Notes: I struggle quite a lot with the cop talk, im sorry if its not accurate.

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It was 7:20 when Kim and Hailey made it to the 21st, they weren't the first though, they parked at the same time Kevin was arriving and of course, their sergeant's car was already there, but Voight was always the first in.

By 7:30 Jay and Adam were also in and the brief could start.

"Yesterday one of our own has been attacked in her own home, off-duty by an unknown assailant, so let me be very clear, no one is going home until we crack this case". The team acquiesces but no one interrupts.
"We're expecting the very first forensic report anytime now, I told the team working the flat not to stop until they can come back to me with something preliminary."
Hailey was zoning out halfway through the brief, she knew the drill but it still felt bizarre to have her flat being at the center of attention and that made her want to dissociate with the current focus.
"Upton! Can you think of anything that was missing? Anything of value? Or a CI file? Anything at all?"
"I haven't been back there yet but I don't remember noticing anything missing yesterday, and I don't keep CI files at home, I'll have to check with Vanessa if she ever takes work home."
"You will have to go back today and make sure of that. We need to know if this is retaliation for police work. We don't know what this is yet, it's not clear if the intruder was there for her, or you, both of you, or something at your place.
We don't know if this was a case of a mistaken target just yet either. But we will get answers... Soon."

"Ruzek, pull all the files about recently released convicts who were pinched by either Upton or Rojas, anything going back 6 months; if this is a viable lead I'd like to think there is more chance Hailey would be the designed target since she has more history."

"You got it sarge."

"Burgess you and Upton go back to the house and check over everything we might have missed yesterday, if this is indeed a burglary gone wrong I want to know."

"Atwater you pull all footage on their neighborhood, find me, witnesses, I want a week worth of pod footage and all incidents reports in the area for the last month."
"Copy Sarge."

"Halstead you go back to the hospital and check the suspect Rojas shot yesterday, we have to make sure he is not the one calling the shots on this one".

"I already cleared that this morning before shift, I asked my brother and the patrol guys there, he has got zero contacts with the outside world and he is under heavy medication he can't even stay awake let alone speak coherently".

"Good. One down. Then I want you to talk to the last person she talked to yesterday, some patrol from HQ, you go there and get me an accurate timeline on the drop off" Then re-facing the whole team, "Guys I can't stress this enough, I want everyone reachable 100% of the time, NO solo flying on this one, we all may have a target on our back. You report back to the district every hour and if you're not out there following leads I want you here working the case. Copy?"

"Sarge are we going public with this? Shouldn't we let other cops know that there are people out there breaking into our homes" asks Ruzek.
"For now its too early to tell, if this is only an Intelligence thing it needs to stay under wrap. As soon as we get a break I'll know how the wind is blowing. But to be on the safe side, I asked Trudy to dispatch a patrol car in front of your building Kim, if this was a targeted hit then Rojas needs extra protection. Now beat it and check in every hour!"

They all disperse to their assignments.

Hailey jogs to level with Halstead, she wants to make sure he is still keeping quiet, and to check on him after their rows last night.
"Jay, how are you doing?"
" I should ask you that you look like you didn't sleep one bit."
"Don't deflect I asked you first, and yes of course I feel like shit."
"I don't know Hailey... How I feel, I don't fucking know. I feel like we're doing something wrong and we're not helping our friend, I couldn't forget how I found her Hailey it's so fucked up, what if it were you, or both of you I had to find like that."
"Don't say stuff like that, please. It should have been both of us at home because I was fucking supposed to pick her up from HQ, I should have been with her, and maybe none of it would have had happened in the first place."
Jay passes a hand over his face, and sinks into the wall behind him.
" I just, I don't know how to compute shit like this. It's so unfair, It makes me want to break something... and now Voight it splitting us up again..." Hailey feels all kinds of ways when he says stuff like that. Like it's so important for him to be partnered with her. She wants so badly to hug him tight. Just to touch him, to feel like all of this is real. But she doesn't, she just pats his arms a bit awkwardly and looks around her before answering "I know... but I need you to be patient, please do it for her if not for me", she pleads, "We can still solve this, we can bury this person for life, without Vanessa having to come clean about all of it, and you know it's possible..."
And before he can say anything more she let go of his arm and just say, "Just let me know if anything happens, any little thing ok?"
He nods yes, his throat too tight to talk.

Contrary to the girls, Jay has been able to sleep, not because he is a cold motherfucker, but because he knows how to deal with shit like this. Again, he was an army ranger for better or worse. He learned a long time ago to pop a pill if you saw an entire village pillaged and bombed by their own people, pop a pill after seeing little kids working as prostitutes near encampments, pop a pill when you see girls as young as 10 being broken into submission, pop a pill when you see your brother in arms, terrorize, rape, maim and kill innocents and then call it collateral damage, pop a pill when you see some of your best friends blown to pieces; laughing one second and turned into a mist of blood the second. There's a pill to deal with all of these predicaments. A soldier needs to sleep so he can wake up the next morning and do that same shit all over again.
Most people had no idea about the shit he saw, how it was haunting him, always creeping somewhere, the spoils of war.

But most people weren't Chicagoans either, they were also living in a war zone so Jay wasn't so special in this city anyway.

So he knew what he needed to do to face today.
He wished he wasn't alone, he wished Hailey and Vanessa had come home with him, then he would have stand guard for them, he would know where they were and could make sure they were safe with him.
But they rather stay with Kim, and one part of him could understand why, but to him, they were all brothers and sisters in arms, and he was more than qualified to provide shelter and security. So he sat there on his couch and naturally rinsed out his sleeping pills with a beer and waited for the familiar slumber to take over so he doesn't have to fight the flashes of Vanessa wet and bloodied and battered on that floor, crying like there was no tomorrow in Hailey's arm, it made him feel so inadequate and small and useless, all he wanted was to physically make all of this go away, like he could tear the fabric of time and go back to a world where 23 years old baby cops are not brutally assaulted in their own homes, a mere 10 minutes before their colleagues show up.

He didn't know the young woman very well, but no one who's met Vanessa could dislike her, she was eager to prove herself, to be seen and accepted, she has shown natural talent in her UC work because unlike most of the team, she actually came from the streets. She never complained about an assignment, nothing was too small, but also she was ambitious, if she put work on a lead she hated people fucking up with her efforts and she would let you know.
But he wasn't blind, of course, her joining intelligence right off the academy, after a small stint with narcotics, being this very young Afro-Latina woman had earned her an amount of attention that wasn't easy to dismiss.
Actually, he wasn't able to comprehend it until he and Kevin were throwing off some heavy drinkers off of her at Molly's one night.
They would be at bars and other police functions, and Jay could witness how the others looked at her, with envy or disgusts, and maybe a bit of something else, one day he mentionned it out loud and Kevin barred his Ts and dotted his Is, there was no mystery why her rapid rise to an elite team wasn't very well received by the rest of the boys in blue.
So even though it was a truth he had trouble digesting, he was happy Hailey had taken her under her wing, his partner wasn't the kind that takes shit from anybody, she was an extremely guarded person, and obviously knew the line to toe for being a woman in the force. She was his best friend on the job and he was feeling like shit for the way he talked to her earlier; she looked so hurt...
And then he remembered what he had told her at the hospital She is not you he wanted to punch himself in the face, he had used a piece of information about her that she never disclosed voluntarily to him on the first place, to guilt-trip her into convincing Vanessa to disclose the truth.
What did he know about any of it?
And with that thought sleep took over him right where he was sitting, with the trailing thought that he will bring justice for her.