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Chapter 9

The next morning, Erin was sitting at her kitchen counter eating some cereal when someone knocked on her door. She was already dressed in clothes for work, so she casually strolled over to the door and looked through the peephole.

Antonio was standing on the other side. What? Lindsay thought, confused. Nevertheless, she opened the door. "Good morning, Lindsay. How are you feeling?" Antonio asked politely.

"Much better, thanks. I appreciate the rest time yesterday."

"No problem," Antonio replied. "Can I come in? We need to talk."

Shoot, Erin thought. "Uh…sure, come on in."

"Thank you," Antonio said. Once the door was shut, he said, "I assume Halstead told you that he got a little out of hand yesterday?"

"You mean by lunging at the gang dude to stop him from shooting at my head? Yes, I did hear about that," Lindsay replied, crossing her arms.

"He wasn't supposed to lunge for an armed suspect. One's supposed to keep a distance. But I want to know why he lunged for an armed suspect. I thought about asking him, but then I remembered that Halstead doesn't really like to talk. And then I remembered that he lunged to save you, so I was wondering if you could provide some insight as to why he did."

"Um, well…" Lindsay muttered, thinking, oh my God. I'm going to have to tell him. While Jay's still here.

"Erin, I'm waiting," Antonio insisted.

"Can I send you out if I don't want to talk about it?"

"No, because I'm not going anywhere until you do."

Erin suddenly found herself out of options. She walked over to her jacket and felt around in one of the inside pockets, and pulled out the ultrasound picture while her back was turned to Antonio. She had brought it in yesterday after Jay had dropped her home. She folded it in her hand, turned around, and walked back over to Antonio. Antonio saw that Erin was holding something in her hand, and asked, "What's that?"

"The answer to your question," Erin remarked monotonously, handing over the folded picture.

Antonio cautiously opened up the folded photo paper, and did a double take when he saw the image. He knew exactly what a picture like that meant. "You're not serious," he said, looking back up at Erin.

"Would I really lie about something like this?" Erin said, crossing her arms.

"And you're not seriously telling me that-"

Erin cut Antonio off, knowing exactly what he was asking. "Halstead's the father, alright?"

"When were you planning on telling the unit about this?" Antonio asked, curious.

"Sometime really soon, actually," Lindsay said, attempting to reassure Antonio. Before Antonio could say anything else, Jay walked in from the back of the kitchen.

"Erin, why is Antonio here?" he asked, worried.

Erin turned around, her arms still crossed. "We're busted," she said.

Jay did a double take, surprised. "Okay," he began slowly. "So I guess our secret got out a little earlier than we intended." He walked slowly over to where Erin and Antonio were standing.

When Jay stopped behind Erin, Antonio said, "Alright, thanks for the info, if you want to call it info. But this is big news, so let me know if you want any parenting tips. My wife would probably be willing to tell you some stuff about parenting too, now that I think about it." He smiled for the first time since looking at the ultrasound picture. "But look, I got both of your backs with this. Congrats."

"Thanks, man," Jay said. They shared another fist pump. "And take care, Erin," Antonio said. He gave Erin back the ultrasound picture.

"Thanks," Erin said, but then said, "Wait!" when Antonio approached the door. He turned back around, and Erin said. "We need a favor."

"What kind of favor?" he said, preparing for any possible thing that they might ask him to do.

"We're going to have to tell Voight and the rest of the unit, so would you be willing to be a bystander when we tell Voight?"

"Can't you just tell him yourself?"

"I don't want Voight giving Jay a concussion or punching him in the face," Erin said, being totally serious.

Antonio thought about it for a second, sighed, and then agreed. "Alright, let me know when you're planning on doing that, and I'll be there." He said goodbye, and then left Erin's apartment to head to work.

Jay then said to Erin, "Well, that's one person down."

"Yeah, I guess you could say that," Erin said as she turned around to face Jay. "Just many more to go."

Hope everyone liked this! Voight's reaction is coming soon…