"Kelly!"

*Trigger Warning*

Chapter Three: Heads up
1x03:Chin Check

Becklean had just pulled up at the precinct, she was in a rush, the reason being her ex, he never came, he explained how he had a meeting at the last minute leaving Becklean to be late for her job, She was getting to be a bit irritated by the fact that he is using her, playing her like a fiddle, it was annoying and she was letting him it was time for her to put her foot down, let her claws out from under her paws and show him just how scary she can get. She walks into the bullpen during Voight's briefing with all eyes on her, which was strange since she was usually the first person here besides Voight.

"All right, there are two unrelated wire investigations. Surveillance followed three of area central's top-ranking gang targets to this house on Carpenter. Narcotics hasn't gotten anywhere with it, so command staff want Intelligence on it. Roll out in five." Wut that everyone piles into the cars, Becklean was sitting in the back with Antonio and Voight this time.

"We got the main eye." O'S voice is heard over the comms

"We're set up to the north. 10-4."

" We got the south and a partial of the alley. If anyone goes mobile from the house, we're in position for a take-away." Antionio says into his radio.

" O and Ruzek, move closer. See if there's any movement in the house."

"Hold up. We got company." Erin's voice is heard this time they watch as a guy in a yellow hoodie approaches the door.

" Who's this joker?" Antonio says as Yellow hoodie knocks on the door pulling a gun from his pocket.

"Gun!" Jay yells and before anyone could move gunshots go off from inside the house the walk into the house clearing it as Rusek is standing over the suspect,

"Hoodie's dead."

" This one's alive." Jay says as Erin and Beck go look through the rest of the house, They find a box full of bullets.

" In here!" Erin yells for Voight who comes into the kitchen

"Cop killers." Becklean holds up one of the bullets from the box as Antonio comes up pulling on gloves the trio were now looking around the kitchen.

"Hey, look at this." Erin calls from the otherside of the Kitchen she's holding a small box in her hands.

"What do you got?" She hands the box to Antonio as Becklean leans in a bit to read the box as well. "Insulin. Somebody here was a diabetic?" He shrugs as Erin drumps put a balck trash bag full of insulin onto the floor.

" Or not."

" Is there a black market for this stuff?" Erin asks as everyone shrugs.

" None that I've heard of." She holds up the bullet next to the box of insulin.

"But you know what? It's a good place to hide a bullet, though." She explains as Voight pats her on the back.

" Nice work."

//

"So if you can just try to call her again,"

"Miss West, We have called Gloria four times in the past hour. She isn't picking up Malia looks extremely ill she has a fever of 104. Somebody needs to come and get her."

" Listen, I understand but I am legally not her guardian."

"Miss West we all know her situation and have no problem helping out when we can but our hands are tied."

"Okay I am in the middle of a shift. I will send someone to go and pick her up. It will most likely be an blue and white." Becklean pinches the bridge of her nose.

"Yeah sure no problem, we will keep her in the nurse's office until they get here." Becklean hangs up kicking the trash can near her as Antonio walks in.

"Whoa easy, What did that trash can do to you?"

"Im, having the shittest week from hell and its only fucking Monday."she leans back agaisnt the counter running a hand over her face, Antonio could see how worn she looked, no amount of makeup could cover the bags under her eyes.

"Talk to me"

"You wouldnt understand."

"So help me." he shrugs, sticking his hands into the pocket of his jeans.

"My sister is an addict, she has been since we were teenagers then she got pregnant vowed to stay clean as soon as my niece was born she started using again, occasionally my niece comes by my house if she needs something, food water, a place to crash, well lately, it's been more frequent, almost every week, my sister Gloria has been MIA for two weeks I have contacted every single CI I know none of them have seen her, Her school needs me to pick her up so, I need to send a patrol car to get her. I can't take care of a kid. I don't know the first thing about kids. Antonio I am scared, I cant fuck up Malia anymore, girls been through enough."

