Hey everyone!

On one side I wanted to wait until I get a few more reviews...on the other side I didn't want to let my lovely reviewers wait any longer...so I finally decided to update! :o)

Thanks to all of you and have fun with the new chapter and OH one little IMPORTANT thing (important for me ;o) )

I have to attend a conference from Wednesday to Monday and I will not get the opportunity to watch the new episode and that is giving me a really hard time because I really want to know if Casey is alright and who saved him. So maybe somebody...anybody...of my wonderful readers and reviewers will think about me after watching the episode and sent me a quick PM?! PLEASE! :o) I just want to know: 1. Is Casey alright 2. Any Dawson near a (maybe hurt) Casey 3. Who saved him... :o) Maybe I got a little bit addicted to this TV Show...maybe... :o)

So now have fun with the new chapter! It's not that long but I hope you like it!

Chapter 13 – Professional

"What do we got?" Casey asked as soon as they entered the building. His face was not giving away any emotions, he was just fully concentrated on the job. He was a Lieutenant, he was a professional and damn he would do this job just perfect!

"We had trouble with our elevators the whole week. The technicians checked them over. Normally we blocked them for public but one of them got into motion. People must have thought they where all clear again. The left one crashed." The security chief explained completely stressed.

"Crashed?"

"Yeah."

Casey hurried to the elevator shaft shining his flashlight down into the shaft.

"How much people are inside?" He asked while looking down on the crashed little box maybe 6 meters underneath him at the end of the elevator shaft.

"We don't know that."

"Did you hear anything?"

"No." The security chief answered truthfully. Casey motioned his team to be silent.

"This is the Chicago Fire Department. Anyone down there? Call out!" Casey screamed down loudly and listened carefully before he could hear a muffled knocking.

"We are coming down to you!" Casey replied turning around.

"Hermann, Cruz on the lifeline. I'm going down." Casey said getting the harness around his legs without hesitating.

"Lieutenant I can go down too." Hermann offered watching his Lieutenant carefully. Normally he was always sure that Casey got it covered but he was there first after Severide as Casey was rescued from the elevator and he knew that he would never forget this image.

Casey looked up at Hermann who was already prepared to get snapped at.

"Thanks." Casey replied to his surprise. "But I got this."

Gabriela watched with concern as Casey leaned back into the shaft and gestured Cruz and Hermann that he was going down. She could see the fear in his eyes. He wasn't okay even if he wanted them all to believe that.

"Coming down." She heard him call out.

"Be save." She whispered full of concern.

Casey inhaled deeply. His hands where sweating inside the gloves. He felt stressed and indeed he could feel the angst but what he could feel most was the intense pain in his arm, the pain in his whole body. Holding onto the lifeline wasn't helping his injured and still bleeding arm at all. He could only hope that he had bandaged it well enough.

"Hello. Anyone down here? Can you hear me?" Casey asked trying not to focus on the darkness inside the elevator shaft. He concentrated on the little light from his flashlight and could feel that he was calming down slowly. Hermann and Cruz had him covered. If it was all to much he just needed to call out so they could get him up. He could fight the darkness with his flashlight and he had the light coming down from where he got inside the shaft. Everything was okay.

He was save.

Casey opened the little entrance on top of the elevator and peered down into the small and crashed cabin shocked at what he saw. There where two people trapped inside. One younger and one older male.

"Can you hear me?" Casey asked shining his flashlight in the younger mans face.

"My dad. He is not answering." The younger man, around 15, pleaded.

"I will come down to check on you both. What about you? Are you hurt?" Casey keep talking while freeing himself from the lifeline to get inside faster.

"Think I got a broken arm, broken ribs."

"Okay we will take care of that."

"Lieutenant get back on the line." He heard Cruz call from above.

"We got two male persons down here." Casey said through his radio in return while jumping into the cabin pulling the line downside with him. He turned to the older man, maybe the age of his father as he was shoot, and gulped. The older man was staring back at him with lifeless eyes. Casey fumbled for a pulse before closing his eyes for a second.

