"That's my girl"

Chapter Ten: Ticking Time Bomb
1x12: 8:30 PM (2)

*Trigger warning *

There had been a car bombing at the Charity Race next to the hopsital. Everything seemed to be happening quickly, first they couldnt find Gabby, she was lost in the debris, then they found her just in time for there to be another car bomb where Peter Mills dismantles it before anyone else got hurt, and now Intelligence was on the scene. Of course it was colder than fuck outide so everyone was bundled up.

"First bomb detonated 8:00 A.M. on the dot. Second bomb located in a rental car. Car is still there."

" Who dismantled the bomb?" Jay asks

" We did." Boden replies

" Check it out. If they got anything, I want to be notified first." Voight says to Jin who ndos and walks away.

"Yeah."

" How many are confirmed dead?" Becklean asks

"18 dead... 15 in critical condition, 3 employees unaccounted for. The sign-ups for the charity race had just started before the bomb detonated. We may have more civilians buried beneath the rubble, but there's no real way of knowing right now." Boden explains as Ruzek runs up.

"FBI special agent in charge wants all the bosses in the command center."

" All right, everybody inside." Voight commands as everyone disappears, Becklean looks through the crown for Kelly seeing him sitting up on the front of the engine rig.

"Hey."

" Hey. Anything?" She nods towards the building.

"Not much left to recover, but we're still digging." He brings the water bottle in his hand towards his lips.

"All right."

" You know who did it?" He asks as Becklean shakes her head.

" No, we're just getting started."

" Find 'em." Kelly says, looking Becklean in the eyes. She nods. "That's my girl." he replies as she cups his face patting him on the cheek, he kisses her hand and she sends him a curt smile before walking off. Jay and Becklean decided to pair up to cover more ground, they were talking to a doctor, he had blood all over his sleeves, a half eaten sandwich in one hand and a file tucked under his arm.

"I can't help you. I didn't do it. I didn't see who did it, and I've got to focus on what I can do, which is to save as many lives and limbs as I possibly can."

" I got it. Thank you" Becklean says with a small smile as the doctor nods.

" All right." He walks back into his office, closing the door. They go get info on the other car that was involved in the bombing and meet up with the others in the conference room of the hospital.

"Second car with a bomb was rented out of some dirt-lot company in Milwaukee. The name and the credit card on the rental agreement came back bogus."

" And there's no security video at the company, or so they're saying. So Milwaukee P.D.'s heading there to investigate." Becklean explains

"Sumner, you dealt with all those anti-government nutcases when you were working undercover at the NATO protests, am I right?"

" That's right." She nods.

" All right, beat the bushes." Voight says as she leaves the room Erin enters.

" Hey, guys, I just heard. Burgess was here when it happened, and her niece is in the I.C.U."

" How bad?" Voight asks as Erin sighs,

" Not good." The group leaves to go find Burgess.

//

" Hey." Erin rubs Kim's shoulder.

"Hi." Kim says standing up Erin moves to the other side of the waiting room as Voight walks up to Kim.

"Hey." he says as Adam walks up he rubs Kim's shoulder, the two engulf each other into a hug as the rest of the unit pile into the waiting room.

" We just heard. What did they say?"

"A ruptured liver. She's... there's a list or something, a donor list. They're trying to match."

" Do we know who did it? Anybody taking credit? " Atwater asks as everyone shakes their heads. Jin walks into the room.

"Okay... The lab got a print off the duct tape of bomb number two. Came back to a Paul Watts. V.L.D. has him registered at 5225 South Laramie. I secured a no-knock search warrant." he holds up the warrant.

"Give us five minutes before you notify the feds about that print."

"Yeah." He mutters quietly.

Voight turns to Atwater. "They need you out on the perimeter." Atwater just stares at Voight.

" I'm okay." Kim assures him as he simply walks out.

"One more thing... the second bomb was set to go off at 8:30 P.M. The bomber screwed up somewhere."

" We're gonna ask for forgiveness instead of permission today, you understand? We're not slowing down for anything. I mean anything. No one's gonna give a damn once these bastards are caught." They nod as Voight looks at each of them. " All right, let's go." Everyone heads for the door as Voight talks to Kim.

"You let us know if anything changes, okay?" Voight cups her face as she nods.

" Okay. Thank you." Kim says as the Intelligence Unit walks off to go retrieve this Paul fellow.

//

"All right, that's who we're looking for." Erin shows a picture on her phone to everyone."Apartment 1-A."

"Okay, careful of wires or traps. Anything's possible." Voight says as everyone nods, Voight looks over seeing a guy in a balck hoodie leaving the building.

