Chapter 30 – Interrogations.

Gabby entered Lexi's apartment to see Lexi sat on the sofa beside Jay her head resting on his shoulder, Will was sitting on the arm chair all watching a loud action movie on the tv, all to engrossed to notice her presence. "Hey" Gabby called out to get their attention.

Lexi psychically jumped at the sound and yelped as the sudden movement pulled her stitches. Jay quickly sat forward and turned to look at her, Will sprang from his chair and was on his knees beside her on the sofa. "I'm okay, I'm okay" Lexi said breathlessly holding her side as Gabby appeared at the side of the couch.

"Let me see" Will demanded motioning for Lexi to lift her shirt. Lexi moved her hand and lifted her shirt allowing Will to inspect her stitches. "It's not bleeding"

"I told you I'm okay" Lexi confirmed

"No, you're not" Jay said looking at her face, small sweat beads had broken out on her forehead and she was visibly panting.

Will had gone against his better judgement and allowed Lexi to convince him she was well enough to get out of bed. "I knew it was too soon for you to be out of bed" Will advised standing up, "come on, back to bed"

Jay stood up and both he and Will held their hands out for Lexi to help her off the sofa. Jay helped Lexi walk slowly back to her bed. Gabby and Will followed entering the room as Jay aided Lexi in to a sitting position in her bed, pulling the covers over her legs.

"Are you okay?" Will asked looking at Lexi, she nodded but didn't speak. "You got this?" Will asked looking at Gabby, "I need to get to work"

"Yeah, of course, go" Gabby confirmed.

"She needs more pills in half hour" Will advised looking at his watch before saying goodbye and leaving Lexi in the capable hands of the others.

"Do you need anything?" Jay asked sitting on the bed beside Lexi.

She shook her head, "No, Jay please I'm okay" Lexi sighed and put her head against the headboard behind her. "Like Will said I've just over done it a little, I shouldn't have got out of bed"

"No, you shouldn't have" Gabby scolded her "you should sleep, you need to rest"

Lexi woke a few hours later in her bed, Jay sleeping beside her. She took a deep breath, she felt better, she had overdone it earlier. Jay stirred and opened his eyes to find her looking at him. "Hey" he whispered in the moonlit room.

"Hi" Lexi smiled at him

"You okay?"

"Yeah" Lexi assured him nodding, she was getting tired of being asked that question. She knew everyone was worried and just trying to help but it was getting old and fast.

"You sure? I can go get Gabby, she's sleeping on the couch again"

"I'm fine" Lexi told him softly "I promise, I just get uncomfortable lying on my back" she explained "and it hurts to turn over to lie on my good side"

"You wanna sit up for a while?" Jay asked sitting up in the bed and switching on the lamp on the night stand beside him.

"Yeah" Lexi said as Jay climbed out bed and walked around to her side to help her sit up. Jay leant around her and put some pillow behind her, making sure they were plumped up, Lexi put her hand on the side of his face making him stop and look at her. She kissed him tenderly and slowly.

"What was that for?" Jay asked smiling coming out of the kiss.

"Because I love you"

"I love you too" he kissed her softly again before walking back around the bed and getting under the covers. Jay laid his head on her lap, and she drew imaginary circles on his bare shoulder with her finger. Jay broke the silence after a few minutes. "You wanna talk about it?"

He felt and heard Lexi exhale through her nose before answering "there's nothing to talk about"

Jay rolled over lying on his back, his head still in her lap so he could look up at her. "Really?" he questioned "cause your reaction to Gabby earlier wasn't a normal one"

"She startled me" Lexi explained it away "I forgot she had a set of keys, I wasn't expecting it that's all"

"So, you're not expecting someone to kick your door in and arrest you?"

"No" Lexi shook her head "one hundred percent not expecting that"

"You really trust the Chameleon? Is that a smart move? Trusting a criminal"

Lexi chuckled slightly "It's a bit late if I didn't."

Jay sat up and copied Lexi pose, putting his back against the headboard. "I'm serious Lex" Jay began taking her hand in his. "You might not be worried that someone isn't going to kick the door in but I am. Less than twenty-four hours ago I thought I was losing you, I can't keep thinking like that" he turned his head looking in to her eyes, pleading with her almost "you need to give me something here"

Lexi took a deep breath and kept eye contact with him. She wanted to tell him what happened, but she was worried it would change the way he looked at her when he knew exactly what she had done. "Calvin didn't believe what was happening to begin with. He thought I'd taken him there to scare him in to confessing. He was acting all tough and macho, throwing insults at me, telling me I deserved everything I got." Lexi broke her eye contact and looked down at their intertwined hands. "He kept waiting for you to walk in, asking where you were. Took a few hours for him to realise what was really happening, who the Chameleon was. Then he was like a little kid, petrified of the bogyman. I almost felt sorry for him."

