004 ╱ chicken, dynamite, chainsaw
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"HEY CASS! Thanks for letting me crash at yours." Jay calls out jogging up beside the blonde as the two of them now walk into the district with one another.

"No problem." Cassandra responds walking up the staircase noticing Kim and Sean talking to Platt at the front desk.

"Hey! You two, over here." Trudy exclaims gesturing for Kim and Sean to leave with their assigned job.

"Hey Cassidy." Kim greets, "Hey." Cassandra says before looking at Trudy leaned against the desk.

"Got word from headquarters. You're both up for mandatory firearms re-qualification. Alongside Lindsay. Get to the shooting range by Friday." Trudy demands.

"Got it. Thanks Trudes." Cassandra winks while Jay holds his fist up liking the challenge.

"Oh! And Cassidy? My money's on you, girl." Trudy exclaims returning the wink while Jay and Cassandra scan their hands to go upstairs.

"Thank you." Cassandra chuckles walking up the staircase beside Jay into the bullpen frowning as she sees people in Hank's office discussing something with him.

"What's going on in there?" Cassandra questions noticing Erin and Antonio walking out of the break room with coffees.

"Commander Fischer came in with Alderman Becks and his wife, then shut the door. Now you have all the information I have." Antonio explains walking past the blonde who raises her brows even more curious.

"Antonio!" Voight calls out from inside his office making the male walk into the said office before returning out to the bullpen grabbing the crime board.

"Allison Becks, 16 years old. Last seen with her friend Hayden Tannenbaum," Antonio explains placing a picture of the said girls on the crime board before facing the team.

"They were supposed to go back to the Becks' house after a study group. Neither showed." Antonio states sitting on Cassandra's desk knowing the blonde won't mind.

"School records do show that both of these girls are in all AP classes and got straight As. Study group's plausible. Maybe they are jammed up." Erin voices looking at the others before facing Antonio once again.

"Allison's dad woke up to an email this morning from Uber saying she booked a car in his account last night." Antonio explains making Alvin perk up confused.

"What the hell's an "Uber"?" Olinsky questions.

"It's like a taxi, but you get a black car." Antonio responds, "So why didn't you say "black car"?" Olinsky curiously inquires.

"It's not just black cars, it's regular cars too. It's an app. You order it on your phone. It's got all your credit card information," Adam speaks up for the first time hearing Alvin sigh irritated.

"Never mind. I'm gonna call the company, see if I can get in touch with the driver." Adam states walking off towards the locker rooms.

"Good, and you call State's Attorney Kot. I want a warrant for both girls' cell phones and computers." Voight demands looking directly at Kevin who nods.

"You got it, boss." Kevin confirms beginning to dig into all of the said things Voight demanded he do.

"Hey, they got GPS on these black cars?" Voight questions, "Yeah. All of 'em." Jay responds already on the phone.

"All right, I want..." Voight starts to say before Jay cuts him off once again.

"Yep, I got it." Jay states, "Yeah, all that stuff." Voight mumbles walking back towards his office.

Adam walks out from making the phone calls immediately looking directly at Voight.

"Hey, Sarge." Adam utters, "Huh." Voight hums looking at Adam stood in the doorway.

"We got a problem with the Uber driver." Adam reveals looking at Voight and the others.

"Alright. Al, Antonio. Let's go." Voight orders receiving nods from the two males before the three of them hurry off to the location Adam passed them before they left the bullpen.

✹

"THEY FOUND the Uber driver but he's injured. Hank, Antonio and Alvin are all waiting at the hospital to question him," Cassandra explains walking into the bullpen after getting off the phone to Voight.

"He also wants Jay and I to go over and question Hayden's parents." Cassandra states receiving a nod off Jay and a soft smile off Erin.

Not that long after Jay and Cassandra left the station, they arrive at Hayden's house and are invited in to sit in the living room to ask certain questions.

"Did Hayden call last night? Email?" Jay gently inquires, "No. No, not after she left the house." Mr Tannenbaum─ Gordon responds.

"Can either of you think of anyone who might want to hurt your daughter?" Cassandra asks.

