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chapter nineteen. the ones you lose.

Adam walks down the hall towards his best friend's apartment with a bag of muffins and two coffees in hand, when he notices the door slightly ajar.

Adam moves the tray of coffees to his other hand and places his hand on the gun in his holster and nudges the door open with his foot, "Maxie?"

Adam walks inside the familiar looking apartment to see it completely destroyed and his heart drops to his stomach. He sets the coffees and muffins down on the counter and searches everywhere, "Maxine!"

Adam holsters his gun, trying to calm his breathing, "what the hell?" then runs his hands down his face, "This isn't happening" then he takes out his phone to make a call, "Voight, we have a problem"

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"How long has she been missing?" Voight asks as he, Lindsay and Antonio walk towards Maxines apartment where the rest of the team was searching over.

"We talked to her neighbors. One of them said they noticed the door was ajar at 9 last night" Erin states. Voight raises an eyebrow, "and he didn't call 911?"

"Nope. Said that since she was a cop she could handle anything herself"

Antonio scoffs, "nice neighbor"

"That's what I said...then he heard me and slammed the door in my face" Erin says, making the other two snicker.

"Anything yet?" Adam asks, standing at the doorway of Maxine's apartment, trying not to panic and Erin shakes her head, "damn. Boss, we gotta find her"

"We will, Adam" Hank reassures the officer. cause if there was one thing to know about Hank Voight, is that he always gets his man.

"This isn't a good sign" jay said, standing up from the ground after searching underneath the couch and Hank nods his way. Jay shows the badge and ID in his hand, "it's Max's ID and badge"

"Damn" Antonio says.

"What does that mean?" Adam asks, looking around at everyone's sad expressions.

"It means that whoever took her doesn't know she's a cop. She's undercover" Mickey states, his hands resting on his hips.

"Damn" Kevin says.

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Maxine's eyes slowly opened. She groans in pain when she realizes that her mouth was duct taped and her hands and feet were tied together.

She looks around at her surroundings. She was in a van, mostly empty except for some tools. Driver in the front and another one three feet from her.

If there was one thing to know about Maxine was that she made mental notes of everything that was surrounding her. That's half the reason she's still alive today. Well, after today...we'll see.

"Oh look, she's finally awake"

Maxine looks over to see the man that was closer to her, move over near her and she worms her way back from him. The man grabs her feet, pulling her closer and points his gun to the side of her face.

"Trust me sweetheart. I'm the nice guy" he jokes. Maxine glares at him and takes her feet that are tied together and pushes back on his chest.

The man groans and crawls his way over to the detective, getting on top of her and pistol whips her.

"Hey, what's going on back there?" The driver asks.

"It's fine, Mac. I got it handled"

"The boss wants her alive"

"Yeah, I know that" he says then looks back at Max and points his gun back in her face and leans in closer, "don't fuck with me, you got that?"

Maxine mocks the man, but because of the duct tape it was muffled. He looks at her with furrowed brows and yanks the duct tape off. "What did you just say?"

"First off. Ow. And second, I mocked you"

"You mocked me? What did I just say about not fucking with me?"

"Hey, you're the one that said you were the nice one"

He scoffs and looks back at the driver, "are you sure I can't kill her?"

"No, Jerry"

Jerry looks back at the girl with anger in his eyes and sticks the piece of duct tape back on her mouth.

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"Anything yet?" Voight asks, leaving his office, "max has been missing 8 hours now"

"Phone records are normal. Credit cards are fine, I think. She spends a lot of money on Chinese take out. Everything seems...normal" Antonio states.

"Too normal. Makes no sense" Mickey states, leaning back in his desk chair.

"Think we got something" Adam says as he and Jay walk onto the bullpen, "so we know that since we found Max's badge and ID that she's undercover right?"

"Yeah"

"She's only ever worked two undercover cases" Jay adds, "the Mateo Rodrigo case and the samolen cartel"

"The samolen cartel case was disbanded. they're all still in jail or dead. I was part of that take down" Hank states, as Mickey answers his desk phone.

