M is for Missed Call

Jamie held the phone to his ear and prayed that someone would pick up, when nobody did, he left a message.

It was a Saturday evening and Niki had a performance for school. Everyone had planned on attending, so when Jamie failed to show Frank grew worried. His worry grew throughout the night. When the whole Reagan clan arrived at Frank's, everyone was concerned about Jamie.

"Where's Uncle Jamie?" Niki looked at her mother hoping for an answer. Erin looked at her father.

"I'll call him." Frank suggested. He reached into his pocket an pulled out his phone. He had to turn it on, because he had turned it off for Niki's performance. He saw he had a missed call from Jamie. "Looks like I missed his call, he probably had to cover someone's shift." Frank called his voice mail and placed the phone to his ear.

"Hey dad, um...it looks like I won't be making to Niki's performance. Tell her I'm sorry. *cough* I actually called because...I wanted to tell you that I love you. *cough* I don't think I'm coming home..." Frank could hear Jamie crying. He motioned for everyone's attention and then put the phone on speaker. "It's not looking good dad. T-the ambulance is so far away...and t-there's so much blood. I wish you would have answered your phone, but at least I get to say good-bye. Tell everyone how much I love them, and I will be sure to tell Mom and Joe hi. *cough* Dad, I'm scared. *cough* I-I can't hold on much longer...I'm sorry...I love you." The line went dead. Frank dropped the phone and let tears fall. He looked at his family, everyone of them crying. Suddenly, the doorbell rang. Frank wiped away the tears and went to answer it.

A uniformed officer stood on the front porch. He held his hat in his hands. Frank motioned for him to come in.

"Commissioner." The officer waited for Frank to make eye contact. "Your son Officer Jameson Reagan was shot earlier this evening. He called for an ambulance, when they arrived he was barely alive. They rushed him to the hospital and..." Danny spoke up for the first time.

"Just tell me, is my brother still alive."

"Yes, but barely. He is in critical condition. He just got out of surgery half an hour ago." A collective sigh was heard. "I was ordered to escort you to him." Frank nodded and motioned for the family to come. They all filed in there cars and were escorted to the hospital. Once inside a nurse showed them to Jamie's room.

Danny froze when his eyes landed on brother was too still, and pale. He had many tubes running into his body. Danny couldn't bear the sight. He closed his eyes and turned his back. Linda wrapped him in a hung. Erin clung to Niki and tried to blink away the tears, but failed. Frank dismissed himself to find a doctor to talk to.

Danny never left his brother's side for two weeks. Everyday Jamie grew stronger and slowly the tubes were removed. Danny rubbed his eyes and slammed his laptop shut, he couldn't focus on work. He sighed and place the laptop into it's bag. He turned to look back at Jamie. He still was shocked every time he looked at his broken baby brother. He reached a hand out and held Jamie's. To his surprise the hand tightened around his. Danny looked from Jamie's hand to his face and was met with two blue eyes staring at him.

"Hey kid." A smile made it's way to Danny"s face, the first in two weeks.

"H-hey D-Danny." Danny's smile grew bigger.

"You had us all worried."

"S-s-sorry."

"Shhh. It's ok. You're fine now." Danny pressed the call button and let the nurses know that Jamie was awake. Then he made the call to the family. A couple hours later, Jamie was surrounded by family members all smiling because he was awake. Jamie smiled at his family and pushed the memories of that night out of his head. He forgot the fear and the pain and focused on his family.

"I love you guys."