"I don't want to talk at all"

Chapter Twenty-two: Little Italy
2x13: A Little Devil Complex

*Trigger warning*

Becklean was excited to hear form Erin that she was indeed coming back to the district, it made her gitty, and the simple fact that she was having outragousely mind blowing sex, well that was good too. It helped. She hadnt slept so good in so long. It was exactly what she needed, well they were exactly what she needed, life was good, great even. She had a glow.

She was humming laughing almost, and she was genuinely, happy, sure currently it was just sex, and that was it but, who cares, sex it nice. It helps, especially when its good sex. And with Jay Halstead it was really really good sex.

She was at her desk when Erin walked up the stairs with her signature grin hair in loose waves.

"There she is." Ruzek says as Becklean is practically beaming.

" All right, let the ball-busting commence."

" I don't know what you're talking about."

" Yeah, we're just happy to see you, Lindsay. Listen, we're thinking about putting together a task force on how to make coffee." Ruzek puts a sticky note on his mug.

" Maybe you can help us arrange a press conference for that." Antonio speaks up from his Desk.

"I got you started. Cream, two sugars. It's really simple."

" I am not gonna make you coffee." Erin smirks as Becklean is leaning against her desk watching the group interact.

"Come on, what about you?" She walks over to Jay who is leaned back in his chair.

" I wasn't going to say anything. And then Lang called and he said you left your pants suit at the headquarters." Jay replies as everyone laughs.

"Welcome back" Beckelan runs over hugging her sister.

"Yeah! Missed you a lot."

" You guys have no idea how good it is to be here." Antonio stands up to give Erin a hug.

Voight steps out of his office " Hey, kiddo, I want you with Antonio catching up on all the old case files."

" I got to step out for a moment, Sarge." Antonio is putting on his jacket as everyone is giving him a look.

" What's up?" Voight nods to Antonio.

" I'll let you know as soon as I find out." and with that he walks out.

//

Before long Voight and Antonio have a case and it is one that personally hits close to home for a few of the detectives.

"Adrian Gish. CFD is sure he blew up the building that killed Leslie Shay. I for one agree with them. I got the mother of all bad hits off this guy."

"Gish works at Herald Mortgage Company as a proofreader. Lives at 2947 West 21st. Alone. No known relatives in Chicago."

" What's his rush?" Jay asks as he leaned up against Becklean's desk alongside her, she was frustrated, this case was going to break her bit by bit and she was preparing for it mentally. She had been at Kelly's every night helping me get to sleep, making sure he was eating and not overworking himself. Trying her best to get him to pack up Shay's room. Leslie was the person who brought out the funnier side in Becklean who made her feel like everything was going to be okay. When she moved back to Chicago they were her roommates for a while.

" According to Kelly Severide, he's an Excitement arsonist, lives in the shadows and gets off on the chaos of the act. This guy killed Leslie Shay, my sister and Bex's best friend. Years ago, he killed Peter Mills' father, and burned Chief Boden and who knows how many others. As far as I'm concerned, we don't sleep until this lunatic roasts."

" I hear that." Kevin nods.

" So how do we handle him?"

" We get under his skin. Make him feel us everywhere he looks. Arson is hard to prove unless you catch him in the act, so that's what we're gonna do. Pressure the volcano and be there when it erupts." Antonio explains.

" Olinsky and Ruzek, roll to his workplace. Apparently, Antonio caused a little stir there this morning. My experience is, the office gossip will be bursting to talk to us about this guy. The rest of you, find a common link between the victims of these fires. I want a warrant for this home address ASAP. And make sure you include all electronics in the body of the warrant."

" Of course." Becklean replies already on the phone getting the warrant.

Becklean finds herself Paired up in her group again with The Big three. Her, Erin and Jay.

They are arriving at Adrian Gish's college where he graduated with an MBA.

"Dr. Miller?"

" Yes." A man with oval glasses and white hair turns around to greet them as students bustle by.

" Hi. Detective Halstead, West, and Lindsay."

" Hi." he replies as the two blondes wave curtly.

" Thanks for meeting us. Adrian Gish's resume said that he went to Kellogg for his MBA. You're listed as one of three professors on his advisory committee. We're just hoping you could tell us some more about him."

" I remember Adrian. Anyone who was here at that time does. Gifted." Dr. Miller starts walking down the hall a bit

"In what way?" Lindsey asks.

Dr.Miller stops in his tracks. "He would light up a room. Intellect, charm. I remember thinking, ''this young man will be a senator some day."

" A senator?" Erin asks as Miller nods.

"He never saw his wheelchair as a disadvantage. I remember when..."

" Did you say wheelchair?" Becklean asks.

" Yes. Muscular dystrophy, I think it was."

" This man?" Erin holds up a picture of Adrian.

" No. I don't know who that is"

"Okay, thank you for your time." Jay grins at the man and he nods walking off.

" Thanks. All right, we need to go to the registrar's office and see if they have an alumni address for the Gish that actually went here."

" Yep. " Jay and Becklean reply..

//

The trio find themselves at the door of the actually Adrian Gish's residence, Jay knocks and an older woman answers the door.

"Yes?"

