Hey Y'all! So, I have been working on this one for a few weeks now. Please let me know what you think! :)
A little background, at the beginning of this fic the bold and italicized are text message; Linstead is together, Voight knows, and they have his blessing.
"3 minutes till nothing but you, me and paradise."
"You still think Wisconsin is paradise Halstead? Have you ever been to the beach?"
"You'll love it."
"So I've been told... Repeatedly..."
"1 minute."
"You really are excited aren't you?"
"Hell yeah! It's our 1st weekend off in ages, and I get to spend it with you, Erin Lindsay."
"What do you say we get out of here?"
She sent him before shutting down her computer and grabbing her things, she looked towards Jay, who gave her a dorky grin and a wink of the eye causing her to blush.
"I cannot believe it!" Ruzek yelled.
Immediately the color from both Erin and Jays faces fell. They had been caught. They thought they were being careful, keeping their relationship mostly to themselves, but had recently gotten a little reckless when it came to keeping it professional at work.
"We officially have the weekend off, no big case, and no mass casualty tragedy." Ruzek sighed as he leaned back in his chair.
"Did you just jinx us? I think he just jinxed us." Atwater noted.
"I swear man, if you just messed up my weekend with my kids I will kill you..." Antonio gritted through his teeth.
"Al, help me out here, tell them I did not jinx our weekend off."
"No. Not happening, I am not touching this one with a ten foot pole." Alvin said as he threw his hands in the air to surrender.
"Ruzek, do you remember the last time you ended up jinxing us on our weekend off?" Jay chimed in.
"Psh. No. Cause it's never happened."
"Wrong." The unit said in unison as Voight stepped out of his office to join in on the argument.
"Four months ago. It was our only weekend off for the month and you just so happened to say the exact same thing as you have today. We ended up busting out asses all weekend to catch the perp and someone ended up in the hospital after the bust." Erin finally voiced, glaring at Ruzek.
"Ohh, yeahh." Ruzek said as the pieces began to come together.
"Alright, everyone get out of here. Go home get some sleep." Voight instructed before going back into his office.
"Halstead, you coming to Molly's? Ruzek's treat, it is after all, the least he could do." Antonio asked as they made their way into the locker room.
"Hey now, I will buy the first few beers but on a cops dime? I can't exactly buy everything..." Ruzek shouted from the other side of the lockers.
"Don't worry about it Ruzek, can't make it anyways. I am going to Wisconsin for the weekend."
"Wisconsin? What's in Wisconsin?" Asked Ruzek.
"Meth Labs and sociopaths. Oh, and some cheese." Antonio voiced.
"No, as a matter of fact my great grandfather built a log cabin up there, so I am getting away for the weekend, unless of course your fucking jinx happens."
"No, I promise, it won't. Enjoy your cheese, I will just see what Lindsay's up to." Jay heard Ruzek say as he walked out the door.
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"No Ruzek, I'm sorry but I am going out of town this weekend." She lied as she heard her front door open.
"Erin?" Jay yelled from her living room.
She quickly stuck her head out the bedroom door frame, rolling her eyes, pointing to the phone and mouthing Ruzek before walking back into her room to finish packing, Jay following behind her.
"Yeah, tell Kim that I am sorry, that we will just have to go out for drinks another night." She said as she listened to him ramble on as Jay came up behind her, placing his hands on her hips as his lips began to softly kiss her neck "No, I didn't know that Halstead was going to Wisconsin."
Jay pulled back and his eyebrows rose at the mention of his name. "Listen Adam, I would love to chat but I have to go.." She told him before they exchanged goodbyes.
"God, that kid! He just never shuts up."
"You ready to go?" Jay laughed.
"Wisconsin. You're taking me to Wisconsin. And you are sure you know how to get there?"
"Northern Wisconsin. And yes Erin, I know how to drive."
"Oh, you're not driving, you can point me in the right direction but you are not driving, not until hell freezes over at least."
"Seriously Erin?"
"Oh and can take my Car. Now lets go." Erin smiled as she grabbed her keys off the table, pulling her luggage behind her.
They quickly loaded Erin's bags into the back of her car and Jay threw his into the trunk before they both got into the Chrysler, taking off down the back streets of Chicago before getting onto the interstate.
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"Take this exit and make a left." Jay instructed.
"Are we almost there?"
