"Halstead, back away and give the Paramedics some room to do what they need to do." Voight said touching his Detective's shoulder. Jay turned around and stood to see Gabby Dawson and Sylvie Brett come into the Admiral's Club. "Oh My God! It's Christine." Sylvie said as she stood over my unconscious body. "You know her?" Jay asked. "Yeah. Gabby and I both do. We met her at the hotel she works at. We had gone out with Stella for girl's night a few months back and figured we would try out the new lounge at the Beacon Hotel. Christine came over and introduced herself as she was walking through the lounge to make sure we had everything we needed. We told her we were just grabbing a cocktail before we went out for dinner. When she learned we were locals and worked for the Chicago Fire Department she insisted we have dinner at the restaurant in the hotel. When it was time for us to get the check, our server said Christine picked up the check to thank us for what we do. Apparently, she has lots of relatives back in Boston who work for the Fire Department." Sylvie said as Gabby finished checking my vitals. Two firefighters, Matt Casey and Kelly Severide, walked through the door to make sure their assistance wasn't needed. As they looked over my body Kelly blurted out "Is that Christine?" "Jesus, don't tell me you know her too?" Ruzek aked as Matt and Kelly lifted the backboard Gabby & Sylvie had slipped under me and placed it on the gurney. "Yeah. I'm surprised you guys don't. She pops into Molly's every now and then." Matt said. "Not as often as I would like." Kelly said as the guys watched Sylvie and Gabby roll the gurney I was on through the terminal.
A couple of hours later Jay knocked on the door to Voight's office. "Sarge, I finished up the paperwork on today's incident. I'd like to cut out and head to the hospital to check on Christine. I have her cell phone and answered when her Dad called for the fifth time. I told him I would call him when I have more information." Jay said. "Go ahead. Atwater, go with him and watch his back. I'm not 100% sure this Cartel thing is done with. I also told Platt I want a uniform posted on Christine's door. She shot Ramon. He's going to demand payback even from jail. Let me know how she's doing" Voight replied. "Thanks, Sarge. I'll text you later." Jay said as Atwater followed him downstairs. Voight got up from his desk and saw Al and Antonio still at their desks. "What do you have for me?" he asked. "The bomb threat was just that. A threat. We think it had more to do with getting to Halstead. With Ramon taking out Rico, his number two, and him now facing jail time there's going to be a lot of movement within the ranks. I see Little Ricky moving up to be Ramon's number two. He's not like Rico. He is a complete monster and will carry out any order Ramon gives him without question. Of course, there is still El Gato the head of the Cartel to contend with. He holds Halstead responsible for the death of his daughter. He isn't going to give up too easily, even being in Colombia, on justice for his daughter." Antonio said. "I called in a favor and I have two plain clothes detectives from District 30 watching Halstead's back. Unless you want someone in house on him." Al told Voight. "No. Let's leave the two from District 30 on him but I also want someone from here with him 24/7. I don't care who it is but someone is going to be on him until we have this cleared up. I'm gonna give him tonight but then he is going to be staying with me for the time being." Voight replied. "Oh, I'm sure he will love that." Antonio said to Al after Voight returned to his office. "It will be okay. They've gotten closer since Erin left. Halstead needs to get it through his head that it wasn't his fault and it isn't his fault this girl got shot either." Al replied.
Jay and Atwater strolled thru the doors to the E.D. of Chicago Med and were greeted by Jay's brother Dr. Will Halstead. "What are you doing here?" Will asked. "I need to check on a patient. Her name is Christine Brennan. Gabby & Sylvie brought her in earlier." Jay replied. "The girl who was shot at O'Hare? I think she's still in surgery. Give me a minute and I'll check with Maggie." Will said. "Still in surgery? Bro, that doesn't sound good. She's been here for a couple of hours already" Atwater said as they watched Will check with Maggie, the Charge Nurse of the E.D.. "She's up in ICU." Will said as he walked over to them. "If you want to come with me I'll take you up to her room." As Jay, Kevin & Will reached Christine's room they saw Sean Roman was the uniformed cop Platt had assigned. "Roman, I'm glad to see you man. Welcome back to Chicago. We've missed you." Kevin said to him as Dr. Connor Rhodes, Chicago Med's top Cardio-Thoracic Surgeon, walked out of the room. "Dr. Rhodes! What are you doing here? We thought the only injury was the gunshot to her leg." Jay said. As Connor explained to them he had been on call in the E.D. when I had been rushed in, Jay peaked into the room to see if I was okay. "Is she okay? Is she awake? I told her Dad I would call him once I saw her." Jay said. "She's a little out of it right now, due to the pain medication, but you can talk to her for a few minutes. The nurse just gave her something to help her sleep through the night so you may only have ten minutes top with her before she falls back to sleep." Dr. Rhodes replied.
