I want to start by saying thank you so much to everyone who is following or reviewing my story. I have felt so motivated to keep writing with every review that comes through for this story. I have to say it has sort of taken on a life of its own as I have been writing. I truly had a different plan when I first started writing but the story just took me somewhere else. I truly love all the characters in Chicago PD but Kim and Adam are by far my favorites. I love the idea that they are the best friends of Jay and Erin. Don't worry too much about Jay, I promise he and Erin will find their way back to each other but things will be rocky along the way. I hope you all enjoy the new chapter.
Disclaimer: I do not own CPD or any of the characters I am just a fan of the show and of the work of Dick Wolf and his whole team.
Kim couldn't believe what she just heard leave Jay's mouth and she also couldn't believe she or Adam either one hadn't yelled at him for dropping their news on the team. In fact, Kim was pretty sure she saw Adam give Jay a nod of approval for telling Voight that she was pregnant. She was debating with herself who to yell at first her fiancée or her partner. Hank Voight looked from Jay Halstead to Ruzek and Burgess, he kept expecting to hear someone protest that the news Jay had just dropped wasn't true. When no one was speaking up to dispute the bombshell that Jay just dropped Hank Voight decided it was time to address his officers himself. He decided to direct the question to the one he felt was to blame for this situation, "Ruzek, is what Halstead just said about Burgess true?" Adam felt like he was being called onto the carpet by someone's father and he wasn't sure he liked it but he did like the fact that he was about to get what he wanted and keep Kim out of this sting. Adam was pretty sure he wasn't going to enjoy this conversation, he looked at Kim but it was obvious she was not going to save him. "Sarge, listen.." Hank was in no mood for Ruzek to stall him right now, "Adam you have exactly five seconds to answer the question I actually asked you." Adam swallowed the words he had been about to speak and looked at the floor, "YES". Voight heard his young officer give the affirmative answer so at this point he turned to the young woman who was engaged to Adam, "Burgess, I am going to understand if you don't want to go into this sting tonight and if you do decide to go in our plan is going to drastically change." Kim, looked at her commanding officer Hank Voight and smiled that thousand watt smile that she had that could light up a room. "Voight, I can do, let me go in, I know that Jay and Adam obviously don't want me in the sting but I am telling you I'm not ready for desk duty yet." Hank walked over to Burgess and hugged her, then he spoke, "Okay, if I let you go in tonight you promise me to stay out of all the action, when you hear me in the ear piece telling you we are coming in you find a safe place and stay there until one of our team comes for you. Even better you find Erin and you both get out of there." Kim, felt as if she was being told by a father how to behave or stay safe somewhere and in the last year since she joined Intelligence Hank had become like her father, or at least a better father then the one she actually had. Kim replied to him while still in his embrace, "I promise to stay safe and move out of the way on your order." Hank smiled before he spoke to Burgess, he had come to think of this young woman as part of his family, she was Erin's best friend and marrying one of his team. "Okay then you're in for tonight but for now, go take a break, eat something, if that kid in there is like Ruzek over there it has to be hungry." He let her go and as she was walking out the door, he spoke, "Burgess, I don't want to see you back down here for at least an hour." She laughed but replied "Yes, Sir", and headed up the stairs.
Voight looked around the room at the young men left in the room, he spoke first to Ruzek. "Adam, you are one lucky Son of a Gun, that Burgess loves you and is actually having a baby with you." "That said, don't do anything stupid tonight to play hero, Kim is going to need you around for her and the baby, I need you around to keep her safe tonight." Adam looked at Hank he didn't realize his hard as nails sergeant, could be that soft to any of this team except for Erin, and she was currently M.I.A. He looked at Voight and answered with a "Yes, sir, no hero moves tonight." Hank was satisfied he had made his point with Ruzek so he turned to Halstead, and you "I want you to stay within 15 feet or less of your partner the whole night." "Since you decided to drop their news before they could you are now in charge of making sure that Burgess is safe the whole night." Jay looked at the man who was his boss and also the person he knew cared the most for the people on his team and nodded his head, "You got it." Voight who now was confident these young men understood tonight just got much more serious started talking about their sting and the way things were going to change with this new element thrown into the mix.