"God, you're worse than a child. Yes, we just have to cross this mountain and then we will be there." Jay laughed.
"Good, because this snow is getting heavier and I am starving." Erin said as she turned the windshield wipers on high.
"Careful Lindsay." Jay gritted through his teeth, holding onto the handle bar above the passenger seat as he felt the tires begin to spin in the soft snow.
"It's fine, we can make it." She said reassuringly as they slowly trekked up the steep incline.
But she spoke too soon, no sooner than the words had left her lips did the tires become stuck.
"Shit." Erin cursed under her breath.
"Well, this is peachy."
"It was you're idea to come up here in the first place Jay. Maybe if someone would have checked the weather forecast before we left we wouldn't be sitting here watching snow pile up around us."
"Oh, so not checking to see that it was going to snow four feet is my fault?" He exaggerated.
"Never said it was."
"Didn't have to."
They sat in an uncomfortable silence, both their tempers fuming but not at the other, rather at themselves.
"I'll be right back." Jay said as he opened the door, forcefully pushing back a snowdrift.
"Where are you going?"
"I'm trying to make sure we don't die of frostbite if that's ok with you?" He said as he stuck his head back into the door before slamming it shut.
Erin turned around and watched as Jay got down to the ground the best he could and began messing with the undercarriage of the car, no more than a minute later he returned.
"Now will you answer my question?" Erin asked as she put the fan for the heat on full blast.
"I was clearing the snow out from under the tailpipe so it doesn't get clogged, it should buy us about an hour or two if the snow decides to let up." He said, raising his hands to the vents of the car.
"I'm sorry about earlier, it's not your fault were stuck, it's mine, I should have been more responsible."
"No Er, it's my fault, it was my idea to come out here and I just wasn't expecting it to come a damn blizzard."
"You know, they say that in order to last longer in these conditions, it's best to have skin to skin contact." Erin said mischievously, as she turned off the engine.
"Really? And where did you learn that?" Jay asked as he leaned in closer to Erin, getting the idea of where things were heading.
"I couldn't sleep the other night, so I was watching some late night doctor on TV."
"That sounds familiar." Jay rolled his eyes as he leaned across the center console, capturing Erins lips on his before sliding his seat back and helping Erin over the center console.
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"Well that was uh... A first."
"What? You've never had sex in a car before Halstead?" Erin chuckled as she climbed back over the center console, into the driver's seat.
"I have, I just never expected to do it in the Chrysler of all things.."
"Well it was a little cramped..."
"So what now?" Jay asked.
"I wish we had something to eat.." Erin sighed as her stomach growled.
"Yeah, me too. I don't think I have eaten since this morning."
"Liar! I seen you polish off a cannoli and an eclair that Michelle had brought since we couldn't leave for lunch!" Erin argued.
"Yeah... I did... Well you're one to talk, who ate all three of the Bear Claws?!"
"I was hungry! I hadn't eaten anything since dinner last night!"
"Why are we arguing about food?"
"I don't know..." Erin sighed rolling her eyes. "Wait..." She said before she climbed into the backseat.
"What are you doing?"
Erin did not answer but instead pulled out a bag from behind Jay's seat.
"I keep this in here in case of emergencies."
"You mean you actually planned ahead for something? Who are you and what have you done with my Lindsay?"
"Shut up." Erin said as she climbed back up front, cranking the engine for heat, before reaching up and turning on the overhead light.
She opened the bag, finding a flashlight, a lighter, a pop tart and nutrigrain bar, a bottle of water and a few other necessities.
"Wow you really were prepared." Jay said as he took the pop tart from Erin hands, splitting it in half as Erin did the same with the nutrigrain bar and they gave each other the difference.
"Told you. Oh and I found this.." Erin said as she reached behind her, grabbing a large blanket they kept in the car for cases involving kids.
"I love you."
"I guess I love you too even though we are stuck in Wisconsin..."
"Oh, I wasn't talking to you, I was talking to the pop tart." Jay boyishly smiled.
"Asshole."
"You know you love me, considering you just said it yourself."
"It's debatable somedays..." Erin said as she thought back to when they first said those three words.
"So... Now that we have christened my new couch..." Jay said as they laid there lazily watching TV.
"Your new couch is like a rock compared to mine. I think you should return it and get one that we can test drive first."
