Love is the Best Medicine

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For a rather nice change of pace, things were pretty slow at 21. They'd all gotten to a scene around eight that morning to assist on a robbery case that had gotten wrapped much faster than usual.

It wasn't always the drawn-out dramatic investigations you saw on TV. They did sometimes catch cases where the perps were just a bunch of dump and sloppy kids who'd left their prints all over the crime scene.

After that, the intelligence team had high-tailed it back to the district where they spent the rest of the morning hanging around the bullpen.

Ruzek and Atwater were on round something-or-other of their waste basketball match. Kim was putting the last few paperclips on a chain long enough to stretch the room.

And Jay and Hailey were in the breakroom getting yet another coffee and trying to keep their plans for the night unheard by the rest of their teammates.

"Everybody, listen up!" Came Voight's grovel as he walked back into the bullpen from a department meeting.

All eyes turned to him, Hailey and Jay rejoining everyone on the floor to listen to what their boss had to say.

"Word just came down from 1PP that the men and women of the CPD are being considered first priority after medical personnel for COVID shots." Hank told the team.

Then he looked up in Jay's direction. "Your brother's gonna come by after lunch, bring a dose for everyone. Then he'll be back in two weeks to give us the second dose.

Everybody has to stay here in the bullpen at least 60 minutes after injection in case of any side-effects." Voight instructed.

Hailey's eyes immediately flipped to her partner's, knowing his well-known phobia of needles. At the first sight of real anxiety in Jay's features, Hailey whispered to him, "Jay, it's gonna be fine." She dropped under her breath from where they stood side by side leaning against their back-to-back desks.

Jay dropped a very dismissive head-nod. But Hailey knew he was freaking out inside. The tough rangers' sergeant in him would never dare show his fears in front of his team.

But the average human in him was scared to death of needles and that couldn't be helped no matter how badly Jay wanted it to.

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On cue, Will got to the district after lunch, a cooler containing six covid vaccine doses at hand. "Hey, man. Thanks for comin' all the way down here to do this for us." Voight said to the ED doc.

"My brother and his unit? Common." Will replied, placing the cooler down on the empty desk behind Kim's.

"Who's gonna be the brave first soul?" The redhead joked, looking around the room at the detectives and officers, all looking a little sickly.

"Eh. I'll get it over and done with." Hailey spoke up, hopping off her desk. "Got a t-shirt you can change into?" Will asked her, looking at the pink hoodie she had on that'd make putting a needle in her tiny arm a little tough.

Hailey nodded, taking off her sweater and leaving it on her desk, staying in the tank she had on underneath it.

"I hear one comment outta any of you and I castrate you before a syllable comes out." Hailey warned the team, looking particularly over at the two chuckleheads of the team.

Then she turned and looked at her partner. "When I told you the thought of getting this vaccine gave me serious anxiety and scared the shit outta me..." Jay smiled at her sweetly.

To everyone else in the room it was a cute exchange between partners. Between Jay and Hailey's silent looks, he knew exactly what she was doing here right now and if they were alone he'd kiss her for how sweet the thought was.