When One Falls - Upstead

Part 3

The bullet Hailey had been hit by normally wouldn't have done as much damage as it did, but with the detective not realizing she had been shot and continuing to chase after the suspect, the bullet had slowly but surely pierced it's way through her pelvis and had come into contact with blood vessels. The thing about the pelvic area was that when there was a significant trauma to it, there was always a risk that a person could bleed out due to the amount of blood vessels intertwined together.  The doctors at Chicago M.E.D. needed to work quickly from that happening before it's too late. 

Will had come in late that morning, yet he knew as soon as he saw his brother being restrained by a couple of nurses and another doctore that, something bad had gone down. Jay wasn't one to lose his cool and not be able to bring himself back, so seeing him basically being carried out to the waiting room was a sight that left him sick with worry. His first priority suddenly became his brother and working out what the hell happened- as he approache the man, Will grew more and more concerned as his blood stained clothes became more apparent. 

"Jay," Will placed a hand on his brother's shoulder as Jay searched around the room franctically for some kind of answer that he wasn't going to get. "Jay, look at me. What happened? Are you hurt?"

Jay numbly shook his head. He didn't know how to say anything except her name.

"Hailey."

"Hailey's hurt?" Will's eyes widened; it was starting to make sense. "What did they tell you?"

"I-.. She-..You-.."

Jay always had something to say. He always had an opinion, a remark- something. Yet at that moment, he was completely and utterly lost for words. His mind hit a brick wall named Hailey, and until her knew that she was okay, he wasn't getting past it any time soon. The fact that his big brother was standing in front of him with such a panicked expression only panicked Will too, leaving the doctor to walk Jay into a chair as he caught eye of Voight who was walking in with the rest of the unit hot on his tail. After passing his brother off into the capable hands of his Sargeant, Will headed right into the emergency room to find out what was going on and how bad it really was.

Hailey had almost coded once when her blood pressure bottomed out, but before she could go into full arrest the doctors had hung a few bags of blood on the rapid transfuser which brought her back enough for them to take her into emergency surgery. It wasn't easy, but they managed to remove the bullet and repair the blood vessels in Hailey's pelvis, leaving her stable enough to head into ICU while the rest of the blood she had lost was being trnasfused. Will had done his best to keep Jay updated, but his brother had quite literally lost it when he heard that Hailey had almost gone into cardiac arrest and was being taken up for surgery- it took the strengh of not just Adam, but Kevin, and Kim to hold him back from running after the surgeons. When Natalie had gotten hurt, Will could remember how painful the not knowing was. Jay was feeling just the same.

As every minute ticked by, the seconds felt like they lasted longer and longer. Jay felt like he was watching people walk in and out of the emergency department faster than it was taking for anyone to give him and news on Hailey, the man about ready to explode. It was only when Will came out with a small smile on his face that Jay felt some of the rope that had been tied around his chest loosen- a smile was a good sign. Right?

"She's okay, Jay," Will told him gently. "She's awake and wants to see if you're up for it."

Jay practically pushed past his brother and towards the elevator on the other side of the emergency department as he impatiently pressed the button that Will had called out as he slipped in beside him. The fact that Hailey was in the ICU scared Jay a little bit, but the fact that she was awake was ennough to calm his trembling hands just a little. He hated feeling so uneasy and unsteady, as if her could fall to the ground at any point- if this was how Hailey felt every time he had gotten shot, Jay was never leaving the district again.