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"They could at least play good music"

Chapter Eight: Wrong Place at the Wrong Time
1x10: At Least it's Justice

*Trigger warning*

Becklean was in a cheery mood, when she arrived at the precinct that morning, she was every dressed in a cheery mood, her jeans were high waisted she had a long sleeve crop sweater on with a small camisole underneath, she walked up the stairs after saying good morning to Platt, with a happy sigh, she was back to her old happy dapper self. There had been a lot that happened, they had a new Detective, her name was Sumnter she was kinda a bitch and wasn't really clicking with anyone on the team yet, plus she had googly eyes for Jay and lets be real Becklean, Erin, and Jay were joined at the hip, basically had to saw them apart. She puts her stuff away, as Erin walks in from them break room, she smiles at her sister putting coffee down on her desk, they were Chatting when Voight comes up the stairs with the Commander behind him, they straighten up and The Commander and Voight walk into his office a few seconds later O arrives. He explains that the Pepdophile that Had a restraining order against Jay was dead, Jay had not arrived and Becklean was tempted to warn him before he came in, a few hours passed and Jay arrived.

"Yo! Did you guys catch the game last night? 18 seconds into overtime, Kane scores the backhander. Guy's on fire this season." he walks over to his desk pulling off his coat as Becklean and Erin approach his desk, with a cautioned look on their faces. "What's with you two?"

Voight's door opens. " Halstead." Voight nods to him to come into his office, he goes in and they close the door.

"This is bad, this is so bad." Becklean was pacing back and forth trying to ease herself, Jay was her friend, hell more like best friend, they had grown closer since she decided to open up more. She steps into the break room as the door opens and Jay grabs his coat, storming out, she grabs his arm and he turns to look at her.

"Jay"

" I'm the one who tried to stop that freak. Now I'm the target."

" I know. Take this" she hands him a business card. "It's the number for Dan Hanes. He's the best police union rep there is. You call him... and then you tell me how you want to handle this." She gives him a stern look as he nods

"This is unbelievable." He mutters stepping outside the door.

//

There was a severed torso removed found in a trunk, Antonio, Voight and O went to the scene to check it out and when they returned the rest of the intelligence unit had arrived for work ready to go.

"Hey, the torso recovered from the trunk had an artificial hip, so I asked Jin to trace the serial number and match it to the patient's name." Becklean says to Voight from her desk.

" Doing it that way is actually faster than a DNA test. Only takes me a couple hours instead of a couple weeks."

" It's a good thing you're back to doing your day job instead of personal favors." Voight sasses as everyone just stays quiet. " Keep hitting the bushes." he walks into his office.

" Hey, so you think Halstead did it or what?" Ruzek speaks up as everyone looks at him Erin and Becklean were shooting him glares." West, come on, it's a question. You never know around here sometimes."

" What's that supposed to mean?" O asks as Ruzek sighs.

" Nothing." he states flatly as the trio are glaring at him, he sighs holding his hands up in defense.

//

They got a name from Voight to track down Antonio, the two blondes, Ruzek and O were all at the door waiting for Nicholas Djurovic to answer. There was electronica playing behind the door as Antonio pounded on it.

" Djurovic, this is CPD!" Antonio pounds on the door looking at the others with an irritated look.

"Chicago PD!" Erin tries still not getting an answer,

"Okay seriously if you're gonna play music this loud it at least needs to be good." Becklean sasses as Antonio shoots her a look, a woman screams from inside and everyone draws their guns. "You know what? Now I am starting to get irritated." she mutters kicking down the door, they walk into the apartment

" Clear! Clear!" everyone stops in their tracks at the sight before them,

There is a woman covered in white and red paste as Nicholas is smothering his face all over the paste which is on her body, another woman is half naked dancing with a bottle of wine in her hands while holding a leash which is attached to Nicholas's  neck, and the other women is doing a line a coke, all women were half naked in lingerie they gasp when they notice their presence. Nicholas clears his face seeing the cops and shoves a woman at Erin before taking off over the balcony only for the lease to get caught around the bar leaving him dangling by his neck.

