"I don't care"
Chapter Twenty One:  Dancing in the Dark
2x12:Disco Bob

*Trigger warning*

Becklean was now the only on the team which meant everyone was going to be alot more overprotective of her. Kim declined taking Erin's place. Becklean was avoiding  her sister at all cost, she didn't want to talk with her since she felt the need to leave and not take her with her. She was pissed she even took the job. Her and Kelly were kinda talking but not really. He would send her a few text replies to let her know he was alive. Becklean was drinking a lot more, which was not good, not to mention she never slept anymore,  only went to the shooting range or the gym. Life for her was scary.

She didn't recognize the person she was becoming, but she also didnt like it either and hopefully maybe there would be someone who got her out of this rut. Who made her feel alive again and maybe that person was right under her nose. Of course there was a case when Becklean walks inside the house she sees two women dead on the floor. Ruzek's dad was on patrol at the door.

" Lucy Denton, the mom. Daughter's name is Shelby. Lucy knew somebody at the mayor's office, which is why you guys got called in, I guess." Officer Ruzek explains.

" Husband live here?"

"Yeah, Wes Denton, husband and father. Don't know where he is, doesn't answer his phone, and there's an eight-year-old son, Jordan. Don't know where he is."

"Silva from homicide said they found casings from a Smith & Wesson. Same caliber registered to Wes Denton." O speaks up.

"We found an open gun case open in the master closet. gun was gone"

"Motion detectors and window sensors... This is top-of-the-line security system. Do you know if the alarm was set?" Atwater enters the room with Becklean behind him.

"Technician tells me it is. So whoever entered had access to code." Ruzek's dad says.

"Or they forced someone to enter it."

"Yeah, or that."

" Hey, you get a ping on the father's phone or GPS? Got a location?" By the look on his face Officer Ruzek has no idea what is happening.

"I'm just the responding officer."

" So that's a no?" Voight asks

" Wow. They don't call it Intelligence for nothing, huh?" Officer Ruzek sasses as Becklean's eyes pop out of her head.

"Pops, come here." Ruzek pulls him to the side

They find a bloody hand print in the laundry room which is the size of a small child. They find out that patrol has eyes on the dad's car and everyone piles into each car

Halstead, O, Voight, and Becklean. We're tagging along together looking at license plates.

"That's it." Halstead nods to the car inform of them.

"Assume Denton's armed, but remember, we might have a kid in there." Voight says into his radio

"Copy."

They all park and get out running towards the car.

"Clear!" Becklean yells they see a blanket covering something in the backseat.

"Hold up. Alright, hit it." They break the glass opening the door and pull the blanket back to see a pile of clothes and shoes in it. Antonio moves to the trunk. Taking a crowbar to it. They open it seeing it almost empty a duffel bag in it.

"leaving town?" Antonio shrugs

"Hey, what are you guys doing?"

" Wes Denton?" O holds up his badge

"Yeah."

"Where's your son?" Ruzek starts cuffing him.

"What? What? Wh... home. Why? What's happened? What's going on?"

"There's been a crime."  Voight says.

//

They bring Wes Denton in for questioning Voight and Antonio interrogates him. While everyone else gets to work on finding the son. Becklean prints out photos for Burgess and Roman to head a few more patrolmen to go look on a manhunt for the boy.

Voight and Antonio return from integration where Becklean provides them with proof of Wes Denton's alibi, Of course they were back at square one and everyone was having a small campfire in Voight's office.

"Any news on the missing boy?"

" Got every available unit out searching."

" Wes Denton tested negative for gun residue." Becklean explains.

" Doesn't mean he's not behind this."

" I don't know; Marriages go south and everything, but killing your own kids?" Ruzek shakes his head at the thought.

" There are some things in this job, Ruzek, hopefully you'll never understand."

" Turns out Lucy Denton was an investigative journalist for the Chicago Source. Her job was to antagonize people. Me and Al are gonna head down there" Antonio nods towards O who is leaning up against the door frame.

". Sounds good."

" Kick Denton?" Becklean asks as Voight nods while Antonio and O leave.

" Yeah." he runs a hand over his face while Becklean leaves.

Becklean gets a name from Voight Alexander Gage and goes to check it out with Atwater and Halstead.

//

" Alexander Gage, Chicago PD!" Becklean kicks down the door as the trio enter the department.

"Clear."

"Clear."

" Whoa." They see a wall of photos of the mother, Halstead pulls out his phone and takes photos of everything.

"This dude was stalking her, man." They put everything back in place, closing the door.

" Call the TAC team and get them to sit in this apartment." Becklean orders as Kev pulls out his phone.

" Copy that."

"Hold on." Jay says as they see a guy enter in the hallway, he stops when he sees the three detectives.

"Alexander Gage?" He takes off running.

" Stop! Chicago PD!"

"Damn it."

They chase after him running into a stairwell only for Alexander to appear behind the door and run back up the stairs. So it begins, the search for Alexander in this sketchy ass building, he corners Kev and tries to push a pile of Boxes onto him, Jay and Becklean catch alexander at the door and Becklean elbows him in the face, as Kev scoops him off the floor, pushing his arm into his throat.

