tw: guns, blood
also i have no idea if any of the things mentioned in this are medically correct

'ellis parker, NYPD! come out from behind the wall with your hands on your head!' the latina yelled into the warehouse, facing the wall she thought ellis was behind

'the building's surrounded,' charles announced. 'you're not getting away.'

the criminal blindly shot at the five cops who were in the building, narrowly missing rosa's arm

'drop the weapon ellis! if you cooperate with us, you won't get sent down for as long,' rosa shouted

'i only want diaz in here, you can arrest me but i wanna talk to you first.' the man yelled

'you get me and one other cop or we'll arrest you right now.'

'i'll take it,' he slid his gun across the floor in the sergeant's direction before stepping out from behind the wall with his hands up

'murray, jones, davidson, you guys can go. we got it from here.' rosa commanded before the three of them left the warehouse. 'what do you want ellis.' rosa glared at him

'just wanted to see if you're doing okay after i defeated you last time,' the man grinned smugly

'you spent 18 months in prison and you're about get get sent down for life, i don't think you defeated me.'

'i know you haven't stopped thinking about me.'

'don't flatter yourself parker. you're spending the rest of your life in prison because i took your operation down, i don't think you have anything to celebrate.' rosa said and she moved towards parker. 'now if that's all you have to say, let's go.'

'how's your family doing? i heard you had a baby and got engaged,' he grinned slyly

'leave my family out of this.' rosa warned him as she roughly cuffed his hands behind his back. 'boyle, can you grab his gun,' rosa asked as she escorted ellis out of the building, although it wasn't really a question

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'you made your statement, some uniformed officers are gonna take you for processing before they take you into holding.' rosa told him sternly as she pushed the brown haired man towards two uniformed officers

'congrats rosa, you got him.' amy strolled over to rosa's desk. 'and he's definitely going away for life.'

'yeh, thanks.'

'you okay? you got your guy but you don't seem very happy.'

'i just wanna get my paperwork done so i can get home, holt said i can take a couple days off.' the ravenette said as she sat back down at her desk

'right, of course. well... i told you you'd get him,' she said enthusiastically. 'and you did.'

'we got him santiago, even if you couldn't be there for the actual arrest he probably wouldn't be in holding now if it wasn't for you and boyle. thanks amy.'

amy smiled to which rosa smiled back slightly. 'have a good couple of days off,' she said as she walked back to her desk

rosa <3: we got him, i'll be home in an hour
gina <3: proud of you babe, we'll see you soon
rosa <3: i love you <3
gina <3: i love you more <3
rosa <3: i hope you know that's not true

rosa smiled at her phone before sitting back behind her desk and starting her paperwork for the case. the precinct had been particularly quiet all day; there were only a few perps in holding, including ellis, and most of them were only in for minor misdemeanours rather than major felonies, so the only paperwork rosa had to do was the one for ellis parker's case.

it felt like not even ten minutes later and she was done with her paperwork, but it was in fact 45 minutes. she'd been so focused on her work that she didn't even notice the fact that gina had been sitting at her own desk for about five minutes

'gines?' rosa questioned when she finally looked up from her work

'hey,' she smiled as their oldest daughter looked away from her little sister. 'we came to pick you up and then we're going out for dinner.'

'momma!' the girl yelled as she ran over

'hey sweetie,' the sergeant picked the girl up and placed her on her knee, pulling her into her chest as she did. 'i missed you so much.'

'i loves you,' the three year old beamed

'i love you too, ig.' she said before putting the girl down and standing up from her chair.

the girl had only been to the precinct a handful of times before, but because she was just like gina (extroverted, outgoing) and given the fact that she was so energetic because of her age, she knew almost all the cops that worked on the fourth floor.

'jakeyyy,' she smiled as he walked into the bullpen

'hi iggy,' he smiled at the girl. 'you here to pick rosa up?'

'yep and then we go buying ice cream and mommy taked iggy and duckie to the swings and we eat pancakes for breakfast.' the girl told him in the complete wrong order

'woah, sounds like you had a really good day,' he put his hand up to give the girl a high five, 'up top.' the girl hit his hand, 'bump,' he said as they both bumped fists

'BOOM!' iggy giggled as they both drew their arms back away from the fist bump

'why don't we let jakey and everyone else in the room get some work done princess?' gina told her daughter

'i'm nearly done too and then we can go home,' rosa told gina from her desk before the whole precinct stopped at the sound of a gunshot. 'gines, take the girls into the break room and stay there.'

gina complied, she wasn't gonna argue with her girlfriend even though she was worried for her. she knew rosa could handle herself.

'it's ellis, i just got an email from davies on the second floor. apparently he's working his way up, took a gun from one of the cops when he was being processed.' amy announced to the bullpen

boyle turned on his radio so the fourth floor could hear what was going on.

