The intelligence team had a case and Adam had thrown himself into it. It was easier for him just to focus on work than anything else. He felt like a teenage boy still being upset over Kim but he couldn't shake his love for her. Now that Roman was gone he thought about talking to her. But if she still turned him away. His heart couldn't handle that again.
Adam was helping Mouse trying to track some money being laundered, before he had to go take a statement with Atwater, when Voight walked out of his office and into the bullpen. "Has anyone seen or heard from Burgess? I called her to see if she wanted overtime and to help us out but it keeps going straight to voicemail." Voight asked his team.
"Maybe she went to San Diego with Roman." Halstead joked.
"No. She told him no." Erin said fast.
Wait. What? "He asked her to go with him?" Adam asked shocked. He didn't realize things between them were that serious.
"Yeah but she said no. She isn't that crazy." Lindsay replied.
If Erin thought it was crazy maybe they weren't that serious.
"Want us to swing by her place after we talk with bank manager?" Atwater asked referring to him and Adam. Adam gave Atwater a little nod thanking him for being the one to ask because he knew Adam wanted to check but didn't want to ask.
"Sounds good. Let us know if she isn't there we will put out an APB on her and have Mouse try to track her phone." Voight said.
The team knew that sounded excessive but they also all knew what happened the last time Burgess didn't pick up her phone.
Adam kept fidgeting during the interview. He couldn't pay attention. His mind kept thinking of all the worst-case scenarios that could have happened to her.
She was attacked on the street and they took her phone and left her there injured.
Someone broke into her house and attacked her.
Someone she arrested decided to get revenge on her for arresting them.
She was having an all day rendezvous with someone new she met.
She was in San Diego.
Adam was so thankful once Atwater finally finished talking to the woman. He felt bad that he made Atwater do most of the work but he knew his friend understood.
"I got a funny feeling about her." Atwater said.
"Who? Kim? Why?" Adam asked.
"I meant the bank manager. But if you want we can change the subject to Kim since we are headed to her place." Atwater told his friend.
"No. Its okay. I just hope she is alright." Adam said trying to hide his feelings even though he knew Kevin knew exactly what was going through his mind. Adam was so thankful for Kevin these last few months. Adam felt bad for kind of making Kevin choose his side in this break up but he needed someone.
As they got in the car Adam's phone rang.
"Whatcha got, Mouse?" Adam asked as he answered the phone.
"I did an early track on Kim's phone, just in case." Mouse started. "She really needs to get a better phone plan she is paying way to much for such little data and.."
"Mouse get to the point." Adam barked.
"Oh yeah sorry. The last location I have is on the Michigan Avenue Bridge. But there is something else." Mouse said.
Her last location was a bridge. Well fuck.
"What else is there?" Adam asked.
"Before her phone went off the grid she was trying to call you. But there are actually many times on her log where it looks like she went to call you but backed out." Mouse explained.
"What? How many times?" Adam asked. She wanted to talk to me.
"About 20 over the last few months." Mouse admitted.
"Wow. Okay thanks Mouse. We are headed to her place now. We will call when we know more." Adam told him.
"What he say?" Kevin asked as he drove.
"The Michigan Ave. Bridge was the last place her phone was before it went off the grid and she keeps trying to call me but stops." Adam told his friend.
"She better be at her goddamn house because I cannot make the call to the boat patrol to go looking for her." Kevin said trying not to think about his friend and former partner at the bottom of the river.
Shit. I was so happy about her trying to call me I didn't even think of the location. She couldn't do that.
"Dude, come on, its Kim. She wouldn't do that." Adam said trying to rationalize this all.
"We also didn't think she would sleep with Roman. She is in a bad place, man. Since everything between you two ended. I don't know what she would or wouldn't do at this point." Kevin explained to his friend.
The two sat in silence until they made it to Kim's apartment.
The walked up the stairs and Kevin knocked loudly and said, "Kim, its me. Are you home?"
No answer.
He banged again. "Kim!"
No answer.
"Is the door open?" Adam asked.
Kevin turned the knob and the door opened. The two pulled their weapons and entered Kim's apartment. Kevin made his way to check the kitchen while Adam made his way through the living room to where Kim's bathroom and bedroom were.
