She didn't know how long she had been out. She didn't know how long she had been surrounded by nothing but blackness, but as she started to feel things around her, she felt a slight weight on her left hand. She started to listen and her hearing slowly but surely came back. She could heard beeping and a distant noise of people. I'm in the hospital. She thought. Though she felt like she had been unconscious for hours, she was very, very tired. The only thing keeping her mind awake was wondering what happened. Whys he was here. She didn't remember anything after leaving the bar.
Her eyelids felt heavy and she tried as hard as she could, using most of the little energy she had to open them. Everything was very blurry at first while her eyes adjusted to the room she was in. Turned her head slightly to the right she say that it was light outside, probably mid-morning. She slowly turned her head to left. And she saw him. His head laying in her bed, his hand holding onto hers. She smiled slightly. She lightly squeezed Hank's hand. He stirred slightly, and his head shot up quickly as him mind wrapped around what just touched his hand.
He smiled one of his rare smiles at her. "Hey kiddo." He said, leaning forward and kissing her forehead. "Hey." she said, her voice a lot more raspy than normal. Her body ached and she didn't really remember why, but she knew that it wasn't good. He looked at her face and started rubbing her knuckles. "You don't remember what happened. Do you?" she turned her glance from him and out the window of her room spotting a her unit a short distance away talking to one another. Hank followed her gaze. "None of us were leaving until you woke up." he said. She nodded.
She took a deep breath but stopped as a sharp pain went through her stomach, making her arm shot up to touch her ribs. "Easy, kid." Hank said, moving her arm from her wound. She gave him another confused look, but before he spoke, it all came back to her. Her leaving the bar. A loud bang. Then another. Pain. So much pain. She had been shot, not once but twice. And she was still alive. "Did you catch them?" she asked him, knowing full well he knew what she meant. He sighed and shook his head. "We were all way too worried to even do a thorough search, we just wanted to get you here as quickly as possible." Her gaze went out the window once more.
"Do you wanna see everyone?" She nodded, silently. He squeezed her hand before letting go and standing to walk out the door. "Hank." she said, making him stop and turn towards her. When she didn't say anything, he walked over and kissed her head once more. "I'll go get everyone." She watched him walk out the door and she lay her head back down on her pillow, closing her eyes. There was a dull ache going through her entire body and all she wanted to do was get some sleep and go to work. Find the guy who did this, find anyone really, she just didn't wanna be stuck here in this hospital bed, people coming in and out feeling bad for her. That's not who she was. She was tough, she was strong and laying here, listening to the beeps of the monitors, feeling the oxygen in her nose, her arm in a sling, she just felt defenseless. She hated hospitals, and now she was most likely gonna be stuck in one for a couple days, doing nothing but twittling her thumbs and being no help to her unit.
The door opened once more and she opened her eyes and lifted her head to see her unit walk it. At least this was one good thing, right? She couldn't help but smile, though it was a tired one as they came and rubbed her shoulder, kissed her cheek and took her hand. She wished she could just hug them as tight as she could, but she hurt too much. Even when Ruzek made her laugh, a jolt of pain ran through her body, causing Antonio to punch his arm for her in return. Her eyes met Jay's and he smiled at her. She looked over at Voight who was lingering in the doorway, staring into space, in his own little world. Jay glanced at Antonio who nodded, bid Erin goodbye and rushed the unit, including Voight out of the room to talk about where to start with this case, before he realized Jay was still in there.
As the door closed, Jay nearly ran to Erin's side and kissed her softly, his hand on her cheek. Her free hand came up and touched his chest, her ribs only letting her arm go up that far as she kissed him back. She felt something wet hit her cheek and for a second she thought she was crying but when he broke the kiss, she realized it was him. Jay was crying. "Jay." she said, ignoring any type of pain she was feeling to force her hand to touch his face. His hand came up and cupped hers and he rubbed his tears away. He took her hand and kissed it before bringing it down to her side once more and looking at her, his eyes red and puffy.
"You can't do that to me, Erin. Ever again, okay?" she nodded at him. He kissed her hand again, his lips lingering on her knuckles. He rubbed his eyes once more and hung his head. She reached forward and ran her hand through his hair, rubbing his head lovingly. "I should've walked out out." he started. "Jay." Erin said, knowing the guilt he was feeling. "No, Erin. You told me to stay but I should've walked you out. I just should have. Maybe this wouldn't have happened. Maybe I could've gotten to you sooner." he felt tears coming to is eyes again, but her rubbed his eyes and pushed them back.
"Hey." her voice brought his head back up. She touched his face once more. "None of this is because of you, do you understand me. Do not go blaming yourself for this. I'm here. You're here. I'm gonna be okay, and when I walk out of here. I'm going straight to Voight. And I'm gonna tell him what I should've told him two months ago." Jay looked at her, a hopeful yet confused look on his face. Her thumb rubbed along his cheek. "And I'm gonna tell his to suck it up. Because we are now an exception to his stupid rule." Jay cracked a sad smile, a tear reluctantly escaping his eye. She herself felt he tears coming on, but she didn't dare hold them back because she was ready to tell him. "I'm going tell him that it's our turn to be pardoned." A tear of her own escaped her eye.
"Because I love you, Jay." A smile came to his lips and he let out a chuckle of relief. He leaned forward and kissed her passionately. "I love you, Erin Lindsay." he said and he pulled away. He moved from the chair to the sitting up next to her in her bed and hugged her softly from the side, kissing the top of her head. She rested her head on his chest and listened to his heartbeat as she fell asleep.
Hey, y'all! Sorry this took so long. Long story short I've been working a lot lately, but thanks for reading the other chapters and I hope you like this one! It's a little short, but what's new. lol. Kind of fluffy, but hey, who doesn't like some Linstead fluff now and again. Stoked PD is back on after a 4 week hiatus so hopefully I'll get some more material to work with in this story. Again, sorry this took so long, but here you go! Don't forget to favorite and leave a review! Love you guys! Be nice to people and have a nice day!