Q is for Question

Danny walked through the front door with a heavy heart and tear streaked cheeks. Sean ran up to him and asked him. "Are you alright Dad?"

It was a simple question, but it tore Danny's heart. He looked at his son with sad eyes and tried to answer, but a sob broke out instead. Danny lowered his head as the whole family stared at him in curiosity. Linda came to her husband's side and rested a gentle hand on his shoulder.

"Danny?" Danny collapsed in a chair. He raised his head and stared at his family.

"Y-you might want to sit down." The whole family found places to sit in the living room. Danny looked straight into his father's eyes.

J-Jaime's not coming home." Tears streamed down Danny's face. The whole family was shocked.

"What happened?" Henry was the first to recover.

3 Hours Earlier

Jamie and Eddie sat in their car sipping on coffee, when a call came in the their car roared to life and sped towards the emergency. There was a serious accident just a few blocks from their location. When the car stopped Jamie ran to help the injured people. But when he arrived next to the cars, there were no people inside. He was puzzled.

"There's nobody in here."

"That's weird. I'll radio it in." Jamie went to investigate further. Both driver's doors were open, but there was no blood and with all the damage to the vehicles, then the people in the cars would have been hurt.

"Have 'em pull up the security camera footage." Eddie nodded and talked into the radio. She looked up and yelled back to Jamie.

"According to the footage the driver's jumped out of the cars right before they crashed." Jamie furrowed his brow in concentration.

"It was planned. They wanted the cars to crash but why?"

"I don't know, seems like this is a case for a detective." Jamie nodded and pulled out his phone. Eddie made her way back to the police car.

"Reagan."

"Hey, Danny."

"Hey kid what's up?"
"I think I have something for you to come check out."

"Ok what is it?" Danny could hear screeching tires in the background. Jamie looked up just in time to see a red SUV barreling towards him. He knew he should run, but he was frozen in fear. "Jamie?" Danny could hear what sounded like cars colliding and then the phone went dead.

When Danny arrived on scene, there were many other police cars and an ambulance. Eddie ran to Danny.

"Where's Jamie?"

"I'm so sorry Danny, I don't know what happened. The car came out of nowhere." Eddie started crying. Danny grabbed her shoulders and made her look him in the eyes.

"Where's Jamie?" Eddie cried harder and pointed towards the ambulance. Danny let her go and ran to the paramedics.

None of them were working on Jamie. Instead they were loading a gurney with a body bag, into the back of the ambulance.

"No." It was just a whisper. "Who is that?" One of the paramedics turned to Danny.

"Officer Jameson Reagan." Danny fell to his knees and sobbed.

Present Time

The whole family sobbed for their lost one. Danny stood abruptly.

"Something about this whole thing seems off to me, and I'm going to get to the bottom of it."

Danny worked all night until he had found who had done this to his little brother. It turned out to be a gang initiation. Two members would set cruise control on the cars and make them crash, but would jump out before the collision. This would draw the cops and the third (new member) would crash into the cop, killing them. Danny was beyond pissed when he found the man who killed his baby brother. It took everything in his power to not kill the guy.

Even though, Danny had found the man that killed his brother, it didn't make losing him any easier. Every night on his way home from work he stops by, Jamie's grave and talks to him. He crys almost every night, but somehow pulls himself back together before he gets home. Danny will never recover from losing his baby brother.