He opened the bathroom door and could hear the shower on.
"Kim?" He asked loudly.
The curtain moved and he saw Kim peak her head out from behind the curtain. She was startled seeing Adam in her bathroom with his gun pointed at her in the shower that she screamed and fell back. She tried to regain her balance and fell forward getting herself wrapped up in the shower curtain before she fell out and onto the bathroom floor.
"Shit." Adam said as he holstered his gun and made his way to see if she was okay.
Kevin heard the commotion and came running to the bathroom with his gun still out. He walked into the bathroom and pointed his gun at Adam and Kim as she was on the floor wrapped in a shower curtain with Adam leaning down trying to ask her if she was okay. Kim screamed again when she saw Kevin and he immediately holstered his weapon.
"Kim are you okay? Are you hurt anywhere?" Adam asked trying to assess her.
"What the fuck are you two doing here?! Why did you have your guns out?! And stop touching me! I think I'm okay!" Kim yelled at the two of them.
"We were worried." Adam said trying to help Kim sit up while keeping her covered.
"Why didn't you call?" Kim asked.
"We did. It didn't work. And the last place your phone pinged was on the Michigan Ave. Bridge." Kevin explained.
"Oh… Shit." Kim said as it looked like she was trying to remember something. "That would explain why I couldn't find my phone today." Was all Kim said.
"What do you mean?" Adam asked.
"Its not important." Kim said sharply. "Can the two of you get out of here so I can change I'll be out in a minute to discuss all the reasons you don't point a gun at someone in their own shower."
Adam and Kevin went and sat on Kim's sofa. The felt like they were going to get yelled at by their parents. And all Adam could think about was how close he was again to a practically naked Kim.
Kim finally emerged in sweats and a tank top with her hair still wet. Adam took in how beautiful she looked before she yelled at them.
"Now someone explain to me what the two of you were thinking." Kim demanded as she held her arm limply.
"We are sorry. We assumed the worse. You can't blame us for being worried about you when no one had heard from you, over the river was the last place your phone was, and you didn't answer your door." Kevin explained.
"I don't hear from any of you anymore and you don't see me busting down your door." Kim started. She tried to move her arm as she talked but Adam could tell it hurt her too much to do so. "Second of all my phone, well, I don't have to explain that to you." Kim shouted. She tried to move her arm again and Adam saw her wince in pain.
"Kim, we should take you to Chicago Med. I think your arm is broken." Adam said calmly.
"It will be fine probably just a bruise." Kim said. Even though she was in pain she didn't want to be put on desk duty.
"Just humor me. Let me take you. If its not broken you have full rights to tell me 'I told you so.'"
"Fine." Kim huffed. Adam knew how much she hated being wrong.
"You take her. I'm gonna head back to the district to give the team an update." Kevin said.
"What? No. I'm actually okay. I don't need to go." Kim said. Adam could tell she didn't want to be alone with him.
"I promise I won't bite you." Adam joked trying to lighten the mood. He was hoping this would give them the time he needed to ask her some questions. Right now he was especially curious about where her phone was.
"They said they would see you in a few minutes." Adam told Kim as he sat next to her in the waiting from of Chicago Med's ED.
"We really don't have to go through all this trouble I am sure its just a bruise." Kim complained again.
"Well we are here now so much wait." Adam snapped.
"Fine. I don't know why you care anyway." Kim retorted.
"Seriously? You don't know why I care? I never kept my feelings for you a secret." Adam retaliated, raising his voice.
"Yeah, But."
"Kim Burgess" A nurse called.
Kim was thankful to be called. She didn't know what she was actually going to say next. Adam stood up with Kim and she gave him a look.
"Oh you better believe I am coming with you this conversation isn't over." Adam told her.
Great.
Adam's mind was going a mile a minute as the nurse took Kim's vitals. Did she really not know how I felt? I thought I made myself clear that I loved her. He thought about everything that had happened between the two of them. When the nurse finally left the room he asked, " Kim, did you really not know how I felt about you?"
Kim took in a deep breath.
"Well things became unclear towards the end." Kim explained.
"What do you mean?"
Before Kim could answer Dr. Will Halstead entered the room.
