"Hey, you seeing anyone," Rixton asked next.

Hailey just looked at him. "That's an odd question. We went from how Jimmy Dobbins wants to kill us to my sex life?'

Rixton rolled his eyes. "Somewhat relevant. Are you seeing anyone?"

She just groaned. "Ugh. Can we not."

He laughed at that point and tickled her stomach, exactly where he knew she was ticklish, to throw her off her game. "Hailey Upton, you are sleeping with someone in Intelligence. From my time there, Antonio was sleeping with some paramedic and it was serious, so that's out. Atwater's not your type. That leaves Halstead and Ruzek. Halstead is your type and you'll end up with up but I heard Lindsay skipped town so he's not doing the whole office workplace romance for awhile so Ruzek?"

"I fucking hate you right now, Kenny."

"I'm right."

"And how is this relevant to how Jimmy Dobbins?'

Rixton shrugged. "It's relevant because this idea is going take you away for awhile but I have an idea. But you're also not gonna like it and neither is Voight. So my next question is, how much does Voight trust you or I?"

"I don't know about you but his trust in me is probably only around a six. I'm still the new girl in the unit," Upton pointed out. "New girl who's in some hot water right now."

"We have one major thing going for us right now," Rixton explained. "We both spent some time in Intelligence and Voight goes to bat for his Detectives. He's gonna want Jimmy Dobbins to go away."

"What's the idea?"

"You go undercover with me as my girlfriend. These are middle of the road guys you would have never have run into before. Jimmy Dobbins is not going to be looking for one Annie Lawson."

Hailey had to admit he had a point. The alias was still credible and valid. It was never burned and it was a deep cover alias. It was set up deep enough for a year long op however the op that it was used on got wrapped up so quickly that it was never used properly. They could use it to their advantage. "We have to get Voight and your handler on board though first."

"Voight first, Penner second."

Hailey had the burner phone out and dialed Voight's number. Her own phone was turned off, to not give away Rixton's undercover apartment. "It's me."

"Why are you calling from this number?" Voight asked, roughly.

She had it on speaker. "I need you to loan Upton to Narcotics for awhile."

"Excuse me?"

"It's the best way to protect her and me from Jimmy Dobbins while you and Intelligence go get him. Have her undercover in a different unit, completely different case, and completely unrelated. He's not going to be able to find her," Rixton told Voight.

Voight was silent. "What do you need from me?"

"I need you to contact my handler over at Narcotics, Tim Penner. He's a good guy but he doesn't know Upton at all. And then I need for the four of us to meet off the books."

Hailey looked at Rixton and nodded. "Bottom of the bar, Voight? And can you get Burgess to go 26th division, make sure she talks to the front desk Sergeant there- Jenny Toller, and get her to ask for the Annie Lawson box. Jenny will know. It has all the stuff I need to go undercover." Hailey had put all the stuff in a box in the evidence locker room and labeled it "Annie Lawson". She knew, even back then, she would be using that alias again and she would need to get it quickly. And she only told one other person- Jenny Toller. The front desk Sergeant.

"Yeah, 5 pm. I'll bring Penner," Voight hung up.

Rixton and Hailey looked at each other. "He agreed to it."

Voight's first stop was Jason Bergman, the only man in the Gangs unit to not do serious time under the indictments. He had stayed in the car and ran interference, lying to the patrol man that it was a Gang op, when in fact they had all clocked out. He was never involved in the beatings. Bergman had left CPD and went back to his original occupation- construction. He was able to sort of get on his feet as he already had his red seal before coming a cop.

"Bergman," Voight said. He knew Bergman from when he was a patrolman and the guy was a good cop. He considered Bergman and Rixton the lone "good guys" in that Gangs unit as of late. "Long time, no see."

Bergman handed over a black coffee to Voight. "What's up Voight? I didn't really think anyone in the CPD wanted anything to do with me lately."

"Kenny Rixton and Hailey Upton."

Bergman raised his eyebrows. "Now that's a blast from the past. Why the questions now?"

Voight shrugged. "Jimmy Dobbins got released from prison yesterday."

