Every set of eyes turned to Kim. Obviously her gasp was loud enough that they all heard it. "Problem Burgess?" Voight asked.

"No, no problem."

"Okay, change out." He motioned to the locker room. Roman tried to catch her eye but she just brushed past him. She sat heavily on the bench in front of her locker. Her life was complicated enough, this she did not need. Adam and Roman in the same car all day, she breathed out slowly. "Oh god."

"Hey Kim." She looked up to see Ruzek leaning against the lockers. "You okay?"

"Yeah." It snapped her out of her headspace and she stood up and opened her locker. Adam turned back to his, looking for his uniform. It was not something he wore often; actually the last time he wore it was Nadia's funeral. Of course he had also worn it that one-day on patrol with Burgess back before they were not together. That was one of the most enjoyable days on the job he had. He was surprised how jittery he suddenly felt knowing that a few feet away she was getting changed. He wanted to look, to drink her in one more time.

He was just buttoning up his shirt when she started to head out. "It's going to be okay." He told her quietly and he smiled softly when their eyes met. Kim nodded.

Adam let out a long slow breath. This was his worse nightmare because he still wanted to hit the guy…hard. When Voight had told them that he was working with Roman he thought for a moment it was some sick joke. Seriously? He heard Kim gasp, the whole bullpen had and he stole a look at her as the colour drained from her face and he knew what he had to do. If he was going to have any chance of making this right he had to cool his jets, swallow his pride and do his job.

"You ready to go?" Erin was waiting for Kim.

"Yep. Looking forward to it." And she was, whatever was going to happen today between Adam and Roman was out of her control. When they headed downstairs Roman was waiting at the desk and he called out to her.

"What is it?" she snapped. She felt Erin stop suddenly beside her.

"About today…" she held up her hand to stop him.

"What about it?"

"It's just.." He looked at Erin and she took a step away. "Me and Ruzek. Does he think…."

"Why don't you ask him?" She heard the gate open and knew without turning around that it would be Adam. She grabbed Erin's elbow, "let's go." She muttered.

"What was that about?" Erin didn't ask until they were safely in the car. Kim sank down in her seat and sighed.

"It's just all so screwed up right now."

"What is? You and Ruzek?" she eyed Burgess as she pulled out of the parking lot. "Or you and Roman?"

"I guess all of it. Roman had been putting doubts in my head about Adam and his reluctance to set a date. Adam called me out on it, and now he thinks Roman has ulterior motives."

"And does he?" Erin could see the turmoil on Burgess's face. "What did Roman say?"

"Doesn't matter. Anyway, Ruzek is pissed with Roman and them spending a day together could end badly." Kim shrugged her shoulders. "I can't do anything about it though, so lets just do this."

Ruzek grabbed the radio that Roman was holding out for him and smiled tightly. "Let's go." He had no idea if Burgess had spoke to him about the 'test' conversation or not and had no intention of asking him.

As they pulled out of the parking lot the tension in the car was so thick you could cut it with a knife. "Look Ruzek…" Roman started.

Ruzek turned and glared at him. "We have a job to do, I plan on doing it. We don't need to talk about anything else."

Adam had no idea why Voight had decided that he needed to work with Roman on this particular tail. Surely Patrol were capable of tailing a guy? However making a scene about it would have just made this more awkward than it already was. He definitely felt that things had shifted with Burgess in the last couple of days and still clinging to that hope he felt yesterday when she touched him coupled with the fact that she didn't immediately pull away when he touched her face in the locker room was more than enough reason to hold his temper in check.

But Jesus, this would have to be close to his worst day on the job, and he'd had some pretty shit ones.

Roman handed Adam a coffee. "Thanks man." They had been sitting on this guy for almost an hour, he was sitting in a barbershop and they could clearly see him through the window and kept glancing nervously in their direction. He knew he was being watched, which was exactly the point of this whole operation.

