Chapter 31 – Family of Misfits.
A week later.
Lexi sat at her breakfast bar reading a magazine when she heard Jay and Will enter downstairs talking as they walked up the stairs. "Hey" Jay said smiling broadly when he reached the top of the stairs and saw her sat looking at him.
"Hey" She smiled back as he kissed her. "Hey Will" she said as he appeared behind his brother.
"Doctor Halstead" Will corrected smiling "I'm here on official, unofficial business" he explained pointing towards the couch.
Lexi walked to the couch taking off her top and lay down for Will to inspect her wound. Will had been inspecting her wound every few days to check for infections and to ensure it was healing as it should be.
"Wow, it's that easy to get girls to take off their shirts" Jay smirked "I just have to tell them a Doctor"
"You picked the wrong profession brother" Will laughed kneeling beside the couch. Lexi rolled her eyes at the brothers as Will pulled back the dressing that covered the stitches on Lexi's stomach. "Tell me if anything hurts" Will began prodding, gently putting pressure on different spots of her abdomen to check for tenderness. He watched her flinch as he pushed closer to the wound. "Sorry, does that hurt?"
Lexi shook her head "it's more uncomfortable than painful"
Will nodded "Are you sure? You're not playing anything down, are you?"
Jay walked to the couch and handed Will a new dressing as Lexi shook her head "No, as much as I love your visits Doc, I'll just be happy when I don't have to be poked and prodded anymore"
Will laughed opening the white plaster and placing it over the wound. "Well I have good news and bad news" Will stood up as did Lexi pulling her top back over her head. "The good news is, you're free, I don't need to see you as your Doctor anymore"
"And the bad news?" Jay asked putting his hand on Lexi's shoulder, a little concerned.
"The bad news is," Will began "You're stuck with the younger, less charming, Halstead brother" Will smiled looking at Lexi.
Lexi laughed "You forgot less handsome"
Jay tutted shaking his head walking in to the kitchen. "Look at you two hilarious idiots bonding over inside jokes" Jay remarked going to the fridge "Beer?" he asked looking at Will.
Will shook his head "no, thanks. I'm going to leave you two alone" Will smiled. Lexi realised they hadn't been alone since she had been home, Will or Gabby had been there for the last week, taking it in turns to sleep on the couch in case Lexi needed them in the night. "Finish your antibiotics, change the dressing every day until the end of the week, and take painkillers, if you feel like you need them"
"Thank you for everything Doctor Halstead" Lexi smiled sweetly hugging him.
Will embraced her "Remember I'm just a phone call away if you need anything and you still need to take it easy for a couple weeks." Lexi pulled out of the hug nodding at his instructions. "No drinking, no heavy lifting, nothing to strenuous"
"Bro, you're killing me here" Jay joked smiling sitting on the counter top drinking his beer.
"I'm serious" Will warned pointing at his brother "anything too energetic could pull her stitches, I'm not stitching her back up because you couldn't keep it in your pants for a couple weeks."
"I'll be on my best behaviour" Jay did the scouts honour hand gesture.
"Game of Thrones and pizza is as crazy as it's going to get" Lexi promised following Will to the door.
"Take care of her" Will called over his shoulder as he descended the stairs.
Two weeks later.
Jay knocked on Hank's open office door "Sarge, can I get a minute?"
"Sure" Voight answered motioning for him to enter.
Jay closed the door and sat at the chair in front of Hank's desk. "I know it's short notice, but I need tomorrow off, if it's okay?"
"Okay" Voight told him "Why?"
Jay took a deep breath before explaining. "Lexi and I have decided to leave Chicago" Hank looked a little shocked. "And there's an opening with the Ohio Homicide department"
Hank nodded, he understood the want to leave Chicago, get a fresh start but that didn't mean he liked it. "You sure about leaving?"
Jay shrugged "I'm good as long as I'm with her"
Lexi walked up the stairs to the Intelligence Unit, Jay was in Voight's office. Adam, Kim and Kevin were in the kitchen standing around drinking coffee. "Hey" she greeted them as she entered.
"Hey Lex" Kim said hugging her.
"More trouble?" Adam asking looking at the thick brown envelope Lexi carried.
Lexi shook her head smiling "the opposite actually." Lexi motioned towards Voight's office, "They been in there long?" she asked quickly trying to avoid Adam questioning her further.
"About five minutes"
"Ok, I'm going to interrupt, this involves Jay too" Lexi said shaking the envelope as she exited the kitchen and knocked on Voight's door.
Jay stood up and opened Hank's door for Lexi. "Hey" Jay said smiling as she walked in to the room.
"Hi" she greeted returning his smile. "I need to speak to you both actually" Lexi said as Jay stepped out of the office. Jay re-entered the office as Lexi sat in the chair, he had occupied a minute ago. Jay closed the door as Lexi handed the thick envelope to Voight. "That was delivered by courier to my apartment this morning"
Hank removed the contents of the envelope and put it on his desk. It was a 6-inch thick diary, with a black leather cover, it was old, clearly had been used a lot, the pages fraying, bits of additional paper poking out. Hank opened the diary to the first page carefully. Hank read the piece of paper that had been inserted as the first page aloud. "Thanks for keeping your word. A present from me to you, for immunity, just in case. Love C."
Hank handed the note to Jay looking up at Lexi for an explanation. "It's an in-depth account of the life and career of the Chameleon" Lexi began, "every kill, every person she helped make disappear, changes of identities, what city they moved to, aliases they used. The names of the people who hired her, speculation on the reasons for being hired, everything" Lexi was more surprised as she said the words aloud. "I'm sure that could help us solve about thirty cold cases"
"What does she mean for keeping your word?" Jay asked.
