Chapter 3: Everlee Courtney
"Where's Lex and Niko?" Everlee demanded, nostrils flaring with her anger.
"They're both fin," Erin assured her.
Everlee glared at the older woman. "I didnt ask if they were ok, i asked where they are."
"They're in another room," Erin told her, getting irritated with her younger sister's attitude. "Look, i told understand why you're so damn mad at me, but-"
"You dont understand?!" The younger girl laughed, humorlessly. "You left us! Who do you think had to come up with the money when you left? Who do you think had to get moms dope? When she brought home random guys and passed out before they could do anything, who's FUCKING room do you think they came to?!" The girl screamed, standing up and kicking her chair across the room then turning back to the brunette. "I was only 8, Erin!"
Erin had tears in her eyes. It had never got that bad for her, but here her younger sister was, a 19 year old angry, bitter, disaster of a mess. "Everlee.. I-I-"
The blonde now sat in a corner, knees pulled to her chest. "I want you to leave. Send someone else. Anyone." She stopped then, looking up and pointing at her sister. "Anyone but Voight. If theres anyone i'm more angry at than you, its him."
Erin then left the room, tears streaming down her face. She looked up to see Voight and Jay waiting for her.
"Are you alright?" her father figure asked.
"I left her. I left her when she needed protection. She's been completely destroyed and its all my fault."
"No, Erin, you were getting yourself out of a bad situation."
"But i should've brought Teddy and Everlee with me."
Hank let out a big breath. "Halstead, you go finish interrogating our girl."
Halstead nodded, glancing at Erin before walking into the room, grabbing the chair on its side next to the door and putting it back at the table. "Everlee, you wanna come sit down with me?"
The girl looked up at that, eyebrows raising when she saw who was speaking. "To get a closer look at you, sure."
Jay chuckled a little. "Your boyfriend is literally right down the hall."
"Really?" she smiled, the tightening in her chest that had been there since leaving her boyfriend in the ring finally loosened a little. "And its not like i'm touching you, i'm just looking at your. My heart is taken, doesnt mean my eyes cant look," her smile grew, she now resembled the Cheshire cat.
Jay suddenly got serious. "WHo were you selling for, Everlee?" The girl looked down at her hands, playing with the promise ring on her finger. "Come on. You don't wanna go down for this. Just give me a name."
"Do you not know drug dealers at all? I give you a name, i'm as good as dead." She really wanted to do it. She didnt wanna go down for this shit. Her head was telling her to just once do the right thing and give them a name, but her gut was telling her that it was a very bad idea, and most the time, she listened to her gut.
"We wont let him hurt you."
"What are you guys gonna do? Follow me around like bodyguards, rifles at the ready?"
Jay sat forward. "We will NOT let him hurt you. And your record is clean and it can stay clean. Just give me something."
Everlee let out a huge breath, putting her hands out flat on the table and staring at them. "He's called Apollo. One of the biggest drug dealers in the state. I'm his runner alot of times. The middle woman or whatever the fuck. He makes his own dope, over in a wearhouse on 8th. Im supposed to go there tonight during my break to do a quick run for him."
"She's not going in," Erin refused.
"She goes in, when he's handing over the drugs we bust them, we put her in cuffs too. He doesnt know that she was how we found him," Jay supplied.
"No."
"It could work. If she plays her part" Antonio added.
The woman turned to her boss and father figure. "Voight..."
Voight looked down at her, putting his hands on her should. "We wont let her get hurt." He turned his attention back to the rest of the team. "Suit up. Get a wire on that kid."
"Just be calm. Be confident. Keep your head up. Look him in the eyes. You'll be fine," Antonio told her, as he hooked the wire to the small girl.
Everlee smiled sarcastically at him. "I know how to act like a drug dealer, Ese. I do this for a living. So yes, I will be fine." She looked down to watch what he was doing. "Do Lex and Niko know about this?"
"No. Why?"
"Cuz they would both be freaking the fuck out right now and i dont wanna get them in even more trouble than theyre already in because of me." She swallowed, biting her lip nervously. "Just, if anything does happen, let them know that i was doing this to get them out of trouble. I got them into it...I'm gonna get them out."
Antonio looked up at her, seeing for the first time, a hint of fear in her dark eyes. "You're gonna be fine, remember?" He then stood up, looking down at her. "You ready?"
Everlee took a deep breath. "I was born ready," She said, the fear disappearing from her eyes.