Antonio just pulls her into a side hug kissing her head, truth be told Becklean was like Antonio's little sister, he would beat any guy's ass for messing with her and always protect, sure sometimes he would lash out on her but for the most part he loved her and he would never stop loving her.

"Hey you do an Amazing job when you watch Diego and Eva you will be an awesome auntie to Malia."

"You think so?"

"Yeah I do, Now come on Voight's got more info." He kisses her forehead one more time and the pair leave the breakroom gathering around the board with the others.

"This is Edward Jelko, the deceased street-level dealer. This is Peter Thomas Banfill, the offender, currently baking in a coma over at County. Jelko probably thought like we did that Banfill was sitting on something big, and went over there to rip him off."

"These are M995's teflon-tipped,kevlar-penetration. Ballistics has 'em linked to several recent homicides." Antonio holds up the bullet for everyone to see.

"And we found 100 of these at the scene. It's for type R insulin, which is a Canadian designation." Erin holds up the box of insulin that they found.

" And with any luck, our little surprise visit got the gun runners scrambling, which means they're gonna make mistakes, okay? Eyes open. Erin, Becks, come here a second, will you?" Voight leads the two women into his office.

" Do you want the door closed?"

"Assume I always want it closed." he grabs his jacket from the coat rack in the corner as Becklean and Erin roll their eyes at the man.

" Okay, tough guy."

" Justin's getting an early release. He's moved up to Friday night."

"That's great." Erin smiles as does Becklean.

"Well, he's asking if you two can be there. It's no big deal if you can't."

"Are you crazy? Of course it's a big deal. He's getting out."

"Yeah." Voight nods with an unhappy look on his face.

" What? Why do you look like somebody just pissed in your coffee?" Becklean asks, arms folded over her chest.

" Getting' out is always harder than getting' in."

" Hank. Come on. Justin's gonna need you around, okay? The tough love thing, it... it didn't work."

" Do me a favor. Tell Antonio I'll be back in an hour, okay?" He says walking out.

Becklean walks down stairs and up to Platt at the desk.

"What?"

"I need to borrow a Patrol officer."

"Okay Weston," She yells behind Becklean who turns to see a dark haired man with piercing blue eyes.

"Yes Sarge."

"Do whatever Detective West asks.Got it?"The patrol gulps a panicked look in his eyes.

"I need you to go to Jefferson Middle School. Pick up a girl by the name Malia Damelio and take her back to," She jots down an Address on a sticky note. "Do not touch her, look at her or breathe near her. You are to watch her at that address outside the door, do not let anyone inside and do not touch anything. And if I find out you broke any of these rules you will be eating out of a tube for the rest of the foreseeable future got it?" he nods, taking the sticky note from her as Antonio is walking back into the building.

"Poor kid is probably pissing himself." He jokes as they walk up the gate scanning their prints. They walk up the stairs into the bullpen.

" Hey! I found the source of the Insulin." Erin walks up to the pair with a piece of paper. " A company near Toronto named "Markham Medical Supply," their sales rep makes a run here every other Thursday. He left at 5:00 this morning."

"I'm guessing they have tracking numbers on all their products?"

" Yep." Erin smiles

" All right, get those tracking numbers, locate him on GP, and... you already did that"

"Yep, Atwater and Burgess are en route tracking the signal."

"Nice." He holds out his first for her to pound.

"Do me one favor: Do not give me one of those open-fingered explosion hands that people do. I hate that. If it's your thing, I'd rather high five." He nods as they fis bump and he does the open finger explosion thing.

" Never again." Erin points at him with a glare as Antonio and Becklean do their Signature handshake. Erin just rolls her eyes walking off as Becklean turns the corner looking behind her she bumps into a person their heads bump into each other and she Winces rubbing the sore spot.

"You okay?" Jay Halstead was standing in front of her rubbing his forehead too.

"Yeah, I need to pay attention to where I am going." she chuckles as bit as Jay smiles

"Halstead." Rusek yells from behind them as Jay turns around.