"Mrs. Gish?"

" Yes. I'm Piper Gish" she steps outside a bit, closing her sweater to stop herself from shivering.

" Mother of Adrian Gish?" Erin asks as she nods.

" Yes. Do you know where he is?" Becklean asks

Piper scoffs. " I'm sorry?"

" We're looking for your son."

" How dare you? Adrian was killed in an office fire 12 years ago. They didn't have wheelchair ramps. Only an elevator. He didn't... He was trapped."

" So this isn't your son?" Erin holds up a picture of the fake Adrian Gish

Piper walks back into her house and over to a mantel she grabs a photo and steps back outside.

" This is him. This is Adrian." She holds up a completely different photo than the one they had.

" We're sorry to bother you. We made a mistake."

" What is this about?" she asks, her face laced with concern.

" Police business, ma'am. Very sorry." Jay replies as piper slams the door in their face,

"If that guy's Gish, who the hell is our guy?"

"I don't know but I am damn sure gonna find out." Becklean replies not liking this one bit.

//

Everyone meets up back at the precinct and in Voight's office.

" How the hell did the arson investigation not know that Gish is operating under an alias?"

" Well, they aren't cops. They're about accelerants and incendiaries and the causes of a fire. It took them this long to even know it was arson." Becklean explains as Vought gives her his signature glare, not that he was mad at her just from the fact that this guy had gotten away with this for so long.

Of course Gish or whoever's lawyer walks into the room.

" Give us a minute." Voight says as everyone walks out.

Becklean decided to go get coffee before she actually punched someone in the face. She was pouring some creamer and sugar into her mug first before grabbing the coffee pot, just at that time Jay walks in.

"So.."

"So...:" He replies as she pours coffee into her mug first.

"So just 'cause Erin's back doesn't mean I want to quit me and you." Becklean smirks as Jay holds out a mug she pours coffee into before leaning back against the counter. They had only been hooking up for a few days most of her time was spent with Kelly.

" I don't know. I'm not really a sneak-around-behind-dad's-back kind of guy."

Becklean lets out a snort." Says the guy that works undercover."

He laughs, biting his lip, as Becklean stirs her coffee. "Let's just come clean. Voight will respect us more if we look him in the eye."

" Or we keep our personal lives personal. It's nobody's business but ours." Becklean steps closer to him, he eyes her up and down as she takes the stir stick and pulls her through her mouth, which sends shivers down his spine.

He had the urge to kiss her except they were interrupted by a knock on the glass.

" Hey, Voight wants to move out." Ruzek says as Becklean just laughs.

" Yep, got it." Jay replies quickly as Becklean is headed for the door, " To be continued."

" Yep."

Voight had a plan he used Burgess and Roman as Bait to distract Ross aka Adrian while they moved in on his house legally of course.

"Police! Search warrant! Clear! Where do you want me to stick this warrant?"

" Just tag it to the front door. All right, toss the place. Make it messy. Pull up the floorboards if you have to." Vought orders as everyone gets to work doing as they're told. Halstead and Lindsey had a completely different task they were asked to do as Becklean was with everyone else trashing Gish's place.

//

Long story short Gish pulled a fast one and Blew up Burgess and Roman's squad car with a molotov cocktail everyone was meeting up in the garage, waiting for Gabby who walked in.

"Hey, how are you doing? I've been better." She replies as her and Antonio hug. " You remember Megan?"

" Of course. Good to see you." Antonio nods to Megan as Gabby pulls Becklean into a hug.

" Sorry about the circumstances." Becklean replies to Megan who nods as chief Boden steps inside the garage.

"You guys close to finding this guy?"

"We're gonna get him, I promise. He's obsessed with being underestimated and he's going to crack." Antonio explains before nodding to Boden. " Chief."

"So here's the map from the IFO logs. with all the suspected arsons going back to 1970." Gabby rolls out a map on the table in front of everyone.

"We don't know how far Gish goes back with all this, but figured the more information you had, the better."

" His name's not Gish. He's been using a fake identity for a long time. We don't know how long."

" He torched a patrol car yesterday." Jay speaks up.

" You serious?"

" Yeah. It's actually a good sign. Our plan is working.

"This helps too. Atwater, why don't you and me cross-reference all these fires with the name Ross McGowan and see what pops." Becklean speaks up as Kevin nods standing up from his position.

" Pardon me. What did you say?" Chief Boden asks as everyone can sense the tension.

"Ross McGowan, Gish's birth name"

" That is not his birth name." Boden practically growls as everyone looks around at each other.

" What's that, Chief?"

" Ross McGowan was a firefighter. He died in the same fire that killed Peter Mills' father, Henry. Same place I got my scars"Boden explains as everyone just stares around.

". So McGowan's a fake ID too."

" Going back 20 years." Boden nods as Becklean pinches the bridge of her nose.

Voight tosses his water bottle across the room behind him. " Who is this guy? Huh?"

" Thanks, guys. We'll update you as soon as there's anything to update."

" Yeah. Please don't tell me this means you guys aren't..." Megan's eyes seemed hurt as Becklean shakes her head. ''

" Megan, look at me. This prick is going down" Antonio says as Becklean nods.