Lexi stopped talking and took a few deep breaths, Jay squeezed her hand reassuring her. "Was the Chameleon there the whole time?" Jay inquired, "did they help you?"

Lexi nodded "Yeah. When Calvin attacked me, they stopped him, wanted me to go the hospital but I refused, made them bring me here"

Jay shook his head at her stupidity. "So, a professional killer was worried enough about you to want to take you the hospital and you still refused?"

Lexi chuckled at his summary of events "yeah, I wasn't finished" Lexi paused before she continued "He begged for his life, tried to convince me it was all Trent's idea and he just went along with it…

When I first saw him, tied to the chair, smiling at me like it was a big game, I thought I might have taken it too far. That I should just get a confession from him and bring him in but then he said Trent made a mistake by not making Shay suffer, she died too quickly" Lexi blinked back tears and paused, steadying her voice. "I scared myself, the more I did to him, the more I hurt him, the more he screamed or begged me to stop the easier it was. What does that say about me?" Lexi couldn't bring herself to look at Jay scared of what his face would show. Would he be disappointed in her? Scared of her a little?

Jay put his hand under her chin and guided her head up making her look at him. "It says you're a strong, bad-ass, human being" he leant over and kissed her gently.

Lexi laughed lightly coming out of the kiss "that's what the Chameleon said"

Jay nodded smirking "Should I be worried about the Chameleon stealing you away from me?" he asked jokingly

Lexi smiled chuckling, "between you and me, she's not my type" Jay laughed kissing her again.

Lexi had managed to avoid an interrogation from anyone for three days after she had returned home. Will and Gabby had been great in protecting her from a grilling, telling Hank, Kelly and Jay she needed to rest and avoid as much stress as possible.

But by day four Lexi was sick of lying in bed and had convinced Will she was well enough to be out of bed, but still taking it easy and staying in her apartment.

Hank, Kelly and Jay decided this meant she was well enough to explain herself and give them the answers they wanted. Lexi sat at the breakfast bar, Will sat beside her keeping an eye on her pulse, the old-fashioned way without monitors, Will had already warned the other three men who stood around the kitchen waiting for answers that if he thought she was getting too worked up and stressed he would stop the questioning.

"Okay, let's do this" Lexi started looking at each of the men staring back at her in turn. "If any of you are waiting for an apology, you're not going to get one." Neither man spoke waiting for her to continue. "Let's break this down one by one" Lexi said looking at Kelly. "Kelly, I made you believe Jay would be with me"

"You didn't make me believe it, you straight up lied to me" Kelly advised her.

"And if I hadn't you A, wouldn't have let me use the boat house or B, you'd have insisted on coming with me or C, followed me there, risking yourself" Kelly had no response, he would have done either of those things. "Okay Hank, I lied to you about where I would be" Hank nodded chewing his lip to try and mask some of his anger. "Which if I hadn't you would have bought Jay directly to me, implicating the both of you. I lied to protect you both."

"You don't protect me" Voight said angrily "I protect you. You tell me the truth so I can lie for you"

Lexi looked down at her hands that rested on the breakfast bar, a little embarrassed at being scolded by Hank although she knew she deserved it and had expected it. Will put his fingers to her wrist keeping an eye on her pulse as she replied. "Now you don't need to lie for me"

"Take it easy" Will warned feeling her heart rate increase.

Lexi took a deep breath and continued. "Jay, I don't think I lied to you, but I did punch you" Will held up his hand for her to high-five him, which she did smirking a little. "Which was a bitch move and probably the only thing I am sorry for." The room remained silent. "Will, did I lie to you?" Lexi asked looking at him.

"Oh no" Will said shaking his head grinning, "I'm just here for the entertainment."

Lexi chuckled thankful for his assistance in trying to lighten to tense mood of the room but neither Hank, Kelly nor Jay found the funny side to the situation and all stood looking stern and angry. "Look the way I see this is your all pissed at me for doing the exact thing you all would have done to protect me and I'm not going to apologise for any of it."

"We should have been there," Jay told her "to help you. Maybe you wouldn't have got hurt"

"And maybe one of you would have been hurt instead" Lexi suggested. "The whole point of this was to stop that from happening" she sighed heavily, she was getting tired. "It's done now and being mad at me isn't going to change anything. Can't we all agree to disagree?"

Jay, Hank and Kelly exchanged a questioning look. Kelly spoke "We all know she's way to stubborn to admit she was wrong"

Jay agreed "I guess that's as good as we're going to get"

"I've got to go to work" Kelly said as he walked to her and kissed her forehead.

"Thanks for everything Kelly" Lexi smiled quickly and watched him walk to the stairs.