Charlie wouldn't answer Adam's calls. No way. And with all his understanding, with all simplicity which their sudden so called friendship carried, he couldn't arrange his thoughts in proper order and leave his attempts without an explanation. He couldn't bear another time when people leave whenever they want.
Unfortunately, he started to question everything he did lately. Each and every move he made towards people he liked at some point, each word he said — all of this had been causing doubts in his head. He was still blaming himself for everything that happened with Kim.
By the time Adam lost hope to contact Charlie and decided to leave it that way, standing in his kitchen, he reached for a glass of water, but just a moment after that heard the vibration of his phone on the counter.
"Kev." He answered the call shortly, not expecting to discover what he did the next second.
"Man, head out. Al called, said one of our patrols shot a civilian."
That was an awful thing to hear, but Adam knew it was something more than what his partner had just delivered.
"One of patrols? Who?"
"I don't know for sure. Couldn't get more. You know this old cop…" Atwater's voice sounded pretty nervous.
"Kev, you think it's Kim?"
"This is what I caught. Honestly, I don't know, bud. Let's roll."

Adam's heart was ready to jump out of his chest through this throat any second. The closer they were getting to the scene and the more he managed to saw, the more he was getting frightened.
When they arrived, he finally knew what had happened — Sean was already taken to Chicago Med and Kim was standing there by Olinsky, Voight and Lindsay with bloodied collar and a shocked look on her face, trying to report on situation.
"You okay?" Adam took a few steps towards Kim, peering into her shifty eyes. He afraid if he came a little closer, he would never be able to release her from his arms. He wanted to touch her so badly, to make sure she was okay, but everything she did was dodging and looking for any detail about Roman's condition.
"Yes. How's Sean?"
He looked away painfully. There was nothing he could do to make her notice it, there was nothing that could turn back time. They became actual strangers to each other at the snap of a finger, which Kim herself was so terrified of the whole time they had been dating. Adam was now sadly recalled that conversation back in the days: we are not breaking up. Sounded so nonsense to him, so surreal, but today it was a constant reminder that nothing ever lasted forever. He could even laugh at this statement, feeling the irony, but that wasn't amusing in any kind of way. At some point the whole we're strangers thing was fair, considering Adam's behavior with Roman and their rough break up, not to mention the timing was awful in general to expect something more welcoming than he got from her. He had to swallow all this.
Adam stepped aside and joined the rest of the crew to find out what they had already discovered.

Place a young black man, add the lack of a gun and season with police racism and you will see a city exploding with hatred. Like it had happened in Chicago this time when Kim Burgess shot in fact innocent guy, who was just walking by from one block to another after a break up with his girlfriend. What a shame for a white female cop.
Except for that Kim knew she caught the right guy. She just hadn't got enough evidence to prove it. Basically, everything pointed to her carelessness and incompetence. In the eyes of society she appeared as another cop shooting black man for no reason. As well as it was good for the press to have another burning topic on the agenda.
For Kim it became the living hell, the worst nightmare. Barely three years ago she used her weapon in action for the first time and worried about it a lot. Now she was all over the news, accusing of attack on the unarmed civilian and suspended from duty. Not a career twist she expected.
On the other hand, she felt a tiny piece of light inside her the moment Adam Ruzek, the man she had been trying to avoid, just sat there in the locker room in front of her and gave her the best comfort she could imagine. She almost forgot how this man always made her feel better about herself, more confident and protected. Even after they broke up, she felt like she wasn't alone, because Adam would never let this happen in a lifetime.
By the time she nodded on his statement, that he got her back and he deeply cared about her, she barely remembered about her developing relationships with Roman. She was dying to know he was okay, but the fact that they were dating just slipped out of her head.
Much less she thought about it when Peter Stone, her attorney, showed her those shots from the security camera, where she and Sean were kissing. In no way she would believe that this kind of stuff could be used against her, but now that was almost the main problem in her line of defense.
Nothing seemed to her as much horrible as her court interrogation. She was so nervous and felt so much pressure, she could even hear her own voice shaking every time she started speaking. Although she attempted to remain calmness and made sure she answered everything as appropriate as possible, the worst were about to happen and she didn't even know the nature of this disaster. Not until state prosecutor asked her one simple question:
"How long you and your partner, Sean Roman, have been in a sexual relationship?"
Kim's blood froze in her veins, the fear squeezed her chest. She glanced at Adam immediately, trying to act cool, but the pained and vulnerable look on Adam's face made her feel like a complete shit in that very moment. For a second everything just went blurred and unimportant to her: the case, people in the courtroom, tensed Peter Stone, who was trying to set an eye contact with her to make sure she would not mess this one up. But at that moment she only cared about how unfair and painful that was to the man she once loved and wanted to spend the rest of her life with, the man who was still showing his concern after all. The way he found out about this was wrong, Kim realized she made a mistake, when she didn't tell him about Roman that time in the locker room or anytime in the past few weeks. Now she regretted she hadn't even spoken to him, it wasn't a mature decision, and Adam didn't deserve this.
She swallowed a lump in her throat and finally found the voice.
"Officer Roman and I had just began to see each other." Kim answered lifting her chin. Strictly and straight up. She couldn't fix everything at once, at some point she thought it was no longer necessary, and all she could do right now was defending herself and her partner. At the end of the day, her work was the only thing she had in life, and she just couldn't let someone throw it in the trash by insinuating something about her affairs.

