Frank went back to the waiting area, there were an older couple and their grandchildren, well that's what Frank assumed, 'Will Jamie even get to have children?' Frank bit his lip in deep thought 'What am I talking about?! Of course, his son isn't going to die today' He got a few glances at his bloodied shirt. 'God, there was so much blood,' If he had the amount of blood on him that he did imagine the amount that was on Joe, Jamie lost a tremendous amount of blood. Frank doesn't think he could ever get it out of his head. That image of his youngest child sitting in a car is going to haunt him for the rest of his life.

He had to change clothes. There was blood on him, Jamie's blood. But he couldn't leave! he couldn't leave Jamie here alone, fighting for his life. Frank panicked a bit. He had to call his daughter, she's the only Reagan that had no idea what happened tonight, hell! she had no idea Jamie was even home. Frank pulled his phone from his pocket, '3 missed calls: Abigail Baker' he dialed Erin's number right away, promising himself to call Baker after. The phone rang and rang and Erin answer on the 5th ring, Frank's heart felt heavy, extremely heavy.

"Hey, dad," Erin answered, she's always so optimistic sounding.

"Hey Erin," Frank tried his best to keep it together. "Is Jack home with you?"

"Yeah, he got home a few hours ago, what's up?"

"Erin…" She hadn't heard this kind of hurt in her father's voice since they lost their mother last year. "It's Jamie… he's in the hospital, he came home early today from Harvard and- gosh Erin it's so bad…" Frank held back a sob.

"Dad what happened…"

"He was stabbed, I don't know how many times, he went to check out Joe's car and when Joe went out there Jamie was bleeding all over the place in the car." Frank heard the sobs from his only daughter, it broke his heart even more.

"I'm on my way.. what hospital."

"Queens."

"I'll be there in 20 minutes." Erin already began grabbing the things she needed."

"Drive safe, I love you."

"Love you too dad, see you soon." She ended the call. Frank put his head down in complete sadness and thought. He heard heels and a few other footsteps walking on the floor getting closer and closer but he hadn't looked up to see who it was.

"Commissioner." Frank looked up to see Abigail, Garrett and his whole security detail.

"Sir, we're going to have to take you into a more secure location," Baker said.

"I am not leaving my son here." Frank was dead serious.

"Of course, we need to secure a room for you and your family." Frank agreed and followed them, when they entered the room he found his chief strategist and a few other people sitting around a table, immediately send again when he entered they all stood up.

"Commissioner." The six people eyes in the room landed on his clothes.

"As you were," Frank said down at the table.

"We brought you here because the person or people that have done this to your son is still in the lose. We don't know who they are or why they have done what they have but they obviously know where you live, we also placed a 24 hour watch on your home, your sons and father are walking into the hospital as we speak, and an officer also caught up with Erin and is driving her as well." Frank was so grateful for his team and baker.

"Thank you all," Frank smiled

"We'll leave you and your family to have privacy," Garret and the others left the room. Frank sat there for a few moments he couldn't believe they are where they are right now, a few hours ago he was happy, his son had come home from college and now they are here, in a hospital as he fights for his life. 'Would he had been alright if Joe or anyone went out with him? Jamie was a 21-year-old man, he doesn't need a babysitter' Frank was brought back to reality by his sons and father entering the room, just as expected their eyes, lost confused and red glazed and devastated. But Joe, he had a bit of a different look on his face, anger, and regret, 'Could he be this way because of my later thought? Is he blaming himself for not going out to check the car with Jamie?'

"Dad… is Jamie-" Danny began.

"He went straight into surgery." Frank answered, "I called Erin," The men had completely forgotten. "She being driven by an officer."

"Here's a new shirt, I don't want Erin to see you in that." Henry handed him an NYPD t-shirt. He quickly changed into it. "Do you think people are coming after us?" Henry asked.

"I have no idea what to think, why a college student, what has Jamie done to piss someone off that bad that they would try to come after him in that way."

"It's because they weren't after him," Joe said, refusing to make eye contact, he was pissed. Before the conversation continued further Erin walked into the room, her eyes bloodshot, ignoring her entrance, for now, Danny said:

"What the hell do you mean." Danny stood out of his seat, for Erin not knowing what the conversation was about coming in, hearing that made it sound very hostile.

"What the hell do you think Danny!" Joe yelled back, "He was stabbed in my car! whoever did it had to of thought he was me!" The family sat there for a moment. Was Joe right? it did, however, make sense, it was dark and Joe and Jamie were the only ones in the family who took after their mother with the blue eyes and dark blonde hair, unlike Danny and Erin taking after their father with brown hair and green eyes.

"Why would anyone come after you?" Frank asked, Joe's silence making it hard to gauge his response.

"Well, Joe?" Erin asked, sniffling.

"Erin." Joe quivered. "Shit, I'm clearly in over my head here." Joe ran his fingers through his hair frantically.

"What are you talking about..." Danny was angry, Joe's failure to share was driving him off the edge.

"Danny calm down a bit…"

"Hell no Pop's, he clearly knows something and he won't tell us."

"You need to chill out Danny." Erin spat. Joe grabbed the notepad and pencil in the middle of the conference table and wrote:

'I don't know who's listening.' he pushed the pad in the middle of the table for the family to see.

Danny's Jaw dropped along with their fathers. Erin looked like she was going to say something, so Joe put his finger over his mouth indicating for her to shush. He grabbed the pad and wrote:

'I promise to tell you everything soon.' The family nodded. Danny couldn't believe this. Joe tore the piece of paper off the notepad and balled it up, putting it in his pocket.

"I'm going to the bathroom." Joe stood up and began walking to the door. Danny grabbed the collar of his shirt.

"No, you're not." He stopped Joe in his tracks.

