Halstead woke up in an abandoned warehouse that looked like it was designed to be a cellar. He groaned about his extremely excruciating headache from being knocked out as someone hit his head, with hard object. He tried to move, but he looked down to see that he was chained to the wall, like the chains that they used to use during the medieval times. He was in a large room that was almost entirely empty if it wasn't for the table and few chairs the perpetrators were sitting on.
"Oh he's awake, Kyle," Jay heard a man say. Kyle Voo was the leader of the sex cartel that the intelligence unit was trying to stop.
"Well, hello Detective Halstead." Derek got up and walked over to Jay.
"What do you want from me? You know my unit will find me, and they will kill you." he said.
"If anyone comes looking for me, not even Sargent Voight will ever find your body." Kyle had encountered Voight before and he knew his reputation in the drug society.
(He shows Halstead an iPad that had a picture of Lindsay sleeping at her apartment.)
"If I even have the feeling that your crew is even trying to find you, I will do wonderful things to your precious partner."
"Don't you dare touch one strand of hair on her body. Do you understand me?" Halstead screamed.
"I see that you too are way more than just partners. I wonder what Voight thinks about that?" he said.
"I mean it. If you touch her, you're dead. I will kill you myself. "
"We'll, see about that. I.."
"What do you want from me?"
"I want your crew to drop this case. I need you to call your wonderful boss and tell him if you do not transfer 200k into this bank account, in exchange for your life" he showed a paper to Jay and pointed at a number.
"He will never agree to that. You will never get away with this."
"Okay." He said as he got up and said, "Hey, Oliver why don't you go pick up his lady friend from her apartment won't you? Her address is right there?"
"NO! DON'T YOU DARE!" Jay screamed. "Fine I'll do it."
Derek dialed Hank's number on Halstead's' phone held the phone up to his ear.
"Finally." Voight said through the phone. "Where have you been. Are you alright?"
"Hank, don't try looking for me." As Hank heard that on speaker where the whole unit can hear. Mouse was already tracking the phone. "If you do Voo is going to hurt Erin. You need to transfer 200K into his bank account. The number is 403438023586132."
"Is he out of his DAMN mind?" Voight screamed.
"Well hello to you too, Sargent Voight." Kyle said as he put the phone to his own ear. "You transfer that money Hank, or detective will be dead. You have 24 hours." He said as he hung up the phone.
"We cannot pay him. We've been working so hard to get this case, he needs to be brought down." Voight said.
"Hank we have to do something. We can't let him die." Lindsay said.
"If we do take this guy down, Lindsay will be in danger too" Olinsky chipped in.
"He's right." Antonio said. "How do you want to approach this Voight?"
"I think I'm going to be sick," Erin said as she got up and ran to the bathroom. She had kept her nausea in for as long as she can, but she couldn't take it anymore.
Kim Burgess went after her.
"I knew I should have left her at her apartment." Voight said after Lindsay stormed off.
Erin had barely made it to the toilet. After she vomited everything that she ate that day, as she was getting up she grew dizzy and everything went black after she hit her head on the tile.
Burgess ran into the bathroom right when Erin hit the ground.
"SOMEBODY HELP," Burgess screamed.
Adam Ruzek heard and ran to see why his girlfriend was screaming.
"What happened?" he asked as he ran to see Erin on the floor.
"I'm not sure, I think she threw up and fainted"
Erin moaned and opened her eyes.
"Erin!" Kim yelled out. "What happened? Are you okay?"
"I don't know as I was getting up I guess I fainted." she said as she held her head and sat up. "Ow," she said.
"C'mon darlin'. Let's get you to the hospital." Ruzek said.
"I'm fine," she said as she tried to get up, but she couldn't.
"No, you are definitely not fine." Kim said as she and Adam helped her sit on the locker benches.
"Let's go through the back. Wait here, let me go tell Voight were taking you to the hospital." he said.
"Hey, Adam. Please don't tell him about my fall. Just tell him I'm sick and you're taking precautions." Erin said.
