⋆° დ ༄ RISKY BUSINESS
chapter seventeen. get my cigarettes.

Maxine and Erin sit at their desks, scrolling through their computers as Adam says, "All I'm saying, Jay, is you got a target on your back and you don't seem all that fazed" as he, Jay, Mickey, Antonio and Al leave the break room.

"Overseas my unit and I, we always had a bounty on us" Jay answers.

"Always" Mickey states.

"Most gangs only pay 10g for a cop. If you're really worth 100,000, I should take you out myself and pay off my mortgage" Antonio jokes.

"Try it" jay jokes.

"Coke dealer one time put a million dollar tag on me and Voight" Al says. Jay sits at his desk and says, "what?"

"How'd you handle that?" Ruzek asks, as Max starts pulling at the rubber band around her wrist, which Jay noticed.

"Well, you dust yourself. Never go home the same way twice. Run red lights and if a car follows you through one, you chamber a round and you handle business"

"Alright" Adam says, taking a bite from his spoonful of yogurt.

"This is Billy Fagen" Voight says, leaving his office and tapes a picture onto the board, "small time hood. Had ties to a local outfit. I've run into him a couple times." Then he tapes another picture right next to the other one, "this is Billy Fagen seven hours ago. Organized crime found him. Dollar bill pinned to his chest. They looked into the Serbians, cartels, coming up empty"

"We taking this from organized crime because he was your poker buddy?" Erin asks, making Max's eyes go wide with shock. Hank ignores Erin and says, "start searching out to your CI's" then he looks at Erin, "you got a sec?" and the two go into his office.

Jay rolls his desk chair over to his partner, who was still pulling at the rubber band and asks, "you okay?"

Max had suddenly stopped playing with the rubber band and says, "Huh? Yeah." then she gets up from her desk, walking over to Adam and grabs his hand, and drags him into the locker room.

"Hey, I'm not finished with my yogurt yet" Adam whines. Max grabs the yogurt, finishing it for him, then throws the cup away, "now you are"

"What the hell. The was the last berry one"

"Adam, who cares about the freakin yogurt"

"Whoa. Maxie, chill out." Adam says, putting his hands on the brunette's shoulders, "What's wrong?"

Maxine takes a deep breath, "I can't tell you"

"Why?"

"Because then if I do. You'll be in the middle of the mess and I can't have that"

"So, why are you talking to me about this now"

"So, you don't think I'm having some psychotic episode"

"Well, it's a little too late for that" Adam jokes, causing Max to roll her eyes, "I'm kidding. I'm kidding" he says, placing his hands on her cheeks and squishes them together, "god, you really do look like a chipmunk" Max chuckles, swatting his hands away, "knew you'd laugh at that"

"Whatever" she says, before walking away.

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The intelligence team meets up at some Lumber yard, where Voight told them to go after getting the name of a suspect.

"Brent Norelli. Assault, armed robbery. Even did six months at the cook county psych ward." Hank says, showing his team a picture of Brent, "Norelli inherited this lumber yard from his old man, but it's just a front. He just broke off from the outfit old timers, but he's already making plays for some of their rackets. Let's go"

The intelligence team duck under a garage door with their guns drawn, slowly making their way through the lumber yard and Olinsky yells, "Chicago Police! Get down on the ground, let me see your hands!"

Antonio nudges a box that had fallen open and whistles, "ten years worth of oxy."

Voight pushes a guy up against a ladder and asks, "where's Norelli?"

"He's in the store room" the guy says, pointing to a room that says private on it. The team stands on either side of the door when Antonio slams his fist on the door.

"Chicago Poli-" Antonio was cut off by bullets flying through the door. The detective then puts his gun through the hole in the door and hits the shooter, who falls down on the ground.

Kevin kicks in the door and Mickey runs in and shouts, "Police, stay down" kicking the gun away from the shooter.

Kevin flips him over, ripping his shirt open to see a bullet proof vest and says, "nice vest"

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Max hangs up her desk phone and says, "one blast of double ought buckshot, killed both Fagen and Marcelo. No shells were found at either Murder. Crime scene estimates the killers height based on blood splatter to be 5'10, which totally narrows it down"

"There was no forced entry to any of the doors or windows in Marcellos' building. There's a fire escape in the back, but it doesn't lead to the roof." Erin states, "you'd have to climb up from there, which is not an easy feat. But it's the only way that somebody could have come and gone unnoticed"

"How long have you been doing this?" Al asks Hank, who nods his head, "alright, and how many shotgun murders have we seen before these?"

"Two" Voight says.

"Alright, so it's gotta be a pro"

"Or a redneck" Atwater says nonchalantly. Jay raises his hand and says, "Pro redneck. I'm calling it"

Adam then walks onto the unit with a file in hand and says, "I did some financial forensics on our two shotgun victims."

Kevin looks at Jay and Maxine and says, "he farmed it out. Guarantee it"

Adam glares at the man for a second as he walks to the board and points to the victims photos, as Max and Jay smile at the comment, "Fagen and Marcelo were, uh, partners in a shell company, Maxwell investments. They, uh, loan money out at astronomically high..."

