⋆° დ ༄ RISKY BUSINESS
chapter twenty. chicken, dynamite, chainsaw.

Maxine lifts up her shirt to change out the bandage on her abdomen. She shuts her eyes tightly, wincing in pain.

After changing out the bandage, Maxine looks in the mirror and just stares. She truly believed that she shouldn't be alive. She wanted to be with Joey.

After getting dressed, Maxine goes to grab a pair of socks and sees joeys gold watch on the dresser. She tears up, picking the watch up and puts it on. It might be a tad big but she didn't care, anything to be close to him again.

Maxine goes to grab her keys and opens the door, surprised to see who was behind it, "what are you doing here?"

"Told Adam I'd pick you up today"

Maxine closes the door behind them and starts to walk away. Jay catches up to the brunette, "Max, come on"

"I don't need to be looked after. I'm fine" Maxine says, as they walk down the stairs of her apartment building.

"We're just looking out for you. You've been through a lot. You lost someone close to you"

Maxine rolls her eyes as they walk out the front door and turns to face the freckled man, "god, jay. I'm not a child, I can take care of myself"

"I know"

"Then stop treating me like one!" her tone gets angrier.

"Angel...please"

Maxine scoffs, "don't call me that. You have no right" Then she walks over to her car that was parked next to the curb, unlocks it and gets in. Jay sighs.

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Mickey and Erin walk onto the unit to see Hank in his office with three other people and Lindsay asks, "what's going on in there?"

Dawson leaves the break room with a cup of coffee and says, "Commander Fischer came in with Alderman Becks and his wife, then shut the door. Now you have all the information I have"

Erin walks over to Maxine, who was sitting at her desk, doing some paperwork and sits on the edge, "what are you doing here? Voight gave you another week"

"Erin, if I stay inside my apartment for another week I'll go insane. I need to get back to work"

"Okay, yeah, I get it. If you need anything you know where my desk is"

"Thanks E" Maxine said, then lifts her head up to see Mickey looking at her and she looked away.

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"Allison Becks, 16 years old. Last seen with her friend, Hayden Tannebaum" Antonio says, pointing to their pictures on the whiteboard, "they were supposed to go back to Becks' house after study group. Neither showed"

"School records show that both girls are in all AP classes. They've got straight A's. Study groups plausible. Maybe they are just jammed up" Erin states.

"Allison's dad woke up to an email this morning from Uber saying she booked a car in his account last night"

"What the hells an Uber?" Al asks, leaning on the filing cabinets.

"It's like a taxi, but you get a black car" Mickey informs the older detective.

"Then why don't you just say black car?"

"well, it's not just black cars. It's regular cars too. It's an app. You order it on your phone" Adam says, making Olinsky even more confused, "it's got all your credit card info...never mind, I'm gonna call the company, see if i can get in touch with the driver" then the officer walks away.

"Good. And you call state's attorney, Kot. I want a warrant for both girls' cell phones and computers" Voight tells Atwater.

"You got it boss"

"Hey, they got GPS on these black cars?"

"All of 'em" Maxine says, currently on the phone.

"I want all.."

"Yep. I got it"

"Yeah. All that stuff" Hank says about to walk back into his office when Adam walks back to the bullpen and says. "Sarg?"

"Yeah"

"We got a problem with the Uber driver"

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Maxine, Antonio, Hank and Al get out of their SUV from behind a patrol car in a secluded area to find the Uber drivers car that the girls had used.

"Plates match. This is the car the girls used" Antonio informs his team, reading from a small piece of paper that he wrote the license plate number on.

"Found blood in the back seat. Forensics is on its way" the patrol officer says.

As the group looks over the abandoned car, Al spots a blood trail and then takes out his gun, which Maxine, Hank and Antonio do as well.

As they walk through the brush, they find who they can only assume is the Uber driver, all beaten and tied up.

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Maxine and Antonio sit in the hospital room with the driver, questioning him about what happened.

"I'm at a light. Next thing I know, my door is jerked open. I'm ripped from my seat, my face...is pushed down into the brush. Took my phone, my wallet. Didn't say a word, just started beating me" the driver explains.

