So this is the one shot for 3x21. Everyone is a beat paranoid after Burgess situation!

Al was locking his car when he saw them. Halstead stretched his arm out, waiting for Lindsay to grab his hand. They walked holding hands for a bit and when they got to the main street they separated and put their professional posture on. Al couldn't not smile at those two. Halstead stiffened his body, that guy still breathed military and always looked like he has his hand on the trigger and Lindsay, put her confident but cool posture that made everybody respect her but trust her too. She had become a great detective and Al, as her kind of borrowed uncle, felt really good about how things turned out for the druggie street girl that Hank decided to give shelter to. He didn't approve in the beginning but she stole his heart really quickly. And now here she was, one of the best detectives that he knew, working side by side with him. He left the parking lot and caught up with Halstead in the locker room.

"Hey, Halstead can I give you some advice?" Jay looked at Al, he had to admit this was his favorite teammate and he really valued his opinion. "Off course Al you know I like your advice," He answered smiling.

"I saw you two, minutes ago and I just want to tell you that I'm very happy for you. You know that Erin is like family to me and I feel very pleased by seeing her so happy." Jay smiled and looked to the floor. This conversation was turning out to be a little awkward. "But since Burgges' trial everybody seems to have eyes on us so I recommend that you two save the hand holding and all that couple stuff to when you can not risk being caught on camera." Al shrugged and added "I'm just saying."

"You're right and we will keep that in mind. Thank you, Al!" The older man just nodded and left the locker room leaving Jay alone with his thoughts.

The bullpen was quiet with everyone buried in paperwork. There were no new cases and truth be told, everyone was still digesting Burgess trial.

Ruzek was late but Voight hadn't showed his face either so maybe he could escape from getting caught. All this with Burgess made him use drink as a shield and the result was a hungover Ruzek. The team didn't really know how much Voight would tolerate from him.

Jay's head was far away from his work and his desk. He kept picturing that footage where Burgess and Roman looked pretty intimate, and Al's pep talk early. He couldn't stop thinking about him and Erin, they really had to protect each other from something like that happening to them. They couldn't afford to lose a case or have the quality of their work be questioned by something like that. First of all, Voight would definitely kill him and Erin would get pretty lost if her job was put in question like that. He didn't want to upset her about this but he knew that she was probably thinking the same when he looked at her from his desk. She smiled at him because she felt his movement and then she went back, diving in her papers quickly. He felt the distance last night. He knew her to damn well that's why. They should talk about this but they needed to have time to do it. Sometimes he felt like they were so swamped that they almost didn't feel each other.

Hank appeared in the bullpen almost without being noticed, approaching Erin desks making her jump in surprise and laughing at her. "What now you are scared of me?"

"Funny" She smiled at him ironically. "I was concentrated in my work ok? I didn't hear you coming."

"That's good!" He said nodding. He turned to Jay's desk. "Can you two check this address?" He said giving Jay a small paper. "A friend of mine says that the guy that lives there is big in the Chicago drugs business. Could you two spend the afternoon checking the surroundings?"

"Thank you, Hank. Always giving us nice jobs to do." Erin said in her hoarse voice and with a provocative look. She got up and made a sign to Jay to get up. They left the bullpen and Erin still shouts. "Thanks, Hank really." He smiled to himself and went to his office. He couldn't resist and checking them out his window.

After three hours of nothing, they started to think about going back to the precinct. Finally, Jay put the subject on the table. "You know that we need to be smarter than Burgess and Roman don't you?"

She looked at him with a surprised look and questioned him. "What do you mean by that?"

"There is something that is bothering me since the trial. We can't afford to be caught in something like they were." She looked at him, he can't figure out if she's mad or concerned.

"I don't intent to Jay and as I remember, you are the one who is always complaining about me not being more relax about us. We can't be relaxed on this job Jay!"

"I know but that footage got into me and we can't afford to get caught in something like that. Imagine Voight?" She smiled widely at his words.

"Are you afraid of getting caught or are you afraid of Voight?" She asked, teasing him.

He raised his eyebrow and answered in a low tone. "Both actually."

She laughed hard./pGod, he loved her laugh. "Happy to make you smile."

"Yeah yeah! Let's go back, we got nothing here. And rest your case, because I will not get caught in some shady situation with you on the job."

He mumbled ok and smiled to himself. "You know that Al saw us today in the morning holding hands!" Erin flipped her head quickly facing him and looked surprised and a little concerned but when she spoke she tried to look relaxed. "And? It's Al, he is like my uncle or something I don't know, he always protected me and he always keeps stuff that I did from Voight. What did he say about it?" Jay smirked remember their talk. "He just said that he was very happy because you look happy but warned us for the fact that it seems like everybody is watching us now, so we should be careful with stuff like holding hands and all."

She smiled at the thought of how awkward that conversation must have been to Jay. "Message received right?"

"Right!" Jay nod in agreement.

"Let's go back then." They went back to the precinct and told Voight that they didn't see anything suspicious but if he wanted they could go back there that night. He thought about it for a minute and decided not too. "Let's wait and see if we know something more about this guy. You two can go for today."

They both nodded and turn their backs on him heading to the stairs. Voight went back inside of his office again to check them out through his window. He really wanted to see if they showed somehow that they were together. But once again he got nothing. They both went to their cars telling something to each other but clearly, anyone couldn't figure out that they were together and Hank knew that they were, for sure now. But he was very pleased about those two. They really knew how to do things and that was good. Suddenly he picked his keys and left after them, thinking to himself that he was crazy for doing this but all this trial thing made him worry about Erin. He assumed that they would probably go to her place. He knew Erin to well and knew that she liked to have her stuff around and knew how messy she could be and believed that Jay probably was all cleaning and organized by the looks of his desk. So he probably preferred for her make the mess in her one house. He smiles to himself thinking about how his one bathroom turned into a war zone when she went back to live with him. He caught them parking near her front door. She arrived first to her apartment building. Opened the door and let it close but aperantly unlocked, Halstead approach half a minute later and entered the building too. And just then when they were both already inside he could see that she reached out her arm waiting for him for grab her hand, smiling. When he intertwined his fingers on hers, she lays her head on his shoulder and he put his arm around her waist kissing the top of her head. They disappeared from his sight in the building corridor.

For a second he felt bad for stalking them like that but he needed to know and he was just satisfied and relaxed about this. He could really trust these two. They definitely knew what they were doing. Hank smiled to himself and drove back to his home. His kidoo was a good girl, definitely had grown up from that punk teenager that he gave shelter to not so long ago.

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