"No. No, not at all. We don't understand how this can be happening." Gordon responds not giving Mrs Tannenbaum a moment to speak which makes Cassandra tilt her head in curiosity.

"Liza?" Cassandra softly questions receiving a shaky shake of the head no in response off the woman.

Cassandra looks at Jay seated beside silently telling him she wants to speak to Gordon's wife separately.

"Hey, Gordon, why don't we head outside and get some air?" Jay suggests standing up which makes Gordon stand up with a short nod before both of them walk outside giving the two ladies some time to talk to one another.

"This is my fault. I told her she could go. It was just a sleepover." Liza sniffles.

"This isn't your fault. Okay?" Cassandra softly voices trying her best to comfort the clearly panicked woman and mother.

"Now, does Hayden have a boyfriend? Maybe she didn't want her dad to know." Cassandra questions.

"Oh," Liza shakily exhales before laughing looking at the photos to the side of them.

"She's always been a pretty girl. Teenage girls, there's a new crush every three weeks. I just stopped bothering to learn their names." Liza explains covering her mouth to break the sound of her sobbing while Jay and Gordon return from outside.

"We've got good people on it, okay?" Cassandra states grabbing her coat from the chair she was seated on looking at Liza then Gordon.

"If you guys think of anything else, even if it's something small, call us." Cassandra firmly states.

"Okay." Liza murmurs, "Of course. Thank you. Thank you all so much." Gordon states shaking Jay's hand before both detectives leave the Tannenbaum household.

✹

CASSANDRA AND Jay return to the district sitting at their desks before Voight walks into the bullpen from downstairs.

"Hey, Ruzek, where are we at with the driver's phone?" Voight questions.

"I called the service provider. Gave 'em the exigent circumstances speech, yadda yadda, still waiting to hear back." Adam responds.

"Well, we found out the girls lied about the library. Got on the Uber GPS to see where the pickup did occur," Kevin voices walking into the bullpen from the backrooms passing paperwork to Nadia who hands it out to the others.

"Central Chicago university dormitory, where a kid named Jordan Biggs happens to live who has been blowing up Allison's phone with over a thousand text messages this month." Kevin explains while Erin and Cassandra frown reading Allison's responses to the male.

"All of Allison's responses are variations of "leave me alone."" Erin utters, "So why was she at his dorm?" Antonio questions.

"Check it out." Voight orders motioning to Antonio and Kevin who quickly leave to go to the campus to question Jordan Biggs.

✹

ADAM WAVES his arms around answering a phone call before writing a quick message on a sticky note.

'It's go time. Ping on driver's phone.' Before everyone sitting in the bullpen quickly rushes out driving towards the destination.

"All right, signal's weak, but it's around here somewhere." Adam explains once everyone gets out of their vehicles.

"All right. Spread out. We go through doors if we have to." Voight firmly states as everyone looks around their surroundings.

Cassandra gasps standing under one of the glass windows of a building hearing glass break above her.

"Oh my god." Cassandra exclaims trying to get to the girl as gunfire is fired upon them nearly hitting Cassandra and Hayden in the process only for Cassandra moving Hayden gently incase of any broken bones towards a safe place.

"Shush. Stay down honey." Cassandra soothes seeing Hayden looking around before looking at her badge and passing out almost like her body knew she's currently in safe hands.

"Cassidy! Are you and the girl okay?" Voight exclaims, "We're both fine." Cassandra responds loudly.

As some of the team run inside shooting one of the masked offenders while Jay chases after the vehicle taking off with Allison inside of it.

Hayden's moans of pain are heard as the girl comes to once again as Erin gently sits beside Cassandra and her gently wiping the blood from Cassandra's forehead since a piece of the glass cut her.

"Are you sure you're alright?" Erin questions panicked, "E, I'm all good." Cassandra confirms while the ambulance arrives.

"Requesting air one. I don't wanna lose that car." Voight exclaims into the walkie while making sure Cassandra's alright as well.

"One dead offender. Rest of the building is clear." Antonio explains after exiting the building.

"I saw the other girl. He was putting her in the trunk. We gotta go." Jay states coming from around the side of them.