" Any word on Banfill?"

"He's still in the ICU." Jay just shrugs, sticking his hands in his pockets.

"Hey, Rusek, have you seen the counselor yet?" Becklean asks with a smile.

" Yeah, this afternoon. You know, I'm gonna send out a memo so people can stop asking me." Rusek snaps as Jay's features turn harsh.

" Whoa, whoa, whoa. Who do you think you're talking to? You got 10 minutes on this job." Jay gets in Rusek's face,

"Jay, hey it's okay he's probably tired or something." Becklean was now holding onto Jay's arm trying to pull him out of Rusek's face,

"It's... a lot of people have been asking me."

" Say that next time." Jay snaps as Becklean keeps tugging on his arm.

" No, you're right. You're right. I got it."

" Okay." He pats him on his chest.

" All right." and with that the men walk off in the same direction as Becklean stands there confused.

"Men" she shakes her head going to the bathroom where she was trying to go earlier.

//

"This is definitely our sales rep. George Wilenko, 41. He's been with Markham Medical for 17 years. No record, fully bonded, has border clearance. This guy's not your typical smuggler." Erin explains as O and Becklean are on the other side of the car looking into it through the driver's side window.

"You notice the cup?" O nods to the cup in the cupholder and Erin reaches over and picks it up with a glove.

" Lipstick on the lid." She says as O nods

"Yep."

//

Becklean walks into Firehouse 51 balancing two big boxes of pastries in one arm while holding a big jug of coffee. Mouch and Herman walk over to her with shit eating Grins.

"Bexs." Herman opens the top box licking his lips. "Cupcakes Oh Bexs you spoil me." He clutches his heart as Becklean laughs.

"They are for everyone and you need to share. Matter of fact." She takes the box from his hands. "I am going to put these in the kitchen so everyone knows they are there." The oldermen just laugh following her to the kitchen.

Matt Casey, Lesile Shay, Gabby Dawson, Peter Mills and Otis were all in the kitchen/ break room when Herman, and Mouch walk in with a small Becklean West behind them, her arms full of boxes.

"Look what we found." Mouch says as everyone looks up smiling at Becklean.

"Bexs." Gabby hugs her as Becklean laughs.

"I bought cupcakes from Cervelli's down the street, there's every kind in there figured you guys needed something sweet."

"Well thanks they will definitely get Eaten." Gabby says as Mouch Otis and Herman already took the cupcakes from Bex sitting them on the counter, all of the fire house minus Matt Casey were looking the cupcakes over.

"Hey, Matt."

"Hey Bexs, Thanks for the cupcakes we could use them right about now with everything going on."

"Sure thing also brought coffee, cause well caffeine makes everything better." She shrugs as Matt laughs.

"Oh Most definitely." He laughs more as does Becklean.

"You know where Kelly is?"

"His office, that's where he's been for most of the day, come to think of it."

"All right I will go there myself Thanks Matt enjoy the cupcakes and the Coffee.'' She sets the coffee down on the counter walking to Kelly's office.

Kelly Severide was Becklean's best friend, the two had gone to high school together, he knew what she was doing when they were younger and he wanted nothing more than to get her out, but it wasn't like his parents were going to take Becklean and Gloria under their wing.

Becklean did what she had to do, she truthfully started pimping herself when she was thirteen, but she didn't tell anyone about that, at seventeen she met Hank and he took her from her life and raised her, she needed that guidance and it wasn't like her mom even noticed she was gone, she was a drunk, who ended up dying from a overdose of Percocet and Jack Daniels. Becklean West was honestly too perfect for this world and no one could deny that. She leans in the doorway seeing a very stressed out Kelly Severide at his desk, he is massaging his shoulder, she sighs walking over and rubbing on it, which to her belief works for him, he lets out a throaty moan leaning back in his seat.

"What are you doing here?"

