Jay try to understand why Erin doesn't aprove his house hunt.

She heard a knock so far away that she thought she was probably dreaming about it. The knock came again, making her open her eyes. Looking around, she realized she was in her living room. The bottle of juice was on the table, the TV was on and her shoes were dropped next to the couch.

The knock came again. "Use your damn key, I know its you, Jay!"

He opened the door smiling. "Oh you're in a good mood!"

"Yeah," she mumbled and lay back on the couch again, moving her attention to the TV.

He picked her feet up and lay them in his lap, placing a sweet kiss on her lips as he rearranged a piece of her hair far from her eyes.

"So why are you so grumpy?"

She turned her attention from the TV to his eyes and with a hoarse voice replied, "I'm not grumpy!"

"Oh no, not at all," He said, chuckling.

She ignored him and kept watching TV. Half a minute of silence and he looked at her again, massaging her feet. She still focused her attention on the TV.

"Ok, I'm leaving then!"

It was like she finally woke up. "What? Why? Don't leave!"

"Why not? You're ignoring me. I know I did nothing wrong so I assume you're just bored of me so I'm leaving. Ill let you be."

She smiled at him, getting up until she was able to touch him and kissed him with no rush, her hands traveling through his hair.

He went with it. In response he grabbed her hips and helped her to sit on his lap, the heat of his hands on her waist made her slide in his lap, making them so close that she could feel his heart beating against her chest, their tongues danced slowly and fondly. They both could feel the heat building between them so they pulled apart to take a breath and she smiled with her lips still touching his.

"I'm sorry! I felt asleep on the couch and was woken by you knocking and I know you have a key and… anyway, I'm just grumpy, you're right."

"Well I liked your apology so you can be grumpy once in a while if then you apologize like that."

"Pervert."

"No I'm not, and if I am you are as much a pervert as I."

"Yeah, yeah! That's all I am for you right? The girl you screw after work."

He looked shocked. "Erin don't be like that."

"I'm messing with you." She giggled and kisses him deeply.

He looked her in the eyes. "Erin you need to take care of yourself."

She looked away and sat on the couch again with her feet back on his lap facing him. "I'm ok Jay, just tired."

"Erin you need to take care of you, your body. To be a cop, I mean to do what we do we need to be alert, ready, we need to be sharp, accurate and strong minded, we can't afford one misjudgment, a late arrival or a missed shot. For all of that our body and our mind need to be healthy. Unfortunately, our mind is not very healthy, mine isn't, and yours isn't too. So we have to rely on our instincts and they need our body healthy, rest and fed."

She nodded in agreement. "I know Jay and I'm alright, don't worry."

"I worry because I know these days were exhausting for you."

"A little yes, but that little girl…"

"We haven't been very lucky lately, we e had a lot of cases with kids and those cases get to me too, I can say that they brought me down. But we need to be able to control our attachment to these victims. You give your body and soul to that unit you give all you have to that little girl and God I love you for that but…"

And in that moment she stopped listening to him. She made a huge effort to not change her facial expression or her position but her heart was beating so fast that she could hear it in her head. He said he loved her. Yes, she loved him too and she suspected that he loved her. Off course he did, with all he put up from her he had to love her. But hearing it like that out loud. She wasn't ready to tell him that she loved him out loud and apparently she wasn't ready to hear it like that too.

She felt the heat on her face, she was probably blushing.

"Ok, Erin?" He looked at her waiting for an answer. He probably didn't even notice what he said. "Erin, did you hear me?"

She took one more moment to put herself together and smiled, grabbing his hand and kissing the back of it. "Yes Jay, you are right I need to be more careful with me. But this works both ways, you need to pay more attention to you too."

"I know, we need to focus more on us, sometimes this job can consume us. But we have each other to keep each other on track right?"

"Right!" She smiled and realized to herself truth be told, he always was there for her. She didn't like to admit not even to herself but when Nadia died she broke into really tiny pieces and it was very, very hard to put those tiny pieces back together. She was lucky because she had people that helped her a lot, like Hank and Al and Kim, even Antonio tried to reach her and help her. But him, Jay, never gave up and although she never answered him, every time he called her she could feel some of those tiny pieces coming back to their places. Even far away from her the fact that he called her countless times made her feel worthy and the real deal was she was here healthy, happy and back in the unit because of him. And that was the best proof of love that they could give to each other.

"One more thing," He managed to take her back from her thoughts again.

"What?"

"Why didn't you like any of the options that I showed you from my house hunting?"

She was surprised by this question. He was right she didn't like any of them and some of them were really good. But why was he looking for a new house, anyway? Why couldn't they live together? Like he said at Molly's that night, Why were they dancing around? Maybe she should tell him her true reasons.

"Come on Jay all you showed me was small apartments with crazy options in construction. You should look for something good and comfy, not high level and with no bedroom."

Or not.

"That's the only reason?"

She smiled at him. He knew her so damn well.

"Yeah! What else could it be?"

He raised his eyebrow at her, he knew there was something more here but he rested his case for now.

"Ok then. I will keep looking."

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