*Another chapter is up! Enjoy!
It smells like trouble!
The next morning, all the members of the team was reunited at the precinct except for Ruzek and Halstead. Even Erin was there. Will had to assure her that Jay was actually going to be all right and the med he had receives was causing him to sleep. She didn't had the chance to talk to him before leaving the hospital but she also wanted to catch the guys who did it pretty bad. Mouse had worked nearly all night long to figure out who was the owner of the car and see where he could take them. They also had the primary report from the fire. Voight was standing in front of his unit. Behind him was the white board with all the pictures that had been taken from the fire.
"For as far as we know, the warehouse was rigged with explosives. They were triggered by us when we entered the building but the firefighters also found out that the dispositive form the timer was accelerated when a second door was pushed open, probably by you Erin." he explained. She looked up and nodded.
"Yeah. As soon as I pushed the second door, Jay called out to me that the timer had passed from two minutes to something like forty-five seconds. I told you to get out the building in the radio. Jay told me we wouldn't make it out in time because we were too far in. He grabbed me and throw us as far as he could from the blast and covered me up. We were stuck in a corner."
The team was listening to her. She looked at Voight straight in the eyes before adding.
"Jay saved my life yesterday."
Voight nodded. Deep down inside, he just knew that Jay and Erin were seeing each other but her reaction to all of the past events confirmed him that it was pretty serious, at least on her part. He always had told that he wouldn't tolerate romance between members of his team but he had to admit that it was a long time since he had seen his Erin as happy as she was now. The only thing he needed to do before giving his approval was to have a little talk with Jay as soon as the case was closed. He cleared his throat and his mind.
"I can promise to each and every one of you that we are going to catch those bastard and make sure they will pay for what they did to Adam and Jay. So for now all we know is that it's probably gang related and there could be a link between an old case and this case. Olinsky and I just got our hand on the files." he pointed to six pictures on the board, all men.
"Those men were part of the first group linked to the attack against the police seventeen years ago. They are also the ones that got killed that day. The first one is Robert Foster than we have Carlos Ramirez, David King, Jimmy Carver, Rob Carter and John Bradshaw. I know that everyone of you is tired. I know that it's been a long night and maybe you want to go home but..." his words were cut off by Platt coming up the stairs. He looked at her, curious. The team was even more surprise when they saw some uniforms behind her.
"I'm sorry for the interruption Hank but those young hot blooded cop behind me wanted to help on the case and they insisted to get up here so they could be a part of this investigation." she explained.
Voight frowned and looked at his team.
"And what are you doing about protecting the streets. It's really humble of each and everyone of you but if there are no patrol on the streets, this mean our job is not done correctly." he said.
Platt cleared her throat.
"Hank Voight, you know me better than that. You know that I make sure that there is always enough uniforms on the streets to make them safe. I think you didn't hear me wrights. There is at least fifteen cops behind me that heard what happened to Jay and Ruzek. Those brave little soldiers are here on their free time. They want to catch whoever did this to our big family because that's what we are. A family. Leave it or take it."
Antonio was smirking. He never had seen Voight destabilized before but it was happening right now. He looked at Olinsky and found out that he had a look of disbelief on his face. Erin finally spoke.
"Hank, I think that we could use all the help we can get. We don't know how many of them there is outside and what they are going to do next. "
Voight sighed and looked at Platt.
"Alright but let me get this straight. Each and everyone of you needs to be extra careful. I don't want to see anybody else getting hurt out there. Two is already too much. If someone start to feel uncomfortable, you back off and nobody is going to blame you for that. From what it looks like, it's the intelligence unit that they are after and I don't want to see something happen to you. You listen to what we say and you do as you are told. Did I made myself clear?" he explained. The uniforms responded all at the same time.
"Yes sir!"
Voight, Olinsky, Antonio and Erin felt so much support at this point and that made them so proud to be part of a precinct where each member looked out for each other. They had already seen it when Adam and Jay got hurt the day before since there was a lot of patrol officers and detectives from other unit that came to the hospital or asked how the two young inspectors were doing. Voight was particularly touch by it because he could see that even with his reputation it hadn't affected his team's. Platt tried not to smile since she had her reputation to maintain too but she was proud of her patrolmen.
"I will leave you to it." she said before going back down the stairs to her desk.
Voight started to give the information they had.
"As I was saying, those six were killed and we need to find out if there are any leads on them. Family, friends, child, anything that could help us on the case. Mouse, what did you found on the car?" he asked.
Mouse stood up with some files in his hands. He looked a little nervous as always.
"Yeah uh...I spent all night looking and I think I finally got something interesting. First, about the warehouse..."
Erin stood up.
"I taught you had searched for the car." she said a little bit on edge but Hank put his hand up to let her know to back off. He knew that the young tech was doing all he could to help.
" Well, about the warehouse, I found out that it's the same one from the old case. I mean that's where the show down happened. At first she had been used for storage, after that it was renovated so it could be used as a mechanic room for heavy machinery. It was sold again but there are no more information on the owner and it looks like it's been let go of as for the car, I found out that it belongs to a 32 years old Brad Raymon. There is not much about him. He doesn't have any criminal records, only some contraventions BUT I didn't stopped there. You see, I also found out that Brad Raymon was adopted by his step dad after the death of his mother and you will never guess who it is."
Antonio shrugged.
"We are dying to know who it is so feel free to tell us." he said ironically.
"Hum yeah! None other than our bad guy David King." he took a piece of paper, wrote something down on it before giving it to Voight.
"And this is his address."
Voight took the piece of paper and looked at the other patrol in the room.