Adam hadn't found enough strength and self-control to sit through the whole interrogation, he lowered his head when Kim continued to speak, and a few minutes after he just jumped from his seat and left the premises. The first thing he wanted to do was to punch something nearby, but luckily restrained himself and prevented troubles he might have got. That wasn't reasonable, he knew he should stay calm, the rage wouldn't help, it only would make things worse, so he had just started pacing from one corner to another in the lobby, attracting all the passing-by eyes.
Not a long time passed when Atwater appeared in the hall and came up to Adam, who was now sitting on the bench, trying to organize everything he happened to hear. Though he was still pretty tempered, he didn't leave the courthouse, but he didn't really know why.
"Man, you okay?" Kevin asked carefully, placing himself next to his friend.
The only thing he had got was Adam's long sigh. After a pause Adam began to talk, not lifting his head.
"I feel like a train has run over me, and Kim was sitting there all the time, while fucking Roman was throwing the wood for keeping the full speed. Is it an accurate description? Because I can't find any other words to tell you how okay I am right now." Adam threw his hands in the air and leaned back on the bench.
Now It was Kevin's turn to give out a sigh.
"I'm sorry. It sucks. If it's any help, I knew nothing as well."
Adam smiled nervously and raised his eyebrows. The messiest thing was no one could make any difference, but Kim herself. On the other hand, he wasn't sure he had the right to demand anything from her, because she was a free woman who could do whatever she wanted, Adam only wished it didn't hurt so much. Not to mention, he kind of threw her into Roman's arms by himself. Maybe he was a little mad at her, that she kept avoiding him and then just moved on like nothing ever happened between them. Though this situation always confused him, eventually he made peace with it. But now everything became real. The break up was real, Kim caressing Roman's cheek in the patrol car was real, their kiss was damn real, too. Adam was somewhat hoping someday he would wake up from this nightmare and find Kim lying next to him, however the more he was running away from reality, the more it was crawling under his skin until filled his whole that he couldn't even catch a breath. He even began to suspect, that everything was planned. The anger and jealousy eclipsed his eyes and distorted his perception completely, he really started to think Kim had been lying to him and seeking for the dumbest excuse to leave his side.
He place his head in his hands and after a few seconds stood up abruptly.
"It doesn't matter, Kev. Not anymore, okay? I'll be fine. Look at me. I almost got there." Adam winked in a fake manner. "I hope she will be justified. I know she will be, we all know what this little prick did." He placed his hand on Kevin's shoulder to assure his friend he didn't have to worry about him. "Go there, I think she needs a friend. I'll head to the district, have some stuff to finish."
When Ruzek finally left the building, Atwater caught Burgess in the middle of the lobby, when Stone and the rest of their team were coming down.
"Hey, girl. You did great. Everything went fine."
"I don't know anything, Kev. It was horrible. I feel like I can't handle this anymore." Kim removed a strand of her hair behind her ear with a shaking hand, and once Atwater noticed this, he grabbed her hands and made her look at him, convincing everything would be alright.
"You can do this. Burgess, come on, you can do anything. I know who you are and what an A-class police you are. Besides, Stone is a hell of a lawyer, he managed to lock Voight up, do you think it's a big deal for him to bring this kid to clean water? Come on." This was the best cheering speech Kevin could deliver at the moment, and Kim appreciated every word he said, but she suddenly looked over the lobby, searching for the only man she could think of.
"I'm not a really great person though..." After a short pause she continued. "Have you seen him?" She lowered her voice, when someone from the gang passed by. She didn't want anyone to hear she was talking about Ruzek, since she was not supposed to. Irrelevant to the current situation.
"Yes." Kevin didn't want to develop this conversation as well, so he answered poorly.
"I bet he cursed me in every possible way. I know it's the last thing I need to think about right now. I know I have so much on my plate... I just can't, ugh, cope with that look on his face." Kim groaned and rolled her eyes stressfully.
"You know, you're both my best friends. But it's none of my business frankly. I think you two should talk. I always thought this way, but, again, no pressure. It's your life, guys."
Kim only nodded, she understood everything her friend tried to say to her, but she couldn't think of anything that would make the whole situation with Adam better right now. One way or another he was in the past, and maybe it was all wrong and she would regret every minute of them being apart, but now she was with Sean, who was still remaining in the hospital and fighting for his life. At last, she wasn't even sure whether Adam wanted to be with her in the first place, or was it just his pained male ego.
"Thank you." She practically whispered and then Voight came to them to say it was time to go.
"Are you ready?"
"Yes, sir." Kim brushed off every needless thought, straightened, then walked out of the courthouse and headed to their car through a load of journalists and a crowd of people with insulting posters, who kept attacking her, until the whole team drove away.