TRIGGER WARNING: AS YOU KNOW, ALL OF MY STORIES TOUCH UPON MENTAL HEALTH IN SOME FORM, THIS STORY DOES TOO, IN PARTICULAR, THIS CHAPTER!

Sergeant Hank Voight walks into the bullpen of the21st District's Intelligence unit and pins up some crime scene pictures on the board. 'Listen up!' He turns to face his team which consists of- Detective Jay Halstead, Detective Hailey Upton, Detective Antonio Dawson, Officer Adam Ruzek, Officer Kim Burgess and Officer Kevin Atwater. They all stop what they are doing and turn to face him. 'Robbery-Homicide have just turned a case over to us. They haven't been able to get anywhere with it and they've just had a major case jump off.' He continues sticking some pictures on the board. 'Two months ago, a family was killed in what looks like a home invasion gone wrong. The M.O matches that off six other robbery-homicides over the past year.'

'Did they have any suspects?' Jay queries.

'A married couple.' Voight nods. 'Harry and Taylor Levine. They have a connection to all of the victims and their financials are all over the place. They also have a sixteen-year-old daughter, Megan. She attends Bishop's College Boarding School in Quebec, which is one of the many reasons the financials are messed up. She was at school at the time of each and every single home invasion so she's been ruled out as a suspect. She knows that her parents are suspects, that's about it. We keep her out of this unless necessary. Understood?' Everyone nods. 'Going by the parent's emails, she'll be due back into Chicago in two weeks so Halstead, I want you to contact the school and try and get her on the next flight back. We may need her.' Halstead nods, picks up the receiver to his desk phone and calls the school. 'Upton, I want you to look over the case files with Dawson and Burgess. Ruzek and Atwater, I want you to dig up everything you can on the Levine family. Megan included.' They all wait a few minutes for Jay to get off the phone.

'Sarge, we've got a problem.' Halstead puts the receiver down and stands up. 'Megan left school during her free time a few days ago and hasn't been seen since. Quebec police have been looking for her. They were going to leave it another day before contacting CPD. They've got a BOLO out which they've just sent over a copy of so that we can send it out here. The school dean has stated that Megan has been acting strange the past few weeks, she has become withdrawn. They said that it happened after her parents flew out to visit her.'

'She could have gone home.' Kevin states. Voight looks at him. 'That's the first place I'd go.'

'Then let's go and see if her parents have seen her. We'll hold off on sending the BOLO out until after we've spoken to the parents.' Voight nods. 'Let's go.'

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Everyone from Intelligence pulls up in front of the Levine residence and get out of their cars. They all walk up the path to the house and Antonio knocks on the door.

'Chicago P.D!' He announces. When there's no answer he knocks again. 'Chicago P.D!' Once again, there's no answer.

'Try the door.' Voight tells him. Antonio puts his hand on the door handle, turns it and pushes the door which opens. They all walk in.

'Megan?!' Jay shouts. They start looking around the house, calling her name. They are about to look in the kitchen when they hear a noise coming from upstairs.

'That came from upstairs.' Antonio states. They all walk to the stairs and start to walk up. 'Megan?!' 

SLAM! 

They hear a door slam. 

'Megan?' Antonio shouts once more as they walk up the stairs. They all approach the only room with the door closed. Antonio knocks on the door. 'Megan?' 

'GO AWAY!' Megan shouts.

'Megan, we're with the Chicago Police Department. People have been looking for you.' Hailey says. There's no response. 'We want to make sure that you're safe.' Again, no response. She puts her hand on the handle ready to open the door but looks at Voight for confirmation. Voight nods and so Hailey twists the handle, pushes the door open and leads everyone in. When they walk in, they see Megan sat on the floor against her bed with a blade in her hands. There are open cuts seeping blood all down her wrists alongside old scars and cuts scabbing over.

'Megan, can you put the blade down?' Adam asks.

'I-I-' Megan shakes her head, tears in her eyes and her voice cracking. Antonio takes his gun out of his holster and hands it to Kim. He pushes past everyone and crouches down in front of Megan. 'It's my fault.'

'What's your fault?' Voight questions. Megan just shakes her head.

'It's okay, Megan.' Antonio reassures her. 'My name's Antonio. People have been looking for you.'

'I shouldn't have walked out the school, I know.' Megan nods.

'Why did you?' Antonio queries.

'I-I don't know.' Megan shakes her head. 'I didn't know what else to do.'

'How about you put the blade down and we can talk about it?' Antonio says. Megan keeps a firm grip on the blade. 'It's okay.' He gently puts his hand on her wrist. 'It's okay.' He says again. He goes to take the blade out of her hand but she fights him off. Antonio keeps trying to get the blade whilst being careful not to get cut himself. Eventually, he manages to get Megan's hand stable and force the blade out of his hand. He passes the blade back to Kevin. Megan breaks down crying. 'It's okay, Megan. We're going to help you.'

'Ambulance is in the way.' Jay whispers to Voight.

'I'm sorry.' Megan tells Antonio.

'You don't need to apologise.' Antonio shakes his head.

'Your hand.' Megan points out. Antonio looks at his left hand. There's a cut on his palm about an inch in length.

'It's fine.' Antonio replies. 'It's not your fault.' He adds, causing Megan to scoff. 'I shouldn't have tried to force the blade out of your hand.'

'You were trying to stop me from cutting again.' Megan raises an eyebrow. 'Pretty sure it's my fault.' Hailey then walks back into the room (she had gone to meet the ambulance outside) with Sylvie Brett and Emily Foster from Firehouse 51. When Antonio moves out of the way and they see Megan, Sylvie stops dead in her tracks.

'Meg?' Sylvie says quietly.

'Hey, Sylvie.' Megan sighs.

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I had an idea for this and had to get it out and done and published so that the idea actually stayed in my head 😂 😂

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