A/N- Here's a shout out to my sister who has helped me with some of the terminology for the medical side of things, I obviously was having a mad moment forgetting she spent three and a half years with St John's Ambulance, but here goes.
A/N 2- I must add before I forget I'll be bringing an old character back into the story and dropping one or two bomb shells within this chapter, but if you read this chapter closely there happens to be several hints to one of the bombshells. So now we definitely start chapter six.
The activity around JJ and Sylvie's rooms was chaotic to say the least, both women were deteriorating rapidly and Doctors Manning and Halstead were at a loss as to why. Seeing as JJ was alert, aggressive and causing general mayhem where as Sylvie was alert in a lot of pain but was more subdued.
Meanwhile in the waiting area Detective Hailey Upton and Detective Jay Halstead were walking into the waiting room looking for their desk Sergeant, who had received a call whilst with them and took off like a whippet.
"Upton? Halstead?"
"Sarge, Chief Boden can we have a word?"
Boden follows Hailey and Jay, the rest of 51 and Trudy looking at them, none of them noticing that Hailey was holding a electronic pad in her hand.
"Chief, who was driving 61?"
"JJ, is she to blame? Did she do something wrong?"
Hailey gives Jay a look before continuing "Not at all, whatever she did a few seconds before the truck hit saved their lives"
"Boden we have footage from the crash site" Jay looked towards Hailey "It's not pleasant to watch, but you need to see it"
Boden nods and takes the pad handed to him by Hailey, he wasn't ready for what he was about to see.
In the footage you can clearly see 61 approach the junction and performing a controlled stop, you then see 61 move rapidly and then the truck smash into the side of 61, from another traffic camera on the opposite side of the road, you clearly see 61 spin and the front of 61 smash into the back of the truck and coming to rest 50 foot away from the original impact site.
Boden almost drops the pad to the floor, Jay having to steady him to a nearby chair, Boden shakes his head and rubs his hand over his face.
"How? Oh my god" Boden looks out to 51 looking back at him "They need to see the footage"
"What will that achieve?"
Boden looks at Jay "Are you serious? JJ and Brett are family they have every right to know"
"Chief I don't recommend it"
"Are you going to be the one to tell Trudy Platt she can't see what happened to her girl?"
Hailey gives Boden a look of confusion then places her hand on Jay's arm "Boden does have a point"
Boden, Hailey and Jay approach the rest of 51 and Trudy, at that point Doctors Manning and Halstead come into the waiting area.
"How's my girl?"
Natalie looks at Trudy and sighs "JJ has a concussion and she's become very violent towards everyone, mostly to me. She'll be heading to surgery shortly, she has had a Pneumothorax which I've fixed by inserting a tube into her chest cavity due to her having several broken ribs"
"Can I see her?"
Natalie nods at Trudy before continuing "Thanks to Violet from Ambo 20 for putting JJ's right knee back in or we'd be looking at surgery for that too, Trudy come with me"
Everyone stands in silence, stunned at the information about JJ, they then all turn to Doctor Will Halstead.
"Sylvie's suffering from a severe concussion, fractured ankle and she also will need surgery to repair her ankle. She's also had a Pneumothorax which I've dealt with, Casey you can go through"
Hailey and Jay stood with Boden at the front, giving each other a look, given the information of how bad JJ and Brett were there was no choice, everyone needed to see the footage.
"Listen up" Boden waits for everyone to look at him "Upton and Halstead have footage from the crash, I've decided you all need to see it, be prepared"
Hailey stood with the pad in hand letting the 51 family see the footage, a few moments later there was a few various different reactions from drying of eyes, to gasps and groans to Severide punching an artificial plant.
"Capp pass me your boot" Herrmann took the boot from Capp "This needs filling our girls need us, excuse me"
Herrmann pulls his phone from his bunker pants and dials a number "Cindy? Umm can you get to Med?" Herrmann chokes on his words "No not really, JJ and Brett have been involved in a crash I...I don't know its bad"
Ritter is in pieces stood beside Gallo, Gallo pulls his friend to his side also worrying about JJ and Brett.
"Who are JJ's and Sylvie's POC's?"
"We're JJ's, when we took her under our wing me and Trudy became JJ's POC" Mouch sighs "Which I know means we have to make the difficult decisions"
"I'll ring Sylvie's mum and dad"
Stella steps away from Kelly and rings Sylvie's parents before returning to Kelly, everyone sits in silence not wanting to move.
In JJ's room she was being prepared to go to surgery, Trudy helping the nurses undress JJ from her remaining uniform and into a hospital gown, Trudy was handed JJ's phone and a necklace with a silver ring attached. Trudy smiled at the jewellery and looked at JJ's phone, noticing the last incoming text to JJ's phone.
Trudy grabs her phone and dials, its picked up "Hi before you say anything, where are you exactly?"
"O'Hare airport, why Trudy?"
Trudy takes a deep breath "JJ and Sylvie have been involved in a crash, apparently there's footage, which I haven't seen. Come to Med, text me when here and I'll come get you, oh be prepared for questions"
"Ok see you soon and yes I've been telling JJ over FaceTime to tell 51, but we both know how stubborn she is"
Trudy giggles despite the situation and hangs up the phone, sitting in JJ's room until she received that text.