" Hey, what's this?"

"Hey! Hey! " They follow him to his car and Jay and Antonio get over it. Jay Opens the passenger door.

"Hands on the wheel! Hands on the wheel! Turn your head and look at me! Don't move! Keep your eyes on me." the guy does as he's told as Antonio opens the driver side door, he pulls down his hood seeing he had earbuds in.

" It's not him. Clear."

" What the hell is going on?"

" It's our bad. Have a nice day." He smiles patting the guy on the chest before they walk into the building, O test the door.

"Well, it's clean. I can't make any guarantees, though." Voight looks to Antonio who nods.

" Paul Watts! C.P.D.!" Jay yells kicking down the door they enter the house Ruzek turning left with O while Beck , Jay and Erin turn right.

" Clear!"

"Body!" Erin yells there's a chorus of Clears from the rest of the house as everyone meets in the living room, holstering their weapons. They see Paul dead in a chair, blood splatter on the wall beside him, brain matter spilling from the side of his head.

"Call it in." Voight says as someone goes to call in it.

"This wasn't a suicide. gun's on the right. Cell phone clip and wallet are on the left side of the belt. He has no burn from muzzle flash, no gun residue on his face.Somebody had to shoot him from five feet away. They set this up." Becklean explains standing over the Body.

" All right, call Jin and Sumner. I want to know everything about this guy... the first movie he rented right down to the last breath mint he bought... everything." Voight turns to Jay who nods.

//

"What do you got?" Voight asks as the unit is back in the conference room.

" Jin did a cross-match on Watts for known associates." Antonio speaks up as Voight nods.

" It turns out Watts was trolling the websites of some pretty heavy-duty anti-government groups. We pulled the names of some people that he had repeated contact with."

" Haven't been able to actually access the contents of the emails. I was just able to get addresses." Jin holds up an Ipad for everyone to see and begins scrolling through photos

"Whoa. Wait a second. Wait a second. Go back. Go back. Wait, hold on, wait a sec." O says as Jin goes back to the photo before. " Yeah, that's him. That's the guy."

" What guy?"

" The guy who told me two dark-skinned guys in sunglasses were leaving the scene. That's the guy. He's here." O says as everyone looks for him in the section of the hospital where O interviewed him. They find him at the nurses station and Becklean and Erin slowly approach him on either side blocking him in.

"Pat Vaughn?" Becklean speaks up and he turns to look at her.

" Yeah?"

" Would you mind coming with us for a minute?" She asks as he looks over to see Erin who smirks.

"I just checked out."

" We just have a few follow-up questions." Becklean cautions.

" Of course. Sure." Becklean turns to lead him out and he grabs her pressing a knife to her throat.

"Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Take it easy!" Everyone was yelling guns aimed at the man.

" I am walking out of here. Back up!"

" Don't go any further, Vaughn." Voight cautions as Paul freaks out,

" I got nothing to lose. Okay."

"What are you hoping to gain? Do you think we're gonna let you drive out of here?"

" I got no problem slitting her throat, especially a cop's." he says as he backs up more seeing Joe Cruz standing in the hallway in his turnout gear, his hands up in defense.

"Back up!"

" Okay, man. What's going on here? We're just trying to save some people..." Joe was cut off by Paul.

" Shut up!"

"Listen... Let's just talk this out, all right? You want to walk out of here, you can walk out of here."

" Don't say another word!" Paul yells. Unbeknownst to Paul, Peter Mills was standing behind the curtain waiting for Joe to give him a single. A hatched in his hand.

"Hey!" Joe yells as Peter Jumps out hitting him on the head with the back with the hatchet, he lets go of Becklean who head butts him and elbows him in the face flipping him over by his arm.

" You all right?" Voight rushes over to Becklean who is rubbing the sore spot on her wrist, where Paul had her arm pinned behind her back.

"Yeah, I gotta stop letting my guard down." she mutters as Voight moves to talk with O.

"Stay down." Ruzek and Jay were partially stepping on Paul.

" You okay?" Peter asks Becklean who nods.

" Yeah. Thank you. Pete." She smiles at him.

" This guy involved?" Joe comes up next to Becklean pointing at Paul who was being wrestled around by Jay and Ruzek.

" Looks like it."

" You can bring him into any firehouse in the city. We'll take five minutes, all right?" Peter says as Jay and Adam get Paul to his feet, Voight grabbing him by his shirt.

"We'll get some answers from him, I promise."

" Thank you." she turns to Peter placing a hand on his chest, "Thank you." She does the same to Cruz before leaving.

