"That makes sense." Jay says.

"How did he manage to just drop off the grid with a 3 year old kid?" Alvin asks.

"Yeah, I mean, someone must have been watching him after the trial." Antonio says.

"He slipped through the system, of course with help. The DCFS worker assigned to the case was an old friend, and helped Halstead Sn slip through." Stabler says.

"So the message was addressed to you?" Benson asks Jay.

"Yes."

"Do you know what he means by 'the others'?" She asks.

"I wish I did, but knowing him, hostages of some sort." Jay says.

"Damn." Stabler curses, the others muttering things along the same lines.

"If he does have hostages and wants me for them, I'm doing it, I won't allow him to hurt anyone else." Jay says determinately. Alvin rolls his eyes, typical Jay, putting everyone else before himself.

"Only if it comes to that, we'll try everything else first." Voight says.

"Okay." Jay says.

Over the next thirty minutes, the rest of intelligence had come over to Jay to assure him that nothing had changed and that they didn't see him any differently. Actually, that's a lie, they did see him differently, they saw him as being a lot stronger than they ever realized. He had gone through hell and lived to tell the tale. He had gone through hell twice actually, Adam pointed out, once with his father, and a second time overseas. They told that it didn't matter to them that he was an omega. They understood the reason for him not telling them before.

It was a couple of minutes after Antonio had sat back down at his desk when Jay's phone pinged with a text message from an unknown number.

I have some people that you may want. Meet at Navy Pier in six hours. Alone. Or they pay the price.

"And so it begins." Jay mutters. When he had the bullpen's attention, he read the text aloud.

"So he does have hostages, any pictures?" Benson asks.

"Nope." Jay says.

"Six hours is plenty of time to scout and set up sniper nests, and Navy Pier is open, this is a stupid decsicion for him." Alvin says.

"A trap?" Adam asks

"Probably, Navy Pier is open, but it will be dark, and civilians will be walking around, very few snipers would be willing to make a shot in those conditions. He wants me, and the only way to get me would be to meet me somewhere far from the hostages so I would need to go with him to find them. He's thought this through." Jay says.

"Are you going?" Antonio asks.

"Fuck yes, I will not have the blood of those hostages on my hands." Jay says.

"I want the area scouted now and when it gets dark. Any people on the Pier at 8 will be plainclothes officers." Voight says.

"Got it." Alvin says. Everyone in the bullpen heads out to scout the Pier. Jay takes out his phone and sends a text to the rest of Tier One.

Showdown at 8. Meet us at Navy Pier now, scouting time. Time for my two lives to meet.

Intelligence arrives at the Pier and stands around Voight's car where a blueprints of the area is spread out over the hood.

"Hey guys." Jay says to get his unit attention.

"Yeah." Antonio says for the group.

"Uh, two things actually, first one, I wanna say thanks for this, you guys didn't have to do this, I would have been fine on my own." Jay says with a faint blush rising on his cheeks as the others glare at him for saying something that stupid.

"Jay, shut up." Erin says.

"Of course we had to do this." Adam says.

"Like I said after the Benbenek case, this unit is a family, and to me there is nothing more important than family." Voight says.

"Thanks." Jay says with a grin.

"No sweat." Adam says, with a pat on Jay's back.

"And the second thing?" Alvin asks.

"The second thing, I want you guys to meet some people that are very important to me, and the reason that I am still alive today. They will be here in a few minutes to help with scouting." Jay says, looking around the group, gauging their reactions.

"So who are they?" Adam asks.

"Yeah man, don't leave us hanging here." Antonio says.

"My Ranger unit. You already know Mouse and Andrew, and I thought what better time to introduce you to the rest of them" Jay says.

"The rest?" Adam asks, everyone in the unit thought that Mouse and Jay (and now Andrew) were the only survivors from their unit.

"Five more, though you already know two of them besides Mouse and Andrew, though they may surprise you." Jay says.

"Do they live in Chicago?" Erin asks.

"Two of them do, the other three live in D.C., they flew down yesterday when they heard that my father was back in town." Jay says.

"Wow."

"It's just the way they are, overprotective bastards." Jay curses, his tone affectionate in a way that the other did not miss.

"Protective?" Adam says.

"Very, borderline controlling and very annoying. Be prepared to be questioned upon their arrival." Jay warns.

