Note: This is a Linstead's universe where Hank Voight has a sixteen-old-years daughter that will cause a lot of trouble to everyone. There's a lot of drama and angst - and of course, romance. I had this idea for awhile and I hope you guys like it. ;)

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This shouldn't be happening. Hank shouldn't be here alone at Silos with Justin's killer. Erin tried to stop him, but Voight wasn't paying attention to what she was asking, the sergeant was blinded by his grief and all he wanted was revenge for what they did to his son. Lindsay's heart was racing knowing exactly what would happen if Hank moved on with this. God! She had already lost so much and didn't want that to be the cause for losing Hank. Erin tried to remind him that he still had Daniel, Olive, Avery, and her, and they all needed him. Lindsay was desperate and by the time Hank - the only father she had -, looked at her, Erin knew he was not going to give up. Without a word, Erin ran – in the heavy rain and Chicago's chilly weather – to her car crying, still hearing the loud, fast sound of Voight firing his gun.

Erin jumped out of bed, scared after dreaming about that horrible night of Justin's death. Jay opened his eyes to look at her. He knew something was going on with his girlfriend and as much as he wanted to help her, she wouldn't let him. Lindsay quickly got up saying just that she needed to go and left him without even a good-morning kiss.

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"Don't you think it's too soon to be back?" Erin asked as she walked into Hank's office. Just a month from Justin's death, Hank was back in Intelligence and that somehow worried Erin.

"No. I am fine. That's what I need, to get back to work." Hank leaned back in his chair looking at his best detective and daughter.

"Mm ... How's Avery?"

"She got back to school last week, seems to be distracted. Although it's the last week before summer break." Avery was Hank's youngest daughter, and Daddy's famous little golden girl. She had good grades, she was attached to her father and especially to her siblings. Although she grew up without her mother, Camille, she had a female figure as her sister, Erin. Her father took her in when Erin was fifteen and raised her with Camille like she was their own.

"What about Olive and Daniel?"

"That boy is what makes me be here now." Hank smiled and Erin just pressed her lips together and nodded. "What about you? How are you doing?"

"Good."

"Are you sure? You know you can tell me if something is wrong." After Nadia's death and the way Erin handled it, Hank has all the reasons to worry about her. He knew how deep she can go when something like that happens.

"Yeah"

"Okay." Without saying another word, Erin just nodded and left the office and headed to the break room for her cup of coffee.

Erin's morning wasn't easy. After waking up at 6 o'clock in the morning and meeting Crowley who questioned her about Hank, her head was about to explode, but not because of a headache, but because she was exhausted from carrying so many things on her back. Lindsay was overloaded and keeping everything she knew a secretly was consuming her life, however, she knew she needed to protect Hank, after all he saved her life when she was fifteen, and this was the least Erin could do.

"Hey ..." Jay's voice made her turn, to see him leaning by her side. "You know, I feel a little bit handscuff here, because I want to be there for you, but I don't know what's happening."

Erin looked into Jay's eyes and knew that her boyfriend was worried and as much as she wanted to keep this just for her, it wasn't fair what she was doing with Jay.

"Crowley thinks I know something about Voight and the guy who killed Justin."

"Do you?"

"I know enough. Now every step I take feels like it could be a trap door."

"Those are meant for Voight. Do not go down with him, please."

"It's already in motion. I just gotta let it play out."

Erin pressed her lips together, holding her cup of coffee past Jay, but before reaching the door, Jay called her.

"There's something you can do." Erin turned around met Jay's eyes. "Move in with me." Lindsay was about to say something, but closed her mouth. "Cases come and go. Bosses come and go. Jobs come and go, but I don't want you to come and go." And without say anything, Jay kissed her lips, leaving her alone to process what just had happened.

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"Avery? AVERY?" The girl jumped in her chair and turned to look at her teacher who was calling her name for the third time. "Is everything alright?"

"Mmm? No... Yeah. I... I... yeah, sorry. I just..." Avery looked to her books and wasn't paying attention to her teacher. Her friends were looking worriedly at her and before they could say anything the bell ring and they started to grabbing their things.

"Avery... Are you sure you're ok? I think you should go home." Laura, one of her friends said.

"No, I'm ok. If I go home I'll be alone and I just... I don't want to be in the house by myself."

"Maybe you can go to the district and stay there with your dad."

"No, I'm ok."

"I'm sorry to say this, but you look like shit." Alexandra, Alex for short, was laughing messing with Avery's light brown hair.

"Fuck off, Alex. Leave me alone I'm not in the mood for your shit."

Avery was really a mess. Her long light brown hair had a small braid frayed. The dark circles in her eyes were clear on her slight makeup and that made her look more tired and her large hazel eyes looked dilated as if she hadn't slept for days. The girl wasn't feeling good and the grief for her brother was still chasing her making her want to disappear from everything and everyone. Even her best friends seemed to annoy her by simply opening their mouths.

The girl walked like a zombie on the hallway, and as much as she didn't want to be there, school was better than being home alone since her father had got back to work and Olive was crying all the time. Avery couldn't handle them and she also missed spend time with Erin, but ever since her sister started dating Jay it was getting harder for the two of them to spend some time together like they used to. Avery was happy for Erin, but she missed her sister and at that moment she found herself alone.

Upon entering the cafeteria and hearing the screaming of the other students, Avery regretted being there. Maybe going to school wasn't a good idea. Her head began to ache and her eyes grew even more tired. Looking around the girl took a deep breath running a hand over her face and letting out an irritated grunt.

"I... I'm not feeling good. I think you guys are right. I shouldn't be here I'm going to talk to Mrs. Walker and ask her If I can go home." Avery turned around and ran to the principal's office.

