Emma came down the stairs and headed into her kitchen, she was making her coffee when she heard a door creek. Emma stopped:

Creek

She stepped lightly over to her knife set, grabbing a sharp one from the top. She and Jay had their guns locked upstairs in a safe in the back of their closet, too far away. 

Step

She quickly went around the corner and waited for a few seconds before jumping out with the knife over her head.

"HA!" She screamed, Rocky fell to the floor and Emma sighed putting the knife on the island. 

"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING!" Rocky screamed at her from the floor.

"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?"

"I WAS COMING TO BRING YOU COFFEE!"

"WELL CALL NEXT TIME!"

"I DID!" 

"WHO PICKED UP!"

"NO ONE! I LEFT A MESSAGE!" 

"OH! OKAY! WHY ARE WE STILL YELLING!"

"I don't know!" Rocky huffed getting up.

"Where's the coffee?" Emma asked.

"I forgot it." Emma looked at him perplexed. "I saw a cute dog, so I followed it for two blocks instead and then forgot what I was doing." 

"Oh god." Emma said rubbing her temple, Jay came to the middle of the steps.

"Babe you gotta get dressed, Kim and Adam caught a car jacking on their way to work we gotta meet them at the scene." Emma nodded and pointed at Rocky.

"Call your grandpa I know!" Emma started up the stairs. "I forgot my car at the coffee shop, can I bum a ride?" Rocky asked.

"Dude! Seriously!"

"IT WAS A BABY CORGI ALRIGHT!" Rocky shouted. "HIS NAME WAS WADDLES!"

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Jay, Rocky, and Emma walked over to Kim and Adam who where standing around a blue BMW.

"Hey!" Adam said nodding his head.

"Good morning, what do we have?" Jay asked.

"BMW is registered to a Jeff Trubin. No priors, single, lives downtown." Kim said.

"We tried to talk to him but got nothing, he passed out, still unconscious." Adam said.

"Pretty brutal beating." Rocky observed. 

"Yeah, happened inside the car, looks like someone dragged him out and beat him some more." Kim said. "Maybe it was domestic, or a passenger? I don't know." 

"This one just doesn't really add up." Jay said.

"2261, can I get a direct mobile to whoever is assigned paper at Astor and Scott?" The radio buzzed. "I think we got a related incident." Everyone looked at Adam's radio. 

"This is 5021 Ida, we are held down at Astor and Scott." He said into the radio.

"I'm about two blocks south from ya'll, got something strange. I think you might wanna talk to this witness." 

"We'll take it." Jay said heading to his truck with Emma. "Take him back to the station!" Jay called out to Adam, Rocky crossed his arms.

"What'd you do? Where's your car?" Adam asked.

"I forgot it when I chase a corgi down the street." 

"Awww." Adam said. "What was his name?"

"Waddles." Rocky beamed.

"Aww! Honey! Can we get-"

"Don't finish that sentence. You wanted the three kids, I was fine with the one." Kim said heading to Adam's car. 

"One of them is grown now, what about a small dog!" Adam said following her.

"Yeah, it fits in a purse." Rocky added in.

~~~~~~~~~~~~

Jay and Emma pulled up to a construction site and got out of Jay's truck, a big man turned around who was with a patrol officer.

"Seemed too much of a coincidence not to be related to your accident. He called 9-1-1 about 30 minuets ago." Jay nodded.

"Alright. Hey Sir, I'm detective Halstead this is my partner Detective Rossi." Emma smiled at him. 

"Sir, would you mind going through what you saw again?" The officer asked as Jay got out his note pad.

"Course not. So I was working right over there." He said pointing to the bridge. "I heard screaming so I looked over and I saw three guys go past wearing masks."

"Masks?" Emma asked confused.

"Ski masks. They where running like hell. One had a crow bar, other was tucking something into the waistband of their pants." The man said. "I guessed it was a gun, than I saw a gray SUV pull up and they jumped in the car while it was still rolling. It sped away before I could see any plates." The man said. "A minuet later a blue BMW came speeding by."

"Blue BMW?" Jay asked.

"Yeah, I could see the drivers face he was all bloody." 

"Did you get anything else, any small detail is helpful." Emma said. 

"No, sorry. I just saw the kids hop into the SUV and it speeding away."

"Kids?" Jay asked. 

"Yeah, I didn't see their faces but I could tell. The way that they where dressed and where running, yelling at each other. They seemed like teenagers." 

