'Dad! Dad! Please how is this going to help?' Kitty ran through the rainy car park in hot pursuit of her father.

She had been watching him carefully through the windows in the relative's room as the police officer had led him over to a chair. She looked on, like she was having an out of body experience – she could hear no words all she had to go on was what she knew and the changing face of her father.

Within their family dynamics they all had different bonds, no favourites or particular pairs within the siblings but still marked relationships in different areas of their lives. As the only girls Sarah and Kitty shared that aspect of their lives, the boys had each other for sports and male issues, Tommy and Sarah have business minds, Kevin and herself the academic politically outspoken pair.

And Justin.

They all had their own special bond with Justin, not least Kitty who had always had a motherly instinct over him. He seemed to listen to her more than the rest perhaps because she recognised the immense pressure he was under having two CEO's, a politician and a lawyer as older siblings.

When Sarah had broken the news she though it was some sort of sick joke concocted by the two of them on the way over. The more they spoke, the more tears that fell and the details in the story emerged she had felt sick, the feeling settled itself in the pit of her stomach; it would remain there for the foreseeable future.

Breaking her out of her thoughts was her father's sudden leap to his feet as he made off down the corridor, Officer Muir was calling out to his back caught in two minds whether to follow him or stay put.

Quickly Kitty left her spot from the window and threw open the door, 'DAD!'

Nodding to the Officer she gestured that she would deal with this and quickly realised she hadn't worn the appropriate shoes for this sort of activity. She had no idea how quickly her father could move when he wanted, quickly she found herself out in the car park.

'Go back inside Kitty!' Her father hollered above the noise of ambulances and driving rain.

'What are you going to do?' She stayed focused on keeping up with him as he tried desperately to hail a cab. Softly she added, 'You don't even know if he's at home?'

Dropping his hand from the air he turned to face his daughter – she knew him far to well.

Kitty stepped in closer to her father and reached out for his hand, 'I know that you're angry…we all are, but right now this is not what Justin needs. When he wakes up he wants you there by his side, not in a jail cell for doing something stupid.'

Wrapping his youngest daughter in a tight hug he rested his cheek on her soaked hair, 'Oh Kitty Kat – what am I going to tell your mother?'

Tommy had finally finished his statement to the police after what felt like an eternity of pointless and repetitive questions. On reflection he realised how little they actually knew. This time yesterday they were leaving for a wedding anniversary celebration in suits and ties now – well now they were facing this life alterating situation head on.

Leaving the small room which the police had taken over as an interview room, he was so caught up in his own thoughts he walked straight into an oncoming nurse busy scrawling notes on a clipboard. As the two collided the clipboard flew one way and the coffee in Tommy's had the other, acting on auto pilot he bent to help out the blonde nurse, catching her features from the corner of his eye he was struck by how much like Julia she looked.

Julia.

He hadn't even thought of her today – when he left this morning for Dad's she had driven of to the elementary as usual, she was probably still at school marking or tidying after a particularly messy activity. He had to give her a call in person before she heard the events third hand from the rumour mill.

"I am so sorry sir. I really should have been watching where I was going. Are you okay?" The nurse had regained her composure well enough to address the bedraggled man before her.

"Yeah…yeah I'm fine." Tommy ran a hand through his hair and moved to pass her on the way back to the relative's room – suddenly a thought ran through his head. He reached out a hand and gripped the nurses upper arm as she began her journey down the corridor, "I'm sorry that was rude and I was the one who walked into you in the first place. It's just been such a rough day my brother he was brought in earlier…"

He glanced up at the nurse through his falling fringe, he had always had a way of getting what he wanted, and his natural talent with women was only overshadowed by Justin.

"My mum went in to see him a while ago and we haven't really heard anything since then…"

She looked behind her down to the nurse's station where a few ladies were chatting and keeping an eye on the monitors. "We're really only suppose to have two visitors per patient and they should be parents or partners only…"

"Ah well my Dad was there but he's in the relative's room so now it's just my Mom…"

The nurse bit her bottom lip and tucked a stray strand of hair behind.

"He's my brother…"

"Okay but if anyone asks you never saw me." She raised a smile which usually would have cheered Tommy but just as his lips began to twitch he felt like he would cry instead.

He couldn't smile, not yet.

Kitty and William walked hand in hand back toward the relatives room, neither had spoken after their long tender hug and walk back up to the room.

When they reached the door William nodded to the police officers gathered around the door, they had been joined by another man who just screamed plain clothes detective. He couldn't think about that just now – he needed to be with his children.