"Listen up everyone. I'll try to make this quick, we got a busy night tonight." Oliver was addressing the assembled crowd. "First off, 15 division officially welcomes back Officers Ward and Collins from Vancouver."

The platoon applauded their return.

"Yes, yes," Oliver continued. "First shit back and it's New Year's Eve. We have a lot of private parties for tonight. Also, the official city one. That means a lot of potential for problems with crowds, alcohol, etc. I want a lot of presence from us tonight, okay?"

"Yes, sir," the officers said.

"Good. Ward, you're with Diaz. Collins with Peck. Price will be riding with McNally tonight, no solos. Foxx in booking, Zettle on desk. Rest of the assignments are on the board. Detectives, you're free to go out there if you want."

Chuckles filled the room as some of the more tenured detectives laughed that idea off.

"We'll go out," Dov said indicating himself and Sam.

"Cool. Swarek, Epstein, Thanks. The rest of you detectives better do some good work back here tonight. Serve, protect, and stay out of trouble everyone," Oliver said and the platoon filed out.

In the parking lot before everyone left, Andy gathered everyone together. They weren't detailed to the city party but would be around incase additional officers were needed. They divided up the high traffic area of downtown in 15 and chose spots to park and camp out, since it would be nearly impossible to drive around and patrol down there. Andy and Chloe would be on foot moving between them.

"You'll see me at midnight though, right McNally?", Sam asked with a grin.

"We'll see," she said with a wink. Everybody knew the couple would be together at 12, and nobody had a problem with it. Conveniently, that also put Chloe and Dov together, if all went to plan.

They rolled out just after 8 and after giving the others enough time to get in position Andy and Chloe started making their rounds.

"I want to try to hit each team once every hour or so leading up to midnight," Andy told Chloe. After that we'll camp and monitor civilian flow out of the area. Unless something else comes up."

The first couple hours went by unexciting. Everything was going as well as could be expected. The crowds were thickening and it was taking longer to get to each pair.

On the third rotation, they found Chris and Juliet talking to a couple of mounted unit officers. Their horses were drawing a lot of attention from the passing crowd. Dov and Sam were sitting on the hood of their car, watching the crowds and talking about something but dropped it when Andy and Chloe approached.

"How's it going here?", Andy asked.

"Oh, you know. Controlled Chaos," Sam said.

"I hear ya," Andy replied.

When they walked up on Nick and Gail, they found the two talking to a couple of guys on the street.

"What's going on here?", she asked as Nick turned around to meet them.

"These two were arguing, about something, we could hear them down the street coming this way," Nick said as they walked back towards where Gail was talking to the two men. "We approached them and brought them over to cool off."

"Get anything out of them?", Andy asked Gail.

"Apparently grey coat stole a parking space from blue coat earlier. Then blue coat follows grey coat, catches up to him, confronts him, and it goes from there."

"I.D.'s?"

"Yeah," she handed them to Nick who went to their car to run them. "Grey coat is Mitch Wells. Blue coat is Jacob Hobbs."

Andy turned to address the two men. "I'm Sergeant McNally. Mr. Hobbs, is Officer's Peck correct? That's how it went down?"

"Yeah except I didn't follow him. Look officers I'm sorry. It's just that I'm here with my wife and daughter and I had to drop them off since I couldn't find a space yet. They went on ahead, and I kept driving looking for a spot. I finally find a car leaving a spot so I stop and wait for them to back out. As I'm doing that, this guy swoops in from the other direction and steals it right there."

"I didn't steal anything, there's nothing saying that's your-"

"One at a time, Mr. Wells," Gail warned. He went silent.

"Officer Price, can you take Mr. Wells here and take his statement."

"Follow me, sir," Chloe led Mr. Wells to the back of Gail and Nick's cruiser.

"Continue," Gail said.

"Well I kept driving, eventually caught one further away. I just started walking this way, not really looking for trouble or anything, though I was still upset. And then I saw the face that I caught in my headlights looking back. I knew it was him. I didn't even know what I was going to do. I just went up to him and told him what he did was rude, I probably called him some thigs, that I regret. There were probably kids around and stuff."

"That's it?", Andy asked.

"Yeah, that's when you guys came up to us."

Nick came back, and handed the I.D.s back to Gail. "Both checks came back 10-40."

"Okay, Mr. Hobbs, you're not wanted for anything. Just sit tight with Officers Peck and Collins for a few, I'll back." Andy walked to the back of the cruiser where Chloe was writing in her notebook."

"-That's when I noticed the other two cops and I called for them," Mr. Wells was saying.

"Okay, Mr. Wells your I.D. came back clear. Let's go back to the other officers and you can get it back," Andy said and led them back. When everyone was back together Andy said, "Okay, here's the options. We can either charge both of you with disorderly conduct. That means we have to take both of you down to the station and go through all of that. You don't want that. We don't want that. You other option is you both promise that you won't be a problem again tonight and we let you both walk away.

Both Mr. Hobbs and Mr. Wells agreed to the second option and were returned their I.D.s. "Mr. Wells, you may go," Andy said and he walked away.

"What about me?", Mr. Hobbs asked.

"You're going in that same direction?", Andy asked.

He nodded.

"Remember, stay out of trouble," Gail said as he walked off.

"You two good with that?", Andy asked Nick and Gail.

"I am, it didn't seem like they meant any real harm, could have escalated if we weren't here though," Nick said. "Now they get back to their families or wherever they are going."

"Gail?"

"I don't mind not having to do paper work on an arrest."

"Okay then, everybody's happy."

Any said she and Chloe would resume her rounds.

"Nice working with you, Sergeant," Nick said with a grin and a lax salute and smile.

Sam and Dov were still on their car when Andy and Chloe came by for the third time that night.

"Officers," Sam said as Andy and Chloe stood next to Sam and Dov respectively.

"Detectives," Andy said.

"How's your night been?", Chloe asked.

"Not too bad, mostly just people watched."

"A couple times we had to put people back on the right side of the barricades," Sam added. "How about you guys?"

"Not much, assisted Gail and Nick with a couple of guys yelling at each other," Andy said.

"Sam looked down at his watch. Well, in just a few minutes, we get to do it all again."

"Yeah, except there will be a lot more people at the same time," Dov added.

"I know, so exciting," Chloe said.

The other three stared at her.

"What?" She was genuinely confused why they were giving her those looks.

Changing the subject, Sam asked, "You two going to stay here for the countdown," Sam raised his eyebrows.

"We thought we might," Andy smirked.

A little while later they could hear the crowd counting down."

"This is going to be a great year, Sam," Andy said.

Sam stood up and wrapped his arm around Andy. Dov stood up behind Chloe and put one arm around her shoulder and the other in his pocket.

"5, 4, 3, 2, 1, HAPPY NEW YEAR!", came the shouts from the crowd.

As the clock struck midnight Andy and Sam shared a kiss.

Chloe turned around expecting to get a kiss from Dov. Instead, he was on bent knee holding a ring.