"Sometimes in life, things get cold. Too cold to imagine, like your about to shrivel up because this cold darkness takes out your light. It's gnawing at you like your it's food, it's unprecedented and unbelievable but sometimes... Just sometimes, a little glare of light out shines it."

*car screeches around the corner*

With every fibre of his being Jay Halstead bellowed

"ERIN! BOMB"

-24 hours earlier-

Jay and Erin had been together for a few months, things were going well. They had moved in and Hank Voight had accepted it. It was like Hank knew that it was time to let the broken girl he once knew feel a burning love, stronger than his. It's 8am both Jay and Erin are up doing the usual morning routine consisting of shower, coffee and a few exchanged jokes.

"Jay you're not funny, give me back my grenade" Erin laughed

"Erin for the last time I don't have your grenade, maybe it's still at work?" jay replied

"I know it's not, I need it. It gives me luck on the job" Erin with less enthusiasm answered.

"come on let's get to work, or we will be late. We shall check there"

The windy city was cold as usual, Erin dressed in her usual jeans, casual T-shirt and jacket with her statement beanie on her head walked to the driver's side of the car. Jay walked straight to the passenger's side and waited for her to unlock it.

"still keeping me as a house husband I see" grinned jay

"You didn't complain last night when we role played in that new lingerie, did you?"

"ohhhh, baby that's cold" jay snapped back with an even wider grin.

The walk into the station was the same as usual, Trudy Platt giving Burgess an ear full that was until she saw Lindsey... there was always some weird connection between the two. Stopping mid-sentence, she greeted Lindsey and joked with jay about how he looked like a baby. Upon reaching the intelligence office, Atwater and Ruzek were already in messing around playing paper toss. Erin headed straight for her desk and began to look through her desk to find her grenade, although she still had an inkling that Jay had hidden it from her. See Erin is a believer of superstition and fate, Jay not so much.

"DAMN IT!" Erin muttered

"Not there?" Jay asked quizzically.

Before Erin had a second to reply Hank Voight burst up the stairs everyone stop what you're doing and listen up he exclaimed. With that the room was silenced, Hank was command and his team knew that. No matter what, Hank had the last word.

Hank stood in front of his team, with a look that no one could register. Jay looked at Erin, who was staring at Hank. she knew, this was bad.

"Karl Ledger has put word out on the street that his coming for you, for killing his brother Sean" Hank managed to squeeze out whilst staring into Erin's eyes.

The room filled with feelings of anger and disbelief, the man who's brother attacked Erin and shot at her, decided he had the right to want her dead. Erin fell backwards onto her seat and looked up at Hank, before she had a chance to say a word. He walked over and put his hand on her shoulder, "Don't worry Kid, I've got you" looking around at those in the room he realised and said out loud "we've got you". With that the team knew, it was all hands-on deck and immediately began calling contacts to see if anyone knew anything at all.

Since the news broke the team had been working hard checking with C.I's to find information on Ledger. Jay and Erin had gone over to a local bar which had been known as the Ledger brothers spot, with no luck the two decided to go grab coffees for everyone because they both knew they needed something better than the one in the break room. Erin peered out the window the whole ride, not really saying much which had Jay worrying that she was beginning to overthink and slip into some old ways.

"Erin, I won't let nothing happen to you. You know that, right?"

Erin turned to face Jay and tried to begin her sentence before she could Jay burst out with

"You're my girl, Always. I told you jobs come and go, people come and go. But you, you're here to stay"

Erin felt her heart melt, Life had been crappy to her no dad, drugged up mother and forced to be a parent at a young age, these words were all she longed for. Erin had never been in love but inside she knew this is what it felt like.

"Jay, don't worry everything's going to be fine… By the way find my grenade and I'll find a way to repay you"

"Oh man, I really hope I'm thinking what you're thinking. Let's get back to the station I'm about to search everywhere for this thing."

Just as Jay and Erin walked up the stairs to the office Atwater shouts out "Sarg, I've got something". With that the room fell silent. "Okay so word out on the street is, Ledger just bought a house a few blocks away from Lindsey's apartment". Hank immediately replied, "Gear up, were going".

Downstairs in the bullpen, Erin slot's her arms through the holes in her vest walks over to jay and grabs her hair to move it out the way. As if by instinct without que, Jay grabs the vest and straps it on securely.

Hank picks up the radio and radio's through to burgess and roman who are in a squad car position close enough to the house to see but fair enough away to remain undetected. "Burgess, you got anything"

"Were here and not seeing anything, you want us to go knock?"

"No burgess stay there, radio if there is change"

Hank turns to the team stood behind him. "Okay let's go. Erin your riding with me" Erin would usually put up a fight, she's stubborn and fiercely independent but this was not a request she chose to argue. This was her life potentially at stake.

Pulling up behind the squad car Hank squeezed Erin's leg and waiting for the rest of the team to arrive. After waiting a few minutes with no one turning up hank tried to radio through to Halstead, but the radio seemed to have gone down. Turning to Erin, Hank scowled "Let's just go knock on the door and see if anyone's home" Updating Burgess on the plan and asking them to keep trying to get hold of the rest of the team, Erin and Hank proceeded to the door.

Just as they are about to ring the door bell

*car screeches around the corner*

With every fibre of his being Jay Halstead bellowed

"ERIN! BOMB"