"Yeah and I am going to be the one who wipes that smug look off his disgusting face okay?" Megan just nods heading for the door. As Kevin leads her out. Antonio walks his sister out as well as Becklean just stares off thinking of every way she can piss off this guy.

//

"All right, we know his age, we know his weight, we know his face." Erin was having a campfire with Becklean, Kevin, and Jay.

"Anyone been in the interrogation room since him?" Jay asks as Becklean thinks for a moment.

" No, I don't think so."

" Then his prints are on the table. Let's run 'em through NCIC and LEADS. We'll see if we get a pop or a match." Jay nods to Kevin who agrees.

"O and Ruzek are on him, right?" Antonio steps into the room standing Next to Becklean.

" Yeah."

" Good. Let's keep pushing this bastard. I don't want to wait much longer."

Back in the bullpen Voight walks out of his office on the Phone with O as everyone gathers around the board for an update.

"Yeah. Thanks, Al." He hangs up walking towards the board. "Olinksy says Gish has old burn scars from a fire on his arm."

" We can use that." Jay shrugs.

" We know he changed IDs at least twice going back 20 years. What do we know about psychopaths?"

" They work up to their first kill and usually aren't very careful in the early going." Becklean replies leaning up against her desk.

" So either Gish burned himself starting a fire, or more likely, he suffered an inciting incident, and that's what set him off."

"Exactly. In the interview room, Gish mentioned men who kill their own families. Let's look at some of the earlier fires in the Bridgeport area, see if maybe there was one that took out a family except for one little boy." With that everyone gets to work combing through cases, after thirty minutes Becklean and Jay find one.

" Hey, we got one!" She yells bringing Voight from his office. "Fire in Bridgeport in 1975."

"Killed a mom, a husband, a brother. There was one surviving child at the time. He was 7, Trenton Lamont."

" You got an address?" Voight asks.

" 3424 South Green Street." Becklean reads it off

" Let's hit it." Everyone grabs their coats.

//

They pull up to the address seeing nothing but a fenced off yard where a house used to be, there is just a yard and a bit of foundation left. Theres a man raking leaves nearby,

"Hey. Excuse me. Excuse me. You lived here long?"

" Just my whole life."

"You here when this place burned down?" Voight asks as he nods.

" Yeah, the Lamont family."

" How come no one ever rebuilt?" Voight continues.

The man shrugs. " The son who survived, he still owns the property. Trenton. Trenton Lamont."

" Have you ever had any contact with him?"

" Yeah, all the time. Lives right there." The man nodded at the house next to the lot.

" What?" Antonio says as everyone looks over at the house.

" Yeah, he never left the area. Saw him last week. He comes and goes at weird times, and has always been nothing but nice."

" This him?" Jay pulls up a picture on his phone and shows the man.

" Yeah, that's him. Trenton Lamont."

"Vest up." Voight orders

Antonio breaks down the door with a battering ram as Becklean, Jay, and Erin, walk into the house checking every bit.

"Hey, in here!" Jay yells from inside alerting Antonio and Voight to come in, they do in fact come inside only the sight they see isn't pretty, he had an entire creepy stalker shrine of photos, photos of Gabby Dawson.

"Al, you got eyes on Gish?"

" Yeah, he's entering a grocery store on Roosevelt as we speak. We're letting him..."

" He's targeting Gabriela! Snatch him up!" Antonio yells as its silent on O and Ruzek's end.

They all get into the car speeding dangerously fast, it was Gabby of course, Voight and Antonio arrive first onto the scene with Becklean who was practically jumping up all the steps, the elevator was stuck between floors three and four and she was scanning each floor back to Back with Antonio.

They hadnt done that since forever, just the two of them literally watching each other's backs. They make it to the elevator doors as Antonio takes the key and opens it, there in the shaft is Adrian he has the top of the elevator open to reveal Gabby inside and a lighter in his hand. Becklean is lining up her scope as Antonio is watching as she shoots him perfectly, in the chest.

"Gabby!" Antonio yells down to her. Before they run down the stairs to where the elevator is and open the doors. He immediately pulls her into a hug as Voight and Becklean are making sure Gish is dead. Well Voight is Becklean knows damn well he is.

In the locker room Becklean walks in to put her stuff way, she hears Ruzek and Attwater leave and closes her locker seeing Anotonio's calm demeanor turn sad his hands begins to shake and she hugs him as he cries, he wouldn't let the others see, but her she was his saving grace, the person who knew entirely too much.

"Thank you...thank you so much."

"We did that together..You hear me?" She holds him as he cries,

//

The night was long and Becklean felt drained physically and emotionally, her house was empty, no Kelly, or Malia in sight, the subtle knock at her door made her heart thump, but she knew she knew who it was, and he attacks her with long kisses, first simply but hungry yearning, her back is pressed against the wall, his hands roaming through her shirt.

"Hey, if you want to tell Hank, we can tell him." Jay kisses her neck as she smirks hands in his hair.

" I don't want to talk about Hank"

". What do you want..." He cuts her off by kissing her.

" I don't want to talk at all." the two lock eyes before they continue attacking each other.

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