FLASHBACK
JAY'S P.O.V.
Two hours later, once Voight finally called me, I rushed through the doors of Chicago Med's E.D. and saw Hank with tears in his eyes, talking to my brother. O'Malley was leaning against the wall looking like someone had just told him that his dog died. Please God, let her be alive I thought to myself. Will noticed me at the same time O'Malley did. "You did this! This is your fault! If you had just gone along with Hank and Christine's plan none of this would have happened. But no, you had to call in the Feds and you broke Christine's heart in the process. Do you have any idea as to what you've put her through over the past two and a half months? If it wasn't for the twins she wouldn't have survived as long as she did. But this is it. I'm holding you fully responsible!" the Irish giant yelled as he approached me. Before I could say a word, he turned to Hank and said, "Tell him Voight. Tell him now before more harm is done." Voight turned to my brother and asked, "Doc is there a room we can use?" "What the fuck is going on? I don't want to go anywhere with you. I want to see Christine now." I replied, worried and confused.
After being told I didn't have a choice I followed Will, Hank and O'Malley into one of the Chicago Med conference rooms. It was one of the rooms they use to deliver bad news to the families of patients. Jesus, are they going to tell me she died, I wondered. "Halstead, I would like to introduce you to Special Agent Gavin O'Malley. Agent O'Malley has been undercover trying to bring down Paddy McGuire and the Irish Mob for the past eighteen months. He was getting close to blowing Paddy's operation wide open when he was assigned to guard Christine. Probably would have been able to close the case by now if you didn't reach out to Erin. The case would have been closed and the Cartel, Mafia and Mob would have been out of both cities, Chicago and Boston. Life would have gone back to normal and you wouldn't have missed out on two and a half months of your children's lives." Hank said. "Look Sarge, no disrespect, but I'm not playing the blame game right now. Where is Christine? I need to see her. I need to know she's okay." I replied.
"Jay..." Will started drawing my attention to him. "Christine has requested you not have access to her room. I'm sorry to be the one to tell you but she lost the baby. The stress of what has been happening lately was too much for her to handle. She has told Ms. Goodwin that no one from Chicago P.D., including Sargent Voight, be given access to her room. I will tell you we did give her something to help her rest and she is currently sleeping. Why don't you and Voight take off and I'll notify you both if anything changes."
A pain like I have never experienced before in my life shot through me. My actions brought us to this point. I should have trusted Voight. As a result, Christine was grieving the loss of our unborn child by herself. "Where are the twins?" I asked. "They're at home with Mary and Luis. She told me you can spend the night at the house with them but you need to be gone by the time she arrives home tomorrow. She also asked me to remind you that Agent Lindsay is not allowed on her property." O'Malley said. "Why are you giving orders on her behalf? Does she know who you really are?" I asked, extremely agitated. After being told Christine and Hank both had known his true identity for a few months, I left the room without another word.
I drove straight to Christine's. After looking in on Aiden and Quinn, who both were asleep for the night in their cribs, I walked into the master bedroom and sat down. Only then did I let the tears fall. Tears for the child who wouldn't be born...tears for the child we wouldn't meet...tears for the pain I was feeling...tears for Christine's pain...tears for the months I had missed in the twins' lives. Things were going to change tomorrow I told myself, as I laid down on the bed.
PRESENT DAY
JAY'S P.O.V.
"How could she have just disappeared? It's not like she could have gotten out of her crib on her own. It's been thirty-six hours Hank. Almost two full days since Quinn went missing in the middle of the night, when Christine was in the hospital. Who the fuck took my daughter?" I said as I paced back and forth between the living room and the kitchen. I was losing it but I didn't care. I had been woken early on Saturday morning by Mary's screams. I ran in the direction the screams were coming from to find Quinn's crib empty. When I managed to calm the Nanny down, she told me she had woken up and gone to change Aiden first, as she does every morning. She picked him up and carried him into Quinn's room only to find that Quinn wasn't there and the nursery was empty.
