Sylvie's Angel

Chapter 3- TK's reaction and the trip to Chicago

While waiting for TK to get back from the ambulance call, Christopher, Eddie and Buck followed Owen and Paul into the firehouse and led them to the kitchen where Paul cooked everyone a meal. Owen let Buck and Eddie know that Tk's boyfriend, Carlos, was on his way to pick Tk up for their week vacation to Walt Disney World in Florida.

"So, how has everyone been? How is Henrietta doing?" Owen asked. "Would you like to play with Buttercup? Mateo can help you with some tricks with him."

"Oh can I dad. I want to see him do some tricks." Christopher asked.

"Of course, mijo. Hen is doing good so is the rest of the crew." Eddie said. Owen nodded his head as Christopher and Mateo took Buttercup to the other side of the station to do some tricks and to give him treats.

"That's good. I have to ask. It's not everyday we get visitors especially from an out of state fire department members." Owen asked. Buck looked at Eddie who nodded his head to give some encouragement to Buck.

"I got a phone call from the charge nurse at Gaffney Medical in Chicago and she informed me that there was an accident and I was contacted because I'm one of Sylvie's emergency contacts." Buck said. Owen grimaced and his team cringed in horror. Nobody heard the doors open to alert them that the ambulance returned.

"What happened and is that why you are here in Austin." Owen encouraged and gave a subtle nod to Tommy Vega to be quite. Buck continued without realizing TK was back.

"Mine and TK's pseudo sister, Sylvie Brett, was attacked, raped, and stabbed multiple times." Buck said. Everyone bowed their heads and said a quick prayer for Sylvie. Owen looked at Buck and was going to offer his condolences but they were interrupted by a very angry TK.

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN SYLVIE WAS HURT. Oh wait until I get my hands on that Figlio di puttana. This is not how I wanted my vacation to go with Carlos." TK said. Owen snorted at what his son said while Buck and Eddie looked confused.

"TK, I understand your angry but why don't we let Buck explain. FYI, Carlos is TK's boyfriend and a cop with the Austin Police Department. Gentlemen, meet Tommy Vega and Nancy Gillian. Our paramedic Captain and paramedic who is partnered with TK." Owen said. Eddie and Buck exchanged pleasantries with Tommy and Nancy.

"What happened to our pseudo sister Sylvie." TK asked.

"You probably already heard but she was attacked and we were asked by a Maggie Lockwood to come to Chicago. Maggie informed me that she was in surgery when she called. She was stable but very critical." Buck said. That pissed TK off even more.

"Who could have done this to her?" TK asked. Buck shook his head because even he didn't know.

"I'm not sure but we can call Kelly Severide or Gabby Dawson." Buck said.

"Call Gabby." TK said. Buck dug out his phone and scrolled through his contacts for Gabby's name, he found her name, and clicked on her name which was followed by the phone wringing.

At Gaffney Medical Next Day (Chicago Med)

The Emergency Room was packed, from the members of 51, to the wives of Boden, Cruz, Hermann, and Mouch, and to the Intelligence Unit waiting on news of Sylvie's surgery. Connor and Crockett came out of the surgical room of the Hybrid OR. It was a long surgery that took 20 hours. It was long because Sylvie lost a lot of blood, crashed at 3 times because of her low blood pressure.

"Sylvie is going to make it. We had to repair part of her liver, her spleen, and ruptured bowel that was causing air to leak into her stomach. Stitch up the stab wounds and gave her blood and plasma. She lost a lot of blood. We lost her three times. We have put her medically induced coma . " Connor said. Everybody visibly relaxed.

"Can we see her?" Gabby asked. Crockett shook his head.

"She's being moved to the recovery room and then to the ICU but after that, maybe one or 2 people at a time as she is in a medically induced coma." Crockett said and everybody relaxed again but still were tensed.

Gabby was brought of her relaxed state when she felt her phone vibrate in her hands. She looked at it saw that it was "Evan Buckley" calling her. She answered her phone.

"Dawson. How can I help you Evan?" Gabby asked.

"Call me Buck. How's Sylvie? How did her surgery go? TK wanted to know since he finally got the news from me about Sylvie's attack. Is there any leads on who did it?" Buck asked. Gabby giggled.

"Sylvie's surgery went well. They had to repair her spleen, liver and ruptured bowel. She's going into recovery soon. Doctors put her in a medically induced coma so that she can recover. Where are you at, if you don't mind me asking?" Gabby asked. She heard audible sighs from Buck's end of the phone.

