A/N a sort of missing scene for the episode of Black and Blue I felt there should have been a brotherly moment at about the time I have set this chapter, I mean look at Danny's face when he saw Jamie come out of the church and when Jamie is sat on the end of the Ambulance! Yes the scene when Jamie is getting patched up is touching, but the episode had lots of chances for seeing some good brotherly moments. Anyway end of the sort of rant and on with the chapter!

It had almost been a year since the Reagan's took down the Blue Templar. Things between Danny and Jamie had improved somewhat, but they weren't where they used to be when Jamie was 7 and Danny was 17. They still argued, Frank would think something was wrong with them if they didn't, although, things had been peaceful for about a month after the take down of the Blue Templar if Danny had to stop by the 12th he would go downstairs and see if Jamie was around and check to see he was ok. Frank figured this was Danny making sure Jamie was fine and he wasn't going to lose another brother to the job, but things soon went back to normal when Danny had come to drop of the meat for Sunday's dinner and Jamie had come over before he headed home. Henry had heard that Jamie had helped some Detectives out of the 12th take down a drug operation and Henry wanted to hear the story from Jamie himself, Henry had always prided himself on knowing what was going on with his grandchildren and being able to offer advice if it was needed. So Jamie had been describing what had happened when Danny decided to put in his own comments about the raid. Then after that… well, things soon went back to normal and with no Joe to keep the peace… well Henry felt a little bit like being out of his depth dealing with his two arguing grandsons. The argument had ended with Jamie storming out calling to Henry he'll see him on Sunday, leaving Danny with a glaring Henry. It's safe to say Danny made a hasty retreat. That Sunday had been a tense affair with Nikki drawing the short straw and ending up sitting between her two uncles, Linda had wanted to keep the boys out of the middle and she herself didn't want to be stuck between Danny and Jamie, Erin felt sorry for her daughter but not enough to offer to swap seats. After dinner Jamie had offered to wash the dishes, Frank volunteered Danny to do the drying and before Jamie realized who had come to help him Frank had closed the door on them. Within half an hour the two brothers were laughing together, at the expense of Erin, but on this occasion she let it slide as at least her brothers were talking. As like it had been through most of their lives Danny may fight with Jamie, but it all boiled down to if someone messed around with Jamie, they'd have to answer to Danny.

So when Danny and Jackie had responded to the 10-85 Danny had not been expecting Jamie to stagger out of the church, at first Danny had thought Jamie was helping the officers who had called the 10-85, because he knew Jamie patrolled this area as his beat so he was expecting to see Jamie here responding to the 10-85. So he called out to Jamie asking what was going on because if Jamie was helping the officers that would mean he was one of the first on scene. But that all changed when he then saw the blood all down one side of Jamie's face and when he saw the officer Jamie was helping was Renzulli.

When the situation had calmed somewhat and while they waited for the Ambulance Danny sat Jamie down and inspected the wound on Jamie's head and asked what happened to cause the wound, he wasn't going to ask for details on what started the riot until Jamie had been checked over.

"So kid what caused this wound on your head?"

"Wound? You make it sound like I was in a battle; it's just a cut anyway and you know injures to the head bleed lots anyway"

"Ok fine. What caused the cut on your head?" smirked Danny; at least Jamie was in better shape than Renzulli who was currently leaning against a car with Jackie talking to him.

"Erm we just fell" answered Jamie, Danny was transported back to when Jamie was 10 and was avoiding telling Danny about the bruise on his face, ironically the same side of Jamie's face that now had drying blood on it. Danny also remembered when Jamie was 18 and he finally told Danny the truth in a fit of rage, saying he didn't tell Danny the truth because Danny questioned him like a suspect and he also knew Danny would flip out. So Danny tried another tactic.

"So you fell on flat ground? You trip over your own feet?... again." chuckled Danny, remembering Jamie injuring himself that way a lot growing up.

"No" smirked Jamie "I haven't done that in years"

"Well what I'm seeing in front of me, looks to me the consequences of falling over your own feet, I mean you did that a lot and ended up looking like you are now more times than I can count".

