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6. froze

Fin had invited Jocelyn to this video game expo that was hosted here in New York. She was iffy at first but she gave in when she heard that Rollins was coming along and so was Sonny. She had nothing to do since it was Sunday. Fin and Sonny stayed and played games while Amanda and Jocelyn were standing around them, watching them play.

"You into this stuff?" Amanda asks as they walked behind the men. "Boyfriend?"

"No boyfriend." Jocelyn laughs.

"Really?"

"The right guy hasn't come yet." Sonny turns around, smiling. Jocelyn avoided eye contact with him, making him smirk. "My brother, hes into this stuff, especially the killing ones."

"How old is he?"

"16, I'm usually the one that buys him the mature games." They laughed. "Dont tell my mom." They continue to watch the boys play, bored out their minds. "If only theres a place to get drinks."

"Im on the look out."

"This is better than comic con." Sonny smiles.

"Sorry to say but its not." Jocelyn sways. "I hated every moment, i used to do patrol before i did homicide, packed, traffic, nobody cares. It was a nightmare."

"Aww you actually had to do work." Sonny wraps his arm around her shoulders.

"Shut up, you do one of these for a day, tell me how it goes." She takes his arm off of her.

"I believe you Jo, working at ANY expo is a pain in the ass." Finn agrees. "Wait until you see the main event." They turn to the big screen, watching the game. "These teams practice eight hours a day. They are not newbs."

"Newbs?" Amanda frowns.

"Short for newbies."

"Oh yeah, thats much shorter." Amanda and Fin walked in front of Jocelyn and Sonny. "So? What made you say yes to come today? Me?"

"No, just for Amanda." She smirks. "Not everything is about you Dominick." They stopped in the middle of the crowd.

"It could be." He shoves his hands in his jacket pockets, leaning closer to her.

"Save it Carisi." She continues to walk. Sonny catches up with her.

"Cant handle it?" He jokes. Jocelyn hides her smile by turning her face.

"I very much can. But can you?" Jocelyn looks back at him. His eyes squinted from smiling. "Keep this up and you'll have some type of feelings for me." Jocelyn stops talking immediately. That just flew out of her mouth. She's never like this, all flirty.

"I have to talk to your old partner and ask him if he's in love with you."

"Go for it, maybe his wife of 25 years will love to hear that." She chuckles. "You know, i do have a thing for guys in their 50's." Sonny shakes his head with a smile.

"Alright." He gives up. They finally met up with Fin and Amanda. They were watching the battle.

"Where were you two?" Fin asked.

"Talking." Jocelyn shrugs. The two men watched the big screen as the battle began. Amanda smiles at her. "What?"

"Nothing." She backs up. They stood behind Sonny and Fin, watching the horrific game. Jocelyn wasn't really into it, matter in fact, she hated killing games. Never set with her.

"Detectives, my co worker thinks that someones in trouble in the ladies room." One of the guys came up to them, worried. But Fin and Sonny were more concerned with the game.

"Dont worry about it guys, Peña and I got this." Amanda said as they didn't care. The two followed the guy out of the crowd and raced to the bathroom. Amanda and Jocelyn entered the bathroom and opened one of the stalls to see the women on the floor, getting up. "Hey, you okay?" She asked as she helped her up.

"Yeah im fine." The girl walks out of the stall.

"Okay, cause we are police officers." Jocelyn followed behind as she washes up. "What happened?"

"These guys, they just cant stand women in gaming." Jocelyn saw the busted bloody lip and the bruised shoulder she had.

"What did they do to you?"

"They leveled up." Jocelyn frowned and looked at Amanda.

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They had taken Sarah Keller into the station, take her statement. Sonny and Jocelyn stayed behind to get the security footage to see if they can identify the attackers.

"What are we looking for?" Sonny asked as Jocelyn looks over the tapes in the car.

"Two white males." She sighs as she scans through the multiple tapes. "Its just geeks on geeks. They all look the same." She found the tape where the women's bathroom was. "got them." They head inside to the precinct and walked over to Benson's office. Sonny had had went to get Benson.

"We got two suspects coming out of the ladies room. Ones wearing a baseball cap and the others wearing a hoodie." Sonny tells Benson and Jocelyn hands her the tablet of the photo of the two men. "We only got partial views of their faces."

"Well, you buy tickets to this on a computer right?"

"We are running buyers names against sex offenders registry now."

"Thats not what this is." Everyone turns to Fin. "These guys want Raina Punjabi out of the gaming world."

"All because shes a woman?" Jocelyn scuffs. "Not shocked but still."

"Theres a lot of haters out there that think she slept her way into the business."

"Right right, she's engaged to that venture capitalist, Steven Kaplan." Sonny pointed out.

"Right because her lovely fiancé has money, that means she has no talent?" Jocelyn stands up.

"To them, and they want to take her down no matter what."

"Then why attack Sarah? Why not just go after Raina?"

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"After the tournament I wanted some feedback on Glasgow Man." Leslie said as he showed Sonny, Liv and Jocelyn some reviews on the projector. "So I checked a few gamer sites online."

