"Jay." Erin was so tired she could barely say his name.
"Erin, we are going to get out of here alive." He tried to reassure her.
"I don't know if we are. He can only do so much for us." Erin was fighting a war with her eyes and she was losing this battle.
"Erin, stay awake." Jay's voice sounded distant since she was falling asleep.
"I just need some sleep…" And with that she drifted off.
She woke up what felt like two minutes later. Jay was still across from her, but it looked like he fell asleep too.
"Jay." She whispered. "Jay." She continued to get louder and louder until she was yelling his name. She heard the door open behind her and she turned her head as much as she could. Now that she had slept a little, Erin felt more alert and ready for anything that could happen.
A man with ashy blonde hair walked through the door and didn't say anything to her.
"You must be Jace." Erin said as soon as Jace stood across from her, blocking her view of Jay.
"You can call his name all you want, he isn't waking up."
Erin went into panic mode, "Did you kill him? I swear to God-" She was going to attack him, but she couldn't reveal that she was untied from her restraints. She needed to wait for the right time.
"He isn't dead, just sedated. I needed to talk to you, alone, and I figured you needed your sleep."
"Wow, how chivalric of you." The sarcasm in Erin's voice was thick.
"Do you know what I want from you?" Jace asked her, as if it was some sort of trick question.
"No of course I don't. I don't even know who you are." Erin was still kind of waking up from her short-lived slumber.
"You know Liam, obviously. Why did you leave his house tonight?"
"None of your damn business."
"I saw you get out of one guys car, to go into another guys apartment, to get into another guys car. Do you see how that looks to me?"
Erin laughed a little, "You think I'm some kind of whore?"
Jace shook his head, "No of course not, but you aren't the innocent girl we think you are."
All of the sudden Jay was up and had Jace in a head lock and was cutting off his oxygen supply. Jay brought him down to the floor and punched him three times; he was knocked out for sure. Erin un-holstered the gun that Jace had on him.
"Jay." Erin held him up, he seemed a little drowsy still.
"Erin, I told you I was going to protect you." Jay smiled.
Erin had the biggest urge to kiss him, but she knew she couldn't and shouldn't.
"We have to figure out the best way out of here." Jay muttered.
Erin nodded her head, "But we have leverage." Erin pointed to a knocked out Jace.
Jay smiled at her, "Let's show them how to tie someone up."
The boys were at Antonio's house in his kitchen talking about to go about this.
"We could wait until the morning-" Ruzek started.
"We are not waiting." Voight made the executive choice, of course.
"Okay, so we go tonight, but we have no idea how many guys are there. We don't have any gear to work with, this is all so sudden and unplanned." Antonio thought they should wait until the morning, which was only about two hours away since it was six in the morning.
"So we wait two hours?" Voight questioned.
"We can get to the station as soon as possible, report them missing, then we can do what we do best. We make a plan, we grab some blue prints and we figure out what way is the best way in. We are not losing either of them." Antonio was the only one in the group, besides Erin, that could calm him down.
"Alright, we do not bring back up into this, do you get me?" Voight looked around the table.
"Yes, we understand." Ruzek was the only one to give verbal confirmation.
Voight couldn't help but smile, "What about Erin's story?"
Antonio laughed, "Most ridiculous thing ever. Like you would ever say that to her. You would kill yourself before you would ever let her die."
Voight nodded his head, "I need to get her back, boys."
The all nodded, "We will get her." Olinksy reassured Voight.
"I shouldn't have let her gone. She wasn't in her right mind, I told her that she shouldn't go and she turned it around on me. She got talking about Halstead and that was more important to fight about."
"Why do you try to fight that?" Antonio questioned, "I know you don't like inner office romances, but they clearly care about each other and something is going to happen if you like it or not. You should just let them be open about it, because if they try to keep it a secret then it'll have an awful outcome."
Voight nodded his head. Everything Antonio was saying made a lot of sense, but he wasn't going to say that he as wrong, he wasn't, was he? "I just think that if they meet other people they will lose interest in each other."
"It doesn't work like that." Ruzek spoke up. "The more you try to keep them away the more the passion and tension builds up."
"The fireman takes care of that." Voight replied back.
"You think she will settle down with him? He doesn't know a thing about her and from what Gabby has told me, he honestly isn't worth her time." Antonio didn't try to defend Severide.
"What do you mean 'he isn't worth her time'?" Voight needed to know.
"He is a player and he isn't looking to settle down anytime soon. He loves to get around with other girls, and if you think that with Erin it will be different, you're wrong."
Voight nodded his head but didn't respond to Antonio. Voight didn't agree with them, he thought Severide did understand Erin, and Voight trusted him, but he also trusted Halstead, but Jay is a great cop, but Voight will always choose Erin over anyone else in this until, always.