Happy New Year everyone!
Sorry again about the long wait between chapters, New Year was a little crazy for me.
Thank you for all the feedback on the last chapter, It seemed like everyone enjoyed Upstead smut so I will definitely do some more in future chapters.
I hope everyone enjoys this chapter!
The drive back to Chicago was supposed to be a relaxing enjoyable drive back however it turned out to be an absolute nightmare. A wave of heavy snow came in earlier than expected and caused absolute chaos on the roads. The interstates which usually ran smoothly were now barely moving. What was supposed to be a 3 hour journey back into Chicago took Hailey and Jay nearly 6 hours and it was now the evening when they finally reached Chicago.
The couple finally reached Hailey's home, both of them tired and grumpy from the long chaotic drive home, Jay more so as he was the one driving, dealing with idiots on the roads.
"Here's the happy couple, welcome back guys." Rojas greeted them from the island in the kitchen as the two stumbled through the door. Hailey gave Rojas a warming smile as she walked over and gave her a quick hug, Jay acknowledged Rojas by just grunting, still grumpy from the drive home.
"Hails I'm going to take our luggage up to the bedroom and sort everything out, then I'm going to have a shower." Jay spoke in an emotionless tone, Hailey nodding back his way.
"What's the matter with Halstead Hailey?" Rojas questioned after Jay made his way upstairs.
"Oh he's just grumpy from the drive home, the snow came in earlier than expected and made the roads a nightmare, and he hates being stuck behind slow drivers." Hailey chuckled, Rojas laughing slight as well.
Hailey grabbed a couple of beers from the fridge and joined Rojas at the kitchen island. "How was your Christmas with your family?" Rojas questioned.
"It was really nice, it was good to get out of Chicago for a little while and clear my head. I loved seeing my family again as I don't get to see them often, I love spending time with my niece and nephew so it helped me clear my head and refresh my batteries." Hailey explained, smiling to herself.
"That's sounds wonderful, what was Jay like with your family?" Rojas replied.
"He was really comfortable around them, he got on well with everyone. Especially my brother Tim, he's a soldier as well so it was really nice to see Jay open up to him. He was also really good with the two kids, they loved spending time with him." Hailey continued, still with a great big smile on her face. "Anyway, what did you for Christmas?" Hailey asked a few moments later.
"Well I was planning on just relaxing however Platt invited all of the unit over for Christmas dinner as Mouch was on shift so we all spent the day there. Then me, Atwater, Ruzek and Burgess went out for a couple of drinks in the evening. It was nice to spend some time getting to know everyone better in a chilled out environment." Rojas explained.
"I'm really glad you had a good time. I felt bad leaving you on your own especially as you said you don't have any family in Chicago." Hailey replied honestly.
"Don't worry Hailey, you needed to get out of Chicago and have some time with your family and Jay. Kim already offered to have myself, Adam and Kevin over but when Platt invited us over we decided to go there so I wouldn't have been alone anyway." Rojas spoke assuringly, giving Hailey a warm smile.
"Well I'm glad you had a good time. What did you do for New Years?" Hailey spoke.
"Hermann had a big New Year party at Molly's so everyone for 51, our unit and some from med were there so it was a really good night. A few people may have had a little too much to drink, Trudy and Will ended up on the bar singing, somehow Will's top had come off so that was a great laugh." Rojas chuckled, Hailey laughing with her.
Hailey and Rojas spent a little while longer catching up with a few things. The two of them prepared dinner together, cooking a simple but delicious pasta dish. Also they shoved some chocolate chip cookies with the oven as they had nothing planned this evening. Jay was still nowhere to be seen, Hailey assuming that he needed a little time to calm down after the drive home.
Hailey had pulled her hair up into a ponytail while she was cooking dinner, Rojas had noticed the faint love bites on her neck and chuckled slightly. Hailey throwing a confused look Rojas's direction as she was unaware on what Rojas was laughing at. "Someone marked their territory." Rojas continued chuckling, Hailey looking a little sheepishly as she was slightly embarrassed.
"Well let's just say New Years was very enjoyable." Hailey responded, a small cheeky smile on her lips.
"Damn Hailey, it's about time you and Halstead got down and dirty." Rojas chuckled, earning a glance from Hailey.
"Let's just say it was worth the wait. I had been teasing him all week in the hot tub as I was wearing a bikini that was quite revealing." Hailey spoke.
The two of them finished off making dinner and Jay joined them. They sat around the island together chatting about random things and moved to the couch, settling down to watch the Blackhawks game.
Jay was chilling on the couch, looking through something on Hailey's laptop when Skype opened up on her laptop and a familiar face popping up on the screen, Jay quickly accepting the call as it came through.
"Mouse, how you doing buddy." Jay spoke, a big beaming smile on his face.
"I'm doing great Jay, how your recovery going?" Mouse questioned.
