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In the past month, Josie and Antonio had finally gotten their routine down, and Josie had been able to adjust to being back at work. In their down time, Josie was helping her parents plan their wedding. She knew her mother didn't want a fancy affair, but she also knew that they both deserved a special day.

"Jo!" Antonio called from the kitchen. "You coming or what?"

"Yeah, yeah." Josie shouted back. She looked at their daughter who was rolling around on their bed. "Daddy's being snippy today."

"I'm not snippy." Antonio said from the doorway. "Come on… I get you're the boss' daughter and all that, but I still don't like being late."

Josie shook her head. "Just… chill… she's not goin' to be this small forever… and well… I don't know if we can have another one."

Antonio sighed and wrapped his arms around her waist. "Do you want another one?"

"I don't know." Josie sighed. "I always saw us having a big family back then… and we have 5 kids."

"Babe… I think you're not telling me something."

Josie didn't want to say anything, but she knew Antonio would keep pushing for an answer. "Since we had Grace, I've had this pang… that I missed having babies around."

Antonio kissed her. "Let's get through Grace's first year… and we'll talk about it."

"I'll be 33 this year…"

"Yeah… your point?"

"I'm not getting any younger, Antonio."

"Neither am I… don't forget I'm 4 years older than you… I'm not worried about it… if we want to try again, we can… just, I'd like for Grace to be a year-old first."

"So, you'd be fine with 6 kids?"

"Jo… we have 6… 5 here… and one watching over us… so we'd have 7."

Josie nodded. "It's hard… realizing what we could have had."

Antonio kissed her again before picking Grace up from the bed. "Jo, you're a mom… the best mom I've seen in a long time… it's okay to hurt…"

"It's been six months." Josie sniffled.

"I know, babe… I know." Antonio said. "You wanna take the day off… spend the time with your mom and Grace…"

Josie wiped her eyes and shook her head. "No! I… I can do the job."

"No one's saying you can't." Antonio groaned. "You're allowed to be human."

"Human isn't going to get scum off the streets of Chicago."

Antonio sighed. "Okay…" He looked to Grace. "Mommy's being crazy again."

Grace giggled and pulled at Antonio's dog tags. She gurgled and cooed.

"Okay, Mimi is probably here now… let's go." Josie grabbed her jacket and bag and they headed to the kitchen.

The kids had headed off to school already and Dixie was in the kitchen making coffee.

"Y'all are gonna be late." She took Grace from Antonio.

"Mom…"

"Don't you sass me, Josephine." Dixie hadn't used Josie's full name since the twins had been born.

"Okay… okay!" Josie took the travel mugs from the counter. "We're going."

Dixie kissed them each on the cheek and took Grace's chubby little hand in hers and waved. "Bye Mama, bye Daddy…"

Antonio laughed as he grabbed the keys by the door and they headed to the district.


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It was getting late. They'd wrapped up early enough. Josie was watching her father pace in his office. Erin was sitting next to her. "What's he doing?"

Josie shrugged. "No clue."

Antonio came out of the locker room. "What's Voight doing?"

"No idea." Erin and Josie said in unison.

"That's just creepy." Antonio shook his head.

"How's Justin doing?" Josie asked Erin. She had wanted to go with Erin to pick him up when he was released the night before, but Grace had a high fever, so Antonio and her had taken her to see a doctor.

"Good… he hasn't reached out?" Erin asked.

Josie sighed. "No… and I don't want to push him, either. He's just getting used to having a sister, brother-in-law and their kids… now Mama and Dad are getting married… it's a lot to take in…"

Erin nodded. "It is." She looked to her mentor before turning back to Josie. "What did he say when you guys told them Hank was marrying Dixie?"

"Nothing." Josie said. "He just kinda stared at us before saying congratulations, but it didn't seem genuine."

"Hmm." Erin looked to Antonio. "What do you make of this?"

"I don't know… I'm living in a completely different world now. I put both my brother and father-in-law in prison… I'm not exactly the person they call to chat." Antonio leaned against his desk. He looked to Josie. "Jo, you should go talk to him."

"About what?"

"Whatever is bugging him." Antonio suggested. "It's hard for him right now, he's trying to balance everything and it's not easy."

Josie groaned. "Okay… but I'm not responsible if he breaks something tonight." She walked up to her father's office and knocked on the door. "Can I come in?"

