A/N: This chapter isn't as long as I wanted it but I think it flows well. Hope you like it. :)
Chapter 4
"We should be waiting for backup," Rollins said as they pulled up to the warehouse and exited their vehicle.
"Munch called it in. They'll be here soon," Fin pointed out. Both of them were glad when the older detective promised to look after Charlotte and call in the backup, instead of coming with them. He was headed over to the hospital to stay with Elliot, who at this point was slowly falling to pieces waiting to hear about Olivia's condition after she was rushed into surgery.
"I'm just saying, Lewis has been ahead of us this whole time. Who knows if he's booby trapped the place?" She wasn't wavering in her convictions she worried that they could get somebody killed.
"She's right, we should wait for backup but we have no idea what he's done to Calvin and I don't think we can wait anymore. He only had Olivia for a short period of time and look what happened," Amaro spoke up.
"Amaro you're with me, we'll take the front door. Rollins, Fin, look for another way into the building. We have a lot of ground to cover," Cragen said before radioing that they were headed inside and that the backup should know what was going on. They all pulled out their weapons and split up.
"You think he's done something to Calvin?" Amaro asked when he and the Captain were alone.
"Well it definitely departs from his MO but Olivia got inside his head and he didn't like it. My guess is that this guy is even sicker than we thought," Cragen hated thinking that way but he feared he was right. Moving through the seemingly empty building, the two called out for Calvin but got no response. Nick's mind immediately went to the worst case scenario. They'd checked out Lewis' story. Calvin never arrived at his friend's house. The text messages were on Olivia's phone. Why would he lie about whether Calvin was dead or alive? They already had him on two counts of kidnapping and one count of assaulting a police officer, he was going to jail. Although if they never found Calvin's body, there could be no murder charge and he'd be out of prison someday. Shaking the thought from his head, he called out Calvin's name again. If this had been one of his kids he knew exactly what he would do and he had no doubt that Elliot would do that same.
"Why haven't we found him yet?" Nick asked as the Captain lowered his weapon. The first floor of the building was a wide open floor plan, with high ceilings. There was only one room and Rollins and Fin had found it empty. The stairs to the upper floors were in poor shape and the thought of anyone stepping on them made them nervous.
"We should have at least heard him right?" Rollins was trying to be positive but she knew the longer Calvin stayed missing the worse the chances got.
"I'm going upstairs," Nick said resolutely.
"Let's try the fire escape out back then," Fin pointed out, "it looked like it was in better shape."
"I'll stay down here in case you flush someone out of hiding," Cragen said, making them all realize that perhaps the deviation in MO was due to the fact that Lewis had had help. It wasn't uncommon for him to have it and then kill the person when the task was complete. Shaking the thought of the possibility of finding two bodies, Fin, Rollins, and Amaro, headed outside and climbed up the fire escape.
Sweeping the second floor offices and finding them empty, they headed up to the third floor and it too was empty. There was no sign that anyone had been there in a long while as the inches of dust on the floors and walls were not disturbed.
"We've been played," Fin cursed under his breath.
"What does screwing with us prove?" Nick asked.
"That he's smarter than us," Rollins shook her head.
To Be Continued…