Street tries at all costs to unlock his handcuffs. His team does not know that there is another hijacker among the passengers! This is a serious problem!

Probably, for her build, access from the hold will be Chris's job, and this puts Street in a serious panic.

Meanwhile Galloway, seeing his wife's hesitation on climbing the stairs, understands the plan, and points the gun at Street. In that instant, Hondo breaks in and throws himself on the criminal.

Street manages to free himself, grabs his gun, which Galloway has lost, and runs towards the passengers.

Chris exits the cargo hold, shoots the hijacker. "Attention Chris, get down" Street screams.

A man of medium build gets up from his seat and shoots her. "Chris !" Street yells as he takes down the hijacker.

Chris falls to the ground touching her left side.

"Man down! 24-david is down! Officer wounded!" Street yells at first class where Hondo is standing. "Chris, did he hit you? Let me see"

He starts undoing her flak jacket. "Street, take it easy! God how it burns!" Chris yells at him in pain

As Street frees her from the equipment and lifts her shirt to check the extent of the injury, Tan and Luca arrive.

"Chris what's up?" Tan yells

"Chris!" Luca yells as he runs towards them

Paramedics come up a few minutes later. Fowler leaves the Marshall in the care of the doctors and runs over to Chris.

"What happened?" she asks as he looks at the blood on the floor and the terror in the three men's eyes

"A fourth hijacker was present, and I didn't have time to hit him!" Street tells in panic, but still pressing on the wound.

"Street let me do it now." Nora pushes him aside. "Doesn't appear to have affected organs," she touches headset to communicate with HQ "emergency transport required for 24-david!"

"It's not necessary! It's just a smear wound!" Reassure Chris

"Shut up Chris! For once let us worry and don't be heroin!" Tan stops her.

Street is standing in front of Chris, in a trance state. Katie, the flight attendant approaches him "Hey" he looks at her "how are she?" asks the woman.

Street does not know what to answer, the vision of Chris on the ground injured, in a puddle of blood stops him.

"Chris! She stays awake! " Nora slaps her, now Chris's complexion is whitish, "Tan, Luca, I need you to see his blood type from Chris's jacket and grab my laptop monitor." Nora commands the two.

"Jim," Chris searches for Street. He approaches without hesitation, leaving Katie behind, still not answering her. "Hey, I'm here" he kneels next to her

"Jim, I think I'm going to pass out," Street interrupts her "Chris you're fine, he's staying with me!" her eyes fill with tears in an instant

"Jim, let me talk, I don't have much time." He wipes his tears "ok" chris takes his hand "Jim, I'm sorry I wasted so much time, but today I realized how important you are to me!"

"Chris, your blood pressure is dropping, you have lost a lot of blood, I need to have a transfusion right away," says Nora and Chris nods.

"I'm zero negative, take it from me," Street says

"She has positive RH, only Hondo can donate it" replies Nora, Street can't help herself and throws a punch on the floor.

In that instant Deac arrives "Street, let Nora work, come and take a breath of fresh air. Chris is in good hands. "

He hesitantly releases Chris's hand, and as he stands up, she blocks him "Jim in my locker there is a letter for you, read it as soon as you can"

Street nods and walks away with Deac. The two men meet Hondo who is stripping off his gear, he is the only one compatible with Chris. "Thanks Hondo" Street tells him, the boss nods without saying anything.

They are about to exit the plane when they hear Nora raise her voice and squirm over Chris.

Deacon blocks Street by the arm, aware of the drama that the man is experiencing in that instant. "Street, you don't help if you get in the way of Nora." "Can't miss it Deac! I cannot!"

"Tan, she cuts the shirt. Luca, how long is the EMT here? " asks Nora

"They just landed here next door." Luca answers

"Ok, guys, we don't have much time, the parameters are unstable and it could go under arrest." Nora is organizing herself mentally "to speed up we can start moving it carefully"

"Ok" answer Tan, Luca and Hondo.

They move Chris onto the stretcher, she has been unconscious for a few minutes, Nora has preferred to sedate her to stabilize her parameters as much as possible.

"Let's go down the front staircase. Hondo stay by my side, so that the pipe is not very tight. " Nora says "a few more minutes and I'll take the cannula off."

"Thanks Nora," says Hondo "do you think she'll be okay?"

"As I said the bullet does not appear to have touched any vital organs, but it has lost a lot of blood. I'm confident, and besides, Chris is a warrior, I don't think she'll give up very easily. " Nora reassures.

Luca and Tan quickly take Chris off the plane, where the helicopter doctors are waiting for him along with Street and Deac.

"Street go with Chris, we'll meet you at the hospital" Hondo orders Street, and he doesn't hesitate to move alongside Chris. "Thanks boss"

"Street wait!" shouts Hicks who has just arrived, and is running towards them with a letter envelope in his hand. "This is the letter. Hondo told me Chris wants you to read it. Besides, Street I just learned that you're his legal representative in case she can't make decisions about his health. They told me from Medical Swat that she changed your name just this morning. "

Street is very surprised, not sure if by the letter he is now holding or by the news that he is Chris's legal representative.

"Street we have to go, they have already loaded Chris" Nora brings him back to reality.

