⋆° დ ༄ RISKY BUSINESS
chapter eleven. then the light off.

Jay pushes Maxine back into her bedroom, their lips never leaving each other's.

"You sure you wanna do this, angel?" Jay asks, in between kisses, and Maxine nods her head, "use your words"

"Y—yes"

"Good girl" Jay smirks leaning back into the kiss, his left hand going straight for the back of her head to deepen it. Jay then pushes Maxine back on the bed and takes his shirt off.

Maxine stares at his body and smiles, biting her lip. Jay grabs Max's ankles and pulls her towards him, before taking off his belt.

Jay climbs on top of the brunette, putting his hand around her throat, leaving soft kisses down her jaw and chest. Maxine moans, brushing her fingers through his short brown hair. "Fuck Jay"

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The next day, Maxine and Adam leave the unit, heading down to the district lobby when the officer looks at his best friend with a raised eyebrow, "I know that look"

"What look?"

"It's your 'I'm happy for the moment' look"

"Adam, come on. I don't have looks"

Adam scoffs and says, "I beg to differ" before he practically runs into Kim Burgess, "sorry"

"What's up, bro" Kevin says, trying to make it less awkward.

"Hey man"

"Sup Kev" Maxine says, giving the officer a fist bump before he and Kim leave.

"Adam, come on. Breakfast, I'm hungryyy" Maxine whines. As Adam was about to follow her, they hear Trudy call him over to her desk, "Hey Narcissus, come on over here"

Adam looks at Max then at Trudy and asks, "who?"

"Come over here"

Adam walks over to Platts desk and says, "yeah?"

"What do you got going on Friday night?"

"Uh . . . Max and I were gonna do our annual movie night date together"

"I need you off the books"

"Um..." he says, looking behind him at his best friend who was waving for him to hurry up, then back at Trudy, "should I be worried?"

"No why? You got something to hide?"

"No, I'm trying to figure out what you're asking me here"

"I'm not asking you. I'm telling you. And you'll find out Friday. So meet me out here and wear something nice"

"Something nice?"

"Yeah"

"We gotta move" Antonio says as he, Hank and Al leave the unit.

"What's going on?" Maxine asks.

"A massacre"

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The intelligence team meets up with Erin and Mickey at a crime scene at a bank and Hank asks, "alright, where are we at so far?"

"Four guards are dead. One guy wounded." Mickey says.

"What did they get?"

Erin takes out her notepad to look at the list of things and says, "eight million in cash. International currency shipment from Nagano, Japan. Headed down to the federal reserve in LaSalle. They cleared customs fine and then the money came here to be loaded onto an armored car."

"Can the survivors tell us anything?" Sumner asks, putting on her latex gloves.

"Yeah" Mickey says, pointing down the hall, where a medic is checking out the victim, "the one guy that's stable is Lukas Perko. He's the warehouse manager. And Eric Gonzalez, head of security."

"Alright, Jay and Max grab him. We'll talk to Perko." Hank says.

"Okay" Jay says.

While Hank and Antonio talk to the warehouse manager. Maxine, Jay and Sumner talk with the head of security.

"It doesn't make any sense. It was, uh, it was Reginalds birthday tomorrow. We were gonna go to the pink monkey. All of us" Gonzalez says.

"What did you see?" Jay asks. Gonzalez starts stammering and says, "I was, in, uh, in the...my office in the back of the building. I heard like, um, like a pop, pop, pop. And by the time I got here, it was...everyone was just...I mean, I tried to hold Tinkers head with my hand, but I couldn't keep the blood in."

"We're gonna need to see all of your security footage." Maxine says.

"Yeah, whatever you need."

Maxine, Jay and Mia walk back over to the team and Hank asks, "what did you get from the security guy?"

"Seemed in genuine shock. What about your guy?" Sumner says.

"Eight million reasons I can think of why one of them is lying"

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As the intelligence team heads inside the district, Adam turns his head to see Platt was staring at him and he raises his eyebrows at her in confusion.

Maxine walks over to the desk sergeant and says, "Hey Sarg" she smiles brightly.

Platt grabs a package of twizzlers, still staring at Ruzek and gives them to the detective, "thank you" she sings before following after her best friend up to the unit.

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"Alright, Perkos been with the company for two years" Jay says, taping his picture onto the board along with the dead victims, "he's got no criminal record"

"He did have a juvie one, though." Maxine states going to stand next to her partner, "Perko and his brother, Dominik got pinched at 15 on a drug conspiracy for selling meth. He had a mandatory release at 18 and stayed in the straight and narrow, but the brother kept dealing for a Croatian gang, the two-threes. The brother's currently serving eight years at stateville."

