A/N: So, here is the next chapter! The next couple chapters (if I have the time) will actually be up rather frequently. Please review! I love hearing/reading your thoughts :)
As soon as the door was busted down, the sound of children's screams immediately filled Erin's ears. Erin spotted at least four small children sitting on the couch, a baby in a makeshift crib and that was just in the living room.
Looking across the room she immediately spotted, Clark standing there baffled that he just got his door knocked down by a bunch of cops.
Voight immediately approached him and took out his handcuffs, "Don't even think about going anywhere, Clark or I will shoot you", he threatened.
Clark reluctantly put his hands up and Voight cuffed him, "Lindsay. Halstead. Search the rooms", he instructed looking back towards him.
Jay immediately took a step in front of his partner and lowering his gun, so when they found more kids they wouldn't be frightened.
Erin quickly counted a total of three bedrooms and one bathroom in the small house. Behind one of the bedroom doors, they found two little girls, who were quickly taken out my Ruzek.
Of course the second she saw them, Erin made sure to double check it wasn't Mia. There wasn't anyone in the second bedroom, which they assumed to be Clark's.
Opening up the third door, both detectives instantly heard something knock over and some footsteps across the room. Jay, entering first, took in the scene of a huddled up child hiding his head in his legs on the bed and the two infants in a crib.
"Ethan", he asked hesitantly, beginning to approach the boy.
Erin walked behind her partner as she also took in the sight in front of her. The boy slowly brought his head up and immediately, Erin and Jay knew this was their kidnapped boy.
"Hey, it's okay", Jay stated walking over to the bed and reaching out his hand. "We are here to take you home, Ethan", he continued now standing in front of him.
Ethan looked up at Jay slowly and cautiously, "The baby's never eat", he simply said.
Erin frowned as she took her attention away from the boy and her partner, now over to the two babies in cribs. There was one little girl and one little boy lying on the back with bottles in their hands.
"Did you make them bottles, sweetie", Erin asked.
Ethan nodded as he stood and took Jay's hand finally, "I was trying to be nice. I do it for my cousin Emma all the time", he explained.
"That's very nice of you", Erin said giving him a smile. "Now, let's get you home".
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They saved a total of ten kids in just that one bust. Watching all of those children being taken out of the house finally and away to foster homes was amazing. It made Erin proud of what she does to save those kids from a life threatening situation. Had Ethan never creatively made the bottles, those babies never would have survived if they hadn't gotten there in time.
Although Erin was grateful, a part of this was bittersweet. Here she was saving kids she didn't even know and even with all the 'evidence' she had, she couldn't even find her own daughter.
Upon entering the break room with a snack for Ethan, Erin stopped thinking about Mia for a second as she sat down next to Jay across the table.
"Are my mommy and daddy coming soon", Ethan asked as Erin sat down.
"Yep, they are on their way right now", she answered handing him over the bag of chips she got from the vending machine.
"So, Ethan you don't remember anything about what happened", Jay asked.
"I just remember the man coming into my room and taking me away. I tried to scream but, he covered my mouth and then I don't remember anything after that", he answered swinging his feet against the chair.
"Then I woke up in the room with the babies and then later you guys came", Ethan continued.
Jay looked up towards Erin and they immediately read each other's minds. There was a good chance Clark drugged him.
"The man didn't hurt me. He just left me in the room with the babies. Are the babies going to get a home", he asked.
"Yeah sweetie of course they will get home", Erin said giving him a smile.
Before they could even ask another question, Erin and Jay immediately heard Mr and Mrs. Henderson coming down the hallway. At the sound of his parent's voice, Ethan immediately broke out into a smile as he ran out of the break room and up to his parents.
Erin smiled at the sight as she watched through the glass windows of the break room. She couldn't help but imagine one day having the same type of reunion with Mia. Whether it be that Intelligence some other unit found her.
"I will brief the parents if you want to go listen in on the interrogation", Jay stated interrupting her thoughts.
Erin gave him a smile as she left the break room, "Detective Lindsay", Emily Henderson called out.
Turning in her direction, Erin saw Ethan in the arms of his dad and his mother standing next to him. "Thank you so much", she said giving him a smile.
Erin simply nodded and gave them all a smile before she turned the corner towards the interrogation room.
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"For the last time, I only took the kid of that ass-hole ADA who put me in jail for something I didn't even do. The rest of the kids I don't know where the come from or who takes them", Clark explained.
Erin ran a hand through her hair as she watched through the glass of the interrogation room.
"What you don't understand Clark is we can still charge you with holding all of those children against their will", Antonio explained to him.
"Okay listen", Clark began as he shook his head. "I only joined the group a little while after a got released. I wanted to get back at the ADA who busted me and my buddies told me about their 'business' so I just joined it", he explained.
"Who is your main 'buddy' behind this business", Voight asked.
"His name is Johnny. He has some other guys, but he's the one who brings the kids to the house", Clark finally fessed up.
Erin frowned as she turned away from the two way mirror and sat down on the small table in the room. Upon sitting down, she felt the note Danny had given to her hours ago. Carefully pulling it out of her pocket, Erin hesitantly thought about whether or not to open it.
Like Danny had said it was the last one. After this there probably would be no more clues or evidence as to where Mia was.
She decided to open it.
Opening the envelope, Erin recognized the picture she had received in her first note. The thing different about this one was there was a larger circle around a group of children. Of course, Erin recognized Mia from the picture after a couple minutes of studying it carefully. But, when she looked over she noticed a familiar little girl standing next to her daughter.
It was the same little girl she had pulled out of one of the room's in Clark's house.
Immediately turning back to the interrogation room, Erin noticed it was empty. Had she really been standing there that long?
Taking off towards Voight's office, Erin noticed everyone was gone as well. "Probably at Molly's", she quickly reminded herself. Of course, Voight's office light was still on, so with a gentle, but fast knock on the door, she entered his office.
"Hey kid", he answered looking up from his paperwork.
"Hey", she said giving him a smile before awkwardly shuffling in front of his desk.
"You watch a little bit of the Clark interrogation", Hank asked.
Erin nodded her head, "Yeah", she simply stated. "Did he say anything more about where he got the kids", she asked generally.
Voight sighed and Erin immediately knew that he was on to her. She never could lie to him.
"Look, Erin I know that you are thinking this could be connected to Mia, but it looks like he just used the easiest method to kidnap Ethan", Voight explained as he began to close some files on his desk.
"So, there was no similar MO, which means it was probably another guy. Who we will eventually find", he continued.
"Yeah, but Voight", Erin began to say.
"Erin, it's over. This case is closed and when we find advancements in Mia's case, we will re-open it", Voight cut her off.
Erin sighed knowing she wasn't going to get anywhere with him. Without saying a word she turned around and left his office slamming the door.
Grabbing her coat, Erin practically ran down the stairs, the only thing that made her stop dead in her tracks was a buzz from her phone.
"Molly's? Don't forget you did promise me a drink", read the text message from Jay.
"Be there in five", she simply replied.
