#Burzek Forever

[jbuffyangel]

FREAKING FINALLY!!!!!

#burzek #burzek forever #chicago pd #spoilers

[adamruz]

Promise me we'll keep fighting for this because I need us, Adam, I need this family. Well you know I will. Yeah. Yeah? Yeah, yeah I'll keep fighting for it for the rest of my life. That's nice.

#I'M SCREAMING #I'VE WAITED FOREVER FOR THIS 😭 #adam ruzek #kim burgess #burzek #chicago pd #s11 #11x3 #lexi.edits #cpdedit #tvarchive #otpsource #onechicagoedit #chicagopdedit #userthing #cinematv #dailyprocedurals #tvedit #smallscreensource #dailydickwolf #burzekedit #userranch

[kim-ruzek]

will there ever be a day I write a burzek fic that's not set in season three? perhaps, but not today

#ree rambles #burzek #it amuses me how many season three fics i have #even now burzek are together happy and engaged again #season three will forever be one of my favourite sandpits to play in #literally tho. think of a way season three can be fixed. I GUARANTEE you I have a fic about it #that's just how i roll

[sarah-cam]

burzek copy upstead! here is proof!

https://twitter.com/Ocelotl_Mx/status/1661603479151058945

bestie you’re so right, jay is the first character to ever be shot and see their love interest and then go to the hospital also adam loves voight since he saw him just like jay saw hailey 😍

#answered #anon #anti fandom #chicago pd #both scenes are amazing #also erin did it first with jules so 🤷🏻‍♀️ #i’m sorry it’s just so funny at this point #sweet sweet anon as if we don’t know it’s only you over and over again #from the bottom of my heart get a life #also forever confused why you’re choosing to send it to me #i have never once been a part of upstead vs burzek or said anything bad about either lmao

[mindyourownbiscuitss]

Thank you! My block button has been on full force. I get that the Brettsey wedding is getting some help with the fandom and I'm happy they are because, like you said, we only got 5 episodes of them as a couple! But you know what we didn't get - a full season of them as a couple onscreen, a date night (we didn't get to see a date outside of Sylvie's apartment), the morning after, the reaction to the proposal, the honeymoon, and almost every other couple experience that other ships have been or will be lucky to get.

I’ll forever be bitter we didn’t see her answer to the proposal. I’m still convinced they filmed the answer but didn’t show it. Same thing happened on PD with the Burzek hospital scene. The PD showrunner confirmed their scene was cut, too.

It’s petty of me, but I hope they’re going to give the Brettsey wedding a good budget, everything we want, and more. We deserve it because of, well, everything that’s happened. Between season 11, and the toxic ass fandom, we deserve it! Hell, the characters, especially Matt, deserve it.

Here’s to the wedding, in episode 6 more than likely!

#brettsey #chicago fire #anon #anonymous #ask

[morganupstead]

Im happy that Kim and Adam have gotten to where they are. As a fan for what feels like forever I’m like they’ve had such a hard go the BOTH of them and it wasn’t easy or simple or pain free. I’ve watched it all.

But Gwen is still wrong about the way she’s leading the show. We know this kind of stuff comes from the top down and it’s just not okay.

I’m never gonna be able to reconcile the continuous misuse of trauma and this makes it worse.

It didn’t have to be this way and that might be the worst part.

I’ve said for years I’ve loved Burzek as much as Upstead. So you can’t have “the upstead marriage was a trauma response” and act like Burzek’s trauma doesn’t weigh on their relationship too. But they can make the effort to make it work. Okay. Sorry. My brain is melting from that right now.