"Yeah, Josie…" Hank motioned to her to close the door behind her. "What's up?"

"We're worried about you… you've been pacing in her for the last hour." Josie sat on the corner of his desk. "What's bothering you?"

Hank groaned. "It's Justin… I promised him that I'd pick him up… but I couldn't… then, well… I don't think he's too thrilled I'm marrying your mother."

"Why do you say that?"

"He… I don't know… at first, he was so into us being one big family, no matter how it came to be… but the last couple weeks, he's been different."

"Have you talked to him about it?"

Hank shrugged. "Josie… your paternal side isn't exactly known for talking."

"Oh… so maybe I was left by aliens… because I always talk things out… well, mostly… Mama isn't known for her talking skills either." Josie laughed. "Maybe we can talk this over while at dinner tonight?"

"You proposing we go out for dinner?"

"Erin… actually proposed it. As much as she wasn't my biggest fan when I came into Intelligence, I think she's growing on me… she knows my own father and brother better than I do."

Hank chuckled. "That she does. She may not be mine biologically, but she's the closest thing I had to a daughter for a long time."

"So, she thinks we should go out… talk to Justin…"

"Who should go?"

"You, Erin and me… Antonio can go and deal with the kids for a bit… I think Justin just needs to know that we're here for him and that he's got the chance of a lifetime to fix all this."

Hank thought about it. Josie had a point. "Okay… well… let's do it."

"Good. Reservation's already made and we can pick Justin up on the way."

Hank hugged her. "You are definitely your mother's daughter."

Josie smiled. "Let's go eat… I'm starving."


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"Dad… where's Mom?" Xavier asked.

"With your grandpa and Erin… they're trying to talk to your Justin… you know, help he adjust." Antonio said while pulling the pizza out of the oven.

"Is Uncle Justin going to be okay?" Diego asked.

"Yeah… of course he is." Antonio smiled. He cut the pizza. "Eat up… I'm going to feed Grace."

Meanwhile…

"So, Justin… how's it going?" Josie asked.

Justin shrugged. "Okay… I guess."

Hank told him about the job at the CTA. Justin didn't seem impressed. Erin and Josie tried to convince him that he needed to take baby steps to get reintegrated.

Hank's cell began to ring. He excused himself from the table and went to take it.

Justin, ignoring Josie, turned to Erin. "Strange how things worked out, huh?"

Erin arched an eyebrow. "Whatta ya talkin' about?"

"Well, we took you in… you were the screw up… now you're the golden girl and I'm the prodigal son."

"Justin…" Josie reached for his hand.

He pulled his hand back as if Josie were a viper, set to strike. "You just showed up… you're supposedly my dad's kid and now he's marrying your mom…"

"Justin!" Erin snapped. "She is your sister… and Hank is happy… what is wrong with you?"

"I'm still the guy I was when I got tossed in there by my 'brother-in-law' a year ago." Justin snapped back.

"You have a second chance, now… don't piss on it." Erin said. "Your dad and sister have put their reputations on the line… don't bite the hand that's just trying to help you out."

Hank returned from the call. He could tell that something was up. He groaned. "I'm sorry, kid… we gotta roll."

Justin looked to his father, a mix of pain and anger filled his eyes. "Sure, whatever, Pop." He got up from the table and stormed off.

"You two wanna tell me what that was about?"

"Not really." Erin grabbed her coat. "We got a case?"

Hank nodded slowly. "Jo, Antonio's meeting us there. You can catch a ride with me."

Josie looked to Erin, who nodded. They both knew that one of the only ways Hank wouldn't flip was if Josie broke the news to him. "Sure thing, Dad."


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Antonio was shaking his head. There was a notice that Intelligence was supposed to be called about this guy, but he didn't recognize the name. He noticed that Voight, Josie and Lindsay were pulling up. He could also tell that his father-in-law was not happy about something. He'd have to talk to Jo about it later. He went to join them. "House belongs to a Dean Masters. His file was red-flagged to notify Intelligence. I don't recognize the name… had to have been before my time." He handed Hank the file.

Hank looked it over. "Oh… yeah… him."

The rest of the team was staring at him. "And?"

"That robbery at the Art Institute last year… We liked him as the fence."

They went on to explain how they'd ended up there. Hank groaned. He hated this type of situation. He walked up to the door and demanded that Masters give up. When that didn't work, the busted down the doors and stormed the place. Erin, Jay and Josie were trying to talk Masters down, but that failed miserably when he blew his own brains out.

