The desperate scream in the middle of the night was a horrible way to wake up. It took Adam a second to realise what was going on and to figure out where it was coming from. It was coming from Polly's room, his daughter was screaming. Blinking to help his eyes to adjust to the gloom, his heart was just about beating out of his chest. Adam sat up and frantically trying to gather his bearings.

Before they even had the chance to get out of bed their room was suddenly awash with light as Polly burst through the door, flicking on the light and screaming at them to help. "Polly, what?" Adam found his voice first while Kim shot out of bed when she saw Polly clutching her phone and shaking uncontrollably.

"It's Abbey?" her phone slipped from her hands and crashed to the floor. Adam was now out of bed pulling on a t-shirt while Kim bent down and picked up her phone. "I think she's dying."

Kim tried to read the message but hands were shaking just as much as Polly's and it didn't help that Polly was hysterically screaming at them to do something. "What do you mean?" Adam flew across the room and caught Polly as she started to buckle at the knees.

"Oh God Adam." Kim gasped and covered her mouth with her hand as she handed him the phone.

Abbey had sent Polly a message. 'I love you Polly, you're my best friend and I don't want to leave you but I can't do this anymore. I'm sorry.'

"Fuck." He literally shoved Polly into Kim's arms as he searched for his pants and boots. "Polly, where is Abbey? Is she at home?"

"I think so. Nobody's home." She could barely speak. "Hurry up."

Angus appeared in the doorway, obviously the screaming had woken him up and Kim shook her head when he was about to speak. "Go back to bed Gus. I'll be in in a minute." He just stood in the doorway watching what was going on until Kim told him to go.

"Stay here." He grabbed his phone, wallet and badge and was already calling 911, barking his badge number into the phone; he didn't want to waste a second. If it were a false call, so be it, he'd deal with that later.

"I want to come with you?" Polly wailed as she lunged at her Dad. Kim struggled to hold onto her as Adam pushed her away again. He wasn't particularly gentle with Polly and Kim stumbled a little at the force of his shove but he had to go and they were blocking the doorway.

"No Polly." He bolted from the house. He had no idea what he was walking into and he'd seen a lot of shit in his days so there was no way he was putting his daughter at risk of seeing something that she would never be able to forget.

"Dad." She was screaming hysterically as Adam left them standing in the doorway and he could hear her voice behind him and it was the worst sound in the world and running away from them was seriously killing him.

"Polly, sweetheart. Let Dad go, he will call us as soon as he sees Abbey. We can't help her now, your Dad can and he will." Kim held on tight as Polly thrashed about tyring to get free from her mother's arms. Eventually she managed to wrangle her back to their bed when she finally stopped fighting and Kim got her to lie down as she sobbed against her mother's chest.

Abbey had been much better lately. She seemed to be her old self again and her friendship with Polly had gotten back on track. Despite Polly spending more time with Sam, they always made sure that they still did things together. Polly talked to her everyday and Adam often complained that in between Abbey and Sam she spent more time messaging them than she spent actually talking to her family, she still came for dinner on Tuesday nights and they had been allowed to go to a few parties and things had returned to normal. Polly even told them that she had started seeing a new guy who Abbey really liked and she seemed so happy, although Polly and Sam didn't think all that much of him from what they could gather and Adam and Kim started to breath a little easier. Perhaps it was just a one off rough patch?

Adam had already broken into the house by the time the paramedics pulled up. On the trip over he switched on his brain as he tried to get the sound of Polly's screams out of his mind and became Detective Ruzek. That's whom he needed to be when he found Abbey unconscious with an empty bottle of sleeping pills sitting on her cabinet beside the bed, her phone was clutched in her hand and the message to Polly was the last one she sent.

Checking if she was alive he breathed a sigh of relief when he found a weak pulse and although he couldn't wake her she did groan a little bit and he was just about to dial 911 again when he heard the sirens approaching. He stood aside and let the paramedics do their job then they loaded her up and he helped them down the stairs and promised to follow them to Chicago Med.

Before he left the house he used Abbey's phone to call her mother. "It's Adam Ruzek." he was still very much in cop mode and his voice was surprisingly calm. It was something he needed to learn how to do very early on in his job. You had to take emotion out of your voice and speak calmly and deliberately.

"What has she done now?" He could hear the exasperation in her mother's voice and that instantly got his back up. The few times Kim had tried to approach Janice about Abbey's behaviour back when it was really bad she had been shut down and Janice wrote it off an typical teenage melodramas and that Abbey was just being a pain in the ass.