#Chicago pd

[chenfordsrollisi]

New Fics: 2/26/23 - 3/31/23

2/26/23: Fic: Turning to You (Wayhaught) Fic: Taking A Break (Avalance) 2/27/23: Fic: One Last Good Memory (Tillow) Fic: Sudden Warmth (Avalance) Fic: How It Should Be (Clexa) Fic: Two Things (Tillow)

2/28/23: Fic: The Easy Part (Wayhaught) Fic: Make Time (Avalance) Fic: What Love Is Like (Clexa) Fic: The Morning After (Tillow) 3/1/23: Fic: Wasn't the Same  (Upstead) Fic: Puppy Love (Avalance) Fic: Remember to Breathe (Clexa) Fic: Better Ways (Tillow) 3/2/23: Fic: Some Things Aren't Meant to Be (Avalance) Fic: Build A Home (Bughead) Fic: Happy Together (Clexa) Fic: Sure and Steady (Tillow) Fic: Small and Cute  (Brettsey) 3/3/23: Fic: Stay With You Forever (Manstead) Fic: An Excellent Start (Avalance) Fic: At the End of the Day (Bughead) Fic: Where My Heart Is (Clexa) Fic: My Miracle (Tillow) 3-4-23: Fic: Something Like You (Bughead) Fic: One Bright Spot (Clexa) Fic: The Real Me (Shory) Fic: Say Something (Tillow) Fic: Making You Happy (Avalance) 3/5/23: Fic: Unexpected (Bughead) Fic: One Fine Day (Clexa) Fic: Always Okay (Tillow) Fic: Taboo (Moreid) 3/6/23: Fic: Best Day of My Life (Bughead) Fic: Hold On to the Feeling (Zibell) 3/7/23: Fic: You're Where My Heart Is (McRoll) Fic: You Make My Soul Sing (Bughead) 3/8/23: Fic: Something Nice (Bughead) 3/9/23: Fic: An Unlikely Romance (Brensen) Fic: Close Enough to Touch (Supercorp) 3/10/23: Fic: Ghosts ~ Joel & Ellie 3/11/23: Fic: Wrapped Up (Supercorp) 3/15/23: Fic: When It's Right (Chenford) 3/16/23: Fic: Empty Spaces ~ Jay Halstead & Hailey Upton 3/17/23: Fic: In His Arms (Chexton) Fic: Living Proof (Burzek) 3/23/23: Fic: The World Can Wait (CoNic) 3/24/23: Fic: Time For You (Kangs) Fic: Only Natural (Queliot) Fic: One Truth That Always Stays the Same (Brettsey) 3/26/23: Fic: Happily Ever After (CoNic) Fic: Before the End (Ichabbie) Fic: Things That Don't Change (Tillow) Fic: Whatever You Need (Palex) 3/28/23: Fic: No Need For Words (Sante) Fic: One Good Reason (Rollisi) 3/29/23: Fic: A Good End to A Bad Week (McSwarek) Fic: No More Drama (Darco) 3/30/23: Fic: No Complaints (Britin) Fic: Lucky Stars (Hodgela) 3/31/23: Fic: The Best Mornings (Zibell) Fic: Counting the Days (Jemmy)

#Fanfiction #Avalance #Brensen #Brettsey #Britin #Bughead #Burzek #Chenford #Chexton #Clexa #CoNic #Darco #Hodgela #Ichabbie #Jemmy #Kangs #Manstead #McRoll #McSwarek #Moreid #Palex #Queliot #Rollisi #Sante #Shory #Supercorp #Tillow #Upstead #Wayhaught #Zibell

[bleuangel88]

Chicago PD: Burzek's Journey to 'Forever' is a Testament to Enduring Love

Burzek is transcendent.

As far as ships go, it doesn't get much better. It's something that can only be executed as well with the type of history to play around with and the willingness to let the pairing breathe without restrictions.

We've always known that Burzek always chooses each other, so nothing is surprising about that coming into play in the quiet moment of their proposal.

Because, in a lovely play of words, Burzek truly are each other's "safe harbor."

A safe harbor is a place of refuge and protection, and that's precisely what Burzek have always been for one another: a safe space to retreat, a solid foundation for which a ship at sea can comfortably and safely land amid the unpredictability of sea and tumultuous storms.

A safe harbor is essentially a home, and for Burzek, their home is in one another.

