Chapter Ninety Three: Helpless
No one's ever gonna hurt you, love
I'm gonna give you all of my love
Nobody matters like you
Clean Bandit - Rockabye
Sidney Chambers: Gabe, I'm sorry to hear what's happened. We've covered your duties at the church, please take as long as you need. We'll pray for them.
Gabe O'Neill: Thanks Sidney, I'll keep in touch.
Kim Burgess: Hey Gabe, any word?
Gabe O'Neill: They've had to put Maggie onto a ventilator. She's struggling to breathe on her own, Will said this will help improve her lung functionality. If she starts breathing on her own over the next few days she may just survive this. Antonio is still being assessed by Doctor Choi. I'm at a loss at what to do here Kim, all this waiting just makes me feel so helpless.
Kim Burgess: Gabe you have to be strong for them. You are doing the right thing by being there, they need your support more than ever.
Gabe O'Neill: I guess I'm just used to being the one that fixes things.
Kim Burgess: I think it's going to take some time to put things back together but I have it on good authority that patience is a virtue of yours. x
Trudy Platt: Hey Phil, I just wanted to check in and see how Kayla was doing? Also does she like dogs? I found the cutest little police dog toy, I think she'll love it.
Phil Sharpe: She's out of surgery. Doctor Rhodes says she's stable, we were lucky the bullet was a 22. and didn't hit any of her vital organs. She loves dogs!
Trudy Platt: We're all thinking of her. How's my patrolman doing?
Phil Sharpe: Better after that change of clothes you gave him. He's holding up better than I expected considering.
Trudy Platt: He's a good man. Stands by the people he loves.
Phil Sharpe: I've sent him to go check on that partner of his. What happened to them... It makes me feel that Kayla was almost lucky in a way.
Trudy Platt: They'll make it through this. We'll make sure of it.
Connor Rhodes: Hey. I just wanted to check in on one of your patients?
Will Halstead: Too busy to take a trip down 3 floors down in the elevator?
Connor Rhodes: Let's just say it's best if I don't actually show an interest.
Will Halstead: That sounds ominous. Whose the patient?
Connor Rhodes: Magdalena O'Neill.
Will Halstead: You and Maggie?
Connor Rhodes: A few years ago before I left. It wasn't serious. She always loved Antonio, even then.
Will Halstead: I'm guessing you've kept well away since you came back to Chicago.
Connor Rhodes: She's happy with Antonio and I'm happy working with Doctor Downey. That's the way it is. I just want to make sure she's ok.
Will Halstead: Let's grab a coffee in twenty minutes and I can talk you through it.
Jay Halstead: Doctor Choi's just finished up with Antonio. They've had to give him a transfusion to replace the blood he lost. The lacerations on his chest are going to take a long time to heal along with the two broken ribs. They say he's going to need surgery to repair the tendons on his right wrist from the razor wire. They'll be sending him up to the operating theater in the next couple of hours. Right now he's sedated.
Hank Voight: Thanks for the update, keep me in the loop. IAB are going to want a statement from you regarding the shooting so I'll need you to come back to the station house. As far as I'm concerned it's a clean shoot.
Jay Halstead: I'll be on my way back after I've checked in on Maggie. Al says he's gonna stay here a while.
Hank Voight: I'll meet him there in a couple of hours once I get this case closed off.
Group Text: Intelligence Squad
Kevin Atwater: We just found the dad... Or rather pieces of him in the incinerator at the care facility.
Hank Voight: That solves that mystery. Manage to get a cause of death?
Kevin Atwater: The ME is gonna have to weigh in. We traced the I.D back through the serial number on the hip replacement but it's looking like Jack took care of him.
Erin Lindsey: We came across a history of abuse in the files, the mom left and the dad was a drunk. It looks like he could be pretty mean when he had a few in him. Neither Paul and Jack ever admitted what was happening in the house however Jack moved out as soon as he could. Eventually moved Paul out too. Looks like they had a strong connection.
Adam Ruzek: So we're saying he decided to pay his old man back by beating him to death? Cause of death pending of course.
Erin Lindsey: The files report a scuffle between Paul and his old man last year. Paul's accounts show he's been sending money to his old man for years, he stopped a few weeks before because it was draining his finances. I guess Papa Cooper didn't like being cut off. He really laid a beating on Paul, from the hospital report.
Kevin Atwater: I guess Jack paid him back in blood. It would explain why he lost it when Paul died, blamed Antonio and put a plan into motion.
Adam Ruzek: Any news on how he's doing?
Al Olinsky: They're working on his hand right now. Doc said he won't be using that right hook any time soon but he'll live to fight another day.
Kevin Atwater: He'll be coaching from the side of the ring in no time. Antonio isn't going to let something like this hold him down.
Al Olinsky: Something like this, the guilt can eat away at you. We can't let that happen, it'll swallow him up whole.
Erin Lindsey: We'll make sure of it. We're a family here and family support each other.
Erin Lindsey: Hey, how'd it go with IAB? x
Jay Halstead: They ruled it a clean shoot, it just took a long time because they wanted to know every single detail of what we walked into.
Erin Lindsey: The crime scene photos weren't enough?
Jay Halstead: Apparently not. I had to tell them what I saw Erin, what it felt like to see them like that. I've seen some awful things in my life but what I saw in that room... It'll stick with me for a long time.
Erin Lindsey: I know, seeing them like that, it haunts me too.
Jay Halstead: I'm going to head back to the hospital after they come back with the paperwork. I want to be there when Toni gets out of surgery.
Erin Lindsey: Let me know how he is, I'm still wrapping up at this crime scene. I'll let you know when I'm leaving x
Hey guys, I hope you didn't have to wait too long for this chapter! I'm happy to announce that I have been working on a second Maggie and Antonio story!
Anime: They did find them finally! Antonio is this person who just put others ahead of himself and I could just imagine him urging Jay to help her first. My lips are sealed on their fate at the moment, you will get to see what happens. I loved Brett and Antonio separately but together it just didn't work for me. I'm glad you had to stop work to read that chapter :p
Lauren: I think everyone is happy that the two of them were found. I can not tell you what the outcome is for these two. I hope this chapter helped a little in regards to soothing your fears on Kayla. Jay was the only person I could write in that POV, I just felt that he knew the two of them well enough to feel so immensely for the both of them.
Soccer: I wish I could be a writer for the show. I'm glad I keep you excited for this story!
Nat: I wanted the two of them to be found but to me there had to be an emotional component to that. I would love to write for the show but sadly I wouldn't even know where to begin. If you read the author's note above you'll see it doesn't have to end.