Ok, so if I am being completely honest, I freaked myself out a little bit with the last chapter with Rick hiding under Kim's bed. I checked under my bed when I wrote it. Apologies if any of you had the same feeling but it makes for good writing!

So we left with Voight going to tell Adam about Kim, let's see how that goes...


Who the hell is banging on my door at 2am? I tell you what, someone better be dying, waking me up at this hour, because if they are not I might just have to kill someone. I struggle to get to sleep and actually stay asleep so this better be good.

I threw my front door open and was more than surprised to see Voight there.

"What're doing here boss?" I asked in worry.

If he was at my door at 2am, something is wrong. He would just call if it was a job but this... I got a bad feeling.

"Can I come in?"

I opened the door wider for him and he walked in, I closed the door behind him and we went into the living room but he didn't sit so I didn't either.

"You're scaring me" I stated.

"There is no easy way to say this"

"Is it Kim?" I questioned, my bad feeling telling me she was involved somehow.

"One of her neighbours called in after hearing a gun shot. Patrol went to her apartment but she's not there, her car is gone and her phone is off" He said.

What?

"She's been shot?"

"We don't know... there's blood in the bedroom" He answered.

I felt my legs go out from under me. Voight reached out to catch me and he put me on the couch and kneeled down in front of me "Adam, I know it's a lot to take in but you gotta get your head straight to work this" He said.

I don't understand. Why would someone do this to Kim? Was it a case she has worked on before? Why didn't she call me for help? Is something to do with why she's been off lately? Is this what Voight was supposed to help her with.

"Adam" I felt my shoulder shake but I just... I couldn't move "We need to meet the team at her apartment and figure this out" He urged.

"Who was it?" I asked him, he knew, I know he did.

"It's best if I tell all of you together"

"She told me you were helping her" I stated as I felt the shock ware off but anger take its place, this never should have happened to her, she shouldn't be in this position "You were supposed to look after her!" I shouted and stood up from the couch "She trusted you over me to deal with whatever this is!" I shouted again.

"Yeah she did and I messed up and I'm gonna make it right. Get your head together and let's go meet the team" He replied.


Oh my God... that's a lot of blood. I pray to whatever God is out there that is not Kim's blood. Whoever has lost that much blood and is not in a hospital is in a lot of trouble, that much I know.

"Do we know anything?" Kev questioned.

I noticed Hailey look down at her shoes in guilt.

"What do you know?" I demanded.

"She came to me... I... she was scared" Hailey stopped and wiped a tear away.

"Tell me!" I shouted.

"Stop it" Voight jumped in.

"What the hell is going on?"

"There's a guy called Rick... Giles I think. He used stalk Kim years ago and she eventually sent him to prison. A few weeks ago she got notified that he was released and he started stalking her again" Hailey was trying to hold back her sobs "She said he had written to her, he had been in the apartment when she was out and had taken some of her things, she said she kept seeing him places and she was terrified" She explained.

"Hailey and I have been looking for him but he's dropped off the radar" Voight said.

"Both of you knew and neither of you thought to tell me?"

"She asked us not to" Hailey answered "I swear Adam, we have looked for him everywhere and have tried tracking him every way we can think of. We've interrogated his parents, his cellmate. He doesn't have a phone that we know of and no access to any vehicle. No social media presence and no camera or POD footage" She sighed.

"What does he want with her?" Jay asked.

"Kim said that he loved her but she rejected him and it all stemmed from that" She answered.

"So, let me get this straight" I started "Kim had a stalker, sent him to prison and now he's out and he targeted Kim again. You and Voight knew all about it, knew what kind of danger she was in but he's that much of a genius that you two haven't been able to find him. Now we think he has shot her and taken her somewhere... have I got all of that right?"

Everyone was quiet.

"Kim Burgess is one of our own and I am not going to be doing this by the book, I am going to do whatever it takes, in and out of the law, to get her back. If you can't deal with that then you walk away now. From this moment on, this is in house only. We deal with this ourselves and we get her back ourselves"

Everyone stayed still. No one even flinched or thought about leaving. This was Kim. We were going to get her back and I don't care what I have to do, I will kill everyone that knows Rick to get her back.

I looked at the large pool of blood on the bed and carpet and the splatter on the wall behind her bed. I know it, this is all Kim's blood and she is the one who was shot. If it wasn't, she would've called it in herself and she would be here or at MED. Kim is the one that got shot and her life is in danger. She is going to die if I don't find her.

"Let's get this bitch" Kev said to me and patted my shoulder.


Why didn't she just listen to me and do what I told her? I don't understand why she has to make everything so difficult and fight me all the time. If she had just done what I said, I wouldn't have shot her. I didn't want to hurt her and I don't understand why she keeps pushing me away without really listening to me. This was all her fault. She should have just listened to me!

She makes things harder than what they need to be but in time she will be happy with me and I just have to make her understand that I am a good man and I can give her the life she deserves. I will take care of her; she won't have to work again because I'll provide her with everything that she will ever need.

I looked in the rear view mirror at her lying in the backseat. She still hadn't woken up from when I shot her, I didn't want to but she gave me no other choice. She wouldn't come with me and she just wouldn't listen to me. I didn't want her to die so I made sure I slowed the bleeding down by tying her belt around the gunshot that I had covered with a cloth I found in her kitchen. She would be ok but I need to get to the cabin. I have more supplies there.

My cousin, Jake, owns a place at Camp Bullfrog Lake but he's not using it right now because he's in LA with his wife so I know he won't mind me using it whilst he's away. I've been staying there and getting it ready for Kim; I've brought her some new clothes and I've got enough food and drink to last us there for a little while before we decide where we're going to go next.

We can't stay in Chicago and I want Kim to have a say on where we go to start our lives together. There must be somewhere she wants to go, apart from Chicago. Maybe somewhere on the West Coast with better weather, maybe near a beach somewhere... sea air is good for you. I think she'd like somewhere by the water, she used to go swimming all the time, it was how we first met.

The first time I saw her I was mesmerised by her. She was at the swimming pool with her friends but she stood out. She had her hair tied up in a perfect bun on the top of her head and she was wearing this yellow bikini that made her stand out from the rest of her friends, they were all wearing black or white bikinis but not Kim, her bikini was bright yellow, like a canary and my eyes were drawn to her.

She was using the college pool so I knew she was a student and I didn't take me long to find out who she was and what classes she was taking. It took me weeks to pluck up the courage to talk to her and when I did, all I could do was tell her my name. Her friends laughed at me but she didn't. She was kind to me and introduced herself.

I was used to people laughing at me, I was socially awkward but I wasn't use to people being as kind to me as she was. After that day, when we would see each other she would go out of her way to say hello or wave to me and I fell in love with her and I wanted to tell but I could never find the right words.

I couldn't even ask her for her phone number. I had to leave a note in her locker, asking her for it, she tracked me down and put it in my phone herself. We used to text so much and I knew she was falling for me as well. No one is that kind to someone that they don't have feelings for.

From the moment I met Kim, I knew we would end up together and it has taken longer than I had planned but now is our chance. We can finally be together and get away from her and start a life together, somewhere fresh and new and exciting. I am going to prove to her that I am the only one for her.