It was Monday morning and Jay's first day back at work - desk duty.

Will changed out the cast the previous Friday and gave him the all clear. He also took a look at Hailey, who had her first week back at work. It all looked good for her. One more week and then she was allowed to get back to full duty.

Jay and Hailey walked upstairs into the Bullpen. Everyone was already waiting for them.

"Welcome back, Jay!", everyone said and came to hug him.

"Thanks guys. I'm happy to be back. It's been a rough month.", Jay said.

Voight came out of his office. "I'm happy you're back Jay! I have a case for us.", he waved a file in the air and gave it to Kim. She presented it to the team:

"Beatrice and Samantha Smith, age 18, twin sisters from the South Shore. Mother called in Sunday around midday filing a missings person report. Both were at a party Saturday and were supposed to be at home by two in the morning but never came home. She said the girls were hanging out with two black men that seem suspicious to the mom. I ran the two men through our system: Antony Miller and Mario West. Both have a very long record of drug possession and violence. Both are 23 years old. The mom stated that the twins were at a house party with them and now were nowhere to be found."

"Okay. Atwater, Rojas, check out the place of the party. See if anyone saw something. Kim and Adam, go talk to the mom again. Upton and Halstead, dig into the girls' social media and into the men, see if you can find any location where they could be.", Voight instructed the team which got to work right away.

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"Hey Sergeant!", Hailey yelled into the office. Voight walked to her desk. Jay was already standing next to her.

"I was digging through their social media accounts and both girls hang out with them alot. They posted party pictures every weekend. This one is interesting.", Hailey showed them a picture of the twins where Beatrice was drinking beer and Samantha had a white pill on her tongue.

"One of them is doing drugs?", Voight asked.

"Looks like it. I have not seen Beatrice do drugs in any of the pictures but this is not the only one of Samantha doing it…", Hailey answered.

In that moment Rojas and Atwater walked upstairs.

"I think we got something.", Atwater stated. Everyone listened.

"Talked to the guys that own the house where the party was. One girl was there with her boyfriend. She said she saw the twins leaving with the suspects around midnight on Saturday. They always either hangout at a small beach near the house or in an abandoned warehouse. She thought they were heading to one of those places."

Jay jerked when Kevin said warehouse. It brought back the moment of the explosion. His arm began to hurt and he left for the kitchen. Hailey's look followed him worrying what happened.

Voight nodded at Hailey to follow Jay and see what was going on.

She followed him to the kitchen and closed the door.

"You alright?", she asked him. He sat down on the couch and didn't know what to do. He looked like he was sweating and close to freaking out.

"Hailey. I…", he started but couldn't get more out . His breathing got faster.

"Hey! Hey, listen to me! Jay! Nothing is going to happen to you. You're safe here. Look at me.", she sat next to him and hugged him.

He was about to have a panic attack.

"Take deep breaths. Everything is going to be alright, okay. No one will hurt you anymore.", she kept on talking to him in a calm voice.

He calmed down after a bit and said apologised.

"It's alright. Come on. Let's get back out there.", she said. He nodded and both went back to their desks.

"Everything alright?", Atwater asked.

"Yeah.", Hailey answered for them. Jay went to his desk and buried his face in his monitor without saying anything.

"We're heading to the beach. If you find anything else, call us.", Rojas said and left with Kevin.

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About an hour later Platt walked upstairs and informed Jay and Hailey that Patrol just saw the two suspects walking out of an old warehouse down on the South Side.

"Hailey… That's where the girls must be.", Jay said.

"Maybe. Let's call Voight."

"No. It'll be too late. We gotta go there."

"Are you out of your mind? We are on desk duty. It's your first day back!", Hailey yelled at him.

Jay held up the car key. "Either you drive or I'm gonna do it myself."

"Dammit!", she swore, took the keys and both ran downstairs into the garage. She hated this idea. She didn't want to go through it again but this time the life of two young girls was at stake. She wanted to save them too.

Driving up to the warehouse, Hailey called Voight while Jay jumped out of the car and carefully looked around and through the windows.

"Voight will be here in 10 minutes.", she told Jay, following him.

"Look. The girls are in there. Alone.", he said looking through a window. Hailey looked as well.

"We gotta wait."

"Patrol officers said the men left the building. There is no one in there."

"Maybe not. Maybe it's more than two. We don't know.", Hailey wanted to walk back to the car but Jay took his gun in his left hand and walked towards the door.

"Can you even shoot with your left hand?", she questioned him.

"I don't know. We'll see.", he said and slipped into the warehouse.

"Help us!", a girl's voice came from the back of the building. "Help!"

Hailey and Jay walked towards them. Before entering another room Jay looked at his clock.

5 more minutes until Voight will be here.

He nodded at Hailey and she was ready to go in. Both were holding their guns in front of them and walked in.

"DON'T shoot!", one yelled crying. The other girl was laying on the ground.

"Hey, it's okay. We're police. I'm Hailey, this is my partner Jay. Are you okay?", Hailey put her gun away and walked towards the sitting girl.

