YOU WITH ME - A B99 STORY (OC x OC)

Pilot-2

Back at Holt's office, he and Terry talked as they looked over the bullpen through the windows, Sam was filling some paperwork from one of the cases she had this morning. Suddenly, Nick tapped her back with his baton making her turn around in her chair to see him. "What?" she whisper asked him. 

"I've got a case." he whispered back now, getting Sam's complete attention as she shifted rolling chair towards his desk in a swift motion. 

"What you got?" she asked excitedly. "So there's this drug chain for a new kind called giggle- pig." he started. "Hmm, better name." she commented and paid more attention on his part of information.

"I caught a guy this morning, Jamie Kirkin. He's a rapper who does shows at the subway raves. Arrested him for being reported as a drug dealer by his neighbor but, when I interviewed him, he said it's not just him but a number of more people into it. I got lead for a name, Dazson on 7th Avent street. So, you in?" he asked her.

"Obviously. Get your car keys. I'll check in with Terry." she said and they both got up from their seats and left separate ways. 

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"When you said, to get my car, I thought I'd be the one driving." Nick muttered as he sat next to Sam in the passenger seat while she drove the PD funded black sedan on the streets of New York. 

"You know, I love to drive your car." she defended instantly. "Plus you always let me to, so don't even complain." 

"I know- wait, this is the place." Nick quickly said as Sam parked in front of a dirty looking three- storied building. 

"Which floor did you say?" she asked him. "Third." 

They both climbed the stairs with their guns out in their hands ready for any sort of attack. Sam knocked on the closest door to check for Dazson's room number and they then headed to the last door on the floor. Nick gave Sam a look and she nodded in reply as she then knocked on the white wooden door.

"Police!" she said as she continued knocking but to no avail. So she started fiddling with the door handle and it opened. Nick who was keeping cover on her, looked at Sam with wide eyes and she then kicked the door open.

They both entered with their guns pointed out looking for a sight of Dazson in the living room full of empty beer bottles. 

"Geez, doesn't even clean the room." Nick muttered disgusted under his breath. He was the kind of person obsessed with a clean place of function. He always had the most organized and clean desk in the precinct, even Amy with her OCD couldn't beat him to it.

"Check the room, I'll get the kitchen." she said to Nick who quickly went to see for their man of question and then closed the door.

Sam then entered the kitchen sneakily and searched around to find some packets of some powdery substance and a butcher's knife. After wearing her gloves, she bagged them in as evidence and then continued to look for other sort of malicious thing and found large number of frozen meat in the fridge. 

"He's not here but there was a note on his table that read, "Meet Beneficio's at 3". Isn't that a store?" he asked as he showed her the bagged note.

"Yep, we'll head there after this so we can catch him in the act and bring him to the precinct. Look what I found!" she said enthusiastically as she showed him the packets.

"That's the drug!" he exclaimed.

"But that ain't the only thing" she then showed him the unnecessary amount of meat in the fridge. She picked up one piece of stripped meat and saw some whitish crystal like designs on them. 

"You don't think they are covered in this right?" Nick asked her referring to the drug packets.

"I think it is-" she was suddenly cut off but the sound of opening of the main door and clattering of glass. Dazson was definitely back. The two officers quickly took cover and hid in the spaces in the kitchen.

The drug dealer had been searching for some left over beer in the sea of the empty bottles which were littered all over the floor. Nick then sneaked upon the man with his back facing them. 

"NYPD freeze." Nick said and the man stood straight with his hands over his head. But, as soon as he turned around he pushed Nick into the dirty wall and began to ran but was soon tackled by Sam who blocked him with a kick in the face sideways.

"Fucking bitch, you broke my nose." the dealer wailed as he held his nose in pain while still on the floor. 

"Hands behind your back. Let me see them. Stay down." Sam ordered him to do so and then Nick cuffed him quickly.

"Nice kick." Nick complimented. "Nice fall" Sam teased and they left with the perp to head back to the precinct.

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"Hey Sam!" Terry called her as she brought the drug dealer with her out of the interrogation room and Nick followed her. "Oh, nasty nose" he muttered on looking at Dazson's face. "Anyways, how's the lead?"

"These dealers are smuggling giggle pig through meat. We found huge stock of it at this guy's place along with some packets." Sam said as she let an officer take the dealer into the holding cell.

"I think it's related to the missing ham Rosa detailed from the Morgenthau case. Could be the same." she further suggested. "I mean who would just kill someone for an expensive Jamon Iberico ham, there's gotta be this drug hidden in them. It's easy to smuggle it that way." Nick added to the theory.

"You maybe right. Let's consult Peralta on this." Terry said as they walked to the records room where the officer had been detained due to his carelessness over an attack at Beneficio while catching a perp.

When they walked in, they saw a dejected and frustrated Jake looking through some case files aimlessly. "Hey Jake." Sam greeted him.

"Go on you too, rub it on my face how Amy's winning." he said with a sigh. 

"I'm not here for that... although she's ahead by two now." Sam sympathetically smiled at him.

"We've got a lead on the Morgenthau murder case. Apparently there's a drug dealing chain selling drugs through meat and your perp killed Henry, who somehow had the drug containing ham which was also the expensive Jamon Iberico, coincidently." Nick explained.

"That's great work, guys. Now to burst this drug chain bubble, we just have to find Ratko- who is not on the system, sadly." the detained officer said.

"Maybe its a cover name. That's how the dealers work right?" Sam suggested which apparently made Jake brighten up with an idea.

"I just need some time." he said as he ushered out the rest officers from the room to continue his search.

Sam had walked to her seat as she put on her coat. It was already night by now and was to head home, when Nick approached her seat.

"Sam, um, I wanted to ask you something earlier in the day before Terry called us to the briefing room if you remember." he said nervously. 

"Yeah I remember, I was just gonna ask you that. So, what's up?" she waited for him.

"I'm heading out for dinner tonight, would you like to go along with me? That is if you aren't having any plans or you don't want to go along with me- now I'm just ruining this. Forget it." he nervously ranted and then scrunched up his face in embarrassment. 

"I'll go with you." she said with a small chuckle on listening to his fumbling rants.

"Really?" he asked her surprised.

"Yeah I mean we haven't done dinner together in a while and I miss eating sushi from that Japanese restaurant we always go to. Now, come on." Sam said as she started walking out.