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Chapter Twenty-Six: Delivery for Halstead

Slamming his hands onto the top, Jay could not bring himself to care at the concerned looks that he was being given by his team; his eyes staring at the map hating that they seemed no closer to discovering where Edward had buried Caitlyn. 

Even after leaving the house where Caitlyn had been held, they had come to a dead-end and the area where Edward had been was just too great for them to cover in the short amount of time that they had left. 

The time on the clock was ticking down and Jay did not even want to consider what would happen when it reached zero; he would not accept defeat not when there was always a chance. 

"Halstead. What have I said about having parcels delivered to the district?" Trudy called appearing at the top of the stairs with a FedEx box in her hands, she was far from amused by this even with him distracted by the case and with so much at stake. 

She was not a receptionist nor was she his assistant, she did not need to bring him things and she could have easily sent the box away and refused to take it; it was only due to how stressed he was that she had accepted. 

Jay looked at the box in Trudy's hands confused, he did not think he had had anything delivered to the precinct especially when he had not been expecting to return until Caitlyn had been found. 

He mumbled an apology and took the parcel from her, his hands turning the box over in his hands and tried to think what it might be; nothing came to mind and he slowly started to open it to find a USB key and a tape recorder. 

It did not make any sense to him and he turned to look at Mouse who seemed just as confused as he did; he handed over the USB before pressing play on the tape recorder only to be greeted by Outside Chance by The Turtles. 

The room was silent as they listened to the mocking song that played from the recorder, none of the team in doubt who had sent the package to Jay; they stared at the recorder until Jay pressed stop. 

None of them wanted to speak and Alvin stared down at his hands knowing that this was his doing, this was what his brother did and he could not imagine what they were going to do now. 

"The USB contains a link to a website," Mouse stated breaking the silence, he shifted uncomfortable moving so that he could project his screen onto the board so everyone could see what he did.

NOW FOR YOUR VIEWING PLEASURE, YOU CAN ONLY WATCH!

The page told them and Mouse hesitated for a moment unsure what to make of such a thing, he glanced towards Jay seeing his friend staring unmoving at the message on the board; the muscles in his jaw telling him that he was gritting his teeth. 

Moving slowly Mouse moved to click on the link provided and felt his stomach drop when they were greeted by the feed that the link was connected to. 

"Is this live?" Jay breathed not daring to speak any louder, anger flooded his veins and he wanted nothing more than to go down to the cage where Edward was being held and beat the crap out of him. 

No one else could speak as they stared at the footage on the screen that Mouse had opened, the tension in the room growing with each passing minute and they all knew that they could not give in now. 

They could only watch, the haunting words from the song still ringing in their ears as Caitlyn pounded on the lid of the coffin that she had been buried in; they could not hear her but they had a clear enough view to see that she was pleading for help. 

"It appears so," Mouse murmured quietly, not wanting to consider what this meant and he could only imagine how terrified Caitlyn was right now. 

It appeared that there was a light on and from what they could see from the limited view that the camera gave them; she appeared well even despite the fact she was covered in blood and had been held hostage for months.