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chapter twenty six. there's my girl.

Sam walks into the kitchen and opens the fridge to get herself some OJ. When Sam closes the fridge she takes down an old flyer and sees a picture of her, Erin and Nadia from Molly's and Sam just stares at it.

"Baby, you ready to go?" Jay asks.

"Uh, yeah" Sam says, hanging the flyer back on the fridge.

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Sam gets settled into her desk at the district, while the boys put Nadia's things into a box and a few minutes later, Erin walks onto the unit looking worse then Sam feels.

"Anybody we should we sending her stuff to?" Antonio asks Erin. "Uh, her dad's in Indianapolis. I'll make sure we get it to him"

"Alright, Fischer just called. He needs us at Tri Taylor" Voight says.

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The Intelligence team walks onto a crime and are met with Joe Cruz from the 51 Firehouse.

"Hey Antonio" Cruz says, "Sam, Sergeant"

"Hi, Cruz" Sam says.

"What the hell happened?" Dawson questions.

"Bomb went off at 8:42 a.m. We've cleared for radiation. At least four injured, two in pretty bad shape. Two fatalities. One female. One looks like a male"

"How's that?" Voight asks.

"Still putting him back together"

"Any idea what caused this?" Sam asks.

"IED of some sort. We found screws in buildings all the way down the street"

"Thanks" Voight tells Cruz.

"I'm gonna go help Jay question any witnesses" Sam says, walking away and over to her boyfriend.

"So, where were you standing when it went off?" Jay asks a man who just points to across the street.

"You're the police?" A young girl asks.

"Yeah, that's right"

Sam continues to question the man, as Jay talks to the girl.

"Do you live around here?" Jay asks but the girl stays silent, "Did you see something?"

"Come on, Isabella" and older woman says, putting her arm around the girl, "She's twelve. Got a vivid imagination"

Sam walks over to Jay as the girl and the woman leave and asks, "What was that about?"

"I don't know...how you feeling?"

"I'm alright" Sam says, putting her hand on her growing belly, "Today I am five months pregnant and I don't have morning sickness, so I'm feeling as best I can"

Sam and Jay walk back over to their team, as a man runs to an ambulance.

"Nobody saw anything. It's an explosion, a lot of glass" Al says.

"Same inside" Lindsay adds.

"Alright, well keep knocking on doors. Hey Al, you and Ruzek go question the husband once he calms down"

Jay taps Sam on her shoulder and she looks up to see the little girl Jay was talking to, staring at them.

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Sam and Jay walk up to the apartment of the little girl and her mom and Jay knocks.

"Police" Jay says and the door opens, "Detectives Halstead and Miller, Chicago PD"

"Yeah, we met"

"If you wouldn't mind, we just wanna talk to your daughter for a quick second"

"She didn't see anything" The woman says, closing the door but Jay puts his hand there to stop it.

"Two people died in that bombing" Sam says.

"Mom?"

"Get back in your room and finish getting ready, now!... last year a kid in Isabella's school testified in a gang shooting and a week later he was found with a bullet in his head"

"I get it. We're gonna put her down as a confidential source" Jay says.

"Oh yeah? Are you gonna give her a lollipop too? And the next thing you know, she's compelled to testify and when word gets around, how am I gonna keep her safe? I can't afford to move out of my place, let alone put her in a new school and start over"

"We understand your concern, but how is your daughter gonna feel knowing that her mother didn't let her help get the people who did this?" Sam asks.

"I know she saw something and I know she wants..." Jay starts to say, when the woman closes the door in the detective's faces.

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Now back on the unit, the team is gathered around the whiteboard, as Antonio tapes a picture onto it. "K-Trick, otherwise known as Kenny T. Reevis. He's a gangster Disciple, not top of the pyramid, but he's got some corners"

"Been brought up on racketeering charges twice, but the cases fell through when the witnesses dropped the charges" Lindsay says, leaning on Dawson's desk.

"Finally got the analysis on the IED back from bomb unit" Mouse says, taping a paper onto the whiteboard, "Now whoever built it used a pressure cooker. They filled it with nails, screws, glass, some small grade explosive"

"I think that's the same kind those guys used for the boston marathon bombing" Kevin says.

