"Halstead and Erin Sitting in a Tree."

Chapter Five: We are Having Field Day
1x05: Thirty Balloons

*Trigger Warning*

Becklean was currently walking into the gym with Erin, hair pulled into a slick back ponytail. She was clad in a sports bra and matching leggings her bag under arm, if you didn't know any better you would think time stopped the minute she walked in, her ponytail bouncing from left to right, the way those leggings hugged every curve and dp, the sports bra was long sleeve leaving her cleave and stomach to be seen. Jay Halstead was practically choking on his water when the two blondes walked up.

" Jazzercise is, like, a block south." Jay smirks as the two roll their eyes.

"Yeah, nice muscle tee."

"Although one needs muscle to wear it." Becklean shrugs as Antonio opps at her fistbumping the women.

" This is perfectly acceptable attire for the boxing gym."

"No, absolutely, and the bonus is you don't have to change later when you break-dance." Erin sasses as Becklean laughs.

" Oh!" Antonio laughs as he wipes sweat from his neck. The two men look towards the door seeing Justin entering who looks madder than hell.  "Voight's kid" Antonio nods to Jay as Justin approaches.

" Justin. This is Antonio and Jay. Erin and I work with them. Antonio's buddy owns the gym, hence the 30% discount."

" 20%. Nice try."

"What do you mean Nice try? The guy at the door has been giving us  30% since I have been coming here." Becklean says as Erin  nods in agreement.

"All right." Erin just laughs.

" How you doing?" Jay extendeds his hand out for Justin who just glares at the man before doing the same to Antonio.

"I gotta make some calls." and with that he leaves as the two men give the blondes looks.

"He's like our little brother. I'm just trying to keep him out of trouble." Erin shrugs

" Good luck."

" Just give him a shot."  Erin says as the two blondes walk off Becklean kicks a punch bag on her way as Jay just stares at her.

//

The trio were currently piling out of the car, they had just pulled up at the precinct,

"All I'm saying is Justin looks like an uphill battle."

" That kid lost his mother and then did a year in prison. He just needs to get his bearings." Erin says closing the driver side door.

" Did you see the attitude he gave me in the gym?"

" If I had just gotten out of Statesville and had been made to shake hands with a bunch of cops, I would've had the exact same attitude." Becklean defends.

"I don't think it's so much I'm a cop as much as Justin thinks I'm your boyfriend." Jay says with a sly smirk he wiggles his brows as Erin laughs.

" You wish Pretty boy."

"You wish." he mocks her voice as Becklean scoffs and Erin laughs.

"Good one." she fist bumps him.

" No, you wish." Becklean shoves his shoulder as the trio walk inside.

//

" What do we got?"  Voight, Antonio, Erin, and Becklean were walking inside of a hospital, Burgess and Attwater had called them.

" Female, white, just got out of surgery"

" I heard female white knocked you around pretty good." Becklean nods to Attwater who was currently buttoning his shirt.

" Whatever she was on gave her the strength of ten men."

"Hmm." Erin says with a smirk.

" No I.D. All she had on her was this plane ticket." She hands the plane ticket to Antonio. " She landed at O'Hare this morning from Cabo San Lucas."

" Just how much cocaine does she have on her?"

" Not on her. Inside her. 30 balloons in her stomach." Burgess explains as everyone looks at them shocked, the surgeon comes up to them leading them to the room where the girl was.

" Normally, when cops drag screamers in here, we just give 'em a haldol cocktail and send them into detox, but she started convulsing, and I knew right away this was different." Dr. Parker explains.

" Welcome to Chicago, distribution center of the midwest." Antonio mutters.

" We removed 29 condoms full of cocaine, though she swallowed 30. One broke open and started to dissolve into her stomach. The drug leaked into her bloodstream, causing her psychosis," She opens a tray showing the condoms as Antonio and Becklean put on gloves walking over to inspect them.  "So I ordered emergency surgery.Never ceases to amaze me what people will do for money."

" Well, sometimes, people don't feel like they have a choice." Becklean speaks up as Voight looks at her.

"I tested the residue on the broken balloon. It's 89% pure. That's the highest grade I've ever seen."

" All these must be 50k street value. Easy." Becklean says as Antonio nods.

" So what do we think? Cartel's getting smart recruiting all-American types?"

" They're full of air pockets. That's why they busted. It's amateur hour. Cartel wouldn't be this careless." Antonio explains.

