It was the beginning of August when Dylan died. Emery didn't start at the academy until the middle of September, so she had a lot of time to think. They went back to Henry and finished packing everything up, Emery stayed there with Tessa for a week, and when her mom came to get her to go back to Chicago a lot had changed.
"Hey Laura." Erin says to the woman at the door.
"Hey I am on my way to work. The girls are upstairs." She says.
Erin walks upstairs to find the girls still in bed but it's what she smells that worries her.
"Have you two been drinking?" Erin asks shocked.
"Em, tell Mama Erin to go away." Tessa mumbles.
"What? Shit, mom this is not what it looks like." Emery slurs sitting up quickly and then falling out of bed.
"Both of you downstairs now." Erin says going downstairs very angry.
The girls eventually make it downstairs and they sit in silence on the couch for a while. Erin and Laura were really good friends just like their daughters so she knew were everything was in there house. She made the girls coffee then walked in the living room.
"What the hell were you two thinking and how did you get this past your mother Tessa?" Erin yells at the girls.
"Mom please lower your voice." Emery whispers and then plops her head on a pillow.
"No, this is serious Emery. You can't be doing stupid things like this." She yells at both girls.
The girls neither one said anything they just laid there slumped over on the couch. Erin was so irritated with them but she also knew she was kind of being hypocritical. She started to think up this big speech she was going to give them but then she stopped.
"Emery go get your stuff we are leaving. Tessa you go upstairs and get back in bed. I'm going to call your mom."
"Mama Erin please don't."
"I have too. You girls may be eighteen but you both still live with your parents and you aren't old enough to drink. Both of you know better than this." Erin says concerned.
The girls both head up the stairs as Erin calls Laura. When she told her what the girls had done, Laura was furious, she had no idea the girls snuck out when she was asleep. Emery comes down the stairs just as Erin hangs up.
The first hour of the drive it was silent. Erin tried to find the words she was going to say to her daughter. Nothing seemed right for that situation.
"Your grandfather let me move back into my apartment. I moved all your stuff in last night."
"Ok." Emery says covering her face to avoid the sun light.
"You do understand why I'm upset with you right. I know it might seem hypocritical but I want what's best for you." Erin says.
"I know mom. I'm sorry. I thought it would make me feel better but it just made it worse." She says peeking at her mother.
Erin put her hand on her daughter's arm in an attempt to let her know she was there. The rest of the ride was quiet but only because the hang over was too much for Emery to handle. When they got to the apartment, Emery heads straight to her mother's bedroom and climbs into bed. Erin's apartment was only a one bedroom so things were going to be a little cramped for a while. The one thing Erin was concerned with though was her privacy especially since her and Jay were dating, which she hasn't told her daughter yet.
"I'm going to go out, do you need anything?" Erin asked her daughter.
"No. Love you." Emery grumbles.
"Love you too." She says walking out of the bedroom.
Erin forgot to mention that she was not only going to the store but also over to Jay's.
"Hey." Jay says opening as Erin leaps at him for a kiss.
"Can we just not talk tonight?" Erin says.
"That bad. Huh?" Jay asks.
"My teenage daughter is at home with a hangover." Erin says kissing him again.
Jay doesn't say a word after that. They kiss and just as things are starting to get heated both of their phones ring.
"It's a text from Voight he needs us at the precinct." Erin says with a sigh.
"Ok, let's go." Jay says.
When they get to the precinct they are briefed on the most current victim of the club's drug. They discuss the information they already have from the last boy who over dosed on the drug and compare the similarities.
"We need someone to go in undercover. That's our only option here." Dawson says.
"Erin I think we should let Emery go undercover." Voight says.
"No, that's not an option. I'm not letting her do this." Erin says getting irritated.
"There is no one else that can do it." Ruzek says.
"Erin you know no of us will let anything happen to her." Jay says touching her arm.
"Fine, but if one thing puts her in danger, I'm pulling her out of there immediately." Erin says.
Erin was really uneasy about the situation but she also knew that if she didn't teenagers would keep overdosing on a drug no one knew very much about. They discuss the plan for Emery a little further, mostly so Erin's fears would be calmed.
When Erin finally got home that night Emery was nowhere to be found. Erin tried to call her daughter but there was no answer, she became very panicked at that point. She walked out the door and found her daughter in the hallway making out with some guy.
"What the hell are you doing?" Erin says grabbing her daughter's arm and pulling her towards the apartment.
"Em, who's this bitch?" the guy says.
"Mom, let go of me." Emery says pulling back from her mom and almost falling over.
"Are you high?" Erin says grabbing her daughter's face and looking into her eyes.
"So what if I am?" Emery says.
"Get in the apartment. Now before I call your grandfather." Erin threatens.
Even though Emery was high out of her mind she knew that if her mother called her grandpa he would kill her. She listened to her mother, asked the boy to leave, and went into the apartment. Erin was in complete shock her daughter wasn't acting herself. Emery had never done drugs, drank, or was ever promiscuous. Erin was even a hundred percent sure she was still a virgin.
"Emery Kay Lindsay, please explain to me how you think this behavior is ok?" Erin asks her daughter very pissed off.
"Relax, I was just having a little fun." Emery says all cocky.
"Go get in the shower and go to bed now." Erin demands in a tone she rarely ever used with her daughter.
Emery didn't want to listen to her mom's bickering anymore, and she was exhausted from the two nights of partying she had done. So she listened to her mother. Erin just sat in the living blaming herself practically all night. She had never been more disappointed in herself or her daughter. She was also hoping that her thought that her daughter was just like her would subside, but then again maybe Emery was more like Erin then she would like to admit.