PROTECTIVE

AUTHOR'S NOTE/DISCLAIMER

Takes place directly after "Looking Out For Statesville". Belongs to Dick Wolf and NBC. Donnie and Mike are mine.

Donald "Donnie" Callaghan stormed into the 21st Precinct, followed by his oldest son, Michael, otherwise known as Mikey, their eyes blazing. Break Kimmie's heart? Make her feel like her family's not worth meeting? The older man's thoughts raged. I can't believe this! Kimmie was so excited about us meeting him and he just blows her off? Gonna kill him! Mike seethed. Seeing the two irate men, Trudy Platt went out to meet them.

"Okay first, park the attitude and tell me what this is all about," she ordered. Old friends of Hank's or not, she wasn't about to let them run roughshod over her precinct.

"That son of a bitch hurt Kimmie," Mike spat out.

"I'll buzz you in," the woman stated and went do just that. Hope they put the fear of God into Ruzek, she thought to herself. She couldn't believe that he had done that to her. Kim had been asking him for one simple thing and he couldn't have given it to her? Everyone knew that she didn't ask for much, so Ruzek should've known that this was important to her. After they were buzzed in, the men went up and Platt went back to work. Hank was just coming out of his office when he saw the two newcomers. Uh oh, he thought to himself. This could go South really quickly.

"Mikey, Donnie," he greeted.

"Where is he? Where's this Ruzek character?" Mikey demanded. Oh crap. Burgess told them about the break up, he thought to himself. Though it hadn't been mentioned to anyone in-house, people had seen that she had taken off the ring and the two weren't talking, which meant that they had broken up. And now Donnie and Mikey were looking for blood.

"He's out on an assignment right now," he responded. "Look, I get what you're pissed about and I agree with you. However, I can't have you killing one of my detectives. That's bad for morale," he continued.

"Won't kill him. Just gonna rough him up a bite," Mikey responded. Though in all honesty, he wanted to kill this guy.

"Mikey, Donnie. I made an oath to protect my fellow cops. You know what that means to me. Don't make me prove that," the sergeant responded. "Besides, what would Burgess think if she saw you two acting this way?" he pointed out. At this, the Callaghan men froze. Hank had a point. Kimmie wouldn't want them acting this way. In fact, if she had seen them, she would've already kicked their asses for what they were thinking about doing.

"All right, Hank. You're right," Mikey responded.

"Why don't you guys go cool off in my office? She's going to need you later," Voight suggested and the two men went up. Damn, Ruzek just dodged a bullet, he thought to himself. Not that he blamed Donnie and Mikey for their reactions. He had seen the way Burgess had been hurt even though she tried to hide it. And as punishment, he had given Ruzek all the crap assignments. After all, he was the sergeant and he was well within his purview to treat a new cop any way he wanted. And as Ruzek was finding out, he ran his precinct with an iron fist…