Jay and Anna spent the next few weeks being practically inseparable. With both of them now working during the day, they exchanged texts as frequently as they could to arrange plans for that evening. Usually it was something simple like ordering takeout and watching a movie in one of their apartments but on rare occasions Jay would cook for Anna and she'd be lying if she said she didn't appreciate it. She had to admit, Jay could cook and she loved being the person that got to taste the end product of his culinary skills. It was the quickest Anna had moved in a new relationship in a while but she didn't mind and she hoped Jay didn't either.
Jay certainly didn't mind at all. He was enjoying Anna's company and that's all that mattered to him. He smiled whilst sending a text to her, confirming their plans for that evening. Things had been slow in intelligence and he couldn't see any new cases coming up in the last hour of his shift. Unfortunately, practically the moment that Jay's finger hit send, Voight stalked up the stairs his face set in a dark frown which could only mean one thing: they had a case and it was gonna be a bad one. "Phillip Trees" Voight spoke, sticking a mug shot of a white male who Jay assumed to be in his fifties onto the board in the middle of the bullpen. "He raped then killed 7 women got sentenced to life with no possibility of parole." All of intelligence looked at the picture on the board, disgust evident in all their features. As far as they were all concerned that man deserved to rot in hell. "He escaped from prison this afternoon and we're gonna find him."
Voight turned towards Jay and Erin, "Halstead, Lindsay, go talk to Trees' lawyer and check his last known address. If anyone knows where he is I want to know about it yesterday, let's find this Bastard." Both detectives nodded, grabbing their jackets and heading out of the bullpen.
The rest of the team got to work immediately, gathering all the information they could find on Trees' associates in and out of prison. He'd been convicted of the rape and murder of all 7 women just 2 years prior and he'd been relatively quiet in prison. After hours of focusing on Trees' personal life, Burgess came up with an idea. 'Hey Sarge, could he have wanted to get out to get revenge on someone? Maybe someone who helped put him away?" Hank shrugged and looked back at Burgess "Look into it." she nodded and pulled up files on all of the victims. He had murdered all of them within an 8 month period. "Maybe there's something significant about the place they were all taken from?" Antonio suggested, taking a look through the files. "But all of the places they were last seen are different" countered Adam, frowning in confusion.
"But that doesn't mean they weren't all taken from the same place," Antonio spoke, "hey Mouse, can you show me the routes that these women were supposed to be taking when they disappeared?"
"I can try," answered Mouse, "but you're gonna have to give me a few minutes," As Mouse got to work mapping out the paths the victims had taken, Voight instructed the rest of the unit to look into the victims, to see if there was anyone who had a large part in Trees' sentencing.
Meanwhile, Erin and Jay were having no luck with Trees' lawyer. In typical lawyer fashion, he refused to tell the detectives anything, infuriating both partners. "I'm not sure you get it man," Jay all but spat at him, "this guy raped and murdered seven women, people like that don't change, he's gonna do it again so I swear to god if you don't tell us what you know and something else happens to anther poor woman, it's on you. You got that?" he said, as he jabbed his finger into the lawyer's chest.
The lawyer gulped, visibly intimidated by Jay and nodded. "Look man, I don't know anything, I haven't visited him since the trial 2 months ago." He stood up straight, and looked at both Erin and Jay pleadingly, "I really don't know where he is, if I did I would tell you," Erin nodded silently, "thanks for your time." She told the lawyer, before she and Jay walked back to his car, Erin getting in the driver's seat.
"Looks like we're at a dead end," Jay muttered, leaning his head against the cool window of the car. "I'm gonna call Voight, see if he wants us to head over to the prison, look around Trees' cell." Erin nodded, turning the radio off as Jay made the call
"I got something," Ruzek piped up about 15 minutes later. Voight looked through his office doorway, finishing up his call with Jay. He put the phone down quickly and joined the rest of the unit gathering around the board. Ruzek stood up, putting a picture of one of the victims on the board. "This is Phoebe Adams, she was Trees' third victim, but get this, Phoebe and her sister were on their way home from a bar, the sister forgets her purse, goes back into the bar to get it. Then Trees grabs Phoebe and pulls her into the alley behind the bar where he shoves her into his van. Sister walks out of the bar at that moment, catches Trees in the act she saw his face before he drove off. The sisters ID was the only hard evidence the cops had against him besides his DNA in the van, everything else was circumstantial. "
"Get me a name and address on the sister, now!" Voight barked, impatient to protect Phoebe Adams' sister. Ruzek nodded impatiently. "Name is Annabelle Carson, Mouse, you got that address?"
Mouse nodded, "sending the address to Halstead and Lindsay, her apartment is only 5 minutes from their location."
As soon as the address for Phoebe's sister came through, Erin switched on her sirens and put her foot down. Mouse said the apartment was 5 minutes away. Erin made it in 3." Jay smiled from the other side of the car, he knew as soon as he read the text that Erin would take the 5 minutes as a time to beat and he wasn't surprised when they made it to Phoebe's sister's apartment in just over half of the expected time. Both detectives sprinted up the stairs and banged on the door to apartment 6E. A man, in his early 20s answered the door and looked startled upon seeing the two cops outside his door. "Does Annabelle Carson live here?" asked Erin.
"Uh no, I just moved in here like a month ago, maybe she lived here before I did but it's just me and my sister living here now." Erin nodded. Would you mind looking at a photo anyway? Just in case?" she asked, holding out her phone. 'Hmm', Jay thought, 'Mouse must've sent Erin a picture of Phoebe's sister'. The guy nodded, and took the phone from Erin's hand having a good look at the photo before shaking his head. 'I'm sorry, I really don't know her." He said, "Sorry I couldn't be of more help," He handed Jay back the phone and shut the apartment door.
Jay took a quick glance at the photo himself and was completely speechless when he found a picture of Anna, his Anna looking right at him. It couldn't be a coincidence, it was her and there was a serial killer who might be after his girl. "Jay, are you okay?" Erin asked, becoming concerned as her partner had been staring at the picture for the past 2 minutes. "Do you kno-"
"It's Anna." Jay cut her off.
"Wait do you mean…"
"My girlfriend Anna yeah," Jay spoke quietly, "come on we have to go now!" He yelled over his shoulder, already halfway down the first flight of stairs, carrying the car keys in his hand. "Call Voight!" he yelled again, as they got to the apartment building's entrance. It wasn't until he had started the car, Erin barely shutting the door before he sped off, that he realised one very important thing.
He had just called Anna his girlfriend.
Hey guys, sorry its been ages since my last update but I've had a pretty hectic year or so, I was doing my GCSE's and I recently started college but here's another update for you! Hope you all enjoy and please review and I'll be happy to answer questions any of you may have!
Much love to all of you and thanks for reading! XO
