T is for Tasered

"Stop squirming! The more you move, the longer it's gonna take me to get them out!" Erin snapped at Jay, who once again pulled his arm away from her tweezers.

"It's already taking to long!" Jay huffed. He grabbed another set of tweezers from his desk beside them, and began to pick the little pieces of gravel out of his torn flesh.

"So do you believe me now?" Voight asked, walking over to the pair.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Jay asked with a hint of anger creeping into his voice.

"I told you Karl Matts was a dangerous man. He's connected. You need to either stay here, or be at your house with guards outside. No more arguments." Voight said, looking at the young detective. Jay sighed, and continued to pick the stones from his arm.

"Alright, so Matts has priors for stalking, harassment, burglary, armed robbery, and multiple counts of assaulting an officer. After today's stunt, it looks like he's got more people in this city under his thumb than we think." Adam said, pining a mugshot to the board, above two pictures of other suspects. Erin looked up while continuing to read and follow the directions Will had sent her on how to treat Jay's wound. She had wanted to take him to Med, but everything had happened so fast, and the precinct was closer to them. Jay looked at the pile of pebbles on the napkin next to him, and thought back on the events of the past hour.

Jay stuffed his hands in his pockets, glancing around him. He spotted his CI a few feet away, and walked up to him. Jay kept his guard up, noticing the man looked more nervous than usual. He instinctively brushed his hand against the pistol hidden in his waistband.

"Hey man! Whats up? You said you have something for me?" Jay said, shaking his hand.

"Uh...y..yea. Yea I do. I got wind this morning of a gang hit that's about to go down." Pat said.

"You get a location? Which gangs?" Jay asked, checking around them. The man was more shaky than usual, and kept looking at a building behind them. Something was up.

"Uh..yea.. tomorrow. Uh..morning... I can't do this! You gotta get out of here man!" Pat said, lowering his voice, and finally looking into Jay's eyes.

"What? What do you mean?" Jay asked, checking around them.

"Karl Matts! He's coming after you! He's here man! He put me up to this! Get out o..." Pat suddenly cut off, and dropped to the ground. Jay's hand snapped to his gun, and he whipped it out, pointing in the direction the shot came. Off in the distance, he spotted a man in a dark hoodie lowering a gun. The man turned around, and Jay quickly took off after him after checking his friend for a pulse, even though he knew there wouldn't be one. A direct shot through the back of the head doesn't usually leave people alive. He took off with his gun raised, but when he reached the spot he had seen the man standing, it was deserted. Jay bent to pick up a single shell casing, the looked down the alleyways surrounding him, but saw nothing. He was about to reach for his radio when he felt two pricks of pain fly into his back, immediately followed by an intense shock wave of pain through his entire body, paralyzingly him. He gasped for breath as his body seized up, and he dropped to the ground. Then everything went dark.

Jay grunted, slowly opening his eyes. He tried to roll from his stomach, but was stopped by a soft, warm hand pressing gently against his shoulder.

"Stay still Jay. I need to get the prongs out." Erin said. Jay sighed, and relaxed at the sound of her voice. After she had carefully removed them, she helped him roll over.

"Wh..what're you doing here?" Jay asked, looking at Erin and then at Adam, who was standing over a dead body. Jay recognized the hoodie as the man who had shot his CI.

"Apparently we were a little faster than you today. After you left, Voight put it together that you were walking into a trap. We came after you, and we saw two men dragging you to a van." Erin explained.

"Where'd they go? One of them killed Pat." Jay said, sitting up despite the pain.

"Take it easy. Adam killed that one, I grazed the other guy. He dropped you and sped off." Erin said.

"We need to keep track of any gunshot victim that comes into any hospital. We have a first aid kit at the precinct, right?" Adam asked. He and Erin helped Jay up, who was still wobbly from the taser hit.

"Yea. Why?" Erin asked as the set him down carefully in the back seat of the car.

"Something tells me taking him to a public hospital wouldn't be the best idea right now. If Matts finds out he didn't kill him, he's probably going to come after him again." Adam said.

"Good point. Not that he'd want to go anyway." Erin said, rolling her eyes. Jay had started to say something, but there was no need. She knew exactly where he was going.

Jay was shaken from the memory by the a stinging pain in his arm. He yanked it away and looked down to where Erin was cleaning the cut with peroxide. Then she covered them with Neosporin infused bandages, and lightly wrapped his arms and hands. The right hand and wrist had taken the brunt of his fall, and was torn up the most. Erin handed Jay a bottle of Advil, but he refused it, and set it back in her desk drawer.

"I don't need that." He said, still agitated of the whole situation.

"Jay, have you seen your arms? That has to hurt!" Erin said quizzically.

"This isn't the first time I've scraped up my arms. I'm fine." Jay said.

"Ok for one, this isn't just a couple scratches. Two, you got tasered at a voltage that they use on men twice your weight! I need to watch you and make sure there's no ill effects. Do you feel ok?" Erin asked. With the look on her face, Jay knew it was no use to lie to her.

"I'm a little dizzy, but other than that, I really am fine." Jay said with a sigh.

"Good. Now let's keep it that way. Your not leaving this building without an escort." Voight said, overhearing their conversation. The annoyed look returned to Jay's face, but he said nothing, instead returned his attention to the rest of the group, who was focused on how they were going to catch Karl Matts.

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Sorry for the short chapter... I'm thinking of eventually adding more to it because I liked the story line and the idea, but rn I'm out of ideas. Maybe I'll add more to I think some day!