Author's note: Hi people! Thanks again for the reviews! I hope you will love this new chapter, which focuses on finding Gabby back.
I apologize for some grammatical errors or conjugations, I do my best.
Hope you'll enjoy reading this new chapter!
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Gaëlle
GABBY'S POV
A deep pain in the head.
A heavy and stiff body.
A sharp pain in my stomach.
My heart beats faster than usual.
I slowly open my eyes with difficulty. I am lengthened on the ground, my wrists and ankles were attached. I discover little by little a place which is totally unknown to me. The room where I am is cold and wet. I shiver. I am dizzy, but I try to recover in a seated position.
The room is plunged into darkness. I see almost nothing. I distinguish nothing. I'm having troubles in defining the place where I am. I have no idea where I am.
The pain in the head is increasing, my heart accelerates again and I tremble. The panic invades me.
I try to control my breath and to analyze the situation. I try to call in for help, but I have the short of breath. Sounds don't go out of my mouth. The air's getting pretty thin. Where the hell I am?
I feel tears amounting in my eyes and my breath to accelerate again before losing slowly consciousness again.
The apartment
MATT'S POV
It has been more than two hours since we returned and discovered that Gabby is missing. Antonio has called Voight, who joined us with some members of the Intelligence Unit. They studied places. They questioned us.
Having restored a little order in the kitchen, we are all sat around the table, with a cup of coffee to try to relax us. Voight starts speaking to explain us what he noticed or what he had found: "In the bedroom, in the middle of the fragments of glasses, we found a piece of garment... Probably a jacket. A black jacket." Then, he turns his attention to Kelly, who's sitting next to me with a vacant look. He's the only one of us to have seen Gabby today.
"Was Gabby dressed in black at the time of the kidnapping?" Voight asks him.
"Uh… No… She has changed quickly before going to the Police Station this morning… She was wearing… Uh… A black jean, I guess… I'm sorry I can't remember well…" Kelly simply answers, completely lost.
"When she came at the District this morning, she was wearing a pink shirt and a dark pink jacket…" Jay says, and we all look at him with big and surprised eyes. I try not to think he's Gabby's ex, but I can't help myself. Visibly, he still looks at her a lot to remember her outfit.
"Well, the piece of black jacket is probably one of the kidnappers. It's a first step." Voight says.
"ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME?!" I yell at Voight, hit the table with my fist not able to stifle my anger in front of him anymore. "YOU PROMISED ME TO PROTECT HER. YOU PROMISED ME SHE WOULDN'T BE IN DANGER IF I WERE GOING UNDERCOVER WITH YOU! YOU PROMISED, VOIGHT! YOU PROMISED… I SHOULD NEVER… NEVER HAVE TRUSTED YOU! YOU'RE A FUCKING BASTARD! THAT'S ALL YOU ARE! YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT HAPPENED TODAY! YOU'RE THE ONLY ONE RESPONSIBLE OF IT… DO YOU HEAR ME? IT'S YOUR FAULT! IF ANYTHING… ANYTHING HAPPEN TO HER…" I yell again, with a voice full of anger pointing my finger toward him. "IF ANYTHING HAPPEN TO HER, YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO COME TO ME EVER AGAIN, DO YOU HEAR ME?" I feel tears running on my cheeks.
Antonio catches me by the shoulder and urges me to sit down again: "Matt, that's enough. Calm down… To threaten a sergeant in an apartment filled with policemen is not going to help us get her back, believe in me..." he simply says.
"Matt, you have my words… We'll pursue the investigations and we'll find her." Voight says, looking at me.
"You better…" I tell him, between sobs while he's leaving with his team.
"I will… Antonio stays with Matt and Kelly, I will call you later." Voight says.
"I want to be a part of the investigations!" Antonio replies, starting to get up.
"I don't think it's the best idea, you're too involved in this case…" Voight tells him.
"I don't care; this is my little sister we are talking about. I'm working in this case, whether you like it or not." Antonio says grabbing his jacket. Before closing the door, he turns to me and hugs me: "Don't worry; I'll keep you updated every minute if it's necessary. We'll find her, I promise!" he says to me.
Five hours later – Unknown Location
GABBY'S POV
"HELP... Does anybody hear me?" I try to shout, but I'm struggling to speak. My mouth is dry and I have a heavy breathing.
I still sat on the ice-cold ground. It's even darker in the room; the night must have started to fall.
I sob slowly. I continued to call for help, but nobody is answering. I am frozen. I am starved. I am thirsty. I try to put myself up, but with fists and ankles attached, I lost the balance and I fall on the ground, hitting my head again.
I try to open eyes, my eyelids are heavy.
I feel that I am lengthened on something more comfortable that the ground.
I distinguish male voices.
"She has a sacred bump on the head…" one of the men notices, hovering over me.
"What the hell are you doing George?" another man yells.
