"Bounty!"

Chapter Thirteen: The Party Dont Stop
2x01: Call It Macaroni

*Trigger warning*

Becklean was in the break room pouring herself some coffee, she in a good mood which was rare,
She humming as Jay reaches for the sugar at the same time as her. Their fingers brushed against each other, they stare into each other's eyes as Erin walks in and they clear their throats.

"Nadia's first day." Erin grabs a mug as Becklean makes her coffee just the way she likes it humming into the cup.

" Can she even type? Did we look into that at all?" Jay mutters as Becklean laughs,

"Yeah, she can, smartass. Do not hit on her."

"Nadia? What kind of a dog do you think I am?" he asks as He and Erin are mirroring each other's pointed glares.

"A Horny one just like all men." Becklean mutters as Erin fistbumps her and Jay just rolls his eyes, they walk out seeing Voight walking back inside.

"How'd it go?" Erin asks as Voight sighs.

" It went. They asked some stupid questions. I left."

" Boss, where they at with Jin's murder?" Ruzek speaks up from his desk.

" Nowhere." Voight looks around, "Where's Antonio?"

"He's meeting an informant. He's got a tip on some armored van thing." O explains as Voight just groans.

"Sarge, why aren't we looking into Jin's murder on our own?"

" For the same reason I told you last time you asked. They don't want us anywhere near it since we has in our unit, okay? He was a police officer. Area central is all over it."

" So they had no updates this morning?" Atwater asks as Becklean and Erin shoot him a look clearly men are clueless and cant see how Voight doesnt walk to talk about Jin's murder.

"The update... The update is they're coming after my badge! So when there is another update I will convey it, okay? Until then, just do your jobs." Voight walks back to his office and slams his door.

Antonio comes back with the info from the informant and everyone is downstairs vesting up, O is quizzing Ruzek on his undercover position Antonio is scribbling in his notepad, Jay and Becklean are having a thumb wrestling war, as Atwater is watching, shaking his head at them. Nadia walks in and she does a little spin and Becklean whoops and Erin walks over to her, she explains that she came through the wrong entrance and to go to the front, where Platt has her paperwork. She hugs Erin and Becklean Laughs at how uncomfortable she is by physical touch from other people, and they rejoin the group.

"We'll be right behind you... eyes and ears... the whole time. You got two distress signals. For visual, just run both hands through your hair. For verbal, just say "popcorn."

" Popcorn?" Ruzek questions.

" Either one of those or both, and we're moving in."

"All right, I got it." He says buttoning his shirt over his bullet proof vest.

"Hey. We all go home tonight." Vouight says as everyone nods.

//

" Hey, what are we thinking for lunch? What, Mexican, Chinese, burgers?"

Everyone was following the van O, Erin, Atwater and Jay in one car Becklean, Antonio and Voight in the other, they were listening to the guys in the van talk with Ruzek, discussing what they were having for lunch.

"Up here. What's this?" Antonio asks as a suv swerves past the armored car van. The Van stops and they are still behind it.

"Voight!" Antonio yells as a truck comes crashing into the car, Becklean could shake the ringing in her ears. There was a massive shootout, all while Voight, Becklean and Antonio are still in the car,

"Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! You guys all right?" Erin beats on the back window as Becklean just nods her head, a cut from her brow was bleeding on her forehead.

" Yeah, we're fine! Let's go!"

" All right! Lincoln 5021 emergency, we have shots fired by the police. Roll an ambo to 1400 West Roosevelt. We have multiple wounded offenders." Erin says into her Radio as Voight cant see Becklean.

"You alright back there Kid?"

"Debatable." she replies as Antonio looks back at her seeing her head bleeding down her face.

"Bexs your bleeding."

"Yeah I know Tee Tee, Thankyou for those keen detective skills."

"Clearly it didn't affect her brain." he sasses.

//

They call in CSU to process the scene and talk with the commander about it before heading Back to the precinct.

" We have the driver, Lee Pritchett. Worked there three months. Had a wife and two-year-old kid at home." Erin points to each picture as she talks.

"Dead crew member, apparently we've got a lead on that." Becklean points to Burgess's new partner.

"Yeah, Jeff, I knew him from my last..."

"Not yet. And we've got the shot in the armored van. I.D. and social came back bogus from the company. He started work three days ago. We have called the company to find out who hired him and who put him in that van today. Now." She nods towards the blonde guy.

" D.O.A.'s Jeff Gamble. He's got a sheet five feet long. Possession, domestic battery, burglary, two prior armed robberies. His cousin, Chris Gamble, is basically his partner in crime. Chris wasn't involved himself, but I'll guarantee he'll at least know what Jeff was up to."