"Forums for players to rate games." Sonny says to the women. "Comment, fulminate, spew-"

"Yeah i got that Carisi. And?" Liv cuts him off.

"Peep this thread."

"Amazonian Warriors bitch got what she deserved." Jocelyn read aloud. "Cute." Leslie hums.

"A lot of crap like that. Guys puffing their e-chests out, high fiving."

"It could be anyone."

"Hold on, give me a second." He shows a new comment that popped up.

"DM me for more deets on what an Amazonian Warriors tits are like. My hoy and I copped a feel at the I.V.L. That could be one of our guys. Did you DM him?" Sonny asks.

"I dont want to talk to that guy. Thats why I came to you."

"So Im guessing that this message is untraceable."

"Thats why we got to go with Leslie here." Sonny pats his back. "They know you. They trust you. Which is why Im deputizing you an official C.I of the NYPD."

"What? I dont want these guys knowing I ratted them out."

"Leslie," Jocelyn sits him down. "These guys are criminals. and if you dont work with us, we're going to shut down your little game and invoke Son of Sam Law. Is that what you want?" He looks down. "Thats what I thought."

"So lets get those deets from your buddy." Sonny pats his shoulder. "Tell them that you were in the booth next to that girl, that she was a complete bitch." Leslie types away.

"Now what?"

"Tell them that you doxxed the girl that was sharing the booth with her. Doxxings when you publish personal information, phone numbers, passwords, online. See if he wants to hook up, talk about pranking her. Tell him that youll meet him there with a buddy. That'll be me." Sonny smiles, making Jocelyn chuckle and Liv shake her head.

"I got that too Carisi." Benson smiles. "Peña get Carisi and Leslie wired." Carisi, Leslie and Peña went to get their things ready. She waited for them to come back, but when she saw Carisi was all dressed like he stepped out of the movie step up, she wanted to giggle.

"What are you laughing at?" Carisi asks as she sees her partner trying to hide her face.

"Nothing." She hides her smile. "May I?" she shows the wired camera. She unzips his jacket, running the wire under his shirt. Sonny tries not to make any eye contact or even move. "Am I making you uncomfortable Carisi?" She said without looking back at him.

"Nah." He shakes. "You got cold hands, thats all."

"Are you sure it's just my hands?" She smiles. She clips on the tiny camera on his hoodie. He coughs a bit, turning a light shade of red. "Lets see if it works." She turns the camera and the laptop, Carisi was looking right at her. "Pretty view huh?"

"I like to think so." She looks at him slowly. He immediately drops his jaw. He didn't mean to say that out loud. "i mean..." He coughs. "You are pretty, but i was talking about the quality of the video, pretty crisp. Im not saying that youre not..." She pats his chest.

"Whatever you say." She walks out to go help with Leslie. Sonny puts his hands on his hips and sighs.

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After having Sarah identify both the guys, the crew were reading the chats. The arrest were going viral. It was insane. A video popped up of a guy masked and was speaking about how Sarah got off easy. Jocelyn can't believe that its that serious.

Later on, Raina was attacked in her home, everyone saw on her interview on TV. There was a fake call saying there was a hostage crisis at her house and then received a threat. The woman cant catch a break. Raina and her fiancé Steve, came down to the station. They were talking about the multiple threats about her. It was the same guy who posted that video saying that Sarah got it easy. But she refused to cancel everything, wont postpone. She wants no police.

The team had been scanning the place for Rainas big day. Jocelyn walked around the auditorium, scanning for any suspicious activity.

"Peña hows it looking in there?" She hears Bensons voice through the radio.

"So far everything is good, no problems yet." She looks at the guest walking in and sitting down.

"Just hang tight, we'll be in there soon." Jocelyn stands by the side, staring away as Rollins, Fin and Benson joined her. "whats that?" She turns to see a red dot on her forehead. "Guys, where are those coming from?" Jocelyn walks around.

"Laser pointer, row five, left side." Rollins heads there, pulling up the boy and dragging him out. Fin goes after the other and so does police and Liv. The lights turned off and flares, gunshots went off. Jocelyn runs to find Raina but couldn't.

"Someone has eyes on Raina?" She says in her mic. "Anyone?" Nobody. "We lost her." The gathered up, until they heard Raina in their comms. Her mic is on.

"Carisi anything?"

"Shes with a security guard in the back hallway. Back exit." They all dashed out, running to catch up. Jocelyn speeds, heading outside. "Peña wait!" Carisi yells as she goes out.

"Police stop!" She yells at the only guard out. He dashes. Jocelyn jumps over the fence and runs after him. She jumps on the guy, holding his arms back. She groans as she lands.

"Peña!" She grabs the guy and slams him against the car.

"Thats the one, hes had Raina." Carisi points.

"I was trying to help her." He pleads.

"Where is she?"

"I dont know."

"Wrong answer." There was a scream coming from a video. They look up at the screen above, Raina tied up. They got her. Rollins and Liv went to track the live video.

"What, this wasn't my idea."

