Still Us: A Linstead Story | CHICAGO PD
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Last published Sun, Aug 23, 2026
Jay Halstead left everything. The badge. The team. His wife.
Haunted by his past and bound by a promise that never felt right, he set out hoping to find himself again.
Was it the Army that pulled him away... or fear?
Did he really go straight to Bolivia... or was there a detour?
And what if, five years later, his path crosses Erin Lindsay's again-when neither of them are the same?
What happens when the one person he left behind refuses to let go this time?
Still Us is a Linstead story of love lost, love found, and everything in between.
A slow burn reunion. A battle with ghosts.
And the kind of connection you only find once in a lifetime.
Not just a fic. A fix-it. A healing process. An escape.
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