⋆° დ ༄ UNTIL THERE WAS YOU
chapter sixteen. called in dead.

Sam and Hank stand at the doorway of the rollup, as Erin backs in the blue chevy truck with Jay, Antonio, Adam and Al sitting in the back.

"Everybody in one piece?" Hank questions, opening the tailgate, so the guys can get out.

"Twenty kilos of pure passion" Dawson says, getting out of the truck followed by Al, Jay then Adam.

"Oh yeah. It's been awhile since we pulled a rip. Forgot how much fun it was" Al says, patting Hank on the back.

"I've done some pretty crazy recon misson's. That got my heart pumping" Jay smiles, and walks over to Sam.

"So it got your heart pumping huh?" Sam asks, smirking, "I thought I only did that"

"And you do, trust me, but this was exciting. I wish you were there"

"Me too, but you got back safe and you saved lives. What more could a girl ask for?"

"A loving and supportive boyfriend?"

"Shhh..." Sam shushes her boyfriend and looks around to see if anyone heard, "And yes"

"Meet at the car in 10?" Jay asks.

"Yeah" Sam whispers and walks back up to the unit.

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Sam looks up at her reflection in the mirror in her bathroom, after splashing some water on her face.

"Sammy..." Jay says, knocking on the door, "You okay?"

A few moments later, Sam opens the door and turns the light off, saying, "Yeah, I'm fine. I must've eaten something bad" then said girl walks over to her bed and sits down.

"Do you need anything?" Jay asks.

"I think a good night's sleep will do it"

"You want me to stay?"

"Actually, I wanted to talk to you about that"

Jay furrows his eyebrows, and sits next to his girlfriend, "About what?"

"Well, I was thinking...since you said your lease is up next month and I still have mine for another year, maybe we should move in together"

"Really?"

"Yeah" Sam nods her head and Jay smiles and starts peppering kisses all over said girls face.

"God, I love you" Jay whispers and they both stop what they were doing.

"What?"

Jay stands up and starts pacing, "Oh god, I'm such an idiot. I said it to early, didn't I? And now I just ruined everything"

Sam shakes her head and laughs, "Jay...Jay" then she gets up and places her hands on her boyfriend's cheeks, to stop him from freaking out, "Jay...listen to me. Everything is fine. I love you too"

"Yeah?"

Sam nods her head as Jay leans in to kiss the only person that can make him truly happy as he places his left hand on her hip, pulling her in closer and his right hand combing through her hair.

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The next day, on the unit. Sam, Jay, Kevin and Antonio are sat at their desks, while Erin and Adam are standing at the whiteboard with Hank standing to the side and Nadia listening in the back.

"Trenton Bostaph, club manager. No priors, not even a parking ticket" Erin says.

"So, aside from operating a heroin lab, he's also a boy scout" Jay comments.

"Yeah, that's cause Trenton's low level. He answers to this guy, Blue, which is an adorable nickname, I put through the known offenders database. Most popular name is, Shorty...second most popular is..." Adam snaps his fingers as him and Erin say, "Blue" in unison. "So, it's gonna take a little while to narrow it down"

"Okay, what do we got on the wire?" Hank questions and right before anyone could say anything, Al walks in with a bouquet of roses and everyone stares at him as he talks with Nadia, who then a few seconds later, walks into the break room.

Hank clears his throat, "So, like I was saying..." then said male, stares at Al, who sits on his desk, "What do we got on the wire?"

"Trenton's been making a lot of calls to this blue cat, trying to buy himself some time" Kevin answers.

"Those twenty kilos are almost two million street value" Dawson adds in, "Trenton's got two choices. Either hop a bus and disappear or get dead, he knows it. I say we bring him in now, flip him, have him reel in blue"

"Bring him in" Hank says, as Erin follows after Antonio.

Sam gets up from her desk and heads to the bathroom and pukes her brains out...again.

Once Sam splashes some water on her face, she takes her phone out and dials a number and puts it to her ear and drags her hand over her face.

"Hi, I'd like to make an appointment with Doctor Wilson....Samantha Miller....okay, great....thank you, goodbye" Sam hangs up her phone and looks back at her reflection.

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Sam and Adam are in the cage with 'Blue', the team just brought in, trying to get him to talk. "So, Blue..." Sam says, crossing her arms over her chest, "You got a real name?"

"Barack Obama"

Sam and Adam both chuckle.

"Oh, I wasn't prepared for this. It's an honor" Adam says, sarcastically, "Mr. President, we know that your part of a heroin ring, runs out of Angels strip club"

"What heroin?" Blue asks, unconvincingly.

"Come on, man. We got you on a wire" Sam says, "Trenton was the front man, he got ripped off. He was on the hook, and you had orders to either get back the dope or you were gonna kill him...what we wanna know is, who gives you the orders"

"-or, that twenty kilos we ripped from the, uh, club, what do you think, Sam, we say we found it in his trunk, send you up for thirty years?"

"Mhmm" Sam hums and blue scoffs.