"Did you get a look at anyone?" Dawson asks.

"They wore masks. I'm sorry. Look, everything's a blur. There were two of 'em"

"What about the girls in the back seat?"

"I didn't..."

"What about before the attack?" Maxine asks, "you notice anyone suspicious hanging around the library where you made the pick up?"

"Library? I didn't pick them up at any library" the driver says and Antonio and Maxine share a look.

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Maxine stands at her locker, changing out her bandage again when she feels a presence next to her and she scoffs knowing who it was.

"Hey, how you feeling?"

"What do you want, Adam?"

"Just asking how you are. What's wrong?"

"Nothing. Just changing my bandage" she says, putting the medical tape around it.

"Do you need help?"

"Can you just stop" Maxine says, slamming her locker shut, leaving adam confused. "What are you talking about?"

"I don't need you or anyone else babying me. I can handle myself. I'm not some fragile doll that can break at any minute"

"I—I'm sorry. I didn't—" adam starts to say as Max walks away.

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Maxine sits at her desk, scrolling through her computer when Hank walks onto the unit and says, "Hey, Ruzek. Where we at with the driver's phone?"

"I, uh, called the service provider. Gave 'em the exigent circumstances speech. Yada yada, I'm waiting to hear back"

"Well, we found out the girls lied about the library" Kevin says, walking into the bullpen with papers in his hand, "got on the Uber GPS to see where the pick up did occur." Then he tapes a map onto the board, "central chicago university dormitory. Where a kid name Jordan Biggs happens to live, who's been blowing up Allison's phone with over 1000 text messages this month"

"All of Allison's responses are variations of 'leave me alone'" Maxine says, looking up from the paper Nadia just handed her.

"So why was she at his dorm?" Dawson asks.

"Check it out," Hank tells Antonio and Kevin.

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The intelligence team spreads out along the street where the drivers phone was last pinged. Adam gets out of his car and takes out his walkie, "alright the signals weak but it's around here somewhere"

"Alright, spread out. We go through doors if we have to" Hank orders over his walkie.

As the team looks around at the houses and the empty streets, someone gets pushed through a window. Erin and Maxine run over to try and help the girl but then someone starts shooting at them through the broken window so they quickly duck behind a car.

The rest of the team starts shooting back so Erin can help the girl.

"Go, go!" Hank yells as Dawson, Ruzek, Atwater and Jacobs go through the front, "Halstead, Bishop, around back!"

Maxine and Jay run towards the back of the house with their guns drawn. As they make their way around the corner, Kevin, Antonio, Adam and Mickey walk out of the house.

"Guys on the other side of the fence!" Mickey calls out, which makes Jay and Maxine turn their heads quickly to see one of the suspects put the other girl into the trunk.

"Police, stop!" Jay shouts, as he and Maxine run towards the car with their guns still drawn.

The suspect hops into the car and drives off with the partner duo still trailing behind them, but unfortunately couldn't keep up.

Maxine and Jay run back towards the front of the house where the rest of the team are and Jay says, "Max and I saw the other girl. He was putting her in the trunk. We gotta go"

"Alright, let's go" Hank says. Maxine holds her hand to her abdomen and shuts her eyes.

"You okay?" Jay asked in concern. Maxine looks over at her partner, "I'm fine" then she walks away.

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Maxine, Hank, Erin, and Jay are at the hospital talking with Hayden about what she can tell us happened to her and Allison.

"We were tied to the radiator with those plastic things you find on packages. Well, they were getting ready to move us, but they must've seen you guys outside cause they started arguing amongst themselves" Hayden says, sniffling, "Saying, 'someone's out there, we have to do this now, right now', so, um one came over with a knife and cut us loose and as soon as I felt free, I didn't even think twice. It was like my legs just took over and I saw the window and I just crashed through it"

"Hayden..." Hank says, "Did you get a look at these guys?"

"Um, they wore masks. They never took em' off...I thought I was dead and they still have Allison? I shouldn't have left" Hayden says with tears in her eyes, "I shouldn't have left!"

