"Halstead, can you come talk to me real quick." Voight asked stepping out of his office. They had just gotten back from a bust and Lindsay gave a look to Halstead and he just shrugged. He straightened his gray v-neck and stood up from his desk.

"Sure thing." Voight disappeared back into his office and Jay followed him.

"Sit." Voight pointed to the chair across from his desk, but he himself stayed standing. Voight looked irritated, and Jay wasn't going to mess with the man when he was already pissy.

"What's up?" He lounged himself out in the chair so his knees almost touched Voight's desk.

"Why the hell did you think you could cover for my kid the other night. "

"She told you?" Jay was confused. Teddy was so scared Voight would somehow find out he couldn't imagine her admitting it to him.

"No. It was pretty easy to figure out though, that the almost sixteen year old living in my house had been drinking the night before."

"I'm sorry boss, I made her a deal. She was scared to face you, and I made her promise to never drink again."

Voight exhaled sharply and pulled his own desk chair out to sit down.

"You don't make deals with a child Halstead. You have to do what's best for them; in this case it would if been taking her home, so I could have a talk with her. You have to look into the best interests in the kid for the long run, you can't always be their friend."

"We had a talk. Before I even said anything she pledged that she would never do it again. I was just trying to instill some trust in her."

"She's been quiet lately, its like we've taken three steps back from where we were. What happened Saturday?"

"She just had a bad experience at practice. Just give her a few days and she should be back to normal. I talked it over with her."

"She better be."

" Are you going to tell her you know about the other night?" Halstead asked.

"I don't know. I kind of want to wait until she confesses."

"What if she never confesses?"

"Then she doesn't confess. I just want to make sure she knows that that's not acceptable."

"I'm pretty sure I got that point across to her."

"Good."

"Can you try and keep my name out of this? Teddy has trust issues as it is."

"Yeah, but don't cut deals with my kid again, okay? I'm not trying to be an ass, it's just I want the best for her." Jay nodded his head and sat up.

"Sure thing Voight."

Voight rubbed his chin, as he watched Halstead stand up and walk out the door. He was puzzled, but it was about time for him to pick up Teddy from practice so he had to leave it at that.

" I have to go pick Teddy up. Erin, do you want to come with?" He announced walking out of his office and through the bullpen. Erin knew by the tone of his voice that it wasn't really a question. He stopped at her desk and she stood up.

"Yeah, let me grab my phone." The brunette grabbed her phone and stepped out in front of her desk. Voight placed his hand on the small of her back leading her down the steps to his SUV.

"Talk to me Erin." Voight demanded putting the car into drive.

"I told him, Hank. I pulled Bunny's husband away, and I told him that I was going to try to make a relationship with his wife, but there were no guarantees. I also told Mom that one more little slip up and she's gone. I don't need her in my life."

"You need someone, Erin."

"I have you, Hank."

Voight nodded his head and continued down the highway over to Teddy's school.

"When she called me and told me I was worthless this weekend, I just didn't know what to do. I knew she was drunk, and I knew that it shouldn't matter because she means nothing to me, but it hurt me."

"I'm so happy I got you away from that women. I can play nice with her, but when you screw with my kid.." HIs voice trailed off as he stopped at a red light. He clenched the steering wheel hard with frustration.

"And then I felt dumb because I let it all impact me. I let her stupid drunk words have an effect on me. Like I was a kid again."

"My Erin Lindsay, felt stupid. You know that's the last thing you are right?"

"I swear the only thing binding me to that woman is my last name, and now that she's married its not even that."

"Relax kid, you shouldn't let any of this bother you, you know that. You let it bother you, and she wins."

"I know, I know. " She replied tucking a loose hair from her ponytail behind her ear. "What was up with you and Halstead this morning."

"He covered for Teddy this weekend."

"What do you mean covered for Teddy? What did she do to need to be covered for?"

"She was out drinking."

"From what I know about her, that doesn't sound like her."

