Kim had no idea what time it was when Adam finally came to bed but she figured it was well after midnight. As she felt him settle in and drape one arm over her waist she could feel the tension still coursing through him. By sleeping next to the same man for twenty years she could judge his mood by his body language, even in the dark.

"Did you talk to Polly?" Kim knew that was what Adam was waiting up for.

"No." it hadn't been the most pleasant of evenings and that was to be expected but Polly was lashing out and Adam had been in the firing line from the start. He copped it on the chin for the most part but he had hoped, and waited for her to crawl into him arms at some point and need his reassurance. It never came.

She did come down at some point for a glass of water. "Hey Polly. You okay?" she just ignored him and headed into the kitchen. Adam came and leant on the doorframe and watched her for a moment. "You know I love you and I am here to help you, whatever you need right?"

"Sure." She muttered, filling her glass again and pushing past him on the way back upstairs. He reached out to grab her hand but she flinched at the barest of touches.

"Polly." He knew he sounded desperate.

"I'm tired." She didn't even call him Dad, she didn't look at him like she hadn't looked at him all night and he got no kiss when she went to bed earlier. He knew she was heartbroken and confused and that she was angry at the world but he hated that she was angry with him.

Kim rolled over and Adam instantly shifted so that she could use his shoulder as a pillow. One thing she could also tell by the way he pressed his lips against her head and then turned his head away on the pillow that he wasn't up for talking.

He was gone before Kim woke. She felt him get up and then the kiss to her forehead, like he always did if he let early. Kim figured he was going to the gym as he didn't have a shower before heading into the District no doubt to find out what was going on in the hunt for Simon. He tossed and turned for the few hours he was actually in bed, churning through every single moment in his mind. He was also avoiding Polly, he was struggling with the fact he couldn't help her, that he didn't have any answers for her and she was obviously pushing him away.

"Where's Dad?" Gus had asked when Kim came down. Polly was sitting at the table with a cup of tea but she was just staring at it. They were struggling to get her to eat anything the last few days, in that regards she took after Kim but she had hardly any meat on her bones as it was and this latest development certainly wasn't going to help.

"He's gone into work."

"Because of the Abbey thing?" Kim and Adam had explained to Gus last night what was going on and what it meant for them over the next few days. Adam also promised him again that they would spend some time together on the weekend and he could choose something for them to do. Polly's head snapped up with Gus's question and she waited for her mother to answer.

"Yes."

"Have they caught him yet?" he asked.

"I don't know. I know they will though." Kim came and stood beside Polly and brushed her hair back from her forehead and tucked it behind her ear. "Why don't you call your Dad? He'd love to hear from you."

"Can I go and see Abbey today?" She completely ignored her mother's question.

"You need to talk to your Dad and see what he says. He'll be seeing Abbey this morning." By the look on Polly's face Kim knew that she was not helping this situation between her and Adam. Knowing that Adam was going to see Abbey again and had already seen her made Polly angry. She wanted to go in last night when she found out. Once she had started to calm down and Adam came back from talking to Jay she had asked her mother if she would take her to see Abbey. "Not right now Polly." Adam had jumped in, which did nothing to help the situation.

"You've seen her? She's my friend." Polly had yelled at him.

"Polly, I know she is your friend but it's late and Abbey needs to rest. It was a very tough day for her."

It had gone down like a lead balloon last night and this morning wasn't much better.

"I want to see her. If you won't take me I will go myself." She pushed her chair back angrily and stormed from the kitchen. Kim sighed and waited just a moment before following her. Not before giving Angus a quick hug on the way past.

"Polly, I know you are angry and upset."

"I want to see Abbey. Why is Dad stopping me? Why won't he listen to what I want?" Since when had this all become about Adam and what he was doing wrong? Kim didn't understand it.

"He is not stopping you, give him a chance. Things are a little bit up in the air with regards to Abbey and they are working through some things with her Doctors. Abbey is still recovering from the other night and the pills and dealing with everything that happened yesterday. He's trying to do what is best for everybody, including you."

"I don't care about me. You need to call Dad and tell him." She spat at Kim. The level of bitterness she had in her voice regarding Adam was shocking.

"Excuse me." It probably wasn't wise to bite back at her but Kim wasn't standing for this attitude she was spewing out. "Care to explain to me why you are taking this out on your Dad."

"It's his job to serve and protect, that's what he keeps telling me and what did he do to protect Abbey? Nothing. It's all some big joke to him."

"Polly. You know if we knew anything was going on we would have done something. We tried to talk to Abbey, you know we did." Adam did joke about serving and protecting all the time but he was deadly serious when he needed to be and it was burned into his psyche that it was his role in life and that started with those in his house. "Your Dad has busted his ass the past few days to help Abbey. You do remember who flew out of here in the middle of the night to help Abbey? He sat beside her all night making sure she was going to be okay and so that she wouldn't wake up alone. He sat with her yesterday and listened to her and he is working with Intelligence to find Simon. I think perhaps you could be a little more grateful that you have a Dad who cares as much as he does."