"I'm not some corner boy, that's just gonna flip. What I am...is hungry. So, why don't your lady here, fetch me a sandwich"

"Wrong answer, buddy" Adam says, as he watches Sam ball her hand into a fist and punches blue straight in the jaw.

Adam then pulls her out and locks the cage behind him, "Get comfy" then said boy catches up with his friend, halfway up the stairs. "Whoa that was a mean right hook, killer"

"Well, I didn't grow up with a bunch of cops for nothing, right?" Sam smirks then frowns, still holding onto her hand.

"Hey, Sam. You okay? You seem a little...I don't know, off?"

"Yeah, I'm good. I think I just uh, ate something bad" Sam says, trying to convince herself and Adam.

"Okay, well if you need anything..."

"Thanks Adam" Sam says, as Adam pulls her into a hug, "I appreciate that"

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Later on that night, on the unit, everyone is sat at their desks except for Hank and Adam, who are standing at the whiteboard.

"Okay, these guys got protection" Voight says, "The question is, how high up?"

"I think I got a pretty good idea" Adam says, "Prints came back on our offenders. Blue's real name is Carl Johnson. Guys, that showed up at Al's house, they're actually brothers, aka the Gary brothers, Jamal and Jesse Seeley. Originally from Gary, Indiana. Known psychopaths, all three of these guys. Rap sheets a mile long. Manslaughter, assault, possession of narcotics with the intent to distribute. They should've been put away a long time ago"

"Who defended them?" Dawson asks.

"Now, that's just it. They all had public defenders. One thing that they did have in common is a judge. Judge Darran Lachlan. He presided over all their cases"

"Lachlan?" Antonio says and everyone looks at him, "He was named in an FBI sting a few years back. Taken bribes to fix cases. Two judges went down, but he skated"

"Alright, taken bribes is one thing, but are we saying we think a judge is the silent partner in a heroin ring?" Erin questions.

"I mean, I know it sounds like a conspiracy theory, so I called the states attorney's office, guess who requested to review our wiretap just yesterday?" Adam says.

"You know, my name was on that paperwork for that seizure. So, he'd have access to that and my home address" Al comments.

"Wait, hold on. If we're going after a judge, I'm gonna need a hell of a lot more than speculation" Hank says.

"I looked into his financials. Actually, I didn't, uh, a graffiti artist I busted works at kinkos, total hacker, he did, and it looks like our judge has a, uh, stash house, boss"

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After Voight, Olinsky, Ruzek and Halstead pick up Judge Lachlan from his unknown brown stone, they bring him back to the precinct to interrogate him, but before they could get any further, the commander interrupts Voight and Olinsky.

Sam and Erin wait in the hall with the Commander, to talk with Hank and Al. "I just got off the phone with the commissioner. You realize the mess you're making?"

"Judge Lachlan is our main suspect" Hank answers.

"Judge? Suspect? Only the feds use those two words in the same sentence"

"If you buy us some time, we will hang him"

"Not only are you out of time but you're out of an investigation. I want Judge Lachlan released immediately"

"Excuse me, commander" Kevin says, as he and Jay walk around the corner, "I've been running the call histories on the Gary brothers cell phones. One of them made a call to a hard line at the superior court on 26th and Cal yesterday"

"Were they calling Judge Lachlan?" The commander questions. 

"No, sir. The branch clerk, Evan Lormer"

The commander takes the file from Atwater and heads back into the interrogation room.

"We roll in five" Voight says, walking away and Sam catches up with him.  "Hank.."

"Yeah?" Hank says, turning around to face the raven haired girl.

"I have a doctor's appointment. Can I take an hour or so?"

"Yeah, you okay?"

"Yeah, I haven't been feeling well. Just a check up really" Sam answers.

"Okay, take your time. Let me know how it went"

"I will" Sam says, then turns around to go and talk to her boyfriend, "Hey"

"Hi, what's up?"

"I'm taking a personal for an hour or so for a doctor's appointment and I'll be back later"

"Okay" Jay looks around before he kisses Sam on the cheek, then said girl smiles and leaves.

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Sam is in the doctor's office, impatiently waiting, any sort of news or results, the doctor can give her.

After, what seems like five hours to the brown eyed girl, her doctor, Doctor Wilson walks in and sits at her desk as Sam sits up, "So?"

"There's good news and bad news" Doctor Wilson says, interlocking her fingers together on her desk and Sam takes a deep breathe. "Good news first, please"

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Sam walks onto the unit and sits at her desk and runs her hands through her hair. "How was the appointment?" Jay asks, leaning over his desk.

"Uh, it was fine" Sam says, putting on a fake smile.

"Good"

Erin walks out of Voight's office, "Hey guys. I, uh, need to tell you something. A lot of you know that I, I-I've had an offer to take a spot on a federal task force and I've thought long and hard about this...and I've decided to take it"

No one says anything for a moment, so Sam stands up and walks over to her friend and pulls her into a hug, "Congrats, Erin. You deserve it"

"Thanks, Sammy"

TO BE CONTINUED...