He snapped, no longer able keep his voice even. "She's taken an overdose of sleeping pills and is on her way to Chicago Med."

"What? How?" That certainly got her mother's attention.

"She sent Polly a message. Lucky for you that she did." It was the one time Adam was grateful that Polly was glued to her phone and refused to turn it off at night. "I suggest you get your ass to Chicago Med. I will see you there."

"I am four hours away. It's late and I can't…." Was she seriously going to tell him that she wasn't going to make the trip? He would be halfway out the door by now if it were one of his kids. Hell, he had made the trip to Abbey's house in five minutes and broken every single road rule on the way.

"Start fucking driving then." He hung up and called her father and got a far more satisfactory response before jumping in this truck and following her to the hospital, praying the whole way that they hadn't been too late.

Quickly he sent Kim a message. 'I am on my way to Med, Abbey is already enroute, she's taken some pills, I don't know how many, she's not awake. I'll let you know how she is when I see her.' He didn't feel like talking right now knowing that Polly would be freaking out and he was sure she'd have a million questions that he couldn't answer for her. His own head was spinning so dealing with his hysterical daughter was beyond him at this point. It may have been gutless on his part but he knew Kim was with her and she was in the best hands possible and he needed to focus. He desperately tried to stay in cop mode because if he slipped into Dad mode he wouldn't be able to stop himself worrying about Polly and turning the car in the direction of home instead.

"Was that Dad?" Polly asked as soon as Kim replied to his message.

"It was sweetheart."

"Oh God, is Abbey…." Polly gasped.

"No, Abbey's on her way to the hospital." Kim pressed a kiss to her forehead before she could finish her question. "Your Dad is going with her."

"What did she do?"

"She took some pills sweetheart."

"Mom, I didn't know. I swear she never said anything." Kim started rocking Polly as she broke down again, she was desperately clutching handfuls of Kim's tank top and Kim wouldn't have been able to prise her off if she tried. "Is she going to be okay? She has to be okay."

"I don't know Polly, we just need to wait and see. She's in the best place and they will do everything they can and Dad will stay with her." Kim wanted to tell her that it was going to be okay but she learnt very early in her career when it came to life and death you can't promise something that you just didn't know. You could hope and pray all you like that things would work out the way you wanted them too but that didn't mean it would. She wasn't about to promise her daughter that her best friend was going to be okay because nobody knew if she would. Even if she made it through this night the road ahead wasn't going to be easy.

Of everything she knew about suicide attempts, those that told someone what they'd done were crying out for help. They didn't want to die but had no idea how to get out of the hole they were in; someone needed to save them. Abbey had reached out to Polly but this was just the beginning of a very long journey.

By the time Adam made it to Chicago Med they had taken Abbey through and were working on her. They were going to pump her stomach before taking her up to the ICU. The Doctor asked him a million questions, which he could not answer. He had no idea how many she had taken and the only useful piece of information he had was that she had sent Polly the message at 1245am and he was at her place by 1am. It was now almost 2am; although the paramedics had arrived within 15 minutes of Adam getting there so at best they could guess with how quickly the pills would work they estimated that she had taken them sometime after midnight and probably closer to 1230am.

"Is she going to be okay?"

"From the overdose, we are hopeful. We think we have caught it in time; there would still be a lot of undigested pills in her stomach so pumping that out will help. There are still a lot of unknowns though. It's too early to tell for sure how this will affect her, as you can imagine it is different for everyone. Any idea why?"

"Not really. A few months ago she went off the rails a bit but lately she's seemed pretty well back to normal." Adam shook his head. "Her mother is on her way, about four hours away though. Her Dad is in New York and he's trying to organise a flight, I am guessing he'll be here first thing. I can stay with her until then. She shouldn't be alone." He stayed with her while they pumped her stomach and even though Abbey wasn't conscious Adam held her hand and tried to talk to her the whole time. He would want someone to do this for Polly or Angus if they were in this situation, which he prayed they would never have to even contemplate.

He called Abbey's Dad and filled him in on her condition and the news from the Doctor. Murray had organised a flight from New York and should be in Chicago by eight. "Why would she do this?" He was at a loss. Every time he talked to Abbey lately she seemed happy and she was looking forward to coming to see him during the next break from school.

"I don't know Murray, I have no idea. A little while ago she went off the rails a bit but lately Polly tells me she was seeing this guy Jamie and everything seemed good with her."

