Elara Hayes - Spenser

Chapter 32

Ray POV:

Elara came back down with Clay beside her walking beside her, both of them looking at the IPAD but Clay was first focusing on the stairs and secondly about listening to her. Her heels had caught one of the stairs wrong but before she could fall, one arm wrapped around her waist while he grab the banister with the other

"Thanks." Elara smiled look down being more careful as she held Clay hand coming down "We just received files from 66. It looks like all the people we've found but...."

"These a few unaccounted for..." Marco stated "Right..."

"Yep."

"So what are we doing?"

"I think we should introduce ourself properly." Imogen smirked "Let the bosses know what there messing with."

"That's not going to work, we've agreed to be good for the duration of our stay." Alexis replied as she laid on the couch knees bend over at the board with her head upside down hanging off the couch

"Agreed and Alexis please get up." Kevin replied as he stepped away from Esposito "Your gonna get dizzy."

"Your right, but I need a hand. I'm already dizzy." She smiled as Ryan carefully helped her up "So what's next?"

"We could always do examples again." Imogen replied

"What burning down a house... yea next..." Astrid replied

"We need to do everything we can to find the missing people." Esme replied "We can't just do nothing..."

"Let us help, let us look into what we can do to help." Ryan replied and the others agreed

"It's hard, it's new to all of us so the idea of having someone to trust outside of family."

"We're family too and now that we're together again, you'll never be alone again." Kevin confirmed

"We're gonna have to start playing by the rules at some point." Alexis reminded

"Fine, what do you wanna do?"

The parents looked around before agreeing "We could do a raid."

"I know a judge I can see if I can get a warrant." Hicks confirmed

Somewhere through the conversation Astrid had stepped out to take a call and came back pulling Marco to the kitchen to talk in private

"What happened what's wrong?"

"It's Jasper, his becoming restless and Becca thinks he may have caught something from school." Astrid replied "I think I'm gonna head back to check on Jasper and the girls, or do you wanna go?"

"The kids will be comfortable with you, but your need here for your skills."

"I know but I don't like the idea of Jasper and the girls being on their own, especially since we've only been here a few months."

"I'll ask 1 how long we'll be here." Marco replied

"Go." Elara cut it "Go to Jasper we've got this handled."

"Thanks."

Back out with the others

Jason POV:

Elara walked out from where Astrid and Marco had been and came over to give an announcement

"What's up?" Buck asked

"We're down a paramedic, 4 has to go back it looks like the kids are sick or getting sick so she wanted to go back and be with them. As you know that means you'll be hit with a lot of the paramedic work along side Diana, Tempest are in charge that means you're gonna be taking the brunt of the work."

All both nodded their understanding

We ran raids again and again till we found all the information and the others were struggling to stay awake. Elara was trying to force herself to stay awake as she used Clay as a pillow, Clay had slipped his arm around her while he stayed awake after drinking almost 4 coffees

"We'll be home soon." Clay told Elara "You need to sleep."

At the airport

"Thank you for being here, for helping me..." Street smiled

"Always, you call and we're here." Elara promised "You need to remember that and you need to promise me something..."

"Anything?"

"Remember your not alone here, you got family." She replied gesturing to the SWAT and 118 as she grabbed Buck "Both of you promise me you'll at least try to remember that."

"We'll try." Buck swore with a smile as Street nodded

"Good." She smiled hugging them both and kissing their cheek as they walked back to their teams "Good luck, their trouble but their worth it."

"We've noticed." Bobby smiled resting his hand on Buck shoulder while Luca throw his arm around Street "We've got them and your right they are worth it."

They board and what I noticed was Marco was always towards the front while Elara stood towards the back watching, like she was protecting the team till they got to the top and the teams always stood a certain way with Clay on her right while Marco stood towards the left and a small gap was in between him and Erika where Astrid would've stood if she was there but the team turned back, Elara waved out with the others before boarding

At home

"Mummy!" Sebastian yelled rushing out the door

"Oh my little prince." She smiled picking him up and spinning him again "I have missed you oh so much."

"I missed you to mummy." Sebastian smiled "You and daddy."

"At least I'm in after thought." Clay retorted as he walked up behind her, wrapping one arm around her waist as he racked his hand gently through Sebastian hair "Were you good?"

He nodded with a wide tooth grin that had both his parents smiling as they walked in to greet the others, Elara bending down to hug the girls before she walked over to Becca and got Atticus taking the kids outside to play. In that second you could see faint traces of who she was prior to the war, before being a captain, before being a rookie in the ranks they joined, before the number 1 was ever branded over her name. You didn't see Number 1 the captain of the ranks, you just saw Elara a girl without the stresses of life, the girl behind the number trying to save the world and that girl.... my girl she is beautiful. Her face as the sunlight beamed against her, she had a beautiful smile as the sun light bounced gently against her hair almost changing the colour and her sweater hanging lop sided as it was a size to big, her dress flowed gently as she twirled in the garden with the Aurelia, Ames and Sara trying to keep up and Atticus on the ground behind them playing with Becca. I watched as Clay smiled wrapping his arms around her and lifting her a bit of the ground as she laughed leaning back into him