"Will do," he said as he went to find Voight.
"Okay, I need to run some tests, Miss Lindsay," Dr. Paldina said. "What are you feeling?" she asked.
"I feel nauseas, weak, and my head is pounding."
"Okay, let's start with some blood work. And also, you have a mild concussion." she said as she examined her head. "I'm not sure yet, but I might have to admit you over night."
They had rushed her to the hospital. With Ruzeks' crazy driving they got there in 5 minutes. Ruzek decided to stay outside in the waiting room when Kim went in with Erin to support her.
"No, please. I have to work on a case. My partner's' missing." Erin protested.
"Erin, listen to her please." Burgess said. "We'll find Jay."
Erin sighed.
At that moment Dr. Paldina got a message on her pager. "Let's me see what this is all about, give me a moment." she said as she walked out of the room.
"You really need some sleep, Lindsay," Burgess said.
"I know. I barely went to bed when Voight banged on my door." Erin said.
"Yeah this whole situation is crazy." Kim said.
"Yeah I can't lose him, Kim. He means too much to me." Erin said.
"I always knew there was something between you too, since the beginning." she said as she smiled at lindsay.
"Really?" Kim nodded. "Yeah I guess there has always been a spark between us."
"He's in love with you, you know that?" Burgess replied.
"You think so?" she asked.
"Yeah, of course. How can you not see it. He's always worried about you. It's the way he looks at you, it's they way you look at each other. Everyone sees it," Kim said.
"We never really got to the part of confessing our feelings. But, I guess without even realizing I fell for him. And I fell for him hard. Harder than I have fell for anyone. I know we can't do anything because we work together and because of Voight, but I need to tell him. He can't.. It can't end like this. Without him knowing how I feel." Erin Lindsay had never felt this much love towards another person the way she felt about Jay Halstead. She also never admitted that much to anyone, but she believed she can really trust Burgess.
"It won't. We'll find him, Erin." she assured Erin.
"Please, keep this between us though." Erin said looking at Kim. "I can't have Voight knowing how I feel about my partner."
"Of course. You can trust me." Burgess said.
After a moment of silence, Burgess said, "What is taking the doctor so long?"
"Mouse, did you get the location?" Voight yelled.
"Nope, I lost it," he said as he kept typing on his computer.
"AGH," Voight said angrily. As the threw the clipboard at the wall. "Look through security cameras at Jay's apartment. Let's see what we can find."
"Olinsky, Antonio, go searching at Halsteads car for clues, and we'll call you with updates."
"Atwater, call the bank for the units account, and my personal account, and see what you can scrap together." he said.
"We're paying this guy?" Antonio asked.
"No, not yet. Until it's our last option." he said.
"Got it, Sarge," Antonio said as he, Olinsky and Atwater hurried to their tasks.
Will Halstead walked into the room Erin and Kim were in. "Hi, I'm covering for Dr. Paldina. She was called in an emergency surg…" He looked up from his paperwork.
"Erin?" he said as he saw the patient who he was taking over.
"Will?" she asked seeing the older Halstead.
"You guys know each other?" Kim asked.
"Yes, Kim this is Will Halstead, Jay's brother. Will, this is Officer Kim Burgess,"
"Nice to finally meet the other Halstead." Kim said giving her hand for him to shake.
"Nice to meet you." he smirked as he shook her hand. "What happened, Erin?"
"I felt nauseous, so I ran to the bathroom. After I threw up, I fainted and hit my head on the tile." Will got closer and examined her head.
"You might have a concussion, you might have to be admitted. I'm not sure yet. We also need to take a blood sample from you. Are you ready for that?" He said as he put his own clipboard down and picked up the one the doctor had left.
"Um, yeah…" She said. She had to tell him about Jay, but she was afraid.
After he finished with the blood test, he left the room to give the test to the lab.
He came back a few minutes later to ask some follow up questions.
"Okay, the blood results will be ready in a few minutes. I have a couple follow up personal questions I need to ask you." Will said.
