Disclaimer:" I don't own CSI: NY, but if I did Jess never would have died so I wouldn't be writing this fic.
"WHAT THE HELL? IS THIS TRUE?" Don Flack said as he ran into Inspector Gerrard's office. He pinned him against the wall of his office as everyone else hurried to catch up.
"Flack… I wanted to tell you, but the FBI…." He said as he shook.
Flack couldn't help himself, he started to punch him. "DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MUCH OF A HELL HOLE MY LIFE HAS BEEN? DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY TIMES I WANTED TO KILL MYSELF? YOU BASTARD!!!!"
"FLACK! GET OFF OF HIM!" Mac yelled as the team ran into Inspector Gerrard's office.
"No. He lied to me. Jess is alive." He said punctuating each word with a punch.
"Don, listen to me. This isn't helping anything; the most important thing is to find Jess. He's not gonna help you if you beat him to a pulp." Danny said approaching his friend. Don turned and hugged Danny, his engulfing sobs filling the silence of the room.
Mac and Stella approached Inspector Gerrard. "Tell us what's going on." Mac said, his voice clearly showing his anger. Stella gently rubbed his shoulder trying to calm him down.
"Ok, just let me get the file and meet me in the conference room."
The group walked down to the conference room and they were all getting a little teary eyed. They all sat by the people who would offer them the most comfort. Flack was on Danny's left and Lindsay was on his right. Stella was on Lindsay's right and Mac was on her other side. Then Hawkes and Adam rounded out the group.
Inspector Gerrard walked into the conference room.
"After Detective Jessica Angell died, Sid Hammerback was supposed to do her autopsy, but he couldn't bring himself to do it."
As he heard those words, Flack started to cry. He remembered when Sid had told him that he would be with her every step of the way and he wanted to say "What about me? What if I wanna be with her?"
"When another M.E. performed the autopsy, he noticed that there was way too much blood to be dead. He felt for a pulse and found one, it was faint, but it was there. He didn't know why so he performed a tox screen. We found a drug that caused her body to hibernate, which stopped her heartbeat and made the doctor's believe she was dead. I had never seen anything like this except for that case a few years ago. It meant that someone wanted something covered up. Even when the drug wore off she wouldn't wake up. A friend of mine at the FBI found out about it and wanted to help. They told us not to tell you because whoever did this wanted her dead for a reason. We discovered that she was in a coma. We didn't think that she would make it. We recovered evidence that Dunbrook was behind the shooting and we think that she saw something that they didn't want anyone to know, so that FBI put her in the Witness Protection Program. Everything was going fine, but a few weeks ago she woke up. That's all I know. I didn't know that she was still in New York." He said finishing.
"She's alive. Jess is alive." Flack said allowing the words to sink in. He couldn't believe she was in New York. All those times he had wanted to end the pain, she was just barely out of reach.
"The FBI won't tell us where she is until they can put Dunbrook away." Inspector Gerrard said.
"Then I guess we have a lot of work to do." Mac said, standing. "OK, Adam and Hawkes work the shooting. Stella, Danny, and Lindsay reopen the shooting. Flack?" He said.
"Yeah, Mac?" He said, looking at his boss.
"We're gonna look for Jess. We're gonna have to try to outsmart the FBI and Dunbrook."