It's something both characters have craved throughout the entire series, subtly referenced and mentioned and sprinkled here and there through time, as they've learned that family and refuge can be active choices, and thus, they reaffirmed that they have actively chosen each other.

But what feels monumental and celebratory about the proposal is how both characters are finally in the perfect, stable, healthy places where they can communicate well.

Kim and Adam are more mature and seasoned. They are their best selves as individuals; thus, their romance is also. It feels grounded and real, a house with good bones built on a solid foundation after hard work.

There's comfort in knowing that what comes next for them is real this time. It has the lasting power to carry through the remainder of the series.

They've built and become a family, and there's no going backward, which sets them up to be the most successful pairing in the One Chicago universe that we have constant access to and one of the healthiest.

The prospect of what comes next for them is actually exciting. It's one of the only endgames that pays off and rewards loyal viewers.

There aren't too many or any other pairings across the One Chicago Universe who possess the storied history, longevity, transitions, or Kim and Adam's fortitude and ability to overcome anything.

Burzek has more than earned its bones...

#chicago pd #burzek #kim burgess #adam ruzek #tv fanatic

[aromanticbuck]

Moustead + Burzek + Cate’s Kim’s Brother AU

When it came to a happily ever after, Kim always knew what her wedding would look like. It would be big enough that she could invite everyone she cared about, she would wear a pretty dress, carry a beautiful bouquet, eat a delicious cake, and begin a life with the person she loved the most in the world. For years, she had no idea who her forever partner would be, but that was a minor bump in the road, something that would work itself out when the time was right. And it did. 

Because she met Adam Ruzek, and everything that happened after that came as naturally as breathing.

They worked together, and lived together, and had even taken a trip together when she had to handle a family emergency in Los Angeles. It wasn’t a surprise at all when he asked her to get married, or when she said yes, or when they picked a date. And, when the big day started coming up, things barely even got hectic.

They had their entire team to thank for that. Between Jay and Hailey, everything was micromanaged down to the minute in the weeks leading up to the wedding. There was dress shopping, and cakes to taste, and a stop at the airport that made them a little later to their joint party than they were supposed to be.

“Oh, Jay! Hey!” “You’re like an hour late to your own party. Where were you?” “We had to pick up the last groomsman from the airport. His flight got delayed.” “So everyone’s in Chicago now? No more delays?” “Everyone’s here. No more delays. Wait, have you met my brother yet?” “Kim, with all due respect, I’ve known you for like five years, and I didn’t even know you had a brother.”

Technically, they weren’t siblings. They weren’t family in the traditional sense, or in any legal sense. But they’d been part of each other’s lives for over two decades, and that was good enough for them. Greg was the older brother she hadn’t realized she wanted until he was in her life to stay. And of course he was going to take time off from his fancy technology job to come home and see his little sister get married.

Gregory Platt, the last name only legally changed after his ninth birthday, knew that everything good he had in his life was a lucky accident. He grew up with the mother he did because the detectives investigating his parents for fraud had asked the right questions, and child services had placed him in the right house until the trial date, and then he got to stay there. For a decade, he lived in the same house, stayed in the same school district, and didn’t have to worry about a police investigation taking everything away from him again. And every day as a Platt was better than any memory he had of being a Gerwitz.

And then a snowy day in the middle of October meant they had recess inside, and somehow he’d gotten the responsibility of entertaining a seven year old who wouldn’t stop following him around the gym. Most other fifth graders probably would have been annoyed, and he thought he was, too, but after a week of playing inside and spending half an hour with each other every day after lunch, he knew the feeling was something else. His mother was convinced that she’d be calling little Kimberly Burgess her daughter-in-law one day. He’d known within a few years that was nowhere near the realm of possibility, but that didn’t mean Trudy didn’t adopt her, too, everywhere but on paper.