"Okay, so" Jin says, setting up a small tv that has six different camera feeds on it from the bank, "they had six video cameras, which you'd think would be aces, right? But, as you can see, cameras one and two, the crew stays too far out of frame to be of any useful identification. Three and four they stay out of view, altogether. And on five, they keep their backs to the camera. Six, the one camera that they can't avoid...well, it's conveniently obscured by the gate."

"There's no way this isn't an inside job." Antonio states.

"I talked to the dicks over at area south. One of the canvassing detectives interviewed a trucker who said that he saw a panel van fleeing the scene." Olinsky says.

"Tags?" Voight asks.

"Nothing. Except, he saw two of the guys remove their masks. Now, he didn't get a good look at their faces, but he said they were both Caucasian males."

"So, Perko lies. The old 'black guys did it' defense."

"He's in the ER at Chicago Med." Dawson says.

"Yeah, I'd like first crack at this one, boss" Mia says. Hank pushes himself off the desk and walks over to the detective and says, "you looking to prove yourself, Sumner?"

"I'm ready to grill him till he rolls"

"Good. Take Antonio with you"

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Jay walks into the break room to see his partner grabbing a coffee, so he leans on the counter holding out his mug for a refill and says, "so, last night . . . "

Maxine smiles, pouring the coffee into Jay's mug and says, "last night . . . was amazing"

"Yeah?"

"Yes. I have never in my life felt like that before" Maxine says, getting closer to her partner but not to close where if they got caught, they'd be questioned about it, "and I don't ever want that feeling to go away. If you're okay with that"

"Definitely" Jay smiles, as the two walk back to their desks when they hear Voight say. "Dennis Novak from East Pilsen? Look, his crew sells Kush, X, whatever they're calling junk these days. He's a low level jab slinger. It's way out of his league."

"He's telling the truth" Sumner says, making Antonio nod in agreement.

"Okay. Reach out to your CI's. The hypes, the lot lizards. Find out where in my city this guy thinks he can hide"

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"This is where Novak holds up" Antonio says, as the team -minus Al and Adam- get out of their cars, guns drawn as they approach a house from behind a back alley, "instead of the bank taking over, the two-threes did."

"Which makes no warrant necessary" Mickey states, going to unlock the chain from the metal door with bolt cutters, then stops when he sees them loose, so he carefully takes them off, throwing them into the snow, as the team slowly makes their way inside the house.

As they enter the house, Jay yells, "Chicago PD!"

"Bodies!" Maxine shouts.

After clearing the house, finding several bodies, Erin walks out of one of the rooms holding a mask and a bandana and says, "well, found a couple of these."

"If there was money here, it's gone now" Antonio says.

"Maybe somebody wanted a bigger piece of the pie for himself." Maxine says.

"Three of the men have two threes ink. Look at this guy" Hank says, looking down at the body in front of them, "he ain't Croatian."

"Sam Judas Tadeo. He's a big narco saint in Colombia" Antonio states.

"That's right"

"So we got two different types of rounds." Jay says as he and Mickey walk into the room, "we got the nine mils from the pistols and then we dug a couple slugs out of the wall" Mickey then holds up the bullet as Antonio shines the light at it, "think that's a 22 hollow point."

"That's an assassin's bullet" Antonio says, "ten to one he came in with a Colombian hit squad, caught two in the chest, his amigos left him where he fell."

"So run mister Bogotas prints, see if we find anything at all. We need a name" Hank says.

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"The Colombians are going scorched earth on this." Hank says, as the team is back on the unit.

"Literally" Al says as he and Adam walk onto the unit from watching someone set Perko on fire, "I think they were hoping to torch this guy in his car along with everything with him. I managed to put out the flames before his cell phone was destroyed."

Jin takes the evidence bag from the detective and says, "I'll take that"

"I thought you said you believed Perko." Hank says towards Sumner.

"About the Croatian gang, yeah. But this Colombian thing, I don't know how it adds up." Mia says.

"I got a theory" Antonio says, looking up from his notepad then walks over to the board, "Perko found out about the eight million coming in, decided it's time to set up his retirement fund"

"Right" Hank says.

"Hired his old Croatian friends to come and take it. Only problem is, Colombians found out and decide to rob the robbers"

"Okay. But how did the Colombians find out?"

"Perkos cell had the same number called the last 11 times" Jin says, looking at the phone.