" Well, you and Burgess go find this cousin." Voight nods to the partners as they nod back.
Burgess introduces Sean Roman to Ruzek and Alvin before they leave.

"There's a bunny on the phone for you." Nadia says to Erin and Becklean looks at her.

" Uh, she in jail? I... Look at the caller I.D. if it's an 888 number, that's the jail. You're gonna get a lot of those."

" 312?" Nadia replies as the two blondes share a look, Becklean has her brow arched at Erin who sighs.

" Take a number. I'll call her back."

" Okay. Can I return?" Nadia says into the phone as Becklean looks over at Jay, he gives her a look before nodding towards the back and she just stands up following him to the locker room,

" What's up?" She asks looking around the locker room to make sure no one was there.

" Jin sent this to me." He shows her a note, in Jin's writing. "I know I can trust you -JIN"

She looks up at Jay to see him holding up a flashdrive. "What's on the drive?"

" I haven't checked it yet."

" Show it to Voight."

"Not until I know what's on it." he replies bluntly before walking off they walk back to their desk as Erin raises her brows at her and replies with a look that says I will explain later.

Her day was going okay until she sees Steve Kot and his little lawyer minion Oliver Cline, her jaw tightens as they walk up to Voight's office stepping inside.

"Was that?"

"Yep."

"Ohoh Voight is gonna chew him up." Erin just laughs as Becklean leans back in her chair getting lost in thought,

Steve leaves followed by Oliver he stops by Beckleans Desk as Erin sends him a glare.

"It is going to be so fun working with Intelligence." He says smiling at her as she just sends him a harsh look anyone in the room could tell she didn't want him near her, Antonio just clears his throat from his desk next to hers. Sending him a look with a nod as He straightened up his jacket walking out with Steve. A few moments later O and Voight come back pining two photos to the board.

"Oskar Bembenek and his younger brother Jacob. Oskar's run a crime outfit for the last 25 years. Prostitution, extortion, drugs, you name it. Now Oskar never gets his hands dirty. He always subcontracts when it comes to taking people out. That's how he's lasted so long."

" This murder charge, what's that about?" Ruzek asks, pointing at the info on the board.

" He just had a mistress. Just wanted to break up with him. So he stabs her. 25 times. His shirt? It's got her blood on it. Now, I knew this girl." O closes his eyes for a second taking a breath. " I knew this girl. Josie Martin. I was trying to turn her out as an informant against him." O says as a phone rings.

" Intelligence, Atwater."

"I'll be back." Antonio says, grabbing his coat and leaving.

" Thanks." Atwater hangs up the phone. "The supervisor from the armored van company I've been trying to get a hold of just went home sick."

"You and Halstead, let's go." Voight nods to Becklean she grabs her coat followed by Jay.

" Hey. Text me the address."

" Gotcha." Kevin replies.

//

"So what's on the drive?" Becklean folds her sungless onto her shirt as Jay is pulling the drive from his laptop.

" Did you know Jin was working with IA?"

" I didn't." She replies simply.

" Any shot Voight was mixed up with them?"

" Don't get stupid on me now, Jay." She sends him a playful smirk before climbing out and Jay sits there for a second before climbing out as well.

They walk up the house.

" Luke Hendricks?" Becklean knocks on the door. As jay goes around the house to the window on the porch he looks through the window seeing a body.

"Body." He says to Becklean who immediately pulls her gun from the holsters he kicks the door down as they enter scanning each room and announcing themselves, they holster the guns not seeing anything or anyone.

Becklean pulls out her phone taking a seat on the coffee table "Yep, that's Hendricks."

"Looks like he was trying to clear out." Jay points to the half packed bag in the corner.

" Okay. So he's working for Bembenek... He hires the shooter in the armored van, and then he tips off the crew when he knows that we've got a guy in there and we're following." Becklean explains as he nods.

" I'll call it in."

//

"Chicago Police Department. Intelligence. How may I help you?"

It was dark and quiet in the intelligence offices, Voight came up the stairs.

" Hey. Your C.I. Give you any more info?" he asks Antonio,

" No. That's a dead end." Antonio says simply as Voight just nods walking off to his office.

" Hey. Hang on. Lindsay? Bunny again."

" Take a number. I'll call her back." Erin replies flatly as Jay follows Voight into his office, shutting the door.

" Can I have her return?" Nadia says into the phone.

Jay storms out of Voight's office grabbing his coat to leave.

Becklean catches up with Voight as Molly's.

" Hey." She rubs his shoulder climbing into the seat next to him.

" So let me ask you something. Straight up. Do you think there's any shot that Voight was involved with Jin's murder?"

" Are you out of your mind?"

" That's an answer to a different question." He mutters as Becklean gives him a soft look before shaking her head.