"So then it has to be something to the Mateo Rodrigo case" Erin says. Mickey hangs up his phone and says, "that was Platt. Burgess and Roman found something"

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"Someone called in this van burning" Burgess says as she sees the intelligence unit walking over to her and Roman, "they took the license plates but were stupid enough to leave the vin number"

"It's registered to a Mac Landon" Roman adds.

"Okay. Why are we here?" Voight asks.

"We found blood. Sent it straight to the lab"

"Okay"

"And we found this?" Burgess says, handing an evidence bag to the sergeant.

"It's a bracelet with the initials A and M on it"

"A and M?" Adam asks, rushing to Voights side and grabs the bag, "max and I made matching bracelets when we were kids. This is hers"

"So, she left it behind for us to find." Erin states.

"Find this Mac Landon. Now" Voight states.

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The team pulls up to Mac Landon's home. As they get out with their guns drawn, Voight says, "Ruzek, Atwater, Halstead, take the back. Erin, Jacobs, Dawson, Al with me"

Erin pounds her fist on the front door, "Chicago pd!" and when there was no answer, Mickey takes the ram and slams the front door in.

As Erin, Hank, Mickey, Al and Antonio go to clear out the house. Mac Landon walks through his back gate and sees Adam, Kevin and Jay standing there and he drops his bag of groceries and starts running.

"Yo, that's Landon. He's running" Atwater says, starting the chase, Ruzek following closely behind. Jay takes out his walkie and says, "we got Landon. He's running"

"Landon, stop! Chicago pd!" Kevin yells, chasing after Mac down an alleyway. Adam follows closely behind then runs down an opposite alleyway to try and cut the suspect off.

Adam runs around a corner and sees Landon running down the alley, and he points his gun at him, "Mac Landon, Chicago pd..stop running"

Landon looks behind him about to run back when Atwater turns the corner with his gun drawn.

"We got Landon cornered in an alleyway, off Columbus" Adam says over the walkie.

"Don't do it, Landon" Atwater says to the man who was looking around for some sort of exit. Landon goes to grab something from his waistband and pulls out a gun, which put the two officers on their toes.

"Landon, put the gun down!" Adam yells.

"I didn't do anything!" He yells back.

"That may be but you need to put the gun down now so we can talk it out" Kevin says, trying to let his guard down. Landon turns around to face Kevin and starts to point his gun at him.

"Put the gun down!"

"I can't" Landon says and as he is about to fire, Kevin shoots him twice in the chest. Adam runs over to the man that had fallen to the ground, blood being coughed up, "hey, no, no, no. You're not dying on me. Where is she? Where's Maxine? Please" then he looks over at Atwater, "what did you do?!"

"He had his gun pointed at me" Kevin defends. Adam stands up and pushes back on Kevin's chest, "he knew where Max was and now we're never going to find her!" He yells. 

Jay and Hank run over to the two officers in time to stop them from fighting.

"Hey!" Jay says, pushing Adam back as Hank does for Kevin.

"Enough!" Hank says, "Landon's gone and there's nothing we can do about it now. I'm gonna call IRT for an officer involved shooting. Jay, you and Adam go back to the house, help the rest of the team search it"

As Jay and Adam start to walk back, Hank says, "and check Landon's body. See if he has a phone"

Jay goes to check the body and finds a phone in the front pocket. He holds it up to show Voight and he continues back to the house with Adam.

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Maxine pulls at her chains and looks around the room even though she couldn't see a thing in the dark room. "Get me out of here!" She screams.

The door then opens, Maxine squinting at the sudden spot of light coming into the room.

"Come on, Mateo. If you're gonna keep me chained up. Give me something to do" Maxine says, as a man turns the lights on.

"Always such a smartass, Allison. Or is it Maxine?" Mateo says, as the detective rolls her eyes.

"Wow, you found out. Didn't see that one coming" Maxine says, and as her eyes adjust to the light she sees a familiar figure in the grasp of Mateo's bodyguard, "Joey?"

Joey struggles as mateos bodyguard brings him over to the pair of chains next to Maxine and cuffs him to the metal. Mateo walks over to Maxine and bends down in front of her, tucking some of her hair behind her ear.