"It's just… She doesn't deserve all of it… I believe that she is cold, she trembles. There's no point to keep her. Don't you think?" the first man says.
"Come on, you agreed to be a part of the plan! So now, get away from her. She's our best prey to get Matt Casey!" the other man says loudly.
I slowly understand why I am here. It must be connected to the events of the last days, to the case on which Matt and Antonio were worked. It's connected to Stiletto's, to Jack Nesbitt and to the prostitution rings.
I open my eyes and I groan despite myself, the pain is too intense.
"Well, well… Look, who's awake…" the man who must be the boss says. "Gabriela, right?" he asks me.
I'm terrified, so I simply nod at him.
"You're a pretty girl… And well, you have quite a family. I must admit having a brother in the Intelligence Unit and a fiancé as a Lieutenant in a Firehouse is pretty awesome… But, they're not very smart… And not very discrete too…" the man says.
I assume he's Jack Nesbitt. I have never seen him, but I have the feeling it's him. While he's talking to me, I notice the other man, probably George, behind him. He seems to be a good man; I don't know what he is doing here. He looks at me with pity in his eyes.
"What… What do you want from me? Let me go…" I begged them, with tears in the eyes.
They don't answer, he just laughs at me.
"You know, they will kill you when they will find you!" I shout at him with rage.
"I wouldn't be so sure if I was you… Maybe you'll be the one to be killed or him…" he says, showing me a picture of Matt at the club.
Two days later – District 21
ANTONIO'S POV
"I think I have found something!" I yell, running to the meeting room. "One of Nesbitt's cell phone has been geolocation-based in an old building in the popular districts. It's worth going to see it, no?" I ask Voight, almost beg him.
"Of course! Halstead, Dawson and Ruzek with me! Let's go!" Voight orders taking his gun and grabbing his bulletproof vest. "Don't forget your equipment, it could be really dangerous! Nesbitt is a professional!" he states, making his way to the cars.
Before joining him in the car, I grab my phone and call Matt.
"Antonio, what's the news?" he asks me.
"We have a lead… We're going to one of those old abandoned buildings near Hunter Boulevard. Met me there!" I just tell him, knowing Voight will not want him with us, but he has every right to be there with us. We are the one who solicited him to help us and now he's going through a hard time because of all of this case. So it's the least we can do for him.
Hunter Boulevard
We arrive at the building twenty minutes later. It's an abandoned building. There is no more door or window visible from the outside. The building is grey and mostly tagged.
A single black car attracts my attention. It's a black car. It's a luxury car registered in the state of New York. Why a luxury car would be present in a similar place?
I ask Ruzek to make a research with the license plate. The research comes with the result we were hoping for: the car is registered in the name of Jack Nesbitt.
We equip ourselves, as Matt and Kelly arrive on the spot.
"What the hell are they doing here? " Voight asks me, visibly irritated.
"I called Matt, and I told him that I had a lead. He has the right to know, he has the right to be here!" I answer him in a firm tone.
"Fine, but you two STAY HERE!" he orders them.
"I don't think so!" Matt says. "I want to come, I want to help find my girl!" he shouts to Voight.
"MATT, YOU'RE NOT A COP!" Voight yells, loudly.
"That's not what you meant when you came at me to go undercover for you!" Matt tells him.
"I guess I have no choice… Take a bulletproof vest and YOU STAY BEHIND US! I AM MAKING MYSELF CLEAR?" he asks him, very seriously.
"It's perfectly clear!" Matt answers, putting the vest and hugging Kelly before follows us inside.
We look for Gabby in the various rooms on the two first floors, in vain.
GABBY'S POV
George and Jack are having a row about what they have to do or not. They are so much worried by their discussion and their shouts which come from all sides of the room that they don't even realize faces in the hollow of the door behind them.
I feel relieved when I perceive the reassuring face of my older brother and the familiar faces of his partners of the Intelligence Unit. Antonio makes me a small sign of the head to reassure me and tell me that everything is going to be ok.
And, then… I see him. I see Matt. I see my fiancé behind my brother. He has tears in his eyes. I have tears in my eyes. I can't wait to be in his arms again and forever.
That's when my worst nightmare happens. Jack Nesbitt turns around and he has perceived something.
He turns around towards me.
He turns around towards the door again where three armed men advance on him with Matt behind them.
"Well, Matt Casey… Here you are! I knew you were coming to save your girl!" he provokes them, pointing his gun towards them.
"Let her go… Take me at her place!" Matt begs him, and I say no with my head, crying hysterically.
Halstead comes to me by the back door and helps me stand up.
In spite of the shouts of Antonio and Voight, Matt moves forward to Nesbitt with his hands in the air.
I shout, I cry, I try to move forward, but Halstead holds me off with all his strength.
I close my eyes, frightened by the scene which takes place in front of me.
A shot.
Shouts.
A second shot.
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