AUTHOR'S NOTE:

Dedicated to princessjames21 and inspired by an Avril Lavigne song (in fact I may songfic that song soon for these two).

I am going to keep writing about Chicago PD until it becomes a topic to pick, haha. Filing this under Chicago Fire makes no sense and I don't like it being miscellaneous, but I guess oh well, right? Anyway, I was waiting to make ships, but Jay and Erin are too cute, so here is a very short drabble, but I'm tentative as one episode isn't enough for me to feel like I know them so well I can properly emulate them. Either way, enjoy this short little bit of fluff for them.
ENJOY!

xxxx

She'd confided in him.

It wasn't the entirety of everything, it wasn't more than scratching at her surface, but Jay Halstead knew that Erin Lindsay somewhat trusted him and it changed everything. They were friends, they were colleagues, but there was something between them that he really just couldn't deny no matter how hard he tried. You never mixed work with pleasure, but that smiling face and the playful punches to his arm and her teasing words…they just got to him.

Yeah, he'd meant it when he said that he felt like a house husband, but with Erin it didn't really seem to bother him as much as he made it sound like it did. He liked teasing her and more than once he had risen to the occasion to defend her honor, but he thought it was just a friendly gesture…it was so much more than that. It was protecting someone that meant so much to him that he couldn't even see it at first, but he saw it now.

"Seriously?" Jay asked Erin as they headed to the squad car.

Erin chuckled and rolled her eyes. "I'm still not letting you drive."

"One of these days you're going to have to relinquish control," Jay explained sighing as he got into the passenger seat in the car.

"Never," she responded almost immediately.

He smiled at her despite mimicking her for a moment, Erin smiling that smile at him that said she was entertained by his behavior. More than once she'd given him that smile and right now he was supposed to be focusing on going and questioning their witness, but all he could do from the passenger seat was watch Erin as she drove and it made him squirm, which led to him clearing his throat. Erin looked at him and raised her eyebrows at him quizzically, but them she returned to driving and they slipped back into silence until they reached their destination.

Once there, Jay felt a little bit more professional and stopped eyeing his partner in her red leather jacket, instead talking to the older woman they were questioning. They were looking for a young boy and they needed all of the information that they could wiggle out of her, and while Erin did most of the talking, Jay got his part done too. Then they took their leave and as they neared the car, Jay's hand flew out on its own and he grasped her hand with his. She turned to him and rolled her eyes again, thinking that she knew exactly what was coming even though Jay didn't even know what was coming at this point, he just knew that he had to say something.

"You're still not driving, Halstead," she told him, looking him in the eye with that challenging smirk of hers.

Jay didn't know what he was doing, but he leaned in and captured her lips with his own, an electric jolt flowing through him and while Lindsay didn't pull away right away or even slap him when she did in fact pull back. She was caught off guard and flushed, both of them red in the face as they tried to process exactly what had just happened there. He had meant to say something even though he didn't know what and she was feeling feelings rise up she didn't know were there and she definitely didn't want to handle them.

"That didn't happen," she said as she moved to the driver's seat, trying to ignore the flip flopping of her stomach. "Get in the car, Halstead."

He didn't mean to kiss her.

He didn't mean to fall in love.

He didn't mean for it to mean this much…but it did. It meant everything.

Note: I just ship them so hard right now! I wanted to write something adorable because I could and there will be more Chicago PD things from me in the future, I promise. Feedback is always appreciated!