Jamie's heart had nearly stopped when he saw Eddie hit the floor at the bottom of the staircase. Racing to her he drops to his knees. He tore at her vest while she gasped for air. Relief washed over him when he saw the bullet didn't go through. A voice at the top of the stairs got his attention. Turning away from Eddie for a moment he ran up to the injured officer.

"Hang on!" He tells to the officer trying to keep pressure on the wound.

He glanced down the stairs and his heart drops. Eddie wasn't moving. She was still where she landed and was completely still.

"Eddie!" He calls to her.

She didn't respond. She didn't move.

"I got him, Reagan." Rogers told him. "Get to Eddie."

Jamie races back down the stair set. He drops to his knees by Eddie. Her skin was pale. Blood had started dropping from her nose while her blue eyes looked up at nothing. The vibrant blue in her iris' was begging to fade into a dull gray.

"She hit her head!" Jamie yells. "We need a bus!"

Jamie knew she had taken a hard fall and he also knew he shouldn't try to move her. He didn't want to do more damage but he had to something. He did the only thing he could think of. He held her hand.

"Hold on Eddie." He whispers to her. "You have to hold on."

She still remained perfectly still. Jamie gently stroked her hair as he heard the sirens get louder. All Jamie could hear was his own heart pounding. His panic was starting to overcome him when he saw Eddie's chest barely registering breaths.

The paramedics race in the room pushing Jamie out of the way. He watched helplessly as they carefully placed a neck brace on her neck. He could hear snippets among the medical jargon of things he could understand. He heard things like head trauma. Possible spinal trauma. He watched as they rolled her onto the spinal board. A sudden gush of blood in her mouth followed a gasp for breath startled everyone around her.

"There's blood in her lungs!" A paramedic yelled. "We need to move!"

Jamie watched close to tears as Eddie kept spitting blood just trying to take a breath. He gets in the ambulance with them and they rush her to the hospital.

The ride to the hospital was quite possibly the longest of Jamie's life. He watch helplessly as the paramedics tried to keep her alive. The monitors in the small area were screaming as Eddie begin to slip away. They finally arrive at the hospital. Jamie followed by Eddie's side until he wasn't allowed to go any farther.

When Jamie entered the waiting room his father was already there. He had Garrett and Sid along with him. Cautiously Frank walked towards his son. Letting his cop ensemble melt away Jamie hugged his father.

Was he out of line? Maybe. Was it inappropriate? Possibly but to Frank Reagan at that moment he was not the police commissioner, his youngest child was asking him to just be his father. Putting his arms around his son he offered him words of comfort.

"She was okay." Jamie said. "The vest caught it. I only turned away for a second. I looked back and she wasn't moving. She hit her head dad. She couldn't breathe. She was dying in front of me and I couldn't do a damn thing!"

"Breathe Jamie." Frank instructs him. "You did everything right. The doctors here will take good care of Eddie but right now I need you to tell me what happened."

Both men take seat. Jamie takes a deep breath.

"Officer Janko and I responded to a 10-13 request. When we entered the building we began defusing the crowd. The suspect shoved Officer Micheals. Officer Micheals and I persued the suspect. We lost visual south of the stairwell. I heard three gunshots. After the last gunshot I saw Officer Janko fall down the stairs. I checked her vest and saw the bullet did not go through. I went to check on the other fallen officer. I turned around to check on Officer Janko. That's when I saw she was immobile in the same place she had fallen. Officer Micheals took over the side of the fallen officer while I went over to Officer Janko. There wasn't much I could do." Jamie tells Frank.

Jamie looks at Frank.

"She was okay Dad." He tells. "Then she wasn't."

As the waiting droned on Jamie stared out the window. His mind was swirling around with memories. He didn't like hospitals. He had too many memories of him. When he was four he had been playing outside with Joe when Danny pushed Erin out of the tree house. She hand landed on a old stump and cut herself up badly. Frank had to take all the kids to the ER with him when he brought Erin in. He was small but he could remember the blood spreading on her purple shirt. When he was 11 he had fallen off his bike and broken his arm. To make him feel better about his cast Erin had drawn a police badge on it. When he was 17 he and Erin sat together in the waiting room just after their mother died. She spent a long time just holding him and trying to be some comfort to him even though she was dying inside too. When he was 22 he sat with his sister while he held his niece for the first time. He was amazed how much she looked like Erin. When he was 24 he and Danny stood proud looking in the nursery at the first of his two nephews. When he was 28 he held his brother's hand and said goodbye. Now here he was 33 years old waiting on the life of his partner.

He didn't know when but somewhere along the line he hadn't fallen for his blond partner. His thoughts were beginning to look like scrambled eggs. Somebody sits beside him. He didn't notice them until a hand gently touched his arm. When he looked up he saw his sister sitting next to him.

A feeling came over upon seeing her. He was really happy she was there. Erin had this uncanny ability to know just what stay. For a long time Jamie swore she learned it at law school. It wasn't until he graduated law school did he realize he didn't have this superpower. Erin put her arm around her little brother and he sunk into her.

"I need her Erin." He says. "When people say one day I'll settle down. They picture who they'll be with. I always had this picture of my ideal girl envisioned in my head. I always told Eddie I didn't know how to find it her. I didn't need to find her. She was right in front of me. I was just too stupid to see it."

"Sometimes the earth feels like it needs to be moved to get you see what's been in front of you the entire time. Sometimes it makes you see the good thing you've been missing. Or." She sighs. "Something you've been blind too."

"I love her, Erin" Jamie says. "It's always been her. Now it may be too late."

The waiting finally came to an end when a doctor enters the room. Jamie jumps to his feet.

"Officer Janko is out of surgery. She had three broken ribs one of which was a compound fracture. The broken rib end ripped her into alveoli. That caused the blood in her lungs. We were able to drain the blood from her lungs but they were still weak. We've placed her on a ventilator to keep the pressure off of her lungs. Our main concern is the swelling around her spine and in her brain. We are monitoring the swelling closely. Eddie's lucky in a sense that swelling has a chance of going down." The surgeon explained.

"Will she ever wake up?" Jamie asks.

"She experienced a brain injury. It's going to take time." The doctor explains. "If she does wake up we aren't sure of the damage to her motor functions or memory."

"You mean." Jamie gulped. "She may never wake up?"