~~~~~~~~~~

"We caught a strange one." Rocky and Adam said to Voight as they walked him up the stairs to the bullpen. 

"Witnesses?" Voight asked.

"Only the guy who called it in." Adam said.

"The victim?" Voight asked.

"Blood tox came back negative for drugs and alcohol." Adam said. "Guy is still unconscious but as soon as we can talk to him med's going to contact us." 

"So what do we think happened?" Voight asked, everyone settling In around the middle of the bored as Jay and Kevin put up pictures. 

"Well, right now, we're betting on a failed carjacking. There was a 40% increase in carjackings in this neighborhood this month alone." Kevin said. "It's the perfect territory. There's a through line from downtown, it's usually pretty void of pedestrians, or anybody really, so there's a hell of a lot of high end vehicles on a quiet street." 

"The victim was driving a 90,000 BMW, and there was evidence of a beating inside and outside of the car, so they pulled him out." Jay said.

"So a new, young crew tries to jack Jeff's car, maybe Jeff fights back, the kids get spooked. The crew takes off in the SUV, Jeff tries to drive away." Emma said.

"We got a hit on POD's. The grey SUV was clocked two blocks away." Kim said handing Kevin a file.

"Nice catch." Adam said to her. "You get inside the windows?"

"Nope, Can't see inside or the plates. So I had Rocky run it through our HOT file. Gray SUV was reported stolen two months ago by a Jessica Ramirez. The kicker, she works at a DCFS center with kids aging out of the system." Kim said. "Teenagers."

"Adam, Kim, Rocky hit it." Voight said.

"Me!" Rocky said standing up, everyone looked at him.

"Yeah, you're back in the field." Voight said, Rocky stumped out from behind his desk.

"All due respect Sargent, I haven't been out in a field in four and a half years. I don't shoot guns, I'm a tech guy." Sputtered.

"Yes, but your also young and are better at talking to children than you are adults." Voight said, he patted Rocky on the shoulder and walked away as Rocky stood there perplexed. Adam handed Rocky his coat.

"You've got this." Emma said to him.

"What he said is true buddy, you're great at talking to people." Jay said, Rocky took a deep breath and put on his coat.

~~~~~~~~

"So your SUV was stolen from here?" Kim asked Jessica as they walked through the main office space back to her private office.

"Uh, no. Well, yes it was. I had parked it around back in the lot." She said as they stepped into her office.

"And the kids here have access to it?" Adam asked.

"Sure. But really anyone has access to it, the lot does open to the street."

"You really think just anyone took your car?" Rocky asked.

"I don't know. At this point I had assumed my car was just gone for good." 

"Right. Well Jessica, we are looking for a group of teenagers that we believed to be involved in a very brutal car jacking. They are using your SUV as the getaway car, I get wanting to protect these kids but-" Adam said.

"I noticed my spare keys where missing after I called the police. These kids have it rough... I just wanted to give them a moment of piece but... my spare keys where in the drawer."

"Do you have any idea who might have taken them?" Rocky asked.

"No, but I know the kids who have access." Jessica said. 

"I would love to have their names, files if possible?" Rocky said.

"Of course."

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"This is a lot of names." Rocky said as the three of them walked down the metal staircase towards the car. "13 teenagers, they are going to be hard to find, knowing kids like this when the age out they just disappear." As they turned the corner Kim looked over and saw Makayla being walked out of a room by some one.

"Makayla!" She shouted, Makayla gasped and broke out of the women's grip running towards Kim and clinging onto her waist. "Hey! Hi you! What's going on? What's happening?" Kim asked.

"They took me here." Makayla whispered. 

"What's she doing here? What's happening?" Kim asked again.

"I'm sorry are you...?" The last asked looking between the three of them. 

"Officer Kim Burgess, Detective Adam Ruzek and Officer Rocky-"

"Just Rocky." 

"We worked the Ward homocide case." Ruzek said quietly.

"What's she doing here? Where is her guardian?" Kim asked. "Where's Kathy?" She asked Makayla.

"I'm sorry I can't lawfully give you any information on a minors case without the correct authorization." The women said.

"I understand, but clearly I know her and she trusts me. I know her social worker, Allana." Kim said.

"Well I'm sorry, but you've got to speak to Allana then." The lady said. "Come on." She said to Makayla." Kim kneeled down so she was looking up at Makalaya.

"Hey, I'll call Allana okay, I'll work this all out.  Until I do I want you to go with this nice lady, okay?" Kim asked. 

"Okay." Makayla said, she walked away with the lady. 

"Lot's of reasons she could be here." Adam said to Kim who was already calling, Rocky nodded in agreement.

"Yeah no, I know." The line went dead. "Huh, Alana's not answering." Kim said.

"You guys got your ears in?" Emma asked over the radio.

"Yeah go ahead." Adam said.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"Call came in over the zone, car jacking. Jay and I are around the corner, sounds like our crew." Emma said as Jay pulled down a side street.

"Meet you there," Emma's radio clicked off as a car sped out of an ally.

"JAY!" She grabbed his arm tightly as he swerved in-front of the car. A kid hoped out of the BWM that had sped out of the alley and sprinted back down the street.

"Damnit!" Emma's door was pinned so Jay ran after him as Emma climbed through the back seat.

"HELP!" An old man yelled from the other corner, Emma gasped and went running towards him. 

"HEY! Chicago PD STOP!" Emma yelled, the kids ran away from the old man. "Hey! We've got three offenders fleeing on feet, all in masks." Adam and Kim pulled up and ran after the three kids.

"YOU GOOD?" Kim asked before running.

"Yeah! Go! TWO ARE ARMED THEY WENT THAT WAY!" 