"All men are the same."

"Stop right there." Kim had had enough, it was okay to be angry and upset but she wasn't going to put up with her slagging off at her father. "Don't you dare even put your father in the same boat as Simon. Don't you dare! All men are not the same. You are god damn lucky to be surrounded by the men that you are. Not everyone sadly has that privilege. There are terrible people in this world and Simon is a one of them. Your Dad is one of the best, you know he is."

"Then why was he here doing nothing and not out there looking for him?"

"He was here for you."

"I didn't need him." Polly screamed at her mother.

"Ever thought that perhaps he wanted to be here for you?" Kim was trying not to lose it. She understood that this was hard for Polly; it wasn't easy for any of them but that didn't excuse her attitude towards her father. "For your information, had you bothered to even ask, your father got sent home because of you and also because he was far too close to Abbey. Do you want Simon to get away with this?"

"No." She was starting to relent and Kim was hoping that she was getting through the angry wall she had built around her.

"Intelligence is all over it. Jay, Kevin, Pete and Sarah are all over it. Your Dad was getting updates all night in between worrying about Abbey and about you."

"They still haven't found him?"

"Not yet, but they will. I will call your Dad and see what's going on. He will let you know as soon as you can go and see Abbey."

"He can't stop me."

"No, but her parents can and her Doctors can. I know you want to see Abbey but perhaps she's not ready to see anyone?" Polly sat down heavily on her bed and let Kim sit beside her and put her arm around her shoulders. "I know you want to help Abbey, we all do but we have to do what is best for Abbey and right now it may not be having a lot of people around."

"Why are you trying to keep me from seeing her? What are you hiding?" She now pushed her mother away. It was a wild few minutes and Kim was struggling to keep it under control.

"Polly, stop it. As soon as it is okay we will make sure you see her. Your Dad will come and get you and take you to see her, but it will be when Abbey is ready, not you." Kim pushed herself up off the bed. "Perhaps you should take a shower. It might make you feel better."

Kim poured herself another cup of coffee and sat down at the table pulling her hair out of its ponytail and shaking her head before retying into a loose bun, it distracted her for a few moments. It felt like they were battling a Tsunami, the wave just kept on coming and they had no idea when it was going to stop. She called Adam. "Hey." She could hear him tapping away on his keyboard and munching away on something and knowing Adam it would have been some crappy sugary cereal that he didn't get at home. Kim knew that he hid them in the cupboard at work but chose to ignore it. Some days he just needed the sugar hit. "What are you doing?"

"Just about to take Gus to school." She sipped on her coffee, screwing up her nose a little at its bitterness. Adam had obviously put it on before he left home, no doubt filling up his travel mug before he did and she was grateful for that but he'd made it pretty strong and she didn't love it. "I need to stop and get a few things for dinner on the way home."

"How's Polly?"

"Angry. She wants to see Abbey?"

"I am just about to head over to Med. I don't know if Abbey is ready for visitors."

"Polly doesn't care. Says if we don't take her she will go by herself."

"Kim." Adam breathed out slowly and leant back in his chair and stared at the ceiling. "I'm not sure."

"Baby, neither am I. I would prefer she waits a few days but she has this stubborn Ruzek streak in her."

"Hey, she has a heck of a lot of you in her too." He dropped his feet back onto the floor as his chair rocked forward. "Ummm, Kim Darlin' we need to know, we need to ask Polly if Simon…."

"Adam." Kim interrupted him as Gus came in with his bag slung over his shoulder. "Can we not talk about that over the phone? I've got to go. I will see you when you stop in after going to Med." She knew precisely what he was about to say, she had thought it herself and even the barest possibilities of it being true terrified her and Gus didn't need to hear these conversations.

"Was that about Abbey?" He asked his mother as they got in the car.

"It was, Dad is going to see her this morning."

"Polly seems really angry with Dad. It's not Dad's fault."

"No it's not but Polly is really confused at the moment. She knows it's not Dad's fault."

"Is Dad okay?" Gus's voice trembled just a little, just enough for Kim to notice. She placed a steadying hand on the back of his neck.

"He is, he's just really focussed on finding Simon and helping Abbey. He's being a good cop right now but he is worried about you too, and Polly. So whatever you want to do with Dad on the weekend he'll make sure he is there okay?" Gus nodded. "And if you want to call him at all today, just call him Gus and talk to him."

Kim was still out when Adam called her again and as soon as she answered Kim could tell that Adam was pissed. "Is Polly with you?"

"No, I left her at home. She didn't want to come and despite pretending otherwise I think she was waiting for you."

"Well she's not here."

"Where is she?"