"I know. She was quiet all day yesterday too. Like I told Halstead it's like we're back at the first few nights I brought her home."

"Do you remember the first few nights you brought me home?"

"Oh god, they were awful." Voight chuckled.

They had just finished getting Erin checked out at the hospital, and Voight made the choice for Erin. Actually he didn't really give her a choice, it was settled that she was going to move in with him.

" I have a son, Justin, at home that you're going to love." Voight cooed trying to start to a conversation with the girl. The adolescent Erin sitting next to him didn't acknowledge him she just drew circles on the window with her finger.

"He's just six, so he's going to need a role model, and I think you'll be a perfect one."

"Me, a role model?" She asked glumly. "That's the last thing I should be."

"In my house Erin, you're going to start thinking highly of yourself." He said placing his hand on her shoulder. She flinched at his touch but eventually relaxed.

"I just don't know if I would consider myself a good role model. I'm a fifteen year old drug addict, who has nightmares about her previous boyfriend."

"We're going to work on that… together." His voice growled. She looked back out the window and slouched down in her seat.

She was a pessimistic young thing, but he didn't blame her. From the little life he knew she was living he would be pessimistic too. He had heard in many of his seminars on being a cop that children grew up to be replicas of his parents, and that's why he wanted to get her out of the situation, he saw potential in her.

"This is home he called." The warm yellow house made Erin's heart start beating. She had never lived in a house before, only dumpy apartments in the bad part of the city.

"This is really where you live?" She asked, grabbing the small bag of stuff out of Voight's trunk and looking up at the house.

"Yup, this is where you live now too." He smiled pulling the bag out of the girls hands and slinging it over her shoulder. Her big eyes made him chuckle.

"If you like it out here, you'll love being inside of it even more."

Voight held open the door for her and she followed in the house after him.

Her arms fell from her crossed position to her sides as she looked around at the welcoming home.

"Justin and Camille should be home this weekend, they're up in Michigan with Camille's mom."

The truth was that he wanted a few days alone with Erin for when her withdrawal started. He didn't need Just or his wife witnessing that. He felt bad because of his secrecy to the girl, but he knew he had to do what had to be done for the better of his family, including Erin.

"Let me show you you're room." He walked her back to the room that he knew Camille had prepared for the girl and lead her inside.

"Here it is." He smiled opening the door.

"We'll get you some stuff tomorrow if you want, or we can wait until my wife, Camille, comes home. She has a knack for designing stuff."

"Oh okay." She responded taking her sack from Voight and throwing down on the black and white bed. "Thanks"

"I'll leave you to get settled then." His stare was soft and comforting.

"Hey Detective?" She called.

"It's Hank," He corrected, "Whatcha need, kid?"

"Where do you want me to put this?" She motioned to his Chicago P.D. jacket that she had on.

"Why don't you keep it. Tomorrow we'll go out and buy you something nicer." He smiled and closed the door behind him.

"I still have that jacket you gave me, you know" She fiddled with the bracelet around her wrist.

"You were a good kid." Voight stated looking at the now grown up Erin and smiled. He slowed the car as the light in front of him turned red.

"Me, a good kid." Erin laughed holding her hands to her chest.

"Once you got cleaned up at least. You always had a good heart though. You were just raised wrong, there's no shame in that." He reminded her, placing his hand on hers.

"Do you remember the hell you went through when I was going through withdrawal?"

Voight shook his head.

She had been there a night and he could see the symptoms were getting bad. She was sweating and moaning from the aches in her body, but she was playing it off like it was no big deal.

"Where do you think you're going kid?" He asked as he watched as she grabbed her coat off the counter and made her way to the door."
She looked him with guilty eyes. Her hair down in the soft waves it made and a heavy dose of makeup on.

"I'm going to see some of my friends." She stuttered.

"You know you don't leave this house without my permission. We talked about this the other night."

"I'm sorry, I must of forgotten." He could tell she was lying.

He knew where she was going, the withdrawal was hurting her really bad and she was going to get her fix.