After twenty minutes Trudy decides to go wait with her husband and the rest of 51, pocketing JJ's phone and putting the necklace on.
"Hey guys that's JJ gone up to surgery" Trudy looks at Hailey "I know you have footage, I need to see it"
Hailey gives the pad to Trudy and watches as she walks away to watch in private, after the footage ends Trudy places the pad on the next available chair, slowly gets up and walks out of the waiting room and hospital.
"Mouch do you have any idea?"
"I wish I knew" Mouch moves from beside Herrmann and goes to find his wife.
Mouch finds Trudy stood beside the wall facing away from the hospital, Mouch approaches slowly and rests his hand on Trudy's arm. Trudy jumps and wipes away tears from her face.
"I didn't mean to make you jump, you OK?"
"No but now is not the time, I'll tell you when I'm ready"
Mouch nods and feels awkward beside Trudy even though she was his wife, just then Trudy receives a text.
It reads 'Going to hold off coming to Med just yet, will come when Jess is back too ICU or whatever, I'm not ready for the looks and questions'
Trudy replies 'Sure I'll let you know as soon as she's settled, go to her apartment complex speak to Russell and say you spoke to Trudy'
There was one word reply 'Thanks'
Trudy and Mouch walked back into hospital and waiting area taking two free seats next to Boden, Upton and Halstead on their right, Ritter joined them on Trudy's left and gathered Trudy's hand in his.
Ritter gave Trudy's hand a squeeze "You know she'll be back to her normal self in no time, JJ's a tough cookie"
"Thanks Darren"
"So Sarge, you seem rather close to JJ"
"What of it Halstead?"
"Just an observation, one minute you were talking to us in Voight's office, next minute you were running out the door"
"I'll make this very clear" Trudy narrowed her eyes at Jay "I am one of two people that are JJ's point of contact, whilst at the crash site Randall text me and suggested I get to Med, good enough for you?"
"Yes, but I've noticed you're always with JJ out of work, JJ sees the nice, smiling Platt. We get the if only looks could kill Platt"
Hailey sensing that Jay was getting on Trudy's nerves she nudges Jay "Enough Jay, she gave you an explanation now drop it!"
"Was it really though?"
"Shut up Jay!"
Twenty minutes later and the whole 21st district team showed up, Voight coming towards Trudy as the rest of 21st sat down in whatever seat was available.
"Any news?"
"No, she's only been in surgery thirty minutes they didn't really say how long it will take"
"Do you need anything, time off or something I don't know?"
"I'll let you know, thank you Hank. Actually you can move Jay away from me before I bury him"
"What? I've not said anything for twenty minutes"
"No but you keep staring at me, told you already the reason but you won't drop it!"
"How about I go sit way over there in the corner?"
"Thank you"
Kim Burgess stood from her seat and walked over to Herrmann and sat beside him.
"Maybe we should cancel JJ's birthday party at Molly's?"
"Yeah maybe your right, its not every day you turn 30 though, special day"
"How about not cancelling completely but suspended it until JJ and Sylvie can be there. I know Sylvie will kill you all if she misses out"
Stella nods "So true Casey, and I know JJ insisted we didn't do anything but wouldn't it be nice when she wakes up to give her something to look forward to?"
"JJ will still tell us all off for going behind her back" Kelly chuckles "Something along the lines of 'I told you not to bother but you don't listen, really you bunch of idiots'"
Cruz smiles "She's not backward at coming forward, but that's why we love her"
"I'm going to miss her lunches"
Cruz slaps Capp across the back of his head "Stop thinking about your stomach at this time"
"I wasn't honestly" Capp looks over at Gallo and Ritter "But if I have to eat their lunches I won't be responsible for what comes out"
"Jesus" Tony groans "He does make a fair point though Severide"
Casey rolls his eyes "How about we all chip in to a lunch fund and live off takeaways until JJ's back?"
Capp does the fingers up sign and starts a total different conversation with Tony, Casey, Severide and Cruz rolling their eyes at Capp, he did love his food.
Exactly two hours later Natalie Manning came into the room, going straight towards Trudy.
"JJ's out of surgery and in ICU, its down to her healing how long she'll be there, but if anything I've witnessed of JJ she won't be there long"
Everyone chuckles, Boden stands up "Any news on Sylvie?"
"I'll go check"
"How long did Sylvie's parents say it would take them to get from Fowlerton?"
Stella checking her watch "Anytime now actually"
Trudy took her phone out of sent a text 'Jess is in ICU, come to Med I'll wait for you'
'OK see you soon' was the reply.
Mouch noticed Trudy texting and had to ask "Who are you texting?"
"You'll find out soon enough"
Twenty minutes later Trudy's phone rings "Hey come on in, I'm in the waiting room with the whole of 51 and 21st"
Trudy stands up and stands at the door of the waiting room trying to block the view of the others, she smiles as the mystery person arrives "You ready?"
"As I'll ever be"
The mystery guests walks through the door and stands in the waiting room, Cruz notices first falling from his chair in shock before standing up again "Mills? Peter Mills?"
"Hey guys"
A/N 3- So I bet you weren't expecting that? There's more to it and all will be revealed next chapter. Anyone guessed what the other potential bombshell is? Good luck.
