Street rode into the carpool at HQ and jumped of his bike, adrenaline sill coursing through his veins and his mind was occupied with thoughts about Whip. He stood unclipping his helmet and watched the van pull up beside him. Hondo climbed out and hugged Street in patting his back,

"Great job out there kid" he said

"Thanks, hopefully now we can get to Whip in time" he said frowning anxiously at Hondo. Hondo could see how worried Street was. Tan and Logan also joined them, and both patted his back reassuringly.

"Let's get in there then and see what they've got then" Tan said.

As they all walked back into HQ Street couldn't help but smile broadly as he saw Chris. She was coming down the stairs towards him and when she saw him, she felt her heart flutter. 'Oh, thank god' she muttered to herself when she saw him. Her heart had been racing all day not knowing when she would see him again. As they got closer, she reached out to him, hugging him into her.

"Way to go…..." she said as her chin rested on his shoulder "glad you're back safe". He gave her a squeeze, but he couldn't shake the dread that Whip was still in grave danger. Chris breathed in deeply as she took in the familiar smell of him and his leather jacket.

"It's not over yet," he said, "Still gotta get Whip back" Chris could hear the fear and anxiousness in his voice. She let him go and saw the worry in his eyes as he glanced at her.

"Great work Street" Cortez said walking over to him and patting his shoulder "We have you to thank for the intel on the location of Camille's secure garage, warehouse and 4 other possible sites for aspects of their operation"

Deacon and Luca came over "Yeah man…" Luca said pulling him in for a hug and back pat.

"Great work" Deacon said fist bumping him,

Street managed a strained smile at the team, but Chris could see this was really eating him up. As they all walked to the situation room Chris gave him a big smile and a knowing nod. Her eyes showed how happy she was to see him. Street was distracted and not himself though, she could see it a mile away. She desperately wanted to continue to hold him, the proximity to him was like a drug and she knew he needed comforting, but she also knew she needed to keep some physical distance when they were at work.

Hondo focused the team on the plan to raid the warehouse on Flinders St where they thought Whip was being held. Chris swallowed hard thinking about him going back out into danger. She never doubted his abilities as a SWAT officer. He had so much natural talent and intuition for the job that she undoubtedly trusted him with her life almost every day but watching him go off without her there was hard. It made her pause for a minute.

She bit her lip as she thought about things, 'Hang on…. If I feel like this when I am not by his side out there, what will happen if I let us become a thing then we aren't on the same team anymore? Am I gunna feel like this all the time she wondered? She frowned at herself and knew she really hated feeling this way. Street noticed her frowning at herself and chewing her bottom lip. He wondered what she was thinking,

Suddenly Hondo's voice snapped her back to reality and when she glanced up, she caught Streets eyes on her. He didn't say a word just tilted his head and a questioning look on his face, as if to ask, "what's wrong?" She gave him a small smile and shook her head, meaning "don't worry, not now''

Street smiled at her, trying to ease her worry, but Chris looked away as Hondo moved to the map,

"We have secured a surveillance warrant and will be sending drones into the air vents here and here in the next hour." he said tapping the screen.

"Hopefully we will have eyes and ears operational before you go" Cortez told the team.

"Then we should take the van with us" Hondo added, "Chris and Reese can help on location". Chris like the sound of that…... She looked eagerly at Captain Cortez who was clearly was not happy about it,

"Ok… but" Cortex said looking at Chris and holding up a stern finger "You stay with the van."

Chris smiled and nodded, anything to join the team out there and be helpful.

"Go get yourself suited up, we will wait for the drones to be in place then coordinate our entry with 50 David's at Camille's location." Hondo said.

As 20 David team walked to the locker room Logan walked beside Chris, who was still on a high from being allowed to go out with the team. Street was back further behind in group. He could hear her beautiful laughter though ahead of him and when he looked up there, he saw her laughing, smiling and touching Logan's arm. A wave of jealously swept through his veins. He knew it was silly and juvenile and that within the day there was not likely much going on there, but he couldn't help it. He wanted to be the one only one that she laughed at like that. They entered the locker room and 50 David were already in there. The banter began between the teams as they all milled around. Street watched Chris as she teased Rocker and Stevens before whipping her jacket at Deacon who turned a joke on her

"Whose side are you on?" she glared playfully at him, Street giggled a little to himself. He loved it when things were like this. Everyone happy and getting along. His SWAT family, really his only family, was whole again.

Deacon laughed at Chris and with lightening reflexes dodged the whipped jacket, as he jumped back out of the way though he bumped into Logan who was changing his shirt. Logan hadn't had a chance to move out of the way as his hands were over his head removing the shirt when Deac knocked him backwards over the bench.

"Oh crap" Deac and Chris said in unison as Logan fell. They both stepped forward to help him up. Streets blood boiled with jealousy as he saw Chris glance her eyes over Logan's fit muscular body while she helped him up. He desperately wanted to be the only man she looked at like that. He remembered how nice it had felt when she saw him shirtless in the locker room earlier. He had noted the way her eyes wandered, and her lips smiled, it made him feel desired and wanted.

