Note: I'm from europe. Probably my english sounds a bit strange. Although I hope you like the story.

None of the characters are mine. I don't own any characters.

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"Dr. Rhodes, you're not allowed in there."

Connor looked at April before he raised his eybrows in confusion.

"What is going on right here?"

The nurse turned her head, changing concerned views with Will Halstead who walked into the surgery room again.

"I was informed that we have a teenage girl with an overdose. This is gonna be my patient. You can't stop me from treating someone with symptoms like that. One of the medics told me, that she has trouble breathing and her heartbeat stopped. This is my special field, not Halsteads."

Getting serious glances from Dr. Charles side, Rhodes realized that there was something wrong.

"You've got to tell him."

April took a deep breath, a mix of sadness and fear in her eyes.

"Listen, Rhodes. They brought your daughter in. Amy was found in a serious condition, a few miles from your home. But Halstead is gonna do everything to save her."

She didn't even finished her sentence when Connor wanted to enter the ER fastly, but was holding back by Sexton and Charles.

"I gotta go! She's my daughter. Let me go!", he screamed and it finally took two other nurses to stop him from punching and fighting.

Finally it was Daniel Charles, who prevented him from making the situation even more bad than it already was.

"Alright, take a deep breath and calm down. Listen to me! There is nothing you can do. If you go in there right now, you probably kill her right away."

Charles placed his arms on Rhodes shoulders.

"Look at you. You're even not ready to hold a scalpel."

They both focused on his shaky fingers, before he broke down and took seat on one of the chairs at the visitors area. Luckily it was already late, so nobody else was there.

Rhodes hide his face with his hands. They were cold as eyes. Meanwhile Charles placed his arm on his back.

"What happened?", Connor asked in a tone, that sounded like he was ready to cry.

The psychiatrist shook his head.

"We don't know yet."

Rhodes sniffled, fought hard to hide the tears.

"Where have I been? What kind of father am I?"

His fist met with one of the empty chairs.

"Hey, let's not think about that right now. "

Charles patted on his knee.

"Amy is a tough girl. She's gonna make it. Trust me."

The door went open when Will Halstead entered the visitors area.

Rhodes jumped up.

"How is she? Come on, talk to me, Halstead", he screamed and nearly collapsed when Will closed his eyes.

" High dosage of cocaine, mixed with alcohol that could kill a cow. We tried CPR and it finally worked. But she's still in a critical condition. Eventually she's gonna make it. But that's not all I'm worried about."

"What do you mean?"

"Her kidney values are pretty bad. We connected her on dialysis. We're hopeful but we don't know if it comes from the drugs."

"You mean she has some kind of a kidney disease?"

"Can I talk to him alone for a minute?", Will asked Charles, who nodded in agreement.

"Sure", he left the room, leaving the two doctors on their own.

Halstead sat down next to Rhodes, seriously glancing at his workmate.

"Show me the results."

Will handled the documents to his colleague.

"It's not clear where it comes from. Did she take some other medication? Pain killers? Antibiotics? How much did she usually drink? I mean, soft drinks, like juice or water."

"I…I don't know. I wasn't at home."

Halstead sighed as he noticed how this whole thing put Rhodes in a bad shape.

"Father of the year, huh?", Connor whispered, noticing Halsteads compassionate view.

"Don't do that to yourself. There could be several reasons how this stuff passed her system. She probably drank a lot of alcohol. There aren't any signs that she gave the coke via injection.."

"So we're talking about oral consume?"

"Yeah,which means we're not sure if she really knew what she took."

Will stood up from his chair.

"Listen, there's something else you should know.I didn't report her, nor did I talk to Jay or someone else. It's just Charles, Sexton, Manning you and me. You hear me? But if this is going to happen again, I have no choice."

Rhodes looked at him in surprise.

"Why are you doing all that?"

Will shrugged his shoulders, twinkled.

"No questions asked. Stay with her."

Connor nodded, getting up to follow his colleage to the emergency room.