"It's going great, I'm feeling more and more like I used to each day that passes bye. I return to work soon on light duty, I just want to take it easy for a little while." Jay explained.
"That's great to hear Jay, I'm sorry I haven't called recently, it's been absolutely hectic over here recently as everyone is preparing for the end of the deployment so I've hardly had any free time. How was your Christmas anyway?" Mouse replied.
"I spent my Christmas with Hailey's family at her lake house so I had a really good time." Jay responded.
"Where is my favourite detective anyway?" Mouse chuckled, Jay shouted out for Hailey to come down for what she was doing upstairs.
"Hi Mouse it's great to see you, when are you back?" Hailey smiled as she greeted him.
"I'm actually back next Wednesday, we're leaving a week earlier than I thought." Mouse responded, Jay's face lighting up hearing Mouse speak.
"That's awesome, there's a karaoke party at Molly's next Friday for Casey's birthday, you should come along, it will be a great laugh." Jay informed Mouse.
"Yeah I'll be there, that sounds great. It will be good to see everyone again, it feels like a really long time since I saw everyone." Mouse replied sounding excited at the prospect of being with everyone again, he really missed everyone in the intelligence unit.
Rojas came down the stairs after she had showered after dinner. She saw Jay and Hailey cuddled up on the couch around her laptop, the sound of an unfamiliar voice filling the room. Rojas spent a minute listening trying to figure out who the voice was. After a minute she came behind the couple leaning down on back of the sofa, seeing an unfamiliar face on the screen of the laptop.
"Why hello there pretty lady." Mouse spoke out trying to sound like a proper gentleman, Jay and Hailey laughing at Mouse's corny comment. Rojas couldn't help but laugh as well.
"Mouse this is Vanessa Rojas, she's recently joined the unit and is Hailey's roommate at the moment. Rojas this is Mouse, he was the intelligence unit tech guru for a while before he went back into the army." Jay introduced them to one another.
"It's nice to meet you Rojas, Jay better be taking care of you." Mouse smiled.
"It's nice to meet you as well Mouse." Rojas smiled back at him.
Rojas joined them on couch and they chatted for a while longer. Jay opening up about his history with Mouse and he shared old stories about the pair. Mouse had to leave a little while later. The three of them relaxed in the living room watching some Netflix until late into the night. Hailey and Jay called it a night around 11 as they were both very tired after the stressful journey back.
"Hi Jay, come in." Will greeted his brother.
"Thanks Will, there's a present from me and Hailey." Jay responded smiling back at his brother. Will opened the bag finding an expensive bottle of whiskey.
As Jay entered Will's apartment he noticed his apartment was a lot more organised than usual, Jay knew Will wouldn't have cleaned up his usually messy apartment just for him so he guessed that he had been spending time here with a woman, who that woman was he wasn't sure. His suspicions were confirmed as he could smell a floral scent filling the room, knowing definitely the room spray wasn't Will's idea. Jay waited to bring it up though, waiting to see if his brother would say anything.
Will had invited Jay over for dinner as they hadn't seen each other over the festive period, they would usually spend Christmas together as they were the only family each one of them had. Will had prepared a couple of steaks for them.
"So are you going to tell me about your Christmas with Hailey?" Will pushed, tired of waiting for his brother to speak.
"There's not too much to say really, I enjoyed relaxing with her and meeting her family was great, they're all as lovely as she is so it was really nice to be with them. It was nice having a proper family Christmas as we haven't had one since mom passed away." Jay explained, Will sharing a look of understanding with his brother.
"I'm really happy for you, I know Christmas hasn't been a holiday that we've celebrated since mom passed so I'm really glad you had a proper family Christmas with Hailey's family. It's something that you deserve after the tough time you've had recently." Will spoke softly.
"Anyway enough about me, what did you get up to over Christmas?" Jay questioned his brother.
"Nothing much really, I worked most of the time, I picked up a few extra shifts as a few couple of doctors couldn't get the time off to be with their families so I offered to cover a few of their shifts. I stopped by Molly's for the New Year party but other than that not much else." Will spoke.
"Well I heard you had quite a good time at the party, singing and dancing topless on the bar with Platt, that sounded like a good performance." Jay chuckled, Will looking embarrassed, he was hoping his brother wouldn't find out about that.
"The mixture of all the beer I chugged and the whisky really brought out my party side." Will chuckled. "Platt turns into a really party animal when she has a few drinks, she was doing shot after shot." Jay laughing hearing about Platt's antics.
"So are you going to tell me who you've been having over at your apartment then our not." Jay spoke, Will looking confused at his brother.
"I have no idea what you on about Jay." Will lied.
"Oh come on Will, your apartment is nice and tidy, don't even say you cleaned it because I was coming over because I know that would be a lie. Also the floral room spray Will, now I know that's not your doing. I am a detective you know Will, I do spot changes." Jay pushed.
"Fine, I've been spending time with Natalie, we've been getting on really good recently so she's been over here a few times. I'm really enjoying having her back in my life." Will confessed.
