I want to thank everyone who left me such great reviews and cheered along with Chris, Street and Champ :-)
This will be the epilogue and is therefore the end of my story.

Four months became six and with Chris getting the opportunity to join the SWAT academy and gaining her spot, their connection broke.
When he finally got out, he tried getting back in touch with Chris but her number had been disconnected...

He had no idea what was going on. Whether she was well? Whether she had changed her number and no longer wanted to have contact with him? All questions to which no one could give him an answer.
After many attempts, Street had even asked his boss if he could help him, but thanks to data protection, there was nothing he could do. He was very depressed and had reluctantly given up after several attempts. He just hoped Chris and Champ were okay. He was still with the LAPD in Long Beach and was content there.

Chris efforts and travails were rewarded and she was the only woman to get the coveted spot with SWAT. She joined the team with Buck Spivey and things couldn't have gone better.
Unfortunately, she had to turn in her duty phone from K9 at that time because she was given a new one at SWAT. She knew that Street and also she now had absolutely no chance to get in touch with each other.
Champ had since retired. Rubina, a co-worker at SWAT had taken him over and was taking care of him, along with her husband and two daughters. He had paradise on earth and Chris continued to pay all the vet bills and make sure he didn't want for anything.

Team 20 - David led by Buck, had a terrible mission the night Buck accidentally shot a black boy. Although the whole team stood up for him, he was suspended from duty and eventually fired. The mood throughout HQ was depressed and team members couldn't believe it. The commander, Hicks, had decided that Daniel "Hondo" Harrelson should be Buck's successor and the new team leader. Confusion spread, because actually Sergeant David Kay would have been next in line.
Team 20 - David was training, all except Hondo. He had been in Hick's office for what felt like hours.
"We're down a man now. I have no idea how we're going to compensate for that in the long run." Came Luca.
"I don't know either, but they can't keep sending us out understaffed forever." Replied Chris.
"We won't continue to be understaffed either." Hondo approached his team with a folder. Everyone looked puzzled, waiting for more info.
"We're getting Jim Street." He held the folder in the air for all to see and the picture of the new colleague.
"Who?" Chris hadn't gotten the name right. Hondo turned to her extra again and held the folder right in front of her face.
"Jim Street." And suddenly her eyes got big, she had to swallow hard and sweat instantly formed on her forehead.
"Do you know him Chris?" Tan wanted to know. Crap, what was she going to say now? Yeah, we had a thing a few years ago. No definitely not!
"Ehm, not really, I met him once at a cooeration with Long Beach, but only briefly." She lied and immediately regretted it.

She stood with her back to the entrance door and suddenly all the others looked curiously at it. Chris automatically turned around too and there he came. Street. She hoped that he wouldn't say anything obvious and actually she would have liked to sink into the ground. Running away now wouldn't do any good, though, because he was her colleague now, her team member.
"Hey, I'm Jim, Jim Street." He greeted the group and looked everyone in the eye one by one. When he got to Chris, his gaze lingered. His eyes got as big as hers when she saw his picture.
"Chris? Hey, you here? Since when? Um, we - " That's as far as he got, because Chris interrupted him. She was insanely afraid he was going to say too much.
"Hey, yeah, what a coincidence. We haven't seen each other in a really long time, but let's chat a bit later, now we have a lot to do." She hoped her look told him to leave it at that and it had worked, he understood.

The shift had gone relatively smoothly, they had been assigned to patrol duty and Street had shown all his skills right away. Hondo and the team were not thrilled with his approach and he was put in his place right away.
Chris was exhausted. The training, the patrol duty and then also the reunion with Street. She went to the locker room, wanting only to shower and go home. Standing under the shower, she enjoyed the lukewarm water running over her body and her thoughts caught up with her again.
What must Street have thought when he saw and recognized her? Had he been as sad and disappointed as she was when he couldn't reach her anymore? Had he even tried again or had he forgotten her during the undercover operation? Questions over questions, but today she didn't want to talk to him about it.

When she got out of the shower she wrapped a towel around her body and went to her locker. She bent down slightly and was about to take out her deodorant when the door opened and Street walked in.
"Oh, um, hey, I'll be out in a minute." She said softly, trying to hide her blush. Why did he, of all people, have to come in here now? Automatically she pulled her towel a bit higher again to cover all the intimate parts of her body well. Street spoke nothing he just watched her and smirked.
"What is it?" She asked a bit snappishly.
"What are you so shy about Chris? It's not like I haven't seen you naked before." His grin widened and he leaned lasciviously against his locker with his arms crossed together.

And in that moment Chris caught herself hoping that maybe Hondo was right and he´d get himself killed out there before he could drive her crazy...