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Mouse dries and dresses Jay and leads him to the couch.
"Feeling better?" Mouse asks.
"A lot better, thanks."
"Good." Mouse says
"When are they getting in?" Jay asks
"Around 7 tonight." Mouse says
"Good, I'll feel better when we're all back together."
"Yeah me too." Mouse agrees and hands the remote to Jay before heading into the kitchen. He grabs a couple of bottles of lemonade and water along with a few bags of sunchips and heads back to the living room. He puts the snacks on the coffee table and sits down beside his mate.
"What do you wanna watch?" Mouse asks
"Something light hearted and funny."
"Nailed It?" Mouse suggests
"YES." Jay says with a huge smile.
"Ok then." Mouse says and takes the remote back from where Jay had been aimlessly flipping through channels and puts it on Netflix. He loads up the first episode of season one and clicks play and sits back. He puts his arm around Jay when his mate leans into him and pulls the omega close as the show starts.
They make it through the entire first season and make it three fourths of the way through the second, and through pretty much all of the snacks and drinks, when there is a knock at the door. Mouse gets up and opens the door to the rest of the Tier One team.
"What took you guys so long?" Mouse says jokingly, it was 8:45.
"Seeing as you have been overseas for the past year, we thought we would stop and buy some food and drinks." Andrew says, holding up the bags that he was carrying.
"Good, we already ate all the movie snacks that I had here." Mouse says and steps back to let them in the door.
"Where is he?" Conner asks when he puts the bags he was carrying down in the kitchen.
"Couch, why?"
"I want to check him over, just to be safe." Conner says
"Okay." Mouse says. Conner heads to the living room while the rest of the team stays in the kitchen putting things away.
"How is he?" Luke asks
"Honestly, better than I thought he would be." Mouse says.
"Flashbacks?" Trip asks
"None." Mouse says
"Nightmares?" Falcon asks
"Nope." Mouse answers
"Wow." Andrew breathes
"Yeah, I think we caught it in time, before it got bad." Mouse says
"Good, because he really does not need that right now, along with everything else." Falcon says.
"Speaking of which, what do the police have on his father?" Andrew asks
"From what he told me, close to nothing. The SVU detectives know that he's the one but they can't prove it. Jay said something about a fingerprint at the lastest crime scene but it didn't match anyone in the database. The only thing connecting the Chicago victims to the others on the east coast is the type of hunting knife used, it is rare, less than a hundred ever made and most are accounted for." Mouse says.
"Is it the same hunting knife that his father used on him?" Falcon asks. Trip leaves the kitchen to check on Jay and Conner in the living room.
"Yeah, which narrows it down." Mouse says
"How are they going about it?" Andrew asks.
"SVU has intelligence trying to connect the victims to someone instead of him to the victims, and SVU is trying to find him." Mouse says, relaying what Jay had told him.
"Good, does intelligence know Jay's connection to the case?" Falcon asks
"Not yet, but they will probably figure it out soon when they put the clothes and the appearance of the victim together." Mouse says
"Who does know about it?" Andrew asks
"Voight and the two SVU detectives."
"Can we trust them?"
"Definitely Voight, but I don't know the other two well, only that they tried to arrest Will the first time they were here, thought he was the serial rapist they were tracking." Mouse says
"Damn, if they tell anyone…" Andrew says
"I'm pretty sure Voight has already threatened them with a very painful death if they tell anyone." Mouse interrupts.
"Good." Andrew growls
"What about the rest of intelligence, can they be trusted? Can they keep this secret? Can they keep us secret?" Falcon asks
"Trusted, yes. Antonio, Alvin and Erin will be fine at keeping this secret, as will Atwater, but we might have to worry about Adam." Mouse says thoughtfully
"Why?"
"Because he can get cocky and if he's in trouble he tends to spill one secret to protect another." Mouse says.
"Enough risk to pull him?" Andrew asks
"I don't think so, the Units important to him, he'll do almost anything to protect it, and he's a loyal friend." Mouse says.