"I didn't kill them." He chokes out legs dangling in the air.

" Yo, Keke, you can set him down now." Becklean says as Jay is just grinning hard as hell. Kevin slams him into a chair behind them.

"Look, people think their words don't have any power, but hers did. She ruined me." Alexander was holding his hands near his pocket.

" Keep your hands on the chair."

" I had a business. I had a family. I had workers. You know what they do to them, 'cause they're all illegals?"

" Tell me." Jay sasses.

" I do time, they get sent back to Mexico, all because she want to be Susie reporter for some paper nobody reads anymore."

" So you're gonna follow her? You're gonna wait for the perfect moment and make her pay?" Becklean snips as He lets out a shaky breath.

" The bitch was cheating on her husband, and I wanted to expose her."

" Get him up. Let's go. Let's go." Jay nods to Kevin who scoops Alexander up by his shirt.

The trio enter the bullpen, with their coats in their hands.

" The guy was definitely stalking Lucy Denton, but he wanted to humiliate her. He wanted her alive to do that." Jay walks over to his desk putting his jacket on the back of his chair.

" That's what he's claiming, anyway."

" Yeah, we're tracking down another person of interest, some ambulance chaser that Lucy was probably sleeping with."  Becklean continues doing the same with her jacket.

" Look, you think there's something to this lawyer angle, run it down, but Gage stays in custody."  Voight says as everyone nods.

"Her palm scanner didn't work, red-faced, big-time. I had to buzz her up." Trudy laughed a bit as Becklean looks away from Erin who was standing there in her nice black suit.

"Thank you again, Sergeant." Erin shakes her head at how Trudy was acting. "I know. I'm like the loser that graduates from high school and then hangs around in the parking lot all the time, 'cause I have nothing better to do." Erin says as Becklean leaves the room.

She was in the locker room, she closed the locker to see her sister standing there. She sits down on the bench angrily fiddling with her boot.

"Remember that time you found that stray cat it was covered from head to toe in dirt, and so you thought it would be a good idea to sneak it inside the house while I distracted Voight and Laura."

Becklean can't help the laugh that escapes her lips. "Yeah and when I went to wash it, the cat freaked out and ran off, so we spent hours looking for it only for Voight to find it in their bed."

"He was so mad." Erin laughs along with her sister.

"I know this is supposed to be good for you, and I am trying to be supportive, But we have always been together, through everything good or bad. A-and now you're gone and."

The two dont say anything, they just hold each other's hands.

"I am not gone, Jeez so dramatic act like I died." Becklean shoves her sister's shoulder as Erin laughs.

"When... when are you heading out?" Erin gives her a lok. "Oh please, Jay tells me everything, just cause you're all fancy pants now, doesn't mean I dont have my ways of checking up on you."

"My flight got pushed a day."

"So we can have a girls day?" Becklean looks at her sister like a sad child.

Erin laughs, "Yes we can have a girls day."

" How long are you gonna be down there?"

" Six months... give or take." Becklean's eyes go wide. " We could roll out at any time."

"You are so gonna miss me." Erin laughs again.

"Hey,. Atwater got an address for that lawyer." O's Voice was heard from the door of the locker room.

"Yeah, I'll be right there." the two sisters. Stand facing each other while holding hands.

" Take care of yourself down there, all right?" erin nods as the two hug,

"Don't kiss any boys," Erin laughs. "If you kiss any girls, call me and tell me about it." Erin laughs again, " I love you Kiddo, stay safe."

"First of all I am older by a month and secondly, I love you too."

//

"Lucy did a piece on insurance scams. She interviewed me; We stayed in touch. I was helping her file chapter 11."

"What does a P.I. attorney know about filing for bankruptcy?" Becklena asks to pick up a snowglobe from around the desk in the corner of the room.

" Lucy couldn't afford the basic 2 grand fee at a typical bankruptcy firm. I was doing it as a friend."

" How did she pay you?" Becklean quirks a brow. 

" Not how you're implying. Believe me. They were broke. I felt sorry for her. I stopped by a few times and helped her fill out the paperwork."

" Always when her husband was out?" O speaks up.

"She didn't want him to know about the bankruptcy. They'd sold off everything of value. They were trying to get out from under the house... these were desperate people."

" Are we talking a quiet desperation, or were they locking horns?" Becklean sits the snowglobe down on his desk.

" There was some arguing going on there, yeah. Enough for Wes to kill Lucy? I've heard of crazier things. But to kill your daughter too?"

//

" All right. Thanks, Roman." Jay hangs up the phone. "Okay, so Jordan's alive, but he's critical and heading into surgery now." Roman and Burgess  found the eight year old son.

"All right, we like the dad for this. I just got off the phone with Dentons' bank. Got $800 in savings. Credit cards are maxed out. They're on their second mortgage." Ruzek slaps a sticky note down on the table.

" Both Wes and Lucy Denton have $500,000 life insurance policies taken out when they were flush. Wes' lapsed. Kept the premium paid on Lucy's. And with double indemnity, Wes Denton is gonna get paid out $1 million."

