One year later
It had been one year since Jay had died and I was still feeling broken, like someone ripped the heart out of my chest. I was getting Esme ready for bed when I heard a knock at my door.
I walked and opened the door with Henry resting on my hip,
" Oh hey Hank. Come in"
"How're you doing Erin?"
"I'm okay, it's good to have my kids around me"
"Listen Erin, I know you've had a year off but have you thought about coming back to work anytime soon?" Hank asked
"I'm not sure if I'm ready to come back yet Hank"
"We need you Erin, we've got a lot of cases and we need your help, so what do you say?"
"When do I start back?" I said
I spent the next few hours talking to Hank about work and my life and I was actually excited to go back to work and start over. I woke up in the morning, got dressed and took the kids to Pre-school, "I'll see you guys later, Uncle Will's gonna pick you up" I said as I kissed and left them.
I drove to the district and parked up but I couldn't get out the car, I hadn't been to work since Jay got killed. I sat in the car staring at the building until I heard a knock at my car window, I put my window down to see Antonio leaning in, "Are you coming in anytime soon?"
"Yeah I just needed a minute" I said to him
"Well you've been sat out here for over an hour. So come on I'll walk you in" Antonio said opening my car door.
We walked into the district and everything just felt normal again, the sarcastic attitude from Plat and the constant chatter from all around. I walked to the top of the stairs and the first thing I saw was Jay's desk, It was still there full of his things, picture and files. I stood there staring at it when Kim came over and hugged me, "I'm so happy you're back!"
"I'm happy too you know, fresh start. Hey guys can I just say... no walking on egg shells with me, I'm back and i'm feeling better so lets get to work"
Nobody's POV
Erin spent her first day back out in the field and she felt happy to be back instead of being at home all the time. She didn't want a new partner but she had to have one so she decided to have Kim as her partner. The next few days Erin spent time buried in files, she was the only one in the Bullpen and the she saw Hank and the team coming up the stairs,
"Erin we have a case today and I understand if you want to go home?"
"What's it about Hank?"
"We have to reopen the case of... the gang who killed Jay"
"Oh no way, I'm staying!" Erin shouted
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah!" she said getting up and walking into the break room.
Everyone gathered around the board and Antonio started briefing everyone, "Okay so we've had multiple murders in the past week but there was another stabbing but he survived and is at med, it is known to be a gang who we have dealt with before and we know it is them due to how they kill."
"Ok so how to we know it was them?" Ruzek asked
"the way they kill is... a stab wound in the chest"
"Like how they killed Jay then" Erin said causing silence around the room, "Come on guys, we can talk about it"
"we have our damn jobs to do, come on Kim lets go to Med and interview the victim" Erin said grabbing her coat and walking out.
At Chicago Med
"Hey Will, there's a patient his name is Matthew Brown. Is he awake?"
"He just got out of surgery and he's coming round so you can go see him, It's good to see you back Erin" Will said
"Yeah it's good to be back, I'll come pick the kids up later"
"Sure see you later"
Erin and Kim walked into the room and started to interview with Matthew, "Can you tell me what happened?"
"I was doing this job for them, you know to earn some extra money and when I found out what it was I wanted out and that was when they stabbed me"
"Okay what did they want you to do?" Kim asked him
"They wanted me to move this dude, and I didn't want to do it"
Kim looked up at Erin and walked closer to him, "Do you know what his name was?"
"No they didn't tell me his name but all they told me was that he had been there over a year and he had got injured, stabbed or something."
"Did they say anything else you?" Erin asked
"just that he was important and they saved him after he was stabbed because they needed him"
"Ok thanks, we may be back later to ask some more questions" Erin said as they left.
Erin and Kim drove back to the station but Erin had a feeling about something. As they pulled up at the district they saw the rest of the team coming out of the back, "What's going on?" Erin said running over.
"Another stabbing, patrol was around the corner and they caught one of the guys" Hank said.
The whole team raced to the scene and ran into the building. Hank picked up the suspect and pushed him into a wall, "Who were you with?"
"I will never tell you!" he spat
"Atwater take him back to the district!" Hank said pushing him away.
"No I'll take him Hank" Erin said grabbing him and putting him in her car.
Erin's POV
I drove the guy back to the district and pushed him into the cage, "What you gonna do bitch!" he shouted at me
I punched him multiple times and started to question him, "What's your name?"
"Mike" he said
"Where's the rest of your gang, huh?"
"No comment!"
"Oh no, no comment?" I said as I punched him
"We know you move round warehouse's. We found your last one!"
"What's it to you anyway?"