"Gee Kim, I don't know." He answered a little too harshly. "Take a wild guess."

Kim ignored his snippy reply. "Have you called her?" Not that asking obvious questions was going to do much to improve his mood.

"Of course I've bloody called her. Her phone is turned off. Obviously she does not want to talk to us or more specifically, me." He grabbed his keys and Kim heard the door closing as Adam left the house.

"I am two minutes away. Can you at least wait until I get home before you go storming off? I'd like to come with you." Both of them knew exactly where she'd gone. Without a doubt Polly had gone to the hospital even though they had told her to wait. Abbey had seen a Psychiatrist this morning and it had been extremely traumatic for her and when Adam saw her she was still quite distressed. Adam had talked to Murray and Janice when he dropped in and they all agreed that now wasn't the time for Abbey to have visitors. Maybe in a day or two she would feel up to it and they would make sure Polly was the first to know.

Janice was not coping well at all and he couldn't really blame her. The shock had well and truly kicked in and she was letting Murray make all the decisions right now. Adam could still see the resentment peeling off her but that was the least of his worries right now. His daughter hating him and finding this asshole were his biggest concerns.

Polly had obviously taken it upon herself to go and see Abbey and chose to ignore her mother's advice to wait until they had heard from Adam.

Adam was on his phone when Kim pulled up, he stayed outside on the phone while Kim unloaded the shopping from the car before they headed to the hospital together. "Who was that?" she nodded at the phone in his hand when he shoved it back in his pocket.

"Gus."

"Is he okay?"

"I think so, he just wanted to say hello and check in. He said you told him to call me?"

"If he wanted too, he was worried this morning that Polly was blaming you for all this."

Adam helped her into the car and closed the door before heading around to the driver's side. He leant over and gave Kim a quick kiss. "Thanks. It was nice to talk to him for a bit. He wants to go Go-cart racing on the weekend."

"It'll be good for both of you." Kim rested her hand on his thigh. "Polly?" that was all she had to say to make Adam bang his head lightly against the headrest in frustration.

"I am not sure this is going to end well today." Adam explained to Kim the traumatic morning that Abbey had endured

As well as dealing with what had happened to Abbey and the horror of that, the effect it was having on Polly worried them both. They were trying to work their way through everything and figure out how to parent something like this? How do you know what the best thing to do was? There were no guidebook for them to read and Adam and Kim had to talk to each other and support each other if they were going to help Polly. They also didn't have the luxury of time, they didn't have days to agonise over every detail because decisions had to be made in an instant and that just piled on the pressure. Adam was struggling to be a father and a cop so Kim focussed on just being a mother and that's what was working for them right now. They hadn't even talked about it; it was just the way the cards fell.

The worst thing facing them right now, once they found Polly was the prospect that they needed to talk to her about Simon and make sure he didn't touch her. That would kill them and the effect that it would have on Adam scared Kim. He would be uncontrollable. They had contemplated asking her last night but her reaction to the news about Abbey had been worse than they anticipated so they decided to wait until the shock wore off a little. Whether it was the right thing or the wrong thing to do they had no idea but that was the decision they made and now they just had to deal with it.

It didn't go as well for Polly as she hoped or envisaged. She expected Abbey to want to see her but she didn't and her parents tried to stop her but she created a scene outside Abbey's room so reluctantly they let her in while Murray called Adam and he assured them that they were almost there. "Why didn't you tell me?" Polly was crying before she even got in the room.

"Tell you what? I like your new sweater and by the way my mother's asshole boyfriend raped me last night." It was brutal thing for Polly to face alone.

"Well yes." Polly was a little stunned by Abbey's response. "I could have helped."

"By running to your parents? You already did that and look what happened? You told your parents and they told my Mom and now look at all this shit. You couldn't stop it Polly." Polly had no idea what that meant.

"So my Mom and Dad could have."

"Don't you get it? I didn't want anyone to know." She pulled her hand away from Polly's grasp. "I don't want you here now. Just leave."

"Abbey." Polly was desperate; this was not what she was expecting. She expected to be able to help her friend and she thought that Abbey would want her around. It was confusing, two days ago Abbey had clung to her and begged her not to go and now she was pushing her away.

"Polly, for fuck's sake leave me alone. I don't want to talk about it. All anybody wants to talk about is this; it's all I've talked about all day. I'm sick of it."

"Let's talk about something else then?"

Abbey was barely in control of her own emotions; she couldn't deal with Polly's right now. She'd already spent half the day with her mother's crying. "What else is there? This is who I am now, poor abused Abbey. I can see it in your eyes. I don't want your pity. Just leave." She rolled away from her.

"I don't want to go. I'll just sit here." She felt for the chair behind her and sat down heavily.

Abbey just lost it at her. "What don't you get? I don't want you here. Fuck off and leave me alone."

"No." That stubborn Ruzek streak wasn't serving Polly well right now.

