I'm so so so sorry for taking so long to post another chapter. I was having a bit of writer's block, combined with a lack of time to write due to school.

6 weeks later...

"Halstead, my office now."

Jay stood from his seat and walked into Voight's office and closed the door behind him. Voight stood with his arms folded across his chest.

"What's up Sarg?" Jay asked.

"Erin's coming back to work tomorrow." Voight said briefly.

"I know, she's pretty excited. She had her last appointment with the physical therapist a couple days ago, and he gave her the all clear for full work." Jay said. He'd be lying if he said he wasn't excited to have her back at work. It's been nearly 6 weeks, and he missed having her sitting across from him in the Intelligence office.

"I just wanted to remind you of what I said 6 weeks ago. Erin's been through a lot and she's a grown woman so I'm not going to try to control who she dates. But let me make myself clear on one thing, Jay. If you can't keep it professional in the workplace, or worse, if you break her heart, I'll have you out of this unit so fast you won't even know what hit you." Voight said to Jay, sternly,

"I understand, Sarg." Halstead said, before he started to walk toward the door. He left Voight's office, shaking his head and silently laughing to himself.

The next morning, Jay and Erin drove together to the station. Erin, to Jay's surprise, looked nervous. He instinctively reached over and grabbed her hand. "You're gonna do great, and everyone is excited to see you," Jay said, reading her face like an open book.

"That's not why I'm nervous." Erin said quietly,

Jay parked the car in the parking lot and looked over at her. "Okay, so why are you nervous?" Jay asked, placing his hand on her leg.

"What if we can't keep it professional? What if work ruins this?" she said, looking down at his hand, and then back into Jay's blue eyes.

Jay held both of her hands in his and said, "We're gonna make this work, Erin. It's not going to be easy, but I love you, and I'll do whatever it takes to make this work."

He leaned over and gently pressed his lips to hers reassuringly. Erin looked into Jay's eyes again, "I love you too," she said, before they both opened the car doors, and walked into district 21.

The first half of the day went by smoothly and quietly, with all of the members of intelligence dealing with paperwork. Jay couldn't help but smile when he looked up at Erin, sitting across from him in her usual seat.

Voight came out of his office, and notified the group that they had a bust to get to. The group had been working on busting a group that was smuggling in drugs from Mexico. They had a location on the group and the warehouse where they kept their drugs.

"Alright, so we'll send in Antonio and Al undercover. Everyone else suit up. Atwater and Ruzek with me, Lindsay with Halstead." Voight said, as everyone started walking toward the locker room to get ready.

"Welcome back, partner," Jay whispered in her ear, and winked at her as he walked by.

Halstead and Lindsay were in their car, parked at the west side of the building. Voight, Atwater, and Ruzek were positioned at the north side of the building, Ruzek having eyes on Antonio and Olinsky, who were inside talking to the drug dealers.

The unit went in to the warehouse and located the drugs. Erin's first drug bust went smoothly, and all of the drug dealers were caught inside of the warehouse. She felt a sense of relief and joy to be back on the job.

Erin and Jay were in the break room, silently getting their second cups of coffee of the day. "So my sister texted me. Her wedding is next weekend. In Minnesota." Jay said, breaking the silence.

"That's nice." Erin said briefly.

"My mom is already trying to set me up with one of her fiancé's cousins." Jay said, while laughing.

"Oh god…" Erin said, rolling her eyes, "so what did you say?" Erin asked curiously.

"I told her I was seeing someone," Jay said, his eyes lighting up.

"Oh did you now? And who would that be?" Erin said sarcastically.

"Very funny. Anyways, she insisted I bring her along. So Erin Lindsay, will you be my date next weekend?" Jay asked.

Erin smiled widely. "I'd love to. I wanna know about your past too. Hopefully your family tells me some embarrassing childhood stories about you getting thrown in a dumpster by a girl when you were 11 or something."

Jay's face turned bright red, as he started to walk back into the intelligence office. "Wait…did that really happen?" Erin asked jokingly, chasing after him.

"No…" Jay trailed off, and Erin gave him a funny look, "okay, I was 8 alright? I won't mess with Jimmy Thompson ever again. His sister is scary."

Erin couldn't help but laugh as they returned to their desks and began working on the next case of the day.

This chapter was a bit shorter, and is setting up an idea I have for where this story will go next. I hope you all enjoyed it. Please follow, favorite, and review.