"You're not going out tonight." He said sternly. He folded the newspaper he was reading and set it down on the cherry in table next to him.

"You're not the boss of me, I can go out if I want to." He could see that her arms were starting to tremble.

"You're under my roof, you're under my rules."

"Oh well then it looks like I'm not living here anymore then." More teenage angst was filling the room than what Voight expected.

Voight rolled his eyes. "That's not an option, Erin." He said calmly. He rose from his seat and walked over to where she was standing.

"I'm leaving now." She reached for the door but it was locked.

The look in her eyes was one Voight new too well. It was the look of a druggie searching for her fix. She was so young, but the will in her eyes was just like any other addict.

"Come on you don't look like you feel to good, why don't we get you in bed." His hands rested on his forearms and he could feel the sweat dripping of off her.

Both Erin and him knew what he was doing, and that made Erin mad. He knew she was going through withdrawal. he knew she was in pain, but he wouldn't let her get her fix.

"Let me go!" She yelled trying to pull away from his grip. He held on trying to calm her down. "I'm leaving let me out, let me out!"

He looked her in her vicious eyes. Her small arms barely put up a fight against his strong grip.

"I was a brute wasn't I." Erin grinned, looking over at Voight. She remembered her withdrawal just as vividly as Voight. It was both the worst and best days of her life.

"You were, but eventually, after thirty or so minutes, and me carrying to your room, you gave in."

"You carried me?"

"You weighed about one hundred pounds. I could feel your ribs. You were basically a twig."

"That's what heroin does to you. I do remember you being a softie though. Not long after you unwillingly took me to my room."

"I do have a heart, you know." He rolled his eyes. He turned into Teddy's school. By the look of it Teddy was doing her cool down mile.

Erin was tossing and turning in her bed, moaning in pain.

" I need some, please, just a little, I promise." She pleaded. Her

Voice was meek and her eyes were closed.

"That's what's doing this to you Erin, just a couple days and this will go away." He brushed the hair that clung to her sweated drenched skin, away from her face and placed an ice pack on her forehead.

"Does that feel any better?" He asked.

She looked up at him and tears fell out I her eyes. He sat down on the side of the young girls bed, and wiped the tears from the girls eyes.

"I don't think I can do this. I can't. I quit, I can't do this." Her body hurt, everything hurt.

"You're going to do this Erin. I know you can. We're going to get through this together. I believe in you, you just have to do the same."

"Why are you so good at this? " She asked more tears pouring out of her eyes. Her arms wrapped around her stomach trying to soothe her pain.

"I'm a father. Dad's know how to take care of their children. " He grabbed her hand and pulled the covers up over her shoulders. He was going to stay there as long as he thought she needed him.

The opening of Voight's SUV door pulled them out of their memory.

"How was your day, Teddy?" Voight asked. He turned around to see a tired looking face, flushed red from practice.

"It was okay." Her blue eyes, didn't meet his like they usually did. They were shifty like she was afraid of him or something.

"Practice went later than normal didn't it?"

"Yeah, we had an extra rep to do today. "

"Whys that?"

"Um... Coach was mad, it was our punishment." She explained. She sounded a little weary to let Voight hear it.

"Why was he mad?" Erin asked, "That man seems to love you guys."

Teddy stopped to think for a minute before she answered.

"I think he heard about some teammates drinking or something. He doesn't put up with that." She frowned and pulled her knees into her chest as Voight put the car in drive and pulled out of the parking lot.

"Am I coming back to the station with you," Teddy questioned, "Or are you dropping me off at your house?"

"I figured you'd come back to the station, I don't think I have much to do when we get back , so it won't be long. Sound okay with you." Voight looked in his rearview mirror to meet her eyes, but found nothing but the girl looking out the window.

"Yeah, that sounds fine." She muttered.

"Are you feeling okay, kiddo?" Voight asked. It just came to him that maybe she wasn't feeling well and that's what was making her act strange.

" Yeah, I feel fine, why?" She asked looking up at him.

