I found Voight and pulled him from an interrogation. "I hate to bale on you, but I have to get my kid in New York, her school called Apparently they found signs of abuse." "Go get your kid we're not going anywhere." He tells me. "Thanks." I grabbed my jacket and Jay grabbed my shoulder. "What was that about?" "My kids school called they found signs of abuse, I have to go get her." "Was it Kat?" He asks about my ex. "I would assume so." I tell him. "Well I'll see you when you get back." He hugs me. "See ya." I got in my car and started the 12 hour drive. I got there early the next morning I was literally running on coffee. It was about 7 am when I walked into CPS. "Ava Halstead, Summer's mother." "It will be about an hour before we can get her here." "Happy to wait." I tell the desk lady. An hour went by and Summer finally walked in. "Mommy!" My 13 year old yells as she runs towards me. I hug her and talk to her case worker. "We we're called to the home 5 times but found nothing so then the school called we went ahead and pulled her from the home." "Was it, Kat?" I ask. "I'm afraid so." She tells me. "Am I allowed to take her with me. "Of course." We walked back into the lobby where Summer was sitting on a bench. "You ready to go sweetheart?" I ask her and she nods as she grabs the few belongings she has. I led her out to the car I got her buckled in and then we were off again. I got to the apartment that night and looked back at Summer asleep in the backseat. I shut the car off and picked her up and took her inside. "Hey Ava, who's this?" My neighbor asks. "My daughter I need you to watch her tomorrow while I'm at work if that's ok." "I'm always down to help." "Thanks." In the morning I dropped Summer at Melodys and drove to work. I walked up the stairs and found everyone talking. "Halstead, the younger." Voight calls out. "Do you really have to call me that?" I groan. "Nice to see you. Guys fill her in." "Someone's taken my son." Dawson tells me. "I'm sorry to hear that." I tell him. "Nothing else matters till we get Diego back. Nothing." Voight tells us. "Sarge... So, this all started with Rev and Coop getting their heads chopped off. Both did essentially the same for Pulpo, mid-level distribution, right? So, we know that Pulpo's cleaning house. And what do you do when you get rid of old furniture? You got to bring in something new. This guy stood out." Jay shows a picture of the guys. "It's Ernesto Milpas. He was running 15 corners between 22nd and Kedzie when CPD pinched him in 09." "Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was on that bust with Jules." Dawson tells us. "He was released last year." Jay tells him. "He was a climber." Dawson says. "Maybe he's looking to get promoted." Erin says. "He's the best of a lot of bad options." Jay tells us. "What do we have on him now?" Voight asks. "P.O.'s got an address that's a year old." Jay and I went to our lockers which we're right next to each other seeing as we were twins. "How's Summer?" He asks as I get ready. "Quiet, but fine that I can tell." I tell him. I sat in my car looking out for our suspect. "There's our boy." I looked up from my phone when Voights voice came over the radio I noticed our guy walking along the dock. "Everybody go." Voight tells us and I hopped out of the car and took off after him. "Suspect is on foot out the southwest side of the warehouse." Erin tells us and I was literally right there. "Freeze!" I yell as I see the guy. The guy punched me and took off in another direction. He rounded a corner and was gone. I felt my lip bleeding and groaned. "Coming out. He's gone." I tell the others. I followed Voight over to Erin and Jay. "Ava!" "I'm fine, Jay." I tell him and he nods. "No sign of Diego or that he was ever here." Dawson yells walking towards us. "We had him! What the hell was that?" "Hey, I made a move." Adam tells him. "Take it easy." Voight tells them. "Let's not forget who let herself get jumped." Dawson screams. "Hey, I--." I start but Jay stops me. "Detective Dawson this is Burgess. You're going to want to see this." Comes over the radio. "Let's go." Voight tells us. We went through the case files to see if anything would lead us to Dawson's son. Dawson got an address for our suspect which was a hotel I was with Erin and Jay on this one. We slowly surround the door and Dawson kicked it in. We found a chair and the kid's apron. "He was here." Dawson says coming out of the room then took off after I guess the suspect, so I followed him. I ran out of the building to find Dawson had taken him down. "Where's my son!" "Get out of here." I tell a man who was throwing stuff away and he took off as Voight ran out the door with the others. Dawson wasn't able to hurt the man anymore then needed so he was unable to get his son's location. After that we all headed back to the precinct. "Hey, I get what your going through. I had to pick my daughter up and bring her here because she was abused I would do anything to get back at the person who did it. We will get your son back." I tell him. "Thanks." He says. "You heading out?" "Yeah, got to pick the kid up from the babysitter's. See you tomorrow." "See ya." I drove to the apartment and knock on Melody's door.
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Halstead Twin.
RomanceWhat if Jay had a twin? Detective Ava Halstead, Jays younger twin by 2 minutes. She was living in New York till she felt the need to come home. She thought for a long time that she was gay but working for the Intelligences Unit she falls for Detecti...