Those three months flew by, Erin was back at the precinct and she was living with Voight. He drug tested her regularly to make sure she was keeping up her end of the deal. Life was as good as it could be with everything she was dealing with. Every chance she got she went to see Emery and they would do something together that would take her mind off of her ailing father.
It was the day before Erin was supposed to go get Emery and move her to Chicago. The day was generally normal. She got up, went downstairs to have her coffee with Hank, and then they both drove to work. They were always the first people there in the morning. Erin usually sat at her desk and did paper work but today was different when she got to her desk the picture of her and Emery caught her eye she picked it up and just stared at it for a while. She kept it on her desk and people just assumed it was her cousin they had no idea it was actually her daughter.
"Hey you. What you got there?" Jay asks.
"Nothing." Erin says sitting it gently down on her desk.
"No it's not nothing. I know that grin. But its ok you don't have to tell me. I'm just glad to see it again." Jay says with a grin.
Erin gives him a slight grin just as her phone rings.
"Lindsay." She says answering her cell.
"Momma." Emery says crying.
Erin hurries into the break room to talk on the phone in private.
"Baby what's wrong?" she asks her hysterical daughter.
"I'm at the hospital. They won't let me in the room they just told me dad wants me to take the truck and drive to Chicago." Emery says balling.
"You can't drive here by yourself. I'll talk to your grandpa hold on a second." She says walking towards Voight's office.
When she walks in he is on the phone so she quietly sits and waits. Occasionally whispering in the phone to her daughter. She waited about five minutes and Hank hung the phone up and sighed.
"Your granddaughter is on the phone. Dylan told her to drive here by herself. He's in the hospital." Erin says putting her daughter on speaker phone.
"Hey Em. Did you drive to the hospital?" he asks.
"Yes." She says.
"We are going to leave now. I want you to go back home and get all your stuff together and wait for us." Hank says.
"Okay." She says.
Hank looks at Erin with a look of sorrow. Erin knew that something was really wrong in that moment.
"Baby we love you and we will be there soon." Erin says hanging up.
"When you walked in I was on the phone with the hospital. They don't think he's going to make it through the night they are going to let her in to say goodbye now. Tessa is with her so she is going to drive home and wait with her tell we get there." Hank says.
"Okay, let's go get my daughter please." Erin says trying to hold back the tears.
They walk out of the office and by this time everyone was there. Erin walks to her desk and grabs her stuff.
"Lindsay and I have to go somewhere we won't be back until six tonight. So I need you all to hold down the fort here." Voight says walking out the door with Lindsay leaving everyone confused.
It takes them about three hours to get to Henry from Chicago. The whole way there Erin was worried about Emery. She didn't say much in the car she just scrolled through pictures on her phone.
"Erin she will be ok. She has a mom that loves her unconditionally." He says trying to reassure her.
Erin just nods her head. When they get into town she immediately becomes more and more impatient. As soon as Hank stops the car in front of the house Erin gets out and runs inside.
"Emery?" She says.
"We are upstairs." Tessa yells.
Erin goes up the stairs and finds her daughter curled up in a ball on her bed crying with her best friend sitting right next to her rubbing her back.
"Emery. I'm here its ok. Everything will be ok."
"Dylan died about fifteen minutes ago. They called right before you got here." Tessa says.
"Can you go tell Hank please?" Erin asks.
Tessa nods her head and leaves. Erin crawls in bed next her daughter and they just lay there.
"Mom. He was supposed to have more time." Emery says burying her face in her pillow.
"Sweetie he was ready. I'm glad you got to say goodbye to him. He isn't in pain anymore. You have to know he loved you more than anything. It will be ok. It is bad now but eventually it won't hurt as bad." She says to her grieving daughter.
They lay there for a half hour and then Emery decides she's ready to go. She gets up and grabs a box and doesn't say a word. She walks down the stairs and out the door to the car. Erin comes down the stairs with more boxes.
"She doesn't want to talk about it yet. She just wants to go I think this house has too many memories for her she's ready to leave." Erin says to Tessa and Hank.
"We will go get the rest of her boxes." Hank says looking to Tessa.
Erin carried the boxes to the car and found Emery on the porch swing with no expression.
"Hey…" Erin started to say but was cut off by her daughter.
"Mom are you still doing drugs?" She asks blatantly.
Erin looks at her daughter in complete shock she had no idea that her daughter knew she thought she hid it well.
"What?" Erin finally spits out.
"Mom please don't lie to me. If you are doing drugs I need you to stop because I can't lose you too." She says staring to tear up.
"I was, after Nadia was killed I was in a dark place. I know that isn't an excuse. I'm living at grandpa's that's where we will be living until he trusts me again. How did you know?" she asks.
"You butt dialed me one night I heard you ask someone for pills. It was three in the morning. I'm not mad I just need you to promise me you won't ever do it again." Emery says looking at her mom with her sad blue eyes.
"I promise." She says hugging Emery and kissing her head.
Hank and Tessa walk out of the house with a dirty old wagon that had boxes in it.
"I think we got all the boxes. Tessa found the wagon in the garage figured we could use it instead of making twelve trips." Hank says.
"I didn't even know dad kept this. I never go in the garage because we just use it for storage." Emery says.
Hanks phone rings just as he is loading the last box in the car.
"Voight, we need you back here ASAP. This case we got is strange and we need you guys here." Antonio says.
"We are on our way back now." He says hanging up.
He walks back up on the porch and puts the wagon in the house. The girls are still sitting on the swing talking. As much as he doesn't want to rush them he knows they really need to get back.
"Kid are you ready? I know this is hard." He says.
"It's what dad wanted. I'm ready." She says.
"We will come back and get the rest of your stuff, after we get the stuff you are bringing now situated." He says reassuring his granddaughter.
"Bye Em. I love you." Tessa says.
"Bye Tess. I love you too." she says hugging her friend goodbye.
They all get in the car and head for Chicago. Emery although she is very sad, is ready for her new adventure she knows that her dad wouldn't want it any other way. Hank had arranged for his body to be brought to Chicago, Emery was the only family he had, so he knew it wouldn't be an issue. He had also forgot to mention to the girls that he was in possession of the will and a couple other things he wasn't going to mention until Emery got more settled.