"All right. Let's get out of here." Voight responds, "Hey, you okay? You good?" Jay questions looking at the cut on Cassandra's forehead.

"Yeah, yeah. Erin, Antonio and I will catch up. Go!" Cassandra exclaims watching the team run to the cars to follow after Allison and that offender.

Hayden groans in pain tightly squeezing Cassandra's hand, "It's all right." Cassandra softly murmurs wiping the girls forehead trying to sooth the girls pain a little bit noticing Brett and Mills rushing towards them.

"Hey, what have we got?" Brett inquires squatting beside Cassandra.

"She came flying out of that window. I think she's got a couple of cracked ribs and maybe her ankle." Cassandra explains.

"We'll take it from here." Brett states having Cassandra and Erin step back out of the way.

"You're in good hands, Hayden." Cassandra softly says hearing Hayden groan in response as Brett places a neck collar on her just for safety precautions.

"All right. You're all right." Brett comforts the injured girl while looking at Cassandra's head.

"How deep is that cut?" Mills questions from beside the blonde.

"Not that deep. It's stopped bleeding a while ago. My foreheads just covered in blood because I wasn't worrying about me." Cassandra explains.

Mills hands her a wet cloth to wipe away the now dried blood on her forehead, "Thanks." Cassandra smiles.

"We're gonna tilt her up and just get her right on this board, okay?" Mills explains while Antonio gently helps slide the girls feet onto the board.

"Okay," Brett murmurs hearing the girl groan from the movement, "All right. There we go." Brett mumbles packing away her pack.

"Ready? And up." Mills states nodding at Antonio as the two of them lift Hayden off the ground and place her on the ambulances gurney for the drive to the hospital.

"Coulda been a cop, Mills." Antonio states, "Yeah, yeah. The ball rolls funny for everybody, huh?" Mills playfully responds.

"If that cut opens up, come by the station, alright?" Brett suggests motioning to Cassandra.

"Yeah. Thanks, Sylvie." Cassandra smiles waving as Mills and Brett place Hayden in the back before driving the injured girl to Chicago Med.

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AFTER CASSANDRA demanded for Antonio to drop her at Med to check on Hayden.

The male does as so before returning to the district knowing Voight will most likely want an update.

Erin being Erin stays with Cassandra still worried about the cut on Cassandra's forehead even though it's not bleeding anymore stays with the blonde woman.

"She's ready." The nurse explains gesturing for Erin and Cassandra to walk into Hayden's room to ask the girl some questions.

Hayden perks up noticing Cassandra's arrival, "You were the one that saved me." Hayden smiles.

"My pleasure." Cassandra responds with a nod gesturing to sit on the hospital bed beside her.

Voight, Antonio, Jay all arrive and stand at the door as Liza and Gordon sit on the other side of their daughter's bedside emotional hearing Hayden begin to tell them about what happened.

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

"Hayden. Did you get a look at these guys?" Voight questions.

"They wore masks. They never took 'em off. I thought I was dead. And they still have Allison?" Hayden questions growing even more emotional feeling horrible for leaving her friend with those horrible people.

Erin nods at her confirming that Allison is still with those people, "I shouldn't have left. I should've stayed..." Hayden states beginning to sob.

"No, Hayden. You did exactly what you should have done. You got away. That was exactly right. We'll find Allison," Cassandra explains receiving nods from the traumatised girl.

"It's okay." Cassandra whispers nodding softly at the sad girl.

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CASSANDRA WALKS into the bullpen from the staircase since Erin, Jay and Hank kept demanding her to get her forehead checked out incase of any shards of glass stuck inside.

There wasn't just like Cassandra said but whatever.

"Everything okay?" Voight wonders looking at Cassandra as she sits at her desk.

"Everything's good. Nothing in the cut." Cassandra explains looking from Hank to Erin and finally Jay who nod happily with one another.

"I.D. came back on our dead shooter. Guy by the name of Jason Woodley. Career criminal. Two months out of prison after a stint for armed robbery." Adam announces placing a photo of Jason on the crime board showing the team the now dead offender.