"That's a relief. Christopher, Eddie, and I are in Austin, Texas right now, informing TK on Sylvie's situation and he is not happy….None of us are Buck….( Gabby heard TK say) which I agree with you TK." Buck said.

"How long will it take for you to be here?" Gabby asked.

"About 15 to 18 hours. Just waiting on TK's boyfriend, Carlos to come and then we will be there. Will you let us know if anything else happens?" Buck asked.

"Will do. Have a safe trip." Gabby said.

"Okie dokie." Buck said and hung up the phone.

"He seems anxious to get here." Matt said.

"I'm sure he is. I'm going to call Antonio. Despite them breaking up, he still cares for Sylvie. Will someone come get me if something changes." Gabby asked. Her husband, Matt, nodded his head. Gabby went out to call Antonio. Antonio was in Puerto Rico after he became addicted to opioids and needed time away from the place where it caused him the most pain and to heal. Antonio was actually on his way to the police station when Gabby called him. He wanted to spend time with Gabby.

With Buck at the 126 Fire Station

TK let out a sigh when Buck hung up his phone. Owen patted and rubbed his shoulder. The others let their own sighs of relief out. They were relieved to know that Sylvie was ok but not out of danger yet. Tk's boyfriend, Carlos, walked in a few minutes later and frowned when he saw the looks on everyone's faces.

"Will someone tell me why TK looks like he wants to cry and murder someone at the same time?" Carlos asked. TK grumbled and Owen and Judd snorted.

"Babe, you remember the time that Buck and I stole a firetruck to rescue dad and Buck's paramedic friend Hen from the San Angelo fires after their helicopter crashed in the fire zone. He and his boyfriend, Eddie and Eddie's son Christopher whom I have yet to meet, just arrived in town around an hour ago and told the team about what happened to our pseudo sister Sylvie and I overheard what happened and got super angry." TK said. "Buck wants me to go to Chicago with him and see her."

Carlos stood there stunned like the rest of the team. He was angry himself at the thought of something happening to the Vega twins. The 126 was particularly close.

"Do you want to go babe? We can always go on vacation another time." Carlos said.

"I would because I want to know who did this and why they did it." Tk said.

"I have our bags in the car. We following or riding with Buck and Eddie?" Carlos asked.

"We can follow them. Does that sound good Buck?" Tk asked. Buck nodded his head.

"Yeah, that sounds wonderful. Perhaps we could leave now? I want to get there as soon as possible." Buck said. Carlos nodded his head.

"It's going to take us around 17 and half hours to get to Chicago." Carlos said. Tk and Buck stood off to the side, discussing ways to harm a certain someone with Judd putting his two cents in, not that what they were going to do would be as bad as Voight's punishment. Owen shook his head in exasperation. Carlos and Eddie were discussing travel arrangements.

"Buck, I'll drive half way and then you take over, same with Tk and Carlos." Eddie said. Buck nodded and called Christopher over who was playing with Buttercup.

"OK buddy, we're going to go see Aunt Sylvie. How does that sound? Uncle Tk and Uncle Carlos are joining us." Buck said.

"That's so cool. Are they riding with us?" Christopher asked. Buck shook his head.

"They are driving separately." Buck said.

"Ok. Are we going to see Aunt Sylvie now?" Christopher asked.

"Yes we are Superman. Eddie put him the jeep and I'll meet you there." Buck said. "I have to use the bathroom."

Eddie takes Christopher out to the jeep while Buck uses the bathroom. Carlos went back to his truck while Tk waits inside for Buck. Buck exits the bathroom and starts to leave when Owen stops him and Tk.

"Boys, let me know when you get there, how she is doing and to know what is going on." Owen said.

"We will dad. Sorry for leaving you short staffed, Tommy." Tk said. Tommy shook her head.

"It's ok. We will be finer. Just catch the bastardo who did this to Sylvie and give her our love and prayers for her recovery on the behalf of the 126 family." Tommy said.

"We will." Tk and Buck said at the same time. After that was said, Tk and Buck headed out to their respected vehicles and started their journey to Chicago and Chicago Med to see Sylvie.

Firehouse 51

The firefighters and paramedics went back to work knowing that Sylvie was doing okay. Of course, their return back to work was very chaotic.

It was a chaotic day at the fire house. There was call after call, despite Gabby, Foster, Gianna, Violet, and Leslie being the paramedics of the house, even though they had to take turns on the ambulance. There were so many fire calls, squad rescue calls but mostly the calls were for the ambulance.

