"Mouse." I manage to say
"Yup"
"Thank god, I was getting worried when you didn't call for weeks."
"I'm fine, just busy, what time is it over there?"
"Just after 7"
"You're getting ready for work, then?"
"Just got out of the shower"
"Oh god don't say that"
"Haha"
"Anyway, how have you been doing?"
"Fine, I miss you though" I lie
"I miss you too, but your lying about being fine Em bé" Darn, I was hoping to get away with that
"Fine but only because it's you"
"Go ahead"
"My fathers back in town" I say quickly
"Fuck, shit"
"Yeah I know"
"Tell me you're not alone right now?"
"No I'm not"
"Where are you?"
"Voight's house with him and probably Erin now"
"Good I don't what him to get to you"
"Neither do I, Mousey"
"Do Matt and Conner know?"
"Not yet, they only know that I'm staying with Voight because my apartment burned down"
"Wait what?"
"Yeah, my apartment building burned down a couple of days ago"
"Okay then, you weren't there at the time, right?"
"No I wasn't there, I found out from Matt when his house got the call."
"Good"
"How are things over there" I say and start to get dressed, I'm staying on the phone as long as Mouse can.
"They're the same as always, bullets and bombs, but it's not the same without you guys, my units good but they aren't you guys, nowhere near."
"Do they know who you are?"
"Nope they have no clue I used to be a T1"
"Ha"
"Yeah, the prank wars are still around, getting crazier by the day."
"Oh that's gotta be funny"
"Yeah when they aren't on you"
"I feel you fafa." I hear Voight calling me down for breakfast
"Was that Voight saying breakfast was ready?"
"Yup" I say as I holster my gun on my hip and one knife in my belt and another around my calf on my left leg underneath my pant leg.
"Wow" I exit my room and walk down the stairs to where Erin and Hank were already eating sitting either side of a third plate
"Yeah I know right, I was shocked too" Erin and Hank give me weird looks until they saw the phone in my hand
"Anyway back to what's going on over here, me and my unit broke up a terrorist attack on a nearby village a couple of days ago, managed to kill and run off all of them without hurting any of the children that they were attacking. They were trying to take the kids and brainwash them into child soldiers. They had already succeeded in taking kids from four other villages. It took us three weeks to track down their next target. You should have seen the smiles on the parents' faces when we handed them they're kids, it was the best feeling in the world. The grateful looks on the kids faces when we helped them up, it reminds me why I came back in the first place."
He rambles as I'm eating breakfast. It's so good to hear his voice again, I don't have the heart to tell him that the information he's giving me is classified and he really shouldn't be telling me anything. I finish eating and we are heading out of the door when he stops talking
"Good job Mouse, I'm proud of you" When they finally realize who I'm talking to, Hank and Erin's faces light up with smiles.
"Thanks, and I now I know what it was like to lead a unit that acts like 13 year olds most of the time"
"Now you know how I felt, are you getting leave anytime soon?"
"I have no idea, I was about to ask when they said the phone were free and I thought this was more important"
"Great call, I missed your voice."
"Yeah I missed yours too"
"Ich liebe dich." I switch to German because I don't want Erin and Hank hearing the rest of the conversation, well understanding. (I love you)
"Ich liebe dich zu jay Vogel" (I love you too Jay Bird)
(Everything between Mouse and Jay is in German, but I don't want to mess it up so it's gonna be written in English, but nobody around Jay can understand what he's saying)
"I miss you so fucking much fafa"
"I know I miss you too, but I should be home soon, hopefully"
Mouses POV (Still in German)
Little does my omega know that as I'm talking to him, I'm writing an email to our old CO asking him to approve a leave form and giving him the reason. The second Jay said that his father was back, I knew I had to get home as soon as possible. I couldn't let that bastard anywhere near Jay. Our old CO is the only one still in the Rangers that knows of the history between Jay and his father, he is the only one that will approve the rapid leave on such short notice.
"I know I miss you too, but I should be home soon, hopefully" I say, sooner than you think, Jay bird
"I know its just, you never know, do you"
"No you don't"
"And I hate, I should have gone with you"
"No"
"I should be by your side, not on the other side of the world"
"I need you there, I need someone to come back to, you know that"
"My brain does, but the omega in me needs its alpha, needs you"
"I know, but your strong, you can handle it"
"I know, but I miss you like hell"
"I'll be home soon"
"not soon enough"
"Okay, tell me what's going on with your father."
"Okay, so a couple of days ago, SVU detectives Benson and Stabler came to my apartment asking about a man named Patrick Harper, I said I didn't know him which was true, then they showed me a picture of my father and asked the same thing, I said I didn't know him again and they left." He starts
"Did they know you were lying?"
"I think they did because the next day when I went into work they were talking to Voight in his office. A couple minutes later Voight called me inside and we started talking. They said they had talked to Will and he told them the truth, that the man in the picture was my biological father. They went on to tell me that my father was the main suspect in a serial rape/murder case with over two hundred victims spread across the east coast. They told me that there was a seven year gap in the cases starting when I was born, to the year that I ran away, not that they knew that. They asked if I knew the reason for the gap and I said yes, and that's where Voight put an end to the conversation, then his phone rang and we got called to a crime scene." Wow that's a lot.
