A/N: Thank you for the lovely response on the last chapter and for waiting until tonight for the fourth chapter – I've had a busy couple of days and honestly didn't think I was going to even get this chapter written today, but here we are. I hope you enjoy this chapter and thank you for reading!

"So, you planning on letting me come over to yours for a drink again any time soon?" Adam raised an eyebrow as he looked down at Hailey. "No rush, of course... just curious."

Hailey looked up at him as she put something back in her locker. They'd been standing together in the locker room for a few minutes now, Adam having taken advantage of the privacy the room would give them by sneaking in a few kisses while they could.

"That depends," she started.

"On what?"

"On whether or not we take down this guy tonight."

Adam smirked. "Oh yeah? So – we take him down, I get to come over? Is that how that's gonna work?" He leant down a little closer. "I don't know about you, but I was talking to Kev earlier, and we're both pretty positive that we're taking him down tonight... so drinks are looking likely."

"You're confident tonight, aren't you?" Hailey chuckled. "But we'll see, won't we?"

Grinning, Adam leant down closer, fully planning on kissing her once more, when their privacy was invaded, the door behind him opening. Hailey's eyes moved from Adam to the door where Jay appeared, smiling ever so slightly. She took a step back away from Adam.

"Don't let me interrupt, guys," Jay held up his hands and wandered over to his own locker. "I'm just grabbing something before we head out."

Hailey could tell that Adam still wanted to kiss her, but she took another step back and shook her head. "We should probably head back, yeah? Don't wanna be the odd ones out."

She gave Adam a smile before patting his chest and wandering out of the locker room and heading back to the others. Adam followed her and, a moment or two later, Jay followed the both of them back.

He hadn't expected to see Hailey and Adam in there together – nor did he expect to see them seconds away from a kiss. He'd noticed that they were both absent from their desks, but he hadn't put two and two together until he'd actually seen them in the locker room together.

And he hadn't missed the fact that Hailey had pulled away from the kiss as soon as she noticed him – he wasn't sure what that way about, but he figured it was probably just because she didn't want to kiss Adam in front of her partner, and he understood that. Back when Erin was around, she wasn't overly fond of the PDA around the others, especially at work.

Voight was standing by the door of his office when they three of them returned and, upon seeing them, wandered further into the room and began briefing them on their job for the night – taking down a drug dealer who had been killing his customers. He'd escaped their capture before but tonight he wasn't going to get out so easily. They were going in as sneakily as possible, with guns in hand. No doors were safe, either. They were getting him no matter what, Voight assured them.

Hailey grabbed her jacket off the back of her chair and turned to Jay as Kim, Kevin and Antonio split off to drive to the house together.

"I'll ride with you," she said, the thought of riding with Adam not even entering her mind. Behind her, Adam raised his eyebrows in surprise just as Jay nodded in agreement.

Voight wandered towards them and clapped Adam on the shoulder. "Looks like it's the two of us, then. Come on."

Hailey gave Adam a smile before following them out with Jay at her side. A few minutes into their drive, Jay following the others to the house they were going to, he glanced over at her.

"So, you gonna explain what I saw in the locker room?"

Hailey furrowed her eyebrows. "What do you mean? You didn't see anything."

With a small chuckle, Jay shook his head. "What I saw was you and Adam about to kiss. You done with keeping him at arms length, now? With him giving you some space? It's been what, six days?"

"Excuse me?" Hailey looked over at him.

"Okay– listen, that didn't sound great, but I didn't mean it that way. I'm just asking, that's all. You said you wanted space, and the next second I find you two nearly kissing in the locker room only a few days after."

Hailey pursed her lips and turned to look out the window at the houses as they passed them. She understood what Jay meant, and she understood where he was coming from, too. He was just worried about her, just like she often worried about him, and she couldn't get mad at him for that, even if it was him being worried about her personal life rather than work.

She glanced back over at him. "If I don't slowly start putting things back together with him, if I don't start slowly letting him back into my life, things are just going to fizzle out," she explained. "And I don't think I want them to."

Even though, sometimes, it felt a little like she was doing this all for Adam's sake – especially going along with his flirting earlier in the locker room. Secretly, she hoped they didn't catch the guy so drinks wouldn't be necessary. And she hated herself for it.