"I told you I am a function over form kinda guy."
"So you did.." Erin smiled as she leant up to kiss Jay, who quickly returned the kiss before flipping Erin onto her back as the kiss became more heated. Jay began to reach down and pull his shirt that Erin was wearing over her head, when the ringing of Erin's phone pulled them both out of their bliss.
"Don't answer it..." Jay mumbled against Erin's skin as he placed soft kisses along her throat.
"But what if it's important?"
"They can leave a message."
Erin silently agreed as she returned her attention back to the man in front of her. No sooner than a minute later though, did Jays phone start ringing.
"Damn it." Jay cursed as he got off the couch and made his way over to the dining room table where their phones laid. "Damn it." He cursed again as looked at the ID.
"Halstead."
"Halstead, need you and Erin to come in, we got a location on where the leader of the Cobalts is shacking, need all hands on deck." Said Voight.
"Yes Sir, we will be there in twenty."
"Good and get suited up when you get here, we will meet in the tech room."
"Sounds good." Jay said as Voight hung up.
"What's up?" Erin asked as she walked into the kitchen sporting a fresh outfit from the change of clothes she kept at Jays.
"They got a lead on the leader of the Cobalts, Voight wants us there ASAP."
Erin let out a sigh and put on a fake smile. "Ok, well lets go."
"Erin wait." Jay said as he grabbed her upper arm, pulling her back to him.
"We're going to be-" Erin was saying before she was cut off by a slow and searing kiss.
"I don't care, Voight already knows about us."
"But what about-" Erin was saying before being cut off by another kiss.
"Who cares, let them think what they want to think. If they haven't figured it out by now then I doubt they ever will."
"You're right. I mean we have been together what now, almost four-" Erin was saying before Jay interrupted her once again.
"I really hate it when you do that..."
"Really? Cause you never seem to stop me..." Jay smiled as he leaned in for another kiss.
"We're going to be late..." Erin said as she put a finger up to his lips. "And I don't think you want to show up to the district in sweats."
"Fine." Jay sighed as he walked to the bedroom, quickly getting dressed before heading out the door in a matter of minutes.
They arrived to the precinct, walking through the basement towards their gear lockers.
"So, you ditch us for beers saying that you're 'busy' but yet you still show up to work?" Ruzek asked Jay as him and Erin began unpacking their gear.
"Yeah, it's called my job. I really don't want to get fired for not showing up.."
"No, that's not it, there's something else. No, not something else, but rather someone else. Who is she?"
"Who's who?"
"The girl. There's a girl, I can see it written all over your face."
"Yeah, there is a girl." Jay smiled, as he felt Erin watching them.
"Well, tell me, what's her name? What's she like?"
"She's-"
"Hey, boss wants everyone in the tech room." Antonio said as he stuck his head into the room.
Adam made his way out of the room, leaving Erin and Jay.
"So what were you going to say?" Erin asked curiously as she walked over to Jay, turning around so he could strap her into her vest.
"I was going to tell him that you are indescribable, that we could stand here all day and there would still never be enough words to describe you."
"Oh, is that so?" Erin smiled as she headed out the door.
The unit briefly met, Voight assigning them their locations in order to make the bust go down without a hitch.
"Halstead and Lindsay take the back. Atwater and Dawson take the front. Me, Al, and Ruzek will take the side. Mouse, you're our eyes and ears. Lets move." Voight said as he grabbed a long gun from the table in front of him and headed to his vehicle. They arrived to their location no more than ten minutes later, each pair abandoning their car an alley away and walking to their respective location.
"On three we breech. One... Two... Three!" Voight ordered over the com.
Jay pulled back the metal door as him and Erin entered into the small dark room, switching on the flashlights attached to their long guns, they cleared every inch of the room, walking in sync before going over to the wooden door and pulling it open. This room was bigger, almost the size of a multi-car garage, the two partners split up, but never more than five feet away from each other.
Jay and Erin continued on through the building, both thinking that maybe the lead was just another bust, until they came upon yet another door at the end of the room. Jay swiftly nodded to Erin as she raised her gun, as he opened the door. She stepped in, hearing Jay right behind her.
"Jay.." Erin whispered as she threw up a fist into the air, thinking she seen movement out of the corner of her eye.
She pointed in the direction the movement came from and they both slowly started their way over.
