Cases Collide

Jay headed out to his truck, it was still pretty dark out, but he just wanted to be alone. He slid in the key, and Will's alarm went off, just as he heard Jay fire up his truck. Jay pulled his truck onto the road and drove over to the precinct. Once there, he pulled into the employee lot, parked his truck and headed inside.

"Morning, Jay." Hailey chimed from the top of the stairs.

"Uh." Was all Jay could manage to mumble. He had wanted time to think, but everyone was already in the Intelligence unit looking through case files and drinking cups of hot coffee.

"Halstead. Antonio come in here, we need to talk." Voight called from his office. Jay followed Antonio inside, who shut the door behind him.

"Really?" Jay asked annoyed.

"I'm not here to handcuff you, Jay." Antonio told him with a smile.

"Then what do you want?" Jay asked them.

"I would like to know why Will called me last night." Voight told him.

"He called you? I told him I was fine!" Jay said hitting Voight's desk in frustration.

"You don't seem "fine" Jay. Ever since we picked up that case yesterday, you have been acting different." Antonio told him.

"What are you not telling me?" Voight asked him.

"I want to turn in my badge, that's the only reason I'm here." Jay told him, as he pulled his badge off of his neck, and slid it across the desk towards Voight.

"Excuse me?" Voight said, shocked.

"I just can't do this anymore." Jay said, sadly.

"I'm not accepting this, until you get your head on straight, and come to me with a "honest" decision. I will give you the rest of the day to think about it. Go home and really thing about this." Voight told him, concern forming in his eyes.

"May I go?" Jay asked him.

"Yes. But think very carefully, you don't always get second chances." Antonio said as he opened the door. Jay walked over to his desk, grabbed a couple of case files and ran down the stairs and out to his truck.

"Alright, I need everyone to stop what they are doing. We need to start digging in all of Halstead's files, something is off with him, there has to be something we aren't seeing." Voight told them.

"On it, Sarge." Ruzek said as he walked over and got onto Jay's laptop.

"What are we looking for?" Hailey asked him.

"Anything…." Voight started to say but Ruzek cut him off.

"Found something. Jay's trash has one new deleted message, I'll get I.T. on this right now." Ruzek said as he carefully took the laptop over to their special I.T. department.

Back at the Halstead brother's house, Will was getting ready for work. He had just made a pot of coffee, when he heard Jay's truck pull up outside of the house.

"Want some?" Will asked Jay as he walked through the front door.

"I'm good." Jay said as he made his way into the living room and slumped down into the couch cushions.

"I can call off, if there is something you want to get off your chest." Will told Jay.

"No. I just want to be alone, have a good shift." Jay said as he curled up on the couch and closed his eyes. Will knew he couldn't call off, but he was really concerned about Jay.

"Thanks." Will said as he poured a cup of coffee into a stainless steel mug, slipped on his coat and headed outside to his car. He slid the key into the ignition, pulled his car onto the road and drove over to Med. Will got out of his car, went inside and checked his filebox for any new messages from other doctors. He found one that was sealed and was about to open it, when Natalie appeared behind him.

"Morning Nat." Will said letting out a yawn.

"What's this?" Natalie asked him, playfully trying to grab the envelope, but Will held it up in the air.

"Will, come on." Natalie laughed as she jumped a couple of times.

"Hey lovebirds, incoming." Maggie said from the nurse's station.

"Duty calls." Will said as he stuffed the envelope into his scrubs pocket and followed Natalie out to an awaiting ambulance.

"What do we got?" Natalie asked the paramedics.

"Looks like another overdose." Sylvie Brett told her.

"Again?" Will asked.

"Unfortunately. She crashed a couple of times on the way over, but we have her stable." foster told him.

"Trauma four!" maggie said pointing down the hall. Will and Natalie quickly followed.

"I'm going to go get a quick breakfast while you get her changed." Will told her.

"Don't forget to get me a doughnut!" Natalie said as Will left and she closed the curtain.

"Got it, chocolate doughnut." Will said through the curtain, and headed to the cafetiera.

Will entered the cafeteria and sat down at a small table and opened the envelope. He read the note that was inside, and quickly left the cafeteria and headed back into the ED.

"Maggie, can you please have someone cover my shift? I really need to get home." Will said, obviously in a panic.

"Sure. Is everything okay?" She asked him.

"I'm not sure yet. Here." He said pulling a five dollar bill out of his pocket and handed it to her.

"What is this for?" Maggie asked him confused.

"Natalie wanted a chocolate doughnut." Will said as he ran out of the ED.

"Will?" Natalie said as she watched him jump into his car and drove out of the parking lot.

"Dr. Choi, you're with Dr. Manning." Maggie told Ethan. Who looked at her cockeyed.

"Dr. Halstead had a emergency, I need you to cover for him." Maggie told him.

"I can work with that." Ethan said as he followed Natalie back into Trauma four.

"I'm Dr. Manning, and this is Dr. Choi, and we will be taking care of you today. What is your name?" Natalie asked her.

"Scarlet." She said weakly.

"Alright, Scarlet, can you tell us what happened?" Ethan asked her.

"Isn't it obvious? I tried to kill myself." she snapped back.

"Why?" Ethan asked her.

"I just...would be better off dead." She said, weakly.