"I'm going to go check on Ruzek, I'll be back soon" Kim said.
"So you have been feeling nauseous, and you fainted. Correct?" She nodded.
"Okay, I know this a little bit too personal since you and my brother had a thing couple weeks back, but are you on the pill?"
"Yeah, I am" Erin said.
"When was your last period?" He asked her.
"C'mon, really?" she asked smirking.
"I'm serious." he asked.
"September." she said, she started to think about it and realized that was two months ago. "Which was two months ago. I guess I've been so busy with work, I never realized I ran late, it happens ever so often." Will nodded, even though he was not convinced.
"Here are the results to that blood test for a Erin Lindsay, Doctor." The nurse said as she came in and handed the results to Will.
"Thank you," he said.
"I'm here," Kim said as she came and sat next to Erin and put her arm around her.
During that time, Will was examining the results.
"Wow," he said with a surprised look on his face.
"What is it," Erin asked afraid of what she was about to hear.
"Erin, I know this may come as a bit of a shock, but you're pregnant," he said putting his hand on her shoulder.
"Are you sure?" Erin was shocked. She couldn't be pregnant? Could she?
"I'm sure, Erin. These are your results." Will said looking down at the clip board once again.
Kim Burgess was shocked, but she knew she had to support her colleague and friend. She squeezed her hand.
"Wow. Pregnant?" Erin Lindsay could not think straight. "I mean, I never wanted kids, I... Bunny scarred me for life. I don't want any kid having the childhood that I had."
"Erin, you're not Bunny. You will be a great mother, I know it." Kim said smiling at her. "We're all here for you."
Erin nodded. "How could you be so sure? I don't know how to process this. Erin Lindsay, mother? I never saw that coming. Voight's going to be so disappointed. And he's going to make me quit Intelligence." Erin put her head into her hands.
"Erin, Voight will be proud of where you are in life. You've come a long way since he took you in. He'll be happy for you. Stop freaking out, you're going to be a great mother. Trust me, I've seen you with kids. You're a blessing to them. Look what you've accomplished in Nadia and how far she's come. You're going to be good at this."
"Thank you, Kim. I really appreciate that." Erin tried to give off a small smile to her supportive friend.
She put her hand on her stomach and looked up at Will who kept his mouth shut the whole time. "So I'm really pregnant, huh?"
"Yeah, you are." Will smiled at Erin. "You'll get through this."
"Do you know who the father is?" Kim asked.
Will Halstead looked up at Erin with a questionable glance. He wanted to ask her if she's slept with anyone since Jay, but he didn't know if she wanted Kim to know that."
Erin looked from Will back to Kim. "Yeah, it's Jay's. I haven't slept with anyone since him."
"Jay? As in Jay Halstead?" Kim Burgess asked. Burgess had no idea there was actually something going on between the two.
"Yup." Erin nodded.
"Since when?" Kim asked intrigued on the new information that caught her attention.
"Since I left for the task force. We sort of dated for a while, until Voight found out."
"I knew there was something going on." Kim said smirking.
"Yeah, we finally gave us a shot. And look where that ended up." Erin said looking down at her stomach.
"Erin, he'll be happy about this, especially since it's with you." Will Halstead finally spoke up. "He's always wanted kids, way more than me. It'll come as a surprise to him, but he'll be thrilled. And plus he loves you, so you have that advantage." Will smirked.
"He'll be thrilled, Erin. He'll be an amazing father. " Burgess said.
"Thanks guys, I hope so. I mean I don't want to pressure him into anything, but I think he should know. But we need to find him. After this news, theres no way I can lose him. I can't do this without him"
"Erin, we'll fi…" Kim was cut off by Will Halstead.
"Erin, what are you two talking bout?" Will asked.
Burgess paused, "Will, Jay's been abducted. The criminal that we've been after abducted him. The rest of the team is on the case now, trying to figure out what they are going to do." Kim answered for Erin because she knew Erin could not talk about it.
