One day Jay Halstead found a baby outside the 21st district. He discovers his father's feelings for the little girl and wants to raise her. It's a story in chronological order about Jay Halstead as a single father.

Hailey and Jay had been married a month and were settling into that life well. There were still a few bumps they experienced as they grew accustomed to the new change but like most of the bumps they had come across in the past, they got over them without a problem. Accompanied with their two and a half-year-old daughter Macie currently in the midst of the so-called "terrible twos", the two of them have their hands full, especially alongside their demanding jobs and with Jay up for a possible promotion in the near future. But one hurdle gets flung in their direction without so much as a warning, one they weren't ready for as of yet - if at all - and it throws the routine they had built out of proportion entirely. - written in Hailey's POV - -- prequel to 'A Love Like Ours' --

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 -