"Let's go through it one more time," Danny told Jimmy as he was cross-examining the young lawyer early in the morning. He and Jackie were questioning Jimmy Riordan all night. They were all tired. Danny's partner has just stepped outside for a moment so she could briefly visit a bathroom.

"You have no right to keep me here, detective," Jimmy reminded Danny for the hundredth time. The young man wasn't feeling right. His left eye was now completely closed shut thanks to excessive swallowing he sustained when Danny has beaten him. Moreover, his head was giving him a headache and he wanted nothing but to go to bed, but it seemed he would have to stay here at the precinct just a little bit longer.

"Is this your father's doing?" Jimmy questioned suddenly.

Danny just stopped in his tracks as he was pacing there and back in the dimly lit interrogation room.

"No, why?" He asked Jimmy surprised. Why would the kid think that? The detective wondered.

"Then why am I here?" The young man asked once again.

"Because you are suspected of money laundering for the Sanfinos," Danny reminded him. For a brief moment he wondered whether he has hit the kid just too hard, but then he let that thought go away.

"Oh, please," Jimmy just raised his healthy eye upwards. "You're never gonna prove that. And do you know why? Because it never happened!"

The door opened and Jackie walked into the room. She came closer to Danny.

"Phil Sanfino and some guy who claims to be his lawyer is here, and they want to talk to you." She whispered into her partner's ear.

"I thought he was his lawyer, " Danny motioned his head towards Jimmy.

Jackie just shrugged her shoulders.

Danny knew this was hardly going to be good. He knew they had no evidence that would keep Riordan here.

"Alright, Riordan, you are free to go," he gestured Jimmy that he was free to leave.

"Here, he is," detective Reagan announced to Phil Sanfino as he accompanied Jimmy Riordan to the reception where uncle Phil and his lawyer waited for them.

"Mio Dio! What happened to your face?" Uncle Phil cried out when he saw Jimmy's appearance.

"He was resisting arrest," Danny just shrugged his shoulders neutrally.

"This will cost you, detective!" The other man stated coldly as he and uncle Phil inspected Jimmy's bruised face.

Uncle Phil then turned to Jimmy. "Let's go home, mio bambino. Cosa ti hanno fatto?" He said the last words in Italian. He used to speak Italian when he got upset.

"I'm alright, uncle Phil," Jimmy assured the man he called his uncle. "I just want to go home."

"This isn't the end. You haven't heard the last of us, detective!" Phil Sanfino hissed towards Danny threateningly. He then turned to Jimmy. "Come on, my boy, let's go home."

"You bet it isn't!" Danny mumbled as he watched them leave.

"You want to come home with me?" Uncle Phil asked Jimmy when he saw how miserable the boy looked. "I'm sure Noble and Bianca would appreciate your company." They were now in his car on their way home from the precinct.

"Rather not, uncle Phil," Jimmy shook his head. "I'm pretty sure Bianca wouldn't be happy to see me like this. Besides, you know that Johnny and I don't get along..."

"You going to file a complaint against detective Reagan?" The head of the Cavazzerre family changed the topic tactically.

"I don't know. " Jimmy told him the truth. "I should have, but then he is the son of commissioner Reagan. Plus, his sister is the ADA… I'll have to think about it."

"You sure, you don't want to come home with me?" Uncle Phil asked once again when they stopped in front of Jimmy's apartment building and the young man was about to get off the car.

"Yeah, I'm. I just want to take a shower and get some sleep

"Alright, just give me a call when you feel better. We need to talk." Uncle Phil told Jimmy as he gave his shoulder a tight squeeze.

"I will, and thanks for today, uncle Phil." Jimmy replied before he got out of the car.

***BB***

"Morning, Baker," the commissioner greeted his assistant detective Abigail Baker when he came to his office later that day.

"Sir," the detective replied not letting her sight off the commissioner.

"What is it Baker?" Frank questioned. He knew that look on Abigail's face and therefore he could tell she was about to break some news on him. News, she feared he might not like.

"Sir, last night one of our officers made an arrest, and during that arrest he and the suspect got into a fight. The other man got injured and is most likely going to file a complaint against our detective." Baker informed her boss.

"Well, that's unfortunate, Baker, but isn't that something his commanding officer should rather discuss with him?" Frank wondered he put his coat on a rack.

"Even if the injured man is Jimmy Riordan and the arresting officer your son, sir?" Baker questioned.

The commissioner just closed his eyes, wanting nothing but to rip Danny apart at the moment.

"Where is he now?" He wanted to know.