~~~~~~~~~~~~

It was nightfall as the unit met near the scene of the accident from earlier.

"Medics took the man to the hospital. He had signs of a massive heart attack." Emma said. "His name is Troy Wrightman, he's 62 years old. This is his car, married, no children, no priors. The kids we saw fleeing where three males and a female, I'm guessing." 

"Ruzek is talking to a witness who says he saw TWO kids rush the car." Jay said. 

"Two? What happened to the third?" Kevin asked.

"Here's what's weird." Jay said. "The kids ran off, they opened the doors, they ripped the victim out, beat him, took off running." 

"So what, you guys scared them before they could actually get the car?" Kevin asked.

"No, I don't think so. We got here as soon as the SUV hit the alley, like a get away car." Jay said.

"You don't need a car for a car jacking." Voight said 

"What if the cars are not the main focus." Emma suggested, they all turned towards her. "What if the person in the car is the main focus? Or beating the person in the car? I mean his pockets where also rabbited. Maybe it's robbery?" 

"It woulda been hella of a lot of trouble for a wallet." Kevin said. 

"Yeah, Emma start a profile and dig up this Troy. Everyone else search this car from top to bottom, same with the SUV. Find witnesses, just keep digging." Voight said, they all broke into their own little groups as Emma put in a number on her phone.

The line rang for a while, before he picked up. "Hey Spencer, can I have your help with something?"

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"Okay thanks." Kim said, she was standing in the bullpen with Adam and Rocky.

"Was that Alana?" Rocky asked.

"Yeah."

"Is everything good?" Adam asked.

"Yeah, I think so." Kim said, rushed. "Kathey missed some school pickups so the teacher  had to call DCFS. They are offering Kathey extra help and support now so, that's good."

"Yeah, it's good." Adam said reassuring her.

"What have we got?" Voight asked coming up the steps with Jay.

"Okay, so Rocky and I connected with Med, Jeff and Troy are awake but refusing police help." Adam said. "They don't wanna talk."  

"Huh."

"So we searched the SUV, top to bottom. Found 2 grand in cash, and six wallets with the ID's in them, I sent Atwater and Emma to look at it. Car was loaded with stuff, almost as if they live in the car when it's cold. Maybe they are street kids." Jay suggested as Emma and Kevin came back.

"We ran the other profiles of those six wallets we found in the car, most likely six other victims. Defntily a pattern."

"All men?" Voight asked.

"Yeah, I have a theory on that I would love to get too." Emma said. 

"Floor is yours." 

"Okay so three kids have priors for solicitation.  We ran the locations with that in mind. One is five blocks from a male stroll, second of is two blocks from a corner Vice recently ID'd. So I spoke with Dr. Spencer Reid to confirm my suspicions, but I think these kids are prostotuites robbing their Johns." 

"I agree." Voight said.