"No. Hayden. You did exactly what you should've done. You got away" Erin says, trying to comfort the scared girl, "That was exactly right. We'll find Allison"

Hank, Jay and Maxine turn around to see Allison's dad, Alderman Becks in the hall so the three follow him by the nurses desk.

"Is she going to be alright?" Becks asks.

"Yeah" Hank says.

"And you two saw Allison. She was alive, she was okay?"

Jay and Max share a look, and he says, "She's alive"

"Which is a good sign" Voight says, breaking the silence, "That means who ever has her is trying to make a deal...has anyone contacted you?"

"No" Becks says, "But I've been racking my brain trying to come up with anyone I've dealt with that might be in the consideration for something like this" Becks takes out a folded up piece of paper from the inside pocket of his jacket and hands it to Hank, "I didn't know what to do. So I wrote down everyone"

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"Got an ID on the shooter" Adam says, taping his picture to the board, "a guy by the name of Jason Woodley. Career criminal, two months out of prison after a stint for armed robbery"

"Alright, Jason Woodley. I want everything we got on this guy. Family members, known associates.." Hank says then is cut off by Trudy. "Hank, you got someone downstairs, says she knows you"

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"You know what they said when I asked to see my boy?" Ms Woodley says, as Jay and Maxine talk with her about her son on her porch, "Said he was evidence. Like he was a thing"

"You know, hard as it may be to hear, ma'am. Your son took his own life when he shot at us" Maxine says. Ms Woodley folds her arms over each other and says, "Which one of you killed him?"

"Neither, ma'am" Jay says.

"Well, you tell the officer who did it..." she says, beginning to cry, "I have nothing but peace now. Cause that boy...could never turn the corner, though I tried and I tried and I tried"

"We understand, ma'am. You can only do what you can" Maxine says.

"Can you tell us who he ran around with?" Jay asks, "cause what he did...he wasn't alone"

"Had to be Reid. Had to be"

"Reid have a last name?" Max asks.

"Dryer"

As the partner duo walk down the steps back to their car, Jay says, "Hey Max"

"Yeah" she sighs.

"I'm sorry about this morning. I'm just worried about you"

"I know, Jay and I appreciate that but I'm fine" she said, getting into the driver's seat.

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"Reid Dryer. Construction foreman" Hank says, taping his picture onto the board, "just got out of prison. Did ten years for armed robbery"

"Guy he robbed was embezzling money from Gordon's company" Jay comments.

"Ah, so Gordon hires Reid to take back the money the guys been robbing from him. He does it, goes to prison" Adam says, putting two and two together.

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"Beck's cell phone is in this building" Hank says over the walkie as he, Al and Maxine sit in the SUV across the street from the old, abandoned school, they're staking out.

Jay and Mickey are on top of a building across the street with their sniper rifles, while Dawson and Lindsay are inside the school clearing rooms and Atwater and Ruzek are in a van, next to the building, looking at blueprints.

"Halstead, Jacobs. what do you see?" Hank questions.

"Nothing, yet" Jay answers.

"Same here. Empty so far" Lindsay says over her walkie, "Ruzek, how many rooms we looking at?"

"Blueprints are coming in now...got something like 15 or 16 rooms" Ruzek responds over his walkie.

"Hold up. I got something. Second floor. Two people. Big room. North side of the building." Mickey says, "Looks like it could be our kidnapper"

"Okay, that's the science lab" Ruzek says, as Erin and Antonio make their way through the building, "Guys, at the end of the hallway, make a left"

"Approaching the science lab now" Lindsay says through her walkie.

"Shots fired inside" Jay says.

"You got eyes on Allison yet?" Hanks asks.

"I'm not seeing anything"

"Music room. Northwest side" Adam says.

"Got it" Voight says as he, Max and Al get out of the car and head into the building and to the music room.

Al kicks the door in and Hank goes in with his flashlight on, scanning the messy room as they spot Allison tied to the radiator and Max runs over to the girl and kneels down next to her, trying to undo her restraints, "Allison, are you okay?" which leads to the brunette crying.

"Halstead, Jacobs we have Allison Becks. If you have the shot, take it" Hanks tells Jay and Mickey over his walkie.

