Trials, Tribulations and Triangles 2. - Chicago PD/Fire

Tall Tales

Lexi walked slowly away from the door, lost in a trance. She was alone, alone with a homicidal rapist with a gun. She told herself to focus on something else, only then seeing Jay's blood trickling down the chair where he had sat. His blood dripping in to a small puddle on the floor, maybe his wound had been worse than she first thought. She looked at her hands, covered in Jay's blood, some of it dry some of it fresh. She wanted so bad to wash them, she rubbed them vigorously up and down her jeans, wiping off as much as she could.

"Here" Billy said handing her some alcohol wipes he had found in the medical supplies bag. Lexi took them looking up at him, his smile was sympathetic almost tender. Billy was conflicted, he felt sorry for Lexi, why else would he give her the wipes seeing her trying to wash her friends blood from her hands? But he wanted to help his brother too, was loyal to his flesh and blood.

Lexi sat down unable to take her eyes off Jay's puddle of blood. She found a small piece of relief knowing Jay was getting help. He would be in an ambulance on his way to med, Will had saved Lexi's life when she had a stab wound in the same place Jay had been shot.

Will had performed a miracle in Lexi's eyes, he had done it in her home, with limited supplies, and she had been bleeding for almost twenty-four hours before getting to him. Yet Will still managed to save her life. Jay's situation was different, his chances better, she silently prayed.

"Set the phone up again" Jordan commanded Billy sitting down on the bar stool.

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Antonio and Adam caught Jay as he fell to his knees on the sidewalk outside Molly's. They each took one of his arms and hoisted him up, throwing his arms over their shoulders and carried him away from Molly's to Gabby and Sylvie waiting with the stretcher.

"Adam, you gotta get in there" Jay told him breathlessly grabbing the neck of his shirt to stop him from walking away. "You can't leave her in there with him, he's unstable"

"We've got her back don't worry" Adam assured him slowly pulling Jay's hand from his shirt.

"Concentrate on yourself" Antonio suggested.

"I'll stay with you" Gabby told Jay calmly, "I'll stay at the hospital with you, Antonio can keep us updated and I'll keep him updated on you. You know it's the first thing Lexi will ask" Jay smiled weakly at her.

"We gotta go" Sylvie informed them pushing the stretcher in to the back of the ambulance.

"Don't let anything happen to her" Jay called to Adam and Antonio as Gabby climbed in to the ambulance beside him.

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Lexi's phone sat on the table recording Jordan's story. Jordan explained how he was fired for sexual misconduct from the first law firm he landed a job at after graduating law school. This detail Lexi knew to be true. The rest of his story was clutching at straws.

Jordan found a job at a dive bar in a not so nice part of town. He got friendly with a regular, a shady character, Brian. Brian would go in to the bar every day and tell Jordan how much he hated women, telling him how he had been divorced four times, each wife taking everything from him.

The men swapped stories and bonded over the women that they felt had screwed them over in one way or another.

Jordan claimed it had been Brian's idea to get revenge on the women who had wronged them. They spent three weeks plotting against Brian's ex-wives. Jordan had helped Brian trash his third wife's car, ransack and rob his fourth wife's house and set fire to his seconds wife's laundromat that she had acquired with Brian's alimony money. Unfortunately or luckily, they couldn't find his first wife.