"That's why the witness saw only two of the kids rush the car, the third one was inside. They take the job, get into a car, go to a quiet place, then the other kids are waiting to rush the car. I've seen it hundreds of times before." Emma said.

"Explains why we found 2 grand in cash in the SUV." Jay said. 

"SO these kids got tired of touching their Johns and found a new way to make money. I mean they are just trying to survive." Kim said, Emma nodded in agreement.

"Run that DCfS list again with this in mind, loop in vice, hit every stroll and corner young prostitutes frequent. Any place street kids crash." Voight said. "We just took their car and all their cash, they gotta know the heats on them. Let's find these kids before they get more desperate." 

~~~~~~~~~

Kim and Adam find a young boy and bring him back to the station.

~~~~~~~~

"His name is Miguel Reys, 18. He aged out of foster care two months ago, he was removed from his home at age seven for abuse. History of complex trauma. He's been in and out of group homes for the last decade." Kim explained to Voight and Emma.

"Any priors?" Emma asked.

"One for vandalism, that's it." Kim said. "His social worker says he's a sweet kid, just very reactive. No current address, an aunt in Georgia but other than that no family, The kids on his own." 

"It makes sense that he reacts first, when kid's have suffered trauma like that it's normal for them to be reactive." Emma said. "In his mind it's the 'I don't fight back, I die' mentality. I see it a lot in street kids.

"I always forget you're a psychology major."  Voight said to Emma as they got to the interrogation room door.

"Emma you can watch from the other room, Kim with me." Emma nodded and headed into the viewing room as Voight and Kim walked into the integration room.

"Alright Miguel." Voight said sitting down and putting the file down in front of himself. "I'm going to explain to you exactly what you're looking at here. We know you where involved in a string of robbery alongside three other teenagers. Your last victim, Troy, had a heart attack. It almost killed him."

"No one killed anybody." Miguel said.

"So you're saying you where there?" Voight asked.

"No-I definitely did not say that." Miguel said nervously, his voice trembling. 

"Miguel." Kim started. "You and your friends, I mean they are your friends right? You started robbing people so you wouldn't have to turn tricks anymore. But the problem is you robbed these men. You beat them, you had a crowbar, you had a gun. That's aggravated robbery with a weapon, that's decades in jail. So the best thing you can do for yourself, and for your friends would be cooperate with us."

"No." Miguel said.

"Miguel... if you talk to us we can tell your story to the states attorney. We could tell them who you are, who your victims are. If you talk to us we can help."  Voight said.

"I've been 'helped' by people just like you my whole life!" Miguel said.

"I'm sure that's true." 

"I don't need anyones help."

"That I don't believe." 

"I'm not saying I did anything, but they are not my friends, they are my family. So even if I did know anything, I wouldn't tell either of you."

~~~~~~~~~

Emma sighed, Kevin and Jay had joined her in the viewing room. Voight and Kim walked in.

"Well?" Voight asked Emma.

"Disappointed but not surprised. They are his only family, he was never going to snitch. That's like if Jay murdered someone, or if you-" Everyone got quiet and Emma shook her head. "Annnnywayyyy. He wasn't going to give them up, but we gotta find someway for him to do it." 

"Well do you think he knows that we have nothing concrete on him?" Jay asked.

"It's all circumstantial, we need him to talk." Kevin said, Kim stared at the boy. 

"I say we let him go. I mean he said it himself it's his family. He's alone, he's in trouble, they are all he knows, and when he has the chance he'll go right back to them." Kim said.

"I agree, because where do you go when your feeling alone, home!" Emma said.

"All right, kick him, but keep eyes on him. We can't lose him." Voight instructed them.

"Hey, Em! Quick question!" Kim said to Emma.

"Yeah?" Emma asked as everyone left.

"When you had Masie, how did Nic feel?" Kim asked, Emma crossed her arms.

"Ummm... Wow." She thought about it. "He was chill with it. He was super excited to teach her things and have someone else around. Why?" Emma asked.

"Remember that girl, Makayla?"

"Yeah, Oh my gosh she was so cute I wanted to squeeze her!" 

"I'm thinking about taking her in, and I don't know how the other two at home (I have again forgotten the names of the children I have Kim.) Would take it?"

"Well I think you and Adam need to explain to them the situation, get their thoughts and options, and take it all into account. I mean you're bringing in a new child, one with serious trauma." Emma said. "But (let's call them Jacob and Lilia, writing it down.) Jacob and Lilia are smart and kind, they will be honest with you about their feelings." 

"Yeah, Yeah. Thanks."

"Of course."