Christine could barely look at me as she sat on the couch. Her eyes had been filled with tears since she had returned home from the hospital yesterday. I know she holds me responsible. She refused to let anyone, including me, near Aiden. "It's payback. It has to be. I know it's the Cartel. This is on both of us Jay. But let me tell you, no one and I mean no one, will ever hurt my family ever again. I'm leaving Chicago once I get my baby girl back. This place has been nothing but toxic for the past eleven months. Hank, you need to get me in to see El Gato and Ramon at the MCC Federal Prison. I know they gave the order to kidnap Quinn." Christine said.
"I don't think we need to reach out to them just yet. I have a few leads the Unit is currently following up on. O'Malley wants to bring in his team as well. We will get her back." Voight told us. Before we could say anything else, Hank's phone buzzed. He checked his text and then crouched on the floor in front of Christine. He sighed and took her hand in his. "Christine, I just got a text from Erin. She's at the gate. She said she needs to talk to you. She said it's important." he told her. Christine looked at me. I told her I had no idea what Erin could possibly want. "Let her thru the gate." she told O'Malley. She handed Aiden to me and walked out the front door.
CHRSITINE'S P.O.V.
"What do you want Erin?" I asked as I stepped onto the front porch, closing the door behind me. "I was hoping we could go inside, sit down and talk." she said. "That's not an option. The only reason you made it through the gate is because Hank seemed to think it's important. You will never step foot in my home, in any of my homes, ever again. So, unless this is about Quinn I have nothing else to say to you." I replied. "It is about your daughter. Christine, I know who has Quinn. Please, can we go inside?" she pleaded with me. I told her to wait there. I went back inside and picked Aiden up out of Jay's arms. I handed him to Mary, telling her and Luis to take him up to his nursery and to stay there until they were told it was okay to come back down by Jay, Hank or me. I then told O'Malley to escort Erin into the living room as I returned to my seat on the couch.
I sat between Hank and Jay. Erin followed O'Malley into the living room. "First I want to apologize for what you're going through and what you've gone through over the past two and a half months. I really need to apologize as well for the part I played in all of this. Yes, I'm still in love with Jay but I've come to realize he loves you, and only you, Christine. Probably more than you know. The two of you belong together. It's obvious to everyone who knows you both. Jay, I know you and Hank knew there was a reason for my irrational behavior but haven't figured out what it was. I'm not going to go into detail now but I will tell you I truly am sorry and I'm headed back to New York tonight. Basically, someone had me over a barrel. To get out of that situation I needed to come between the two of you. That person is the same one who arranged for Quinn's kidnapping. That person, Christine, is your Uncle. Paddy McGuire has Quinn. Not only does he have her but I believe he is taking her out of the country either tonight or tomorrow morning. I'm so sorry and I really hope everything works out for your family. Hank, I'll be in touch and we can talk about things in further detail then." she said before she turned and walked out of the house.
"Jay..." I whispered. I didn't want to believe what I had just been told but deep down I knew Erin had been telling the truth. "Paddy was never happy I wasn't 100% fully into running the family business. I think he knew I had my reservations and when I severed ties with the business before going to Ireland he wasn't overly thrilled. I never thought in a million years he would do something like this. It makes sense. Paddy referred Mary. She could have snuck Quinn out of the house. I'm going to kill her if I find out she was involved. What do we do now? Do we fly to Boston? What if Erin's right? What if we are too late and he has already left the country? I am going to end him for this." I said, my voice rising with each word I spoke.
"First things first. We talk to Mary. We get any information out of her we can. Then we go after Paddy. Christine, I think you need to have someone come stay with Aiden. We're going to have to travel and it will be safer for him here. Any ideas on who you want to stay with him?" Hank said. I looked at Jay and said, "I'm sorry for even suggesting it but he loves being with Kelly. What if I call Kelly and Gabby, since she is his Godmother? Kelly, Gabby and Matt can stay here with Aiden. I'll leave Luis with them as well." Jay looked hurt, but said he wanted to do whatever would be best for Aiden.
Hank, O'Malley and Jay went upstairs to talk to Mary while I called Kelly and Gabby. They were shocked when I told them and immediately agreed to come stay with Aiden. After saying I would see them in a little while I went upstairs to pack a bag. I lost it when I saw Hank leading Mary out of my office in handcuffs. "You bitch! You messed with the wrong family. I'm going to kill you! Where's my baby?" I screamed at her as I slapped her across the face. Jay pulled me back, down the hall and into my bedroom, as Hank and O'Malley took Mary downstairs.