//

"Vaughn said him and Watts were both hooked up with a guy named Ted Powell." Voight arrives back at the Conference room, wiping blood off his hands.

"Ted Powell... I know that name. He was big in the anti-government fringe. So was his dad."

" Why did Watts get killed?" Ruzek speaks up.

" Vaughn and Watts were both in charge of setting off two separate car bombs. Both bombs were supposed to go off tonight... Watts at 8:00, Vaughn at 8:30. Watts must've rigged his wrong, 'cause it went off this morning."

" 8:00 P.M. was gonna be the gala for the C.P.D. and the C.F.D. Brass, right?" Jay asks as Erin nods.

" Right."

" First bomb was set to get them. Second bomb was set to get the first responders." he explains piecing it all together.

" What else you get out of him?"

"Vaughn said that Powell had some master plan that he didn't share with him. So this wasn't the end of it. "

"Here's Powell." Jin turns his laptop as Voight turns a bit before turning back to the group.

" I saw him outside the hospital with the crowd. He was here too. All right, let's check out his dad."

//

Voight sent Antonio to check out the dad, while Erin went to get info in the system about him Jay and Becklean were tracking down leads over the phone well Jay was trying too.

" I don't care what you have to do. No, you give me an exact time. I need it now." He yells as Becklean looks over Jin's shoulder, he shows her a video and she nods.

" Halstead."

" Yeah. Hold on." He grumbles into the phone as Jin and Becklean walk over with his computer.

" I think everyone's gonna want to see this." Jin shows the video to Jay as Becklean calls Voight explaining what's happening, he tell them to bring Jin to the FBI's conference room.

"Okay, okay, settle down. Settle down. Hit it."

" Ted Powell just posted this on a fringe anti-government website." Jin presses a key playing the video from the computer to the tv.

" In 2004, my family's home in Kankakee, Illinois... We came under attack, without justification, by the Chicago police department. We were fired upon, and our home was engulfed in flames. The Chicago Fire department stood by and did nothing. My mother died that day, and my father sits in prison. I have waited ten years for the C.P.D. and C.F.D. to admit wrongdoing and to drop all charges against my father. I will wait no longer. I'm declaring war on the Chicago Police Department and Chicago Fire Department. If you are a member of either department, you are not safe. If you are a family member of someone in either department, you are not safe. This is just the beginning. You've been warned."

It was night time and the Intelligence Unit were still working the case, they weren't stopping til they found these guys.

" Yep, I got it. I'll call you back." Jay hangs up his phone. " A, Ryan Wilcox visited Powell's dad in prison three times in the last six months. Lindsay did a workup on him. He's loosely affiliated with various anti-government groups... explosives background from a stint in the army. Jin, she was going to send you something." Jay taps Jin on the shoulder.

" Yeah, I got it. Wilcox owns a garage in an industrial area where 96th meets the Calumet River."

" All right, have Antonio and Lindsay meet us at the garage. You stay here. Feed us what we need. And keep Graff in the loop." Voight orders walking off.

//

They were all standing outside the garage door, as O was testing the door for Barium Nitrate.

"Is that people talking in there?" Erin asks as Antonio brings his ear a little closer to hear.

" A radio's on."

"It's positive for barium nitrate." O says as everyone looks around at each other.

"Let's try the roof." Jay suggests as everyone nods.

" All right, grab the fiber-optic." Jay and Ruzek go up the roof while the others wait downstairs.

" Front, side, rear doors are all rigged. So is the roll-up. Wires and 50-gallon drums attached to each. Short version... do not breach." Jay's voice comes over to the radio, the two come back down to come up with a new plan.

"We could rappel down."

" All right, we don't need the whole team going in."

" I'll do it. I just took the class in the academy. Aced it." Ruzek holds up his hand to Becklean for a high five and she just gives him a look. " Okay."

"All right, well, I need two. Any volunteers?" Voight says as everyone raises their hands.

"You." He points to Jay.

"Ryan Wilcox is here... multiple gun wounds."

"How long's he been dead?" Erin asks into the radio.

" I'd say a day? Max."

" It's Powell tying up more loose ends." Antonio says into the radio.

" They left a lot of stuff behind."

"They never thought it'd be found. They figured this whole block would be a crater."

"Wilcox purchased a white cargo van about two months ago." Adam says.

" There were three timing devices purchased. I'm not a pessimist, but... There's a damn good sh]o*t that there's a third car bomb out there in a white cargo van."