~~~~~~~~~~

They find Miguel, all the kids but him and one girl, Lily, run away. Lily has been beaten by a John but who he is, is still unclear.

~~~~~~~~~

"Hey! Are you okay!" Emma asked rushing into the apartment with Jay behind her.

"Yeah, the kids are in the wind. They won't get far though, all of their cash and most of their belongings are right here. The girl, Lily has been rushed to surgery." Kim said. "It doesn't look good."

"We still don't know who beat her?" Emma asked.

"A John, Ruzek is running the card that's sitting outside, we think it's the Johns. Sounds like two kids drove Lily here after he beat her, Miguel stopped talking after that." 

"All right, let's find something." Jay said as everyone put on their gloves.

"I couldn't imagine living like this" Emma said shaking her head.

"Yeah, you wouldn't survive a second." Jay responded.

"Yep." Emma nodded in agreement. Jay wondered into a small backroom as Emma and Kim searched through bags they had both found. Kim found Lily's diary as Emma pulled out four ID's.  "Got the other two ID's! Samuel Wilton and Micheal Jefferys. 16 and 17!" Kim out the journal back and pulled a gun out of the bag. Jay came out of the backroom and shook his head.

"Gun!" She yelled unloading the club and throwing it on the floor next to the bag.

"Car outside is a rental." Adam said coming into the apartment. "It links back to a Robert Mckinny, 62 priors for solicitation, one for a domestic. I really think he's our John." Adam said.

"You got an address?" Kim asked.

"Yeah." Adam said, Kim pushed through him and stormed out the door. "Umm... we've got this." Adam said too Emma and Jay. 

"Sure." Emma said nodding as Adam left. She turned towards Jay and mouthed 'wow', he nodded.

"Oh yeah, she needs to take up kickboxing or something."

"I know! Did you see her little walk, it was so adorable." Emma said, Jay's phone rang.

"Yeah, oh crap. All right, we'll meet you there."

"What happened?" Emma asked Jay.

"Explain in the car."

~~~~~~~~

"One GSW." The crime tech explained to the four of them as he walked them onto the scene. "Guessing we're going to get some good prints lifted from that bar." They walked over to a body that was bloody, bashed, and messy on the ground. "He's got substantial scratching and bruising on his face and arms. Signs of a struggle." Adam put his coat over Kim's shoulders and she smiled at him, Emma looked at Jay expectantly.

"What? You run hot and you know it. I run cold." Jay whispered, Emma rolled her eyes. 

"We're not sure but it looks like multiple offenders." The crime tech said. "We're real close to a stroll, so I bet he picked someone up."

"Lily." Kim said. "He picked Lily up. Beat her, tried to rape her, but her friends stepped in."

"She a victim on a case you're working?" 

"No, she's an offender." Kim responded.

"I'm going to go call Voight." Adam said.

"I'll come with." Jay said following him as Emma walked over to Kim.

"What now?" Emma asked, Kim sighed.

"I was thinking the same thing."

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Kim and Voight walked into the interrogation room.

"Is Lily okay?"  Miguel asked, he was sitting on the bench handcuffed to the pole. Voight sat down next to him. 

"She's still in surgery." Voight said removing the cuffs, Miguel rubbed his wrists and sat forward. "Miguel you need to talk to us now." Miguel sighed. "You need to tell me what happened."

"No."

"Where are your friends?"

"I'm not an idiot, you think I'm going to tell you that now." 

"Miguel, you told me Lily was going to do a normal job." Kim said. "You and your friends where looking out for her but she didn't wanna do it so the John got mad. Beat her."

"Stop!"

"Tried to rape her. You stopped him-"

"STOP!" Miguel jumped up.

"Miguel that is self defense!" Kim yelled at him as he walked towards the interrogation room door. 

"That's the kinda thing we can prove." Voight said.  

"Not after what we did! We robbed those men, we beat them." 

"I know, that's what I'm telling you. But without your friends confirming your story, without you talking to us, all I've got standing in front of me is a kid who isn't cooperating, is just beating them, and who told his buddies to run after you killed a man together. That's what the states attorney is going to see."  Miguel stared at Voight who lead him over to a chair.  "It's okay, come on sit." Miguel sat down and took a deep breath.