"CPD! Search Warrant!" "Jay was saying as they stepped closer.
"Take another step and I will blow your head off." Spoke a deep voice from the corner that halted both their movements.
"Now, we don't need any of that. Why don't you place your weapon on the ground so we can talk this out?" Jay tried to reason as he shined his flashlight towards the man, noticing the high caliber weapon in the mans hands.
"Yeah? Why don't you do the same?"
"It's not that easy." Erin spoke.
"Well I guess neither of us will be getting what we want, will we now?" The man said as he began to grow agitated.
"How about yo-" Jay was asking as an ear piercing explosion rang throughout the room, the smell of gunpowder filling the air.
Erin took no time before firing off a few rounds from her magazine, hitting the man in the chest before she walked over, kicking his gun out of the way and slapping cuffs around the mans wrists.
"Jay, a little help here." Erin asked as she struggled to turn the man who was twice her size, onto his back.
"Halstead?" Erin asked again as she got no response, she glanced over towards where Jay had been, by her side, only to see her partner and boyfriend laying on the ground.
"Jay!" Erin screamed as she ran over, turning him over from his side, onto his back. "Shit, shit, shit, shit." She whispered as she began inspecting for any wounds in the crucial areas before inspecting his vest.
"Ow." Jay raspily moaned as he opened his eyes.
"Are you ok!?"
"I feel like I have an elephant on my chest." Jay groaned.
"But are you ok?"
"Yes, it got the vest." He told her as he attempted to sit up.
"Damn it Jay!" Erin cursed as she stood up and turned around to walk out the door, giving Jay only a second to realize that she had tears in her eyes.
"Erin, wait wh-" Jay was asking as the rest of the team came storming into the room.
"Dude you ok?" Ruzek asked
"Yeah, vest took the hit."
"I want you to go to Med just to be sure."
"Sarge, I'm fine. I'm not bleeding, nothing is broken, it never got past my vest."
"Where's Lindsay?"
Voight gave a silent questioning look to Jay, who knew nothing he responded by shrugging his shoulders.
"I'll go find her, she couldn't have gotten too far." Jay said as he struggled his way out the door.
Jay walked out the door, the cold rain that had begun falling since entering the building, gently hitting him in the face.
"Lindsay!" His gruff voice yelled as best he could, the force of the rain growing harder as he walked down an alley. "Erin!" He attempted to yell again, his chest protesting each breath, each movement. His heart picked up pace, as the thoughts in his brain began to run a mile a minute, unsure what had happened, thinking the worst, wondering why she was acting the way she was. Jay made his way back to where they had parked the Chrysler, and the rest of the vehicles, catching the movement of someone pacing next to the cars underneath a dim streetlight.
"Erin?"
"What do you want Jay?"
"Are you ok?"
"Am I ok?" she scoffed "I thought you died Jay! So no, I'm not ok."
"I'm fine Erin, the vest took the bullet."
"This time, but what about next time Jay!? What if next time you don't get as lucky!"
"Erin, I'm here now and I'm fine. This is all a part of the job, you know that. What's going on? I've been shot before and you have never acted like this."
"Oh, so having the love of my life being shot right in front of me is all apart of the job? Maybe that is what is going on! Yes, you have been sh-"
"Say that again." Jay smiled.
"Say what again." Erin said as she felt her cheeks redden.
"The first part of your ramble.."
"You being shot in front of me is all a part of the job?"
"Erin..."
"Fine, I love you Jay Halstead. You happy now?"
Jay pulled her into his arms, telling her "And I love you Erin Lindsay." Before he kissed her passionately on the lips.
"What are you thinking about?" Jay asked, noticing Erin had drifted off.
"I love you." Erin said out of the blue.
"I love you too." Jay said, leaning over, giving her a kiss as he reached for her hand.
Just as Jay pulled back, the car engine died from the amount of snow. "Well, there goes our heat for the night." Jay sighed.
"At least we have this blanket?"
"Yeah."
"Why don't we try to get a few hours of sleep, and hopefully the snow will have stopped by then so we can get out, I seen a gas station about a mile back, maybe then we can get out of this mess." Erin suggested.
"I'm sorry about all of this, I will make it up to you, I promise."
"You know, the beach does sound really good right now..." Erin smiled.
"Anywhere is fine with me Er, as long as you are with me."