"All right. Jason Woodley. I want everything we got on this guy. Family members, known associates." Voight demands receiving nods from everyone who begin digging and looking for any clues.

"Hank, you got someone downstairs says she knows you." Trudy states from the start of the staircase.

"You got this?" Voight quizzes looking at Antonio who nods lifting his thumb up as a yes as well.

"Wanna come to the hospital with me to talk to Hayden?" Erin questions motioning to downstairs.

"Sure." Cassandra responds standing up and following Erin downstairs before standing beside Hank and an unknown woman.

"We should get to the hospital, see if Hayden knows any more about Jason Woodley. Cassie and I will get the car." Erin states while Cassandra taps Hank's shoulder.

Before following Erin out to the carpark and sitting in the backseat of the vehicle waiting for Hank to finish talking to the woman inside.

Eventually, Hank gets into the passenger seat of Erin's car and the three of them drive to the hospital to speak to Hayden about possibly knowing Jason Woodley.

Once arrived at the hospital, Cassandra knocks on the girls hospital room door signalling their entrance.

"Parents finally stop squeezing you to death?" Erin questions with a smile, "They went to get food and let the dog out." Hayden responds.

"I'm... sorry we are gonna need you to take a look at this. This is one of the men who kidnapped you. Does he look familiar to you at all?" Cassandra questions placing a picture of Jason in-front of Hayden.

"You ever seen him before last night?" Erin questions seeing the way Hayden looks away from the phone.

"Hayden, if you know something, you need to tell us." Cassandra says looking at the teary eyed girl who sighs before explaining that her dad and Jason have spoken a few weeks ago alongside another guy.

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ONCE ERIN and Cassandra get back to the district both of them sit at their desks awaiting for anymore tasks thrown at them.

Considering Jay and Olinsky are out talking to Mrs Woodley─ Jason's mother and getting a new name for the second offender that currently has Allison held captive.

"Thank you," Voight says as Jay passes him a photograph off the second offender.

"Reid Dryer. Construction foreman, just got out of prison. Did ten years for armed robbery." Voight explains pointing at Jay to explain further.

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

"Ah. So Gordon hires Reid to take back the money guy's been robbing from him. Does it, goes to prison." Adam voices receiving nods from everyone.

Before Hank hurries off towards one of the interview rooms where Gordan is being held inside alongside his lawyer.

Not that longer after Voight stormed off towards the interview room Liza and Hayden arrive together greeting Cassandra with a small smile.

"This way. Come on." Cassandra murmurs leading the mother and daughter duo towards Gordon's room opening the door.

"What did you do?" Liza questions ashamed, "You don't want to talk to us? Talk to them." Cassandra demands looking at the mans shocked face.

"Is it true?" Hayden questions, "We're done here. There's nothing left to discuss." Lloyd─ Gordon's lawyer exclaims.

"Let's take a walk, Lloyd." Voight orders looking at the man tapping Gordon on the shoulder before walking out of the room alongside Voight leaving Cassandra closing the door so the family can talk to one another.

"I didn't mean for any of this to happen." Gordan states looking from his wife to his daughter.

"You have to help find Allison." Hayden voices with a demanding tone, "Sweetie..." Gordon sighs.

"She's my best friend! She's my age. Those men are... they're animals. I looked up to you every day of my life. You're my dad. You're supposed to be..." Hayden shakily voices trying not to sob while looking at her father with utter betrayal before looking at her mother beside her.

"You're gonna tell them everything you know." Liza orders glaring at her husband also in betrayal.

"I gave 'em Beck's cell phone. They didn't even know whose girl they had." Gordon reveals.

Cassandra rushes out of the room with one nod towards Hayden before updating the rest of the team making all of them head out to the building they're tracking the said phone too in search of Allison.

"That cell phone is in this building. Halstead, what do you see?" Voight questions.

"Nothing yet." Jay responds after a while of silence while Erin, Cassandra and Antonio quietly walk inside the building together with their guns drawn.

"Same here. Empty so far." Erin says speaking into her walkie connected to her police vest.

"Ruzek, how many rooms we looking at?" Antonio inquires, "Blueprints are coming in now," Adam explains going silent for a moment.

