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Victoria DuBois has been Colter Shaw’s better half, partner, and lover for about two years now. They have a one year old daughter named Amber DuBois-Shaw. Right now, Colter and Victoria are in Chicago looking for Abigail Thompson, a fourteen year old girl that went to a nightclub called the Blue Diamond the night she disappeared. Last night, Victoria had called Colter and told him that she found something important as she was getting into her rental car. She told him she'd tell him when she got back to the Airstream and hung up. Victoria was taken a few seconds later. Colter is now looking for her along with Abigail.
Colter is now at the house of one of the Blue Diamond’s bouncers because her car was found here. He pulled his gun out when he saw the door was slightly ajar, clearly kicked in or forced open somehow. He stepped into the house, through the destroyed living room, into the kitchen, and immediately saw a young girl and a woman dead on the kitchen floor. Then another gun’s safety clicks off behind his head.
“Drop the gun. Now,” Russell Shaw says, his voice a dangerous whisper, unaware that the person in front of him is his younger brother.
“Russell?” Colter asks, confused, while keeping his gun in his hands. Russell is confused now as well. He clicks the safety back on and lowers it.
“Colter? The hell are you doing here?” Russell asks, putting his gun back into the back of his pants. As soon as the gun is away, Colter turns around.
“I'm looking for a missing girl, Abigail Thompson, and my girlfriend Victoria DuBois. Her rental car is outside but it doesn't seem like she's here, Abigail too. Your turn,” Colter says, putting his gun away as well and scanning the rest of the house with his eyes.
“I'm looking for a guy I worked with in the military. Douglas Lancaster. He owns this house. The body's? They're his wife and daughter,” Russell explains while moving to check the rest of the house. As he does that, Colter calls 911 to call in the murders.
“So what are you thinking? The same person that took Abigail Thompson and Victoria also killed these two people and took Douglas? Why put Victoria's car here?” Colter asks after hanging up, still moving around the house looking for anything.
The Intelligence Unit is working the same missing girl case when Trudy puts them on the double homicide. They all leave the 21st district in the usual pairs. When they get in the house, two men are already there.
“Who are you?” Adam Ruzek aka them both, not hiding his annoyance about two civilians looking around a crime scene like they belong there.
“I'm Russell Shaw, that's my brother Colter. He's the one who called 911,” Russell answers without stopping what he's doing. “I was looking for two missing people, my girlfriend Victoria DuBois and a teenager, Abigail Thompson,” Colter adds, deciding to give them context on why he's there.
“Okay, well your missing people clearly aren't here, and this is a police crime scene now. You two need to go,” Adam says, the usual slight tone of righteousness creeping into his voice.
“Uh-huh,” Colter responds without stopping what he's doing. Adam rolls his eyes and goes to grab Colter's shoulder to make him leave. Russell sees this and knows how it'll end, having learned from experience.
“Don't do that,” Russell warns Adam, confusing the rest of the Intelligence Unit. Russell’s warning doesn't stop Adam, he still reaches for Colter's shoulder, still reaches for certain death for the bones in his jaw or his wrist. Probably both.
“I'm serious. Don't do that,” Russell warns again, though he knows he'll probably be ignored again. He's about to say it a third time when Adam’s hand lands on Colter's shoulder. Russell just groans and facepalms. Adam is about to tell Colter to leave when he turns around, fist already up and flying out of reflex. Colter’s fist connects with his jaw, making him let go then drop to the ground with the force of it, blood on his mouth.
“I told you not to do that,” Russell says, looking down at Adam with a slight shake of his head before looking at Colter again. “And you. What did I tell you? Punch through your target not at them. I swear, you never listen to me. At least you kept your elbow up,” he adds with a slight scolding tone, making Colter roll his eyes. They both go back to their search. Hank decides to let them stay (still a little shocked that Adam just got punched) because it's clear they're both stubborn and both not leaving.
“I'm Sergeant Hank Voight. We're looking for Abigail Thompson too,” Hank says as he silently directs his team to start searching the house for evidence. “You two find anything yet?” He adds while sliding on gloves.
“I think so.” Colter kneels down in front of a wooden cabinet as he says that, having seen something glimmer under it. What he pulls out makes his heart stop, because it's the gold necklace he had bought for Victoria over a year ago during a job in New York. “It's Victoria DuBois’s necklace,” he adds, holding it like it's precious.
“How do you know that?” Kevin Atwater asks as he slowly and cautiously comes up behind Colter, trying not to get punched too but still trying to see the necklace Colter found.
“Because I gave it to her over a year ago during a job in New York. I saw it in a shop window and knew it would be perfect for her. She hasn't taken it off since. Not once,” Colter answers, his other hand holding the line pendant, thumb stroking it softly and reverently.
“So she was definitely here,” Russell says curiously but with a hint of sympathy because he can see and hear how worried his brother is for Victoria.
“Without a doubt. And she fought,” Colter says, trying not to let his voice break or his mind show him how scared she must've been when she was here.