The New P.D. Member ↠ will halstead

An Explosive Start Before Even Starting

As a former US Marine corporal and a FBI trained agent, she filled in most of the required to join any Police Unit she wanted, but when she went back to her hometown in Chicago and heard the reputation of the Intelligence Unit of CPD she knew it was that or nothing.

Sargent Platt used to be friends with Teresa's mother and knowing the tough life she and her older brother Toby had, she always looked out for them, until the day they both enlisted. Teresa went for the Marines at 18 while her brother, not wanting her to live alone with their mother, enlisted at the same time, at 20 years-old, to the Army Rangers. Ever since they were in their early teens, they knew it was the best for them to join in, and so they had trained hard and when she was almost 18 they joined separate Recruitment Boot Camps to the Marine's and to the Ranger's.

The reason why Platt was so kind to them and looked out for them is the same reason why Toby decided to wait two years and enlist with his sister: their mother, who used to be friends with Platt, is bipolar. A danger to herself and others, who married an alcoholic, the father of both children, who often disappeared and came back when he didn't have anymore money or needed something, never once carrying about the kids, Julia Logan could no longer be helped and Platt gave up on their friendship.

With Platt looking over Teresa and Toby, Teresa already had an easier way to slide into the CPD Intelligence Unit. Even though Sergeant Hank Voight couldn't alone allow for a person to join in the CPD District 21, if he wanted a person on his team he could easily pull some strings and make it happen.

That is the reason why, on the rainy day of Teresa's 30th birthday, she is staring at Sergeant Platt while wanting for Sergeant Hank Voight to call her up, meet her and ask some questions to her.

"How's your brother?"

"He's good. We're going to have dinner tonight."

"He's here in Chicago?"

"Hell yeah, he wouldn't leave his baby sister alone on her birthday."

"You're thirty, you're no one's baby sister."

"He'll always see me as a baby Sergeant."

"Since when do you treat me by Sergeant?" Platt asks hiding her amusement.

"Since that's how I'll have to call you by when I get into the CPD."

"If you get in."

"You know I will." Teresa smiles confident. "Do you want to come and have dinner with me and my brother? It's just the two of us, so..."

"I will when I get off work." Platt says. "How long is your brother staying?"

"Three more weeks and then he's deployed again."

"Isn't he thinking of retiring from the Rangers?"

"Not yet. He's doing okay with this life. Physically he's never been stronger and mentally... I think he deals with things well."

"Well, you've been in similar shoes to him, so you'd know."

"Well, honestly, he's fine with anything that makes him busy away from here. You know how he is. If he's not working or around, he gets dragged into my mother's problems. He can't help but try to help her."

"Some of us have more faith than others." Platt agrees.

"I don't even think it's called faith anymore." Teresa looks at the stairs and the gate on it, wondering when Voight was coming to get her. "So, who left? From the unit, I mean."

"Erin Lindsay. Moved to New York. FBI."

"Oh, wow... maybe I should have stayed with the FBI."

"You didn't want that."