"Ms. Voight, is everything alright?" Mrs Walker asked, as soon as Avery open the door looking anxious.

"Not really, c-can I go home, please? I'm not feeling well and I.- "

"Hey, calm down. It's ok, let me just call your father. You can sit here for a minute." Mrs Walker helped her sit down and got back to her desk to call Hank.

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"Ok, thank you." Hank hung up the phone and Erin was looking at him. The team was going through a case and the unit was in the bullpen doing some search.

"What happened?" Erin asked.

"It's from Avery's school. She's not feeling well and the principal called and asked if I could go pick her up. "

"Oh, do you want me to go?" Erin asked worrying about her little sister.

"Would you do that?"

"Of course... Me and Jay are going to grab some lunch, we can pick her up."

"Alright, thanks." Hank returned to his office and Erin just nodded to her partner, and they both walked down the stairs together. "We need to pick Avery from school on our way to lunch."

"Sure."

As soon as they arrived at the school, Erin and Jay went straight to the principal's room and as soon as Avery saw Erin a smile appeared on her lips and she got up wrapping her arms around sister's neck hugging her.

"Hey, it's okay. We're going to take you home," Erin said softly as Jay took the girl's bag on the floor.

"No, I don't want to go home... Can I stay with you?" Avery moved away from the hug, and for the first time noticed that Jay was there too.

"Of course." Lindsay smiled and thanked Mrs. Walker before leaving.

"We're on our way to grab some lunch." Jay said smiling when they got into the car.

"I'm not that hungry."

"Well, you have to eat, you're too skiny." Jay was trying to light her mood, and Avery just smiled. She knew Jay was a nice guy.

"It'll be quick, Avery ..." Erin looked at the girl in the rearview mirror and she just nodded, leaning her head back, staring out the window.

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"She's clearly not ok." Jay whispered close to Erin watching Avery playing with Hank's chair in his office.

"Yeah. Hank said she was doing ok to go back to school, but I know that empty look, Jay."

"She's going to be ok, Er."

"Yeah, I hope so..."

Soon Alvin and Ruzek were coming up the stairs bringing new information about the case. Hank asked Jay and Erin to check while the rest of his team kept looking for more evidence. Voight returned to his offices, closing the door behind him finding his daughter bored.

"Why don't you go home and spend some time with Daniel?" Hank crossed his arms, and Avery stopped moving in the chair, looking at her father.

"Because they're not home. If you don't know, Olive left early today and took Daniel with her."

"Mm ... And your friends?"

"What about them?" Avery's brows lifted.

"Can't they keep you company?"

"No." Avery was laughing, standing up from the chair. "If you really want to get rid of me, Dad, you should have just said."

"Avery."

"Whatever, boss." Avery passed Hank, before going down the stairs.

The girl really wasn't in the mood for all this and seeing her father trying to get rid of her made her even more irritated. As she walked past the door of the district, ignoring Platt who called her, Avery looked down the street, pulling her cell phone out of her purse, dialing the number that was now on the list of her speed dials.

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After a long investigation, the unit had finally managed to find the boy who caused all that. The victim's family was advised of the closure of the case and the team was now doing paperwork before finally going home to rest.

Ruzek and Atwater were the first to finish all the paperwork they needed and then suggested that the team meet them at Molly's for a drink. Antonio and Alvin accepted the invitation, but Jay and Erin looked exhausted and just wanted to go home and lie down.

The moment everyone left, Erin passed Hank's office finding him checking his cell phone.

"We're going home, Hank."

"OK. See you all tomorrow. " Hank stood.

"Hank ... I know you have plenty on your plate right now, but take care of Avery. She is not OK and she seemed a little off this morning when I picked her from school. "

"She's in grief, Erin, like all of us."

"I know... Hank. Just keep an eye on her, okay? She needs you."

"I will."

"Okay." Erin nodded and left his office.

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As soon as Hank opened the door of his house, he found Avery sitting impatiently in his chair, clearly upset. He put his food on the counter and as he approached his daughter he found Olive and Daniel near the stairs and a suitcase behind it.

"Hey, kid." Hank smiled at his grandson picking him from Olive's arms, smiling. "Olive, what's going on?"

"Hank, I'm going to my sister's house. To Scottsdale."

"Olive, don't do this, please." Hank looked surprised at the wife of his son and felt as if his heart was going to explode.

"I'm sorry, Hank, but I can't stay in Chicago. Everything reminds me of Justin." Olive picked Daniel from Hank's arms and the little boy started to cry.

"Olive ..."

"No, Dad ..." Avery's angry voice sounded behind Hank. "I did everything I could, but she doesn't want to stay."

Daniel stretched his arms out to his aunt and grandpa and Avery held her tears.

"I'm sorry." Olive quickly grabbed her suitcase, and walked out the door with Daniel crying into her lap, leaving the Voights behind.

"Bitch ..."

"Avery!"

"What? How can she leaves us? We're sad too, dad, it's been hard for all of us..." Avery was so angry and her pupils were dilated, causing Hank to look at her carefully. Knowing something was wrong with his daughter. "Everyone is leaving us... Even Erin is leaving us now. She's dating Jay and doesn't care about me or you, they're just... Ugh!" Avery screamed in frustration, and Hank wrapped his arms around her, holding her tight.

"Erin is not leaving us, kid. You know that... She loves you and she'll always be here for you. And I'm not going to leave you, Avery. You're all I have and I love you." Hank knew his little girl needed him and he would do everything to protect what's left of his Family.

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Note: Hey guys! I was kinda nervous to upload it, but here we go. Please, let me know what you think and if I should keep this story. English is not my first language, so any mistakes are on me ;)

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