"Son, you're already going away for the robberies, I can't help you there. But timing matters. You're a good kid with a good heart, you where just dealt a bad hand, but you played it wrong. You're still young Miguel, this is still your life, and if you don't talk to me right now your going to spend the next four decades staring at concrete." 

"But my friends have a chance." 

"No." Kim and Voight said. 

"No they don't." Kim said getting down on her knees and making eye contact with Miguel. "Chances are we will find them, and it's much harder to claim self defense once you've run. And once they cross state lines, we can't help them. That's it."

"And you can't guarantee that you can help me now. They are all I've ever had, I'm all they have. I need to help them."

"You need to help yourself right now." Voight said.

"No, I'm not going to hurt them. There's a chance you won't find them, that they will have a shot at something! I'm done talking to you." Miguel said turning his back to them.

~~~~~~~~~ 

Kim and Voight walked into the bullpen where everyone else was.

"He's not going to roll on his friends so what else do we have?" Voight asked.

"Ballistics came back on the nine mill for the shooting at the house, it's a match for the killing." Jay said.

"Forensics also came back as a match for the SUV." Kevin said, "Three separate prints on the crowbar, one of them is Miguels." 

"What do we have on Micheal and Sammy." Voight asked.

"Nothing yet, we're up on busses and train stations, we've got investigative reports out." Emma sighed.

"Yeah, I mean we've been digging but they've been in foster care for over a decade. They've got no family, no connections to anybody." Adam explained, "They've got no connections to anyone other than each other. Tough to pinpoint where they are going to run too."

"We have enough evidence to charge Miguel on all counts." Emma said.

"Alright, start processing him." Voight said, "Maybe once they feel real it'll scare him into talking." 

"So that's it?" Kim asked before Voight could head back into his office, everyone looked at her as Voight raised an eyebrow at her. "They're kids, they where doing this to put a roof over their heads. They have their dreams and hopes scribbled in their notebooks. They have no where to go, a system that failed them, Hell! They are robbing their Johns and the answer is, 'they can go to jail?' That's the best we can do for them?" Kim asked, anger building in her tone, everyone waiting anxiously.

"Look I get it, but... they robbed these men, one of whom is dead and Miguel is not talking so...unless you have a play I'm not thinking of...?"

"No," Kim sighed shaking her head. "I-Um- I don't have another play." Her phone rang and she went to answer it.

"Keep searching, Miguels only chance is if we find his friends so they can corroborate his self defense story. Let's go." Kim went down the stairs.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~

We learn that Kathy can't take care of Makayla so Kim says she can, the DCFS lady tells her to take some time and think about it. With Kim's job and her family already, she should really think over this situation.

~~~~~~~~~~~

The next morning Kim walked into the downstairs where Adam, Rocky, and Kevin where crowded around two desktops.

"Anything?" Kim asked.

"Nothing, the kids moved last night and I don't think we clocked them." Adam said.

"Hey! I think I have them!" Emma said appearing in the doorway, her hair still damp. "Patrol got a report of a chevy stolen downtown at five AM. POD caught it, two teenage offenders, descriptions match Micheal and Sammy."

"Let's go. We have a BOLO out yet?" Kevin asked.

"Patrol's got it in a parking lot on ashland, unoccupied." Emma said.

"That's gotta be them, we'll take it." Kim said, Emma nodded and handed her the file.

"Hair dryer not working?" Adam asked getting on his coat.

"Yeah-no- I um! I just didn't feel like it today." Emma blushed.

"Really, that's crazy because I saw Jay come in with wet hair too."

"Really? Wow! That's crazy. Alright, have fun!" Emma quickly walked away as the others laughed.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Adam and Kim learn the boys where hitching rides from truckers, they are long gone.

~~~~~~~

Back in the bullpen everyone crowded around Kim's desk as she rubbed her temples. Camera footage played over and over on her screen.

"Nothing on any POD's." She sighed.

"Nothing on traffic cam's either, no security footage." Jay said from his desk. 

"There's just every reason to believe that they've already crossed state lines." Adam sighed.

"Process Miguel, get out leads, messages, on Micheal and Sammy. Chances are some state police man will pick em' up soon." Voight said, as everyone went through the evidence Kim and Emma read through Lily's journal.

"I've got an idea." Emma said, Kim nodded as they looked at pictures of open houses in other states.

"I'm pretty sure I've got the same one."