Lexi looked at Voight for approval, was she allowed to explain it to Jay, Voight nodded giving her permission. "After about eight months of being in Intelligence" Lexi began looking at Jay "I figured out who she was, well I kind of stumbled across who she was. I tried telling the head Detective on the case of her latest kill and he pretty much laughed in my face. Didn't believe a woman could be behind all the killings, said they were too violent to have been done by the hands of a woman. Most of her kills had been bad people, mob bosses, drug dealers, their competition had hired her, so the detective wasn't in much of a rush to solve the case. She was basically cleaning up Chicago for him. So, I went to arrest her, she was too impressed that I had figured it out, a newbie, to try to run. She confessed to everything I had already figured out, then made me the deal that she would be my C.I. if I didn't tell anyone else about her, if I kept her out of cuffs, she'd retire and help me take down some of the worse people in Chicago."
Jay understood, Lexi had never revealed the Chameleon's identity or arrested her, she had kept her word. "You kept her out of handcuffs. You kept your word"
Lexi nodded "exactly, she got to retire, I got the Intelligence Unit's conviction rate record to an all-time high, we were all winners" she smiled at him looking back at Hank.
Hank had been scanning a few of the pages as Lexi explained to Jay, he closed the diary and looked at Lexi. "Is Calvin Poe in here?" He enquired.
"Yes" she confirmed looking a little sheepish, as soon as Lexi had realised what the diary contained, she had rushed to the end to find if Calvin Poe's murder had been included. "But she never mentions me or the CPD, she says she did it for a close friend, never mentions me being there."
Hank handed the diary back across his desk to Lexi who took it from him. "Keep it safe, like she said, you could use it if you ever need to make a deal. If anything ever comes back to us on the Calvin thing, we use it to make a deal, close all those cold cases for immunity for whoever needs it"
The next evening, Lexi sat at a table in Molly's with Adam, Kim, Kevin, Antonio, Hank, Alvin, Will, and Trudy. "Where's Jay at?" Adam asked Lexi.
"On his way" Lexi said putting her phone back on the table after reading Jay's message. "I'm going to get him a drink in" She announced walking to the bar.
Lexi stood leaning on the bar waiting to be served. The bar was quite busy and only Otis and Herrmann were working. Lexi kept an eye on the door and watched as Jay entered scanning the crowd for her. His smile lit up his entire face when he locked eyes with her, and she watched him walk through the crowd towards her.
Lexi kissed him when he got to her. "How did it go?" she asked wrapping her arms around his neck. Jay had been to Ohio for an interview with the Homicide department. Jay and Lexi were leaving Chicago, to start the happy life together that Jay had spoken about.
"Yeah" He smiled wrapping his arms around her waist. "I think it went well. Pretty sure they will offer me the job"
Lexi kissed him again smiling. Jay looked over at the table and watched his friends laugh as Adam made a joke or finished a funny story. He was going to miss everyone, Kim, Adam, Kevin, Alvin, Hank, Antonio, Trudy and his brother, Will, they were all his family and had been for a long time.
"You okay?" Lexi inquired following his line of sight to the table their family occupied.
Jay nodded "Yeah, just thinking about how much I'm going to miss that crazy ass bunch of misfits"
Lexi laughed "Misfits indeed" she agreed. "But they are our misfits"
"I guess we can visit as much as we want, come back for the holidays," he suggested.
"About that" Lexi began "what if we didn't go?" she asked kissing him quickly again. He bought his focus back to her, looking in to her eyes. "We both love Chicago, our family are here, our life is here." She explained unwrapping her arms from around him she reached in to her jeans pocket. "Plus, there's this" she took her detective badge from her pocket and held it up to Jay's face.
The smile on Jay's face couldn't have been bigger "Really?"
"Yes, I'd be your partner again, if you'll take me" Lexi asked
"All day, every day, until the end of time" Jay smiled kissing her.
"What can I get you guys?" Herrmann asked from across the bar.
"Ten glasses of champagne" Jay ordered smiling.
Lexi carried the tray with the champagne across to the table followed by Jay. Lexi passed a glass to each person in turn. "What are we celebrating?" Kevin asked accepting his glass.
"Are two engaged?" Adam asked looking from Lexi and Jay who were both grinning from ear to ear.
Lexi waited until everyone had a glass in her hand before answering. "It's just a simple thank you for everything you all did for me" Lexi said "and to celebrate this" Lexi said whipping her badge from her pocket dramatically "BAM" she said holding it up to loud shouts of approval.
"That's so much better than an engagement ring" Adam said standing from his chair and hugging Lexi. Everyone congratulated her and welcomed her back to the team Kim and Kevin hugged her.
"A toast" Lexi began holding her glass up, the team copied her "to our family of misfits"
"Misfits" they all chorused clinking their glasses before drinking their champagne.
Lexi stood back watching her family toast together, she looked towards the bar and made eye contact with Kelly, who raised his glass to her, she did the same smiling as Jay put his arm around her waist bringing her attention back to him. "I love you" Jay whispered down her ear.
"I love you too" she said before kissing his lips softly.
Author Note: So that's it, thank you all for reading. Please leave a review let me know your thoughts!
I do have 40 pages of a sequel written but I don't know where its going and I don't want to post it then run out of ideas so I may post it in the future, not sure.
Thank you again for reading.