Hi, so here is another Chicago PD story and I am so excited to bring you thins one, this one takes me to a world post Erin, to Season 5 and this is a new thing for me so I hope that you enjoy. Also this delves a little into the Al/Adam relationship that I have enjoyed so much and like the Jay/Hank relationship is often ignored.

This story takes place around the break that happened in Season 5 when Adam's duel role was discovered, I can confirm that Hank and Al are not the enemies in this story. I think we all know who the enemy in Season 5 was.

This story does deal with upsetting themes including murder, rape and child abuse and PTSD flashbacks. If this TRIGGERS YOU THEN PLEASE STOP NOW!.

Pairings are as follows, Kim/Adam, Hailey/Jay, Will/Conner (briefly) and Al/Meredith.

Just to confirm that Lexie is dead in this story as well.

Disclaimer-Nothing here but Vicky is mine.

This story is AU as well but does stretch over Season 5 and Season 5 alone.

Please Read and Review and I will update as soon as I can.

TRIGGER WARNINGS AS USUAL.

This story will now be about twenty two chapters.

Also I had to go away and deal with some personal issues which delayed this chapter. This is now over so I hope you enjoy the final few chapters when I can get them out to you.

The Spirit That I Have Seen

Chapter 20-Fear Nothing

Adam and Woods come face to face. Hank really wishes his team would be less stupid.

"I really don't think you should be doing this"

"You've said that three times already Kev"

"And if I have to I'll say it again and again until you let me take you home. You know Al and Voight probably know you've absconded."

"Yep"

"Okay well then…that's…great"

Adam didn't say anything currently he was sat in the car and he was shaking. He wasn't even in the damn building just sat outside it and here he was shaking like a leaf. Kevin was a good mate and Kevin was pretending that he was shaking with cold but they both knew it was fear.

"Kev"

"Yeah?"

"You sure the room is clear?"

"Yeah I took him and put him in the cage and as far as I am concerned he can rot there for the rest of eternity but as I told you five minutes ago you've got about ten minutes before Platt clocks on Adam listen you don't—"

But Adam was already out of the car. Kevin leapt out of his side and came round to see him.

"I need a soda can" Adam muttered. Kevin turned to look at him and his eyes widened slightly.

"Adam"

"Kev…I can't…I can't have this go to trial please I can't…I can't testify I can't do it do you understand I can't…I…if it goes to trial he is gonna walk, I can't…I know were supposed to tell victims they can do it but…I am what Woods said I was weak and pathetic and—"

"RUZEK"

He took in a shuddering breathe and Kevin tsked like a parent with an errant toddler.

"Adam please don't make me hit you. Come on man you know you are not weak or anything like that, your just…you just know what you can do. And it's not a bad thing but Adam if you're talking about what I think you're talking about you're playing close to the wire my friend…never mind the ramifications that it could have for your job you're making a huge assumption that he is going to do what you think he is going to do."

Adam nodded.

"Adam you have got to accept the possibility that he is going to want this to go to trial too"

"Then I don't testify"

"Then he's free"

"I know"

"Then he goes after you and Vicky"

"You think Al and Hank are gonna let it get that far?"

Kevin paused.

"No" he said carefully. "But I think that's a shitty thing to do"

Adam nodded. Deep down he knew Kevin was right. In the here and now he also knew that he didn't give a shit.

Kevin followed him into the side door that led to the cage and then paused.

"I'll go grab a drink" he muttered. "And then I am staying in that room. Do not open that cage. I mean it if you do then I am calling Voight and begging for forgiveness."

Adam nodded.

"One minute and then I have your back"

He nodded again and then he pushed open the door.

Woods was sat there.

He saw Adam and he laughed. Adam gripped the back of the door with all that he had and he reminded himself sharply that he had to breathe in and breathe out.

"Hello"

"So" Woods said looking him up and down as if he was a bit of ribbon sale. "You dragged yourself out the gutter did you? Wonder why I was put here"

Adam pushed himself off the back wall and walked into the room. And that took a concentrated effort he had to admit.

"Hello Denny"

"Sargent Woods to you"

"Still? That before or after you raped me?"

"I didn't rape you, you stupid little boy"

"You just watched"

Woods didn't say anything to that and it proved Adam's point. He took a deep breath and decided to be brave.