" We need to question her. How soon till she's conscious?"

" Two, maybe three hours"

" All right, have Jin contact the TSA at O'Hare. See if we can get an I.D. on this girl." with that the Intelligence unit leave the hospital.

//

"All right, so our girl in the E.R. is Amber Morris. Amber and her three friends here are all undergrads at Central Chicago University." Jay explains he and Becklean were presenting the facts to everyone.

"This is who we're looking for. We checked Amber's Facebook page. There's pictures of them living it up in Cabo, but not just from this trip. Amber's been down there twice in the last three months. First time, she did the run herself. This time, she recruited friends." Becklean explains

"We gotta assume all these girls are mules and ingested the same type of balloons packed with coke." 

"You guys, I ran down those girls' addresses. All three live on campus." Jin walks in as everyone starts gathering their coats.

" We gotta move."  Becklean picks up her coat as Jay throws a piece of paper at her,

" Let's go." she laughs hitting him in the chest

They check the girls rooms not seeing them there, Antonio and Becklean were walking down the stairs when their radios were going off Voight's voice is heard.

" We're looking for two white males. Could still be in the area. They got our girls."  They hear some screams and follow the sound to a garage, two two quickly pulling out their guns, Becklean sees a van gunning it towards Antonio.

"Antonio!" she runs and tackles him, gripping onto her shoulder. He of course looks back at the license plate as does she trying to get some shots off.

"Aah"

"Here let me take a look."  Becklean just bats him away. "Fuck" she growls, walking away.

//

"Son of a bitch." Becklean rolls her shoulder as they had just arrived at the hospital meeting up with Erin and Halstead.

"We're putting out an investigative alert on Sean and Brendan Collins. They're the dealers we're looking for."

" Sean's the boyfriend. Amber says he and his brother hang out at a tattoo shop called "Underground Ink." That's where they sling the product."

" Good work." Voight says as Erin walks off ignoring Voight, Becklean  gives hima look.

"Oooh you in trouble." She sings quietly so only he can hear.  As Voight walks off leaving Halstead, Dawson and West,

"Would you stop being hard headed and get checked out?" Antonio looks at Becklean who rolls her eyes.

"I am not hard headed, I just don't like hospitals and I am fine. It's just a scrape." she mutters as Antonio sighs, pressing on her shoulder, she lets out a yelp and does the same to him.

"Convince her to get looked at." he says to Jay walking off.

"I am fine, it's just a scratch." Jay just gestures for him to look at her shoulder and she moves back her leather jacket and and her shirt a bit revealing a giant scrape on her shoulder and her chest and her shoulder was already starting to bruise around the top. Their closeness was noticeable he was inspecting her bruise and she cant help but blush under his touch,  she winces as he leads her out the door.

They go back to the precinct where he pulls out  the first aid Kit in the locker room, Voight had been too busy fighting with Erin to even notice Becklean being injured which worked for her or she would be in a hospital. They sit on the bench as Becklean pulls back her shirt, Jay moves her bra strap out of the way and she cant help but blush, Jay halstead was touching her and he was close to her boob, she was wondering what he was thinking what was going on in his head right this moment, she couldn't help but stare at him, look him in his face, his brows screwed together in concentration, while he worked, he didn't even notice her gaze on him, too busy trying to make her feel better.

They finished up just in time for another briefing.

"The Collins brothers are known thugs from Bridgeport. Both have records for armed robbery and aggravated battery."

" So they've graduated to drug smuggling using naive college girls. Had uniforms check their LKAs. These guys are in the wind." Jay leans back in his seat.

" DMV came back that Brendan Collins owns a black Ford van."

" I'm assuming that these brothers are using throwaway phones now that they know Amber's been arrested." Erin says as everyone nods.

" All right, keep digging. Get me any known associates."

Voight and Erin were walking by as everyone was getting to work and pulled Becklean along into Voights office.

"I am really tired of people dragging me around like a rag doll." she sasses as Erin rolls her eyes. "What the hell is going on?" Becklean asks as Erin gives her a look before whispering in her ear.

"You and Jay?" Becklean just starts laughing as Erin gives her an incredulous look. "You seriously went all Dad mode. On Jay Jay. over Erin." She laughs harder. "Oh man, that just made my week."

"The overprotective father thing was fine when I was a teenager, but I don't need you looking out for me anymore."