"Jo!" Antonio rushed to her after Erin and Jo had pulled the girl Masters had been holding hostage away. "You okay?"

Jo nodded. "Yeah… Jesus Christ."

Antonio pulled her into his arms. "I hate when you're the one that gets caught up in that."

Jo sighed. "Antonio… I've been a cop for a long ass time… I know this happens."

"Are you sure you're okay?"

"Keep smothering me, Detective… and I'll sic my father on you." Josie smirked.

Antonio sighed. "Okay." He turned his attention to Jay and Erin. "You two okay?"

They nodded, but Antonio could tell they were shaken up.

"My sister and her partner went through this a year or so back… my sister was okay, but her partner… Shay took it really hard. Don't be afraid to talk to anyone… me, even. You know… if it sneaks up on you."

"Thanks." Jay nodded.

"Sure thing." Erin agreed.

As cops, they'd seen their share of things on the job, but things like this, it always left them shook up.


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They'd come up with some proof that an Adam Mazur was the pimp running the girls that had been coming to Masters. Since Masters was ranting that a 'Nadia' was the one that was supposed to show up, the team knew that Mazur was the next one they needed to bring in.

Antonio was pulling vest on. "I remember Mazur back from my Vice days. Used to call him the 'Whac-a-mole pimp'. We'd take him out at one place and he'd just pop up in the next."

"Sounds like a winner." Josie pulled her jacket over her vest. "Let's just get him… before this escalates out of control."

When they pulled up to the club, and they went inside. Antonio, Jo and Hank went to find Mazur while Jay and the others kept security busy. Antonio found Mazur and grabbed him by his shirt collar. "How you doing, Mazur?"

"Uh… he…hey, Antonio…" Mazur stammered.

"You got a girl called Nadia?" Josie got in his face.

"Nope… never heard of no Nadia."

Voight didn't have time for this. He got involved and within a matter of seconds, he had the room Nadia was in. He sent Ruzek to go get her. They were cuffing the others when there was a shout of pain. Antonio and Josie looked to each other and took off to check on Adam.

When they got there, Ruzek was on the floor grabbing his crotch and the door leading outside was wide open. Josie groaned. Their potential witness, or suspect, was gone and Ruzek was injured. Antonio helped Adam up and Josie went to tell her father that Nadia was in the wind.


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Jay and Antonio went to check on Ruzek. He was currently pantless in the locker room. Antonio tossed him an ice pack. "Here."

"Thanks, I think they're swollen." Adam hissed as he applied the ice to his groin.

"I'll take your word for it." Jay laughed. "Unis picked Nadia up trying to score over on Roosevelt."

"You alright?" Antonio asked.

"No."

"Just checking." Antonio chuckled.

"Antonio, it ain't funny, man… Me and Wendy… we want kids. If I'm sterile, I'm gonna have this chick's neck."

"Uh-uh." Antonio shook his head. "This is all on you, Ruzek."

"You can't let your guard down like that, ever." Jay added. "She may look innocent, but those are the most dangerous kind."

Ruzek lied back on the bench. "Good talk."

Meanwhile, Al had been called away to his daughter's school. So, with Al and Ruzek temporarily out of the field, the others were left picking up the slack. Erin and Josie decided to take a crack at Nadia. Erin was able to get through to her more than Josie. Josie had tried the mom approach, while Erin used a more in your face approach.

When they came back upstairs, Al had some punk tied to a chair in the rollout and Jay was in Hank's office. Josie looked to Antonio. "What the hell is going on here, today?"

"I have no fuckin' clue." Antonio sighed. "What did you two manage to get out of Nadia?"

"She gave us a name… he's supposed to be in on all this." Erin joined them. "What's going on with Jay?"

"No clue." Antonio took a look at the notes Erin had. "Okay, let's get ready to roll out."

They checked out Noel Harris' place. He was dead but they'd determined that he was part of a counterfeiting crew. He fabricated the paper for the counterfeiters, which meant Masters had been the one who did the art for it.

Hank groaned. "We had to have missed something at Masters'… tear that place apart."


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After they discovered the hidden room at Masters' place, Voight brought in a buddy of his from the Chicago Field Office of the Secret Service.

"Wait, boss… we handing this case over?"