"Heard about your sister decided to come see if you were okay." she explains as he nods, opening his eyes, she sits on the edge of his desk as he sits up, fully rolling his shoulder around.

"Okay, are you a witch or something? My shoulder feels good as new."

"I just have magical hands no big deal." she jokes as the two friends laugh. "I am sure Katie will return soon, probably stayed out too late again." she patts him on the shoulder as he grabs her hand kissing it.

"I hope so."

"I brought Cupcakes now, hopefully there is still some left for you but I don't know Herman was eyeing them like they were his wife and I don't know if I should be grossed out or.." she explains as Kelly laughs. "There's that smile alright come on let's get you some cupcakes before they are gone." She stands up holding out her arm and he laughs pushing out his chair and standing up linking his arm with hers.

//

"My mother always called it "murder City." But the first time we visited, I fell in love with Chicago. The lake, the riverwalk. George and I went to the top of the Willis tower. God, I just... I can't believe it. Why would someone kill my husband?" The trouble Trio were interviewing their victims wife.

"We think that he was smuggling guns into the country."

" George?"

" He wasn't killed over Insulin. And on his last trip here, we think his vehicle was filled with these." Jay puts a bullet down on the table in front of her.

" I'm hallucinating. This isn't happening."

" Five people have already been killed by them." Becklean was leaning against the counter next to Jay, their shoulders touched and it was almost like a shock of electricity, Jay jumped back a bit moving a little bit away from Becklean.

" Look, you don't get it. George would never do that ever."

" How often did you make the trip down with him?" Erin asks.

"Every couple of months. We always stay at the Sofitel. I shop. That's why he dropped me off. They don't have Bloomingdale's in Canada." The trio looked at each other realizing what was happening.

//

"We're gonna get real honest real quick." Erin slams a file folder onto the interrogating table in front of them Becklean takes Seat next to Erin.

"Do you recognize these men?" The blonde detective pulls out pictures from the file.

"Oh, God."

" Yeah, neither can we. His face was shot off by the bullets you and your husband brought into Chicago." Becklean speaks up from next to Erin.

"Why are you doing this?"

"You lied to us. You weren't browsing. Bloomingdale's. You were in Edgewater. You and your husband had a nice run, right? You start off with something simple like x or kush, and you got greedy, and you upgraded to gun. You got George killed, which makes you an accessory to his murder. So we're gonna try this again, only this time the truth."

" I was visiting a friend. An ex-boyfriend."

Jay groans " If you're gonna lie, put some effort into it for me."

" Call him. He'll tell you." Jay pushes himself off the wall sliding a piece of paper and pen towards her.

" Name, number." she scribbles a few things on the paper before Jay walks out.

"I want you to take me through your entire day, every stop you made, every person you talked to, everything you did."

" I already told you."

" Tell me again." Erin replies bluntly as the two blondes sit back in their chairs.

" We were on the road by 4:30. Didn't stop till we crossed the border just past Ann Arbor. Got some coffee, some gas. Used the washroom. George got a phone call from our nephew..."

"Who's the nephew?" Becklean asks.

" He lives here. He likes to meet up with George... Oh, God, Mikey doesn't know."

" Does Mikey have a last name?" Erin sits forward in her chair.

//

" Michael Ganz, lives in East Garfield Park, has a record: robbery, possession. Runs with a small crew." Becklean puts pictures up on the board.

"Claire's ex-boyfriend checks out right down to the 500 bucks." Jay explains hanging up the phone on his desk.

"Got a ping on Ganz's phone, pulled all the numbers he's called in the last 24 hours."

Jay starts clapping " Employee of the week, Jin, right here." He points to Jin as Becklean snorts out a laugh.

Jin smiles pointing back. "All the calls were to the same numbers, a cell phone registered to a Lucky M Pawn and Loan in Gage Park."

" Lucky M. I know that ding-dong. We'll go talk to him. Come on." O speaks up from the back, he nods to Antonio, the two grabbing their coats and walking out.