'ellis is secure, we're coming up with him to put him in holding.' the cop on the radio announced and everyone let out a breath they didn't even know they were holding in.

lieutenant jeffords let gina and the two young girls out of the break room as just ellis came out of the elevator.

iggy ran over to rosa as the elevator door opened. ellis quickly grabbed the gun from the holster of the cop behind him and shot at iggy, rosa jumping in front of the girl instinctively.

nobody could process anything that had happened, all anyone saw was iggy lying down behind a bleeding rosa and ellis being pinned to the ground

'rosa!' gina yelled, running over. isla was crying at the deafening sound of the gunshot and iggy was crying because she banged her head on the floor but all gina could think about was rosa bleeding out

amy called an ambulance, jake took the two girls off gina and the precinct was carnage, but for gina time was still. she couldn't think about anything other than rosa, her rosa, lying there. her eyes kept closing and then opening again, holt and boyle were doing the first aid they were trained to do when someone got shot so gina tried to be hopeful. she was hopeful until she felt rosa's hand go limp. the sergeant was no longer gripping her hand, her eyes were still open but she was almost unresponsive.

'rosa you gotta keep your eyes open.' gina gripped her hand even tighter, 'you can't die.'

'gina, she's not gonna die. she'll be okay.' boyle tried his best to reassure her although he was unconvinced himself.

'i love you so much.' gina sobbed into her fiancé's chest. she didn't realise she'd started crying, she couldn't really keep up with most of the past five minutes, all she knew was that the woman she loved most in the world could die because she saved her girl's life.

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gina was sat in the hospital waiting room with iggy, isla and the rest of the squad. the only thing she could think about was the time rosa had said she would take a bullet for iggy any day. they were right in the middle of an argument but rosa never included their daughters, she'd be there for them no matter what. even if she was mad at gina, she'd take care of her girls. gina loved her girlfriend so much, she couldn't lose her.

'iggy, sweetie, come here,' the redhead held her arms open and the three year old ran into them. 'is your head okay now?'

'where's momma go?'

'momma's in that room down there,' she pointed to one of the doors.

'why momma not go home?'

'you know how sometimes moana needs help?' iggy nodded. 'momma needs a tiny bit of help right now too or else she won't be able to save anyone else like moana saved everyone. momma's just getting a little bit of help.'

'momma go home soon?'

'hopefully soon, yeh baby.' gina kissed her daughter's head

a doctor came out of one of the rooms, 'are any of you immediate family of rosa diaz?' she asked

gina stood up, putting iggy down, 'i'm her fiancé,' the woman flashed her engagement ring.

'you're allowed to see her along with any other immediate family, but that's i can allow for now. she won't be able to hear you, she might grip your hand but she won't know she's doing it and she'll be pretty unresponsive otherwise.'

'is she okay?'

'she got shot and i'll be honest, she got pretty unlucky. she would be okay, if it wasn't for where the bullet had gone.'

'what's up with her?' gina questioned, trying to get more information

'she has a punctured lung, but that's all i can say for now. i'm sorry,' she apologised and showed gina to rosa's room

before gina followed behind her, she took isla off jake and held iggy's hand. the three of them entered the room just behind the doctor. luckily, iggy couldn't quite see onto the bed and isla was over gina's shoulder so she wasn't facing rosa either.

'hey ig, why don't you go hang out with jakey for a bit longer. he'll buy you some orange soda if you're good,' iggy smiled and ran out the room, gina followed her out and handed isla over to amy before entering the room once again

the doctor had left, it was just rosa and gina in the room. 'i know you can't hear me, but you can't die ro. you really can't die. what if i can't do this without you? i mean i already know i can't do it without you, i've never had both girls by myself.' a few tears escaped gina's eyes, 'i didn't expect you to follow through on the whole 'taking a bullet for iggy' thing,' gina chuckled, shaking her head slightly. 'only you, rosa diaz. only you. only you would ask someone to marry you not even seven months into a relationship, only you would ask if i got you a knife for your birthday, only you would follow through and actually take a bullet for your daughter, because you said you would. only you would put up with me for over a year, ask me to marry you, be excited about the kids and family you never even wanted. there's no other rosa diaz on earth, i need rosa diaz on earth. i need my rosa diaz on earth.'

rosa's hand tightened around gina's two fingers. 'i know you don't know you're doing that,' gina looked down at the floor to hold her tears back. 'baby, i love you so much.' she paused for a minute as if she was gonna get a reply. 'i don't want the girls to see you like this. i don't want them to be scared and to be honest, i'm really scared so they probably will be too. i'm sorry. they wanna see you, and you won't let them down so you're not gonna die right?' she looked at rosa expectedly, like she was gonna answer her. 'just think of april, april 17th. we're getting married and we can't do that if you're not there.'

a doctor walked in. 'miss linetti?' gina turned around, 'we need to take your fiancé for another scan, you can wait in the waiting room and someone will come and get you when she's back.'

gina nodded before kissing rosa's forehead and leaving the room.

'they're taking her for a scan and then they'll let me back in,' gina told the squad before updating them all on the situation.

'does she look okay?' amy asked

'she has a load of tubes and wires coming out of her, i don't wanna scare the girls.' gina took a deep breath trying to hold herself together. 'you can all go home you know, i don't mind.'

'me and amy already agreed that she'll take iggy and isla and i'll stay here with you,' jake smiled at her. 'you and rosa are my best friends, you're not doing this alone.'

'thanks,' gina sniffled, she faced the floor again so that nobody would realise if she started crying. at least she hoped they wouldn't, but of course she was wrong.

written: august 2021
published: august 2021