Just small chapters on some meaningful upstead moments, that were left with gaps in. The base idea credit to CPD writers, but the gap fillers are all my ideas. Hope you like them🙃

Macie Vanessa Halstead loves hearing stories, she always has done. Whether it be fairytales or storybooks, her face would light up every time she was sat down to hear one. But there was a certain way her face would change with excitement and anticipation when she was told a real-life one and the six-year-old especially loved hearing ones of before she was born, calling it the real-life fairytale. However one day the girl's curiosity comes back to bite her parents in the ass. She wants to know her story, the same story that Jay and Hailey didn't like to remember back on. They had wanted to tell her but couldn't find a way for the young girl to understand - and it was still difficult for them to talk about themselves, but their adamant daughter was more stubborn than the both of them combined and wasn't letting it go easy. So while waiting they decide to tell it as it was, the story of how she was born. Macie's story, as they called it. *set in the same timeline as 'another life'* - Requested by: Kaitylynn26 -

It had been almost a decade since Jay had first noticed the drastic and sudden change of attitude coming at him from his niece Olivia, and still to this present day Jay is convinced she doesn't like him, which didn't make sense because for the first three years of Olivia's life she would often choose her uncle Jay over her own parents. Jay just misses being able to share a room with her, to talk to her, and he would do anything to fix what had gone wrong all those years ago - if only he knew what had happened in the first place. So Jay finally says that he's had enough and takes the matters into his hands, on a quest to gain back the strong relationship he and his niece once had. But in order to do that, Jay might need to reveal the one thing he had been keeping a secret all this time, the one thing he swore he would take to the grave. - mostly a Halstead Brothers and Upstead fic, with manstead scattered in quite frequently -

Jay and Hailey already had their hands full with their two kids and working full time in one of the most demanding units in the CPD, however now they've decided they wanted to expand their family once more. Alongside their five-year-old daughter Macie and two-year-old son Alfie, the Halstead family are about to embark in the craziest year of their life. - sequel to 'Another Life' - -- canon divergence from 9x09 --