Nope this is not happening. Nope. No. Nope. No. No.
This was going through Adam's head to keep himself together while the rest of the team asked questions.
"What was she doing here?"
"Is she okay?"
"What are her injuries?"
"Did she have her gun?"
"What hospital did they take her to?"
"Who could have done this?"
"Why did they take Zoe?"
Adam was thankful everyone was asking the questions he had because his brain was not at that level yet. It just kept going. Nope. No. No. Because they idea of Kim being critically injured was too much for him to take in right now.
Finally Atwater made a statement. "Burgess said she was staying with her sister 'cause her husband was out of town and she needed help taking care of Zoe while she was sick."
"Okay. Let's work with that." Voight finally said. He didn't have many answers to their questions just that she was taken to a local hospital in critical condition. He wished they could have taken her to Chicago Med where he knew all the doctors and could get updates easily but the paramedics said there was not enough time to do that in their conditions.
"Has anyone called to notify him?" Halstead asked.
"Not sure. I'll go check with the responding officers." Olinksy said moving away from the group. He needed a moment to take this all in without the eyes of the unit on him. As much as he was hard on Burgess as his partner he had a soft spot of her. Which is one of the reasons he didn't want her up here. He was going to do whatever it took to find her niece and whoever did this to her.
"Ruzek, you know the family. Any idea who would have done this? " Rixton asked. He figured everyone else was thinking it but he didn't owe Adam anything right now so he would be the one to ask.
Adam was afraid of this. He didn't want to go spilling Burgess family secrets if it wasn't the case but they were going to have to run this down just in case.
"Zoe's father." Adam said quietly.
"What? Mark wouldn't do this? And he is traveling, remember?" Atwater snapped immediately.
"No her biologically father." Adam corrected. He really didn't want to tell this story. Kim had told him it before they were engaged after they had dinner with Mark and Maddie one night. Mark had mentioned something about the adoption so Kim explained everything when they were back at his place. Adam could see how much it had affected her emotionally even though she tried to hide it. Adam knew now he would have to tell them all. But he could leave some stuff out.
Everyone was looking at him waiting for the rest of the story.
Adam let out a deep sigh and then began, "This isn't a story the Burgess family shares. When Maddie was fourteen and a high school freshman a senior showed interest in her. One night at a party he got her really drunk and told her he loved her to get her to have sex with him. She really didn't remember much about it because of how much alcohol was in her system. But the next Monday at school the prick acted like he didn't know her. He completely ignored her. She was devastated. Then two months later when she hadn't had her period in a while she found out she was pregnant. Her father was furious and when he found out the guy was 18 he had him arrested for statutory rape."
Adam decided to leave out the part that Kim, her mother, and sister were against this idea and the fighting over it led to the divorce of Kim's parents and the reason she hasn't seen her dad in over 5 years.
"It went to trial and he was eventually convicted when the DNA test from Zoe came back showing he was her father. Kim said her and her sister really didn't follow it much after that. He was supposed to do three years. They never mentioned anything about him making contact when he was out of prison."
After Adam finished the whole team was silent for a minute. None of them, not even Atwater had any idea about this.
"Do you know his name?" Voight asked.
"Kim never said." Adam replied.
"Did it happen in Chicago?"
"No. New York. Maddie and Zoe moved here when Maddie married Mark six years ago. Kim applied for CPD instead of NYPD so she could move closer to her sister and Zoe." Adam told them all.
"Maybe we can call Benson and see if she can find anything for us." Lindsay said.
"Make the call." Voight said as Olinksy rejoined them.
"So Maddie was semi-conscious when the patrol officers responded after getting a call about gunshots from a neighbor. Apparently she said, 'He took her' to them." Olinksy informed them all.
"Well that seems to go with some information we have." Voight replied. "Lets run with this and see where its gets us. If there were gunshots let's hope Burgess got a piece of him. Hopefully it will slow him down."