//

Becklean was just lounging around her house, she had set Malia up into one of her spare rooms, and was about to go to bed when there was a knock at the door.

"Kells Hey."

A very anxious Kelly Severide walks into her house. " Hey, um, I didn't know where else to go, and, um, and I don't... no one's heard anything. I don't know what to do"

"Hey, we're gonna find her, okay? Yeah. I promise. We've got really good guys on this. And I know it's scary, and I know your sister's alone, but we're gonna find her." Kelly just nods, he looked tired, like he hadn't slept in forever.

"Why don't you go upstairs and find one of you Many CFD shirts and get comfortable and we can watch a movie okay?" she says as he nods, Kelly would always let her borrow his sweatshirts or tshirts, of course she was practically drowning in them ninety percent of the time she still loved them. He walks up the stairs returning in a shirt and sweatpants as Becklean is already putting the movies on, she hands him a beer and he gladly takes it. The two getting comfortable on the couch under a very big fluffy blanket, Becklean had her legs draped over Severide's lap as he had his legs up on the couch the movie barely started and they were already asleep. Just the smell of Becklean's scent and he simply was at peace, the two didn't realize they were asleep until they were woke up by the sound of knocking,

Malia went to answer the door, seeing Jay Halstead on the other side.

"Oh hi Do i have the right place?"

"Tía hay un hombre blanco en la puerta para ti"(Auntie there's some white man at the door for you) Maria walks away from the door leaving it open as Jay walks inside seeing Kelly Severide rubbing his eyes and Becklean stretching.

"Jay, Hey what are you doing here?"

"You asked me to pick you up for work, remember?" Becklean thinks for a moment.

"Yes I did, shit I forgot what time is it?"

"8, you got thirty minutes." He says as Becklean shoots up from the couch securrying upstairs to get ready Jay just glares at Kelly confused as to why he would be here, she would have told him if she was dating someone right?

Ten minutes later Becklean arrives down the stairs in her usual Jeans and Tshirt combo, her badge and gun holstered to her waist, she had a bomber jacket on and hurriedly grabbed a few things throwing them in her back pack before turning to Kelly who was making coffee in the kitchen.

"Hey, Can you take Mali to school please?"

"Of course I don't need to be in till 10." he replies as Becklean smiles planting a kiss to cheek he hands her coffee and she downs it quickly.

"Okay uh, wallet, Check, Badge and Gun check, Keys where the fuck are my keys.?" she looks around for them as Kelly whistles from the kitchen. She looks up and he tosses them to her.

"You are a lifesaver Kells I owe you name and It's yours." She smiles at him as He smiles back. "Before turning to Jay, alright let's go Jay Jay, Okay I love you." she walks over to Kells, placing a kiss to his cheek again, before turning to Malia who was down the stairs again dressed for school. "I love you. I will see you tonight Okay? Be good, make good choices." and with that the two partners left.

The car ride was consistent with Becklean making sure she didn't look like a raccoon with dark circles under her eyes, she finished applying her makeup as Jay just watched the road stealing a few glances.

"I didn't know you had a kid."

Becklean just laughs. "I don't she's my niece, she is staying with me until I can find her mom." Her mouth was opening as she applied her mascara.

"So uh you and Severide?"

"Me and Kelly are just friends, We grew up together and went to the same High School."

"Oh that's cool."

"Ehh I guess." She applies some Chapstick first then lipgloss.

"Did High School Bexs have Braces by any chance?" Jay Just smirks at the look on her face.

"It was middle school Bexs that had braces and I will have you know I was Hot in highschool." she pouts a bit as Jay laughs.

//

"Let's keep our heads down. Assume Mike is packing heavy stuff." Antonio says as Becklean, Jay are vesting up.

"Christmas." Voights voice comes into play as Ruzek walks into the Amo Cage.

" What?"

