They had the case all but solved when shit went sideways in a grand fashion, Antonio and Woods' daughter ended up in deep shit and things spiraled from there.

Now nearly forty eight hours later Adam felt as if the walls were closing in on him, Woods' kid was in the hospital clinging to life and he couldn't shake the feeling that he was playing with house money.

Everyone at the scene had heard Woods rage against intelligence, that it was because of their incompetence his daughter was shot.

Which was complete and utter bullshit, the kid was fine up until she tried to run and she caught one in the back because of it. If she had done what Antonio had instructed her to do, she'd be fine.

Antonio Dawson was one helluva cop and he would've kept her safe, he had a handle on things but she didn't listen, and now she was paying the price. It was tragic but it wasn't Antonio's fault.

Not that Woods would understand that, and it left Adam rattled.

Woods had vowed revenge.

Adam couldn't help but fear he was in the crosshairs.

He could only handle being in one person's crosshairs at a time, and he knew he was smack dab in the middle of Kim's. It had been a week since their argument and he was still filled with regret. It didn't help matters that he had only made it worse when he allowed her to think he had a girl on the side. He was a complete douche when he reminded her that she was the one who made it abundantly clear that this their arrangement was very casual.

Adam wanted to tell her everything but he couldn't risk it. He couldn't risk everything he had done for the last four months, he had busted his ass, and he needed to see it through to the end. That meant he had to let Kim think he was seeing someone, that kept her out of the crosshairs. The downfall from this had the potential to be ugly, really ugly and he wanted Kim nowhere near it, especially now.

He just hoped once all of this blew over she'd give him a chance to explain.

Voight knocked on the corner of Ruzek's desk, "Grab your coat. We're going for a walk."

Adam felt his gut drop, he knew a ride with Voight was never good news. Sure he was fairly certain he wasn't going to end up dead and buried at the Silos, it didn't mean he wasn't about to get his ass chewed out though. He'd had plenty of those rides lately.

He did as he was told, on his way out he caught Kim's eye and it killed him when she looked away from him.

He had hurt her, and he hated it.

He hated all of this.

"Burgess..you good?" Kevin asked her, it had been a long day of chasing down protesters who had been filmed during violent protests and trying to sort through days worth of tips called into the hotline.

"Fine" Kim replied, finishing off yet another report.

Kevin knew that was the furthest thing from the truth, "Funny. You're not fine. What's going on?"

"It's nothing. Really. I'm okay. Just stupid, and I don't want to talk about it." Kim closed the envelope and placed it in the 'outgoing' basket.

"I'm here for you."

Kim smiled, "I know. I promise you, I'm okay."

"Burgess. You lie. Like a rug. What'd he do?" Kevin asked.

"He? Who?" Kim busied herself with rearranging the items on her desk.

"Fuck y'all think I'm stupid don't you?" Kevin rolled his eyes, "You and Ruzek. You're together again, though I'm not sure that's still the case."

"We weren't together," she dodged his eyes, had she looked him in the eye he would see through her facade and she couldn't allow that to happen, "we were just having some fun, no one was supposed to know. It was stupid, it's done now."

Kevin nudged her towards the break room, "Kim, you two are frustrating as fuck. You know that right?"

Kim prepared a cup of coffee, it was shaping up to be another eighteen hour day "I am really not in the mood Kevin. I'm working on just a few hours of sleep, and I've been staring at screens all day, so please just back off." She knew it was snippy and just a little snarky but she didn't care. She didn't want to talk about Adam, or her own feelings for that matter. She'd rather just bury them and do her best to move on from Adam. She had done it once before and she would do it again.

"Alright. Alright. I'm done. Just let me say this, that man loves you. He's got his flaws, but he loves you." Kevin wrapped her in his arms, "I love you too Burgess, I just want you to be happy. You've been happy the last few weeks, Adam too."

"Yeah. I bet he was. Let it go, Kev. Please." She held her hand up to silence, "Let's get back to work."

Hank leant against the concrete barrier that ran the length of the district's parking lot, "We need to ramp it up. You did as I said, yes?"

Adam kicked at some loose gravel, "I told you I did, didn't I?"

Voight shook his head in disgust, "Your word doesn't carry much weight lately." He glared at him, "Lose the attitude too, this is on you," he jammed his index finger in Adam's chest knocking him a bit off balance. "He's distracted. If he's ever going to slip up..it'll be now. Set up a meeting, rattle his cage. End this Ruzek."

"While his kid is fighting for her life?"

"You questioning my judgement? I know the hell he's living in, but that has nothing to do with us. It's survival of the fittest, it's your ass on the line. Not mine. If you want to pump the brakes, that's your call. Just know this I will bury your ass, if need be. Remember that" he tapped his fingers against his temple, "it's your call."

"I'm in. All in, Boss. Consider it done."