So I have just gotten into Chicago PD and I love it! I also love the partnership of Erin and Jay, they are perfect and I hope that this story does some justice to the hopes of you the reader. I am not perfect so please excuse my grammatical mistakes. Please Read and Review, I love to have the feedback so again; leave comments. Love Layna.
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The team sat in the bullpen filling out the paperwork from their latest case; a man had kidnapped the daughter of a high power attorney. It had been a long case but they had gotten the girl back to her father unharmed and that was all that mattered to them. Jay looked over at Erin who focused solely on her paperwork hoping she could finish it so she could make it on her date with Kelly. Did it bother Jay that Erin was with Severide, of course but he knew that he could never have Erin, it was not only against the rules but also she was his best friend and he could not mess that up because he couldn't live in a world where she wouldn't talk to him.
She scribbled away all while the other detectives glanced at her, it was something they could not avoid with her battle wound. It had happened quickly and Jay knew it was practically his fault, he should have been right there but instead he had stopped to look down a hall. It was with great regret that he had split up from her from what seemed to be point two seconds before he heard her cry out. He had rushed back in time to see her fall and her gun to go flying but he was able to shoot the perp before he fired at Erin. The result was a large bruise on her cheek and as soon as she looked up from her work, she watched as all of them quickly averting their eyes back to their desks.
"Okay, listen I am fine, it is going to go away," She said slightly annoyed with the attention.
"What are you going to tell Severide?" Ruzek asked in a joking tone this got him a eye roll from her.
"I will tell him that I got it working a case, you do realize he knows what I do for a living right?"
"Yeah but I mean come on that takes up half your face," Dawson added in.
"Gee thanks for the confidence booster there Antonio." She scoffed, She gave an annoyed smile and looked to Jay who looked down at her paperwork, that was when she could tell that he thought this was his fault.
"Well I have a date so I am going to ignore your insults and leave, I might see you at Molly's?" She asked them, they all nodded and got up to and filed their paper work.
They had almost all left; Atwater had just left leaving Erin and Jay alone in the bullpen with Voight in his office. She watched him continue his paperwork, it had never taken him this long to finish.
"Hey are you leaving soon or what?" She playfully bumped his shoulder was she rolled his chair to his desk he gave a weak smile.
"Yeah I just have to finish this up."
"You going to the bar later," She asked hopeful.
"Yeah, I'm not so sure I feel like it."
"You, yeah okay come on I am going later, Kelly has shift later so I was hoping you would go."
"After today I'm not feeling much like it," He motioned towards her bruise.
"This wasn't you, you didn't do this and I don't blame you so stop moping around you baby and instead buy me a drink later." He smiled and rolled his eyes as he nodded to his friend who just laughed.
"Okay go, Kelly won't like if you are late." She laughed again, god he loved her laugh it was perfect. She got up and walked away.
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The weekend had come and gone too quickly for Erin's liking; she wished that they could have one more day off. She put her hands close to the vent in the car trying to warm herself up in this endless vortex of cold that was Chicago winter. She looked at the clock and sighed beeping off the horn hoping that this would make Jay hurry. Sure enough, he came down the stairs of his apartment building blowing into his cupped hands leaving a white trail of air in his path.
"Geez it is freezing out," he said as he slid into the car and placed his hands to the heating vent.
"You're telling me and here you are leaving me waiting for ten minutes for you as you take your precious time." She joked as she pulled the gear shifter into drive; she pulled away from the curb and into the slush filled streets.
"Ten minutes my ass, more like four," He scoffed.
"Listen princess you took longer than four minutes," She laughed, he just shrugged and smiled at her joke.
"I can't believe that we caught a case first thing this morning." She said as she focused on the road trying to avoid sliding around.
"I mean of course, this always happens especially after a bar visit to Molly's the night before."
"Oh I know, I swear it's like the criminals know when I'm going to have a headache."
"Oh you poor think better call Severide to take care of you," He said giving her a fake look of sympathy
"Okay smart ass first off it's a hangover I'm not sick and second for your information Kelly is out of town." She said to the smug Jay.
"Really he didn't mention that last night and I talked to him, Casey and Dawson for like an hour."
"Well it was last minute and wait you had a civil conversation with Gabby?" She said in disbelief.
"Yeah, we are adults and I'm happy for her and Casey, he is a good guy."
"Okay, whatever." She said dropping the subject, he just laughed and rolled his eyes.
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When they arrived; Voight and Olinsky sat in the bullpen looking over this morning's file, the case was a drug ring which had began to be a breeding ground for prostitution too.
"Wow, three dead hookers in one night, what is the COD?" Erin asked as she slipped off her jacket and sat in her chair.
"GSW to the back of the head, they were grouped together and we found the new drug on them." Voight answered. With that being said, Dawson and Atwater entered and only a few minutes behind them came Ruzek.
"Okay guys we have a very little to go by here so we are going to split up. Atwater and Dawson you go to the crime scene, the CSU team said they found a possible new lead, I want Ruzek, Halstead, and Olinsky to go canvas the neighborhood, there is an apartment building across the street and a lot of possible witnesses." Jay looked at his partner with confusion her face mirrored his expression.
"So am I with you then?" Erin asked Voight sitting up a little straighter in her seat.
"Yeah, Erin I need you to talk to a possible CI with me."
"Okay," She said shrugging her shoulders with a slight frown.
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"Thank you for your time!" Ruzek yelled at the tenant who had just slammed the door in his and Olinsky's face. Halstead laughed at the rage from Ruzek who in turn realized the humor to the whole ordeal.
"Well that is the last of the third floor, I hope we get something on the fourth floor," Olinsky sighed.
"Me too, we have been at this for two hours," Ruzek whined.