Soon enough, half an hour at recess turned into riding the same bus after school. And then he was giving her rides the day he got his license, and studying together at the kitchen table. And they were only properly apart for the first time when he got his acceptance letter to MIT and moved halfway across the country for school.

From there, life got a little harder. Greg’s support system was thousands of miles away, and trying to cram for tests wasn’t nearly as fun when Kim wasn’t there to help him make a game of it. Maybe it was stupid, buying a few pills off of a classmate, but it wasn’t like it was anything a hundred other people in his dorm weren’t already doing. It was Adderall. And he graduated, and got his degree, and got a job out in California with a startup that just needed some help with a base code.

When the company decided to keep him on, he got more money out of the deal, and some of that money went to things a little more illegal than Adderall and weed. At least a years long friendship meant he didn’t have to tell his mother about everything he’d been getting up to when a bad high was worse than the comedown. He had someone to help him keep the secret, at least while he cleaned up and did what he had to before the job he loved so much slipped through his fingers.

And it meant he was clean for over a year by the time he took the trip home for his best friend’s wedding.

What was supposed to be a week long trip so that he could be part of the bachelor party turned into making a deal. Because, in his mother’s opinion, he didn’t visit home enough. And she was probably right. He’d been skipping birthday trips and holiday visits to cover his tracks, all too aware of how quickly his police sergeant of a mother would spot the signs if he came home high. And the deal was simple - spend a month in Chicago around Kim and Adam’s wedding, and she’d lay off the guilt trips for a year. Even if he really wouldn’t be getting anything out of it, he did miss the city, and it wasn’t like he had a reason to stay away anymore.

“Greg, this is Jay. He takes the bullets so I don’t have to.” “Good. That means you’ve got someone besides mom looking out for you at your dangerous job.” “Oh, hush. I have to go make my rounds and figure out where Adam went. You too get along.” “What? Why?” “You’re both part of the wedding party. You’re going to be spending a lot of time together over the next few days.”

It was true. During every spare minute of the days leading up to the wedding, Jay was side by side with someone he barely knew. Greg wasn’t exactly a stranger, not when they’d spent an entire party talking and drinking just enough that he could feel buzzed while still making sure things went smoothly. But they weren’t really friends, either, not when all they really knew about each other was what they did for work and their favorite sports teams.

But every afternoon was spent putting finishing touches on bouquets, or calling the venue or the caterer or the car service to make sure everything would be ready. And it was nice to have someone to help him when Hailey was busy making sure that everything else was taken care of. So, while she wasn’t leaving Kim’s side, he didn’t really mind the company, especially when that company was terrifyingly good at making the bouquets look just right.

“Aren’t you, like, a computer nerd for a living? How do you know how to do that?” “I started a community garden in high school when I needed to round out my MIT application. Well, mom and Kim helped, but it was my idea.” “You learned how to do this by picking strawberries?” “Ha ha. No. I ended up really liking it, so I got a few of those self-watering mason jar flowers for my dorm room, and now I have a whole herb set up in my kitchen.” “So you just started with strawberries?” “Technically, I started with tomatoes.”

Days spent together led to a tentative label. Acquaintances wasn’t as good as friends, but it was more accurate, and that was all they needed to be. They both put hard work and energy into making sure the wedding went well - and it did, and he was sure that neither of his friends had been happier than the moments they got to say their I Dos - and they both had speeches to give at the reception, and then the pressure was off.

The cake had been cut and eaten. Everyone had danced. The Ruzeks were in a car and on their way to the airport to leave for their honeymoon. The venue had cleared out except for the employees putting away chairs and tables and making sure there was no frosting smeared on the dance floor.

And Jay knew he’d had a little too much to drink, but it was a celebration, and he’d earned it, and he was being responsible. It wasn’t like he was going to drive himself home. He’d ordered a car, and ducked under the building’s awning to keep his rented tuxedo from getting ruined in the rain, and he’d barely thought anything of it when a joke led to talking led to sharing a ride led to someone entering his apartment by his side instead of his usual lonely routine.