Jay glanced at her and gave her a small smile. "You know I'm happy for you. I always will be. And even if Adam's a little full on sometimes, he's good," he spoke.

But as he did, Hailey couldn't help but notice that the worried tone in his voice wasn't there anymore, and instead of it being replaced with the happiness that usually comes with words about being happy for someone, it wasn't. She couldn't quite identify the emotion – but it wasn't happiness, even though he'd assured her he was.

"You don't sound happy, Jay."

His breath caught in his throat. "I am, I promise."

Hailey raised her eyebrows and kept looking at him.

"It's just what we're about to do, you know? Got me a little antsy, like it always does," he shrugged a shoulder as he turned onto the street they were parking on. "But I am happy for you. You know I am."

He tried his best to sound happy so that she'd believe him this time, not even sure as to why he didn't sound happy in the first place– because he was happy that Hailey was happy. The fact that it didn't come out in his tone confused him, though he didn't have the time to ponder it as they got out of the car quietly and followed Voight towards the house.

Jay, Hailey and Kevin split off from the rest of them and headed down a side lane beside the house, heading around the back incase he decided to escape. Hailey stood near the fence, gun raised up towards the door, and Jay stood a few steps away from her, gun doing the same.

They could hear only a little of what was going on inside. Someone knocking something over – likely the guy they were there to catch – and then feet, hitting the ground hard. The back door of the house swung open and the man hurried down the steps and towards the fence where Hailey was standing.

Not even caring about the gun in her hands, the man barrelled into her before she had a chance to fire or react, knocking her back into the fence and taking her off her feet. She slid to the ground with a gasp as the man hurried out the back gate and Jay and Kevin took over, hurrying after him.

Jay's feet were hitting the asphalt hard as he ran, and before he knew it he was on top of him, knocking the man to the ground. He struggled underneath him but realised instantly that he had no chance now – he'd been caught. Seconds later, Kevin joined him, breathing heavily, as Jay grabbed the cuffs.

Hauling him to his feet, Jay and Kevin pushed him back towards the house where Voight and the others were waiting and – Hailey. He'd seen the man run into her, seen her crash against the fence, but at the time his mind had only been on catching the guy. He winced at the thought of Hailey possibly being hurt for the second time in such a small amount of time and quickened his pace.

Voight met them in the backyard and grabbed the man instantly, leaving with Antonio and Kevin to take him back to the car. Like Voight had said – they'd got him.

Jay took a deep breath as he looked around for Hailey, spotting her sitting over by the stairs. He took a step towards her, instantly wanting to know if she was okay, when the back door opened and Adam exited. He walked over to her without a second thought. Jay stopped in his tracks.

He wasn't going to butt in now.

"Hey, you good? Antonio saw what happened, said that guy ran into you pretty hard and fast."

Hailey nodded at Adam. "Yeah, I'm fine. Knocked the wind out of me for a second there but I'm good. Happens to the best of us," she shrugged.

Adam sat down on the stairs and wrapped an arm around her. He pressed a kiss to her forehead. "Well, I'm sure a few drinks will make you feel better, right?" He smiled.

"Yeah, guess so." Hailey's smile was weak compared to his but it was dark enough outside that Adam didn't even notice it.

Antonio appeared from around the corner to tell them that they were good to go. Jay was pretty sure he was heading back to the station solo.

As the others wandered off ahead of him, he trailed off behind, watching as Hailey and Adam stood from the stairs and snuck in ahead of him. Adam's arm was no longer around Hailey but it was clear that there was still worry in him as he stayed close to her and Jay had overheard something mentioned about drinks.

As they reached the front of the property, Jay glanced over at Hailey once more to find her looking at him. Taking him a little by surprise, she gave him a smile and then nodded before mouthing 'I'm good' and following Adam over to Kevin's car so they could head back.

His lips turned up in a small smile.

Kim appeared beside Jay. "You good if I ride with you?"

He hummed. "Yeah, yeah– let's go."

By the time he and Kim got back to the station, Adam and Hailey were already gone, and as soon as Jay felt something like disappointment in his stomach, he pushed it down.