"You want to run, Nicky?" Antonio quipps as Becklean holsters her weapon she steps onto the balcony standing in front of Nicky who is gasping.

"Help me!"

" Hey... You kind of find yourself in an erotic asphyxiation situation here, bud" Ruzek says from next to Becklean.

"Can't you see? Just..."  Nicholas continues muttering shrilly.

" What, do we pull him up?"

" Nah. Let him hang there." Antonio says

" Got a warrant..." Nicholas mutters as Becklean just rolls her eyes.

" Do you have an idea, Al?" Becklean asks, seeing Alvin looking down at the ground.

" I think I might." He smiles before He, Erin and Ruzek go downstairs towards the trampoline that was downstairs. Antonio and Becklean were up top on the balcony.

"What do you think, Nicky?:

" Help me..."  He mutters as Becklean just looks at Antonio.  The trio downstairs move the trampoline under where Nicolas is hanging.

" Let 'er rip!" Erin yells as Becklean pulls out her pocket knife, handing it to Antonio.

"Aah!" He falls to the ground onto the trampoline only for it to break and he falls through.  They scoop him up off the ground and take him back to the precinct.

"I'm gonna sue you. I'm gonna sue the city. I'm gonna sue your mother for having you. I'm gonna sue your father for even thinking about doing..."

Becklean pounds on the table. To get him to shut up as she chews on her gum, blowing a bubble.

"Shut up. You're facing 20 years for murder, and it all hinged on Dr. Elliot's testimony. Now, that sounds like a motive to hack him up to me." Antonio says as Becklean stands up against the wall.

"Am I shedding tears for that doctor? Nah. Do you think I'd be throwing a going-away party if I wasn't actually... going away?"

" So you're saying you're guilty of the murder they got you on?"

" Got to admit, now that the doc's dead, I'm suddenly feeling not guilty." He smirks at Becklean who rolls her eyes deciding to leave.

" If you didn't kill Elliot, you're the luckiest defendant in Illinois criminal history."  Antonio says as she closes the door, she steps out of the room walking down to the view room to see Voight and her Kelly.

"Recognize him?" Voight asks as Kelly just looks at Nicholas.

" It's not the guy who ran."

" You sure?"

"Yeah, positive." he replies as Becklean stands in between them arms folded over her chest, Erin walks in.

" Well, the time of death on the torso was determined to be 48 hours ago, at the same time Djurovic was visiting his mother in a nursing home in Milwaukee. They've got him signed in and on camera. Maybe he farmed out the hit." She explains as they stare at Nicholas through the glass.

" No, it doesn't make sense. But he's the one criminals farm this sort of thing out too." Voight just sighs, patting his two girls on the arm before leaving.

"You mind coming to take a look at a couple mug shots?"

" Sure." He smiles cheekily at Becklean who rolls her eyes at the trio walking down the hall. " Good to see you again."

" You, too. I wish it was under better circumstances. So? You sleeping with my sister?" She asks as Becklean scoffs and Kelly just chuckles.

"No comment." he replies as they enter the bullpen there they see Sumnter and O with a few suspect pictures up on the board.

" Recently paroled ex-cons Dr. Elliot testified against."

"You recognize anybody?" Becklean asks as Kelly looks the pictures over.

" That guy. That's the guy that we pulled out of the car." he points to the photo in the middle.

" Tony Johnston, a member of the Northsiders."

" I take it, you know him?" Kelly asks as everyone sighs.

" They're a hardcore white supremacist gang that formed in Stateville prison" Antonio explains.

" Yeah. Johnston did time for multiple rapes, was released on appeal two weeks ago, owns a salvage yard over on West Lake." Sumnter reads off the file. Kelly takes that as his que to leave as Becklean offers to walk him out.

"Hey, please be careful I need you to come back to me with all your limbs attached." he says holding her by her waist she just laughs.

"I can't make any promises that they won't be bruised but they will definitely be attached." she replies as he smiles he scoops his hand behind her hair kissing her sweetly before leaving the building she just swoons fanning herself before returning up the stairs to get vested up.

//

"Chicago PD!"

