Amy was in heaven, she was at a conference for all the captains of the NYPD, she was the youngest one there, one of only seven women, and the only one who couldn't stop smiling. She was intensely listening and taking notes on a seminar when her phone started to vibrate. She ignored it at first, but after four times she had to look, it was Jake.

She texted him, "I can't talk right now, in a seminar."

She immediately received a reply, "leave now, cuz r case got crazy."

Amy rolled her eyes, she hated improper texting, maybe not as much as Commissioner Holt, but she still hated the weird abbreviations and lazy spelling. She got up and felt her face go red, she hated to leave, but a case trumped everything else. As she walked out the door she dialed Jake, "Jake, this had better truly be important, I left a seminar, you know how much I love a good seminar."

"Amy, oh captain my captain, there two things, one, Rosa and Charles just got a huge lead about Yuri Sto- what ever his last name is, and we need to come up with a plan on how to proceed, and second, we just got a message on the landline, someone's parents are in town from Florida and coming to spend three days with us because your brother's house has an outbreak of chicken pox."

Amy felt faint, "my parents are staying with us? That will be interesting."

"Yeah, well…"

Amy could tell there was more to the story, "Jake, what did you do?"

"Your dad called and I answered, he just wanted to see if we could get together, he knows we're busy, and they always give you your space, but then he told me about the pox at your brother's house, and I invited them here. I couldn't help it, I felt bad for them, Charles knew a good cleaning lady, so she's here now as a favor to him, so things will be clean. Don't be mad, it's dope that they can come."

Amy was not smiling, "I appreciate you being nice to my parents, but we will talk. Have the squad ready to go, I will be home within the hour."

"Yes, captain." Jake knew he was in trouble. "I love you, captain."

Amy's tone softened, "Jake, I love you too, you did the right thing, life is just hectic, but that will never change, I'll see you soon."

As Amy entered the house, she could not believe how clean it already was, the squad was in the dining room, minus two people. "Where are Scully and Hitchcock, shouldn't they be here too?"

Jake smiled, "we are facetiming them when necessary from Hitchcock's place. We all thought that the stress of the case and your parents would only be worse if they were here."

"Good call, bullet dodged. Okay, so what do you have on Yuri?" Amy removed her captain's hat and sat down.

Rosa stood up, "We know that he has been hiding out in a safe house his organization uses, it's an old brickhouse in Bensonhurst, it's actually a school, but it is a cover for their drug operations, when Charles and I were tailing Yuri, we saw three kids come out of that school, Charles tailed them on foot, we both felt something was off."

Charles entered the conversation, "Yeah, I followed them to a small park, where they exchanged backpacks with known drug dealers, body cam got everything. I waited until one of them went off by themselves and then arrested them. They sang about Yuri quick, apparently some of the kids actually thought they were going to a school, only to be recruited into drug trafficking. Plus they were using these designer backpacks that are like five hundred dollars, and what sort of kids have those?"

Amy grinned, ignoring the fact about the backpacks, "alright, we will have to work with the nine-nine of this, I'll call Captain Jeffords and make all the necessary arrangements, we'll need warrants, but that should be easy. Great job team. Rosa and Charles, if you could go to Judge Martinez, she's over that area and always great about working with us. We will need a much bigger force to raid the house, and I should send some more credit to Terry for how much he helps us out."

Rosa and Charles both agreed and were off. Amy contacted Scully and Hitchcock and got them to fill out the necessary paperwork and send it to the judge's office. "Jake, when are my parents coming?"

Jake looked uncomfortable and looked everywhere except at Amy, "They're upstairs, with the girls."

Amy slammed her hands down on the table, she took a few seconds to compose herself. She eyed Jake carefully before talking to him. "Jake, when did you talk to my dad? The real answer please, no more lies, or someone might be denied access to this captain for a long, long time."

Jake looked truly nervous now, Amy only threatened him by withholding sex when she was really disappointed and at the edge of true anger. He knew he had better come clean. "Yesterday, that's why the cleaning lady was already here."

"Jake, you didn't tell me."

"You would have stressed out, I wasn't going to say anything until you got home, but when I had to call you about the Yuri case, things changed. We never have them stay with us, so I thought I'd be nice."

Amy and Jake walked upstairs to Carmen's room, Victor and Camila were having a tea party with Carmen while Victor was bouncing Reina on his knee. Victor and Camila stood and hugged Amy, "Amy, I'm sorry we're here, I know you get stressed about visitors, but Jake insisted, and we weren't about to turn down a chance to play non stop with our granddaughters." Victor smiled as he said this.

"Mija, we are here to help, Jake's mom seemed happy to have a few days off, plus, we can help too. Ever since your dad finished his cancer treatments, he's been restless, so we came to New York, your brothers were not happy, but they owe us for all they put us through."

Amy frowned, "I'm sorry I have not made you feel welcome, Jake did the right thing. I'm glad you're here. I still can't believe Jake invited you."

Victor glanced nervously at Jake before smiling, "He's tried before, he and I email back and forth, we keep trying to out do each other for best detective story, I think he wins. I never had to suffer through a Polka band or do meth to fit in with a prison gang."

"Yeah, I should really stop competing with painful personal tragedies, our daughters are doomed to be crazy competitive."

Later that night, Amy, Jake, the girls, and Amy's parents were sitting a Cuban restaurant that was a favorite the Santiagos, Jake and Victor were talking about the worst murder scenes they ever saw.

"Dad, Jake, maybe discussing gruesome murder scenes is not the best to do in a public place where people are eating, and oh yeah, Carmen is two."

"Sorry, sweetie, but ever since the cancer scare, Jake has become my favorite guy."

Amy's eyes got huge. "Really?"

"Way to not sound super surprised, Amy."

"Jake, it's not that, but you didn't tell me."

"That's my fault, I thought that it might make you feel uncomfortable, you always like space, I mean, I know you love us, but you like freedom, you've always been the most independent of our children."

Amy considered the scene in front of her, "Dad, I'm sorry, this is great. I always just assume you guys won't like who I'm with, and things did not start great for Jake."

Victor held up is finger, "Yes, but they didn't for you either, Jake explains that he is like John McClane in Die Hard, no one accepts his credentials at first, he is deeply flawed, but in the end, you see his true merits as he continues to do the right thing."

"Dad, did you just refer to Die Hard?" Amy's mouth was open and she could not hide the look of shock on her face.

"I did, I've watched it several times now. I think it's better than Lethal Weapon, Jake and I had a two week email discussion about this."

"I need more wine. First, dad, you are wrong about Lethal Weapon, and second, Jake, you tell me about truly disturbing things, like two weeks ago when you didn't process any of the corn you ate, and you even took a picture of the disgusting aftermath, but this you keep quiet?"

Jake squirmed, "Ames, I wanted to surprise you when you saw your dad and I getting along so well. You told me last year that you wish I would be as comfortable around your parents as you were around my mom, so after the Florida trip, it just sort of happened."

Victor pointed to Jake, "this sloppy but brilliant gringo made it happen, he's a good guy, Amy, take it easy on him."

"Thanks, Victor."

Amy held up her hand, "Okay, everybody stop, it's great that you are getting along and even friends, but no teaming up on me, I outrank everyone here, so let's keep that in perspective."

Jake and Victor both saluted and said, "Yes, Captain."