"They know you're an omega?" Voight asks.

"Yup, though that's not why they're protective, I tend to be a trouble magnet wherever I go." Jay says with a sheepish grin.

"We already know that." Antonio says with a chuckle.

"Yeah. Anyway, I should probably give you guys a bit of background about us." Jay says.

"Go ahead." Alvin says.

"If you're wondering why we're always looking over our shoulders, its because we have a lot of enemies who will take any chance they get to take us out, and the only way we are recognizable as a team is if we're together, so we're a bit on edge." Jay says.

"Why the enemies?" Antonio says.

"They come with the territory." Jay says.

"What territory?" Alvin asks.

"The territory of being the number one team in the world." Jay says finally.

"The number one team… in the entire world?" Adam breathes.

"Yup, and there are a lot of people out there looking to knock us out." Jay says jokingly.

"Damn." Erin curses.

"Just wow." Antonio says. Just then, two cars pull up next to each other across from where Intelligence was standing.

"And here they are now." Jay says as the rest of Tier One climbs out of the two cars.

"Tier One, to me." Jay orders his team and they obey instantly, coming to stand either side of Jay, Mouse and Andrew, facing the rest of Intelligence.

"Conner?" Adam says when he sees the omega standing on Jay left.

"Yup." He answers.

"You too, Casey?" Erin says.

"Me too." Matt agrees.

"And the rest are, Trip, Tiger, and Falcon, sorry about the code names, but real names are classified for the sake of our security." Jay says.

"And the fact that most of us rarely use our real names anymore." Trip says with a smirk.

"How was patrol?" Andrew asks.

"Good, nothing out of the ordinary, nothing that says we've been spotted." Falcon says.

"That's good to hear." Mouse says.

"What's this about a scouting party?" Trip asks.

"And the showdown at 8?" Tiger says.

"And if I might add, why the hell is this place called Navy Pier?" Andrew butts in.

"And what about…" Trips next question gets cut off by Jay

"Enough, one question at a time, Tiger, I got a text from my father saying to meet him

here at 8 tonight, Trip, that is what the scouting party is here for. Andrew, I have no idea." Jay says, with the authority of an alpha that the detectives of the intelligence unit did not miss.

"Any other questions before we get started?" Jay asks his team.

"One, what's the situation with hostages?" Trip asks.

"We know he has some, we don't know who, how many or where." Jay says.

"Got it." Trip says.

"Anything else?"

"Nothing." The group responds together in sync. Jay swells with pride for his team and turns back to Intelligence.

"You guys?" Jay asks.

"Yeah, when you say the number one team?" Adam trails off.

"He means the best of the best of the best, of the world, in everything." Conner says.

"Recon and Restitution." Trip chimes in.

"Recovery." Tiger chips. Recovery

"Hand to Hand." Andrew says.

"Undercover." Matt says with a smile.

"Infiltration." Falcon says.

"Everything." Mouse finishes. Jay smiles at his team with pride shining in his eyes. He turns back to Intelligence again.

"That about covers it." Jay says.

"Damn." Voight mutters and the rest of the unit nods their agreements with the statement.

"There isn't much we can't do." Mouse says with a huge smile.

"Scratch that." Trip says.

"There isn't anything we can't pull off." Jay finishes for his fellow omega.

"Damn straight." Andrew says.

"And with that, don't we have a job to do?" Jay says.

"That we do, let's move." Andrew says.

"Tiger, Matt, Conner and Falcon, you guys start with the sniper nests, do all the surrounding building, including the ones across the lake. You know the drill, we'll plan who later. Andrew, Mouse and Trip, you're with me scouting down here for accessibility." Jay orders, again with the alpha tone in his voice. He turns to Intelligence once again. His team nods and splits into the two groups.

"Voight, you can split up however you want." Jay says.

"Got it. Okay, Erin, Adam and Alvin, help scout the sniper perches, Antonio with me, we'll scout down here." Voight orders.

"Okay." And the snipers head to the nearest rooftop to start. Voight and Antonio turn to Jay and his group.

"How do you want to do this?" Voight asks Jay.

"Escape routes, cameras, hidey holes, stuff like that needs to be found and marked for tonight." Jay explains.

"Got it." Voight says. And with that, the group starts scanning the area.

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