"Call the states, line up a judge" Hank says then turns to the tech wiz, "you start writing up a warrant for that phone."

"Don't need to. The calls all came from inside stateville prison"

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Mickey watches as Jay gets up from his chair to walk into the break room and he slides his chair over to Maxines desk. "Hey"

"What's up?"

"I made reservations for two at the purple pig and I need someone to come with me"

"I mean, you can ask Al, but I don't really think he'd like that very much"

"Max, I'm being serious. Will you come with me? Please"

Maxine looks up at her ex boyfriend, who looked completely genuine and says, "okay"

"Okay? Okay. Cool. It's Saturday at 8" then he slides his chair back over to his desk.

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After Hank and Antonio visited Dominik Perko at Stateville, they give Jin a name to look up. Afterwards, he walks onto the unit, same time as Hank and Antonio and tapes a picture onto the board and says, "score one for the home team. Miguel Ortega's been visited nine times and made four phone calls to his main man in the Latin kings, Rolo Ramirez. And these are his active lieutenants" Jin the tapes up a few more photos.

"Whoa. That's the homeless guy. The torcher" Adam says, getting up from his desk.

"This guy? You sure?" Hank asks, pointing to the picture next to Miguel's.

"I'm certain, boss"

"You're the Latin kings, you rob the robbers, get away with eight mill. Why waste Perko?" Antonio questions.

"Well, he wouldn't do it unless he knew something he wasn't supposed to" Maxine says, sitting on the edge of her partner's desk.

"Why? He was tied to the Croatians, not the Colombians."

"What's the nationality of the name Gonzalez?" Mia asks, "It's not Croatian"

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After talking with the head of security, Eric Gonzalez, Hank and Al head back to the unit and the sergeant says, "Rolo just ordered two hookers. They get picked up and dropped off at a location. So we're gonna put a cop in with one of their whores. That means..."

"I'll do it" Kim speaks up. Everyone stares at the officer and Voight says, "okay. Go get dressed. The rest of us suit up, get ready for the meet. Let's go"

Jay and Maxine look at each other and head to the locker room to get their vests.

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After doing the undercover sting and threatening Rolo with putting his hand in a garbage disposal, he finally gave up where the eight million is, which was at a warehouse.

Adam opens the caged door to let the team in and Mickey opens one of the silver cases revealing some of the money and he whistles as Hank says, "whoa"

Jay picks up a stack and looks over at his partner and says, "the things we could do with this"

Maxine takes the stack and says, "just looking at all this money is insane"

"I think that's more than I make a year" Hank jokes. Al looks behind the group outside and asks, "who called internal affairs?"

"I'd be curious to know that myself" Hank says, looking at Sumner, "give us a minute"

Jay puts her hand on Maxines shoulder and says, "When we leave here, you're coming back to my place and we're fixing your face up"

"It's okay, I can do it"

"Max . . . " Jay says sternly, "you just went one on one with a 230 pound dude. Let me take care of you"

Maxine raises an eyebrow, "Yes sir"

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Jay sits on his coffee table in front of Maxine, who sits on the couch, as the detective slowly takes a qtip and applies some rubbing alcohol over the wound above her eyebrow and says, "You took quite a beating. You sure you're okay?"

"Hmm" she hums, "I've been through worse"

Jay gives a tight lip smile and says, "as long as you're sure" then as he finishes bandaging up his partner's wound, he gets up and sighs, going to put the supplies away.

"Hey, can I ask you something?" Jay asks, going to the fridge and grabs two beers, after putting the medics supplies away.

"Sure, what's up?" Maxine asks, adjusting herself on the couch as Jay hands her a beer.

"You ever think about what life would be like if we made different decisions?"

Maxine nods her head, taking a sip of her beer and says, "I do. So many things would be different right now."

"Yeah, like what?"

"Like, if I didn't stay with the Ruzek's when my mom abandoned me. I probably wouldn't have gone to the academy, then I wouldn't have met Hank and his family and I wouldn't have met Mickey . . . or you"

Jay looks over at Max and smiles, "Nah, I think we would've met no matter what"

Maxine raises an eyebrow, "oh, you think so?"

Jay takes a sip of his beer and smirks, "I know so. We're soulmates"

"Oh we are, are we?" Maxine chuckles, taking another sip of her beer.

"Oh yeah. Didn't you get the memo?" He jokes. Max raises an eyebrow, "no, I think I was sick that day" making them both laugh.

authors note;

they give me chills 🥺🦋