Chapter 9—

"Yeah but will it be too late? And how is Woods involved in this? These actions have his mo written all over it."

"Well let's start with what you got when we get inside and start making arrests for this. Surely when the pressure starts to build these people will break. "

"Hey Trudy. Atwater is fine before you ask."

"Not what I was going to say. Mr. Trouble is upstairs causing trouble with everything. And I didn't have time to protect the board."

"Don't worry I secured all the files before I left. Also locked the iPad and made sure that we appeared to be working the shooting and bombing this morning. Unconnected of course. All of them here in Chicago only. "

"Wonderful. You might want to get up there. Don't know how much longer he'll wait under the canvassing the area excuse."

"Right."

"So thanks for coming. The CPD right now is treating each bombing and it's related shooting as a separate event. Ballistics should be here soon and and they're sending each of the sets of fragments this way too."

"Thanks for having us. Although we know my partner and I wouldn't be here if you didn't think there's anything to this being a coordinated effort against law enforcement... And who might you be?"

"Lieutenant Woods CPD IA squad. And the two of you?"

"Agent Davis and Regan FBI BAU division. We're here to help with the investigation. We're not letting these people walk because of a technicality."

"Well it's good to see that someone is looking out for this city. Since you two are looking out for the city I'm going to head back to base. Later people."

"Isn't he the charmer?"

"If you mean a charming snake then yea he is. He's always been like this with an ax to grind."

"Well ballistics are back so Riley you ready?"

"Yep. Fragments are in the conference room ready to be built."

"On it."

"How can the rest of us be of assistance with the investigation?"

"Well like I said in the hospital this morning, we need the shooters in custody for the crime. Get them here and in interrogation. See what they know. I'm going to get these bombs put back together."

So we went about doing our business together as a team. Riley got the ballistics analysis done. The ammunition used was imported illegally from Canada. Guns were bought leaf ally in Chicago and altered to take the ammunition. At that moment we got the guy that did the altering in inntirigation. Then I got the bombs put back together and recognized the signature on them as the university bombers, one of which was never caught. I told Hank this and he was going to get the bomber in custody. I told him not to quite yet. He asked me why not and I told him. The shooters were not talking and I thought this fact might help get them talking. I started towards the innterigation room. As I did Riley joined me. Both of us locked up our weapons and entered the first room together

Hanks POV.

I watched as my oldest friends entered interrogation room together this one contained Emeka Hughes.

I thought I told you people, I have nothing to say.

You told the PD person that yes. We're FBI.

Why the hell would the FBI be involved in this case.

Well I'm glad you asked. I'm sure you heard about the bombings this morning. Well the FBI has managed to connect those to the shooting that came after. As a result of both, 55 officers were injured and 25 of those have died. The minute one died the case became punishment section 504 eligible, however only the FBI can ask for that punishment.

I had nothing to do with those bombings!

Well then tell us who did and we'll talk to the DAs office and get section 504 off the table for your corporation

I don't know. Some dude just said he was as pissed as I was and would help me extract revenge.

You're going to have to do better than that. Fingerprints and serial numbers just came back from the parts used in the bombs just came back. They were stolen from a construction company by Sebastian Percy Garner. Sound familiar?

With this being his third strike he'll be doing serious time this time. And with you in punishment 504, who's going to support the kids? You know there could be some information that might make me ignore the parts charges

Look I don't know for sure who did this ok? But this one guy from my AA grief group that always rubbed me the wrong way. It's supposed to be so that we don't know each other's Names. I know his first name and what happened to him though. It Charles he's a golf caddy who thought his father was murdered by police. I knew he wanted revenge but I didn't think he'd be this violent about it. I thought violence was more my thing. Although I don't feel any better if anything I feel worse.

It's all about the what ifs right? That's all you can think about.

How'd you know?

I've been there buddy. Grieving never gets better it gets easier but not better. Lost my mom to cancer at 14, my brother to the job at 22, my daughter to the job at 41, and my youngest nephew was kidnapped when I was 21.

So that's what the notches on the strip means.

Yes. It was started right after my brother died. It was a raid gone bad. He was DEA.

My sister-in-law was in training when he died. All she wanted to do was get justice for her husband. The entire family did.

Yes. I know that feeling all to well.

Grief group is definitely the best thing for people who have lost somebody. I went to one called Coping with the loss of a loved one. My siblings and I all attended.

I attended one called Recovery after the loss of someone who you care about.

Lead by Charles right? Do you remember anything else about the group.

All of us were promised the revenge that we so desperately wanted. Charles said that his father had been murdered when Charles was a boy.

Did he ever say why he felt that way? Sorry to pry like this I'm just trying to save lives.

I understand. He said that his father was just walking home from the store in a neighborhood where being a minority male was in of itself a crime.

Then the Cpd of that district stopped him. He refused to comment on why he was there so he was shot and killed. Name was Andrew Allison

How'd you know?

I just pulled up his file here. His son has quite the record himself. But what father never told his son was he ran a robbery ring in the precinct. The officers were never punished in the case.

He said that letting us have our revenge was just the beginning. He planned on making the officers who killed his father pay for what they did.

Shit. He's not done yet. Did he host the group close to home?

Yeah. In his home. Said he had a cop as a source as to when the most officers would be in the targets.

I need an address for this group and the name of the officers he had contract with. I'm afraid once he gets what he wants they'll become disposable and therefore targets.

Here. This is the best I can do.

It's better than nothing.

At that point I saw Riley and Pria leave the interrogation room and go on to the next before telling me not to share what we know.

Several hours later...

The team and I were still trying to make connections to solve the case. That's when Pria and Riley came out of the interrogation areas.

Pria pov.

"We got our bomber red handed as it were. Charles Allison. Charles' father was killed by the CPD when Charles was just a boy. Charles believes that his father was murdered. I have it on good authority that he's not done yet, so I've put out an APB for his cars and have put his picture out to the media. Now he hasn't moved from his childhood home, so I sent the FBI bomb squad to his home. I also notified both precincts that service that area. They have both started the evacuation process but are taking it slow so as not to spook Charles since he's probably watching at least one of the precincts for go time. Oh it's the tech. Yes?"

Adam pov

I was watching Pria as she was talking to the tech. I watched as Pria's face fell and grab her cross around her neck. That could only mean one thing and that's it's worse than we could ever imagined. I thought about my wife Ashley and daughter Bree and hoped they made it home before this mess started.

" This situation just got a whole lot worse then I thought possible. techs arrived on the sene for his house. There's enough explosive to level the entire city of Chicago. Now this is his end game to do three buildings. Each one has a enough firepower to level entire city block. There's no way that we can safely evacuate that radius without being noticed."

I just then had an idea. I remembered an anthrax case we had a few years ago. "What if we used the emergency alert system only in the effected area."

"Wouldn't that just alert Charles that we're onto him."

"He's a survivortier. That's why he uses bombs and not something else: more people are conceal carrying now than ever. He'll take shelter with everyone else. We'll catch him when we give the all clear."

"Alert is sent out."

A/n: not many more chapters left after this one. I think maybe 3 or 4 more chapters total. We have the catching of Charles, releasing of the code, Als death, catching his killer then the funeral. Now I have a question. Would anyone be interested in a sequel?