A/N Here's another chapter. I plan on bringing Jules' family into the picture, and so just so everyone knows, I use the following characters for her brothers: Robbie, Matt, Colin and Jacob. For her dad, I use Jack.
Greg walked gingerly up to the phone. This is not going to be good. He thought to himself. He remembered the last time Mr. Callaghan's little girl was shot, how he was mad at the team even though he knew that there was nothing they could have done. Greg honestly couldn't blame him for being mad though, the whole team was mad. Greg just imagined it ten times worse for Mr. Callaghan.
He walked up to the nurse, smiled sadly and took the phone.
"Sergeant Parker here."
"Greg, what the hell is going on? They won't tell me anything"
"Calm down jack, everything's going to be alri-''
"Don't tell me everything will be alright Greg! You know what they told me? They said that my child has been terrible injured! They won't even tell me where she is or if she is okay until I get there."
"Alright Jack, I need you to calm down. Me and the rest of the team are here at the hospital with her, and She is surgery. That's all we know." Greg didn't have the heart to tell Jules' dad what the nurse had told him. That the likeness of his child living was very small.
Greg could hear Jack's staggered breathing on the other line. "Look Jack, all we can do is hope, in the mean time just get yourself down here. S.R.U will cover the cost of the airplane ticket."
"Thanks Greg, I really appreciate it. And, uh, one more thing."
"Sure."
"I know this is, uh, a lot to ask but would you mind calling me when you find out anything at all?"
"Of course Jack. I promise, as soon as I know anything."
"Thank you."
Greg handed the phone back to the nurse, and went back to the waiting area. All the men looked at their leader with worry in their eyes.
"Well, that went better than I thought it would." Greg said as he sat down in his uncomfortable waiting room chair.
"Are Jules' dad and brothers coming down?" Sam asked. It was the first time he had spoken all night.
"Yeah, as soon as they can. They are on the next flight."
The team made small talk amongst themselves and a few even started to doze off.
It was going for ten o'clock when they were all startled awake by the sound of the doors flying open and a frantic looking, young man running up to the nurses desk.
"Oh my God." Wordy said as he squinted the sleep out of his eyes.
"What?" Spike asked with his eyes still shut."
"That's Steve!" Lewis said.
"We forgot to call Steve!" The team stared at each other in shock. How had they forgotten to call the one that Jules lived with!
"Um, Sarge?" Sam asked for the team. They all hoped he would know what to do.
"I, uh, I guess I better go talk to him."
Greg got up and walked over to the nurse's desk and put a hand on Steve's shoulder.
Steve spun around and let out the breath he hadn't realized he was holding.
"Greg, where the hell is Jules? What happened? Tom and Steve called me and told me to come down."
"Alright Steve, take a deep breath, come on, let's go sit down." Greg led Steve to where the rest of the team was sitting.
"Okay Greg, what happened?"
"We were on a call, Jules was negotiating, and everything was going well, Jules walked forward to take the gun, but the subject escalated and shot Jules in the chest before we had time to react."
Steve stared at him, wide eyes and mouth hanging open. "W-what?"
"I know, it's a lot to take in, but they have her in surgery now, she should be out soon. It's going on the fifth hour now."
Steve's face was pure white. He couldn't believe this was happening to the person he wanted to spend the rest of his life with.
"It's gonna be okay buddy, we just got to hope for her."
Just as Greg said that, the nurse called out. "Julianna Callaghan."
Team One and Steve stood up.
"Oh." The nurse mumbled, clearly surprised that all of those men were there for Jules. She walked over to where they were sitting. Because no one else was in the waiting room, she decided to just talk to them all right where they were.
"Okay, so," She began. "We just moved her out of the O.R and into the I.C.U. She is in a very dangerous situation and the first forty-eight hours are critical. I understand that the last time she was shot, it was clean. Didn't hit any main arteries." She paused and waited for confirmation.
The team nodded their heads yes. The nurse continued on.
"This time, however. She was shot right through her chest at a very close distance."
Steve cringed visibly. Greg put his hand on his shoulder for support.
"She wasn't so lucky this time. It hit a main artery but luckily the doctors were able to patch her up before she lost too much blood. She appears stable for now."
"I thought you said she was in a very dangerous situation." Sam interrupted her.
"She is, but for right now we have everything under control." The nurse acted as if she had just been caught in a lie.
Steve wasn't buying this. He knew that there was something she wasn't telling them. She acted to secretive almost.
"What are you not telling us?" Greg looked to Steve with relief, he was happy that Steve had the same feeling that he did.
The nurse looked to her feet and then back at them. "Well, there is one more thing."
A/N I think I'm going to try to finish this story up soon, to me it seems like it's just dragging on now…. Leave me a review with your thoughts.
