I'm so pleased with the outcome of the first chapter. You guys are amazing at giving me reviews, and I love you all for it. I received quiet a few requests for more chapters on the pregnancy so I will definitely write more of that at some point, but I kinda just plan to jump around back and forth in time with these one shots. That way I can write all different aged Micah and Macy. Here's chapter 2 set a few years in the future. I hope you guys like it.
Erin was sitting in the airport on a two-hour layover. She had gone to New York City over the weekend, per Voight's request, to get some information on a case. She was familiar with the detectives of the New York Special Victims Unit, so that's why Voight had chosen to send her.
She didn't mind going to New York although being away from the kids was difficult. They were home with Jay, but she'd never been away from them for more than one night at a time. Even then they were always within a twenty-minute drive at either Kim or Antonio's. Two nights didn't seem that long on paper, but buy the end of the first day she was missing them like crazy.
To make things worse the district had bought her the cheapest flights possible. Her flight home went from New York, to Washington DC, and then to Chicago. This made absolutely no sense to her considering DC was way out of the way, but she knew to expect nothing less with the city paying her airfare.
She pulled her phone out of her pocket and called Jay, still having forty-five minutes until the plane boarded.
"Hey, babe. You waiting to board?"
"Yeah what are you guys doing?"
"We're having a pajama party. Macy and I are watching frozen for like the fifth time this weekend, and Micah is complaining about the fact that we're watching frozen for the fifth time this weekend." He laughed and Erin smirked slightly.
"She's on a Frozen kick? Last week it was The Lion King."
"And the week before that was Tangled." Jay added in.
"I wish I was there with you guys." She sighed.
"We wish you were here too. Are you okay baby? You seem sad."
"Yeah I'm alright. Just a tough case ya know?"
"Yeah, I know. I miss you. We all miss you."
"I miss you guys too. How are my babies? Can you put one of them on?"
"Hi, Mom!" Micah's voice rang out over the phone line. She couldn't believe her little boy was about to be eight years old. He called her 'mom' now instead of 'mommy,' and it secretly broke her heart a little, but she understood that he was growing up, and it was no longer cool for him to be saying 'mommy.'
"Hey, Mic. Is your dad holding down the fort? Things aren't too crazy are they?"
Micah looked over to Jay smiling, knowing that he had no idea what Erin was asking him. "He's doing okay. It hasn't been too crazy. Although Macy wore her pants on backwards all day yesterday."
"Hey! Lies it's all lies I tell you!" Erin heard Jay jokingly yell in the background.
Erin laughed into the phone. That sounded just like the Jay she knew and loved. "Okay well I'll be home late tonight. You'll already be sleeping, so I'll see you in the morning. I love you. Can you put your sister on?"
"Love you too mom." Micah said as he handed the phone over to Macy.
Erin heard her breathing on the other end of the line. The three year old had not yet mastered the art of talking on the phone. "Hi, baby girl." Erin greeted her daughter.
"Hi, Mommy!" Macy yelled into the phone not understanding that Erin could still hear her even if she spoke at a normal octave.
"What are you doing?"
"Wachin' Frozen with daddy. Mic is wachin' Frozen too, but he's singin' the words wrong, and makin' dem not nice." She said matter of fact, with her usual abundance of sass present.
Erin smiled while picturing the scene. "Can you let me talk to daddy again? I love you and will see you tomorrow when you wake up, baby."
"Bye, Mommy!" She yelled into the phone again.
"Did they make you feel better?"
"Yeah, I'm just ready to be home with them. I miss their sweet little faces. I could've actually seen them before they went to bed if the district would have just booked me a flight straight through."
"Hey, at least you get to see my sweet little face tonight." He teased. "And maybe some other not so little parts of me too."
Erin released a throaty laugh. "Jay Halstead, you better not be talking like that in front of my children." She could practically hear his grin through the phone.
"Relax babe. I left the room."
"Good, and in that case I can't wait."
"The things I am going to do to you tonight, Erin Halstead" He teased.
"God I love you." She admitted thankful that he could lift her mood so easily.
"I love you too Er. But hey our bossy daughter is calling me to come start the movie. Apparently the 'yet it go' part is about to happen." He said it the same way Macy would, making Erin chuckle. "Have a safe flight, and then hurry up and bring your sexy little ass home to me. I love you."
"I love you too."
Erin arrived home that night and could hear music and the giggles of her children through the front door. She walked inside to see Macy on Jay's shoulders and Micah jumping on the couch as the trio sang and danced around to the frozen soundtrack. It was an hour and a half past the kids 8 o'clock bedtime, but Erin couldn't find it in herself to be angry that they were still awake because they were being just so stinking adorable. Seeing Jay laughing, and dancing, and singing with them was one of the greatest things she'd ever seen, as if Jay needed to give her another reason to be completely in love with him.
"Hello." Erin finally called out making the group notice her.
Jay froze with Macy still settled on his shoulders. "Oops. Busted." He paused the music.
"Mom!" Micah distracted her running over to hug her, and Erin hugged and kissed the top of his head.
"Mommy! Mommy! Mommy!" Macy screeched until Jay sat her down so she could run to her.
Erin scooped her up and gave her a kiss before noticing what she was holding in her hands. "Halstead, is our daughter drinking Mountain Dew?"
Jay made his best 'oops' facial expression. "Special occasion?"
"Really, Jay? If you were gonna let them have pop you couldn't have at least picked sprite or root beer? Something caffeine free."
"But mommy I yike the green stuff." Macy defended her father although all of her L sounds came out as Y's.
"Yeah mommy she yikes the green stuff" Jay repeated.
Erin smiled rolling her eyes "Yeah lets not say that in public Macy. We don't need people getting the wrong idea."
Jay chuckled leaning in to kiss her hello. "Alright kiddos lets go brush your teeth so they don't rot out of your heads, and then go sleep off this two day sugar high I've been letting you live on." He teased winking at Erin as he walked the kids up stairs. "Tell mommy goodnight."
Twenty minutes later he came back downstairs to Erin sitting on the couch waiting for him. He turned the Frozen soundtrack back on with the volume down, and pulled her up off the couch.
"We're going to dance to Frozen?" Erin laughed.
"Hell yeah we are." He pulled her body tight against his swaying back and forth.
"We saw the cab pull up, so I handed Macy the Mountain Dew bottle. It was mine. She never even had a drink of it."
Erin smacked his shoulder. "You're an ass." She scolded him despite the smile on her face.
"And our daughter is an exceptionally good liar for three years old. She really sold it. I'm a little bit scared now actually."
"Just another one of my great traits that she's got."
"And your bossiness. She pretty much ran the show while you were gone." Jay answered admittedly.
"That's because she has you boys wrapped around her little finger, and she knows it. You, detective are going to have to grow a backbone or that little girl is going to give you a run for your money."
"I thought that's why I have you, right?"
"You're lucky." She smiled as Jay slipped his hands into her back pockets, and they just barely continued rocking slowly to the music.
"I am so lucky." He agreed with his forehead rested against hers.