" It's Halstead I'm looking out for. I've seen what happens to the guys you date."

" What is that supposed to mean?"

"Listen Rin, I love you but you don't have the best track record with the fellas." Erin sends her a pointed glare as Becklean simple smiles giving her a shoulder patt.

" You've left a string of broken hearts behind you since you were 15. I need Halstead 100% effective, not throwing pebbles at your window at 3:00 in the morning."  Voight says as Becklean laughs again.

"Halstead and Erin sitting in a tree K.I.S.S.I.N.G." she mocks as Erin hits her and Voight just does his usual brooding stare.

" You don't get to tell me who I can and can't hang out with on my personal time."

" My unit, my rules. You wanna date a cop? There are plenty of other districts out there." he says as she rolls her eyes storming off.

"For the record Jay is a good guy. I think you are being way too harsh on Rin just saying." she pats him on the back leaving. "Jay and Erin Ha!" she laughs.

//

The trio were in the car  waiting for Jin to get visual on the van, Voight had already asked him for Eta but Erin asked Jin again because she was annoyed with Voight.

" We got eyes on the van yet?"

" Said I'm getting comfy..... Okay, got eyes on 'em. Comin' up 76th towards Western. Turning into an alley. Heading south towards 77th."

"We're on it." Erin replies as they get to the van.

"Got a visual on Brendan Collins." Jay gets out lining up his gun with the hood as the van appears in front of them blocking the alley.  They all had their guns trained on the car Becklean holsters her gun knowing the van's next moves as the tire screech. and it begins to back up.

" Van's on the move, headed north on 76th." Erin says into the Radio she climbs into the car with Jay the two following Becklean who ran off after the van.

She manages to catch up with the van. Pulling out her gun as the others arrive. The van had crashed into a semi.

" 5020 Lincoln. Emergency. Roll an ambulance to 7320 Western." Erin speaks into her radio, They approached the van seeing the driver stuck in the windshield.

"He's toast. The girls!" Voight nods to the back of the van and everyone moves to the back of the van

//

"He had a 9 mil and a throwaway phone. No trace of the coke or the girls." Antonio walks up with an evidence bag.

" So every second that goes by, the less chance those girls survive." Erin snaps, unclipping her radio.

" We're all aware of that, Erin." Antonio snaps back.

"Hey! Enough of that. Take it easy." Becklean looks at everyone with a cautious look. Erin and Antonio are having a stare down and she simply steps in between them rolling her eyes.

"Everybody stay cool. Get that phone over to Jin asap. Have him run the calls on it." Voight turns to Jay. "You're comin' with me."

" Where are you going?" Becklean ask as Voight and Jay walk away.

" Higher up the family tree"

//

"Hey." Becklean was meeting up with Erin and Justin outside the precinct. The two blondes walk up to him, arms interlocked together.

"Yo. Is the deputy dog pissed you're sneaking out to meet me?" He nods to Erin and Becklean cackles.

" Who, Halstead?"

"Even if he thinks you like Jay." she laughs more as Justin Furrows his brows.

"Figured you had a little thing with him or something." Justin nods as Becklean laughs harder.

"Yeah. It's called "work."

"Whatever. Did you get it?" He asks as Becklean holds up the thin wallet in her hand. He goes to reach for it and she moves her hand back." Why aren't you at the CTA training class?"

" Because I left my wallet in your car, and I don't have my I.D. I rescheduled it for next week." he snatches the wallet from her hands.

" Justin. Your dad pulled a lot of strings to get you this job, all right? The least you could do is show up."

" Punch in a little while, make him happy?Come on, Erin. CTA is not a career. I got other things cookin', anyway."

" Oh, really?"

" Mm-hmm." He hums as a car engine revs behind the, a guy was mean mugging the, from the river's seat.

"Is that your ride?" Becklean nods towards the black mustang.

" Don't worry about it. He's cool. Just an old friend."

" Mm."

" All right. I'll text you later. Maybe we'll hang out after work, get some drinks or something'."

" Or maybe I'll give you a ride home. You know you have a curfew." Becklean yells after him the two watch as the car takes off. The driver staring them down as Becklean simply rolls her eyes.

//

Voight and Jay come back and he explains how they have a lead on a warehouse the unit goes by there breaking the door open.

"CPD!"

" Half the swag from midway must be in here."

" Check the back." Voight tells the trio as they walk to the back, their flashlights leading the way.