"Yeah, see you hook it up to a cell phone and ka-blammo, the shrapnel projects put, shreds everything in its path. It's uh, nasty stuff" Mouse says.

"Me and Jay are working on a witness. A little girl who lives across the street. Her mom shut us down, but we're gonna go at her again" Sam tells the group.

"No other witnesses?" Voight questions.

"None willing to talk. No security cameras in the cafe" Olinsky answers.

"Alright, Mouse, run the victims for domestic disputes, orders of protection. Make sure none of them was the intended target" Voight orders, "Rest of you, get a beat on Reevis"

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Sam walks into the break room and pours herself a cup of coffee and smells it.

"You gonna drink that?" Adam asks.

"I wish. Caffeine isn't good for the baby"

"Right. So, how you feeling?" Ruzek asks, taking the cup from Sam and drinking it.

"With Nadia or the baby?"

"Both"

"Nadia, I'm still sad, like everyone else and with the baby, well, I'm really excited and nervous at the same time" Sam smiles and looks down at her belly.

"Well, I'm really happy for you, Sam" Adam says, pulling her into a hug.

"Thanks Adam. That means a lot to me"

"And if you need anything for the baby, me and Kim are here for you"

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"Jay! Good to see you"

"Father McClosky. Thanks for meeting me" Jay says, shaking the priest's hand.

"And whos this?" Father McClosky asks, looking at Sam.

"This is my partner, Sam Miller"

"And his girlfriend, and the mother of his child" Sam smiles, shaking the man's hand.

"Oh, congratulations...I saw something on the news the other night, about the young woman that worked in your district"

"Yeah" Jay says and Sam looks down at the ground.

"I'm so sorry for your loss. I'll say a mass for her"

"Thanks. I appreciate that. We really do" Jay says.

"Is that what you wanted to see me?"

"Actually, uh, I was hoping you could pull a few strings for me"

"Let's take a walk"

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Sam and Jay go back to Isabella and her mother's apartment and Jay knocks.

"Leave"

"Not until you hear us out" Sam says and the mom closes the door again and Jay knocks...again.

"I'm gonna call the cops"

"You'd be calling us, essentially" Jay says and holds up and envelope, which the mother takes, "King of cross academy. Full scholarship for Isabella...Just want to ask her a couple questions. Show her a photo"

"She doesn't testify"

"Absolutely not"

Sam and Jay walk inside the apartment and sit in the living room to ask Isabella few questions.

"I was waiting outside while my mom got coffee and this guy came in with a blue backpack. I remember cause my friends got the same one. But when he came out, it was gone"

"Okay. Was this the man you saw?" Jay asks, showing her a picture of Reevis.

"That's not him. The guy I saw was white with a beard"

Sam and Jay look at each other.

"Do you remember anything else about him?" Sam asks.

"His right hand, he had scars all over it"

"That's it" the mom says, "That's enough"

"Okay" Jay says, "Thank you so much Isabella"

"You're welcome"

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"Let's keep an eye out for Carden" Kevin says, through his walkie.

"Copy that. We got eyes on the front entrance" Sam says and she and Jay sit in their vehicle, looking out for Carden.

"Hey, I was thinking, uhm, we should bet on whether the baby is a girl or boy" Jay suggests.

"You want to bet on our baby?"

"Well not when you say it like that"

"What did you have in mind?" Sam chuckles.

"Well first, do you think it's gonna be a boy or a girl?"

"Mmmm...boy" Sam says, "You?"

"Girl"

"Now what?"

"So, if it's a girl, we go to a black hawks game and if its a boy, we do whatever you want"

"Interesting, I'll take you up on that bet"

"That's Carden" Jay says and him and Sam get out of the car, but when Carden notices them he runs.

As Jay chases after him, Sam takes the car and follows after them down an alley. Jay gets into the vehicle and Sam follows after the red pick up truck Carden just stole.

"Halstead. Location" Dawson asks over the walkie.

"On Lake. We'll cut him off on ashland"

"We're approaching ashland now"

After a long chase of running lights, stop signs and Carden hitting cars, said male drives through a bus stop, gets out of the truck and starts running as Antonio and Jay get out of their cars and chase after him.

