Chapter 13!? I can't believe it. Thank you Thank you Thank you to everyone who has read this. Thank you to everyone who has reviewed, favorited and followed. I'm lost for words, so here's some more Jay having a rough time. Thank you all again.- uconnpaws

Hailey sits quietly 'watching' the movie but her eyes are on Jay. He is on the other side of her couch trying to get comfortable, trying to recline to find that 'sweet spot' but it's not working. He breathes and then holds his breath, letting out "Ohs," and "Arrghs" and with a "Jesus" underneath his breath he drops the ice pack in between them.

"Hailey?" Jay breathes grimacing with his eyes closed, head back resting on the couch. "When can I take another pill?

"Sorry Jay not for another two hours." She replies sympathetically

Jay huffs his disapproval.

"Where's it hurting?"

"I'm fine." Jay replies short.

"No you're not. You just asked me for pain meds." Hailey states.

"Just curious." Jay replies.

Hailey's door opens and they both hear "Hailey?

"You called my brother?"

Will enters the living room. "Texted actually."

Jay looks at Hailey and wants to say something but his breathing is becoming more tense.

"What's going on little brother?" Will asks, putting on his stethoscope getting in front of Jay.

Jay shakes his head. "This isn't ….." He doesn't finish his sentence as Will is listening to his chest. Will looks at Jay concerned, then at Hailey.

"Get your car."

Hailey nods and leaves.

Will moves to listen to Jay's left side.

"No!" Jay forcefully whispers and tries to stop him with his right hand.

Will easily grabs his wrist and listens.

"Take a breath." Will orders

Jay does his best, through closed eyes and a grimace, he takes the deepest breath he can.

"AArrghh."

"I know Jay. Where's it hurting?

Jay motions to his right side but mouths *in the back*. Will snakes his arm in between the immobilizer and places his fingers along the back of Jay's ribs, with the slightest pressure *asking* where. Jay whispers "higher". Will moves higher just under his scapula and Jay confirms with a low groan resting his head against Will.

Hailey walks in, "Car's out front."

"You're not going to like this but it's for your own good." Will looks to Hailey, "Help me get him up." With his right arm still behind Jay, he reaches around with his left, effectively in a hug. Hailey uprights the couch and it moves forward, Will lifts Jay up.

"Jesus Christ Will!" Jay protests with as much voice as he can muster.

Will moves to Jay's uninjured side, his left shoulder underneath Jay's right, motions to Hailey "Twirl that blanket up." She does so. "Now give me one end and wrap the other around Jay's waist, low against his hip. Good. Now we're going to the car."

Will doesn't wait for an answer and just starts walking, mostly carrying Jay out the house to the car.

Jay doesn't have much resistance in him and surely would have been yelling at Will if he could get a proper breath. Instead he pants his disapproval through groans and grunts.

Will sits him in the back seat and quickly moves to the other side. Hailey follows behind, closing up the house and getting in the car. She starts it and has it in gear the same time Will jumps in behind her. She takes off, lights flashing.

Will attends to Jay and doesn't like what he sees. Jay's breathing is tense and rapid. His hand resting more towards his injured shoulder than ribs.

"I can't…..can't…" He grimaces looking at Will through half closed eyes.

"I know Jay." He looks forward to the rearview mirror and sees Hailey glancing back. "As fast as you can." Will takes out his phone and calls ahead to Med.

Chicago Med:

Ethan and April are waiting with a gurney as Hailey's car approaches. Ethan hardly waits for the car to stop when he's reaching for Jay. Will comes around and helps Ethan put him on the gurney.

As they wheel Jay into the ER: Maggie yells "Baghdad's open."

It becomes a frenzy, Jay is moved to the bed, his immobilizer is quickly removed, and an oxygen mask is put on his face. Ethan listens to Jay's shallowing breaths. Jay doesn't even protest, just small quiet groans through closed eyes.

"Decreased breath sounds on the left side, let's take a look."

The machine swings above Jay and snaps. The result is on the screen before it is returned to its place.

"Hemothorax upper left chest."

April has Jay hooked up to the monitors and adds, "Rapid heart rate" while cutting off his shirt.

"Chest catheter." Ethan says and catches Will frowning at him , "we have to do this quickly, a local wouldn't have time to work."

