The New P.D. Member ↠ will halstead

What If She Needs Help?

"Hey, Sarge," Jay says as he knocks on Voight's office door. "Did you give Teresa the day off?"

"I didn't, why? Is she not coming today?"

"She's not here yet and I can't reach her on her cell."

"Okay, well... you get to work and I'll try to see where she is," Voight tells Jay, who goes back to his desk as Voight picks up his phone.

He calls Teresa, but her phone goes straight to her voicemail. He leaves a voicemail, telling her to call him as soon as she got the message. Voight then gets his telephone at the desk and connects with the front desk of the district.

"Hey, Trudy, it's me. Has Teresa left any message at the front desk?"

"No, I don't have anything from her."

"Anything from the midnight desk sergeant?"

"Nothing was relayed to me, but let me check if I have anything..." Platt is quiet for a few seconds, rummaging the files in front of her seeing if they were covering up some note. "No. I don't have anything. Why?"

"It's probably nothing, but she still hasn't shown up for work and her phone is off."

"That girl isn't one to pay attention to her phone," Platt says. "She might have just forgotten to charge it."

"Yeah, okay. Well... Let's see when she shows up then."

Voight hangs up the call and tries to focus on other things. However, it was already past 11a.m. and they still didn't have any news from Teresa. Since she was always one of the first in and she had her phone off, something seemed off, but Voight wasn't concerned, guessing that she either had a problem that needed to be solved or had forgotten to show up for work.

"Sarge," Jay goes to his office again. "Any news on Teresa?"

"No. I left her a message, but her phone is still off."

"Yeah, I just tried calling her again as well."

"She probably just had an emergency, something to take care off."

"What if she needs help?"

"Why would she need help, Jay? She wasn't working a case, she was off for the weekend... Go back to work. She's fine."

Jay doubted it and even if Voight believed in it, Jay had a gut feeling that Teresa was not fine. If she was fine she would be at work, and if she had an emergency, she would have called informing them she wouldn't be able to show up for work, even if through someone else's phone.

"You okay?" Antonio asked later on, coming back from his lunch break and finding only Jay in the bullpen.

"Worried about Teresa."

"She got into trouble?"

"I don't know. As you can see, she didn't show up today."

"She didn't get the day off?" Antonio wondered confused.

"No, why? She told you something?"

"I just guessed." Antonio shrugged. "I'm sure she's fine."

"It'd make me a lot more relaxed if she answered the phone."

"She's probably dealing with something related to family. You know how it is with them."

"Maybe... I don't know."

Antonio put a comforting hand on Jay's shoulder before going to his own desk.

Jay was leaving the district at the end of the day when his phone rang.

"Hey, I tried to call you!" he answered.

"Sorry, Jay. Hectic workday at the hospital," Will replies. "What's going on?"

"Did Teresa stay in today?"

"Stay in? What are you talking about?"

"She didn't come to work."

"She didn't?" Will asks slightly concerned. "I tried to call her but... we've had this talk that she's not into speaking on the phone and stuff. Anyway, I don't have an answer to your question. Or maybe I do, which is 'no', because she didn't sleep at my apartment last night."

"She didn't?"

"Nope. She went to her house and spent the Sunday with her brothers and was staying over the night. She told me she was going to work as usual, though. Said she'd meet me after work."

"Well, she didn't show up and her phone is off."

"Uh... maybe she had a family emergency, maybe her mom is back or something and she had to stay at her house today," Will excuses.

"Maybe, but she would have called, let us know she wasn't coming to work."

"Okay, well... I'm leaving the hospital now, so I'll check over her place."

"Yeah, I'm on my way there, too."

Jay drove at the speed limit, since he wasn't on duty and had no business breaking the law just to check on somebody. He, as a cop, should be the first to set the example. When he got to Teresa's house, he parked right in front of it and jumped out of his seat.

The other way came Will, who parked his car on the other side of the road.

"Hey. You went in already?" Will says crossing the street.

"No, just got here, too."

"Let's go then."

They both walk in the unlocked gate and go up the stairs to the house. Jay knocks on the door, and they wait.

Looking through the windows, Will saw absolutely nothing, since the lights seemed to be all off.

"No one seems to be home," Jay affirms. "Do you have her brothers phone number?" Jay asks.

Will shakes his head in response.

"Okay, well... I'll leave them a note then," Jay says before going to his car.

He gets some paper and a pen and writes to Tom and Tyler, telling them to call him as soon as they get home, leaving his phone number. Jay goes to the door, where Will still was, trying to take a peek through the window.

"There's nothing more that we can do then wait for someone to call us," Jay says as he slides the note through the door.

"Okay, well... I'm going back to my apartment. Maybe Teresa is there already," Will says hopeful.

"Call me if she is."

"I will. You call me if someone calls you."

Despite Will's hopes, his apartment was empty when he got there. He took a quick shower, tried to call Teresa again and then sat on the couch, with the TV on but not paying attention to what he was watching, his mind drifting to Teresa and where she could be.