"Better be, we cannot have this getting out, it could be used against him." Falcon says
"I know, come on, we should probably make sure that they're not fighting over the remote." Mouse says with a laugh and walks into the living room. The three omegas were curled up together on the couch watching the Nailed It episode that Mouse had left it on. Conner on the end with his arms wrapped around Jay, Jay in the middle cuddled into Conner's side and Trip on the other end curled into Jay's side.
The three alphas smile at the sight and sit down on the ground in front of the couch to watch while Luke finishes making dinner. Ten minutes later Luke walks in with three bowls balanced in his arms, all six people in the room perk up when they smell the chicken soup.
"Go get your own, these are for Jay, Conner and Trip." Luke says with a laugh.
"Yay." The three omegas on the couch cheer at the betas words.
"Here you go guys." Luke says handing them the bowls and spoons.
"Thanks." Conner answers for all of them.
"Your welcome, now what are we watching?" He asks
"Nailed It." Trip says with a grin
"Good." Luke says and grabs his own bowl of soup from the kitchen then squeezes into the space on the other side of Trip and snuggles into him. The alphas come back from getting their dinner and sit back down on the ground before resuming the program.
It was past midnight when the group started to fall asleep, the omegas on the couch falling asleep on each other, including Luke, the alphas leaning against the couch, with the TV going on in the background. For once they manage to stay asleep until there's a knocking at the door of Mouse's apartment. Mouse woke up and went to the door and opened it.
"Hey Matt." Mouse says
"Hey bud, I brought over the extra suppressants." Matt says holding up a white bag.
"Thank you, Jay really doesn't need a heat on top of everything else going on right now." Mouse says
"No he doesn't, how is he?" Matt asks
"Better than I expected him to be honestly. He's eating, drinking and sleeping fine, no nightmares or flashbacks." Mouse says.
"Good, he needs the rest. I gotta go but I'll be back tomorrow. I'll keep you updated about the apartment fire." Matt says
"Okay. Thanks again, bye." Mouse says and closes the door as Matt walks away.
Mouse put the bag on the kitchen counter and set to work making pancakes for breakfast knowing that the others would be hungry when they woke up. In the living room, Luke woke to the sound of Mouse humming in the kitchen and decided to help him make breakfast.
"Morning." Luke greets him
"Morning." Mouse smile backs
"Pancakes?"
"Yup." Mouse says
"Because why not." Luke finishes
"Exactly." Mouse says.
They work together in a calm, peaceful silence, occasionally broken by one of them humming the bars of a song, or the scrape of a spoon on a bowl. After about twenty minutes, there was a huge tower of pancakes stacked on the counter waiting to be eaten.
"Do you wanna wake them up or should I?" Luke asks.
"I'll wake up the omegas and you wake up the other alphas." Mouse says.
"Got it." Luke says and moves to rouse the sleeping alphas on the floor. Mouse steps over them and puts a hand on Trip's shoulder and gently shakes him.
"Triptito." Mouse says softly.
"Whaa." Trip mumbles, blinking his eyes open.
"Time to wake up, pancakes are in the kitchen." Mouse says, leaning back so the omega can get off the couch.
"Yessss, pancakes!" Trip says and Mouse chuckles as Trip gets off the couch and hurries to the kitchen. Mouse leans back down and puts one hand on his mates shoulder and other on Conners, gently shaking to wake them up.
"Con, Jay, time to get up." He says
"Don't wanna get up." Comes Jay's muffled response and he curls further into Conner's side, who was just blinking his eyes open.
"Me and Luke made pancakes for breakfast and if you don't hurry Falcon and Andrew are gonna eat them all." Mouse says and takes a step back from the couch.
"Pancakes!" Jay shouts and both him and Conner bolt off the couch and into the kitchen.
"That's one way to get them up." Luke says, chuckling
"And the easiest." Mouse agrees. The two of them head into the kitchen where the rest of the team is dividing up the pancakes.
