We All Have Secrets
AU . Post 3x16. Sarah and Connor connect in the most unexpected way as he treats her father. Rheese twists to the last episodes of the season. Now a season 4 alternative version.
Natalie paced back and forth, it had been 24 hours since Sarah and Connor had been brought in and Sarah still hadn't woken up. Dr. Abrams had done all the tests possible to confirm a diagnosis but there wasn't anything apparently wrong with her.
"Nat?" Will had opened the door behind her. Sarah had been moved to a room on Claire's request. "How's she doing?"
"The same. I just don't get it Will." Natalie said, placing her hands in her face and sitting on the chair beside her friend's bed. "How's Connor?"
"Still in the ICU." He told her. "Dr. Morrison didn't want to take any chances of moving him after what happened in the OR."
"What does Sam say?"
"That his convulsing could have been caused by a number of things, personally, I would consider that swelling of the brain from the blow was what triggered it, but we won't know more until he wakes up."
"Dr. Charles." Jay Halstead made his way over to the Psych ward late in the morning. "Mind if I have a word?"
Daniel looked solemnly at the door in front of him. "Of course Jay, what can I do for you?"
"Well, I wanted to ask you something."
"Yes?"
"As far as we know Dr. Haywood caused the crash." Dr. Charles nodded. "But to what purpose. Did he mean to kill them all?"
"Not according to the pattern. He seemed...desperate."
"How so?"
"Well, he hadn't been able to approach Dr. Reese directly, couldn't get her alone, mostly because she was always at work, with Mr. Sullivan or Dr. Rhodes."
"So, he wanted her alone?" Jay asked. Daniel nodded.
"Of course, he wanted nothing to stand between him and Sarah, but it was clear Connor wasn't going to let that happen."
"So, what? He'd been stalking them?"
"Yes, since coming back to Chicago the night he placed that stuffed animal in Sarah's apartment, apparently."
Jay bit his lip. "So he played them." It wasn't a question.
"Yes, he wanted to make them feel safe again, to disappear from their lives only to come back and…"
"Finish what he had started…" Jay said darkly.
"I don't believe his first intent was to kill Sarah." Daniel told him. "At first he seemed to have wanted to get close to her, playing the victim, the role of a dying man and father. Then he would manipulate her into saving his life."
"Which, Connor did." Jay said. "But why would he try and kill the man who saved his life?"
"Because, Det. Halstead, he had stolen the one thing Haywood thought he could still control to his liking."
Will came face to face with Ms. Goodwin as he made his way to the ICU to check on Connor. "Dr. Halstead, I was just coming to find you. How is he doing?"
"We are still monitoring him closely in case he seizes again." Will said and Sharon nodded.
"What does Dr. Abrams think?"
"Well, there doesn't appear to be any long term damage from what we can gather, but we won't know much until he wakes up."
"And Dr. Reese?"
"She's hanging in there." Will said sighing and tapping his finger on the tablet he was holding.
"Dr. Manning told me she thought Sarah might be pregnant." Sharon said.
"She's not." Will replied, hanging his head down a bit. Ms. Goodwin nodded.
"Alright." She retorted. "Please keep me updated on both."
"Of course. Ms. Goodwin?"
"Yes?"
"Haywood, he's…"
"Awake, yes. We have security in the room now; your brother went to find Dr. Charles." Will gave her a nod.
"I'd like to be in the room, I know Dr. Choi is the one handling the case but I feel like I should be there. I need to look him in the eye and just…"
"He won't feel any remorse for any of it Dr. Halstead." Ms. Goodwin reminded him. "This is a man who's very much been described by Dr. Charles as a serial killer."
"I understand that, but, I mean you have children, you get that, I feel responsible for Sarah and Connor."
"Of course I do." She agreed. "Very well, but please I would ask you to be cautious." Will looked at her as she took her leave, he then asked Monique, who had been put in charge of Connor's care to come find him in case something changed and made his way over to find Robert Haywood.
"Dr. Charles. Here to gloat?" Robert Haywood mused as Daniel came into the man's room.
"No." The other man said, stepping further into the room. Just dropped by to, uh let you know Sarah's alive and so is Dr. Rhodes and the other two men that were in the car with them." Daniel could see Haywood's mind registering his words. "Why are you telling me this?" Robert retorted. "It wasn't my intention to kill them anyway."
Huh...It wasn't?" Daniel inquired. "Then what? You wanted to teach them a lesson?" Robert shrugged but didn't reply. "Or maybe you couldn't stand it."
Dr. Haywood's eyes shot up. "What?"
"The fact that Connor was starting to suspect you, who you were. What you were about."
"And yet he saved me."
"Because Sarah wanted you to live. That's a pretty crappy way to thank them though" Daniel said.
"Dr. Charles?" It was Jay Halstead and beside him was Will. "Can we come in?"
"By all means." Daniel said with a nod. Jay pulled up a chair as if he was in the interrogation room. Will stood beside Daniel.
"I'm pretty sure Dr. Charles has already informed you about Sarah." Will said. Robert nodded. "Yes well, she's been unconscious for the last 24 hours."
"Oh." Robert mused, as if he was almost enjoying it too much. Maybe he was just trying to get Will worked up. "Is she really? Is there anything else you can do?"
"Don't answer that." Jay shot.
"No, I will." His brother beckoned. "Actually and Dr. Charles, you can correct me if I'm wrong but I believe Sarah isn't ready to wake up yet." Jay shot Will a look. "You see, I believe her mind is trying to protect itself from the haunting reality of that accident. Of the idea that, no the fact, that her own father tried to kill her and her boyfriend."
Robert didn't speak but Jay added in. "But there's more. Connor Rhodes is in Intensive care. He could actually die and then you'd actually be charged with murder and not just attempted murder."
Will couldn't take this anymore. He made his way down the lounge to find Natalie. "Hey, are you okay?"
"I talked to Haywood…"
"You what?"
"I just needed him to be aware of what he had done. Even if he isn't capable of feeling any remorse, I wanted him to know that even if he's not charged with the crimes the police are investigating him for…"
It wasn't a secret in hush voices anymore. Olivia Covney or any of the girls on the cases, Jay had done his homework. "He's going to go to jail for a long time."
Natalie reached for his arms and pulled him close.
"I was going to ask Connor to stand with Jay at our wedding. I knew you had asked Sarah to be one of your bridesmaids." Will said, breaking Nat's embrace. "Quite a turn huh?"
"It's not hard to see you and Connor are friends, even if you both seem to not want to admit it." Natalie told him sweetly but Will hung his head down.
"Will, what is it that you are not telling me?"
He couldn't answer her because they heard a pager going off. Nat took it out. "Sarah's awake."