Jay was stood outside Chicago Med having just told Will the most recent news they had on Jess. Will had thought that Jay was lying to him but now, 20 minutes later, he was starting to believe him.
"Oh my god" were the only word Will could bring himself to say. "Oh my god"
"Will, listen to me. The whole district is working on finding her okay? We will get her back." Will nodded and without letting Jay say anything else, he walked back into the building. He needed to immerse himself into his work. He knew Jay and Intelligence were doing everything they could and right now he needed to be busy, to take his mind off it.
Jay watched his older brother's retreating form disappear into the hospital and contemplated going after him, wanting to comfort his sibling. He ultimately decided against it, Voight had already contacted Sharon Goodwin, making sure to tell her of Will's situation 'so Will should be fine' Jay thought as he walked back to his car but he was really just trying to convince himself.
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Jess watched as yet another car drove past underneath the window. She and Kayleigh (another of the missing girls) were brainstorming ideas on how to get out of here. She knew that Colin had a gun registered to him. He had even taken her to the shooting range a couple of times before she found out the truth.
That seemed like a lifetime ago. The young girl still remembered the day they moved to Indianapolis, that 4 hour car journey had bored her out of her 7-year-old mind. She'd had a nice life up until a few months ago; she missed her brothers of course but they didn't seem to miss her. She never heard from them once and just assumed they didn't want to speak to her anymore. They had always been busy what with her biological mother being sick and her biological father being a drunk. When they moved back to Chicago almost a year ago, the youngest Halstead didn't even attempt to find them, thinking they'd most likely moved to somewhere different.
She then thought back to that day. If only that gas leak hadn't happened at school that day. Then Jess wouldn't have come home early. She wouldn't have witnessed the horrible things her dad was doing to that poor girl. Jess had tried to run but her so called mother had grabbed her from behind and dragged her into a cage. Jess had always been quite a skinny girl so she wasn't able to fight back with much force.
Mary had come to talk to her a few hours later. "Sweetie, I don't know why you are so upset." She had said, looking at Jessica's tear stained face, "you have a perfect family" her voice had almost sounded angry saying that last statement.
"You will never be my family Mary" she'd spat, glaring at her adoptive parent with pure hatred in her eyes.
"Jessica Florence Harringt-"she was cut off by Jessica speaking
"Halstead" she had said in a low, menacing voice, "that will always be my last name" and that was her last memory of that day other than Mary Harrington's fist barrelling towards her face.
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Jay was tired. That was an understatement; he was exhausted. He refused to lie down even for a minute out of fear that he would miss something. Everyone had tried but even Erin was struggling to get through to him right now.
"Halstead!" Voight barked from across the room, noticing his employee looking noticeably pale "you are going to take a break right now"
"But Sarge-"
"It wasn't a request Jay" He narrowed his eyes at the younger detective who reluctantly went to take a nap in the break room.
With Jay gone, Voight decided to review the case again and he motioned for the team to gather round. "Erin? He asleep?" Lindsay gave Hank a silent nod, indicating that Halstead was indeed passed out on the couch.
"Right," he continued "what's the latest? Anyone strange call the Harringtons recently? I wanna know. I want to know everything about them: what car they drive, their relatives, hell, I even want to know what they had for breakfast this morning" everyone got to work immediately.
"Hey Sarge!" the civilian employee Greg Gerwitz aka 'Mouse' called out a few minutes later. "The same number called Colin Harrington 6 times in the past 2 days, signal is coming from an apartment 2 blocks out."
Hank motioned to Erin and Antonio "Lindsay, Dawson go pick the guy up"
Both detectives were quite close with Jay and felt they needed to help his sister so they both jumped at the chance of an arrest.
Once they got to the address, both Lindsay and Dawson were itching to get their hands on this guy. "Chicago PD! Open up" Antonio bellowed at the door. Around 10 seconds later a woman, dressed in pyjamas opened the door. Her hair was in curlers and she looked as if she had just got up, even though it was 2 in the afternoon.
Lindsay held up the number of the phone that had been calling the Harringtons to the woman. "This your number ma'am?" She asked, letting the woman inspect the digits.
"It's my husband's"
"Is he here?" questioned Antonio
"Yeah he's upstairs. Why don't you officers come inside" She lead the two detective through a hallway into a sitting room where she offered them coffee "I'll go and get Rupert now"
A few minutes later, the woman reappeared with 'Rupert'. He was tall and scrawny, no older than 30 and looked quite on edge.
"You know these people?" Lindsay shoved the pictures of the Harringtons towards him.
"Mary and Colin. Haven't seen them in a while." The man answered cryptically.
"Then why were you calling them half a dozen times over the past couple of days?" Rupert froze in his spot. He quickly tried to reach for his gun which was stored on the table in front of them but Erin had already spied it earlier and was ready to pull her weapon out before he even had the chance to react.
"Get up" she ordered, pointing the gun at the back of his head. "We're going to the district".
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Jess started to taste blood after being hit yet again by her 'father'. She had tried breaking out by smashing the window but had only made a crack before Colin had come in and caught her. He'd hit her once then shoved her down onto the bed and continued punching and kicking her.
Jess knew she didn't have much time left but still tried to fight. She was sure she was going to die until Mary came in at that moment. "Col, the cops are almost here. If we want to get out, we have to go now!" Colin reached for Jess' arm but his wife tugged him away. "She has to stay, we don't have enough time!" she hissed impatiently. The older man nodded at his wife and they both ran out of the hotel room, locking the door behind them.
Jessica Halstead then examined her wounds, hissing in pain as she touched them. She was in pain but one thing made it all worthwhile… Sirens.
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Well here's chapter 3! Sorry it took me so long. I'm going on holiday in a week and whilst I'm there I won't be able to post so I'll try and get up another chapter before I go. Enjoy!