~~~~~~~~~~

Emma and Kim walked into the interrogation room, Emma hiding the journal in a file she was holding.

"So patrol will be here in a few to transport you to county." Emma explained as they sat down.

"What about Lily?" Miguel asked.

"They still don't know the damage it's too early to tell, but they know there will definitely be some." Kim said. "We will let you know."

"Okay." Miguel said quietly.

"Miguel." Kim started. "When we where in that abandoned house, you told Micheal and Sammy to run following up with, 'I'll meet you there.'  Emma pulled out the journal and Miguels eyes went wide as he looked up at the two ladies. "Is there where were you gonna build a home together?" Kim asked opening the journal, Emma sat back. When she opens the journal on it a notecard was tapped down. 

'Tell me it's Iowa' Was written on the card.

"So where is there Miguel? Your friends have already crossed state lines,  they ran and I told you what that meant before, I told you what their chances would be." Kim said. "They are going to be picked up by state police who are looking for them. I know you wanna protect them, that's why you're doing all of this. I wanna protect them too, so tell us Miguel, where is 'There'?" Kim and Emma held their breaths for a few moments as Miguel seemed to just stare at them blankly.

"There in Iowa." He finally said, Emma and Kim sighed and nodded.

"Okay."

~~~~~~~~~~~

Kim puts out a BOLO, we don't know if the kids are found but we are supposed to assume they are.

~~~~~~~~~~~

Kim and Adam sat around their kitchen nook with Lilia and Jacob who where eating chicken nuggets, Mac and cheese, and broccoli, you standard kid dinner.

"Okay, so Mommy and daddy have to talk to you about something." Adam explained to them as Kim sat down.

"We're getting a puppy!" Jacob beamed.

"That would be so cool-" Adam said, Kim cleared her throat. "But not right now."

"A lizard?"

"Jacob-"

"A snake! A spider! A rabbit! An armadillo!" 

"No animals!" Adam said cutting him off before he could keep going.

"Darn." 

"Do you remember that little girl that stayed with us, Makayla?" Adam asked, they both nodded. "Yeah, what did you think of her?"

"I liked her because she smelled nicer than Jacob." Lilia said, Adam and Kim hid their smirks.

"Hey!" Jacob yelled at her offended.

"Jacob! What did you like about her?" Adam got his attention.

"I'daknow, she's a girl I guess." He shrugged.

"Right... we were hopping for a little more." Kim prompted.

"Um... she liked to play with us, that was fun." Kim and Adam smiled.

"See, there we go." Adam fist bumped him. 

"What's with all the questions?" Lilia asked crossing her little arms, Kim nodded at Adam and he cleared his throat.

"Your mom and I decided that Makayla needs to come and stay with us for a little while, but we needed to know how you felt about it." Adam explained.

"What does that mean?" Jacob asked.

"Well." Kim started. "She would stay here, eat with you, play with you, she's about two years younger than both of you so she wouldn't be in the same class."

"Where would she sleep?" Lilia asked.

"Since your sister has decided she's moved on from all of us, and won't contact us, we turned her room back into a kids room." Adam sighed, Kim patted his shoulder. 

"What would she eat?" Jacob asked, Lila glared at him.

"What do you mean you idiot, she would eat our food." 

"Hey! Don't call your brother that!" Adam said to Lila. "But, Jacob your sister is right she would eat with us." 

"I for one am all for it!" Lila said smiling wide.

"Yay!" Kim laughed beaming at her daughter, they all looked at Jacob who had his finger on his chin pensively.

"I'll agree, one one condition." He said.

"Doesn't work like that." Kim whispered.

"Shh! I wanna hear it." Adam said, Kim rolled her eyes. 

"She can stay here, if Sparky can stay here." Jacob said, Lila face palmed.

"Who the hell is Sparky?"Adam asked sternly, Jacob gasped and covered his mouth.

"You weren't supposed to say anything!" Lila hissed.

"I forgot!" Jacob cried!

"Who's Sparky!" Adam asked again, louder this time, both kids turned towards their parents.

"When we where with grandpa the other day, we found a puppy in his backyard." Lila said.

"And we really liked him. So we named him Sparky." Jacob said.