"Christine? How are you feeling?" I heard a voice ask. "Water...please." was all I could get out. I opened my eyes to see him...the cop with the green eyes standing over me. "Thank you." I said as I tried to sit up so I could drink the glass of water he held in front of me. "Hold up. I'll help you." the other cop who I recognized said as he walked into the room. As he helped me sit up, green eyes said to me "I'm Detective Jay Halstead and this is Detective Kevin Atwater. We wanted to check on you to see how you are doing. We will eventually need to get a statement from you but it can wait until tomorrow...well actually later today since it's after midnight. I spoke with your Dad earlier. I picked up your cell phone from the Admiral's Lounge and after the fifth time he called I decided to answer it. I told him either you or I would call him back." "Can you? I'm just too tired right now and I think it might be a little more emotional than I can handle. Or at least put him on speaker so he can hear my voice for a second." I said. Jay called my Dad and he answered on the first ring. "Christine?" his voice filled with concern came over the phone. "Mr. Brennan, this is Jay...uh Detective Halstead. We spoke earlier. I'm here in your daughter's hospital room. She got out of surgery a little while ago and is still a little out of it due to the anesthesia and pain medication but asked me to put you on speaker so you could hear her voice." Jay finished as I said "Hi Dad." "Oh God" he said, his voice breaking. "I've never been so happy to hear you speak since the day you said your first words. Happy Birthday, Baby Girl. I love you so much and thanks to the storm letting up I'm booked on a flight first thing tomorrow morning to see you." "I love you, Daddy. Tho I don't know if you can call me Baby Girl anymore. I'm thirty now. I'm officially old" I said. "Christine, you will always be my Baby Girl no matter how old you are. Remember age is just a number. You're only as old as you feel." he replied. "Well I must be 110 today because that's how I feel. I need to get some sleep Dad. I'll see you tomorrow." I said as Jay took the phone off speaker and walked out of my hospital room to continue the conversation with my Dad. He returned a few minutes later and set the phone down on the table next to my hospital bed. "I'm sure you would like to have this especially since when you wake up your phone will be flooded with birthday text messages and phone calls." Jay said. "Thank you." I said, yawning. "That would be our cue to leave. Officer Roman is outside your door and will be out there for the night. If you need anything you let him know. Happy Birthday, Christine. When you're up for it I'll buy you a birthday drink down at Molly's since we hear you hang out there with the girls sometimes" Kevin said as he stood up to leave. "Give me a minute, will you Kev?" Jay asked. "Sure man. I'll go catch up with Roman." he said leaving Jay and I alone.
"You're crazy, you know that!? You grabbed a loaded gun and tried to take on a madman...a Cartel leader who has killed hundreds of people over the years. What were you thinking?" Jay yelled. "I was thinking I wasn't ready to die and I wasn't going to let him rape me either. He had already hit me and I knew the rest of what he promised to do to me was going to happen very shortly. It was going to be me or him. I guess I shouldn't have closed my eyes though when I fired the gun...maybe I would have gotten a better shot." I said calmly thinking they must have me on some good drugs to prevent me from yelling back at Jay. "You closed your eyes?" Jay asked, completely exasperated." "Yes, I did. Now if you don't mind I would like to go back to sleep green eyes." I replied, not noticing my words were slurring and not noticing I called him green eyes, as the pain medicine mixed with the sleep medicine. "Christine?" Jay asked but I never heard him. Kevin would later tell me that Jay then said "Happy Birthday and I'll be buying you birthday drinks before Kevin or Kelly Severide does."
"Man, she is a fighter." Kevin said as Jay walked out of my hospital room. "I can't believe she shot Ramon with Rico's gun while her eyes were closed and still managed to hit him. She is one tough chick." he finished. "And she's one hot chick. I'm a sucker for a hot chick with auburn curly hair, freckles and gorgeous blue eyes." "Shut up. She's part of our investigation at this point. You know you can't hook up with her." Jay quickly said, his voice sounding harsher than he intended. "This investigation isn't gonna go on forever. Maybe I'll give Sylvie a call after Christmas and get the 411 on her. See what Christine's deal is before I buy her drinks at Molly's." Kevin replied, after noticing how Jay had looked at me in my hospital room he continued on trying to bait the other Detective. Hoping Halstead would give in, Kevin finished with "I bet working for a fancy hotel company she gets all sorts of discounts on rooms all over the country. Maybe she needs a travel buddy." "You're an ass. Let's get out of here." Jay said as he looked into my room one more time before heading towards the elevator.