" No. There is no way he's involved."

" Yeah, well, he's gonna bury the case, for God knows what reason."

" Why? What reason would he have?"

" Do you really think that you know everything about this guy?" Jay asls as Becklean sits up straight lips pursed.

Maybe she didn't know Voight as much as she thought.

//

Burgess and Roman brought in Chris Gamble and Becklean was in charge of interrogating him along with Jay. Jay was leaning against the wall.
"See, Chris, nobody knows this. It's one of my favorite surprises to lay on guys like you that are sitting across from me. Say you and your buddies... I don't know... Rob an armored van. Somebody gets killed. Even if it was one of the bad guys... even if that person was killed by the police... Somebody's gotta get charged for that murder. So... We're gonna prove that you were there yesterday. And in addition to the attempted murder of a police officer, you are gonna get charged with the murder of the van driver. And the murder of your own cousin. Or, Chris... Or... You give us the other participants, and you let them take the ride."

" You can't be happy with how this went down, right? Your cousin gets killed for what? Mm. How much did Bembenek pay you to get the shirt? Yeah, we know all about it. So quit trying to figure a way out, Chris. It's over." Jay turns his chair around taking a seat next to Chris.

Chris shakes his head putting down on the table before sighing and lifting it back up. "It wasn't supposed to go down the way that it went down. They never told us cops were gonna be there."

" Who's they?" Becklean leans forward.

" Oskar and his brother, Jacob. They said it was just going to be a security team from the van company that would be following. And that there would be more money. That's why we weren't handing it over until we get more."

" Hand what over?" Jay asks

" The bloody shirt. The evidence bag. We told Oskar that he needed to come up with 200k or we were dropping it to the nearest police station."

"Where's the bag right now?" Jays asks again.

" My buddy Christian's got it. But I'm supposed to meet him and back him up for the trade-off with Oskar." Chris says as Becklean looks at Jay.

Voight enters the office by the stairs everyone in the room stops in their tracks as he stands there hands in his pockets.

" I don't know what you heard, but let me set things straight. In order to get my job back, I made a deal with I.A. The deal was I put myself out there as dirty so I can take down some high-level criminals. I never agreed nor did I ever report on another cop." Vought says as the two blondes are practically burning holes into his chest just from their glares, " You can like it or not, that was the deal."

The phone rings and Nadia answers it. "Intelligence."

"We should gear up for our meet." Erin nods to Antonio

" Yeah." He replies as she walks off Becklean just rolls her eyes following after her sister.

" Sit down!" Antonio was yelling at Chris in the cage, he stands there for a bit before obeying, Antonio turns to the group, who are all Vested Up. "Now whether this evidence bag was open or not, or if it broke the chain of custody, I don't really give a damn. That's for the state's attorney's office to worry about. Main thing is to get Oskar Bembenek showing up with 200k, and heads will roll from there. Wait for the money to be handed over first, then move in."

" Then we move in quickly. Okay? As you can tell, Bembenek and his brother have no problem getting violent. All right?" everyone nods before the group disappears.

" Hey, Lindsay, West.." Al calls the two women over. " I know how you're feeling."

" Al... You don't." Erin replies, dragging her little sister away with her before she can even talk with O.

They all head to the drop seeing Oskar hand the bag of money over, Gamble's brother hands over the bag and Oskar opens it before pointing at his men who have their Guns pointed at Gamble and his brother.

" Move in, move in!" Ruzek and Atwater move in on foot as Jay and Becklean are in cars they follow after Oskar Blocking him in they get out of the car as Jacob gets out he starts shooting at Becklean as Jay covers her as she shoots Jacob in the chest as Oskar cries.

"You shot my brother." He glares at Becklean who just holsters her gun rolling her eyes at him

//

Everyone was having drinks at Molly's. It had been a long day and tequila was currently calling Becklean's name.

" Hey, get this. Voight beat the suspension." Ruzek walks back to the group from getting off the phone.

" Thought he was facing termination." Atwater speaks up.

" Call it macaroni, dude. I don't know. He's gonna be back in the office tomorrow. He beat it."

"Bexs." Al whispers as she jumps.

"Geez Al Warn a girl." she clutches her chest with a smile that fades when she sees the look on his face.

" What's up, man?" Jay asks. He turns to Slyvie. " Hey. Sylvie Brett. Alvin Olinsky"

"Hey. Hey,"

" hi. Um... Let me have a quick word with you. Come here." he says to becklean leading her away from the group.

" What the hell's going on, O?" Bexs asks as arms folded over her chest.

" Oskar Bembenek just put a $100,000 bounty on your head for killing his brother Jacob." He explains as Becklean looks at him with wide eyes.

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