"Christine, we know where Quinn is. Paddy is taking her to Ireland tonight. How quickly can you have your plane ready to go? If we leave tonight we will only be a few hours behind them. The four of us will leave tonight and hopefully be back home in a matter of days." he said. "Your count is a little off Halstead. Actually, there's seven of us going." a voice from the doorway surprised both of us. We turned to see Kim, Adam and Kevin standing there. "Al, Antonio and Rixton are going to hold down the fort for a few days." Atwater said.
I asked them to give me a minute with Jay and requested they send Hank back up. When he came up, after turning custody of Mary over to Al and Rixton, I told them I needed to go after Paddy myself. "I can't have any of you come with me over there. If you come with me then you'll have to arrest me. I don't plan on bringing Paddy back with Quinn and me. Not only is he dead to me but he is going to die for everything he has done. It's the only way the twins will be safe. Won't be the first time I killed someone to protect my children." I said, thinking back to when I killed Hailey.
"That's the exact reason why we are all going. You shouldn't be the one who has to pull the trigger. I don't want you to carry that weight with you for the rest of your life. It's different when that person is family." Hank told me. "I'll give the two of you a few minutes alone. I'm going to run home and grab a few things. I'll meet you at the hanger at O'Hare in an hour. Our family might be hurting and seem broken right now but we are going to fix that by getting our girl back." Hank said before walking out of my bedroom.
"Christine, he's right. We need to listen to him on this one. When we get back though we need to take a few days, the two of us and the twins, and spend some time together as a family. No outside influences. Just the four of us. We need that time with each other and the twins need that time with us. I love you Christine. You need to believe that. And you need to believe we are going to get Quinn back." Jay told me.
In that moment, as we sat on my bed, I broke. I couldn't stop sobbing. I was so afraid I would never see my baby girl again. "Jay, we need to get her back." I said a few minutes later as the sobs subsided. "We will. I promise." he told me. Something inside of me snapped at that point. I got angry. He could see it on my face. I got up and grabbed two bags out of the hidden compartment in my closet. I tossed one of the bags to him. "What's this?" he asked as he opened it. "Your go bag. I put it together when I came home from the hospital...when you first moved in. This one has a phone charger in it. Now let's go get our daughter back." I replied as I reached for his hand. We walked downstairs hand in hand and after saying goodbye to our son, the six of us – O'Malley, Kevin, Adam, Kim, Jay and I – left to go meet Hank at O'Hare.
Within two hours of leaving my house we were airborne. I had a few things to get done before I could talk to anyone. I booked all of us rooms at The Hotel 30 – Galway. I then arranged for transportation to take us from the airport in Shannon to the hotel. I wasn't 100% sure where Paddy was but I had an idea. "O'Malley." I said quietly to get his attention. He got up and took a seat at the table directly across from where I was sitting. "Have you heard from any of your contacts? Has anyone seen Paddy yet?" I asked. "Not yet, but it's early still. Have may not have landed yet. I have people at the airport in Dublin as well as in Shannon on the lookout for him." he replied. "He's taking her to Athenrye. I can feel it. He's taking her to his house there. I've never been to it but from what I've been told it's a fortress." I told him. "I'll have some of my people check it out." he said as he got up from his seat and went back to his laptop.
Jay took the seat O'Malley had vacated and Hank sat in the seat next to Jay. I filled them in on my thoughts. "Al's trying to find a flight plan for whatever plane he would have chartered. He can't find anything under Paddy's name." Hank said. "Tell him to check under DiStefano or Brennan. It wouldn't surprise me if he pulled the Italians into this or used my name as a sick joke." I replied.
Within twenty minutes Hank had an e-mail from Al. Apparently, a plane had been chartered from Boston to Shannon under the name Christine DiStefano. It was scheduled to touch down in an hour. They would be arriving four hours before us. Enjoy those four hours asshole. I'm coming to end you, I thought to myself.