"Save some for us, would you." Luke says jokingly
"Nah." Falcon says with a laugh
"Now why would we do that?" Trip says sarcastically. Mouse and Luke look at each and roll their eyes and walk out of the room again, waiting until the others were done to serve themselves.
An hour later the team is sprawled across the living room, full and content.
"What are we doing today, beside you know, relaxing?" Conner asks.
"Do you have a shift today?" Trip asks
"Nope, I've got today and tomorrow off." Conner says with a smile.
"Good, cause we need to go get some things for what I've got planned today." Mouse says with a grin.
"What?" Andrew gasps
"You said you didn't have any plans for today." Jay says
"Not for you, not right now." Mouse says
"Me, Conner and Mouse are going to go get some things." Trip says
"What do you have planned?" Falcon asks
"It's a surprise, not just for Jay, for you guys too." Trip says
"Awe, come on." Jay begs
"Nope." Mouse denies
"Come on Conner, let's grab some clothes and get ready." Trip says to the other omega.
"Okay." Conner says and gets up to follow Trip into Mouse's bedroom.
"Mouse, come on." Jay pleads, hoping to get an answer.
"No Jay, it's a surprise." Mouse says
"You're leaving." Jay says
"Just for a little bit." Mouse says
"You're still leaving." Jay whines
"I'll come back, and you have Andrew, Falcon and Luke here with you." Mouse responds.
"Want you." Jay whines and cuddles closer to Mouse.
"Come on Hawky, I'll be back soon." Mouse protests.
"Not soon enough." Jay mumbles
"I'm sorry Jay, but I have to go and get the supplies, or do you not want the surprise?" Mouse asks
"That would depend on what the surprise is." Jay responds
"So that's what this is about? You just wanna know what the surprise is." Mouse laughs.
"Maybe." Jay mumbles.
"Wow Hawk." Mouse says and rolls his eyes.
"So what is it?" Jay tries again
"No, keep this up and you won't get it." Mouse says firmly
"Aww." Jay whines. Conner and Trip come back into the room dressed and ready to go.
"Mouse, ready?" Trip asks
"Almost." Mouse says having gotten dressed a few minutes before Trip and Conner.
"You want some help?" Andrew asks, gesturing to where Jay was sprawled across Mouse's lap.
"Please." Mouse accepts and Andrew holds Jay up enough so that Mouse can slip out and Andrew takes his place as Jay's pillow.
"Thank you." Mouse says, leaning down to press a kiss to Jay's lips before leaving the apartment with the other two.
"I don't mind, anyway, what do you guys wanna watch while they're off doing whatever." Andrew asks the team member remaining behind.
"ARROW." Falcon shouts.
"Iron man." Luke says more calmly.
"Age of Ultron." Jay suggests while snuggling closer to Andrew.
"Sorry Fal but anything in the Arrowverse just got out voted by Marvel." Andrew says, laughing at the pout on the other alphas face.
"Aww." Falcon whines.
"So, Iron Man or Age of Ultron?" Andrew asks
"Which Iron Man?" Falcon asks
"The second one, duhhh." Luke says teasingly.
"So Iron Man 2 vs. Age of Ultron?" Andrew says
"The winner is obvious, Age of Ultron. It has Hawkeye in it." Jay says with a grin.
"True, it also has the rest of the Avengers." Falcon says.
"But JARVIS!" Luke protests.
"How many times do we have to tell you, JARVIS does not die." Falcon says rolling his eyes.
"Fine, we can watch Age of Ultron." Luke relents, knowing how much Jay loves the movie and Hawkeye.
"I'll get the drinks." Jay says and is up in a flash heading to the kitchen. He comes back with arms full of water bottles, lemonade and diet coke. He hands a bottle of water to Luke, lemonade to Falcon and diet coke to Andrew and takes a lemonade for himself.
"Thank you." Andrew says as he accepts the diet coke bottle. He opens the cap and the bottle practically explodes in his hand.
"You didn't see that coming?" Jay quotes with a laugh.
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