Hank shook his head. "Not just yet. Any time counterfeit is involved, they get called in."

They went over the new information concerning this method of counterfeiting. They'd all seen the new, fancy printers, but the old-school method with plates was rare to see now. They'd come to the conclusion that 2 of the 3 involved in this were dead, they'd have to find the third guy before he ended up riddled with bullets too. They were looking for their printer and they had no idea who to look for.

Hank turned to Erin. "You gotta take another run at Nadia."

Erin nodded and headed to the cage to see if they could get anything else out of her, especially since they now knew that Nadia knew Masters better than she was letting on.


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"Al?" Josie found him pacing outside the rollout.

"Yeah, Jo?"

"Everything okay?"

Al sighed. "Not really."

"Wanna talk about it?"

Al arched an eyebrow. "How can you help?"

"I'm assuming this has something to do with Lexie… she's what 15?"

Al nodded. "Yeah."

"The twins are that age… I think I know a thing or two about kids that age."

"It's this guy she's seeing… he's a senior."

Josie nodded. "I see."

"He got her to hide pot in her locker… because he's can't have a record for his scholarships."

"Al… Lexie's a smart girl… and kind."

"She's suspended… for a loser." Al groaned.

Josie patted his shoulder. "I'm taking she's pissed at you?"

"Putting it mildly." Al sighed. "I just want what's best for her."

"We all wants what's best for our kids." Josie smiled. "Lexie will do what's right. I know that. You just gotta have faith in her."

"Thanks, Jo." Al squeezed her hand. "You obviously get your wisdom from your mother."

Josie laughed. "Don't let Dad hear that."


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Josie was just walking upstairs when Justin stormed by her. "Hey! Justin!" She got no reaction, so she finished making her way upstairs. "Dad… you got a minute?"

Hank nodded and headed into his office. He closed the door behind Josie. "What's up?"

"I just saw Justin… what's going on?"

Hank shook his head. "He wants money… thinks I still have lots of it lying around… wants to get in on some business thing so he doesn't have to work at the CTA."

"How much is he talking about?"

"10 grand." Hank sat at his desk.

"What the hell kind of business venture is that?" Josie sat across from him.

"Something about cell phones… he's just pissed that I wouldn't give it to him."

"Did you even have that lying around?" Josie asked. She'd heard the rumours about her father.

"No… and even if I did… I wouldn't give it to him." Hank leaned back in his chair. "I want him to grow… learn from his mistakes."

"I get that, Dad." Josie said. "Why does he think you'd have that money?"

"Jo, you've heard the rumours."

"Dad, I'm asking you."

Hank sighed. "I wasn't exactly being moral and… I'm not like Antonio."

"Dad… no one's perfect." She reached across the desk and squeezed his hand. "You're still my dad."

"I'm not the man…"

"Dad, you gotta stop beating yourself up over some of this… and you're right, Justin has to learn on his own."

Hank nodded. "We got anything to move on?"

Josie nodded. "Yeah… Glen Ward… or Denis Diderot… whoever, he's got a warehouse… we're ready to hit it when you are."

"Then let's go." Hank got up from his chair.


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The raid went down without too much of a hitch. A couple of Ward's goons needed to be transported to Med, but otherwise, they got the bad guys and the counterfeit cash. Everyone was happy, well almost everyone. As they were punching out, Jay got a death glare from Hank.

"You know anything about all that?" Josie whispered to Antonio.

He shook his head. "No, but Jay asked me to go to Molly's… talk about something."

"Go…" She kissed him. "I'll be fine with the kids… Mama and Dad are supposed be coming by work on some wedding stuff anyhow."

"Don't tell Voight that I'm meeting with Halstead." He kissed her again. "Please."

"I'll tell him you're visiting Gaby." She grinned. "See you later tonight."

Antonio knew he was lucky. He nodded and went to find Jay.

"Hey, 'Tonio." Jay met him outside the District.

"Hey, what the hell's going on between you and Voight?"

"I'll tell you at Molly's." Jay made his way to his vehicle. "What did you tell Josie?"

"The truth. She's not gonna blab anything to Hank… they're knee deep in wedding plans anyhow."

Jay laughed. "Never thought I'd see him get married."

"Meh… at least he's not kicking my ass anymore." Antonio got in. "Let's just go and get this over with."


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"Dad!" Josie chased after him. "Dad! What's wrong?"