And then he woke up the next morning next to his best friend’s brother.

#one chicago #kim burgess #adam ruzek #burzek #jay halstead #mouse gerwitz #greg gerwitz #greg mouse gerwitz #moustead #cpd #chicago pd #cpd au #one chicago au #kim's brother* #alex does moodboards #alex writes things #this is a 1.5k word summary it goes in the writing tag #i've listened to cate's brother too many times #and then i was encouraged by multiple people #so this exists now #please don't let me write this until i finish other things

[fighterkimburgess]

Breathe Easy

Summary: When Kim gets devastating news she decides the best thing to do is hide it. But when things go wrong, hiding it could cost her everything. Day Five of Burzek appreciation week.

Words: 2k

Warnings: major chronic illness diagnosis, cystic fibrosis, surgery mention, transplant mention, collapsing, medical procedures, angst with ambiguous ending.

—

Kim had always thought that life changing events should happen on a Monday or a Friday. At the start or end of the week. Wednesdays just didn’t feel right for them to happen.

In her defence, she’d been shot on the Monday. And that had started the whirl of changes and battery of tests, culminating in fear in Will Halstead’s eyes as he watched her O2 sats hit 78 while she was sitting up talking to him fine. So she was rushed to pulmonology and they ran tests. Lots of them.

This was not the news she’d thought she’d receive.

“Officer Burgess, we’re still waiting on the genetic testing. But based on the sweat tests and the biopsy results we’re confident that you have cystic fibrosis.”

“Cyst…Sixty five roses? What is it?” The words were unfamiliar in her mouth, automatically changing them to familiar ones.

“Cystic fibrosis. It’s a disease that means the mucus in the body doesn’t drain properly. It explains why you feel run down a lot, why you said you’ve always had digestive issues. We need to put you on the transplant list right now, Kim. You need a lung transplant and you’ll be going in on a high status.”

The day was a whirlwind of information and patient packets, the new diet she had to stick to religiously with more salt than she’d have ever thought normal. The way she was officially forever on desk work and could probably just retire. But finally she was discharged with a mountain of prescriptions and a new pill regime she could never forget, and the crushing knowledge that she was dying.

Actually dying. And if she didn’t get a lung transplant in the next few months, she’d be dead. Kim Burgess wasn’t even thirty yet, but according to the specialists she should already be dead anyway.

Thursday morning dawned too early, Kim taking her tablets and eating her breakfast before getting to the district before anyone else. Her previous multiple cups a day coffee habit was a thing of the past, caffeine one of her numerous enemies. Along with alcohol, too much fat and protein, and anything that had a possibility of making her sick. If she’d known the last time she’d get to have a rare steak with a beer was last week, she’d have had it every day. But she needed to talk to Voight, knocking on her Sergeant’s office door and entering when he called.

“How’re you feeling? How long are you going to be on the desk for?”

Kim took a deep breath, sitting down and looking up before speaking.

“I think I need to retire, Sarge. I’ll be riding the desk for life. They found an underlying issue when I went in for the graze. I have cystic fibrosis.”

It was the first time she’d said the words out loud, and out of everyone she knew Hank Voight was not the person she wanted to say it to first. She’d been a cop for less than six years, and she’d loved every single moment of it. But now it was going to be over.

“You can stay here on the desk. Do you want to let people know?”

It took a few minutes to fill him in on everything, the transplant list, her brand new transplant beeper that she had to wear at all times, how different things would be. Instead of her immediate worry of getting kicked to retirement Voight surprised her.

“We need a new liaison, you can do it. It’ll keep you up here, and once you get your new lungs you can decide if that’s what you want to do, or if you want to retire then. What are you going to tell the team?”

“I don’t know.” She hadn’t even considered it. “If I tell them just how sick I am then I’ll never get any peace. I just want to get to be normal for a little while. Maybe that I’m waiting for surgery? They don’t need details.”

“If you’re sure.”

