Copnapped

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Alvin was following every lead. He'd been awoken by a phone call in the middle of the night. Voight hadn't called him like that in a long time. He'd been digging around all day coming up dry. It was his instruction to do everything he could to find Stacy Graham. Voight didn't tell him much, only that this girl was involved with the kidnapping somehow.

He rolled up in an alleyway, having received a phone call promising him the information he needed. He looked in his rear view mirror, still slightly sceptical by the whole thing. He had Ruzek and Atwater nearby in case something went sour.

A man approached the car, indicating Alvin to roll down the car window. There were no words spoken, just a folder dropped into his lap. Alvin watched as the man quickly disappeared. He opened the folder to the first page and whistled, this was government issued information. Whoever that man was, he wasn't authorised to give out these documents. He slowly reversed his car out of the street. He needed to get this to Voight and quick.

"That was quick." Ruzek radioed into Alvin.

"Sometimes it works out that way, if you're lucky." Alvin replied, speeding off into the direction of the precinct.

Erin had had enough. She was over sitting in an office she no longer worked at, she was sick of being confined between those walls. She poked her head into Voight's office and announced that she was taking a lunch break and that Jay was joining her. He looked at her with his usual disapproval. He didn't like that idea at all.

"There are people out there who want you killed for this." He reminded her, she shrugged.

"I'll take my chances." She scoffed, clearly unimpressed by his parental protectiveness.

"Erin." He sighed. All he wanted was for her to take this seriously.

"Hank, they've already tried to kill me and they failed. I'm a big girl. Jay will be there, we're just going down the street."

"Take Burgess with you." He instructed. His tone suggested that this was an order rather than a question.

Erin stomped her foot gently as she walked out. This was ridiculous, if Jay and her couldn't take an attacker. What help would Kim be? What was stopping them hurting her too? She grabbed Jay's hand and pulled him down the stairs.

"Are we all clear?" He asked as they walked down the stairs together. She hadn't exactly told Voight their real plans. She thought he'd be more cooperative.

"No, but we're not the criminals. He can't lock us in a police station."

Jay chuckled, she hadn't told him of course. He was too excited by what they were about to do to give her slack for it though.

"He's going to be pissed at us."

"We're just going home for some alone time." She reminded him, stroking his arm softly, causing the hairs on his arms to perk right up. She didn't know what he had expected her to tell Voight. It's not like she was going to tell him that they were going home to have sex. He would have definitely said no to that.

By the time they were redressing, Erin thought for sure that Voight had sent out a search party. She wasn't exactly far off she learnt by looking out the bedroom window. "That bastard." She grumbled, causing a half naked Jay to question what she was talking about.

"He sent officers to tail us." She explained, buttoning up her jeans.

Jay rolled over to her side of the bed and followed her eyes. "Well I'm sure they'll be happy to report that we're fine." He chuckled, wrapping his arms around her body. She held onto him for comfort, it was nice to be back in his arms again.

"You know it would be just our luck if we were attacked right now." She muttered, she was even starting to believe that if they were attacked right then and there she wouldn't even be surprised.

"Don't say that." He groaned, letting go of her. Instead he decided it was time to put his shirt back on. She watched as he pulled it over his head and smiled to herself. If all else failed, at least she had a hot boyfriend, right?

"We should get back."

Alvin dropped the folder onto his boss' desk. Voight raised an eyebrow. He wasn't expecting that Alvin would find anything this soon. He rolled closer to his desk and opened to the very first page. He was impressed, his mind flicked to all kinds of possibilities. He didn't know what Alvin did to get such a document but he was impressed regardless. He looked up at the man who nodded his head, Voight smiled at him before speaking. "This is exactly what we needed."

Alvin knew this of course, he wasn't used to praise from Voight so all he could do was nod again stupidly, and exited the office before anything else came of it.

Erin and Jay were just walking back in, Voight signalled for them to both come into his office and close the door. Jay offered to stand, while Erin sat down in front of the desk.

Voight swung the document around and pushed it towards the young couple.

"Hope this won't put a dent in your relationship but it looks like Jay will be having a visitor very soon."

Erin turned to look at her boyfriend who looked like he'd seen a ghost. In a way he had, Stacy was someone he hoped he'd never see again and now she was about to turn his life upside down all over again. He didn't know if he was prepared to come across the girl who was responsible for everything that's gone wrong in his life. He looked over at Voight who wore one of those proud smiles of his. This was a bad idea, he could feel it.

He didn't even listen to what Voight had to say next before barging out of his office, listening to Erin call out his name from behind him. He ran down the stairs and didn't look back.