"If by "he" you mean your son, then detective Reagan is currently at the precinct where Sergeant Gormley is giving him hard time. When it comes to Mr. Riordan, he has left the precinct earlier this morning accompanied by Phil Sanfino. We have no news about his current whereabouts." The detective informed the commissioner.

"Sir, if I may, detective Reagan claims that Mr. Riordan attacked him."

"And you believe his side of the story?" The commissioner asked doubtfully.

"I'm not sure, sir. As I know detective Reagan, I doubt he would attack someone without a cause, but on the other hand, he doesn't get out of trouble, does he?" Baker questioned.

***BB***

"Have you lost your mind?" The commissioner asked his son over the phone, still having troubles to believe what happened during Danny's night shift.

"I just put that scumbag where he belongs." The detective stated neutrally.

"Which part that you should leave Jimmy Riordan alone did you not understand?" His father questioned angrily.

"Come on, dad, we need to get people like Sanfinos off the street and that scumbag Riordan is just helping them to get away! " Danny protested.

"You should have left Jimmy Riordan to me! " The commissioner insisted. "You had no right to go behind my back, Daniel!" And with these words he hang up the phone.

***BB***

"Commissioner," Jimmy uttered weakly when he saw the NYPD commissioner in front of his apartment. Frankly speaking, Frank Reagan was becoming quite a regular visitor.

Jimmy's appearance shocked Frank. His face was now playing with different colors and his left eye was swollen and closed shut.

"I suppose my son did that to you?" The commissioner wondered.

Jimmy just nodded his head. It was only now when Frank noticed his right arm was clearly causing him pain.

"Have you seen a doctor?" Frank questioned.

"I'm fine," Jimmy replied. He didn't need Frank Reagan to fuss over him.

"Jimmy, I don't really know what happened between you and Danny, but I'm truly sorry. Danny can be a little hot headed sometimes." The commissioner explained to Jimmy

"A bit?" The younger man questioned. He wasn't really mad at the commissioner because judging by his son's reaction at the precinct he doubted Frank Reagan had anything to do with his arrest, but he was tired and dizzy.

"What he did to you is unacceptable, and trust me he will be punished for his actions." The chief of police assured him.

"Good," Jimmy agreed.

"You want to come in?" He then asked the commissioner.

"Only if it's fine with you," Frank replied.

Jimmy stepped aside and gestured him to come in.

***BB***

"You don't have to stay with me, Frank, I won't sue your son if that's what worries you," Jimmy stated towards the commissioner as he was lying on the couch cooling his left eye with some frozen peas Frank found for him in the freezer.

"Just let me take you to the doctor," Frank insisted. He was worried whether Jimmy didn't have a concussion because Danny could be pretty tough, besides, Jimmy was clearly dizzy and that was what made Frank worried.

"I'm fine," Jimmy mumbled tiredly, "it's just some cuts and bruises.

"Jimmy, you could have a concussion!" The commissioner tried to reason with the boy..

"I'm fine, I just need to get some rest." The young lawyer insisted.

"Alright, but I'm gonna stay here, if you don't mind," the Frank told the young man. "Someone needs to make sure you are alright."

"I'm gonna be just fine, Frank," Jimmy sighed heavily.

"Good, but I'm staying! Unless you allow me to take you to the doctor." The older man replied. Jimmy seemed pretty much tired and it was only a question of time when he will fall asleep.

"Your children think I'm a monster," he uttered weakly as his eyes were about to shut down. Judging by his voice the commissioner could tell this was hurting him.

"They don't know you, Jimmy!" He assured the boy as he gave him a kind look.

"And you do?" Jimmy questioned somehow doubtfully.

"I think I have known you a little better during the last couple of weeks. Don't you think? Besides, I have always been a good judge of character."

"The truth is, Frank, I didn't ask for any of this," Jimmy revealed suddenly to the commissioner as few tears came to his eyes. "It just happened, you know," he whispered. The young man was now torn between his loyalty to Sanfinos and afection he felt for Frank Reagan.

"Jimmy, if you want out from that Sanfino's family business, we can get you out." The commissioner told Jimmy.

"You don't just walk away from someone like uncle Phil, Frank," Jimmy laughed somehow bitterly.

"I wish I had a father like you, Frank" he mumbled tiredly right before he felt asleep.

"I take it as a compliment." Frank whispered, covering the boy with a blanket that was lying on the couch.

AN:

So, guys, what do you think? Will Jimmy want to get away from the Sanfinos? And is it even possible to get away from someone like uncle Phil? And what will Henry think when Frank shares his proposal to Jimmy with him? Share your thoughts, you always inspire me to come up with something I didn't see coming. P.S.: I hope I got those sentences in Italian right.