After Max frees Allison of her restraints, the four head up to the science lab and the girl instantly runs to her dad, crying.

"It's okay, it's okay" Becks tells his daughter.

"Voight, through and through on Becks" Erin tells her sergeant, trying to keep pressure on his wound.

"He called my cell. He said he'd give me Allison if I brought the money and he said not to go to the police...I had to try" Alderman Becks says, hugging his daughter.

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Maxine looks at herself in her full length mirror, the short black cocktail dress she had hidden away in her closet, stopping mid thigh and shaping her body perfectly.

After putting on her black strappy heels, she walks out into the kitchen to grab her purse and keys and as she was about to head out, she opens the door and standing there, was Mickey, ready to knock.

Mickey looks his ex girlfriend up and down, "whoa"

"What's up?"

"You going out?"

"No I just thought I'd stay in like this and do some chores"

Mickey raises an eyebrow, "there's that sarcasm I missed"

"What are you doing here?"

"I was just in the neighborhood"

"In the neighborhood, huh? You live ten blocks from here"

"Like I said..."

"You know you're the only one that hasn't checked up on me"

"Because I know you can take care of yourself. And I know you hate when people constantly bug you"

"Huh"

"I know you like the back of my hand, Max"

Max goes to close the door behind her and says, "I gotta get going. I'll see you at work" then she walks away.

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Maxine walks into the club that she heard about through the grapevine called THE CHICAGO SKY and heads right over to the bar to order a scotch on the rocks.

Several drinks later and SHUT UP AND DANCE by Rihanna being played by the DJ. Maxine starts dancing by herself just trying to let go.

Meanwhile upstairs, above the club, the owner looks down at everyone in his club enjoying themselves, his eyes never leaving Maxine.

Someone walks into the office and says, "boss, jimmys on the phone"

"Tell him I'll call him back" he says, taking his jacket off and throwing it into the couch, "I'm busy" then he walks past his guy and walks down the staircase onto the dance floor.

He watches as Maxine walks back over to the bar as the song had ended and another played, lust filling his eyes as he watched her sway her hips.

He walked over to her as she was taking a sip from another glass of scotch and he smirked, leaning on the bar, "you're a scotch girl huh?"

Maxine looked to her right to see who was talking to her and to say she was blown away was an understatement. His chiseled jaw that had a slight scruff and his piercing blue eyes that could put her in a trance. A trance that she'd be happy to be in.

"Oh yeah. I don't drink it all the time, just when I'm not feeling like myself"

"Why aren't you feeling like yourself, if you don't mind me asking" he asked, sitting on the stool next to her.

Maxine raises an eyebrow, "I don't even know your name"

He holds out his hand, "Maverick"

Maxine smiled, accepting his handshake, "Maxine. Nice to meet you"

"So, why aren't you feeling like yourself, Maxine?" Maverick asked, taking in every feature. He had never met someone so gorgeous before. He was taken back by her chocolate brown eyes and her barley noticeable freckles that laid on her nose.

"I had someone very close to me die recently" she said, putting the glass down and Maverick frowned. "Oh. I'm sorry for your loss"

"Yeah, um, it's been hard" Maxine said, looking down, not wanting to make eye contact with the beautiful man next to her. He rests his hand on hers and says, "hey, I understand. I know how bad it can hurt"

"Yeah.." Maxine clears her throat, "I should probably leave. It's getting late and I gotta wake up early for work"

"You should come back tomorrow, see this place on the weekend"

"Oh yeah? What, you own the place or something?" She asks and looks over at the smile on his face, "oh shit, really?"

"Yeah"

"Wow, um, yeah. I'll definitely think about it" Maxine said, getting up from the stool, "thanks" then she walked away through the crowd.

"Boss, Jimmy said he really needs to talk to you" a voice said behind Maverick. He watched as Maxine left, mesmerized by her, couldn't get her out of his head and he just met her. He smirked as she turned around and she smiled at him before leaving the club. Then Maverick turns around, "alright, I'll be right there"

authors note:

i already updated the cast list but maverick will be played by *drum roll*

SEBASTIAN STAN 😍

and he's gonna become a huge part of Maxine's life and she doesn't even know it yet!