" Look, I hate to ruin the party here, but I cross-referenced all the subscribers and mudd and tolls on Wes' phone. Nothing stood out. Tech lab checked all the searches and the activity on the home computer, nothing. So if he hired someone to kill his wife, he was careful." Becklean explains she was sitting on Jay's desk. Her legs dangling a bit.

" So he was careful. We got a financial motive for the husband. We need to bring him in." Antonio shrugs as Becklean rolls her eyes.

"Well, he ain't coming in voluntarily again. I'll tell you that much."

"If Wes hears we found his kid and he might get ID'd, he'll bolt." O says simply. 

" Plus, to me, he looks like one of those guys whose mouth starts moving when they feel the bracelets slapped on their wrists."

" Let's hit it." Voight shrugs as Ruzek and O grab their coats.

//

Another day rolls around and everyone is in the bullpen going over their findings.

"Before they went bust, they donated to a lot of charities. They were on the board of directors at the O.G. Grill. It's a catering company up on the north side that hires ex-cons."

"Yeah, they teach them food service skills. I got a cousin that went through there. A couple cousins, actually, and my aunt." Kevin simply says a secklean shakes her head with a smirk.

"Right, well, it's a good place to hire a parolee looking to do a murder for hire."

" It's worth checking out.  What's the address?" Becklean leans back in her chair.

" I know how to get there. We can roll." Kevin nods to Antonio, the two grab their coats leaving  Becklean and Jay in the bullpen alone.

Becklean decides to take this moment to let loose, she starts playing music from her bluetooth speaker. Dancing all crazy as Jay just stares at her with a smirk.

"Come on Jay jay let loose." Becklean shakes her hair out of the ponytail before whipping her head back and forth. She shakes her hips to the beat as Jay just watches her. She moves effortlessly towards him, tripping over her shoelace and falling into his lap. They lock eyes and he cups her face, their lips dangerously close the heat between them was bubbling over like a pot on high heat.

His thumb grazes her face and she finds herself drowning in the color of his eyes, all she had to do was move forward and kiss him and all the tension she felt would be released. He stares down at her lips and she does the same to him. They move towards each other at the same time as their lips are about to press against each other, Nadia walks up the stairs and they separate.  Going  back to work as if nothing happened.

//

Voight and Ruzek came back from the hospital with an ID from the son.

"Frank Carriger did five years for aggravated burglary and narcotics possession. When he was released, his P.O. got him a job at the O.G. Grill."

" I put out an investigative alert on him." Antonio says.

"Any IKAs for this guy?"

"Yeah, I got his last three." Ruzek holds up the ipad.

" Yeah, we still can't find any communication between him and Wes Denton."

" What about between him and Lucy's stalker, Gage?"  Ruzek points out as Becklean shakes her head.

"Zero." She replies.

"Well, somebody gave Carriger that alarm code."

" Copy that. Thanks."  Atwater turns to look at the group. " We might have eyes on Carriger. Loyola Station, boarding the el right now."

" Beautiful." Voight clasps his hands together as everyone grabs their coats.

It was colder than fuck when they arrived at the station, Becklean was shivering. Jay just shakes his head handing her his beanie as she smirks while taking it, he pulls another one from his pocket. He always brought extra hats or gloves for his partner in case she forgot, which nine times out of ten she did.

"Witness said he's wearing jeans and a black leather jacket." Antonio explains the group decides to split up Ruzek and O were on the street in a car, Jay and Atwater took the front of the train while Antonio took the back and Becklean was in the middle of the station.

" Suspect's heading down the station to Ashland and Lake.'' She hears Attwater's voice come across her radio and see the suspect running, of course her being the smallest and fastest person on the team has its advantages. She was chasing him quickly. He runs onto another car and she manages to slip through the doors before they close, he goes through each door before she catches him pushing his head into one of the metal polee before throwing him onto the floor.

"Stay down. Put your arms behind your back. You like shooting kids, huh?" She puts her knee in his back cuffing him. 

"Owen Reese, the girl's boyfriend. He had me do it. He had me do it." He says as she rolls her eyes. The train was quiet as she looked up seeing the passengers were now staring at her.

"Sup." she nods

"It was Owen Resse." He says again.

"Shut your mouth." Becklean mutters.

//

Becklean was finished with all her paperwork, the bullpen was dimly lit, it was just her there. She leans back in her chair staring at Erin's desk. She thinks back to all the memories they shared all the laughs they had. She could still hear the first piece of Advice that Voight gave the two of them when they graduated from the academy.

"You have to trust your instincts even if it seems like the hardest thing for you to do."

She stands up from her desk turning everything off, making sure the monitors are turned off. It was pitched black outside but she didn't care, she never cared, she pounded on his door and the minute he opened the sleep still evident on his face, was truly the cutest thing she had ever seen. She attacked him with a kiss, hungry and passionate, he is startled at first but after a while their lips move in sync.

"What's about Voight's rule?"

"I dont care." she says as he closes the door with his foot she jumps into his arms her legs around his waist and he takes her into the bedroom closing the doors behind him.

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