She wasn’t, not nearly. But this meant no awkward questions, nobody wondering where she was on the list, what it was like. Getting them from Kevin would be bad enough, but the looks from Al and Antonio, Hailey and Jay. And Adam worrying about her. She couldn’t deal with him being afraid for her. So she would lie and claim it was nothing serious.

Kim stayed behind, smiling at everyone leaving, turning down the dates Adam asked her on because she couldn’t bear to go out with him and tell him the truth.

The jokes were actually funny, people guessing what she had. Kevin had guessed pregnancy and she immediately shut it down, pointing out the surgical aspect. The other guesses were mostly to do with her joints, apart from Adam asking if she was getting her appendix out electively. But she smiled and shook her head, every time they said anything fingering the pager in her pocket and praying it would go off.

The hope that it would was strange. She was essentially waiting for someone to die so she could live, and it left a foul taste in her mouth that she was literally waiting for death. It felt ghoulish.

The worst part, apart from regular therapy sessions to come to terms with her impending mortality, was that nobody even noticed. She knew she was always good at hiding her issues, she could keep herself together whenever she needed. But that nobody had notice wounded her in a weird way. Even though she knew it was what she wanted.

The afternoon her pager went off she’d nearly forgotten it. She was in the car, about to leave, and the thought of trekking up to the apartment was too much. But she needed it, she needed to make sure she had it.

The rest of the unit were on the way back when it went off, the blue see through plastic nearly vibrating off the desk. She stood, preparing to make the phone call to confirm and then ask Trudy to bring her to Med. But before she could call downstairs her head went light and she fell to the floor, breaths growing more ragged as she struggled to yell for someone to hear. The cacophony from downstairs continued as her vision grew blurry, the cable from her monitor just out of reach before the world went black.

—

The lobby of the 21st was pandemonium when Adam arrived back. Kim’s research had yet again paid off for them, revealing a stash house with a hundred grand worth of pure heroin. By the time it was processed it could have been worth a million, and it was off the streets. Everyone else was clearing up red tape, but Voight had told him to go back and check on Kim.

Shift change for patrol was happening, so he dodged around officers and gave Platt a nod in promise to come down and talk to her later, before keying in his code and taking the stairs two at a time. But once he was nearly at the top his heart stopped.

“PLATT! WE NEED AN AMBULANCE!” His radio was still on his hip, pulling it out to make the call. “50-21 Ida, we need an ambo to the 21st district, officer collapsed. She’s barely breathing, we need someone now.”

Dispatch confirmed but he didn’t notice, too focused on Kim on the ground. She was breathing so shallowly that if it wasn’t for the wheezing he didn’t know if he’d realise. Her pulse was thready, and something was buzzing wildly that he couldn’t recognise. Trudy was upstairs in seconds, looking stricken. There was more noise up the stairs as the rest of the unit came in, Kevin dropping to his knees on Kim’s other side.

“What happened?”

“I came in and she was like this. I dunno how long. There’s something on her desk going off.”

Voight went across and grabbed something plastic, holding it up as the paramedics arrived. He stepped back to let them work on Kim, watching her be intubated and getting awful memories from when she was shot years before.

“It’s her beeper.”

“Why does Kim have a beeper? It’s not like she’s a drug dealer.”

“We can let one person come with us. Does she have any health issues?”

“She’s on the transplant list for new lungs thanks to cystic fibrosis.” Adam would have turned to stare, but he was being pushed forward with Kim’s gurney.

“What do you mean she’s on the transplant list? And you didn’t say?” Platt’s voice faded as Adam followed the gurney down, watching as the purple ambubag was squeezed every few seconds.

If you asked him how he got to Med, he had no idea. Adam couldn’t remember the journey, just the way Will Halstead had pushed him aside to let them do their jobs. He was brought to a waiting room, sitting in silence as the almost forgotten prayers of his childhood ran through his mind in a desperate attempt to somehow help Kim. She needed to be ok. Whatever it was, they'd do it. Together.