"In all honestly I don't think anyone is going to step forward, I mean look at where we are." Jay didn't want to sound like a downer but here, in this part of Chicago it was survival of the fittest.
"You're right but we need to try anyway." Ruzek said as he dragged himself to the stairs. They trudged upstairs and divided the hallway, parting ways. Halstead made it to his third door and that is when a woman greeted him, she looked panicked as if she was being watched but Jay knew she knew something.
"Hello Ma'am, I'm here with Chicago PD for the three murders that happened last night across the street, do you know anything."
"No," She said in a rapid tone, she was in panic mode about something and about to slam the door but he caught it with his foot.
"Listen, I am here to help get justice for those women, and I am here to keep you and everyone here safe but I need some cooperation here." She eyed him suspiciously as she weighed out whether to trust him or not but she must have decided for it.
"Not here, I will come to you but not here it's not safe," Her eyes were so dark, the rings under them aged her by twenty years, her mascara smeared and the slight twitch that she had told him that she may be on something.
"Can you meet me at the station?" She thought for a moment then nodded backing away.
"Here this is my card, my name is Jay Halstead, don't let me down." She slowly nodded again and slammed the door shut.
"Another dead end," Olinsky asked as he met up with Jay, Ruzek right behind him. Jay shook his head and motioned them to leave; he hoped that the woman would come.
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"Well she was no help at all," Erin said annoyed as they stepped back to the streets from the restaurant that they had just been at while meeting with Voight's CI. She was rude and snobby, said she had seen nothing but they could tell she was lying to them both, the fact that she was higher than a kite didn't help when meeting with them, Erin took in the first impressions.
"She usually isn't like that, I thought she would have opened up with you, she opened up with Julia…" He stopped at the name of their fallen comrade.
"She wasn't going to give us anything, not being that high at least, I just hope the guys found something."
"That neighborhood is probably a dead end, honestly it is a Darwin theory there."
"Well maybe we got lucky, don't knock it yet." He nodded and continued on, she look forward silent for a moment. He kept stealing glances of the now slightly faded bruise.
"So how did the fireman like that bruise?" Voight teased.
"He didn't really ask, lately he has been a little distance."
"Losing a partner isn't easy, you know that."
"Of course and I loved Shay, they were best friends but he hasn't snapped out of this funk, he is pushing people away, Gabby told me last night."
"He is dealing with his grief his way." He could tell she was hiding something. "Okay, what gives, tell me what you are hiding."
"It's nothing," She said backing into her seat more.
"It's not 'nothing' I can tell."
"Well Kelly and I broke up, it was something he had to do, and he is leaving for a little while so we ended it."
"Are you doing, okay?"
"Actually, I am really kind of relieved that he is taking the time for himself."
"Okay well as long as you are sure I don't have to kick his ass."
"Definitely not," She laughed as they pulled up to the precinct meeting up with Olinsky and Ruzek who were waiting for them.
Do you have anything for me?" Voight asked, his voice booming as usual.
"Actually yes, a woman by the name of Rosalyn Mendes, she is here now willing to talk for protection."
"Well what are we waiting for?" Erin asked.
"Well we are waiting for Antonio, Atwater and Halstead to get back." Ruzek answered.
"Why, we have a short time before these murders go at it again." Voight yelled slightly.
"She will only talk to Jay, said he was the one who talked her down here and that she will only trust him."
"Well he should be here soon right, he only went to the ME with Atwater and Dawson."
"Yeah, that is why we are waiting."
"As soon as he get here send him straight in, we need something before there are more victims."
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Jay sat across the table from Rosalyn, he watched her shake, not from fear but with the withdraw that she was going through. Her eyes darted around the room as she bounced her legs up and down and she bit at her nails. Her greasy hair fell down over her face but he could still see that her face looked the same from earlier, mascara smeared and face aged by the drugs and the anxiety.
"Rosalyn, obviously you came here to tell me something that has been killing to, you can tell me." He smiled softly as he used a calm voice that Erin had heard very often, she stood on the other side of the glass with Voight.
"This was a mistake, I shouldn't have come here, and I'm next." She said as frantically.
"Not if we can help it, but in order for us to help you, you have to give us something." She sat up in her chair and pulled her hand away from her mouth.
"Everyone in that building that I live in, they are all in debt with The Latin Cobras. We all pay a fee and if we want to keep living as well as keeping our families and friends safe we have to keep silent about anything that is happening."
"So why are you stepping forward?"
"Because one of the victims, Heather Lockhart; she was my roommate, my best friend, I couldn't save her and they took her away!"
"Why kill them, they were not giving up anything."
"Except their own drugs, they brought it on the LC's turf and that is what got them killed."
"So they were selling their own brand of drugs?"
"No, they bought from LC and they got it discounted, they would sleep with Esposito and his gang and that got them cheap drugs but they would raise back up the price and sell it on the street for a few dollars cheaper."
"Is there anyone else in on this?"
"Yes, that is why I came to you, her name is Maria, and she is my sister, she and Heather started this but I refused to go into this I think there are four others with her in this deal."
"Where is your sister?"
"I don't know she is missing, I don't know if she is dead or alive, but if she is alive you better hurry, she is next."
"Alright I need you to think hard, is there anywhere she would go to stay away from the Latin Cobras?"
"There is one place, it is not too far from here, it is where we grow up, in that abandoned apartment building on Whiter."
"I know where that is, we will take a look there, listen, stay here, I will have a detective stay with you okay, you are safe now." She nodded and watched him jump up. He closed the door behind him and met up with Erin.
"Let's go check it out." She said, he nodded and they bolted off, hoping this lead would bring them to close this case soon.
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The case is heating up and I hope you are ready for some possible Erin of Jay whump (is that what it is called?) because it is going down. Review please, Love Layna.