As Chris moved back to her locker after apologising profusely to Logan a little embarrassed, she caught sight of Street in the mirror on her locker door. She could see he was tense and worried, not looking at anyone or really saying anything. She wanted to say something comforting but was struggling with what to say. Logan and Luca were chatting behind her, Tan and Deacon across the room and 50 David were milling around too. It was noisy and busy in there and she desperately wanted to talk to Street …... alone.

Chris closed her locker and glanced at him, Street saw it out of the corner of his eye and looked at her,

"What?" he asked, she heard the emotion in his voice, was it anger, fear or a combination she wondered.

"you okay?" she asked furrowing her eyebrows at him,

He shrugged but didn't say anything.

"Can you help me with something in the van?" she asked walking behind him and patting his shoulder. Street gave her a confused glance,

"um…?"

She turned and motioned for him to come and he hesitated a little before he followed her from the locker room towards to the carpool.

"What's …. ah… what are we doing?" he asked nervously as he tried to match her fast pace. Chris didn't answer or stop walking until they had gone through the doors and reached the van in the carpool. She turned to him,

"look…. I'm worried … about you" she started. Street stood arms folded, he fidgeted and appeared a bit uncomfortable. Chris noted his body language but continued anyway, "with them all in there…. I couldn't talk to you like this… and I didn't want to say something and…." she tilted her head side to side and turned up the corner of her mouth "I just wanted to be able to talk to you alone". Street knew it was not like her to want to be alone with him at work, but he could see she was worried for him and that she didn't want the team to see anything between them. Street knew she was trying to be honest and genuinely talk to him.

"I just want to get Whip back safe" he said unfolding his arms and trying to relax, he leant on the bonnet of the charger that was parked next to the van. Chris pursed her lips and nodded, trying to find something reassuring to say. …. "and look…thanks for working so hard to find him" Street added looking at her.

"Hey, it was Reese who found the lights, not me." Chris said, Street smiled and nodded.

"Are you sure you okay to be going back out there?" she asked,

Street locked his brown eyes to hers, "Yeah, of course I am" he frowned at her, he could see her worry, but he struggled a bit to understand the extent of it. "I'm fine…. I just gotta get Whip back safe".

Chris nodded and stepped a bit closer to him placing a reassuring hand on his arm.

"I know…... I'm worried your too close and too emotionally charged" Chris looked down for a split second. "I… I don't want anything to go wrong and for you to get hurt".

As she stood this close to him, she was intoxicated by his presence. She could feel the electricity bouncing between them. She struggled to keep her urges suppressed when he was this close.

"I'm …. god" she said looking up at roof, hating that she was getting so worked up over this. "I'm scared, but glad you back safe" she managed to mumble, Street smiled. It was cute seeing her worried for him like this. It was in these moments that he knew she cared. He too could feel the electric connection between them and so badly wanted to pull her to him,

"Oh, you do care then" he playfully teased with a chuckle, she laughed and flicked his arm shaking her head silently. "You know I think Logan likes you" he said raising his eyebrows at her. She looked at him opening her eyes wide at him as if to say "how dare you say that" then she grinned a little rolling her eyes realising he was just baiting her. She began to turn away, then turned back to him and said,

"Jealous, are you?" which made Street laugh too. She tapped his shoulder with her hand and motioned that they should go back and get ready, as she turned, he grabbed her hand and spun her back around to be only inches from him. As he gazed down at her and she looked up at him his inner voice screamed at him to kiss her soft lips, but he knew that was not the right move right now.

"Seeing you in there when I got back…" Street bit his bottom lip and paused "I've never been happier"

Chris smiled at him, waves of an amazing feeling sweeping through her whole body, this was bliss, being in his strong arms, this close to him. 'Come on…. give him something' her inner voice prodded.

She smiled up at him, "Ditto, I was so relieved to see you safe" she closed her eyes and lowered her forehead to rest on his chest, she was so happy he was ok, and she desperately wanted to continue to hold him in her arms, but she knew this here, at HQ was a bad idea. Anyone could walk in and see them and as much as she didn't want to, she pulled back from him.

"Come on... they are all waiting for us" she said moving to the door and nodding for him to come. Street smiled to himself, his dimples showing his happiness, but as that door closed and he entered the hallway again seeing Hondo and Rocker walking towards him the realisation hit him again that Whip was still out there in trouble. God… how did she do that? How could Chris make him forget about the rest of the world when she was close to him and allowing him in a bit?

"Street…. I need you to give 50 David a detailed run down of that warehouse and Camille's operations before we load up" Hondo said,

"Sure thing," Street answered and peeled off into the situation room with Rocker as Hondo continued down the corridor with Chris.

"You up for this?" Hondo said glancing at Chris.

She still had a smiled plastered on her face and was in her own little daydream when Hondo's words snapped her back to reality, "Yeah…... I ah…... I'm just happy to be kinda coming along" she answered.

Hondo grinned, "you stay in that van though, you hear me" he said as he veered away towards Cortez's office.

"Yep, I got it" she answered as she went to find Reese and get loaded up.