"What does that prick want?" he asked as he sat down to take it all in.
"He wants money. 200k. If we don't give it to him, and go after him ourselves, they're going to kill Erin and Jay." Kim said
"Please tell me Voight's doing something?"
"They're figuring it out," Burgess replied as Erin was still crying on Burgess's shoulder.
After wiping the tears that were developing in his own eyes, Will got up. "You need to stay safe, okay Erin. Please, take care of my brother's child. The concussion isn't too severe, you'll be fine. I'll give you some medicine and some prenatal vitamins you need to take. Go get something to eat, and go home and rest. Have someone watch over you tonight, just in case. Take this card, go see Dr. Tealen tomorrow morning around 8:00 AM. She doesn't have many patients at that time and I can't call in for an appointment at this time, but tell her you were referred by and and she'll take you in. Until further notice, you should not strain yourself with work. Breathe and do not stress yourself out too much. It is not good for the baby. It's not only about you anymore. Go home, eat and rest. Please" he said. He went right outside the room and grabbed a wheelchair and patted on the seat for Erin to sit down.
"Thank you, Will" she said with a warming, but sad smile.
"Please keep in touch with how you are feeling. And let me know what's going on with Jay. I'm really worried about him." he said as he gave his card to Erin that had his phone number.
"Will do," Burgess said. "Thank you so much, nice meeting you"
Will nodded and left the room.
"Let's go get something for you to eat," Burgess said as she helped her friend to the waiting room to find Ruzek playing a game on his phone.
"What happened?" he said.
They didn't tell Ruzek anything because they both knew that the word would spread if Adam Ruzek knew a secret. Instead, they just told him that she was sick and she was under strict doctor's orders to go eat and go home.
Lindsay finally ate and her nausea was under control. She gained her energy back.
"Let's take you home" Ruzek said as they climbed back into the car after breakfast.
"No, I have go back to the precinct to help find Jay," she said.
"Absolutely not. I talked to Voight and he ordered you to go home and sleep. Kim will stay with you at the apartment tonight to keep an eye on you, I will go back to the precinct." Ruzek said.
"But, what about Jay?" Erin said.
"Erin" Without saying anything that will reveal the secret, Kim raised her eyebrow and Erin knew what Kim wanted to say.
Erin could not argue with that. Kim was right. This definitely was not only about her anymore. She had a child in her stomach. Hers' and Jay's child. She had to protect it.
"They're searching for Jay. They are on the verge of finding his location," Adam said.
At around 8:00 AM, Burgess took Erin to the clinic. She promised Erin that she'd stay in the waiting room. She wanted to give her some privacy.
Erin was admitted immediately because the first appointment was running late.
"Hi Detective Lindsay, Will texted me this morning. Nice to meet you, I'm Doctor Tealen call me Kathleen." she said as they entered the ultrasound room.
"Nice to meet you, Kathleen," Erin replied.
"Let's get your ultrasound started, shall we?" Erin nodded. "This is going to feel a little cold, but you'll be fine."
"... and this is your baby's head and it's tiny feet," she said.
"Wow, that's my baby?" she asked astonished of how tiny the pea inside of her was.
"It sure is. Congratulations" she said. "You're about 7 weeks pregnant, and everything seems good,"
"Wow," Erin thought. It was a little after the time she and Jay first started dating after she left Intelligence to join the task force.
"Considering that you are a detective, I'm going to give you strict orders to not take part in extreme cases and takedowns. You need to be extra careful now. Here are some prenatal vitamins and pamphlets you might need. Do you have any questions?"
"No, thank you so much," Erin said.
"Take it easy, okay? Please go to the front and schedule your next appointment. Hopefully I get to meet Will's brother, next time you come in?" she said.
"I hope so," Erin answered with a concerned face.
As she was going to the front, through the side entrance a man came in behind her and held a cloth and held it to her mouth so no one can hear her scream. He stuck her behind a van as she was kicking and screaming. He put tape on her mouth and tied her feet and arms before the driver sped off.