Lindsay rejoined the group and said, "Sergeant Benson said she would look into it and let us know if anything turns up."
"Okay this is how this will go" Voight started, "Olinksy and Rixton inside the house with forensics, Linsday and Halstead start talking to neighbors, and Ruzek and Atwater I want you both at the hospital to get any information when they wake up. And to give us all a medical update on them."
Adam was thankful for his assignment. He needed to see Kim. He needed to make sure she was okay.
As the team split up with their assignments Voight approached Adam.
"You okay with this? I figured a friendly face for the two of them would be better." Voight explained. Voight didn't normally explain his reasoning for assignment.
"Yeah. Thank, sarge. We will give you and update when we get there." Adam responded. Voight gave him a pat on the back and headed towards Atwater's car. That was probably the most emotion he was going to get from Voight that wasn't anger. Adam would take it for now.
"You okay, man?" Atwater asked in the car on the way to the hospital.
"I'll be better once I see her." Adam replied. His leg was jumping again with impatience. He just wanted to be there already. He needed to lay eyes on her and make sure she was okay. What he really wanted to do was hold her and never let her go ever again but for now he would be happy with just seeing her.
"Have you talked to her since you have been back?" Atwater asked. He knew Adam would be hurt by Kim being injured but this seemed like there was more going on.
"Yeah I have been staying with her." Adam admitted. "We were trying to work things out and then she just disappeared."
"Shit. Why didn't you say anything?" Kevin asked.
"I didn't want to jinx anything. We were talking, and arguing a bit. It was hard rehashing everything." It felt good for Adam to get this all out.
"I understand." Kevin said as he kept his eyes on the road.
"She better be okay." Adam let out.
"She will be. She may be tiny but she could probably win a fight against anyone in Intelligence. Except for me because I would just sit on her and squish her." Kevin joked trying to make light of the situation. But he was nervous for Kim too. Critically injured was not a good term.
"She had to have known something was up. Why else would she be out here with her sister? I bet she was here thinking she could protect Zoe and Maddie by herself." Adam said aloud to Kevin. It was something he was working out in his head during the car ride.
"If she did think something was up I'm sure she would have told one of us. We would have had her back." Kevin said hoping it was true. He could have told her. He would have sat on the house every night if she needed. The whole team would. Even though she was only recently in Intelligence full time she had always been apart of the team and they all would do anything to protect her.
"Then she would have had to tell everyone the story. You don't understand. They really don't talk about it. I'm sure if it didn't accidently come up in conversation one night at dinner with Mark and Maddie, Kim probably would have never told me." Adam explained to Kevin. He wished it wasn't true. He wished Kim would be okay telling him everything. If she did they probably wouldn't have broken up in the first place. But he also didn't tell her about Nicole. They both weren't completely truthful with each other. It was something they would have to work on. It was something he hoped they would work on. Kim just had to pull through this.
Kevin could see Adam lost in his own head now so he didn't' answer him. He let him just sit and get prepared for what they were going to walk into. Because of them had any idea what would be waiting for them in the ER.
Kevin pulled his car into the parking lot and parked the car. The two of them got out and walked to the hospital as Adam rubbed his hands together to keep them warm on the short walk. He stood in front of the doors. Kevin opened the door and walked in to the ER. Adam took a deep breath and then followed him in.
A/N: So that crossover, huh? Great stuff. My only issues was the first 5 minutes were a repeat of Fire. We coulda had some Burzek in there.
Fun Fact: For those who follow Marina on Twitter we learn Kim's sister is actually gonna be on the show and her name is Nicole. I had actually named Kim's sister Nicole in another story and was going to use it for this story but remembered it was one of Adam's fiancé's names so I changed it. Weird coincidence. (Also hoping they didn't name her Nicole on purpose and it was just a happy accident they have the same name.)
Anyway! Hope you guys are enjoying the story. Thanks so far for all the follows, favorites, and reviews! I love hearing what you all think!