Cops, Bombs & Firemen - A Blue Bloods story

9: Final Countdown

The police station was back up and running two hours later. Bomb squad diffused the bomb quickly. It was meant to do damage but not a professional build. Andy, Danny, Grace and Biaz were in a interrogation room. They had Jamie on speaker.

"How are you feeling Jamie?" Maria asked him.

"Better. Doesn't hurt to move around so much. Not taking medicine anymore besides creams. I'm at Dad's right now with Gramps." He answered, half lying. He was still in pain but refused to take pain medicine.

"He's stubborn." Grace mentioned.

"Very true." Danny agreed. 'Hey!' Jamie yelled. "Let's get back to the case." Danny added.

"Ryland's dad was in the army. Specialized in bombs. His dad taught him everything in hopes that he would follow his footsteps." Grace explained.

"So he went after Jamie because he's dating you." Andy explained. "He went after us because we are on to him. How is he figuring this out?"

"I think I could answer that." Rachel said from the doorway. "I came as soon as I could."

"What can you explain?" Danny asked.

"I think he overheard me talking to Julie about everything. I was venting about the way dinner went down that night. How Andy and Jeff were stubborn because grace was dating a cop. I explained that her boyfriend was the Commissioner's son and Andy was working on the case with the her boyfriends brother. I'm sorry! I didn't know that he was listening or the bomber!" Rachel said in tears.

"It's ok. We know who it is now, now we just evidence. Let's run the bomb for prints."

They walked out of the room.

"Hello? Really?!" Jamie said over the speaker. He laughed and hung up.

Grace closed her front door behind her. She threw her purse down and groaned as she took off her heels. Jamie was at his dad's for a little longer. His grandpa was keeping his busy with light things so he didn't lose his mind.

She grabbed a beer out of the fridge and opened it, taking a swig.

"Can I have one?"

Grace's head snapped up as she spotted Ryland on the couch, a bomb on the table in front of her. She was standing behind the counter and used it as a cover to dial the first number she could.

"Hey babe." She heard but luckily Ryland couldn't.

"Ryland, what are you doing here? Why do you have a bomb at my house!" She asked Ryland.

"I'm on my way! Grace?" She sat the phone down in a drawer.

Jamie used his grandpa's phone to call Danny. He ignored the pain and ran to his car.

"Danny! Ryland is at Grace's House with a bomb!"

"On my way."

Grace stared at the bomb. Ryland stared at Grace.

"It started out as a way to be a hero. Set a fire and be the one to put it out. Station 18 was in the paper. That man wasn't supposed to be there. I didn't mean to hurt anyone. I couldn't sleep after that. I felt horrible. I overheard Rachel talking about how in love you are with a cop. I got angry, you were suppose to be with me! Your dad loved me. I needed the cop out of the picture. He was suppose to be driving when it went off. He got lucky."

Ryland stood up and walked over to Grace slowly. Grace managed to grab a knife out of the drawer. She held it up at him and he laughed.

"You really think that butter knife will do anything?" Ryland asked, raising a eyebrow.