"Main suspect in a serial rape/murder case? Over two hundred victims?"
"Yeah I couldn't believe it either, but back to the start. The scene we got called to had the victim beaten, tortured, and raped before being stabbed seven times with a hunting knife. We found out the next morning that it was connected to my fathers case. The SVU detectives didn't tell my unit that they had a suspect, they were only told that the weapon used was a hunting knife. About half an hour later, we got called to another scene, this time beaten, tortured, raped, stabbed seven times, and then redressed. That's where this gets scary, at least for me. The victim was 5'11", blue eyes and brown hair. Lean but strong and was redressed in Ranger dress blues." Oh god, Patrick Halstead knew where his "son" lived, he was coming after Jay. I put a rush on the leave form and send it off, hoping to get an answer within the next two hours or so.
"Ah fuck, tell me Voight isn't letting you out of his sight" Because if he is, thats my next call.
"He is not letting me leave his side unless I'm with Lindsey, even then I have to stay in the district, besides the coffee run we made yesterday."
"Good, how much do they know about your relationship with your father?"
"I think Voight knows most of it, just not specifics, Erin doesn't know anything besides that somethings got me spooked."
"Okay, do you feel safe with Voight?"
"Yeah I do"
"Good, anything else?"
"Apart from the fact that Erin called me her brother while shooing away an alpha yesterday, and the fact that Matt managed to save the flag in my apartment, nothing else."
"I knew it"
"Knew what?"
"That she felt like you were her brother, it's why she didn't get that hunger in her eyes when I told her that you were an omega before I left, and I knew that if you lost that flag, you would be heartbroken, and probably wouldn't be as talkative as you are now."
"I guess, but enough about me, how are you doing over there, and don't say fine."
"Fine, I'm doing okay I guess, a couple of IEDs here and there but nothing major, still the daily firefights, but not as big as they were before."
"Okay, don't get shot, Mousey"
"That's my goal love"
"It's a good goal"
"Definitely, how is intelligence dealing with the case?"
"they are annoyed with the lack of clues and evidence, over two hundred victims and they still don't have a suspect, in their eyes anyway."
"Why didn't SVU tell them the truth?"
"SVU wanted us to link the case to him instead of him to the case" He says
"Got it"
"I miss you"
"I miss you too"
"I love you" I hear the my unit calling for me
"I love you too, units calling"
"Okay bye"
"Bye"
About half an hour later I learn that the paperwork went through and I'm leaving for Fort Benning twenty minutes later. The plan is to stay the night at Fort Benning and leave for Chicago first thing the next morning.
Jays POV
It feels great just to talk to him again. I love him and I just want him back in Chicago. We arrive at the district head up the stairs to the bullpen. When we get up there we separate to pour respective desks and start working.
"We got lucky, our perp got sloppy and left behind a fingerprint" Dawson says
"I thought you said they found none?" Atwater asks
"I have no idea, they just found it" He says
"Did you get a match?" I ask
"Not in the database." Tony says
"Damn" Adam says
"Now we have to find the match and we have our perp" I say
I go home with Voight and Erin again at the end of the day. We make dinner and watch a movie again, and just like the night before, I fall asleep halfway through the movie. Again I think it's Hank that carried me up to my bed when the movie finished. I wake up at my alarm and go running, but when I come back I'm surprised to see someone standing at the door. I'm even more surprised when that person turns around.
"MOUSE" I say and throw my arms around him in a bone crushing hug.
"Hey Jay bird" He says moving his arms around my waist and setting his head on my shoulder.
"What are you doing here, you said you didn't know when you were coming home?"
"As I was talking to you I was filling out a rapid leave form and I sent it to our old CO and he approve it right away"
"Well okay then, come inside, you want coffee? Breakfast?" I ask as I open the door and lead him inside.
"I already ate but coffee would be nice" Mouse says and I smile. He's here, really here, not dodging bullets overseas, but here by my side once more.
"MOUSE!" I cover my ears as I hear Erin scream his name as she comes down the stairs and throws herself into a hug.
"Yes Erin, I'm here" He says and I chuckle.
"Jay, you didn't tell us he was coming home" Hank says as he does down the stairs after Erin.
"I didn't know until I saw him outside the door just now" I say, we stand around talking until Erin heads up for a shower, a few minutes later Hank starts talking.
"I assume you already told him about the case"
"Yeah I did"
"He told me everything"
"Okay, Jay take to day if you want too, and Mouse," Hank says
"Yeah"
"Don't let him out of your sight." He says
"Wasn't planning on it" Mouse says with a wink at me, then Erin comes back down the stairs
"I'm gonna take the day" I say and me and mouse head up the stalls to my room. We sit on the bed and talk for a bit before I hear a car start. I look out the window and see Hank and Erin pulling out of the driveway and driving to work. When I can't see them anymore, I turn and pull the mouse into a long overdue kiss.