Kevin was first, quickly followed by Al, Antonio, Jay, and Hailey. He nodded at each of them, still staring at the glass walls.

“She’s gonna be ok,” Al whispered, Adam wanting to take comfort from the words.

“She was so pale. If I…”

“You won’t.”

When Voight and Trudy came through the door he couldn’t make himself look at either of them. Trudy because she hadn’t heard, even though he knew it wasn’t her fault. And Voight had known. He knew she was dying and didn’t say anything to anyone. Not even a heads up to keep an eye on her. It was irrational and he knew Kim wouldn’t have wanted people to know but when were feelings ever rational?

“Kim Burgess?” Rhodes walked in, looking at the group who stood up. He’d had drinks with Rhodes, seen him on good and bad days. Watched him save Herrmann’s life. And he was walking straight towards him.

“Kim put you down as her next of kin. Do you know what’s going on?” He shook his head in awe. She’d put him down? Him? Even when they were fighting and not getting along she trusted him with this. He’d never understand why.

“She’s got cystic fibrosis, it affects how you take in oxygen. Kim was on the transplant list, and we’ve got lungs on the way from Detroit in a couple of hours. But there’s a catch.”

Connor explained that Kim couldn’t keep her oxygen levels up on her own, that they’d put her on a form of life support to make sure the oxygen got into her blood. There was so much to think about but he just nodded.

“Will the new lungs help?”

“Yes. But we need to keep her alive till they’re here. You can sit with her until we’re ready to move her to the OR, if you want?”

It didn’t take more than a second for the nods to start. He ignored the huffing from around him, instead focusing on what he needed to do for Kim. Be there for her. Support her. Make sure she knew she wasn’t alone.

The pump Kim was hooked up to was terrifying. She was unconscious, skin pale and eyes closed. Adam sat beside her, taking the uncanulated hand and squeezing lightly.

“You could have told me, you know. I’d have kept it secret. I didn’t even notice that you were dying.” The dull beep of her heart rhythm helped him, the solid reminder that she was still alive.

“I’m gonna be here when you wake up. Because I love you and I can’t lose you. And I’ll tell you this over and over again until you believe me.”

It was silent between them until Rhodes came back to take Kim to the OR, leaving Adam in an empty ED bay praying to a God he’d stopped believing in that Kim would be ok.

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#Burzek #kim burgess #Adam Ruzek #kim x Adam #Adam x Kim #kim burgess x adam ruzek #adam ruzek x kim burgess #burzekaw22

[amandarayyy]

I AM SCREAMING AT THE ENDING OF CHICAGO PD AND I WANNA PLAY IT ON REPEAT!!!! THAT IS ALL!!!! BURZEK FOREVER!!!!!

#burzek #burgess x ruzek #adam ruzek #kim burgess #chicagopd

[go-to-two]

Burzek in love 💗 Burzek wedding 👰 Burzek babys 👼 Burzek house 🏠 Burzek together forever ♾ UPSTEAD DEAD 💀

*babies

#this is my inbox this morning 😂 #burzeks come get your weirdo #anyway #theyre blocked now

[adamruz]

our hockey loving Burzek family

#adam ruzek #kim burgess #chicago pd #burzek #makayla burgess #adam x kim x makayla #parallel #s10 #s1 #1x9 #10x18 #lexi.edits #my first gif set in like forever #userranch #burzek family

[kim-ruzek]

what do you think it was about 10x17/18 that felt different for adam compared to other times especially 8x05. asking about 8x05 especially because he did ask her to try again in that episode too.

Quite simply because Kim's been honest about how she feels and that it's reciprocated.

There's a lot of factors; Adam knows how to talk more on Kim's level that she responds well to and has learnt to ignore the bullshit and get to the root of it, Kim's learnt to communicate and rely on Adam and knows that she can rely on Adam and Adam knows that she knows this, as does he know that she knows he wants the whole domestic life with her (whereas in 8x5 she still was convinced he didn't).

