"Someone call an ambulance!" Jay Halstead shouted again. The rest of the intelligence team arrived on scene.
Jay Halstead looked in the car. The driver's head was through the windshield, so he knew that he was most likely dead. The passenger was unconscious, his face on the dashboard, as the airbags did not go off. Then there was a girl, who he thought to be about 18 years old, who was conscious but dazed in the backseat, with Erin's arm across her chest working like a seatbelt.
"Erin!" Jay screamed. The members of firehouse 51 arrived on scene in that very moment. Kelly Severide and the rest of rescue squad 3 ran toward the car examining the situation, while Halstead ran toward Severide. "The bastard drove into oncoming traffic and got smashed by an SUV! Then the truck rolled over and ended up on the sidewalk! Erin's in there, Severide!"
"We'll get her out, Jay." Kelly said briefly before putting his men to work. Jay went and stood with the other members of intelligence. They were all in a state of shock and anger, like Jay. After removing the doors of the truck, rescue squad freed Erin Lindsay and handed her off to Gabby Dawson and Sylvie Brett. Jay ran toward the ambulance without hesitation.
"I'm coming with!" he shouted before jumping on the ambulance.
The intelligence team sat in the waiting room to get the prognosis from the doctors. Voight paced around the room, with a look on his face that could scare a grown man to death. Halstead sat on the floor, his head in his hands, feeling absolutely crushed and sick to his stomach. He couldn't believe what was happening, and couldn't help but blame himself. After what felt like years of waiting a doctor came out to talk to the intelligence team.
"Who's here for Erin Lindsay?" the doctor asked, and the intelligence team stood up.
"She's stable and in recovery," the doctor said. Jay felt relief at the sound of those words, along with the rest of the team. "She needed a lot of work. She has a moderate concussion. Her left lung collapsed and we needed to operate. Her right arm is fractured and her shoulder is dislocated but we don't expect any repercussions. However, she lost a great deal of blood, and we lost her for a few seconds in surgery. She's unconscious, it's up to her when she wants to wake up."
The words weren't registering in Jay Halstead's mind. She was going to be okay. But she's unconscious. "When is she going to wake up?" Jay asked bluntly.
"Like I said it's up to her. It could be a few hours, a few days, a week…we don't know." The doctor explained.
"Can we see her?" Voight asked.
"Yes, right this way." The intelligence team followed the doctor down the hall and into the room where Erin was. They walked in to see their friend and coworker lying unconscious. Other than the cuts and bruises, and her arm being in a sling, she looked like herself. They sat in the room in silence for a while, Voight and Ruzek mindlessly watched TV. Antonio and Atwater went to get an update on the living Werner and the girl. Jay found himself pacing around the room, and looking at the clock constantly, waiting for Erin to wake up.
Antonio and Atwater came back into the room. "Alright so Joseph Werner is still in the ICU on life support. Prognosis isn't promising. The girl is 18-year-old Jade Berardi. She's stable. She's got some broken bones, but other than that, she's fine. Doctor said they gave her something to help her sleep and we could talk to her in the morning." Antonio said.
Voight stood up. "Alright then let's call it a night. Everyone go home and get some rest, it's been a long day. We have a lot of work to do tomorrow."
One by one the team started to leave; Voight and Halstead stuck around. They sat on opposite sides of Erin's hospital beds in silence, both of them constantly looking up at Erin seeing if she woke up yet.
"Erin and I went out to dinner last night. We got in an argument about something stupid," Voight said breaking the silence. "I apologized this morning, but I know she was still mad. Seeing her like this…it all seems so pointless now. She's the best thing that ever happened to me." Voight said, squeezing Erin's hand.
Jay had never seen Voight so vulnerable. "She knows that, Sergeant," Jay said, "and she is so appreciative of everything you've ever done for her. You're her family."
Voight nodded and stood up. "I'm gonna head home. You should too, Jay. It's been an exhausting day."
"Yeah. I will. In a minute." Jay said.
Voight left the room and made his way down the hall toward the elevators. Jay leaned over Erin's bed and kissed her cheek.
"I uh…I'm not sure if you can hear me, but I'm gonna assume you can," Jay said holding Erin's hand, "And if you can, you heard everything that I just said to Voight. Apparently the guy has emotions. Who knew?" Jay said with a small laugh, before his tone got serious again. "I'm sorry for everything, Erin. I never should've left you when we were at that party. I'm supposed to be your backup. If I was there none of this would've happened…" Jay trailed off, feeling tears form in his eyes. "I love you, Erin Lindsay. And I know I never said it enough. And I can't wait for you to open your beautiful eyes so I can tell you over and over again."
A nurse appeared in Erin's room. "I'm sorry, detective, but I'm afraid visiting hours are over. You can come back and see her in the morning," she explained.
"Is there…is there anyway you can let me stay? I don't want her to wake up and not have anyone here with her. She's my…" Jay stopped talking, his voice shaking again.
"She's your girlfriend, isn't she?" the nurse said with a smirk, walking toward Jay.
"Yeah she is. No one knows about it though. We aren't ready to tell our coworkers yet. It will make things way too complicated with the sergeant." Jay explained, squeezing Erin's hand.
"Well your secret is safe with me, detective. I'll talk to the doctors and see what I can do." The nurse said.
"My name's Jay by the way. And thank you." Jay said, watching the nurse disappear into the hall. A few minutes later, the nurse reappeared in the room.
"Jay?" the nurse called out. "The doctors said you could stay until she wakes up. Here's a blanket and a pillow for yourself."
"Thank you so much." Jay said as the nurse left the room. He looked up at Erin, "I'm not going anywhere, Erin, I promise. Goodnight. I love you."
Jay kissed Erin's head before relocating to the couch in the room, and tried to get some sleep.
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