Hank was pulling his coat on. "It's Justin."

Josie reached for her coat. "Let me help."

"No… I'm good. Help your mother out with this stuff… I'm good with whatever she wants." He kissed her cheek. "See you tomorrow."

Josie sighed as she closed the door behind him. Something was definitely up with Justin and whatever it was, it wasn't good.

Antonio got home shortly after midnight. He was surprised to see that Dixie was still there going over different menus. He gave Josie a kiss and went to hug Dixie. "Hey, Dixie… you're here late."

"Hank had to go solve something… so I'm just chilling." She smiled.

Antonio looked to Josie, who just shook her head. "Anything I can help with?"

"I'm stuck on menus." She handed Antonio two different menus.

"Sure thing." He smiled. "I like this one… buffets are able to give people more variety."

"That's what Hank said… I just wasn't sure." Dixie smiled, but they could both see something was bothering her.

Josie finished putting the dishes away and closed the dishwasher. "Mama… what's going on?"

"Isn't planning a wedding the answer?"

"Mama… we're both detectives… come on." Josie sat next to her.

"I… I don't know if Hank really wants to go through with this." She was fiddling with her engagement ring.

"Mama…" Josie took her hand. "Dad wants to marry you… it's… Justin is taking a little more of his time than he'd like… but Mama… he still loves you."

"I guess I just feel… like maybe he's second guessing our relationship." Dixie sighed. She looked to them. "I'm sorry… y'all don't need this."

"Dixie… I know Hank and Justin… this whole getting out of Statesville thing is going to take time for both of them to adjust to this. Plus… We're all worried that Justin may be getting into something that could do more harm than good."

Dixie sighed. "I know… he mumbles about it in his sleep." Dixie looked to Josie. "I just feel like I'm invading their family."

"Mama… that's not true… Justin just has to realize that he isn't the centre of Dad's universe like he seems to think he is." Josie kissed her cheek. "You wanna stay here tonight, or you want us to drive you home?"

She shrugged. "I don't want to be a burden. I can call a cab."

"Mama… not another word." Josie looked to Antonio. He nodded. "You'll stay here tonight."

Antonio went to go get the guest room ready. He also knew that there was going to be a long discussion into what was going on with her father and half-brother. He sighed. It was late, they had to work in the morning, Grace still wasn't over her ear infection and now they had this. "I swear that man will be the death of me." Antonio groaned. He went to let them know the room was ready and then went to check on Grace.

Josie made sure her mom was settled in before heading to her own room. She knew Antonio had checked on Grace. She was frustrated. Between everything that was going on here and at work, they now had to add her parents' relationship to the pile. She got changed and was applying lotion to her hands when Antonio got in the room.

"Jo… we cannot get involved."

"The hell we can't!" She exclaimed. "Between family drama and the job drama… we're going to be walking into a soap opera… or a telenovela."

Antonio groaned and stripped down to his briefs. "Look, baby… I love you and your family… even Voight… most days… but we can't be bringing work home and home to work."

"Antonio… we can't risk it… Dad's gonna go down a rabbit hole with Justin again."

Antonio grabbed a pillow and hid his head under it. "I'm not doing this again. Last time I did, my sister's firehouse went under Voight's rampage."

"Dad's not the same way as he was back then."

"Jo… baby…" He pulled her into his arms. "I know he's not… but, if Justin's getting into trouble again… there's nothing your father won't do to protect him."

Josie's heart broke at that fact. She knew it was true, but she hoped that maybe Justin would be better now that he was out. "How can I help them?"

"You're doing all you can, Jo." Antonio stroked her arm. "You can't work miracles on people who don't want to be helped."

Josie sniffled. "I know."

Antonio kissed her. "Babe, I know you want to fix this, make it all better and have a family that's more or less in one piece, but there are things that aren't always going to work the way you want them."

"He made my mother cry, Antonio." She wiped her eyes.

Now he had the whole picture. "We'll deal with all this in the morning. I promise." He looked down and saw that Josie was already asleep. "I promise, no one is going to hurt our family anymore." He kissed her and turned the light out. Tomorrow was not going to be a good day.


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A/N: Well, there we have it. I know it's taking forever to update, but I have multiple stories on the go as well as Brettonio one shots… so I'm trying to alternate between all of them. More to come soon. Cheers! Nicole.