" Christmas is the takedown word" he explains simply as Ruzek gets vested up Erin walks in Pulling Becklean by her hand over to Voight and away from her convo with Jay.

"Hey. Reservation's all set at Carmine's for when he's out. They gave us the back room, so who do you want me to invite?"

" Oh, let's keep it small, just the Four of us." Voight says as

" Yeah?" Becklean speaks up

" I don't think he should be around his old friends just yet."

" Okay." The two blondes nod before Erin gets vested up; the group find themselves in the surveillance van listening to Antonio and O do the buy.

They listen as the Buy starts the dealer wanting one of them to get into the car with the money.

" I'll take you to it. Get in."

" Aw, come on." Antonio whines as O volunteers himself

" Only one of you with the money."

"We're goin' mobile." Antonio says and everyone in the vans follows from a small distance, they listen to the conversation between the supplier and O

Jin starts to type frantically

"What's wrong?" Voight asks.

" We've lost his audio and his tracking beacon." He explains he types more before nodding anf giving a thumbs up.

"How closely can you track him, Jin?" Ruzek asks.

'"Six meters. Yards, whatever." A few more minutes pass and Jin gives them a fist indicating that he said the code word. They raid the buy

"Police! Move!" There was a shootout happening between the sellers and the police. They get everyone into custody as O is taking the last dealer and placing him in the car.

"Burgess, Atwater, you got two white male offenders moving southwest of the building towards you." Jay says over the radio.

"Hey. Well, that got crazy fast."

"Didn't I tell you he was a cupcake?" O says as everyone laughs.

//

It was a good bust for the Intelligence Unit and they were all sitting around talking and chatting . Voight was on his phone when he sighs and walks up to the two blondes.

"I gotta take care of something."

" Don't say that." Erin speaks up as the room growing silent.

" Tell Justin something popped up." Voight pulls on his coat as the two blondes look at each before back to him you could tell they were pissed.

" Are you kidding me?" Becklean and Erin were now walking over to Voight; he turns around as they were fuming.

" Just do this for me, okay? Thank you."

" No. You're telling me that whatever you have going on is more important than seeing your only son walk out of the gates?"

" Yes. Tell Justin I love him and I'll see him tomorrow." he walks away as Becklean just rolls her eyes irritated.

//

The Two blondes are leaning up against Erin's car waiting for Justin he walks out of the gate stepping over the line in the cement that separates the gate from the outside world.

" Freedom!" He screams loudly as Erin and Becklean laugh. " Whoo. Gentlemen, it's been nice." He salutes to the guard behind him bowing. Before walking over to the Blondes.

"It's good to see you, Justin." he hugs Erin first. Before turning to Becklean.

" Aw, hi." Becklean smiles as they hug tightly.

" Damn, you two are lookin' good." He exaggerates the last few letters in the word good as the two laugh.

" Get outta here. A goat would look good to you right now."

" Yeah, maybe. So where's my old man?" He asks as the two blondes sigh.

"He had to take care of something." Becklean speaks up as his face falls.

" Why am I not surprised by that?"

" Come on, he's working." Erin says flatly as Justin kisses his teeth.

" Yeah, he's always working. Whatever, I don't care. I just wanted to see you two anyways." He smiles at the two women pulling Becklean into his arms.

" All right. Let's go get you a hot meal..." She turns as Erin and her are about to walk to the car he spins her around kissing her. "Whoa. Whoa, what the hell was that?"

" Hey, I'm not that snot-nosed kid anymore. I'll prove it to you, okay? Come on. Let's go." He wraps an arm around her shoulder as Erin is standing there shocked. " You want me to drive, or do you want to drive?" she pushes him as he laughs.

" Get in the car." She shoves him towards the car as Erin and her give each other a look.

"Unbelievable." she says as Erin nods in agreement the trio climbing into the car.

Of course the dinner was just them catching up like good times. It was like nothing had ever happened, the world around them was so chaotic but in the moment right here everything seemed to fit together like puzzle pieces.

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