They get to the back seeing a kilo of cocaine and a scale, Becklean looks forward seeing a puddle of blood she shines her light up following the puddle to see one of the girls dead on a surgical table. The others join her grimacing at the sight.

"Megan Benson." Jay practically growls now she was truthfully getting angrier by the second.

"Girl was 19. Still in school. What a waste."

" Why do only one? Where's the other two?" Jay asks as they walk out if the building.

" We're not dealing with a pro. Collins got squeamish and ran." Becklean explains simply as they walk up to the medical examiner.

" Whoever cut her into her cut into the condom balloons, destroyed most the cocaine."

" Thanks, doc" Voight says looking up from his  phone .

"There's no way Collins can afford to do that to the other two." Antonio turns to Voight who sighs.

" Look, I got some business to take care of. See if Jin's got anything yet, all right?" Voight simply walks away as the others head back to the precinct.

//

" I was able to obtain subscriber info for all calls from Brendan's cell phone that you found in his van." Jin hands out papers to everyone. " Only two numbers, first to Sean's prepaid cell which has since gone dead, but I was able to track it to a dumpster on Ashland. Second, six calls to this guy. Ryan Porter." he points to the guy's mugshot on the board.

" Ryan Porter. Male, white, 26. Long sheet for possession."

" Worked as a paramedic for three different ambulance companies, fired from all of them." Erin reads off the paper in her hands.

"I know that M.O. Ten-to-one Porter's a play doctor. Busted a few when I worked vice. EMTs who work for private ambulance companies. They barely make 10 bucks an hour. So the ones who wanna make extra cash sometimes provide under-the-table services like patching up gangbangers. Forward Porter's picture to Olinsky asap." Antonio says as Jin nods as everyone gets back to work.

Becklean was going to grab another cup of coffee,she was tired and the last thing she needed was Voight seeing her asleep. She walks back to her desk having switched her shoes out with her slippers as her phone rings on her desk.

"Go, for West."

"Hey, West Kelly Severide is here for you." 

"Send him on up." She chuckles trying to figure out why Kelly was here before placing her phone down, footsteps are heard as Kelly appears at the top of the stairs with a few bags in his hand. "Kelly Severide, to what do I owe the pleasure of seeing my favorite firefighter." she smirks  as he laughs.

"I am returning the favor for another." He turns to the rest of the people in the room. "Figured you guys would like some food, there's burgers in one bag and fries in the other." he smiles as Becklean as Antonio takes the bags.

"Don't have to tell me Twice thanks Severide." Antonio says as Erin and him dig through the bags eagerly Becklean just laughs at them as Jay watches Kelly and Becklean.

"Everything alright Kells?"

"Yeah, can we talk?" He scratches the back of his head. As Becklean nods

"Of course here, let's take it to the breakroom, '' she grabs a burger from one of the bags the pair went into the breakroom.

"Who knew Kelly and Bexs were a thing?" Antonio says as Jay's jaw clenches.

"They aren't." Erin replies, she looks at the break room door. "At least Bexs hasn't told me anything Kelly on the other hand, that's a different story."

"Oh no way Kelly likes Bexs." Antonio says as Erin nods eagerly.

"Totally." she smiles as Jay just grits his teeth.

"So what did you want to talk to me about?" Becklean bites into her burger as Kelly just sighs,

"There's this woman.."

"Nope! Absolutely not."

"You didn't even let me finish." he chuckles as she rolls her eyes.

"Fine finish."

"Basically, we were sleeping with each other, and found out she was engaged. Her dad is like an important person, that's irrelevant, she won't leave me alone and so I was thinking you said you owed me a favor. I need you to pretend to be my girlfriend so she can leave me alone." Kelly explains with a slight grimace to his face. Becklean scoffs before groaning she did owe him a favor after all.

"Fine, what do I have to do?" Kelly just hugs her tightly as she winces.

"What was that?" he pulls back from the hug.

"What was what?"

"You winced, are you hurt?" he asks inspecting her already. she pulls back her shirt to reveal the injuries as Kelly pulls at the bandage. "Becklean this is swelling, you need to ice and change these badges. Clearly this wasn't done at a hospital."

"Kells, you know how I feel about hospitals, they scare me." she wines as Kelly sighs.

"Okay what if I go with you? I'll hold your hand the entire time and we can go for ice cream afterwards." Becklean just stays silent eating her burger, hospitals scare her, she had seen a lot of people she loved die in hospitals, before her mom there was her grandma.