Each time a patient was dropped off at the hospital, it was either Violet and Gianna or Foster and Leslie, or Gabby and Leslie or sometimes if it called for it, all five of them would be at the hospital to deliver patients and to check up on Sylvie and to see if her condition improved any or if it didn't. which it didn't. She was still listed as the same. Firehouse 51 was waiting for a miracle happen, whether Sylvie woke up and told them what they already knew or that the scumbag Harrison was caught and brought to justice for what he did to Sylvie.

Ambulance 61 returned from another car when Gabby noticed a car parked on the road, across from the firehouse and it disturbed her. She thought it might have been Harrison but quickly changed her mind when she saw the license plates. They read North Carolina and got excited.

Violet was wither her on the call and noticed the car as well and asked Gabby who that was. Gabby finished backing the ambulance in before she answered Violet.

"If I'm correct, that would be my ex-boyfriend, Sylvie's former partner, and a former Squad member, Peter Mills. He used to be here at 51 before he gave up the job and moved to North Carolina to be with his mom and sister and to run a restaurant down there as well." Gabby said. Violet whistled impressed.

"Shall we go meet him then." Violet asked. Gabby nodded her head and they both exited the ambo and went into the break room where everyone is located. Gabby notices that Mouch and Hermann are siting on the couch. Cruz, Capp, and Tony are at one of the small tables with Severide. Matt, Stella, Ritter and his dog, Tuesday, Gallo, Leslie, Gianna, and Emily were sitting at the other table with Peter Mills standing next Boden talking.

"Peter Mills, what a sore sight to see." Gabby said as Peter turned around and saw her. Peter then walked up to Gabby and hugged her.

"It's nice to see you too, Gabby. One of my friends at firehouse 32, said something happened in Chicago and that it was my former partner, Sylvie Brett. What the hell happened to her?" Peter asked.

"Her scumbag ex-boyfriend, Harrison came to the firehouse and demanded that she return with him to Fowlerton and be a housewife, which Sylvie adamantly denied, told him that she found someone else and called him out on his infidelity with other women including her ex-friend, Hope." Gabby said as she sat on Matt's lap when he offered it.

"Then what happened? Does she have anybody new in her life" Peter asked. Cruz answered him.

"The Hijo de Puta slapped her where she fell into Kelly, the rest of us chased him out of the firehouse but not before he threatened her, Intelligence came and took her statement, the rest of the shift went fairly well until we were all at Molly's when the call went out over one of the Intelligence's police scanner. We all ran out of the bar with Kelly being the first one out the door. We all arrived at Sylvie's apartment, where she was already rushed to hospital in critical condition." Cruz said. "She was raped and stabbed multiple times and as far as I know, she doesn't have anyone new in her life."

Peter nodded.

"What's her status now?" Peter asked.

"She's in a medically induced coma so that she can heal properly." Kelly said.

"Good. I'm hoping to talk to her when she wakes up and I talked to my captain in North Carolina, and she agreed to let me rejoin the CFD temporarily in house 51 and it was approved by Commissioner Grissom. As soon as I told my captain what happened to my pseudo sister, she let me come back here and help out." Peter said.

"You keep up on all your training and medic training?" Matt asked. Peter smirked and nodded.

"I made lieutenant a couple of years ago, so I would say so." Peter said.

After that being said, the bells rang, which signaled another call for ambulance 61 and it caused Gabby and the other girls to groan. They wanted to stray and talk to Peter some more. But in the end, Gianna and Emily went on the call while Peter stayed and chatted with 51 some more.

District 21 Police Precinct

Trudy Platt was organizing search parties and patrols to try and find Sylvie Brett's attacker and rapist. When the call came out, it made her freeze when she saw Kevin, Adam, Jay, and her favorite Kim (not that she will ever tell Kim that) run out of the precinct like they were running from a fire or a bat out of hell. Those four were finishing up paperwork that she *evil laughter* gave to them to do.

The patrols Trudy had on the ground looking for Harrison as soon as Adam identified a possible suspect thanks to a tip from firehouse 51. Kevin came back to the precinct with the video file of Sylvie's apartment building. The evidence will show that Harrison attacked Sylvie and how the attack happened before the cops were called. Kevin stopped to talk to Trudy before he looked at the tape when an angry voice stopped them both in their tracks.

"What the hell is fucking going on here? I got a phone call from Gabby that Sylvie has been attacked and raped." An angry and familiar voice said.

AU NOTE: Uh oh. Antonio and Peter Mills have joined the frey and the soon beat down of Harrison. Should his punishment be slow and painfu7l or fast. I'll let you decide.

Also happy new years! Let's hope 2023 will be a better year for us all.

I have more stories to update and write next year.

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