The former CPD cop blew out a breath. "Well then, that would make sense. Dobbins always hated Upton, never did figure it out, other than the daughter and the nephew thing. He just had it out for Upton. Hated her from the get go. Orders came from the top but it was the wrong move transferring her in, however well that task force she was on did. And Rixton, well, he wasn't with us that night and managed to not get under indictment. His excuse that night was it was his mothers birthday. Dobbins will hate him forever."

"Probably more than just that, but yeah," Voight agreed. "How far do you think Dobbins will go to get revenge?"

"Far.'

That was all Voight needed to know to let Upton go under with Rixton. "They went undercover once while she was in Gangs. But it was a short op. Can you tell me more?"

Bergman shrugged. "Supposed to be a long term op. Like months. They both weren't happy with it but they knew they had to do it. Upton was just finishing a two year bid on a task force and wanted to settle down and bam, she was thrown undercover and she was pissed. Rixton and her didn't know each other and all the sudden they are forced to trust each other. Two weeks in, FBI came in and closed up shop. Rixton and Upton seemed okay and seemed okay with each other. End of story. Why the questions?"

Voight really wanted to ask him the viability of Annie Lawson as an alias but he still didn't know Bergman's loyalties. "So if I were to throw Upton undercover with Rixton in the middle of an ongoing op, it wouldn't be a problem?"

"They had no problem making a couple cover work if that's what your question is," Bergman answered. "I trust them both completely to have my back as well."

Voight nodded. "All I needed to know. Thanks for your time Bergman. And if you need help getting on your feet, I know a couple guys needing a reliable construction foreman."

"Thanks, I appreciated it Sergeant. This job is up in a month so I may give you a call."

The Sergeant just nodded at Bergman as he left the coffee shop and out the door. He felt slightly better about loaning Upton to Narcotics now that Bergman had no qualms about either of their undercover abilities together.

Ruzek knocked on Upton's door quietly. He wasn't sure she wanted to see him after her day but she but she eventually opened the door. "Hey," she said as she opened the door and let him in.

"Undercover, eh?"

"Selling my soul to the devil with Kenny Rixton, times two. And I get the same name, imagine that," Upton cracked a joke as she led them to her kitchen.

Ruzek sighed. "Are you sure this is a good idea?"

Upton rolled her eyes and handed Ruzek a beer from her fridge. Reminded her that she was almost out but it didn't really matter as she was pretty much going to be living at Rixton's undercover place. They had replaced the drivers license on Annie's license with an address with a legit address as the old address was no good but other than that, the passport was still good and all other documentation pertaining to Annie Lawson was viable. "Relax, Adam. Penner even thinks this is a good idea."

"You're going undercover for Tim Penner?" Adam asked.

Upton nodded. "Yeah, is that a problem?"

He just shook his head. "No, that's just who asked me, when I went for a couple weeks and Rixton took my place in the unit. That was right before you came and Burgess went to take care of her sister."

They made their way to the couch, although sitting on opposite ends. "Why are you here, Adam?"

"To check on you. You have had a whirlwind day. You went from having a bounty put on your head, to going back to your old days with your CI and now going undercover with an old alias."

Even Upton had to admit he had a point. "I'm fine."

He took a sip of his beer. "Right, and it's also going to kill you to go undercover and leave us to nail Dobbins and not be able to take part in that."

"A little."

"Yeah., I figured. We are going to get him and nail him."

"And it's going to kill you to see me and Rixton together."

"A little."

"I figured."

Ruzek sighed. "I know it's the right decision, Hailey, but it's a risky decision."

"Part of the job."

He rolled his eyes. "Doesn't mean I have to like it. Personally and professionally."

She changed the subject. "How pissed was Voight that we asked him to go to Penner?"

Ruzek shrugged. "Surprisingly, not as much as I thought. But then again, it is Voight. I don't think he likes the idea of you going under without Intelligence backup. We all trust Penner and Rixton but we don't know the other Narcotics guys and this is not a short op so this doesn't have surveillance and the whole deal."

"Not my first rodeo," Upton muttered. And then she did something that surprised even herself. She kissed Ruzek. Even he was surprised but he kissed her and pulled back.

"What was that for?"

"To thank you for coming over to check on me and to say sorry for leaving you to go under for an unknown amount of time."