"Beatrice is unconscious. I don't know what they did to her. Help her!", Samantha cried out.

Jay walked over to Beatrice and checked her out. "No visible wounds. I've got a pulse."

Hailey cut the ties around Samantha's wrists and helped her get up.

"What now?", Hailey asked looking at Jay. Usually Jay would just pick up the girl and carry her outside but he couldn't do that with only one arm.

He took his radio: "This is 5021 George. I need an ambulance at my location. Two injured."

"Ambulance is on its way.", they heard the woman on the radio respond.

"I'll stay with her. Get outside and call Voight.", he said.

"I'm not leaving you alone.", Hailey said.

"Oh my… Kiss and make out already. This is horrible. Why is an injured officer even allowed on the field?", Samantha snapped at them. Before Hailey could say anything Samantha closed her eyes and fell backwards on the ground.

"Samantha?!", she yelled and rushed to her. "Lost consciousness."

Suddenly they heard a car outside the warehouse.

"If this is not Voight or any other team member, we're dead.", Hailey said.

"We're dead anyways.", Jay answered her.

"What?"

"Voight will kill us."

"True."

Hailey called Voight again. He didn't answer the phone this time.

The first door opened and they heard someone shout "CPD! Anyone here?"

It was Kevin!

"Back here!", Jay yelled. The sirens of the ambulance were also getting louder by the second.

Kevin and the rest of the team walked in to the back room to find Hailey, Jay and the twins there.

"Are you alright?", Atwater asked. He didn't even question finding Hailey and Jay there.

"Yeah. Girls are unconscious. Beatrice has been for a while and Samantha lost consciousness about a minute ago.", Hailey told.

"Ambulance is here.", Adam walked in.

"Any sign of Miller and West?", Jay asked.

"Voight got them. They were just walking by when we came. He's taking them to the station now."

The EMTs took the girls to the hospital while the team went back to the station. Voight called Jay and Hailey into his office. Atwater and Rojas started questioning the suspects.

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Voight stared at them before saying anything. He needed to collect his thoughts and didn't know where to start.

"What were you thinking?", he started. Jay wanted to speak but Voight didn't let him: "I'm talking now. First: Jay if you have a death wish just go and do it already but don't risk the lives of your partner and other people! You were severely injured just four months ago and just last month I thought Fire was recovering your dead body from that warehouse! You had two major surgeries! I did not think you'd go off trying to save two girls after just a couple hours back on the job. You are on desk duty and that usually means something! You can't just go out there risking everything!", Voight yelled.

"And second: Hailey. I thought better of you! Stop him the next time he does something like this! He's your partner! You also have a responsibility for him! You know that, right? The girls would have survived the ten more minutes we needed to get to the warehouse.

I don't want you out on the field again for the next weeks until a third doctor, not Will or anyone at Med, clears you for duty! Understood?"

"Sargent…", Jay started.

"What?", he hissed at him. Voight was really pissed at both at the moment.

"I had another surgery on my arm a weeks ago. The bone got infected. They replaced the plates and screws… I was still at risk of losing my arm… I just wanted to save those girls. I didn't think you could get to the warehouse that fast. I'm sorry.", Jay said.

"Voight. This is not just on Jay. I know I should have stopped him but I wanted to save them, too. And I called you as soon as we were at the warehouse. I just had to follow Jay. I didn't want him to go in alone. I'm alright. I'm in no pain anymore. I can go back into the field. And Jay… despite everything, he is just doing his job.", Hailey said.

"Jay why didn't you tell me about that surgery?", Voight asked. He calmed down a bit. Now he was just shocked about Jay. His best man was still not completely out of the woods.

"I didn't want to worry anyone and Will and Dr. Choi said the surgery went well and it's gonna be okay. I just want to go back to doing my job. Before the explosion I finally felt normal again. The pain in the shoulder was finally gone. Only that stupid scar is left…", Jay said.

Voight took a deep breath. What should he do now? "Alright. You two get to the hospital and see how the girls are doing. Question them. This stays in the house! You two are officially only on desk duty. Just no heavy field work for the next week, okay?", Voight told them.

"Okay."
"Thank you, Sargent."

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Hailey and Jay drove to Med. Walking inside they got greeted by a worried Will. "Jay. Hailey. What are you doing here? Everything alright?", he asked, ready to help his brother.

"We're here on PD business. We need to speak with the two girls that came in today. Beatrice and Samantha Smith.", Jay said.

"Oh. Both are stable. Came in about an hour ago. Both had a lot of alcohol and drugs in their system and both have some bruises on their wrists. I think only Beatrice is awake right now. We're still waiting on some test results.", Will told them and lead them to the room.

"Beatrice Smith. This is Jay Halstead and I'm Hailey Upton. We're with Chicago PD. Is it okay to ask you a few questions?", Hailey asked. Both stood at the foot of Beatrice' bed. She just nodded.

"What can you tell us about Saturday night? How'd you end up at the warehouse?", Jay asked.

