15. Obituary

Hailey sighed deeply as she read the obituary that an old high school friend had sent over. Caroline and her weren't exactly what you would call besties but she did consider her a friend still. And she appreciated Caroline for reaching out about this. Mrs. Hargrave was one of those teachers that every kid should have growing up and she truly cared about each teenager that came through her classroom.

"What's up?" Platt asked, coming up the stairs. "You don't sigh like that often."

Hailey smiled a little. "I guess not, Sarge. Ah, one of my favorite high school teachers was killed in a drive by in a drug deal gone bad. Wrong place, wrong time. Friend sent the obituary over."

Rojas looked shocked. "Wow, that sucks."

"Sometimes this city really sucks," Platt said, grimly, as she handed Kevin some files.

Kevin turned to Hailey after taking the files from Platt. "Where was she shot?"'

"Southside. Who is taking over now that Darius is gone?"

Atwater looked at her. "Word on the street is that Kahlia Davis is making a play."

"Kahlia Davis as in Reggie's sister and Aaron's cousin? That Kahlia Davis?"

"That Kahlia Davis," Kevin replied.

Rojas looked up at the two. "Unorthodox for a woman."

"I take it you haven't had the lovely chance to meet Kahlia yet?" Kevin asked.

Rojas shook her head. "You two have?"

"We stashed her cousin at University of Michigan as well. Aaron Davis is Michigan's best Army ROTC Cadet," Kevin said, proudly.

"Kahlia is a piece of work," Hailey said. She grabbed her coat. "See you at home, Vanessa."

"Uh, I'm actually going to Ben's tonight."

Hailey raised her eyebrow. "How come we all haven't met Ben yet? Why don't you bring him by for dinner?"

"So he can get interrogated by two other cops over dinner?" Rojas shot back defensively, surprisingly Atwater and Hailey both.

Atwater raised an eyebrow at that mention of two cops but wisely didn't say anything and went back to finishing his expense report of the month so Platt wouldn't have his ass. He learned his lesson from Jay and Adam that one time. They all had. One does not cross Trudy Platt on late paperwork.

Hailey shrugged. "Just would be nice to meet the guy you're dating."

Rojas smiled back finally. "I'll see if he can come over for dinner tonight or tomorrow."

Hailey's phone rang at 2 in the morning. There was only two things that usually came out of phone calls at that time in the morning in her life of work- booty calls and dead bodies. Given her permanent booty call was fast asleep beside her, it was undoubtedly a dead body. And she really didn't want to deal with a dead body right now. At all.

She sleepily studied the number calling her and was confused. It wasn't Voight on the call display. But she decided to answer it. "Upton."

"It's Detective Fox from Gangs. You called Sergeant Cahill about Kahlia Davis earlier today?" Fox said.

She groaned. "It's fucking 2 am. What the fuck is this about?"

"Just found Kahlia's body by the docks," Fox sighed.

She sat up in bed. "I'm on my way. Text me the address."

"You got it."

Jay was waking up. "Was that Voight?"

"Nope. Gangs."

He leaned up on one arm and looked at his phone. "What is Gangs doing calling you at 2 in the morning?"

"Kahlia Davis was found dead by the docks."

Jay got out of bed. "Well that's just great."

"You don't need to come," Hailey said, putting on some jeans.

He mockingly glared at her. "And let you and Gangs have all the fun in the middle of the night? No way."

Hailey and Jay met the two guys from Gangs at where Kahlia's body was found, near the docks. Jay remembered the place well; he remembered trying to talk Voight down about something very close to here. Detective Everson from Homicide was also there.

"Nice little party we got going on," Everson said. "Why you guys here?"

"Shits and giggles," Jay replied.

Fox leaned over Kahlia's body. "Why did you call Sarge this evening, I guess yesterday, and tell him you have an interest in her?"

Hailey shrugged. "Heard through the grapevine that she was starting to make a move in the crew. That and we may or may not have stashed her cousin at U of Michigan on an Army ROTC scholarship so I have an interest." Hailey left out the part that her high school teacher was killed in a drive by in that neighborhood and Kahlia probably was involved.

"Reggie and Kahlia Davis have a cousin that's legit?" the other Gangs Detective asked.

Jay half heartedly shrugged. "Shocked the hell out of us too. Came across Aaron when someone lit into Reggie in a drive by."

"You guys popped Kahlia's ex-boyfriend for that didn't you?" Fox asked.

"Some wannabe joker named Lamar. I forget his last name," Hailey replied.

"Is he good for this too?" Everson asked.

Fox shrugged. "I'd have to hazard a guess that someone didn't want a woman running the shots."

"Not that I love getting out of bed for dead gang bangers that are cousins to my very straight laced friend and seeing ya'll, but can we take the case?" Hailey asked. "Vested interest and all?"

Everson shrugged. "I got 4 open homicides that popped up on my desk in the past week so feel fucking free, Upton."

Fox shrugged as well, as the ranking Detective for Gangs. "I got no problem with it as long as you tell us who you're going after. Let Cahill or I know if you need any help."

"Done," Jay replied. "We can do that."

Everson shook hands with Fox. "Alright, glad I got out of bed for this. Great seeing you all again, hope I don't have to see you fuckers again for another while. And Upton, nice hoodie."

Hailey laughed, although she knew she was just caught red handed wearing Jay's oversized Chicago Blackhawks hoodie to a crime scene. She also knew Everson from her time in Homicide and knew he'd never rat on her for her choice of attire, however. "You're a dick Alex."

"Always a pleasure, Upton. See ya Halstead."

Jay and Hailey stood looking at the body, after Gangs and Everson from Homicide left. "Do we tell Aaron?"

She shook her head. "No way. But I also think we need to pay Big Bertha a visit."

"Crazy that she lets everyone call her that."

"She is a sweet lady though," Hailey smiled. Big Bertha was the nickname of Aaron's mom, and Reggie and Kahlia's aunt. She was a bus driver and knew a lot of people and heard a lot as well.

Jay laughed. "Let's get out of here and back to bed," he winked at her to let her know that he was thinking a little more than just sleep.

She looked at him. "Because I can totally go back to sleep after staring at a dead body for the past 15 minutes."

"I never said a thing about sleeping, Upton."

They started walking back to the car. "This is true. I'm not calling in the rest of the team at 3 am, that's just cruel. Bad enough we're awake."

"So we go back to the house," Jay suggested again.

Hailey thought about it for a minute although pancakes and bacon at Tina's was really calling her name. "Let's go back to bed."

"And then Tina's before work."

"Like we were reading each other's minds."

Next- P; Pointsettia

AN: holy hell; the muse might be back thanks to binge watching Chicago PD. With that being said, I'm gonna need some help for the prompt Poinsettia (why'd I pick that word?) so drop any and all ideas in a review pleeeassseeee!