"Kim what are you doing here? Did something happen last night? I told you I would call you a cab but you just stormed out." Will said before even saying hello.
"What? No. I fell today. It's a story that might be funny eventually but I'm really pissed about it now." Kim explained.
"What happened?" Will asked. Adam just sat there so confused.
"Today? I fell and landed on my arm. I think it's just a bruise but was told I had to come get it checked out." Kim replied.
"And last night?" Adam asked. He sensed something had happened, still remembering that she had tried to call him.
"Nothing happened last night." Kim snapped.
"Are you sure? You were really drunk when you left Molly's." Will added.
"Yes! Stop this now or I am walking out of here." Kim yelled.
"Alright. I will get a nurse to take you to radiology as soon as possible for an x-ray." Will said before leaving the room.
Adam and Kim sat there in the room quiet for a minute before Adam said softly, "Kim. What did happen last night? I know you tried to call me."
"Yesterday two years ago was the day you showed up at my door." Kim started. "I thought about how happy I was and how happy we were and how I would give anything to get back what we had. So I went to Molly's and got really drunk to make myself feel better with Will and Sylvie. I left and walked for a bit and wanted to call you to see if you remembered or wanted to talk. I actually want to call and talk to you all the time. It kills me. But anyway, so I went to call and then hung up and thought about how pathetic I was. And drunk me thought that if I got rid of my phone I wouldn't have your number and want to call you so I threw it in the river." Kim confessed.
Adam didn't say anything. He just sat and thought about everything she had just told him. Before he could even think about what he wanted to say a nurse took Kim up to get her x-ray.
"I was surprised to see you with her." Will said stepping into the room where Adam sat.
"Why?"
"She spent the whole night last night talking about how she ruined everything with you because of things Roman said to her, and how she had made so many mistakes with that you would never forgive her for. When I saw her name on the chart I thought she may have done something dangerous last night." Will admitted.
Before Adam could respond Kim walked in and said, "Good, Will you are here. Read my x-ray, tell me I am fine, and send me home."
"I'll take a look." Will said leaving the room.
An hour later Kim was discharged with a cast on her arm for the next 4 weeks. Her and Adam didn't say much more to each other in the exam room. Adam was still trying to put all the information together about what he wanted to say to her. And Kim felt like an idiot and didn't want to bring anything up for fear that Adam didn't feel the same way as her.
"Want to get some lunch?" Adam asked Kim as they walked to his car. "I'm sure you are starving after all of this."
"You can just take me home I can make something there. Don't you have to get back to work?" Kim asked.
"Voight said I could take my time getting back." Adam admitted.
"Oh. Well, You can still just take me home. I'm sure this is weird for you." Kim said.
"What's weird is that we are so distant from each other right now. Kim you were the best thing I had in my life and then all of a sudden you were gone. And then all that other stuff happened that I don't want to really think about anymore." Adam confessed. "I don't know what I did or what was said to you by others about us but Kim losing you was the worst thing to ever happen to me. And for some crazy reason even after everything that happened I would do anything to have you back in my life."
Kim just looked at him as they stood next to his car in the middle of the Chicago Med parking lot. And then she just started crying. Adam pulled her into his chest. "I'm so sorry. I was such an idiot." Kim said in between her sobs.
"Shh. Its okay Darlin'." Adam said as he held her and stroked her hair.
After a few minutes Kim controlled herself and looked up at Adam, "You really think we could get passed everything and be together again?"
"It won't be easy but I think with some work we can do it." Adam told her.
"Where do we start?" Kim asked.
"Lets start by getting you home and then we can work everything else out." Adam told her before kissing her on top of the forehead.
"Can we make a stop on the way?" Kim asked.
"Sure what for?" Adam asked.
"I kinda need a new cellphone." Kim said trying not to sound pathetic about what she did.
Adam chuckled. "Yes we can. And while we are there Mouse said you need a new data plan."
"How does Mouse know about my data plan?" Kim asked.
"It's a long story I will explain later." Adam said as he opened the car door for Kim to get in.
As he walked around to the drivers side of the car he chuckled about where this day had gone, and about how thankful he was that Kim was not in San Diego.
A/N: I had the idea for this story but struggled in which way I wanted to take it. Please let me know what you think.
