Chapter 29

"Good morning, lovebirds," Will says, as he sits in the armchair, and watches Emma move on the couch, while Jay wakes up straight from the movement he feels next to him. Now they lie on the couch and Jay has his arms wrapped around her. Both of their cheeks blush immediately when they realize that Will was watching them sleep, and they sit on the couch, leaving some distance between them. 

"Will, when did you come?" Emma asks, passing a hand between her hairs. 

"Last night, but you were already asleep. I didn't want to wake you up, you were so cute when Jay stroked your hair," he says, laughing as he goes to the kitchen, while Emma and Jay feel their face burning. 

"I made breakfast. Come on," Will shouts again and without saying anything they go to the kitchen.

"Don't you work today?" he asks them as soon as everyone sits around the table. 

"Voight said we should go later today. You know, the last few days have been difficult," Emma replies, and Will begins to understand more about her visit yesterday. 

"Aren't you working today?" Jay asks, trying not to refer to their latest case, which both his brother and his partner understand. 

"I have a shift later today" he answers. 

"How are you doing, Will?" Emma asks sympathetically. 

"I'm trying. Jay helps a lot," Will admits, smiling at his brother, making Jay smile back. 

"That's very good Will. You'll see, everything will be as it was before, maybe even better," Emma says and Will turns again towards his brother. 

"Is she always so optimistic?" 

"Always," Jay replies, laughing.

"Where's Antonio? He's not picking up his phone," Adam asks Voight when they arrive at the side of the street where they were getting for a bust. 

"So, what's going on?"Emma asks. 

"Jay bust some punk this morning with an ounce of heroin in his car, gave up the drug house. Supposed to be moving a lot of fentanyl. We're gonna hit it, and see what we can find" Voight replies. 

"Yeah, and who we can flip" Kevin adds. 

"Yeah, so I want you to bust them all, too. Junkies, dealers, girlfriends, everyone" Voight says. 

"Hey, you know where Antonio is?" Voight asks Kim again. 

"No, I've been calling him, but..." 

"Huh," 

"Right so Spencer, Burgess, and I will take the front. Ruzek, Atwater, you guys take the back" Jay says. 

"All right, hit it. I'll see you all back at the district," Voight tells them and leaves. 

"I was at your house until 10 a.m. when did you manage to make a bust?" Emma whispers to Jay. 

"I was lucky when I took Kohl for a walk," he replies.

"Do we have names or pictures?" Emma asks again, louder this time. 

"No, we're flying blind. But that makes it fun, right?" Jay replies playfully and they all laugh. 

"Chicago PD, nobody move!" Jay shouts as they climb up the stairs and people start running away from them. 

"Nobody move! Hands in the air now!" he yells at them again. 

"Runners to the right," Emma yells as they enter the room. 

"This has gotta be some kind of mistake, man," says the man that Jay has against the wall, while Emma points her gun at two others. 

"This is a mistake? What is this, aspirin?" Jay asks, pointing to the pills on the table. 

"Adam, I got four coming out the back," Kim says on the radio. 

And indeed, four people come out the back door. But then another one runs away after he managed to get away from Emma and Jay. This man to everyone's surprise turned out to be Antonio.

"All right, Patrick Carter. He's a mid-level player, according to Narcotic. All his priors are cocaine-related, so he must have just started pushing synthetic opioids," Jay tells them back at the station the next day. 

"Controls on legit oxy are getting tight, so this fake stuff it's everywhere," Kim comments. 

"Yeah, killing a lot of people, too," Kevin says. 

"Eleven overdoses last month in that neighborhood," Emma informs them. 

"Hey, why I don't take a run at this guy, see if I can get him to flip up to his supplier?" Antonio asks nervously. 

"Uh, too late, he lawyered up the second they brought him into the interrogation," Voight replies. "

All right, let's dig into Carter's phone, digital footprint, known associates. See if we can ID who's supplying the pills," he tells everyone again, and then he talks to Antonio.

"Did you believe Antonio?" Emma suddenly asks Jay while the two of them are checking Carter's phone. 

"That he was there for work? Of course, I believed him. Why, don't you believe him?" he asks her, and Emma's mind goes straight to the lies Jay himself told when he was at that party with Camilla. All of this seemed very familiar. 

"I don't know," she admits, and Jay raises his gaze from the computer and looks at her. 

"Maybe you're right, I'm just worried. I have a bad feeling about all this," she explains. 

"It's going to be okay," he tries to reassure her and they return to work until the sound of the phone stops them. 

"I need you at Antonio's house. They kidnapped Eva," Voight tells them, and everyone leaves quickly.

"So, Antonio got a call from Eva at 1:24. Then the last call from Eva's phone was from the kidnapper at 2:21," Jay says, reading the evidence from his notebook. 

"I called OCD tech lab and put an emergency ping on Eva's phone," Emma informs Voight. 

"Already checked all the outside doors and windows. There's no sign of forced entry," Adam says as he enters the house with Kevin. 

 "There's no sign of struggle outside the house either," Kevin adds. 

"That's because she never made it home. She always puts her backpack right here on the kitchen counter. It's not there, so..." Antonio says as soon as he comes out of his daughter's room. 

"I mean are you sure it's not something to do with school. Maybe a boy from school?" Adam asks, and Antonio looks directly at Voight. 

"The guy on the phone said I made a mistake. That dealer, Paddy Carter? He wasn't supposed to get arrested. That's because I wasn't at that drug house to do a buy-bust," he says nervously, and pauses. 

"Antonio, what are you saying?" Emma asks before she can restrain herself, feeling nauseous at the idea that another person close to her is involved with drugs. Antonio sighs and then looks Emma in the eye. 

"I was there to score Oxy for me. I'm sorry guys," he admits, ready to cry and everyone looks at him frozen.

"Are you all right?" Emma asks Jay while they search for witnesses in the neighborhood.