"Okay, see you there." Street turns to her friends. "Hondo must notify Aunt Helena and Uncle Sarzo, and Thomas, Mama Pina" Hondo takes his arms "Jim! He goes with her, we'll take care of the rest "

Street nods and runs to the helicopter.

HOSPITAL WAITING ROOM

For about 30 minutes, Street has been walking up and down the corridor in front of the corridor where Chris was taken, without stopping for a moment.

Tan, Luca and Hondo had been there for 10 minutes, and settled on the chairs in the waiting room, visibly shaken by the whole day.

Deac walks through the emergency room door at this moment with the entire Alonso family.

"Jim!" Helena calls Street "how is she? Did you know anything? " asks the apprehensive woman

"Nothing Helena! They said to wait, that as soon as they had news they would inform us. " Street shakes his head and says "I can't wait! I'm going to see if there is any news! "

"Street! Stop! " Hondo "Did you read the letter?"

Street, with shining eyes, looks at Hondo "if I read it it means that I have accepted the possibility of losing her! I'm not ready, I'll never be Hondo! " he bursts into tears.

All the members of the team approach him and try to reassure him and try to make him sit down.

"Street, I think Chris wants you to read it now because you too know how hard it is for her to express her feelings. It was easier for her to write them. I'm sure it's not a farewell letter, also because Chris would never give up on you! today we had the certainty of this as we were looking for a strategy to get you back home safely. " Deac reassures him.

Street, after the tears have stopped falling uncontrollably on her face, takes courage and opens the letter.

Hey Street,

a few years ago I urged you to write "the letter", I told you that it should not be for you but for others. How funny, I told you this when I didn't follow the advice myself. My letter is addressed to my family, the Alonso family, to no one in particular. Just a few lines greeting, thrown there.

Then you came! There is no single term in the dictionary to define what you have done to my life, to the balance and everyday life that I had created for myself.

You started by making me an accomplice to your bullshit, getting me scolded by Hondo too. Tragedy!

You tried with me from day one, and I firmly rejected you. It was my instinct as a super woman all in one piece that spoke. I would have fallen at your feet at that moment if my ego hadn't stopped me.

Your eyes, your cursed dimples, your magical smile, enchanted me right from the start.

Then I met you … I understood that behind your bold attitude there was an immense heart. You are a special, unique person.

Every day, I fell in love with you more and more. The further I went, the more I tried to push my feelings down, and the more they grew.

I'm scared Street! I have something for you that I have not felt for anyone, and it scares me in a way you can't imagine. That's why I always try to get away from you.

We kissed twice! The first drunk and the second sober. As much as I want to blame you for pushing me to admit the feelings we have for each other, I know very well that I had the initiative in both kisses! But you always respected me, and you never made me weigh it.

Many events played a key role in our relationship.

Nate's death, the donation of the liver, the death of Karen and Erika, your relationship with Molly, mine with Ty and Kira, are just a few of the many.

Yet I am still here, stuck in an infinite spiral, in which I have been basking for years.

I LOVE YOU STREET !

I am writing this to you because, still after all these years and after all your confessions, I cannot tell you. It's not that I don't want to do it, but I still don't have the courage to do it. As you always tell me, I built my walls to defend myself from the world.

I destroyed them all thanks to you, Jim, but to bring down the latter I needed some time or something that made it clear even more how important you are to me.

This morning when you told me you were thinking of us while walking around Miami, tears came to my eyes. You can't imagine how much I want to spend time with you, alone, away from everything and everyone, just to be with you!

You also told me you don't know how long you could wait. Well you gave me a shock with this sentence!

I don't want to wait any longer for Jim! As soon as you get off that plane, I swear I will destroy the last wall in front of you!

See you later

Your Chris

Everyone in the room watched Street's expression as she reads the letter. Tears, smiles, sighs.

Just as Street is putting the letter back in his jacket pocket, a doctor walks out the door in front of them.

"Agent Jim Street?" the doctor asks around

"It's me," Street replies, rising from the chair at the back of the room

"Hello" the doctor greets him "you are all here for agent Alonso, aren't you?" now he is addressing everyone present.

Everyone in the room nods

"They are his uncles and cousins." Street introduces them to the doctor

"Then I can talk to everyone" says the doctor "Agent Alonso is not in danger of life. He has lost a lot of blood, but the fluids we are administering and the transfusion that Agent Fowler has carried out in the field are sufficient to allow for an excellent recovery. He doesn't need any surgery, just absolute rest for the next two weeks "

"Thank you doctor" Street shakes the doctor's hand

"And then officer, I have to ask you to follow me immediately" says the doctor, rolling his eyes.

Street doesn't know what to say, he is surprised by the man's request

"Agent Alonso has a nice character, he's been asking for her since he regained knowledge of her, and has even tried more than once to get out of bed, risking to tear off the stitches we just applied to her! "

Everyone laughs at the doctor's words

Street, however, turns to Uncle Sarzo and Aunt Helena "perhaps it is more right that you enter first"

"absolutely not!" Helena takes it back firmly "he needs you more than us right now. And then do you really want me to take out the whole hospital? "

Everyone laughs again.

"Okay, doctor let's go"

The two men disappear into the corridors.