"What's it to me, what's it to me!" I said punching him, "oh you don't remember me huh, the last time you saw me you were in this building and I was pregnant and then you took the detective who also happened to be my husband... Then you killed him!"
"Oh yeah I remember when my brother stuck the knife through his chest and we watched him bleed out"
My anger took over and I started to punch him over and over again until I could feel someone pulling me away, "He's out Erin, that's enough!" I heard Antonio said.
I turned around and Antonio was still holding on to me but then I saw the rest of the team staring at me. "Go home Erin" Hank said to me
"No i'm fine you don't need to send me home for doing this, he deserved this"
"Erin I'm not sending you home for this, just go home to your kids and come back tomorrow"
I didn't say anything but I just grabbed my coat and walked out the back. I drove to my apartment and walked up the stairs, through my door to see Will sat with Esme reading to her and Hope and Henry who were next to him sleeping. I was so happy I had all four of them in my life and I really don't know what I would of done without them.
At the district
"Erin's taking this really hard" Antonio said
"Well what do you expect, these men killed her husband" Ruzek said
The team spent the night looking for the guys and going through files when Antonio had had enough. He stood up and kicked his chair backwards, "That's it, I'm going to talk to this guy!" he said as he walked towards the interview room.
Antonio sat down and Laid out pictures of victims and the last picture he laid down was Jay, "All these people here you brutally killed and this one here was a detective call Jay Halstead and you abducted him and tortured him and then stabbed a knife through his chest, so you're gonna start telling us where your guys are!"
The guy let out a laugh, "It's funny I remember when the detective first came and if he stopped fighting nothing would of happened to him. He's a pain in the ass.
"What are you talking about?" Antonio said grabbing him
"He didn't die, we just wanted to keep him without you knowing. He works for us now!"
Antonio stood up and pushed him against the wall, "You're gonna tell me where he is, if not I'm gonna kill you myself and I'll deliver you back to your gang. NOW WHERE IS HE!"
Jay's POV
It was another day in hell as I woke up in the barely lit room chained to the wall. I thought about my family everyday and whether my twins made it. I could never stop thinking about Erin and how much pain she must be going through thinking I'm dead, these people who have kept me for over a year are sick and I'll never know if i'll be able to see my family or friends again. The torture has been making the recurring nightmares and PTSD worse and the only nightmare I have is when I got stabbed through the chest, I still remember Mouse thinking I was dead and just leaving but then I remember some guy grabbing me again and sewing my chest up, I had no idea why they wanted me alive but I have been in this room for over a year now starving, hurting and slowly dying. I'm laid staring into space when I hear the door unlock and open,
"Come on, get up!" A guy said to me
"I can't get up, you broke my leg and I need a doctor" I pleaded
He came down to my level and smiled at me, "Prove me right if your brother isn't a doctor at Chicago Med. I believe his name is Dr Will Halstead?"
"NO, NO YOU LEAVE HIM ALONE!" Jay shouted as the guy walked out and shut the door.
I sat there for the rest of the day think about my brother and what they were going to do.
At Chicago Med
Will walked toward the nurses station when he saw Natalie standing there, "Did I tell you you're looking gorgeous today?"
She kissed and looked up at me, "I don't think you did"
"Well you do..." he was about to carry on talking when Will heard someone shout his name, "Is there a DR Will Halstead here?"
"Yeah that's me, how can I help?" Natalie stood next to while he talked
"Oh it's not me that needs your help, it's your brother"
Will stood and stared at him trying to process what he said, "Is this so kind of sick joke, my brother died last year!"
He looked at Natalie and turned back to see him pointing a gun at him. Will stepped in front of Natalie to protect her, "Ok what do you want?" Will said through all the screams and people running away.
"You're a doctor so we need you. You're coming with us" he ordered
"No way, I don't believe you" Will said as he hit him with the butt of his gun.
The guy saw Will and Natalie holding hands but then Will felt Natalie get pulled away from him, "Let her go!" Will shouted as the guy had his hand around her neck,
"No it's ok she can come with us too, she nice. Come on lets go!" The guy said as he led Will out with a gun to him and Natalie under his arm
Will's POV
They threw me and Nat into the back of a van and I put my arms around her, "Are you ok?"
"Oh god Will, what about our son?" she cried to me
"He's fine and we're gonna be fine okay"
"Oh you don't know that Will. These people are probably animals!" Nat said to me.
We sat in the back of a van for a while until It finally came to a stop. Me and Natalie were pulled out to see a big abandoned warehouse, we had no idea what was going on. That was when we were pushed inside.