She took care of her and Gloria for a while until one day she came home and found her on the ground on the back porch she called 9-1-1 and they took her grandma away, she watched her wither away, from that day forward until a year later when cancer took her. Then her grandpa, a few friends from who she served with.

The world was different now, technology was different now but Becklean was scared of hospitals, death was the only thing that came along with hospitals. She was terrified of being seen in one; it took her a while to be able to walk into one without wanting to immediately run out.

"Okay I will go with you. But you have to promise me that you will stay with me for the rest of the night."

"Of course all night consider it done i will even be your personal slave." he says as Becklean laughs.

"All right, so what do we need to do to get this crazy woman off your back?" she asks as Kelly sighs he knew she wasn't going to like the things he would have to say, he explains the plan and she hates every detail of it, every single thing she has to do, but she would bury a body for Kelly Severide she loved him. The two leave the break room holding hands as everyone watches them.

"I will see you right after your shift is done, don't be late,  young lady." he pretends to scold her as she laughs. Swatting him on the backside with her hand. "Ooh she's feisty." he jokes as she laughs more.

"Shut up, I will see you after my shift and tell Slyvie thanks in advance for watching Mali for me." Kelly salutes kissing her on the head as she smirks.

"Goodbye everyone, enjoy the food."  He waves at everyone else who simply mumble goodbye's back, their mouths full of food, he walks down the stairs as Becklean sighs walking back to her desk all eyes on her, she sits down looking up from her files on her desk.

"What?"

"You and Kelly Severide?" Erin quirks a brow, "You guys would be cute." she jokes as Becklean scoffs.

"Kells and I are just friends."

"No one is just friends with Kelly Severide."Antonio mutters as Becklean scoffs and Erin laughs.

"I am just friends with Kelly Severide guys, that's it."

"Mmm girl who are trying to convince us or yourself?" Erin asks as Becklean throws a crumpled up piece of paper at her. She simply laughs, throwing it back with a sly wink and kiss.

She thinks for a moment, maybe she did like Kelly, it wouldn't be a bad thing the two knew each other like the back of their hands. It wasn't like she was getting any younger and besides the person she was really interested in was probably interested in her, but also she couldn't have him if she wanted too.

Maybe she should give this Kelly Severide thing a try I mean she was about to take some very risque photos for Severide to put on his phone and some cute selfies for him to add on his lock screen as well, she also had to show up a few times at the firehouse with lunch for Severide and make it look believable that they were dating, might as well act like a real couple instead of faking it anyways.

//

Olinsky radioed in saying they had eyes on the bad guys and the team split up into their groups heading over to the tattoo parlor. They arrived on the scene to see ambulances there. Olinsky was dragging Collins out of the building.

"Hey! You think you're ever gonna forget what you did to those girls? I guarantee you that will not happen, Collins!" Erin was yelling in Collins face as Becklean wasn't doing anything to hold her back at all.

" Erin, Erin, come on."Jay picks her up carrying her away

" Don't worry. I'll make sure this guy gets buried." Voight seethes as Becklean watches Jay calm down Erin; she can't help but feel a slight pang of jealousy, he could see why Jay liked Erin who wouldn't she was the prettiest out of the two and all the guys always liked her more anyway.

Their shift was officially over  and Becklean decided to just show up at the firehouse, Kelly was going to be off soon, the girl he was avoiding apparently was working there. She walks inside seeing the woman at the desk.

"Hi, Who are you here for?" she asks sweetly as Becklean returns the same and opens her mouth to speak before someone interrupts.

"Bexs, What are you doing here?"

"My shift is over figured I surprise you." she smiles at Kelly before holding up the bottle in her hand. "I got wine and two empty glasses and No one to drink it with. So I thought hmm there's this really hot firefighter I know that loves wine. Maybe he would want some?" she shrugs as he just chuckles.

"I will get my coat,"

"You do that, Severide, I will be waiting by my car." she smirks and walks off to her car, a few moments pass as the passenger door opens Kelly Severide slides into the passenger seat as she looks up from her phone.

"Well you sold that it was totally.." Before he could finish she kissed him on the lips, he was shocked at first but returned the kiss as well, their lips moving together as one in perfect sync, there a tiny flame dancing around in their bellies. Maybe this was who she was meaning to be with the entire time?

Only the universe could tell her that.

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