"Loan sharks" Al says, cutting off the officer.

"I was gonna get to that. Thank you, Alvin." Adam then clears his throat, "their latest client just signed over his dry cleaning business a week ago. One Dale Hansen. Owned Fine Choice Cleaners. Two locations, one of north broadway, a second on West Belmont. That fast enough for you, Al"

Alvin then raises his cup up in agreement. Hank looks over to Antonio and says, "You and Halstead go talk to this dry cleaner. I got someone I gotta talk to"

Adam walks over to Kevin and Max, and said best friend gives Adam a fist bump, "loan sharks, A. Remember that"

Adam rolls his eyes, "thanks"

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Max and Al walk onto the crime scene where another gunshot victim was in his garage with a dollar bill pinned to his chest. Al crouches down in front of him and says, "George Washington strikes again."

Then a second later a knock was heard within the car, making them immediately draw their guns.

"Did you check the car?" Bishop asks the patrol officers.

"Uh..." one of the officers says, causing Max to roll her eyes.

"Open the trunk"

Maxine and Al both aim their guns at the trunk as the officer goes to pull on the trunk latch. As he does a woman shouts, "don't shoot"

"It's alright. It's alright. We're the police"

"Call an ambulance" Al tells the officers.

"It's okay" maxine tells the scared girl, while helping her out of the trunk.

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"It's okay. Take your time" Max tells the girl as they sit in the break room on the unit.

"Me and dad got out of the car. It's like he came out of nowhere, wearing a hoodie."

"Did you get a look at him?"

The blonde girl nods her head and says, "white. Dark hair. Clean shaven. And his eyes...there's nothing behind them. He just had this blank look and...he just turned the shotgun on my dad and...right in front of me"

"I'm sorry"

"Who'd do that? A human being wouldn't do that"

"Collette. How did you end up in the trunk?"

"He turned the gun on me with that same dead look in his eyes, and I said, please don't kill me. So he nodded at the trunk and said, get in."

After talking Maxine leads Collette over to Adams' desk and says, "Hey A?"

"Yeah"

"Collette saw the shooter, so we're gonna need a sketch."

"From the, uh, new composite software that just came out?"

Maxine nods her head and says, "correct"

"Yeah. Alright, yeah" Adam says, looking through his desk for the tablet. Max pats the blonde girl on the shoulder and says, "I'm gonna be right over here if you need me" pointing to her desk.

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Maxine sits on her couch, pulling at the rubber band wrapped around her wrist. Joey walks into the living room from the bedroom putting on his gold Rolex and says, "alright, I'm heading out"

Maxine looks up from the random space she was zoning out in and asks, "Wait, you're leaving? It's 9 at night"

Joey walks over to Max and kisses the top of her head, "sorry kitten. It's my job"

Maxine frowns, "will you be late?"

"Probably" Joey says, then frowns seeing his baby upset, so he puts his hand underneath her chin so she could look up at him, "I'm sorry, kitten. I am. But I promise to wake you up real good in the morning, okay?"

"Okay" she whispers.

Joey smiles and kisses her forehead one more time before going to grab his keys and leaves. As soon as the door shuts, Maxines phone starts ringing, "hello?"

"Max?"

"Hey jay. What's up?"

"Meet me at the bar. I'll text you the location"

"Yeah, okay. Everything okay?"

"I'd rather talk about it in person"

"Yeah, I'll be right there" Max says before hanging up her phone and going to grab her coat and keys.

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Maxine walks into the bar that Jay told her to meet him at and sits down next to him, "what's going on?" Then she orders a shot from the bartender.

"My apartment was broken into"

Instant shock grows in the brunette girls face, "what, are you okay?"

"I'm fine. I gotta get a new door and whatever. I'm 99% sure it was Bembenek"

"Jesus, um, we gotta tell voight."

"No. I'll figure it out"

"Jay—"

"Max, I'll figure it out"

Max grabs the shot the bartender had just put down and downs in.

"Hey, um, if it's not too much trouble. Can I stay at your place for a few days?"

Max goes to grab a hold of Jays hand and says, "of course you can"

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The next day, Adam walks onto the unit and tapes the sketch Colette has given onto the board and says, "Guys, this mean anything to you?"

Everyone shakes their head as Jay gets up from his desk and says, "that's the kid from the hospital. It's Dale Hansen's son"

A few minutes later, Erin prints out a picture of the son, Nate and tapes it to the board and says, "Nate Hansen was enrolled at the Union Hill military academy in Arizona. His TAC officer says he was first in his class, but three days ago he disappeared. That was the day after his mother overdosed"

"I just checked with the school's armory, they're missing a browning gold 10 gauge along with a box of shells" Dawson says.

"Let's grab those kid up" Hank says.

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After barging in on the Hansen residence, Antonio holds up a picture of Nate to show Dale and his daughter in the living room and says, "Eyewitnesses described your son to a T."

"I think you got squeezed, you wanted some retribution, so you sent your son to do it for you" Jay says, tucking his hands inside his vest.

"No, I swear, we just found out what Nate was doing. He ran off maybe a half hour ago" Dale says, as the rest of the team walk into the living room from searching the house.