"You're just not yourself?" He replied. He figured he would just lay it out right in the open, hoping maybe she would bite at it.

"I'm fine, just tired, that's all." Disappointed that she didn't bite, Voight just shook his head and looked over at Erin.

"So do you want to do our dinner tonight. I won't take long a work and them I figured we could go out. It's your pick this week."

Teddy hesitated for a moment. Every week she looked forward to their dinners together, they always laughed and smiled even more than the other dinners they shared during the week. It was meant to be fun, and healthy, but she was also supposed to be complete truthful with him, and she didn't want to have break that, but she didn't want to tell the truth. She could tell that had caught on to her acting strange. She tried to be her normal self, but she just felt strange.

"Um I actually have a lot of homework."

"I'll help you with your homework. We can go to that knew place Ruzek was telling you about."

"Are you sure you want to help me on my homework. It's physics and Brit lit." She said trying to muster up a smile.

"Physics is my favorite ,Teddy, you know that."

He didn't want her to get out of dinner as much as she wished she could.

"Erin will you come?" Teddy asked, If Erin she figured it wouldn't be as intimate as it usually was, and she could escape his questions easier.

"Sure, if tough guy over here doesn't mind. I'd like of spend some time with you

guys."

" Can she, Hank?" Teddy pleaded..

"If she stops with the names, I'd love to have both of my girls at dinner tonight."

Teddy cringed at the words "my girls" it weirded her out. Especially after the doubts she was having about her whole situation.

Erin turned around and smiled at Teddy.

"See I told you tough guys a softie."

"Erin Marie Lindsay." He threatened.

"What are you going to do tough guy, send me to my room?"

"No, I'm going to kill you." Voight growled. Both Erin and Teddy took that as the funniest thing they heard all day and filled the car with laughter.

It made Voigt happy to hear Teddy laugh, so eventually a smile sprouted on his face too.

"So has he used the three name thing on you yet?" Erin's raspy voice asked.

"No, I haven't."Voight replied before the girl could say anything.

"Unlike you, she's a good kid. Therefore she hasn't needed the three name treatment." Voight grinned in the rearview mirror at Teddy, and to his surprise she met his eyes and grinned back.

"You don't even know my middle name, do you?" She asked.

"Theodore Elizabeth Sharkey."

It surprised her that he knew her full name.

"Your custody papers." He answered before she could ask. He pulled into the parking spot. and put the SUV in park.

Teddy opened her door and stepped out; carrying her backpack behind her.

"Forty five minutes, no more. I promise." He said holding the door open for both of them.

"Okay." Teddy replied.

She followed Erin and Hank up the stairs of the unit and was greeted with hellos as she walked in.

The first person she met eyes with was Jay, and he reassured her he didn't say anything.

"What's up Teddy?" Antonio asked, He moved some papers off the end of his desk and pulled up a chair for her to sit down.

"I just have some homework to do, while I wait for Voight." He could see the dimples poke through her cheeks.

"What do you have today?"

"Physics and Brit Lit." She smiled at his scowling face.

This was Teddy's ritual. she always came in and sat at Dawson's desk and got out her homework. Both of them enjoyed that time. Antonio had liked it because she reminded him of his daughter. When he was at work and couldn't be with Eva, he got to spend some time with Teddy. Teddy liked it because it was a totally unnerving relationship with him. He didn't judge, and he had no responsibility over her, or a weird familiar connection to Voight, like Erin. She could speak freely with him. His smile was inviting for her to confide in and his words were always warm and uplifting.

Teddy got out her homework but the picture that caught her eye he day before, caught her eye once again. She stared at the way Antonio had his arm around Erin and the proud smile strewn across his face. He couldn't of been much older than Erin was now.

"Wow, that pictures old." Antonio smiled picking up the picture Teddy was staring at.

"How long have you guys known each other?"

"Since I was promoted to Intelligence, and I think that was when she was a junior in high school."

"I didn't know you guys were so close." Teddy admitted, still staring at the picture in his hand.