"That's good to hear, I've always enjoyed seeing you too together, she's good for you so I hope it works out this time." Jay spoke smiling back at his brother.
"Yeah me to, I having a good feeling about it working out this time as we've sorted out some of the differences which pushed us apart last time. So fingers crossed it will work out." Will spoke.
Jay left Will's apartment a little while later, after sharing a couple of beers with his brother. When he arrived back at Hailey's, he found her fast asleep on the couch, a movie was on the TV so she must've fallen asleep while watching that. Rojas was nowhere to be seen, Jay guessed she was out at Molly's. Jay picked up Hailey and carried her upstairs, placing her down on the bed, he quickly got changed in the bathroom and jumped in bed next to her, cuddling up close to her he fell asleep.
The days before Casey's Hawaii themed party passed by pretty quickly for Jay and Hailey. Hailey's first week back at work was uneventful, no major cases came in so it was an easy week, something Hailey was relieved with as she could get back to Jay. Jay's week was also pretty uneventful, he had spoken to Mouse a couple of times in the phone, he had also been doing quite a lot of exercise. He had done a couple of runs and walks, he was close building up his fitness back up to where it was before he was shot.
Jay, Hailey and the rest of the intelligence were sitting around a table at Molly's, all of them catching up with Jay as they hadn't seen him for a while. Jay hadn't told the others about Mouse returning so he wanted to surprise them when Mouse arrived. Mouse got on really well with everyone what was in the unit, he and Adam always shared a lot of banter with each other.
The table they were sitting at was close to the door so when Mouse walked in Adam was the first to spot him. "Mouse, it's great to see you buddy, I didn't know you were back in Chicago." Adam exclaimed excitedly.
"It's great to see you beefy." Mouse joked as he joined the group, he came up with the nickname 'Beefy' a while go as Adam was bulkier than the others.
"I see you haven't lost your sense of humour Mouse, its good see you Mouse." Atwater spoke as he came up behind Mouse, patting him on the shoulder.
Mouse continued catching up with everyone, as well as a few members from 51 and Med that he had come to know. A little while later Jay pulled Mouse for a chat by themselves.
"So how was deployment?" Jay questioned.
"Meh, it was alright I guess." Mouse replied, not sounding enthusiastic as he normally was about the army.
"What's wrong Mouse." Jay pushed knowing something wasn't right.
"It's changed since we were together on deployment, the whole time we were there it was just politics and bureaucracy, it we were doing over there just didn't feel fulfilling. When I joined back I felt like I needed to achieve more in the military however now I feel like I have achieved everything I wanted to." Mouse explained.
"I understand you Mouse. You know we haven't had a tech guru up in intelligence since you left and Voight has been looking for one as Ruzek keeps breaking all the tech. I can speak to him when I go back on Monday, I'm sure he'd love to have you back." Jay spoke.
"Yeah that sounds good, I'd love to come back, obviously I have a few things to sort out but I think it's a good time for me to leave." Mouse replied.
The party was bouncing, everyone was enjoying themselves and plenty of alcohol was being consumed. Jay, Severide and Casey ended up being the main attraction on the Karaoke night, ending up singing a range of songs from 'I want it that way' by the backstreet boys to 'Living on a Prayer' by Bon Jovi. Hailey really joining seeing Jay's carefree personality.
It was later in the night, Molly's was a bit quieter now and the party had started to die down a little. Hailey and Jay were sitting around a table with Severide, Kidd, Casey, Brett and Foster. Jay and Hailey were sitting on a stool together, Jay leaning against the wall as Hailey was taking up most of the room.
Jay's attention switched to Hailey's hips when she pushed her ass closer to him and started slowly grinding her hips against him. Jay was hoping she was just trying to reposition herself and when she stopped he blew out a sigh of relief, he could hear a faint chuckle coming from Hailey as she turned to face him with a cheeky grin on her face.
Hailey stopped her teasing for a little while as they continued interacting with everyone. Hailey shocked Jay when she slowly started stroking her hand along Jay's thigh, her hips also starting to move a little while later, Jay was trying his hardest not to react to the teasing from Hailey.
"I think you should stop that right now." Jay whispered in her ear, while grabbing hold off her wrist stopping her movements.
"You're looking a bit hot and bothered there Halstead." Hailey laughed as she turned to face him. His face looking a lot redder than before.
"Well my drunk girlfriend seems to think it's a good idea to try and embarrass me in front of everyone." Jay responded, Hailey still laughing at how flustered Jay was.
"I think it's quite funny." Hailey replied.
"I bet you do, it's not going to be you that has to walk through the bar with a hard on." Jay spoke, sounding frustrated.
"That's your problem not mine, you'll have to find a solution." Hailey chuckled as she walked off you the bar, Jay just groaning in frustration.
Jay and Hailey left Molly's around 1am, both of them falling asleep as soon as they reached their bed.