"You like it did you? Watching it? Been that long since you got a cock up your own arse that you had to—"

Woods snarled ramming the cage but Adam was ready for him. A lifetime with his sister had taught him a few street smarts and he unlocked the cage. Woods shot him a look and mentally Adam prayed Voight wouldn't murder Kevin on the spot when he found out about this. He found that he didn't care very much with what happened to himself. That should have really been his first warning that he was down the rabbit hole.

"You had your shot with me when I was bleeding and drugged and incapable of defending myself. You couldn't do it could you? You put me and Vicky through hell and back and you couldn't even kill us. Your not even evil Denny, your pathetic, a pathetic little man who couldn't get it up for his wife and who couldn't protect his daughter, whose daughter hates him so much she's disowned you, a man who doesn't even have the support of the brass and who had to throw criminals in prison just to get a promotion, I am better than you, Hank Voight is better than you and now it is just you and me so come on your pathetic little coward come on and TAKE YOUR FUCKING SHOT! CAUSE YOU DIDN'T BEAT ME! I WIN BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T FUCKING BEAT ME!"

Yeah he was more than down the rabbit hole at this point wasn't he?

And that was all he needed.

Denny Woods charged at him and Adam let him slam him into the bars. He pushed his leg up and kicked backwards so hard the man went down into the table a good distance away. He pushed himself back up but Adam was ready, he was like Jay in this regard, they were both from Canaryville, they both knew how to fight, it was literally a thing they did before they got fed at the end of the night. It was easy.

Of course that was before he was beaten half to hell and back but he didn't care. There was adrenaline coursing through his veins and it was good and he wanted it to stay there. He found it was addicting. No wonder Jay shot criminals when his body was in shattered pieces.

Denny Woods went for him again and this time Adam was ready, he was out of his own head and he was ready, he cocked his bad knee around the man's waist and in a move that Will Halstead was going to shoot him for later he managed to get Denny Woods on his back and suddenly he was punching the shit out of the other man. He managed to get a good punch to nose for Vicky, to his jaw for himself and then one for the rest of the mess the man had created before he got two hands wrapped around his own throat. He was forced backwards and he managed to kick out one to the balls and then one to the upper chest and then before he could lose his mind down the dark rabbit hole again he was ducking another blow that caught him in the chest and made him fall to his knees again. He ducked another and then he scrambled backwards. Suddenly he wanted Kevin.

But it was not Kevin who came through the door as if hearing his prayers.

It was Jay.

Jay with the kid and Kevin brining up the rear. Jay slipped off his gun and before he could say anything he had kicked it across the floor. Adam booted Woods in the face again making him fall backwards grabbed the gun and shot twice.

His name was still as good as it was six months ago he had to admit. Denny Woods fell to the floor with mundane finality.

There was a terrible pause and then the kid Dante spoke up.

"That Voight bloke is gonna kill you all"

"That Voight bloke" Platt spoke in a voice of barely concealed rage. "Is going to have to take a number and get in the motherfucking line"

"God I like you" Dante said eyeing her. "Jay…I'm gonna go get some pizza"

Jay sighed.

"Fuck" was all he said.

Hank was going to kill them. He was going to kill each and every one of them and then he was going to revive them and then he was going to kill them again and again and again.

Seriously this was why he stopped at one. This was why he shouldn't get involved in his underlings lives, this was why he should have turned in his badge when he got out of prison and gone fishing for a living this. This right here. This.

He had been having what might have been a good night—well—beer, peace and a good game on TV when Trudy had called him. That had been the end of his good night and when he turned up it was to see Dante Torres eating pizza, Jay with IA and Adam sat on the floor of the cage shaking violently while Kevin fussed over him with a blanket and Trudy yelled at everyone and anything.

All in all this was a shaping up to be a really shitty night.