"Get your hands off of me," Joe said.

"Oh, I'm starting to want you to make me." Danny hissed. Joe slapped his hand away.

"Look at you two!" Erin yelled. "Jamie is in the hospital fighting for his life and you are fighting!" She cried out. "This is ridiculous!" Danny took a breather, he sat back into his seat.

"I'm sorry Erin.," Joe replied sincerely.

"If you go to the bathroom let my detail know," Frank said. Joe walked out of the room and was escorted to the bathroom and waited outside he looked at the red tint of blood on his hands and ran the water, he scrubbed and scrubbed trying to remove the blood from his hands but it seemed not to come off, he looked in the mirror and he was a mess, but he couldn't shake what happened to Jamie, 'Could they have gone after Jamie?" He thought long and hard. 'No... I know they were after me..' He threw water in his face and dried it and his hands, he walked out and the same person who was waiting for him was still there he escorted Joe to a new room, his father must've had his detail move them into a different one, where he heard another voice in there speaking to his family. When he walked in he saw a detective he has known too well.

"Joe, this is detective-"

"Sonny Malevsky." Joe interrupted his sister, making raw eye contact with the man.

"You know him?" Erin replied

"Yeah, we worked warrants together." Joe walked along the side the table he briefly looked at his father in the second Sonny took his eyes off him, the look Joe gave alone spoke for itself.

"That's good you two know each other but warrants?" Erin was completely clueless about the situation.

"Why are you working this case the?." Erin wondered. 'Perfect' Joe thought 'If I had asked this question it would have seen suspicious' Joe took his seat at the end of the conference room table.

"I'm not working the case, the leading detective is at the scene I'm just taking the witness report," Sonny answered. "But please finish your statement commissioner." Sonny looked back at Frank.

"Yeah like I was saying," That look from Joe had changed his whole demeanor. "When Joe had gone outside, the three of us had heard him yelling and when we rushed out there and found Jamie the way he was." Sonny looked over a Joe briefly, as he wrote everything down word by word.

"And why did your brother go out?" Sonny asked looking up at Joe. Joe couldn't believe this guy… but he kept his cool.

"He went to check out my car, as you may know, he just got back from college today."

"And where does he attend college?" Sonny asked continuing to write.

"Harvard Law." Sonny's eyes widened, "He came home two weeks early."

"Is there a reason for that?" Sonny replied

"He said he finished his work early," Danny answered.

"Okay, I'll note that for the lead detective, she'll probably need to verify that with the school… Is it possible he was running from someone at Harvard was someone after him." Sonny questioned

"Doubtful he's a lovable kid, there's no way," Henry replied.

"In these situations, you'll have to be sure, it could be possible one of the students could have done this." Joe reacted to what Sonny had said crazily, Frank noticed Joe was about to say something so he spoke before he could.

"All things will be taken into consideration, thank you so much Detective Malevsky." Frank shook his hand.

"If anything comes up, just let the lead detective know, she'll be here anytime now. I wish your son luck commissioner… Joe." Sonny looked at him, leaving the room. minutes had gone by since Sonny had left and Joe sat there trembling, he balled his fist in anger.

"Joe?" Erin asked she was nervous.

"Damn it!" Joe rested his elbows on the table running his hands through his hair frantically. His family watched him, when they say they have never seen Joe like this, they mean it. "He got me! that bastard got me!"

"What are you talking about?" Henry replied.

"Damn Malevsky.." Joe grid his teeth.

"Keep your voice down Joseph." Frank scolded. Joe wasn't sure if he should tell his family but now he has too.

"Sonny… he's someone I'm investigating…" Frank looked at his son.

"Investigating?" Frank would have known if Sonny had been under investigation, being the police commissioner and all. Joe took a deep breath.

"A lot of the men that I worked warrants with are under investigation, they're associated with a group known as the Blue Templar,

"What?" Erin interrupted.

"Blue Templar was started as a way to police the police after Serpico and the Knapp Commission in the 1970s," Henry answered her question

"Yeah, the group isn't how they used to be, a lot of them are corrupt.. the Blue Templar became involved in various criminal enterprises, including black op drug busts wherein they would kill any witnesses and steal their drug money to be later distributed among themselves." Joe answered "The feds never had hard evidence so they never can arrest any of them. That's where they asked me to join, they later pulled me out of warrants because of the…." He gauged their reactions. "Treats to my life." His family reactions made his skin crawl.

"You mean to tell me.. all this has been happening without my knowledge?" Frank was angry. "I'm the damn police commissioner and I had no idea, not to mention the fact that I'm your father, and you didn't tell me, you could have been killed! and you didn't mention anything!"

"I was going too.."

"When it was too late? oh, wait it is." Danny spat.

"I blame myself for what happened to Jamie just as much as you-"

"Nobody blames you, Joe. We're just angry that you never told us."

"I could have prevented this all…" Joe trembled

"Who can we trust?" Danny asked.

"I don't know... I don't know how much the blue templar has spread or how high it goes." Joe responded

"Well, we can't mention the investigation to anyone until we know who's who," Frank answered.

"We should lie?" Erin asked.

"Not lie, we don't know who did this to Jamie for sure so tell them that don't mention any suspects or anything.." the family agreed. After a little bit of chatting the family stayed quiet for a while, actually they hadn't said anything in hours learning from Joe what happened and what they were up against was terrifying, Erin had fallen asleep surprisingly, Joe rested his head on the table, he wasn't sleep, The analog clock on the wall told them it was around 4:30 AM, they arrived at the hospital around 8 PM last night, the door opened and it was Dr. Mcpartlin.

"Commissioner."

TBC!

Sorry for the cliffhanger! next chapter will be up in two days! Thank you for the reviews please review and like!