"Where is Sparky now?" Adam asked, Both kids looked at the ceiling than back at their parents.

"You didn't!" Kim gasped, all of the sudden.

Bark

Bark

"We did!" They both said.

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"I can't believe you! You've hiding the dog in your room for a week!" Kim said as they stood in the living room, Sparky was about ten pounds, he was definitely a puppy. He had the face of a boxer and the body of a pitbull.

"Look honey! He's licking my hand!" Adam gushed as he held the dog and played with it on the floor.

"Adam, not helping." Kim crossed her arms as Adam stood up.

"Sorry, he's just so cute! Aren't you little guy!"

"See mom! Dad likes him!" Jacob cried.

"What's he been eating?" Kim asked.

"My dinner, and my lunch, and my breakfast." Lilia said.

"We rotate." Jacob added in.

"What have you bene eating then?" Adam asked concerned.

"I only bring him what I don't eat, and if I eat everything I bring him scraps of things." Lila said.

"Has he peed in the house?" Adam asked.

"No, I wake up at 6 every morning and let him into the yard." Jacob assured them.

"Really?" Adam asked, now sitting on the floor fighting with the dog who had a with an old sock in his mouth. 

"Yeah, I didn't want him to pee in my room, that's nasty." Kim sighed and looked at the adorable puppy, and her pleading children.

"Fine, you can keep the puppy."

"And you get your baby!" Jacob said extending his hand so Kim could shake it.

"Nice doing business with you." Kim said.

"Same to you." Jacob responded.

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"Hold on- you-what?" Emma asked as she collapsed onto her couch, Jay came out of the kitchen with a beer and sat down next to her. "You got a dog and a child, all within 12 hours?"

"Who?" Jay mouthed.

"Kim." Emma mouthed back, he laughed and raised his eyebrows.  "Yeah, tell me about it tomorrow. Alright, bye." Emma hung up and laughed rubbing her temples.

"Adam got his dog?" Jay asked.

"yeah, and Kim got a child."

"Good for them."

"I guess." Emma said, she looked around at the silence. "Speaking of children, where are ours?" 

"Nic is in his room reading some really big book, and Maisie is like a year so she's asleep." Jay said, Emma sighed happily.

"Thank god." Jay put his beer down and went to kiss Emma, but was interrupted by the door opening.

"So than I said- no!" Rocky explained to Kelsey as they both walked in.

"So close detective!" Emma said patting Jay's shoulder as Kelsey and Rocky sat in the chairs next to them. "What's up?" Emma asked.

"I was telling Kelsey about that time I dated that guy who really liked pigs." 

"Eww! NO! I don't wanna hear this story again." Emma said waving her hand, Kelsey laughed.

"How are you here, together? Don't you both live on like opposite sides of the city?" Jay asked.

"No, we are roommates now." Kelsey said. 

"Technically  building mates, I'm renting the apartment across from her." Rocky said.

"Since when?" Emma asked.

"Since my old building turned into an Air b''nb for old people." They chuckled and Rocky cleared his throat at Kelsey who was playing with her fingers.

"What is it?" Jay asked. "Spill." Emma laughed at the glee in his eyes at the though of drama. 

"So like, I kindaaaa, maybeee, sorrrtaaa-"

"She slept with Voight." Rocky said.

"EWW!" Emma gasped. 

"WHAT!" Jay shouted, laughing.

"Your such a snitch!"Kelsey glared at Rocky.

"Oh. My. God." Emma was laughing in shock, he smile from ear to ear.

"I'm sorry if that makes things weird."

"Um, yeah Kels. It does put a damper on things. Like I can no longer look into his eyes." Jay laughed and Kelsey rolled her eyes.

"haha!" She mocked.

"In all seriousness though, I'm happy you're happy." Emma said, Kelsey smiled at her.

"Thank you, I'm happier than I've been in a while." 

"That's good."

"Yeah! Ya know I didn't even have to like get him drunk or anything, he actually liked me! It's so much fun waiting people who like you and who don't just want your money!" Kelsey said excited.

"I bet!" Rocky said dryly.

"So how was it?" Jay asked.

"JAY!" Emma shouted.

"I'm sorry , but we are all thinking it." 

"It was. A.MA.ZING!" She clapped her hands.

"Go Voight." Jay said laying back on the couch.

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New Chapters coming out as fast as I can write them LOL! <3