"Do you think that matters?" Jocelyn huffs. "Youre an accomplice to a kidnapping."

"He said we were just gonna grief her. Smoke bombs, Laser pointers. Things like that."

"And the kidnapping?"

"No one told me about that." Fin looks at Jocelyn.

"Peña go get clean up, Carisi and I got this." She looks at her arm and she was scrapped badly. She lets go of the guy and heads back to get herself cleaned up.

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Jocelyn had to switch out her bandage, she winced as she pour the alcohol on the scab. Fin walks in, she tries to hold it in.

"Here let me help." He pulls a seat next to her and helps her clean it.

"They said i scrapped it on metal." She closed her eyes as the pain kicked in. "No stitches, thankfully."

"You took quite a dive." He chuckled. "You're a runner too. Blasted out of there in seconds." Jocelyn smirks.

"All four years of high school, 800 dash." He oohed. "Top in my school."

"Parents must be proud."

"Big time fans." She laughs. Fin goes in and wraps her up. "Anything on Raina?" He shakes his head. "Only if-"

"Dont do that. You caught the guy who gave her away. It was already too late. No matter how fast you were, you couldn't be able to catch up." He told her. Jocelyn touches her arm and watches him leave.

Rollins and Fin went to this abandoned warehouse where the van was found. They did found Raina's shirt and a video and two more videos live. She was roughed up. One of the videos were geotagged by a house in Staten Island. They head in and checked the house.

Raina called, saying where she was. Even if it was a trap, they had to go. Their last hope. Sonny and Jocelyn headed up to a building to see in case their being watched. They ran up the stairs, onto the roof top. Jocelyn and Sonny pulled out their guns, ready and scanning. She turns her corners and backs up into a wall as they shot at them.

"Sonny?" She calls out to see if hes okay. He nods and tells her to keep going. "Hey! Put the gun down!" She runs to see a guy hiding behind the wall. "Hands up, now!"

"I never meant for this to go so far." He said, hands up. She puts away her gun, going to cuff him. "Brandon and Pierce made me. Theyre crazy. They totally lost it."

"Dont start Anthony."

"They dont know whats real and whats a game." Jocelyn nods to Sonny to go after the second guy. "I geotagged that video from my moms house so you could find us."

"How sweet of you." She cuffs him to the door. "Im sure mommy is very happy to hear that." Jocelyn runs in to catch up to Sonny. She sees that one of the guys had his gun at Sonny.

"Come out, drop the gun or ill kill him now." Jocelyn comes out. She still has her gun on the guy.

"Jocey." Sonny tells her. The look on his face. Scared, Jocelyn froze. Her chest tightened. Not this again.

"Drop it!" He waves his gun at Sonny. Jocelyn puts her hand up and drops the gun.

"Dont do this." She squats down.

"Jocey, dont." Carisi tells her again.

"Take the vest yeah? Toss it to me." As Jocelyn didn't move, he puts his gun closer to Sonny. "Now!"

"Wait! Wait!" She hops up, hand on the buckle. "Just don't hurt him, alright?"

"Drop the gun!" Fin steps in. He was going to until he aimed at Fin but Fin shot him before anything happened. Rollins comes up from behind her and cuffs the other guy. Jocelyn stands there still and in fear. Carisi looks back at Jocelyn who was looking at the body. "Get her out of here, make sure shes alright." Sonny walks up to her, she flinched.

"You alright?" He tries to have her look at him. She had glossy eyes, filled with tears. "Jocey?"

"Fine, im fine." She sniffs. "Im fine."

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"He said you froze." Benson tells Jocelyn as they were speaking in her office, door closed.

"I thought i had it under control, but when he..." Jocelyn sighs. "He had Carisi, it took me back."

"Have you gone to talk to someone?"

"I have. Sargent, I understand that this was a dangerous move, either Carisi or I would have been killed. I didn't know that i would freeze." Rollins, Fin and Carisi looked into the office, watching them speak. There was no yelling, or arguing, or even finger pointing. Jocelyn stood there and took it.

"Starting Monday, i want you to go speak to someone about it. Dodds has made it mandatory. Not everything in here is prepared." She pointed at her head.

"Yes Sargent." Jocelyn walks out and heads to her desk. She stayed quiet until it was time to go home. Everyone heads and leaves to their lives outside. "Sonny." Jocelyn calls him out, heading to him as he was getting into his car. "Im sorry for today. I froze." Sonny saw the genuine sadness expression on her face. "Youre my partner and i let you down. I didn't do anything. I just-"

"You were trying to not get me hurt. You listened to him so I wouldn't get hurt." He tries to calm her down. "You know having a gun to your face is no fun but im still here."

"I just want you-"Sonny puts his hand on her shoulder, relaxing her a bit.

"Im not mad Jocey." He assures her. "Im alive see? You cant get rid of me that easy." He wipes the snow off her cheek. "Night Jocey, ill see you tomorrow." She takes a step back and he leaves. Jocelyn sat on her car, waiting to warm up. She let her guard down. It nearly cost her another life.