"Antonio, get the gauge"

". Got it. " Sumner answers as she shoots the lock off the door as Ruzek tries to shove it down with his shoulder.

"That didn't work." He sasses as Becklean looks at the door.

"It's got a gate bolt." She says as Sumner uses the gauge to shoot the bolts off. They enter the building splitting up into groups, they search every inch before Ruzek Radios about a body and they call in CSU.

" So Tony Johnston didn't accidentally slip into that tub. M.E. found strangulation marks on his neck, or what was left of it."

" What about his phone?" Erin asks nods towards Antonio.

" Two dozen calls to his lawyer in the last 24 hours. She's got to know something."

" All right, take Sumner, go see Johnston's mouthpiece. See what you can dig up." Voight nods towards Becklean who nods back walking past him with Sumner. " No, wait. Hold on. Antonio, you go with her."

" What's wrong with me and Sumner?" She asks, quirking a brow, " Say it."

" I think it's better if partners are male-female."

" Let's go." Becklean continues on

"Bexs."

" Kiss my ass." She yells behind her as Erin laughs and Voight just chuckles.

//

" Your attorney-client privileges are over. We found Tony Johnston in an acid bath. Why would he want Dr. Elliot dead?"

" Well, he believed Elliot misread the DNA evidence in favor of the prosecution. In his mind, he spent seven years inside for a crime he didn't commit." The lawyer replies the two women had just made it to her office.

" What do you think?" Becklean asks as Sumner looks around the lawyer's office. 

" I led Tony's appeal and got him an early release from prison. So obviously, Dr. Elliot's research had some holes in it."

" Sounds like you get pretty close to your clients." Sumner speaks up.

" I believe in justice being done. You spend years helping people get through a corrupt system, you begin caring how it affects their lives."

" He called you two dozen times in 24 hours. What was so important?" Becklean asks, her hands shoved in the pocket of her parka.

" Tony feared for his life."

" Who was he so afraid of?" Sumner asks.

"A man by the name of Jacob Sims. He's the head of the Northsiders. While Tony was in prison, Sims took over his salvage yard and used it to traffic in stolen cars. After his release, the two had a falling out over business."

" And what did Johnston think you could do to protect him?" Becklean quipps quirking a brow at the women who smiles.

" I was merely offering legal advice."

" Legal advice for an illegal business?  Come on, humor me." She asks as the woman shrugs.

" Working with a man like Sims... you cut your losses and you run."

//

"The Rosemont police officer who was shot died on the way to the hospital. Wife, two kids. We lost that guy. So we go down whatever dark hole we have to to find him." Voight says as everyone nods he steps back into his office.

Night had fallen and everything and Becklean felt the need to stay at work, she put her slippers on and walked back from the break room with more coffeeShe finishes up her paperwork before looking around and begins rummaging through her drawers as Erin sighs.

"How is it that you lose that thing almost everyday?" she asks from her desk as Sumner watches the interaction.

"Where the hell is my grenade?" she slams another drawer closed as Erin just sips her coffee.

"Your what?" Sumner asks as  Erin laughs at the look on her face.

"Oh, it's a paperweight." Becklean replies slamming the drawer closed. "A gift that I got when I graduated from the academy. If it's not nailed down around here... She sighs as Erin just chuckles.

" Hey, Platt's taking donations for the Rosemont cop that was killed"

" Dig deep." Platt says to Sumner who reaches in he pocket Becklean stands up grabbing her wallet from her bag in the drawer. She pulls a few twenty's walking over to the bucket and tossing them in,

"Oh generous of you West, Platt smiles. Before returning to her usual scowl. "Much appreciated. Burgess. Better not cry poor." she sasses walking off to the back.

"Hey, I don't care what Voight or anyone else thinks about you. As long as you honor that chair you're sitting in, you'll be right by me." Antonio knocks twice on the desk as Sumner smiles as Does Becklean.

"Wow Tony Roni has a heart, who knew?" she jokes as Sumner laughs at the nickname, while Antonio just glares at her tossing a balled up piece of paper at her.