"Don't touch me"

"Don't touch me" Mateo mocks, then grabs his gun from his waistband and points it to the side of her head, "tell me what his last words were"

"Who?"

"My brother, Marcus." Mateo says, and gets offley close to Maxine's face, "What were his last words before you killed him?"

"Mmmm, now you need something from me? I'll tell you what he said but you gotta do something for me"

Mateo cocks the gun back and says, "what?"

"Let Joey go and I'll give you whatever you want"

Mateo raises an eyebrow, "whatever?"

"That's what I said, isn't it?"

"Stop being such a smartass"

Maxine gives him a sarcastic smirk, "sure"

"Max, you're not doing any favors for this dick " Joey states.

"I'm gonna choose to ignore that comment" Mateo says as his bodyguard pistol whips Joey, then he looks over at said bodyguard and stands up, "uncuff him... let him go"

The bodyguard goes to uncuff Joey and picks him up and pushes him forward for him to leave.

"Max, I'm not leaving without you"

"It's okay, I'll be fine"

Mateo points his gun at the skinny man, "you heard her. She'll be fine. Go!"

"No!" He argued, then he charged after the Hispanic male and threw a punch, knocking him down. The bodyguard goes to take his gun from his waistband and shoots Joey three times in the back.

"No!" Maxine yells, trying to get out of her chains.

"Boss, I had to" the bodyguard says as he helps Mateo off the ground. Mateo then grabs his gun from the ground and goes to stand over Joeys body, who was coughing up blood, "you stupid, stupid idiot!"

"Don't hurt him!" Maxine yells, "you're gonna be okay, Joey. I love you. You need to fight back"

Joey slowly turned his head to the left and Maxine just looked in his eyes and she knew how much he loved her and she loved him just as much. And even though they had to give their kid up for adoption, they still technically have a child together and that bond would never go away.

"I...love...you too" Joey says, coughing up more blood. Mateo points the gun and shoots Joey in the head. Maxine gasps, choking back her tears.

Mateo walks back over to Maxine, "I don't even care about my brother's last words now. Because you lost someone you love and that's all that matters" then he walks away shutting the lights off, closing the metal door behind him alone with his bodyguard, leaving Maxine sitting in the dark with joey's body three feet away from her.

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"Sarg, a number just texted Landon's phone" Mickey annonces, getting up from his desk as Voight leaves his office, "contact is big john and it says, 'Mac, where you at? Boss is pissed. He just killed someone'" everyone looks at him in shock.

"Killed someone?" Adam asks, "can't be max, can it?"

"We can't think like that" Erin states.

"Maxine is a fighter" Alvin adds.

"Alright, let's focus on what we have now" Voight says, "can we triangulate where the phone is coming from?"

Jay looks up from his computer, "the closest ping we got is from a tower near humboldt park"

"Well then we search every single empty building, alleyway, house we can find. We're not going home until Max is found. Suit up"

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Maxine sat in the dark in silence and knowing that Joey's body was three feet away was killing her. So she decided to do something she didn't want to, she needed to dislocate or break her wrist to get out of the cuffs.

Maxine takes a deep breath and dislocates her left wrist and slides her hand out and groans in pain as she takes herself out of the other cuff.

She crawls over to where she remembers joeys body was. Sticking her hands out in front of her until she felt him. When she finally reaches his body, she rests her head on his chest and the tears start to flow. "I'm so sorry, Joey. You didn't deserve this. Please don't leave me"

Maxine picks her head up and wipes her tears away and stands up, "I'm not gonna let you die in vain" then she slowly makes her way through the dark to find the metal door.

She goes to turn the handle and to her surprise it was open, "idiots" then she opens it and sticks her head out to see if anyone was in the hall.

Maxine walks down the hall and as she is about to turn the corner she sees the bodyguard with his back towards her. She takes a deep breath and takes a look around at her surroundings, she peeks around the corner to see where his gun was and she takes notice of it on his left hip.

Maxine rounds the corner quietly so the bodyguard couldn't hear her coming. She grabs the gun from his left side and aims it at him, who turns around about ready to throw a punch. Maxine then pistol whips him, knocking him back a bit.