"Sorry little one" Sam says, putting both her hands on her belly, "No more running for me"

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Sam is waiting in interrogation with Carden when Kevin walks in and hands him a coke.

"You got my jack, too?"

"That ETD machine is good. Only takes seconds to detect explosive material, like the trace amount of potassium nitrate on your jacket" Sam says.

"Now we already got you for the bombing. Just tell us who hired you" Atwater says.

"Yeah, I'm really not seeing a good reason to talk" Carden says.

"Yeah, well, I can give you a couple good reason to talk" Kevin says.

"I'm going away no matter what. I might as well go back not a snitch"

"We found three Gs in your room. Probably more you already spent. Money didn't put itself in there. Means you got paid" Sam says.

"You got it all figured out, why bother me?"

"You could be looking at two life sentences" Sam says, leaning her arms on the silver table, "Now we can think of a whole lot of ways to make that time easy or hard. It's up to you"

"Yeah, you know what? I really don't care. It doesn't make any difference"

"If he doesn't give up a name, take him down to the cage" Sam says, leaving the room and heading to her desk.

"Carden didn't have a burner phone, didn't call anybody from that apartment except his parole officer. Never even wrote a letter" Jay states.

"We should have his call records from statesville any minute" Anotnio says.

"That was Chicago med" Adam says, hanging up the phone, "Elizabeth Brahmer just passed away"

"Did Carden give you anything?" Sam asks Kevin, who just left interrogation.

"Giving him five minutes to way his options. I think he's gonna go"

"Sam Carden did a couples day work with Melvins Electric which does all the wiring in Norcross's buildings" Al tells the team, walking over to his desk.

"A few months ago, Graham Norcross asked the county assesors for an updated property value estimate on the Brahmers cafe, it turns out the land was worth four times what it was when he bought it" Jay states.

"The Brahmers have a ten year lease, so if Norcross wanted them out, he'd either have to write 'em a check or make 'em leave" Lindsay says.

"So, you hire someone who says they can scare them out, but the device over delivers" Jay adds.

"Maybe Norcross had Carden do the electrical fire up the block, too" Sam suggests.

"Let's ask him" Voight says, getting up and going to interrogation to talk with Carden, when suddenly the team hears Hank yell, "Call an ambo!"

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"Ambulance is two minutes out" Adam says.

"Guys he's not gonna make it" Lindsay says, putting pressure on the wound where Carden used to cut himself with the soda can.

"Who the hell left the can in here?" Voight asks and Sam looks at Kevin.

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After finding out it was Mason Brahmer who planned out the bombing. Jay, Sam, Erin, Kevin and Adam sit at their desks taking about Elizabeth Brahmer.

"Alright, I'll notify the wife's family. That's always a fun call" Lindsay says, sarcastically.

"I'll call Portland PD" Jay says.

"Gotta be a punch to the gut after all these years" Ruzek says.

"The family deserves to know what happened to their daughter" Sam says, leaning against the filing cabinets.

"Atwater, in my office" Voight says.

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The intelligence team, plus, Trudy, Sean and Kim, stand around the stone Romans cousin made for Nadia for the district building in her honor.

"Deputy Chief sent this over. I figured I share it" Lindsay says, opening up the piece of paper, "'Ms. Decotis. This letter is to commend you on being accepted as a recruit to the chicago police department', she would've made a hell of a cop. Certainly one of the bravest"

Sam lays her head on Jays shoulder and he wraps an arm around her as everyone takes a moment of silence for her.

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Sam and Jay head to Molly's to meet up with everyone and have a drink for Nadia -and by drink, I mean everyone else will have alcohol and Sam will have water-.

"Hey Sammy. I'm sorry about Nadia" Kelly says, pulling his best friend into a hug.

"Thanks Kells. I just wish I could have a drink"

"I know you do, but for the sake of my godchild, I'll make sure you keep it healthy" Kelly says, putting his hand on Sams belly.

"You know what I think?" Sam asks, as her and Kelly sit at a table with the others.

"What?"

"That he or she will have you wrapped around it's little finger more than anyone else"

"Damn straight and I don't care" Kelly says, smiling and so does Sam.

a/n;

I love a sweet Kelly Severide 🥺❤️