"Look this is ridiculous." Roman started. "I know you are pissed at me, but Burgess…"

Ruzek exhaled slowly. "I think I mentioned at the start of the day we don't need to talk about anything but this case. I have no intention of changing that." The silence in the car was uncomfortable to say the least.

"Or do you want me to do some test or something." Ruzek couldn't help himself.

"You can be a real dick sometimes." Roman muttered under his breath.

It went against every fibre in his body not to react but there was no way he wanted to risk what little hope he had with Burgess by beating the crap out of this guy. "Thanks. That means a lot." He replied sarcastically.

"You know, just because you are in Intelligence doesn't make you any better than me."

Was he deliberately trying to goad him into a fight? "Nah, you're right but not tyring to cut someone's grass does."

"Whatever. You had no intention of marrying her, we all know it."

"Shut the fuck up Roman." Adam snarled. The overwhelming urge he had felt since the night Burgess told him about the test to beat the shit out of Roman returned. Instead of doing exactly that he closed his mouth, took a deep breath and ignored him for the rest of the day.

"So spill." Lindsay finally got sick of wondering. Her friend was struggling, as was Ruzek and she'd had enough.

"Ruzek showed up at my place and I guess I told him that Roman had told me to 'test' him by asking to push back the wedding date. If he agreed it meant that he didn't want to marry me." Saying it out loud and seeing the look on Lindsay's face made her realise how stupid that was. "I was confused at the time, I had just found out he'd been engaged twice before."

"Wow."

"Anyway, he was pretty angry at Roman and I guess me also so he told me that I needed to decide what I wanted."

"So, what do you want?"

Kim turned and stared out the window as they drove back to the district. "I never called it off because I didn't love him. I called it off because I didn't think he really was committed to marrying me."

"He's been pretty miserable." Eyeing Burgess she got the impression she had made up her mind and didn't want to talk about it. "Soooo…Ruzek and Roman alone in a car all day? Could be interesting."

Burgess laughed lightly, despite the crushing pain in her chest. "I think Ruzek might kill him."

After changing out of his uniform Ruzek stopped by his desk to grab a few things. They had wrapped up for the day and Voight was happy once the guy they were tailing completely flipped at them they arrested him and he was currently cooling his jets in lock up. Thankfully that meant he wouldn't have to spend another day partnered with Roman.

Burgess almost looked surprised when the pair of them had trudged back upstairs and both of them seemed unharmed. Adam looked as dark as and Roman had some strange bemused look on his face that she couldn't figure out.

"How was your day?" Roman followed her into the locker room to grab his bag. Ruzek watched him go, almost the instant Burgess left to grab her bag. He slammed his desk drawer shut angrily and left. He wasn't going to hand around to see them come out of the locker room together. He was finding it hard to hang onto that feeling of hope that he had.

"Pretty good. I enjoy working with Lindsay." Suddenly she felt a little uncomfortable as he stood leaning against the row of lockers watching her as she tried to ferret around in her locker and stall for time.

"Is Ruzek always such a moody prick or did he save that just for me?" Kim closed her locker door and tried to step around Roman who was still eyeing her up and down. "I'm heading to Molly's, you coming?"

"Nah. Thanks anyway." She chose to ignore his crack at Ruzek.

"You know you shouldn't have to avoid the place just because your ex might be there."

It was true she had been avoiding Molly's for the last few weeks. It held so many memories of the good times they had spent there, all of them as a team. She knew that Adam did go, Atwater had told her that much but he didn't hang around long.

Roman tilted his head as Burgess started straight through him and shrugged. "Anyway, you know where I'll be if you want to have a drink or four."

She had almost turned back at least a dozen times. Exiting her car she took one last look in her mirror and smoothed her hair.

Knocking lightly on the door she waited, fighting the urge to turn and run. When it finally opened her heart almost stopped. He held out his hand and she slipped hers into his palm, entwining their fingers. Just breathe she told herself.

"Can we talk?"

And the smile reached the very corners of Adam's eyes.

Note: I think I may just leave this story here...Hope you enjoyed it & thanks for reading. :)