"Hey. I see I'm not the only one without a social life here." Jin jokes as no one laughs, he clears his throat before continuing, "So investigators searching the crime scene at the salvage yard found a couple hundred grams of meth, a cache of weapons, and this.'' He holds up a CD Disk and hands it to Antonio. "That lawyer you interviewed earlier... I think you're going to want to bring her in."

Antonio brings the Lawyer in with Voight as the trio of women watch the integration from the viewing room.

"So what do you think? Maybe Johnston and Sims had a falling out over her?" Antonio and Voight step into the room.

" That doesn't explain why they hacked up Dr. Elliot."

" I have a CI who used to be a Northsider. Maybe he knows something about Sims." Sumner speaks up.

" You're tight with a white supremacist?"

" Like this." Sumner crosses her fingers as Becklean laughs, she was tired they pulled an all nighter and she had managed to run home and shower and change before coming back to the precinct.

//

The Intelligence unit gets a lead from Sumner's guy and they track it down to a loading dock, thats where Jacob Sims is hiding, he was hidden in one of the trailers Antonio, O and Becklean were paired up together Antonio had a heat senor ray he cans over the dock seeing Jacob inside.

" Chicago PD, Jacob Sims!" He starts shooting and of course there is a shootout between Jacob and the unit, Becklean chases after him parkouring off a car and tackling him to the ground, he stands up cowering over her and she shrugs. Standing up,

"You want to dance, Let's do it." She shrugs as he brandishes a knife he swings at her missing as she dodges the others, appearing around them guns aimed if anything were to happen. She keeps dodging his swings, kissing her teeth. She roundhouse kicks him in the face and he falls to the ground, dropping the knife. as Voight cowers over him this time, he bucks as Voight.

"Stay down. Stay down!" He yells as Jacob doesn listen Voight shoots him in the knee cap and he yelps. He holsters his weapon before looking at Becklean and smiling cupping her cheek a bit. He approaches Sumner with a nod,

"That was good intel. You can write the report on this one. Cuff him." He says walking off,

" Should I include the part where you shot an unarmed suspect?"

" No, you can leave that part out." Voight nods and she shrugs, going to cuff Jacob.

It turns out that the lawyer wasn't as innocent as she claimed to be, she originally said that Sims was stalking her but it turns out that Dr. Elliot was causing her a great deal of loss in her case and she was one case away from losing her job, she set the entire thing up, and used the Intelligence unit as a pawn in her game to go after Sims which no one was happy about. It wasnt like anyone could prove it though, they had no choice but to let her go of course there was a win when when Phil Rodiger walks into the precinct, he confessed to the murder of killing his own son which meant that Jay was innocent.

" Hey, good to have you back." Antonio says as Jay stands there relieved.

" These are yours." Voight hands him his badge and gun.

" We all going for a drink?" Ruzek asks, popping a few painkillers in his mouth.

" No, I got someplace I got to be."

" Hey. I never doubted you for a second, bro." Jin walks up patting Jay on the back Jay just glares at him, before continuing down the steps.

Becklean was sitting on her couch, flipping through her channels when there was a knock at her door she opened it seeing Kelly Severide on the other side.

"What are you doing here?" he holds up her Grenade Paperweight and she laughs, " So that's where it went."

" Yeah. I, uh... I bumped into your desk, and it accidentally fell into my pocket. And then by the time I got to the parking lot, I didn't have time to... to come back in, so..." Becklean laughs" Here I am."

"This might be one of the worst excuses a guy has ever used to try to get into my apartment."

" Here I was expecting a thank you."

"Thank you." She smirks as the two start kissing.

"I have to work so early in the morning."

" Yeah. Yeah, sure." he hands her the grenade.

" I'll see you around."

" Okay. But, I mean, you did come all this way and... Yeah. So maybe just... one more." He walks back over her her grabbing her face by the neck and chin and Kissing her, the kiss was intense and he pulls back after a few,

"Oh, damn." He laughs as Becklean just smirks, shaking her head at him.

"Good night." She whispers as he stares into her eyes. " Go." she hits him as he laughs leaving.







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