"Stay back!"

The man smirks, "what are you gonna do, señora?"

"This" Maxine says, shooting him three times in the chest, then she goes to stand over his body, "just like you did to Joey"

Maxine storms down the hall, the gun gripped in her hand, making her knuckles turn white. Blood, dirt and tears soaking her face.

She walks into a room where Mateo was talking with Jerry, the one who kidnapped her and she shoots him in the head. Mateo turns around and puts his arms up, "put the gun down, Maxine"

"You remember how good I am with a gun? I killed your brother and his last words were, 'screw you'" Maxine says, and as she pulls the trigger, nothing happens. all the bullets were gone. "Shit"

Mateo smiles, taking his gun from his waistband and walks towards the detective, who throws her gun onto the floor. He points the gun right at her head, "should I just end your misery now like I did with Joey or should you just live with it?"

"If you're gonna kill me, do it or are you scared?" She Says through gritted teeth. Mateo glares at the woman in front of him and points the gun under her chin, "you think I'm scared?"

"That's what I just said. You couldn't even kill your enemies. Joey had to do it"

Mateo cocks back the Hammer of the gun when they hear, "Chicago pd!" He turns Maxine around, pointing the gun at her head.

"Let her go, Rodrigo!" Dawson states, as he, Voight, Erin, Atwater and Adam all point their guns at him.

"Yeah right. I know how this works. If I let her go or not, your still gonna kill me"

"Wow, you are smart" Voight sasses. Mateo throws his gun to the floor and as everyone thought it was over, he takes a knife from his back pocket and stabs Maxine in her abdomen and takes off running.

"No!" Adam yells, running over to his best friends and tries to stop the wound from bleeding with his hands, "it's okay, Maxie. You're gonna be okay"

"Halstead, Jacobs, O. Suspects running out the southeast side of the building" Voight says over the walkie. Erin takes out her radio, "5021 Lincoln. 10-1 emergency. We got an officer down. We need an ambo now!"

"Adam?" Maxine says, looking up at her best friend, "I don't..wanna die" she breathes out.

"You're not gonna die, Maxie. I got you" Adam says then looks up at everyone, "where's the ambo?!"

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The team stands up as they see Maxine's doctor walk over to them.

"What's going on, doc? Is she gonna make it?" Dawson asks, the only one of the group that could manage to talk at the moment.

"There were a couple complications during surgery. But Maxine's going to be fine, just some rehab and she'll be as good as new" the doctor says, causing everyone to sigh in relief.

"Can we see her?" Adam asks.

"Yes, but just for a little bit. She needs her rest"

"Adam, Jay. You guys go first" Erin suggests, "she needs her partner and best friend right now"

"Where is she?" A voice says, racing over to the intelligence team, "is she okay?"

"Dad?" Adam questions, "what are you doing here?"

"Voight told me what happened. Needed to make sure she was okay for myself"

"She's fine, Pop. We're going to see her right now"

"I'm coming with" Bob says, following after Jay with Adam behind him.

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Adam looks over at Trudy who had just gotten to the room, she nods her head for him to follow her. Adam kisses Maxine's forehead, who was looking off into space and says, "I'll be right back, Maxie"

Adam follows the sergeant out into the hall and says, "Hey Sarg. What's up?"

"How she doing?"

"She um, she's definitely traumatized. She watched Rodrigo kill someone she loves in front of her. I wouldn't wish that on anyone"

Trudy hands the officer and pack of twizzlers and says, "give these to her for me"

"Sure thing, Sarg" Adam says, grabbing the red colored package and walks back into the room. Adam sets the pack down on the table and sits down in the chair next to his best friends bed, "Platt brought you some twizzlers, you're favorite" but there was nothing but silence, "Maxie, please talk to me"

"Go away. I want to be alone"

"What?"

Maxine looks over at the officer in anger, "are you deaf? I said I want to be alone"

"Okay, yeah of course" he says, standing up, "I love you, Maxie. Call me if you need anything" then he walks away.

As soon as Adam leaves, she grabs her phone from the side table and looks through her photos of her and Joey and tears start to form.

authors note;

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RIP JOEY MASTERS