of the good doctors who actually talked to the patients, as they were people so when she saw him walk out of the door her heart stopped. She quickly grabbed Danny's hand and squeezed it hard. Dr. Matthew Reid walked up to them, his face was enough for Linda, and she had seen it too much, too many times here in this place.
"No," her voice shook, her eyes burned with tears. She shook her head beginning to sob, "No please, don't say it, please."
"I am so sorry, we tried everything, his body was just too battered…"
"No, no not him please," Henry pleaded wrapping his granddaughter in his arms.
"We tried to resuscitate him, but his heart just gave up, I am so sorry for your loss." Danny felt the tears prickling in his eyes as he held his wife close, the doctor had called it; Jamie was gone.
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Eddie has stayed in her corner, lost, she did not know if she was ever going to make it out of there alive. She held her hand to her sore cheek; no doubt, it was bruised along with her eye and arms. A hint of a coppery taste sat in her mouth as her split lip bled. She did not know what Adam was doing down in here in the basement with her but she had not even looked his way since her walked down the stairs instead she focused on the wall, lost in thought. It took him almost twenty minutes before he cleared his throat and addressed her.
"I figured you should see this." He pulled a small television to her but she still refused to look so instead, he turned it on and she listened to the newscaster.
"Thank you Susan," The man behind the camera said in a cheery tone, they must have just finished the good news. "In other news, Commissioner has suffered another family tragedy today when his son Officer Jamison Reagan passed away from complications." Eddie whipped around in shock; it had to be a lie.
"Officer Reagan was one of the Tarot Card Killer's victims bringing the count up to five dead and one survivor." It was four dead because of that killer, she knew that the Reagan family and Baez were keeping that hush hush but now Jamie was gone, he was gone. She let the tears fall down her face, she was so exhausted, she had been crying all day, she had become slightly dehydrated.
"Officer Reagan, a seven year veteran to the NYPD is the second son of Commissioner Frank Reagan to be killed in the line of duty, our thoughts are with them in this difficult time." The newscaster finished and Adam turned off the television.
"You're a monster," She rasped out, barely audible.
"I'm not a monster Eddie, I'm just fighting for us, we can be together now, and there is no distractions, no one else just us." The thought made her sick to her stomach but she deserved it, she just got her best friend, the man she loved killed, so whatever happened from here on she deserved it.