But honestly the main and most simplest explanation is because he knows how Kim feels and that they're on the same page.

And as he said, it feels different. Which it should. They've been communicating. They've been co parenting. They've been partners while living together and they're family.

Kim relies on him freely now. Adam feels able to be more upfront about stuff and doesn't back down when it can feel like he might upset her, because he can, because they're equal in this dynamic they have. It's gone from taking what scraps he can get, to them having a nice little rhythm that he may want more but isn't him having to compromise and push himself down constantly.

They've gotten to a good place, a place that means they're starting off this relationship on a really good foundation and that's what's different.

Also Kim is constantly pulling away and I'd say that's one of the biggest factors that makes it different. She's, if anything, going towards him. She's seeking him out, allowing herself to depend on him. When she needs him in vulnerable moments she does and then doesn't shrink away in the ways she has in the past. And she quite clearly unadulterated gave all herself to him and then in the morning was still there and in fact there to greet him with a smile.

That's what's different.

Thank you for asking! I am very soft now and in my feels I love these two lovesick fools so much 💖

#ree has thoughts #burzek #chicago pd #adam ruzek #kim burgess #thank you for asking!!! 💖 #i could talk about my babies forever and ever i swear #ree's asks

[cpd5777]

Re: your theory ab Jay leaving. I can honestly see that, I think it would be a good exit. Unfortunately I can’t say it would be the perfect one since we all know Jay was supposed to become sergeant but anyway it is what I is. That convo in the van was a foreshadowing and it makes sense that Jay would want to step back from Voight to save his marriage. The writers really don’t care ab what makes sense or not given that they’re writing bullshit after bullshit and ruining 10 years of his character 😵‍💫 BUT what I was saying is that I can see him leaving the unit to protect his relationship with his wife and I would be ok with that. What is making me spiral are the interviews and what GS says like “emotional fallout” “ Hailey has to learn how to move on without him” and blah blah . If he’s only gone from the unit but is still in chicago why is Hailey taking it so hard (from GS words)? Is G exaggerating and being overdramatic? I don’t understand her. I literally don’t know why is she being coy and she seems like she doesn’t care about the character she wrote for years……

Hello!! So, I give Gwen a bit of a wide berth when it comes to interviews. I do feel Gwen is an incredibly gifted screenwriter who wrote some if our favorite episodes and moments EVER on this show, and I am forever grateful.

I have mentioned this in prior posts but she became showrunner in the middle of a season and I think this is a bit of a different skillset. Also she picked up in the middle so her control was more limited and I think due to her strong relationships within the cast as a writer we got to see what I theorize as trying to make everyone happy. Sometimes you can’t and make it work.

Now, she was faced with what I believe was a rather sudden departure of the main character and half of a ship she created.

I think instead of being allowed to write this the way she would have what she is trying to do is reach backwards inti storylines to weave together some justification for him leaving and have it attempt to make sense.

I don’t have super high hopes that it will, but for self-preservation purposes I am choosing to believe it is because he is prioritizing the love of his life over work and can’t see a way to do both.

I do not understand this burzek interlude and can’t imagine them wrapping this up in one ep…

#upstead #anon asks

[anniesardors]

You know how at the beginning of episodes that are about Burzek or about Upstead or even Kevin, it opens with a scene of them and that opening scene just really links to the rest of the episode?!? Well it’s looking like next week may be an Upstead centric episode with the explosion and Hailey most likely getting hurt.. so like y’all we MIGHT get an opening Upstead scene next week and now i’m constantly thinking about them having breakfast before work or cuddling in bed… We haven’t had a really outstanding Upstead moment in what feels like forever so maybe it’s time?!? Thoughts?

The episode feels like it is going to be more team focused than upstead centric BUT Jay and Hailey are going to be heavily featured for obvious reasons with them being so involved in the case. So, it's definitely possible! I will never say no to another Upstead opener. It's been waaaay too long since we've gotten a good domestic scene.

#annie answers 🖤 #upstead