"What do you mean went off the rails? First I've heard of it."

"I didn't realise you didn't know. There were just some incidents of her drinking heavily at parties." Adam wasn't sure how much he should be telling him, but then again this was Abbey's father and his daughter had just tried to end her life so he guessed that now wasn't the time to play politics or hide the truth, he didn't really care about shit like that. Abbey was going to need all the help she could get. "And there was some strange behaviour."

"What? What was she doing?"

"Polly saw her having sex with some guy she just met in a public restroom at Navy Pier."

"Are you fucking kidding me? What the hell? Nobody told me." Murray sounded as horrified as Adam would have if it were Polly. "Who is the guy?"

"I don't know Murray. We tried to talk to Abbey and help her but she insisted she was fine, we did our best and if we'd known she was feeling like this we would have done something. I don't know why they didn't tell you."

Murray couldn't understand why he didn't know about Abbey. Sure he had moved away when his marriage was finally over but they were on friendly terms and agreed that they would always put Abbey first. This wasn't putting her first. He knew that his ex-wife had been more interested in her own love life for a while and Abbey felt like a third wheel but Janice had no intention of letting Abbey move away but nor was she going to let her interfere with her life. She was his only child and he thought staying in Chicago with her friends and mother was the best thing for her.

Adam heard nothing from Janice other that a message to say she was on her way. When Adam sent one back to tell her that Abbey was stable he got nothing back and just assumed that she was out of range or driving? He had expected his phone to be lit up with messages from the girl's mother, the only ones lighting up his phone were the ones from his wife.

While they transferred Abbey he called Kim. It was a phone call he was dreading and Kim answered it within one ring. "How's Abbey?"

"They are just taking her up to ICU, she's in a coma. They've just pumped her stomach. She'd taken a bottle of pills. God Kim, how did this happen? How's Polly?" He was talking at a million miles an hour.

"She's just fallen asleep." When she had finally dozed off Kim quickly crept from the room and checked on Gus. He wasn't asleep and she assured him that Polly was fine. Kim had hoped that he might have been asleep and she wouldn't have to tell him about Abbey but he was wide-awake and more than a little stressed out. "Why did Dad leave? Is it Sam?"

"Sam is fine."

"Why is Polly screaming?" His voice was shaking just a little bit, he really didn't cope seeing Polly upset and it was a little jarring being woken up like that. For a few minutes it was like all hell had broken loose.

"Abbey's in some trouble and your Dad needs to help her. Try not to worry Gus, Polly is sleeping now, she's okay." Kim lay down with him for a little while and for once he didn't mind. She waited until he dozed off and crept from his room and back to Polly.

It wasn't unusual for Adam to have to leave in the middle of the night but the kids didn't really know about it until they got up in the morning but Polly's screaming and seeing his Dad push them and run from the house wasn't normal and he didn't like it. It didn't feel right and he had gone back to his room and lay awake tossing and turning until his Mom came in.

Adam sounded weary and Kim could tell just by listening to him how much this was hurting him. She also knew he would be thinking 'what if this was Polly?' That thought had crossed her mind so many times in the last two hours. "I'm going to stay here until her Mom arrives. Murray gets in about 8." She wanted Adam here with her; he would stop her freaking out so the realisation that he wasn't coming home anytime soon was hard to swallow. She didn't want to think he was putting someone else above his family because that wasn't fair, what Adam was doing was exactly what she expected him to do.

"Where was Janice?"

"No idea, but she said she was about four hours away. So I'll be here a while. I want to make sure someone is here when she wakes up." Kim had to admire him for his willingness to be there for Abbey when she knew he wanted to be with Polly and she even knew he would be worrying about her and Angus too. At times like this he got very protective and territorial.

"What did you tell Murray?"

"The truth, what else could I do. He had no idea, none. I didn't realise that no one had told him about Abbey's behaviour but I guess it's no surprise. Abbey wouldn't talk about it and Janice just didn't seem to care." She could hear the frustration starting to creep in. Perhaps this could have all been avoided if Janice had accepted that Abbey had an issue and if Murray knew what was going on. "Anyway is Angus okay?" There was nothing they could do about that now.

"He is, I talked to him a little while ago and told him to come into our bed if he wants too. He's asleep right now." It was unlikely that he would though. "Adam, I love you."

"I love you too Darlin'. Hey cuddle and kiss my baby." He choked back a sob. This was way to close to home. "Tell her I love her so much and that I will be home to hug her soon."