" If the second bomb was supposed to go off at 8:30 P.M., maybe the third bomb was set to go off at that time as well." Sumner suggests shrugging.

"What time is it now?"

" 7:55." Erin replies, the team regroups outside of the industrial garage.

" 29 minutes and counting. I'm listening, but I don't hear dick."

" Hospital parking lot?" Ruzek asks.

" Fully vetted."

" Blowing up a district would be too risky. A bomb would be sniffed out in seconds." Antonio says.

" A firehouse?"

" Not enough victims." Jay replies.

" Powell wanted high-ranking police and firefighters dead. Most of them planned on attending the 10k gala." Becklean says as everyone nods.

" Yeah, and where would the rest be tonight?"

" Headquarters." Antonio replies.

" Bull's-eye." Voight says as the unit walks off, getting into their cars. Voight was with Erin, Antonio was with Sumner, O was with Ruzek, and Jay was with Becklean.

" Be on the lookout for a van near the front door. Jin, text everyone the photo and plate number of the van purchased."

"You're looking for a white econoline. bomb squad en route." Jin says.

" Halstead, West, those back roads pay off?"

" Yeah, but traffic patterns are all screwed up because of the bomb" Jay replies into the radio while Becklean is driving like a nascar driver.

"15 minutes out." she yells.

" Vehicle located, south side entrance. It's blue, not white... no tags." O's voice is heard over the radio as Becklean curses. She finds a back road taking it and cutting off their time by ten minutes. They pull up seeing O, Adam, and Antonio. Standing behind a blue van.

"What do we got?" she asks them from the driver's seat.

" On the roof!" Antonio nods towards the building next to them as they get out of the car, running inside. They see Powell walking towards them and put out their guns he grabs a woman walking by, holding a gun to her and backing away into the elevator,

" Stairs." they take the stairs stopping at the elevator on the second floor, they watch the number climb.

" He's going up."

"Suspect's entered the roof!" She says into the radio they have a full blown shoot out with Powell as the others arrive,

" I want him alive!" Voight appears in the doorway as Becklean and Jay are covering him, he shoots Powell in the shoulder, He kicks the gun to the side walking over to Powell

"How many of your boys did I put in the dirt today? Any of 'em good friends?"

"You wanna watch?" He picks him up holding him over the edge of the roof. " Watch it." "Time check!" he yells

" 60 seconds!" he holds Powell over the edge more.

"bomb dismantled. Repeat... bomb dismantled." Sumner's voice comes over the radio, He pulls Powell up tossing in against a vent.

"Plan failed."

" Actually, I think it was a pretty good day." Voight just bunches him in the face and he falls to the ground, Jay cuffs him, walking out with Erin. They take him down stairs where a patrol takes him, sticking him in the back of a guy.

Becklean, Jay, and Erin were all talking when Voight walks up,

"Hey." Jay and Erin take that as a cue to leave. " You all right?" He asks Becklean as she smiles

She holds up her hand, showing how steady it was. " Solid."

" Tough guy." He jokes as she pats him on the back.

//

Everyone was waiting in the waiting room with Burgess. The door opens and kelly Severide walks through it he has a woman's arm wrapped around his neck, she looks badly bruised as he takes to the nurse station, stealing a few glances towards Becklean, a nurse comes up to take the woman and he turns walking past Voight and O and the rest of the Intelligence Unit, and over to Becklean, she sends him a small smile and he takes a seat next to her, the two holding hands. The doctor comes in and everyone stands up out of their seats,

"The operation went as well as could be expected. There's, uh, good blood flow to the liver, and the other bleeding has stopped. She's got a long road ahead of her, but, uh, it's looking good." The Doctor explains as Burgess sighs, she starts Sobbing and everyone takes turns hugging her.

Becklean was tired, she made the drive to her house, and immediately plops face down on the couch, she takes a shower and walks down the shirt in a big fuzzy sweatshirt and some dinosaur feet slippers. Towel drying her hair, she opens the fridge, grabbing a beer and popping it open before taking a sip. She leans back against the fridge door with a sigh as there is a knock at the door.

"Hey."

" Hey. I should have called. I know." Kelly's eyes looked sad and vacant.

" You don't ever have to call." Becklean says as the two stare at each other longingly, they kiss and before any can protest they are kissing gently he lays her down on the bed, undressing her slowly, taking his time, the two were now naked, as he runs a finger down her cheek admiring her, she kisses his finger and they go back to kissing,

" I just have one request."

" Yeah? Name it."

" Stay the night. After today, I.."

"I'm not going anywhere." He says simply and just like that Becklean is swooning.

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