Partners in Crime; A Jay Halstead Fanfic

Debts of the Past

Yn's POV

"Chloe, hey. What are you doing here" I ask my older sister as we met up in front of the district. "I need you to do me a huge favor" Chloe said. "Um, okay. What is it" I ask. Chloe pointed behind her where her car was, and in the back seat were Milo and Cara, Chloe's 7 year old twins. "Chloe, no" I say. "I have an important business meeting today, Noah is up in Michigan again, and my sitter can't come in" Chloe said. "Chloe, I work at a police station where there are guns and criminals. I also have a job in the most prestigious unit in the city, meaning I have to work" I say.

"Yn, I will pay you back big time if you do this for me. Please" Chloe said. I could see how desperate Chloe was for someone to watch Milo and Cara, so I sighed. "Fine. I'll watch them" I say. "Thank you so much. You're a life saver" Chloe said and opened the door to her car, causing Milo and Cara to run out and hug me. "You better be back by the end of my shift" I tell Chloe as she handed me a bag full of their things. "Don't worry. I will. Thanks again" Chloe said and got back into her car before driving off.

I took Milo and Cara by the hands and led them inside, leading to some weird looks from a few patrolmen. "Whoa. You work here" Milo asked. "Yep" I say as I opened the gate to Intelligence Unit. As soon as I got upstairs, the whole unit turned to look at me. "Uh, hey everyone" I say. "Ln, what's going on here" Voight asked. "Milo, Cara, can you go wait in that back room over there please" I say and point to the break room. They both nodded and ran off, leaving me to talk to Voight.

"Okay, so I may or may not have to watch my sister's kids today" I say. "Ln, we'e on an important case" Voight said and gestured to the white board. "Shit. The Beckett case. Look, I'll just have them sit in the break room all day. I promise that they'll behave. It'll be like they weren't even here" I say. "It better be. James Beckett. He's a triple-homicide felon Olinsky and I put away 15 years ago. Most of you know he's back out on the streets again on a technicality. Nothing more needs to be said about that. What does need to be said is he tried to kill me, Olive, Justin, and my grandson in front of my house. So the sooner he is in a box or a bag, the better. Where is this guy? I want to know if his discharge papers from Stateville listed a residential forwarding address. What properties he still owns" Voight said. "Hank, we've got to roll" Al said.

While everyone headed off, I went back into the break room where Milo and Cara were waiting. "Where's everyone going" Cara asked me. "They have to go out and do some work" I say. "But we wanted to meet them" Milo said. "Hold on a sec" I say to them and head into the bullpen. I then grabbed a picture frame from my desk and went back to my niece and nephew.

"Here. I can tell you who everyone is using this picture, and when they come back and are not busy, I can introduce you for real" I say. "Yay" Milo and Cara said at the same time. "Okay, so, lets get started. This is Antonio" I say and point to him in the picture. "He was my first partner when I got up here. Then there's Voight, my boss, and Al, who is the 'father of the unit'. Here are Erin and Kevin, some of my friends from up here. This is Adam, who is my current partner. Finally, there's Jay. He's uh, he's my best friend" I say.

Just then, Mouse walked into the room. "Hey, Yn. Who do we have here" he asked. "Mouse, this is my niece and nephew, Cara and Milo. Cara, Milo, this is my friend Mouse. He does the tech stuff for the unit" I say. "Is Mouse your real name" Milo asked. "No. It's just a nickname" Mouse said. "What is your real name" Cara asked. "I can't tell you. It's confidential" Mouse said and smiled.

A while later, I headed back into the bullpen to see where the case was at. "We got the sealed transcript from the grand jury trial on Beckett. There's an unidentified voice on the wire. After the raid, this guy's on the tap telling Beckett that guns, heroin, and $2 million in cash were seized by the police" Jay said. "Which is where there's a discrepancy. Evidence tags from the raid show that there was one million seized" Adam said. "Looks like Beckett was right. There's a million dollars missing" Jay said. Al and Voight looked at each other before heading into Voight's office to talk.

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"Hey, Jay. Did you guys get Beckett" I ask as he came back to the office later that day. "Yeah. We got him. How was babysitting" Jay asked. "Fine. Uh, can you come here for a minute" I ask him. "Yeah. Sure" he said and followed me into the break room. "Jay, this is Milo and Cara. My niece and nephew" I say. Almost immediately, Milo and Cara ran out of their chairs to hug Jay. 

"Hey kids. It's nice to meet you" Jay said. "They wanted to meet you the most out of everyone on the team" I say. "Oh yeah? Why is that" Jay asked. "Aunt Yn said you were her best friend" Milo said. "Is that so? I thought that title was reserved for Ruzek" Jay said to me. "You're both really good friends, but you're just a bit past him" I say. "Aunt Yn has been telling us stories of all the cool stuff you guys have done together" Cara said. "We are pretty cool, if you think about it" Jay said. "Yeah, yeah. You kids ready to go home" I ask. "Aw. Do we have to" Milo asked. "Your mom is waiting downstairs" I say. 

"I'll come down with you guys. On the way out, I can tell you another cool story" Jay said. "Really" Cara asked. "Yep" Jay said. "Come on, Milo. Hurry up! I want to hear the story" Cara said. "I'm ready. Lets go" Milo said. "That's the fastest they've ever gotten packed up" I say to Jay as we headed downstairs. "What can I say. I'm good with kids" Jay said. "I believe it. Now, you better tell them that story you promised or else things are going to get messy."