Meanwhile, at her apartment, Erin Lindsey was torn about sending a text to her friend Kim, to let her know that she had just spent time with a notorious drug teller who she knew was on the radar of Hank and the entire Intelligence Team. I mean even if she wasn't talking to them and had left the team she still cared about them right? She and Kim, along with Nadia had been the best of friends and no matter what she owed it to Kim to tell her this guy was in town. As Erin was thinking about what she was going to say to Kim she heard her phone ding, "Hey Babe, I scored us some amazing pills, and Mr. Andrews was impressed by you." "He wants you in his VIP area tonight, I will be there in an hour, we can party privately before we go party with my boss." Erin, read what Landon had written to her and was filled with dread, it was never good for a high end drug dealer to think you were pretty, but if it meant she could score something to make all this pain go away then she would be glad to party with him. Erin picked her phone back up and replied to Landon, "sounds great, can't wait to see what you have for us." Erin had to admit she felt sick and part of her longed to call Kim, Jay, Hank, or Adam and asked them to come and save her from herself, but she couldn't she was dangerous, it was her fault that Nadia was dead, she couldn't endanger the lives of her other friends. As she was sitting there thinking about what to wear to the club tonight she heard her phone beep again, she almost didn't look because she was sure it was Landon or worse her mother trying to find out if she and Landon had scored, but something made her look at her text. She looked to find a text from her best friend Kim, "Erin, please call me and let me know you're okay. I have news to share with you and it is bigger than Adam and I being engaged." "Speaking of which, you never answered about being my maid of honor, Jay is Adam's best man, we miss you Erin, please call me." Erin, felt herself start to cry, she wanted to text Kim back and ask her to help her, but she couldn't. She knew she had to protect Kim at all costs and that meant, making sure she was mad enough at her that she wouldn't text or call anymore, she had to because Erin was bad news and Kim was her bright shiny friend who only deserved good news. She began to type something so different from what she wanted to say, "Burgess, we both know you and Ruzek are never going to get married, I mean he kissed you when he was engaged to another girl, he never said he loved you until you were shot, do you really think he is going to settle down with you? I don't think so, so no I will not be your Maid of Honor, because your wedding is never going to happen." "Don't text me when he breaks your heart!" Erin knew she had hurt Kim but she convinced herself it was because she loved her best friend too much to let her get hurt. Her buzz was gone and the pain in her life was too much right now, she heard Landon come in the door and she went to meet him knowing he had the key to making all the pain go away.
In the breakroom of the Intelligence Unit, Kim Burgess was staring at her phone and crying. She never knew that Erin could be so hurtful, she was trying to tell herself that Erin didn't mean what she had said, Erin had been so different and lost since Nadia was killed but she felt like her friend had just punched her in the gut. Kim didn't realize how loud she was crying until she heard footsteps coming toward the break room, her friend and former partner, Kevin Atwater walked into the room and looked at his friend, "Hey Kim, you okay?" Kevin was thrown in all the time he had known and worked with Kim he had seen her cry maybe twice and it still unnerved him each time he saw it. Kim, couldn't find words to answer Kevin, and in truth she felt like she was struggling to breathe so instead she just shook her head and cried harder, while pointing to her phone sitting on the table. Kevin picked it up to see what had her so upset, when he read the texts between her and Lindsey he knew why she was upset, Kim considered Erin to be a sister and Erin had just said some of the nastiest things she could to her friend. Kevin wanted to comfort Kim but knew his words probably wouldn't be enough. He looked at Kim "Hey Burgess, I'm going to go and get Ruzek okay, stay here and he set a cup in front of her drink this." Kevin dashed out the room and down the stairs to Mouse's office, as he walked in it was obvious he was interrupting a serious meeting between Voight, Halstead, Ruzek, and Mouse, "Sorry guys, but someone might want to come and check on Burgess, she is in the breakroom sobbing and since I'm not her fiancée I figure dealing with a sobbing Kim was actually Adam's job." Adam looked at his boss who nodded his head indicating that Adam should go to Kim. As he was going up the stairs, he heard Kevin call "Yo, Bro, text us and let us know Kim's okay, when I left her I thought she was going to hyperventilate." Jay and Hank both looked at Atwater, "Okay, Atwater, now you tell me what had Burgess so upset, commanded Hank Voight" Kevin looked at Voight "Sarge, you are not going to like my answer, but it was a text from Lindsey." "From what I read on her phone she had reached out to Lindsey and was asking her to be in the wedding, said something about having other big news to share with Erin." Hank nodded, silently happy to know what all these people were still trying to make Erin part of their lives but angry with Erin for hurting Kim. Voight spoke "Go on." Atwater started speaking again, "Erin well when she replied to Kim, she basically told her Adam would never marry her because he cheated on Wendy with her and she won't need a wedding party because Adam doesn't love her." Jay turned and punched the filing cabinet to his left, he knew that Erin was hurting but he also knew that this time she had taken it too far. Kim and Adam were their best friends and if anyone had Erin's best interest at heart it was Kim. He just hoped Adam could calm Kim down, she didn't need this added stress on top of the stress of tonight's sting. Jay knew one thing, if they left that club tonight with Erin, which was a major part of the plan, he was going to give her a piece of his mind.
Adam got upstairs and didn't hear the sobbing that Kevin had told him expect, he was hoping that when he stepped into the breakroom he would find a much calmer Kim. Adam, walked over to his desk and dug around, he kept her favorite chocolate bar for those rare times they were here late and she would refuse to leave to eat, he always got her with the candy bar. He knew it wasn't the best thing to give her right now, because God knew he wanted real food in her before this sting tonight but at this point he also didn't want to approach his upset fiancée empty handed. He walked in the break room and the sight before him took his breath away, Kim was on the floor, the cup of tea Kevin had left her with all over the floor. Adam, ran to her and yelled her name, Kim!