- I'm sorry Will ... Forgive me .- Natalie said, crying bitterly.
- Tell me what happened! - said the doctor more and more agitated, but at least without screaming.
He wanted to sound not too agitated, but the monitors betrayed him.
- When you fainted - the doctor began to tell - Connor and I helped you. Jay was there, looking at you with terrified eyes. He couldn't understand what was happening to you. I ... I ...-
- You what Natalie? - asked the doctor, getting up on the bed
- I couldn't believe he didn't understand what happened to you, that he didn't know what he had done to you. He kept asking "tell me ... tell me ... tell me ..". I was very agitated, nervous, worried about you and not wanting to answer him badly... Believe me Will I didn't want to do it ... I immediately regretted it. - Natalie explained
- What did you tell him? - Halstead asked as concern grew increasingly inside him.
- Well, I told him it was impossible that he didn't know what happened to you and that he was the one who caused it. - She replied continuing to cry bitterly.
At that moment Will's heart stopped and broke into a thousand pieces.
All the while, since the "accident" happened, the doctor had been struggling to keep his brother from noticing what he himself had caused and Natalie had finally blasted it all in his face.
Will knew Jay was sick at the time and had tried to protect him. Unfortunately, however, he had failed, in the end the detective had nevertheless come to know the truth and perhaps this had happened in the worst possible way.
Will lowered his eyes and said nothing for a moment. On the other hand, he also understood Natalie's state of mind and her concern. The doctor was wrong to do what she had done, but Halstead couldn't blame her.
- Where is Jay now? he asked sadly a few moments later.
The only possible thing to do now was to find his brother and explain the situation to him. He had to let him know that he was fine and that it didn't matter what he did.
- Where is now? - Asked the doctor again having received no answer - Natalie where is Jay? -
- I ... I don't know. I don't know where is, Will. Actually ... - Natalie answered deliberately leaving the conversation pending
- Actually? Halstead asked with his heart that now beating at a thousand an hour.
- Will, no one knows where he is. He was here about 1am tonight with Dr. Charles and Hailey, and then he left. They don't even know where he is.- explained the doctor.
Will felt as if a bucket of ice water had just been spilled on him. His little brother not only felt guilty for what he understood, but he was gone, gone who knows where.
Will's body is stiffening, his hands were clenched in fists holding the blanket of the bed tight. His gaze was low and some tears, due to the anger and pain that were making space more and more inside him, began to fall on his face.
Where the hell had his brother gone? his face was growing red with agitation.
Several were the feelings that had invaded his heart: fear, anger, sadness ..
The monitors were now ringing wildly, Will's blood pressure had skyrocketed, his heart rate had increased.
He was doing everything to get up, trying to rip the wires and tubes that forced him to stay stuck in bed.
Natalie really struggled to keep him down and calm.
She begged him crying to stay still.
A few moments later, attracted by the frenzied sounds coming from the machinery, Dr. Rhodes arrived in the room.
- What's wrong here? - he hurches
Will didn't answer and stood still looking down.
Nathalie turned away with swollen eyes and a few tears still streaming down his face.
Immediately Connor, who knew the whole story, realized that Will had been informed.
He then approached Nathalie and said in a low voice:
- Why did you tell him? -
- I had, Connor, believe me, I had - she said crying. - I don't know how to lie, he figured it out by himself ..-
The tension that had built up in Will was too much to be borne by a body that had already gone through enough that day. It took very little time for the doctor to faint and suddenly fall back on the bed.