"I remember a time that Voight had pissed her off so bad, that she ran all the way to my house, in the middle of winter, with no coat."

"Really?"

"Erin, you're not going, we all know what goes on at those parties." Voight growled. Erin had been clean for a good year now and was doing better than ever but Voight didn't want her going to any sort of rave.

"I'm not going to drink. Just because I'm going some where with booze doesn't mean I'm going to drink, why don't you understand that?"

"Because I don't want my kid going to some college party."

"I'm not a child, I'm seventeen years old." She shouted .

"Which makes you a god damn baby, Erin. You're not going and it's final."

Erin had already asked Camille if she could go, and she agreed to it if Hank would, but now in Erin's mind he was being irrational.

"Why, do you love to make my life miserable?" She screamed.

"I just don't want you around you that stuff Erin. You just got yourself clean , you don't need any temptations."

"You don't trust me, I can't believe you don't trust me . Whatever happened to the fact that we trust each other in this house, why don't you trust me." Tears were streaming down her face. She turned around and opened the door.

"I can't believe that you don't trust me." Erin said one more time before running out the door.

"Erin," He hollered. He went to grab his coat and chase after her, but a hand stopped him.

"Leave her be." Camille stated.

"It's cold out, she's going to freeze."

"She'll be home, just give her some space."

"But…"

"She'll be home soon I promise, now come sit down." As worried as Voight was he listened to his wife and took a seat next to her.

Erin ran with no clue of where she was going. She just wiped the tears away with the sleeves of her sweatshirt and kept running. The snow on the ground was wet against her boots. Eventually when she stopped to catch her breath she found herself at no one other than Antonio's door. Not knowing what else to do she knocked.

"Erin." A young Antonio exclaimed opening the door for her. "Come in, come in. It's freezing outside. Laura get her a blanket." He led the teen into his house and shut the door behind him.

"What's wrong, kiddo? What happened?"He asked sitting down with her on the couch. "Does Voight know you're here?"

Erin shook her head no.

"I'll call Voight." Laura called.

Antonio wrapped an arm around the teenage girl and pulled her into his chest.

"It's okay, we'll talk when you're ready." She sat there for several minutes warming herself with Dawson's body heat.

"He doesn't trust me." She cried against his chest. A youthful Laura walked into the room and motioned that she had spoke to Voight, and that she would give them some space.

"Why doesn't he trust me?"

"Why do you think he doesn't trusts you?" He pulled the blanket up over the shivering girl.

"He won't let me go to a party, because he doesn't think I can handle that."

"Now I know that's something he didn't say, Erin." She sniffled, and he waited a moment for her to reply.

"He said that I just got clean, and he didn't want me around those bad things."

"Erin, you have it all wrong, kiddo."

She looked up at him with her big eyes.

"If he didn't trust you would he leave you to watch Justin? Or would he of bought you a car? " She shook her head no.

"He's not letting you go because he loves you, Erin. He didn't want to even give you a chance to screw up because he knows how hard you've worked to be where you are now."

"That's crazy to think about." Teddy exclaimed. She pushed the brown hair away from her face and watched as Voight, clad in a black V-neck, walked out of his office.

"You girls ready?" He asked.

"Yeah, just give me one second." Teddy answered. She gathered her books off Antonio's desk as he held her book bag open for her.

"Thanks for the story today." She grinned, grabbing her bag from him.

"Anytime, kid." He answered.

The drive to the restaurant took about ten minutes and the three of the were sitting in a booth in the back. Erin sat next to Teddy and both of them were facing Voight.

"I have to run to the bathroom." Hank excused himself from the table and left.

"Can I ask you a question?" The young woman asked from behind the menu. Erin was shocked that the question came so quickly after Voight's absence

"You can ask me anything, girly. I thought we went over this."'

"What color was Hank's hair before all of it turned grey?" The sip of water Erin was taking was now all over the table from the fit of laughter her question gave her. Teddy joined in.