Jamie huffed to himself and relaxed a little bit which is what Danny was aiming for.

"Fine, we entered the building they wouldn't let us through, we went in anyway. We got about halfway up the stairs where we met two more guards, and a couple behind them. Renzulli and I then tried to get past them, which ended with us being pushed down the stairs" Jamie's voice had grown quieter as he finished what he was saying and he was now looking at the ground, missing the look on Danny's face, which was probably a good thing.

"They pushed you down the stairs!" exclaimed Danny his face going slightly red with anger.

"Yeah and those stairs weren't that soft either"

Danny stopped from beginning his rant to look at Jamie, "soft? Since when are stairs soft?"

"Well maybe soft is the wrong word, but anyway the stairs at dad's house are wooden and hurt less than the stairs I just fell down"

"What were stairs like that you just fell down?" Danny didn't know if he wanted to hear what Jamie was going to say.

Jamie seemed to realize what position he just put himself in, but knew he wouldn't get away without answering, because Danny managed to get him to answer his question without realizing. Huh maybe Danny is starting to understand I'm not one of his suspects, and how long has that taken? 25 years to be exact –

"Jamie"

"Oh sorry, um… er…"

"Jamie" said Danny exasperated, really Jamie could really get lost in his thoughts. Daydreamer thought Danny with a soft smile playing on his lips.

"Marble" murmured Jamie,

Danny was now back to seeing red, Jamie noticing this quickly thought of something to say to distract Danny from his rage, and for once it actually worked.

"Yeah well at least when you shoved me down the stairs you did it with less force"

"Huh? When did I shove you down the stairs?" Danny was trying to remember this, he never shoved Jamie down the stairs. Did he? Surely if he did he would have answered to Joe, and that wouldn't have been pretty, Danny made a point to try and not get himself in a position to be lectured by Joe.

"I was about 8 and it was just before your 18th birthday. Erin was on a date and Joe was at a friend's house, I was hobbling down the stairs as my sprained ankle was only just healing after I tripped playing basketball and I was going to slow for you apparently and you rushed past me knocking me down the last five stairs"

Now Danny remembered! And that is why Joe never found out about it! If Erin had been there she would have told Joe, but Danny had convinced (in other words bribed) Jamie into not telling Erin and Joe and in return Danny would help/do some of Jamie's homework for two months and do some of Jamie's chores (the ones their mother wouldn't notice Danny doing) for a month.

"Oh yeah, well you were going slow"

"I had a sprained ankle!"

"Yeah and dinner had been called!"

"That's no excuse I was 8! So I was smaller than you!"

"Taught you to get downstairs quicker though!

"More like it taught me to never get between you and food!"

"Hey! Well at least I can thank you for not telling Joe about that one" Danny then noticed Jamie smirking, "you didn't tell him did you Jamie?"

"Yeah how could I not!"

"What do you mean?"

"Danny I had to stay in bed an extra week with my ankle and I tried telling him I tripped over my own feet and he saw I was covering for something so I had to tell him the truth!"

"I'm surprised he didn't kick my ass!"

"Oh he wanted to believe me! But I told him what you agreed to do for me if I didn't tell him and so he agreed that it was definitely worth my while to pretend I hadn't said anything"

Danny gaped at Jamie, he had never realized how good at scheming Joe and Jamie had been even at a young age, they definitely took after him in that aspect.

Jamie breathed a sigh of relief; he had stopped Danny from freaking out about what had happened. What he didn't realize was that he hadn't taken Danny's mind of what had happened he had just lessened Danny's frustration at that moment in time.

The sirens of two Ambulances announced their arrival; Jamie turned to Danny and said "who got two Ambulances? I'm fine!"

"Your fine once the EMT's say you are!" replied Danny firmly, he held back a snigger when Jamie sighed and went to one of the Ambulances. Danny sat on the curb of the pavement counting his lucky stars Jamie was ok, the situation could of ended in a totally different way, with Jamie being seriously hurt, but if all Jamie came away with was a cut and some bruises then Danny was happy, he would have preferred Jamie not getting hurt. But if Jamie was to have got hurt he rather the way events had turned out by far.