"Burgess, Atwater, you take the first floor. Antonio, with me, we're taking the second. Jay and Hailey, cover the back, Ruzek, front."
"Chicago PD!" The door swung back hard as Adam hit it with the ram. Antonio and Kim rushed in, followed by Kevin and Voight.
Kim felt Kevin join at her side, and together they moved to clear the downstairs. She really hated this style house. It wasn't an open floor, there were too many rooms. One by one, they checked, receiving a "Clear upstairs," from Antonio as they reached the last door. At Kevin's nod, she turned the knob and opened the door. More stairs.
"We've got a basement here," Kevin informed quietly over the radio.
"Coming down."
Kim kept her gun trained on the stairs as Voight and Antonio joined them. At Voight's nod, Antonio tapped Kevin on the shoulder, and the two of them moved past her through the door.
Kim followed as they moved carefully down the stairs, the steps creaking beneath their feet. She waited as they cleared the rooms on either side. Antonio continued slowly through the basement hall with Kevin following, and she listened from the bottom of the stairs to Voight as he checked in with their team members outside over the radio.
She tensed as Antonio stopped Kevin suddenly at the end of the hall and cocked his head. She heard them whispering to each other but couldn't make out what they were saying. There was a heavy silence as they all stood quiet and still, then-
"Go! Get-!" But in that next moment, as Antonio shoved Kevin back hard, there was suddenly a blast of pressure in her ears, and everything went dark.
"Jay! Jay, can you hear me?"
The voice was muffled and distorted. He felt as though his brain was rattling around in his head as he realized he was being shaken gently, but insistently. Suddenly, as if emerging from a vacuum, he gasped for air, but that led him to coughing, hard.
"Jay?" He tried to open his eyes, but it felt as if there were lead weights keeping them closed. He tried again and was finally able to look at the blurry world around him, at the forefront of which was Hailey.
He blinked hard a few times, trying to get the world to come into focus. There was another sound nearby that was slowly getting louder, but he couldn't make out what it was. His vision cleared more and that's when his eyes caught glaring lights behind Hailey shining bright bringing a wave of nausea. He pushed and managed to roll himself onto his side, taking deep breaths to avoid getting sick. Hailey held onto him and let him take his time to pull himself together.
"Jay, try to focus on me." He finally got Hailey's image steady and clear as relief lit up her face, "Good, that's good." She said with a sharp exhale.
"What happened?" His mouth refused to cooperate and form the words, so he hoped she could understand him.
Hailey looked back behind her for a second before answering, "I don't know, there was an explosion." Fear clouded her face heavily when she looked back at him. She started feeling carefully around his head. As she moved, he found the source of the other noise: Adam was crouched at the remains of the house, yelling.
"Can anyone hear me? Kim! Sarge!"
He finally got a bit of a better look. There were flames on the side of the house - or what had been the house - near the street helping illuminate the scene. The whole house, except one corner wall, was collapsed: the roof had fallen, everything was reduced to pieces of wood, and there were some pieces of concrete broken open and steel exposed.
His attention was pulled back to Hailey when one of her prods brought with it a sting and a sharp pain, "You're bleeding, and you probably have a concussion. Backup and CFD are coming, try not to move okay."
"Where are they," he asked Hailey.
"They're coming soon, I radioed-"
"No," He took breath as his head throbbed, "Voight-"
There was pain in Hailey's eyes, "They're still in there. We haven't been able to reach them."
A crash sounded and Hailey's head whipped around to Adam, "Adam stop!" She pushed herself to her feet and ran to Adam, who had begun to move pieces of debris, "You could pull the wrong piece and the whole thing could collapse on them even more."
She pulled his arm back as he ignored her and continued pulling.
"Kim! Answer me, dammit!"
"Adam stop!" She yanked him and they fell backward. She held him tight as they fought for breath. Jay pulled his eyes away and stared up at the night sky, the sound of sirens approaching in the distance.