"Hey, what's your name?" Casey asked while turning around towards the boy.

"Noah."

"Noah I am Lieutenant Casey but you can call me Matt. We will get you up now."

"No! What's going on with my father?"

"I will go down as soon as we got you up I promise."

"Is he okay? Why isn't he talking? Dad?"

"Noah look I will take care of him, okay? Now we have to do one step after another and so we will get you up first." Casey said getting the neck brace he had brought down with him around Noah's neck to stabilize him.

"Can you breath properly?" Casey continued to ask while searching for further wounds or broken bones before getting the second harness around Noah and attaching it to his own.
"Listen to me. We will go up together. I got you okay? You have to trust me. Please do not move let me do the work." Casey said before pulling on the line as a sign to pull them up.

"No! I will not go up there. No! My father!" Noah panicked out of nowhere after they got out of the small cabin and into the elevator shaft.

"Noah stop moving. You have to keep still." Casey struggled while bouncing against the side of the shaft uncontrollably due to Noah's quick movement. Casey turned Noah's body away from the quickly nearing wall so he could soften the impact for Noah's body and prevent him from getting hurt any further.

"Casey!" Gabriela shouted down into the dark shaft after hearing the crash and Casey's muffled scream.

She watched helpless how the other man from the truck tried their best to pull Casey and the struggling boy up.

Matt could feel the pain in his shoulder but that was nothing he worried about. He had given his best to prevent Noah from crashing against the wall so his injured arm had crashed into the wall with full force.

"Casey are you alright? Call out!" He could hear Dawson's voice from above. His mind snapped back to their time in the elevator. They where so close. Here big hazel brown eyes. Mills.

"Casey!" He heard Mouch call out as well while shaking his head lightly. Noah had stopped moving and was now crying silent tears into his chest slowly recognizing that his father wouldn't make it out of the small cabin alive.

"Get us up!" Casey replied glad as he could see the faces of his team clearly. Otis and Cruz took the boy out of his arms while Hermann helped him out of the elevator shaft.

"I need to go down again." Casey said following Hermann's eyes to his injured arm now feeling the warm liquid flooding down his hand.

"You're bleeding." Hermann pointed out.

"Casey are you alright?" Gabby questioned at the same time while taking care of the boy together with Shay.

"I'm fine." Casey replied shortly getting to his feet again.

"Let me go down Lieutenant." Hermann said looking Casey directly into his blue eyes.

"It's a body down there."

"Nothing I haven't seen before right?"

"Right."

"Come on. Your arm needs to be attended." Hermann added while watching the blood still making it's way over Casey's hand to the ground. Casey followed Hermann's eyes again and inhaled deeply before freeing himself from the harness with the help of Cruz.

"Thanks." He said after watching Hermann getting secured properly.

"Let me have a look at your arm." Gabriela said immediately as she spotted Casey.

"No need for that. It's just the little cut Shay had patched up yesterday. I banged my arm on the elevator shaft. I will get it fixed."

"You sure about it?"

"Yeah."

Dawson watched Casey for a second longer before she hurried towards Shay. They had to bring the boy to the hospital quickly.
Back in the firehouse Casey got to the restroom and looked at the huge amount of blood on his bandage.

"Damn it." He cursed while getting it fixed freshly. He knew that he was loosing to much blood. He knew that he had to do something. Anything.

Casey got back to his office and was glad as he could sit down again. He could see one missed call on his cell phone and a message from his voice mail.
Casey listened carefully to the unknown voice.
"Mister Casey this is Andrew Darring. I just wanted to let you know that we had to reschedule the parole hearing for Nancy Casey, your mother. It will be tomorrow at about 10.30. Please give us a call to let us know if you are able to come."

Casey exhaled deeply before smashing his hand hardly onto his table. This was the last thing he needed right now. He had to think. He had to come clear with himself. Should he speak for his mother, should he speak against his mother, should he speak at all?

….to be continued!