Kim and Adam arrived to find Abbey hysterically screaming at Polly to get out and Polly wasn't much better. "Polly." Adam stepped into the room and Polly looked at him, her face a mix of horror and anger and she ran sobbing from the room, pushing past him and into her Mother's arms and Kim could barely hold her up. "This is why I wanted you to wait. For once I wish you'd bloody well listen." Adam snapped and Kim shot him a harsh look. It was unnecessary but she could understand Adam's frustration.

"You wouldn't have let me come."

"No Polly I wouldn't have because Abbey wasn't ready." He pointed angrily in to her room where Abbey was still hysterically screaming and Murray and Janice were struggling to contain her. "Do you think this has helped her? You think this is what Abbey needs? Look at her. It's not about you right now."

Kim hissed at him to calm down.

"She's my best friend."

Adam softened his tone considerably. Kim was holding her up and she pulled away a little when Adam rested a hand on her back. "I know she is sweetheart and trust me, one day soon Abbey will want you around but today is not the day."

"She talks to you." She may have been talking to her Dad but it was far from a pleasant exchange. "And it's my fault this happened."

"What?"

"Abbey, she said that. That you told her Mom and it made it worse. I told you not to say anything to her Mom, she didn't want anyone to know."

Adam pinched the bridge of his nose as he felt the pressure building behind his eyes. "No Polly, you don't understand."

"Then fucking tell me." Polly never swore at her parents. On the odd occasion that a swear word came out it had never been directed at them and they tended to ignore it but right now she didn't even realise she had said it. Everyone else within earshot did because it came out loud and clear. "Why won't you fucking tell me anything?"

"Okay Polly, enough." Adam was done and he put his hand on her arm and she yanked it away. "Just stop and breathe. I am not having this conversation here. We are going home."

Adam wasn't stupid, Polly did not want to be anywhere near him right now and it was killing him. He just wanted to wrap her up in a bear hug and tell her that everything was going to be okay. When all this started the last thing he imagined was that Polly would pull away from him. She was a Daddy's girl and had been from the day she was born. Her relationship with Kim was amazing but everyone had always commented on Adam's relationship with Polly and how close they were. One fucked up man had blown that apart in the blink of an eye and it was killing him.

"I'm not going home. I'm staying here."

"No you are not." It was getting out of control and while Polly didn't care that they were making scene Kim did. Neither Adam nor Polly was backing down and Kim was desperately trying to find a way to take the boiling pot off the stove.

Finally Polly started to calm down but she refused to go home with them and Adam and Kim wanted to get her out of the hospital so they convinced her to take a walk with them in a nearby park, they could all do with some fresh air. Polly walked silently in between them for a few hundred yards until they found a quiet spot and sat down and tried to talk to her.. At the very least they needed to not have this conversation near Abbey and they didn't want to have it when Polly was too hysterical to even listen to them. It wasn't ideal being here but it was the best they could do right now.

Although Polly did not want to listen or look at her Dad he started speaking anyway. "When Simon found out that Abbey was having sex with other people he threatened to tell Jamie that she had begged him for sex too and that it was all her doing. He told her that her mother would hate her and that nobody would like her and nobody could ever love her now." Adam paused and let that sink in a little before continuing. "Abbey was scared and so desperate to know that somebody would still want to be with her so she confessed everything to Jamie and he didn't want anything more to do with her. Janice had told Simon about Abbey after your Mom talked to her about what happened at Navy Pier that day."

"So it's my fault?"

"No Polly, no it's not. This saved Abbey. If we didn't say anything Abbey would still be being abused by Simon and making rash decisions like the one you saw at Navy Pier, she was putting herself in dangerous positions, anything could have happened to her. You helped her by telling us. This had to stop, Simon had to be stopped and Abbey needed help to make it happen. Perhaps this is not the best way and everyone wishes that it hadn't come to this but Abbey is safe now and that's all that matters." Adam was desperate to get through to her.

"Why didn't she tell me?"

"Abbey was scared Sweetheart, but please try and remember that we did help Abbey and we are going to help Abbey now. Abbey doesn't blame you, it may not have been easy but what you did helped Abbey get out from underneath this absolute asshole of a man. Please tell me you understand."

She nodded.

"And Polly whatever you don't understand just ask us, okay? We are going to help Abbey, but Polly…" he reached out and tried to ignore it when she flinched as he touched her cheek. "…we want to help you deal with it too. If you are confused or angry or worried about anything at all please let us know. Talk to us."

She turned to her mother, completely ignoring Adam. "Can I go and just see if Abbey is okay? I promise I won't go in." Kim agreed to go with her. Adam told them he'd catch up in a few minutes and when Kim turned back to look at him he had buried his head in his hands.

Adam felt like his relationship with Polly was on the verge of falling apart and he found it hard just to breathe.