"Right" he said quietly. "So let me understand you Adam wanted to confront Woods and that led to a physical confrontation in which Jay passed Adam his gun and Adam shot him three times. Never mind the fact that Woods was supposed to be in solitary, you—" he pointed at Adam. "Were supposed to be at Al's and you—" here he pointed at Jay and then Dante, "Was supposed to take him home"

"Antonio brought me back" Dante said chewing on a bit of garlic bread. "He thought that I would be better with Jay which is true. Also his ex wife showed up to yell at him. Man that woman's a bitch. Anyway we walking through what I should say to the parole board and that's when we heard the commotion. He aint gonna get done is he?" he asked suspicious all of a sudden. "Because it was a clear cut run of self defence and I hate cops but even I will say it was self defence"

"No that won't be necessary" came a voice and Hank turned and only just resisted the urge to smack his head into the wall.

"Fisher"

Inspector Fisher shot him a look. "Hank a word"

Yeah. Here they go again.

"See your back" he said stepping outside and breathing in the cold air.

"Yeah well…the Ivory Tower thought it best what with Denny Woods out there capturing kids and cops in equal measure. Apparently I was the only one who could control you. Crawford begged off—said you were too much hard work"

Hank snorted.

"How's Jack?"

"My husband is fine."

"Glad your back here?"

"Not really Hank no"

He nodded. "So what happens now?"

Fisher sighed.

"Between you and me Hank? I never did like the guy, he was always a homophobic little shit but he was always careful about it and that was what made it worse. At least with the bigots we could hit them."

"Camille always enjoyed that"

Fisher smiled a genuine one this time. "God I loved your wife" he said reverently. "She had a right mean right hook and she introduced me to pink gin which was the end of me you know? I really wish I could see what she would make of this—anyway here's what's going to happen, the brass want this to go away, Denny Woods is bad for business and this is an anti-cop climate on the best of days and this is not the best of days, far from it."

Hank had to agree with that.

"So…here's what's gonna happen. You are going to get Ruzek home, get him checked out, get him into counselling and get him the fuck out of here for a six month furlough and that's before he even thinks about coming back. Halstead is going in for counselling and so help me Hank if he skips one session…Atwater is going to teach a class at the Academy every Friday night for the next six months and we are going to chalk this entire thing down to a self-defence shooting. And the kid is going home with Halstead with an expunged record. And so help me Hank I am booking two weeks off in May with my husband to go on a cruise you do anything to ruin that and there will be nowhere that my wrath does not follow"

Hank considered all of this for a second and then.

"Fair enough"

"And I am getting a bottle of decent vintage champagne"

"Done"

"And so help me Hank if you find a way to fuck this up for me—I am not going back to the 19th alone"

"Okay"

Fisher shot him a look.

"It's very strange you being reasonable"

"Yeah. Can I kill all three of them though?"

Fisher caught his eye and grinned.

"Nah" he said quietly. "Set Meredith on them. If she's still the same then she'll be more frightening than you anyway"

Hank considered this and then…

"You devious bastard"

Fisher caught his eye and then.

"I fucking hated him Hank"

"I know…I fucking hated him too"

Hank forced them all out of the car and the four of them stood there.

"Dante in" Al said opening the door. "I have hot chocolate, Antonio, Kim, Hayley, a kid who wants to see you and one of the Mission Impossible's streaming"

Dante shrugged shoving his bag over his shoulder.

"See ya suckers!"

"Christ" Jay muttered.

Al shot Adam a look.

"You and me boy are talking when this is over" he said and then he shut the door.

Meredith was stood on the decking watching them. Hank grinned.

"See ya"

He got behind the door before the shouting started.

"Leave it Hayley" he said seeing the blonde peering through the blinds.

"But Sarge—"

"Leave it."

Hayley sighed.

"Bad man gone?" Vicky said as she flopped on the couch.

"Oh yeah kiddo"

"Good"

"Yeah" Dante said stealing another marshmallow. "Good"

Hank couldn't have said it better himself.

Fear nothing he thought to himself.

Fear nothing but Meredith he thought listening to the noise outside.

Yeah…that was a catchphrase worth remembering.

Al clinked his drink with his in response.

And yeah, Meredith is yellin at her boys.

And we only have TWO MORE CHAPTERS LEFT!

And I also brought back Fisher-I actually liked him very much, don't know why they got rid of him to be honest with you.

Next Chapter-Kim and Adam share an early morning coffee and more than a kiss, a promise and a discussion. Al and Adam have a talk (ish). Dante is officially adopted by the crazy CPD family. Penultimate Chapter.