Liam took his hand off her face and stopped kissing her, "Tell me why you're here Erin."
Erin shook her head, "Why do you always ruin a good thing?"
Liam chuckled, "You're faking it."
Erin took a step away from him, "What are you talking about?"
Liam leaned against the wall of the bathroom, "You're faking this, the kissing, caring about me, everything. Tell me why you're here."
"You came over my place for three weeks and not once did I ask you why you were there."
"Because I never played with you. I was always straight with you, Erin. I didn't act like I was a wounded puppy looking for someone to take care of me. That's what you're doing right now, Erin."
Erin shook her head, "I am not acting like a wounded puppy, I am actually hurting."
"What could possibly hurt you that big-bad-Voight couldn't take care of?"
"You."
Liam paused, "What does that mean?"
"Why did you come to the station saying you would turn me in? You did shit too, Liam."
"I did my time, at least Voight's version of time. I left Chicago for years then I come back and I see you, hurt, helpless. I was hurting for you, Erin. I loved you and you turned your back on me when times got tough."
"That wasn't what I did and you know it. Voight took me out. He said I had a choice and I knew you were going to run away sometime. He gave me a family, people who care about me." When Erin said that all she could see in her mind was Jay. She loved Jay more than she loved anyone, including Liam. She didn't know what she felt. Why couldn't she just make up her goddamn mind?
"You shouldn't have come here, Erin. Whatever is going on you can figure it out with Voight." Liam shook his head.
"Voight kicked me out! He kicked me out of the unit, he kicked me out of my own damn apartment okay?! He said he never wanted to see me again until it was in a body bag! Happy? Now you know." Erin didn't mind lying to Liam one bit.
Liam shook his head and walked closer to Erin, "Er, I am so sorry."
Erin hadn't been called that in years. Erin was a pretty short name and Liam was the only one who ever made it shorter.
"I don't need your pity." Erin walked out of the bathroom and into Liam's room and started gathering her bag up.
"You don't have to leave." Liam said as he followed her into his room.
"I cant stay here."
"Where are you gonna go?" Liam questioned her.
"The streets."
"You'll die."
"I loved you!" Erin yelled as she felt tears fall from her eyes. "I loved you so much and I knew you were going to leave me. That's why I left. I left with Voight."
"You were always going to choose him over me, always, Erin."
Erin grabbed her bag and walked out his room as quickly as she could. She was going home, she couldn't do this, Voight was right.
"Erin, stay!" Liam yelled as she opened the door.
"I can't! And to be honest I really don't want to." She closed the door behind her and ran down the stairs. She dug through her bag to find her phone. She called the first person she knew would be able to help. They agreed to pick her up in 5 minutes, since that was as fast as they could get there. Erin walked five blocks away from where Liam lived, it was where Voight dropped her off. The grey car pulled up and she knew it was Jay. She got in the passenger side; she couldn't have been happier to see him.
"You lasted one hour, what happened Erin?"
"He…" Erin could tell the truth. That they had a moment…or two and she left because it was too much for her, or she could lie.
"He what Erin? Did he hurt you because I swear if he even touched-"
"Jay, we kissed okay. We kissed and it brought back the past. I left because I don't want to live in the past. I want a future, a future without him. I just need you to drive me home."
Jay shook his head, "He knows where you live. Voight told me he was going over your house during the weeks we had off. What was he doing there?"
Erin shrugged, "We would just hang out and talk."
"And you go over his house for one hour and you hook up with him?"
"We didn't really hook up."
"That's where it was going though, right?"
Erin shook her head, "I meant what I said to you before I left."
"What? That you love me? That's getting harder and harder to believe."
Erin looked out the window, "Where are we going? I told you to take me home."
Jay nodded, "And I told you that I know that he knows where you live. We are going to my place."
"I do love you Jay."
"Sure." Jay seemed pretty fed up with everything that was going on around him.
"Jay, if I lost you I don't know what I would do."
"You don't get it Erin!" Jay yelled. "You don't tell someone you love them then go undercover to kiss another guy, who you have a pretty intense past with, and then call the guy you claim to "love" to pick you up! Love doesn't work like that, and if you think it does then you're just as fucked up as Liam is."
Erin nodded her head, "You're right Jay. Love doesn't work like that. But, now that I've told you how I felt what's stopping you from loving me? You were the one who was so ready for this and now what? You just don't want to give this a go anymore?"
"I am not giving this "a go" because you are not ready for anything serious. Once things get serious, you run away, and you know it. It's pretty pathetic actually, Erin."
"I'm pathetic?" She questioned him.
"That isn't what I meant."
"Stop the car Jay!"
"Erin, no."
"I said stop the damn car!" Erin was ready to run. Run away from all of this, like Jay had predicted.