"We were at the party. My sister was doing drugs with Mario again… she always does. I only drink beer or cocktails there. I remember Antony coming to her and talking to her. I was busy dancing with some random dude. Next thing I saw was Samantha falling and I rushed to her… She told me she just tripped but I knew she was high. Mario and Tony told us we could have some more fun at the warehouse. I had no idea why we would want to go there but we did. In the car, Mario was driving, Antony suddenly held a gun to our faces and yelled at Samantha to tell him where his drugs were… I had no idea what was going on.", Beatrice said.

"Where did Samantha get her drugs from?", Hailey asked.

"Are we in a lot of trouble?"

"If you help us, we can help you.", Jay answered.

"Alright... Usually she gets them from Tony but last week, after coming home from his house, she suddenly had lots more. I didn't ask because I didn't want our mom to know about it."

"Is Antony Samantha's boyfriend?"

"I don't think so. We're all just friends."

"Okay. What happened at the warehouse?"

"When we got there they ziptied our hands and led us to the back. I don't really remember what happened next. I think I passed out. I only remember waking up here."

"Okay. Thank you."

"Do you know how my sister is doing?"

"She's gonna be fine."

"And the boys?"

"Both are in custody at the moment. We'll see what and if they tell us something."

Both left the room again and checked if Samantha was already awake. Will and Natalie were in front of her room. "We just got the test results back. It looks like both girls were raped last night.", Natalie said.

"Oh no.", Hailey felt sorry for them.

"All over some drugs? This can't be right. There must be more to it.", Jay presumed.

"Maybe Atwater and Rojas got something from the boys.", Hailey hoped.

"Samantha is not awake yet. Maybe you could come back later.", Natalie said.

Jay and Hailey went back to the station.

"Hey guys. We got some information.", Jay said walking upstairs.

Everyone listened: "Both girls were raped presumably by Miller and West. Antony Miller thinks Samantha stole drugs from him. He also had a gun. Beatrice doesn't remember much or how she passed out. Samantha is not awake yet.", Hailey told the team.

"Yeah, we tried to get something out of Antony and Mario but we got nothing.", Atwater said.

"There must be something else, boss. Why would the boys rape the girls? As far as we know they were just friends. Samantha got her drugs from Antony.", Jay said.

"Yeah, we need to get something out of the boys.", Rojas said.

"Yes and we also need to wait for Samantha to wake up. Maybe she can tell us more.", Hailey said.

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Voight sent everyone back to work and told Hailey and Jay to go home. At first Jay resisted but Voight said: "That is an order! You two did enough for today! Go home."

Both agreed and Hailey knew only by looking at Jay that he was exhausted. Being at home injured and no action for about a month is hard. This was his first day and it was already nine hours long.

They got home and both quickly took a shower. Luckily Hailey had two big bathrooms in her house. After that they sat on the couch.

"What do you wanna watch tonight?", Jay asked.

"I heard Sex Education is a good one.", Hailey answered.

"Really? Well okay.", Jay switched on the first episode. "You do realize it's about sex, right?"

"Yeah? And we're adults, right?", Hailey smiled at him and cuddled on his healthy arm.

After the first episode Jay whispered into her ear. "You know this is kinda turning me on right now."

Hailey looked at him, smiling. "Shut up and kiss me!", she sat up and got on his lap. Before he could even react, Hailey was kissing him and Jay liked it. A lot.

"Hailey.", he said in between kisses. "I love you."

"Shut up.", she said, kissing him more.

His uninjured hand carefully reached under her shirt. Hailey tried to stop him but then realized that she really wanted this.

"Bedroom?"

Jay nodded and picked her up. He carried her to the bedroom while she kept kissing him. She had both legs around his waist. He walked over to the bedroom and let her fall onto the bed. He just stood there while Hailey opened and removed Jay's belt and pulled down his trousers. Jay bent down to kiss her and undressed her.

"I love you, Hailey Upton.", he said.

"I love you, Jay Halstead!", she answered back and kept on kissing him.

He was now laying on top of her, kissing her from the neck downwards, chest, belly, every spot got soft kisses from him.

"Do it.", she said and he removed her underwear.

"You sure?", he didn't want to rush anything or hurt her.

"Yes!"

A while later they layed in bed in each other's arms.

"That was great."

"Definitely need to repeat that.", she smiled at him. "Was it alright with your arm?"

"Yeah, I didn't feel a thing.", Jay kissed her.

"I'm so glad we're finally doing this. I have no idea how I could keep my feelings for you to myself for this long." Hailey was happy.

"After you were with Adam I didn't even think about having a chance with you so I just tried to keep it professional. And then at the hospital… You walked out without telling me what was on your mind, my heart broke. I was hoping you would say you loved me but I also thought it was just in my mind and you wanted to tell me something different. That moment stayed in my mind the whole time. Every night before bed I kept replaying it in my head…", Jay confessed.

"I'm sorry I didn't tell you earlier. You had so much on your mind and it didn't feel like the right time."

"I'm just happy we can finally be together."

Hailey just kissed him.

to be continued...