"See that! That's what I'm talking about. Good work,..Mouse. Antonio, Roman, Burgess you are with me. We are going to his place and bring him in." he said taking his coat and making it down the stairs. He took a brake in the middle and turned around.
"Erin and Olinsky, you keep digging with their help. He wasn't alone in that car and we need to know if it's a personal vendetta or if the old gang is coming back to take care of cleaning the streets from the cops." he ordered before continuing down the stairs soon followed by Roman, Burgess and Antonio who took two second to look at Mouse.
"You are a genius!"
Leaving the young man smiling.
It had been nearly one hour since Voight and the others had left and Olinsky was starting to get nervous. Erin who sat not too far with an officer named Brady looked up to him. She saw that he was looking at the clock and he wasn't concentrated anymore.
"Hey what's going on Al?" she asked.
He turned to look at her.
"Nothing."
"Al, I've known you long enough to see that something is bothering you. Tell me."
Olinsky didn't got the chance to answer. Trudy Platt made her way running up the stairs. She looked anxious. Alvin and Erin looked at her but as soon as they saw her, they knew that something had happened. Erin stood up, ready to go.
"I heard on the radio that shots were fired at the others location. The only thing I know is that there is two people hurt. They are at the hospital." Platt explained. "They are at Chicago Med."
"Thank you." said Olinsky pushing Erin towards the stairs.
It took them fifteen minutes to get to Chicago Med and Erin came running threw the doors. She ran until she found someone she knew. Olinsky was following her close behind and they found Antonio and Burgess in the waiting room. They had blood on them but no Voight in sight. Lindsay couldn't hold any longer.
"Antonio! What happened? Where are Hank and Roman?" she asked.
"Calm down Erin. Hank is just fine. The blood isn't his." Dawson explained.
Erin let out a breath she didn't knew she was holding. She looked around and realise that Roman was nowhere to be found. It was Alvin's turn to speak.
"Where is Roman? And if Voight is alright where is he? And what the heck happened?" he asked.
Burgess looked a little bit in shock but she was the one to speak.
"When we arrived at the house, there was no car, no signs of life and when we knocked, there was no answer so Voight decided that we had to enter and look for Raymon. Roman took down the door and shots were fired. Sean went down and Antonio and Voight went after Raymon. There was more gunfire and Voight called in for back up and ambulances. Rigth now, Voight is with Raymon. He shot him in the leg and he wants to know who was with him in the house. They were two. It's the other guy that shot Roman." she explained.
Olinsky nodded.
"How is Roman?" he asked.
"He is with . He got hit in the shoulder. We are waiting for an update but it's not life threatening." explained Antonio.
"Well that's bad but it's good news. Now we have something to work with. There are a lots of possibilities now. Maybe too much. We are falling like flies. We are not enough to look at every files linked to this. I received a call from Mouse. The officers at the precinct found something. I'm going to wait for Voight and I'll go back at the office to see what we have." said Erin.
Voight was so pissed right now! They finally had one of the jackass who is trying to kill police officers. He was so mad that he had ordered to the doctors to wait before treating the suspect because he needed some answers. Dr. Natalie Manning had always refused to let police officers abuse of their power to interrogate injured suspect but right now, she had to admit that with everything that happened, seeing Will so distress by the fact that his brother nearly died in that explosion, seeing so much courageous people getting hurts for no reasons, she couldn't just stand there and watch everything happened. She had decided to let sergeant Voight question the suspect for five minutes. She stayed in the room with Dr Choi just to make sure that when the time come, they could get the man outside before he killed their patient. So hear they were watching the older man.
"Just get away from me! You don't have the right to do that! Please doctors help me! "cried Raymon as Voight was pushing on his wound with his hand.
Choi and Nathalie just looked away, trying not to jump in.
"Don't you even dare saying that! Like you have every rights all of a sudden. You think you can attack my district, my team, my family and send us threats and just get away with it? What are you? Dump!" said Voight in a tone that no one would like.
"But I don't even know what you are talking about!"
Voight let out a little laugh.
"Well I guess that answer my previous question! You are dumb and by the look of it you are certainly not the brain of your group or whatever you guys call yourself! You can't even make a man of yourself. So just because I think you are stupid, I will repeat my question but only once and you have only this chance to answer it. Well it's not really a question, it's a request. I want the names of whoever you are working with. I know that you are the stepson of David King and that he adopted you after your mother died. He also died seventeen years ago and what a coincidence, the Molotov cocktail was thrown from a car registered to your name on the very same day that he died. So what do you have to say about that?" screamed Voight tired of the man in front of him.
To his surprise, Brad Raymon just started laughing. He couldn't take it anymore. He took his index finger and put it inside the hole he had in his leg caused by the bullet. The suspect cried out in pain causing the two doctors to wince.
"Just tell me...NOW!" screamed Voight again.
Brad Raymon only continued to laugh even if he was in pain.
"You don't get it do you? You're right about one thing. I'm not alone but I'm never going to tell you anything about the others. Just don't forget something sergeant. It's all about you and only you Hank Voight." said Raymon.
Voight seemed taken aback by this confession and stood silent. Ethan and Natalie chosed this moment to intervene.
"Sergeant, we are going to need you to get out and let us do our job. We understand that you have a job to do but we have also. Please leave." said Choi in a convincing tone.
Voight was already out the door. Something in his mind seemed to have clicked. There was something off about this case. He needed to talk to the remaining members of his team now. He couldn't get what Brad Raymon had said out of his head. He hadn't been talking much but what he had said seemed to be a two ways message. It wasn't just some old enemies coming back to clear up the streets like it had been seventeen years ago. It was personal and his team needed to know.