"We've got something like 15 or 16 rooms." Adam states just as Jay's voice speaks through their radios after seeing something in one of the windows.

"Hold up, I got something. Second floor, two people. Big room, the north side of the building. Looks like it could be our kidnapper." Jay states while Erin, Cassandra and Antonio walk towards that area.

"That's the science lab." Adam states while Cassandra, Antonio and Erin guard one another looking into rooms for the possible two people.

"Guys, at the end of the hall, turn left." Adam demands through the radios.

"Approaching the science lab now." Cassandra firmly states overhearing muffled male voices coming from inside the room.

"Where is she?" Alderman Becks questions, "Open the case. Show me the money. Open the case." Reid demands.

"Not till I can see her." Becks responds firmly, "I'll tell you where she's at once you open the case!" Reid exclaims.

Cassandra, Erin and Antonio walk into the room with their guns raised still.

"Gun! Chicago Police! Get down on the ground!" Erin and Cassandra shout loudly ordering both males to stop what they're both doing.

"Let me see your hands!" Antonio loudly states pointing his long gun at Reid in case of fire.

"I said no cops!" Reid snarls in a yell before shooting Becks in the shoulder making the man drop the case with a pained groan.

Cassandra and Erin look at one another realising this is now more serious, "Drop it! Where is she?" Antonio questions.

"Shoot me, you'll never find her! You need me!" Reid responds smirking with his gun raised.

"Where is she?" Antonio exclaims just wanting to know if the girl is alive.

"Oh! After I walk out of here!" Reid firmly and loudly states glaring at the detectives.

"Where is the girl?" Cassandra interrogates loudly, "You need me. Otherwise, you don't have a damn chance." Reid mutters in response aiming his gun towards Cassandra and Erin.

A silence shatter of the glass is heard before a bullet has lodged itself into Reid's leg making the man exclaim in agony and drop his weapon.

Antonio quickly kicks the weapon away from the man's reach so he can shoot any of them again.

"Got him?" Cassandra quizzes while bending down to check Becks gunshot wound on his shoulder, "Yeah." Antonio confirms.

Cassandra puts pressure on the man's wound, "Dad! Dad!" Allison exclaims rushing into the room panicked seeing her dad injured on the floor.

"Oh, my baby. Oh, my baby. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. It's okay." Becks exhales in relief hugging his daughter tightly.

"Voight, through and through on Becks." Erin states looking at the wound alongside Cassandra who nods with confirmation.

"It's okay. It's okay. You're safe." Becks pants still holding his sobbing daughter in his arms while meeting Voight's harsh glare.

"He called my cell. He said he'd give me Allison if I brought the money. He said not to go to the police. I had to try." Becks explains exhaling while looking at Cassandra, Erin and Voight.

✹

ONCE THEY arrive back at the district Cassandra and the others clock out while Cassandra sighs placing her hands through her hair knowing she needs to go speak to her brother.

"You ready for re-qualifications?" Erin questions with a smirk.

"Ready as I'll ever be. Come on." Cassandra nods leaving the district alongside Erin and meeting Jay at the gun range to do their mandatory training.

The three of them begin hanging their targets together so they can place a bet on who can win the easiest.

"Question for you both." Jay voices, "Yep." Cassandra and Erin simultaneously respond.

"Do you think maybe they'll just let me turn in Dryer's knee for re-qualification? You know, just put the X-ray in my file. Bam. Done. Re-qualified." Jay smirks.

"Yeah, yeah. How much?" Erin quizzes, "On this? How much you got?" Jay asks.

"Oh. No. No. I'm not interested. This is just you and Erin." Cassandra laughs while Erin smirks knowing Cassandra could beat both of them even if she didn't try, "C-note." Erin responds.

"You're on." Jay utters before the three of them press the button making the machine start whirring towards the correct firing point.

"Good luck." Cassandra states starting to shoot immediately impressing Jay noticing the blonde not missing a single shot and all of them are in the chest.

"Damn." Jay whispers stunned before Cassandra winks at both him and Erin signalling she's already emptied her entire magazine of her weapon.

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