Will nods, deep down he knows it won't help. Will moves to the right side of Jay's head. Jay's eyes are closed, face in a grimace taking short breaths through his mouth: fogging the mask.

Will places his left hand on Jay's forehead and crouches close to Jay's head. "This is going to hurt….a lot."

Jay opens his eyes and looks at Will.

"I'm right here. I'm not going anywhere." Will looks at Ethan who is ready to start.

"Here we go Jay." Ethan moves to straighten Jay's left arm to gain access.

Jay snaps his head toward Ethan and screams in pain. His right hand launches forward and is caught by Will, both knees come up as he tries to move away.

"April." Ethan calls as he starts forcing Jay's legs down on the bed.

April knows what he wants and applies the restraints to hold Jay's ankles down. Will uses both his hands to redirect Jay's head to look at him.

"Focus on me brother."

Jay tries to shake his head 'No'.

"I know. I know. I'm right here."

Ethan secures Jay's left arm and quickly swabs his chest. He looks at Will, "Ready?"

Will nods and grabs Jay's right hand. "Look at me Jay." Jay turns his head all the way to the right looking at Will. Will reaches up and holds his head there with his left hand.

Ethan makes the incision for the tube. Jay tries to jerk away, his legs pull against the restraints and tries to scream. Will squeezes his hand. "I'm right here. I'm right here."

Ethan places the catheter in between Jay's 3rd and 4th ribs and blood starts to flow out. The relief is immediate. Jay is able to get fuller breaths.

"Arrgh!" *breath* "Arrgh!" *breath* "Arrgh!" Jay starts to chant.

Ethan secures the catheter and releases Jay's left arm.

A higher pitched "Arrgh!" as his left arm is relaxed to his side.

April releases Jay's ankles. "Sorry Jay." Rubbing his right leg in comfort.

Jay's painful chant continues and then changes to, "Please …..*breath*...Will…. *breath* Please….arrgh."

"Stats are good. Pushing morphine now." Ethan says.

"Relief is coming." Will reassures.

Within moments Jay's hand goes limp and his eyes flutter close. Will strokes Jay's forehead repeatedly. "Sorry Jay. I'm so sorry."

He looks at Ethan, "How'd this happen? What'd we miss?"

Ethan looks back, stone -faced. "I don't know Will, but I'm going to find out.

At District 21:

"What do you mean, it doesn't matter?" Voight animatedly asks Miller

"Those intake pictures of Jordan and Shawn somehow got to the press. I'm getting phone calls from the Mayor demanding an explanation." Miller answers

"Old photos. My team has nothing to do with that." Voight retorts

Miller starts to respond when Kim's phone goes off. They stop and look at her.

"It's Hailey, Jay's been rushed to the hospital."

"This isn't over." Voight says to Miller. The team heads out.

Chicago Med:

Hailey walks into Jay's room. Will is looking through his tablet sitting next to Jay.

"Hope you don't mind?" She asks.

Will looks up, "No. No. Please. Sit." motioning to the chair on the other side of Jay.

Jay is sound asleep. The oxygen mask is replaced with a nasal cannula.

"How's he doing?"

"Better. He'll be asleep for awhile. He's been through so much."

"What happened?"

"I'm not sure how but it resulted in blood in his chest cavity compressing his lung." Will replies. "I've been going over all his films looking for a change from when he was first brought in to now. I missed something. The 4th and 5th ribs are still non-displaced fractures. They haven't shifted. What caused the bleed? The tube is between his 3rd and 4th rib." Will is more talking to himself now trying to suss it out.

Hailey looks between Will and Jay.

"I missed something….but what? Should have kept him longer. He could have stayed another night." Will continues to scroll through his tablet. "What did I miss?"

Hailey looks at Jay. He looks peaceful sleeping. The monitors display no concerns. She takes a deep breath trying to release the stress of what happened.

"Hailey, what was he doing before he was having trouble?"

The question breaks her thoughts. "Breathing exercises with the incentive spirometer. I was texting you. You suggested ice afterwards."

"Anything weird while this was happening?"

"He was grunting a bit but you said they hurt like a bear, so ….I didn't think much of it." She replies.

Will takes it in and turns to Jay, "I'm going to figure this out" patting Jay's leg.