"It's a good question isn't it? I can't picture him with anything else except grey."

Erin calmed her laughter and looked at Teddy.

"When I first met him, most of it was grey already. He'll tell you that I gave them to him, but that's a lie. The little of it that was left with some color was a dark brown, like yours." She smoothed out Teddy's hair like a mother would her child's,

Teddy laughed. "I think his hair fits him better."

"I do too, " Erin agreed.

"What are you two giggling about." The man of the hour asked as he slipped into the booth.

'Hair color." Erin answered. She looked at Teddy and winked. Voight just rolled his eyes and opened his menu.

The dinner was going well until Erin got a call.

"I have to go." Erin grimaced, "It's my mom." She went to put money on the table, but Voight swatted her hand away.

"You know better," Voight growled, and she smiled.

"I'll see you two later," She grinned. She rested a hand on Teddy's shoulder, then Hank's and left.

"It's just you and me, kiddo"

"Does this really have to happen tonight." Her approach was blatant and both of them knew what she was talking about.

"This is why we do these dinners, because I want this to happen. I want to know what's going on in your mind." Teddy played with the bowl that held the creamer containers.

"Teddy, we both know ever since Saturday you've been acting weird with me."

"I just need to figure this out for myself, you just need to trust me." She replied, still not meeting his eyes.

"It's getting better every day, don't you see. I'm fixing it."

"Teddy." He pulled the bowl of creamers away from her little fingers causing her to meet his eyes.

"I already talked to Jay about it, it's okay. You have to trust me."

"I'm asking a question and we have an understanding that we are completely honest with each other."

"I know you know why I stayed at Jay's Saturday night, and I know it was wrong, and I learned my lesson. Please don't be upset. I know that drinking isn't acceptable. I'm sorry, I'm really sorry. That isn't me and I know that I broke your rules."

"It's okay kiddo, just don't let it happen again." He said calmly. "Now tell me what's going on with you."

Her eyes shot open.

"I'm not in trouble, you're not going to yell or scream, or punish me."

"I can see your remorse, and the shame that you feel. I also trust you when you say that you won't do it again."

"I am really sorry." He could see the guilt in the way that her shoulders shrugged.

"Now what's going on between me and you?" He asked placing his hand on top of her's.

"Will you be completely honest with me?" Her heart thudded, knowing the answer to that question would be yes.

"Of course, kiddo."

"Why did you take me in. I know we've went over this before, but I need to hear it now. Right here where we have to be completely honest with each other."

"Where is this coming from?" He could feel her hand shaking under his.

"Please, just answer the question." Her eyes looked worried and Voight still couldn't tell what was going on.

"I took you in because you deserved a better life than living with some dirt bag. I took you in because if I didn't get you out of there a sweet, innocent little girl was going to end up dead. I took you in because I knew no foster family could give you the life I wanted you to have."

Voight squeezed Teddy's hand to pull her away from the imaginary things she was staring at.

"I took you in because I saw so much of me in you. I took you in because you are one of the most amazing kid's I've ever met. I took you in because there's not a bone in my body that would let me do anything else."

"Thank you." Teddy whispered. They sat there for a moment and then Voight spoke up.

"You have to tell me where all of this is coming from."

"Frank showed up to my practice Saturday. He said that the only reason you took me in was to clean up your bad rep, and that once your rep was cleared up, you would turn me in, make me move out."

"Teddy that's not true, you have to believe me."

"I've been trying to distance myself because I'm getting attached. I really like living with you, I really like knowing I have somewhere safe to go home to, someone who cares about me waiting for me. I like that a lot, it's so new to me, I don't like the thought of getting used to all of this when it's all going to be ripped away from me."

"That's not going to happen, Teddy. You have to believe me. I would'nt do that to you, do you understand that. I don't care about a reputation, I care about what I think of myself, what my wife would think of me, and I could never do something like that. I don't betray people who I care about, and I care about you."

Teddy smiled and squeezed his hand back.

"You mean it."

"Pinky swear."

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