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I took a deep breath and knocked on the door. "Where is she?" I ask as my father opens the door. "You should keep a better eye on her." He tells me. "She was at school. I can't keep an eye on her 24/7." I tell him. "Then maybe you shouldn't be working all the time. Like I said before you'll never be a good cop." He tells me. "Stop compering me to my brothers. How do you think they feel when you do? You make them feel like it's their fault. Where's my daughter I'm leaving." I tell him. "I'm right here." Summer's small voice says, when I looked up, I noticed she was crying. "Go sit in the car." I tell her. When she was outside, I turned to my father. "I make a damn good cop FYI. I was shot on one of my cases and did you show up no. I would lay down my life for my team and I would do anything to protect Jay. So don't contact me unless you want to apologize." With that I turned and walked away. "You're grounded." "But mom..." Summer starts as I get in the car. "Don't start with me. I mean come on running away from school do have any Idea what could have happened. You 14 Summer this behaver is getting old but since you don't want to listen to me, I guess Uncle Voight and Jay will have to talk to you. The next time you do this the school is going to call the police and you could end up in juvie." I tell her. "I'm really sorry." She tells me. "Why doesn't grandpa like you." She asks. "He's mad that I'm a cop." I tell her. "Why? You save people." "I don't know Summer." I tell her. We pulled up to the station I sat her down in the lounge and waited for the team to return. A lady walked in, and I stopped her. "Who are you?" I ask her. "Mia Sumner." She tells me. "Yeah, I need more than that." I tell her. "I'm looking for Hank Voight." She tells me. "Well feel free to have a seat the team is out but they'll be back soon." I tell her. Not long after Voight entered, and the conversation started over. "Jay, I need you to talk to Summer and see if you can find out why she is misbehaving. She won't talk to me." I tell him. "I'll see what I can do. How'd it go with dad?" He asks. "Don't ask."  I tell him. "Noted." He says and walks into the lounge. "Everybody this is Detective..." Voight starts. "Sumner." The lady interrupts. "She's going to temporarily join intelligence. Jin." "Yes, sir." "Take Detective Sumner here down to your office and show her, uh... I don't care what you show her." Voight tells him. "Voight." I stop him. "What is it Halstead?" He asks. "It's Summer, I need you to scare her straight she won't listen to me. Jay is talking to her now, but I don't know with her anymore." I tell him. "Not a problem." He tells me. "I can take her to one of the integration rooms." "Sounds good." We both walked into the lounge. "Summer, I need you to come with me." Voight tells her and she nods. Once she was gone Jay looked at me. "The scare tactic?" He asks. "It worked on me as a kid." I tell him. "I remember you wouldn't leave Will or I's sides for 6 mouths just so you would have an alibi if something happened." He tells me. "Yes, you two would tease me about it." I tell him. When Voight returned with Summer who just looked at the ground. "I want you to apologies to your mother." He tells her. "I'm sorry it won't happen again." Summer tells me. "Let's hope not." After that we got back to work. "We got a four-man robbery crew impersonating Jimmy's Vice unit, freelancers, probably ex-military, listening in on their radio calls and hitting vulnerable casinos as soon as they know Jimmy's left." Voight tells us. "That's right, so we should use that against them. Jimmy, why don't we have you and your team bait a fake count house with Olinsky and me acting as bankers?" Antonio tells us. "That's it. You guys radio amongst each other you got 200,000 from some new den, and they're in the process of banding it." Voight tells us. "Right. Once we're inside, we put out a fraudulent 10-1, officer-needs-assistance call, and you guys radio in, aborting your surveillance to respond to the call." Antiono tells Jimmy. "And then we wait." He says. "Yeah, with a sticky net. We tie this crew to the other robberies, we put 'em away forever." Voight tells us. "Hey, stay safe." Jin tells us. We sat outside where our target was waiting. "Seriously what happed at dads?" Jay asks. "Didn't I tell you not to ask." I tell him. "Look I'm just trying to make sure you're ok." He tells me. "I'm fine." I tell him. "I know how dad can be and..." "He told me I was a horrible cop and insinuated that I was a bad mother. Are you happy?" I snap at him.  "But can we talk about this later please?" I ask him. "Sure." He says. We watched as two vehicles came our way. After a flash grenade went off, we hopped out of the car. "Ave with me!" Voight tells me and I hope in next to him as we chased after the van. "Clear that car!" Voight yells and Erin and I did. After making arrest we went back to the station. "Ava." Jay calls out to me. "Look Jay I..." "You said we could talk about it." He tells me. "Fine." I say. "You know what let's not talk let's drink on it." He tells me. "Sounds like fun." I smile and we met the others at Molly's. A girl ended up daring me to drink her under the table and of course I won. "Damn girl you can drink." Alivn says. "That was nothing I bet I could drink all of you under the table." I tell them. "Ava, you do realize you are super drunk right now." Jay tells me. "Thanks peanut gallery." I tell him and he surrenders. I noticed Burgess walk in and I stare at her. "You're drawling." Erin tells me and I wipe my mouth with my sleeve. "Hey you look nice." I tell her. "Thanks." She smiles. After a couple of more drinks Jay offered to drive us home. "I'll see you two tomorrow." Jay tells us and the night was a bluer after that.  I woke in the morning to see a note on my nightstand from Burgess." 

I took Summer to school for you and left you some pain pills. I also called Voight and told him you would be late. PS. I had a great time last night.

"I wish I could say the same or at least remember it." I tell myself then got up and got ready. I arrived and sat at my desk trying to get over my missive headache. 

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