"We're all clear guys. No Nate, no weapons" Max says, going to stand next to Erin.

"If you had nothing to do with it. How did Nate know who to target?" Voight asks, as Dale Hensen becomes very hesitant.

"The three of them. Marcello, Fagan and Valero, they showed up one night. When I said I'd go to the cops, they threatened my life, my kids. Nate saw them do this, he saw me cower and beg. The look on his face..." Hansen says starting to tear up, "it's my fault"

"If you find Nate please don't hurt him" Dales daughter says.

"That's up to him" Al says.

"Is there anyone else who leaned on you your son might be gunning for?" Hank asks.

"Uh, there was a boss who I paid money to a few times. Enrietto"

"Don Enrietto"

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Maxine stops the car, almost hitting Nate then sees Jay chasing after him so she and Kevin get out of the car and chase after them.

"Jay!" Max calls outs.

After what seems like a mile chase, they follow Nate onto the train tracks.

"Nate, stop!" Jay calls out, then gets out of the way before he gets hit by the train, followed by Max and Kevin. Maxine holds onto her partner's arm before she falls to the ground.

As the three slowly make their way into the tunnel with their guns drawn, Kevin says, "when I was on patrol a guy got mugged. Chased a robber into one of these. Took body control about three days to find all those parts"

"How about you tell that story when we're not walking on the tracks" Max says. Jay holds out his hand for them to stop and they climb up a ladder, leading to an alley, which leads out to the street.

"We got a ping on Hansen's phone" Mickey says as he and Erin exit their car that just pulled up, "he's right around here somewhere"

"Where?" Max asks.

"I don't know, this thing says right here"

"Police!" A woman calls out. The team runs over to her and Erin asks, "what happened?"

"The kid. He had a gun"

"A white kid in a navy hoodie?" Max asks, holstering her gun, and the woman nods her head.

"Hey, he dumped his phone" Jay calls out.

"He took my car!"

"what kind of car?" Erin asks.

Once the street is blocked off, Kevin and Erin talk with the woman as Mickey is on the phone.

"Guys!" Max says, "white male with a shotgun just stormed into Chicago Med"

"That's where Hansen's mother is" Mickey says as they head to their cars and drive off.

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Jay and Maxine run down the hall at Med, where the other officers are and Jay says, "Wait, wait, wait. Hey, put your guns down"

"Put them down!" Max orders.

Jay slowly walks closer to the room with his hands out showing Nate he doesn't have his gun in his hands, who says, "Stay back!"

While Jay tries to talk down the teenager, Max stands at the nurses station with the rest of intelligence with their guns still drawn.

Suddenly a few minutes later, Nate backs down and hands the shotgun to Jay, who then hands it to Maxine.

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"I just don't understand why he has to stay here?! There's nobody else in his life he can stay with?" Joey questions, anger boiling within him.

"He's my partner, joey! Partners have each other's backs, or don't you remember?" Maxine argues as she storms into the kitchen following the tattooed man.

"Real nice, Max. You know I did what I had to that day!"

Maxine runs her hands through her straight raven hair, "god, you are so insufferable"

"Oh, I'm insufferable?" He scoffs, "trying being undercover with you for three years"

"Well, you weren't a treat to be with either, you know" Maxine says, going over to her fridge to grab a water.

"What, are you in love with this guy or something?"

Maxine scoffs, "oh my god, are you kidding me? You are so god damn jealous for no reason. We're not even together!"

"Oh, we're not? All those late nights where I took care of you. Took you out to all those fancy dinners. I treated you like a queen, Maxine"

"Yeah? That's what you said last time and how did that work out? Huh?" She says, pushing back on his chest, "I gave up a child because of you, dick!"

"Fuck you!"

"No, fuck you! And get out of my apartment! Out!"

Joey scoffs, "whatever" then he goes to grab his coat and keys and leaves.

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Maxine walks into the bar to meet up with her partner and sits next to him and gulps down the drink that he just ordered for her.

"Went well, huh?"

Max hums and says, "Mhmm"

"I didn't mean to start anything between you two"

Maxine shrugs, "it's whatever. he gets jealous. it's what he does" then turns to the bartender, "can I have another one?"

"You got it" the bartender smiles then walks away. Jay takes a sip of his drink and Max says, "you're sleeping with her" a hint of jealousy in her voice.

"What? No" he says, trying to change the subject.

"You're a horrible liar"

"We played scrabble, like, once at her apartment" Jay says, making them both laugh.

Max rolls her eyes, "Shut up"

"That's it"

"Shut up" Max smiles, then says thank you when the girl hands her, her drink, "she's cute"

"Hey, you sure you're alright with me staying at your place. I don't want to be an inconvenience"

"It's fine, Jay. Really" she says, taking a sip of her drink, then she looks over at the front door and notices a guy walk in with a gun, then Max pushes her partner to the ground with her and yells, "Jay!" As the shooter fires his gun.

Max takes out her gun and starts shooting back at the offender, as Jay runs over to the bartender, Maddie who just got hit.

to be continued . . .

authors note;

what do we think about what's happening between joey and max??? and whatdidshesayyyyyy??????
also, I love max and adam ☺️