⋆° დ ༄ UNTIL THERE WAS YOU
chapter two. call it macaroni , part 1

Jay looks at his watch as he climbs the stairs, making his way to his new partners apartment. His smile beams throughout the hallway. Hanging out with Sam and getting the chance to know her and getting to be her partner has made him constantly smile all day. He felt like he had an instant connection to her and he's only known her a day. He's never felt like this with anyone else.

The brunette walks up to apartment 22F and knocks. A couple seconds later, the door swings opens to reveal Sam, dressed in a pair of her many, many owned black skinny jeans and a loseley fit, dark blue v-neck.

Instantly, Jay was put in a trance, 'She looks so beautiful' he thought. And with in seconds, he was pulled out of it by Sam saying his name a bunch of times and waving her hands in front of his face, "Jay?"

"Huh?"

"Are you coming in?"

"Yes" Jay say walking in and looks around the apartment in awe as Sam closes the door behind them, "This place looks great"

"Thank you" Sam says and smiles at the compliment, "Take a seat...you want a beer?"

"Yes, please" Jay says sitting down on the dark blue velvet couch as Sam walks over to her fridge and takes out two beers and heads over to Jay and sits next to him.

For hours on end, and six beers later, all the two did was talk and talk and talk. Talk about everything. They shared stories, and things about each other-which they end up finding common interests- and they shared future plans and even secrets. They learned so much about each other, it was like they've known each other forever.

Sam couldn't believe how close she felt with Jay in such a short time, but she couldn't complain if she got to see his handsome, freckled face everyday.

"Look at the time, it's already 2" Jay says looking at his watch.

"Really? I can't believe we've been talking for six hours"

"I know. I wish I didn't have to leave. I like getting to know you"

Then an idea popped into Sams head, "What if you didn't have to leave"

Jay raised an eyebrow at the girl and asks, "What do you mean?"

"Stay here tonight. We have work in like five hours anyways, and we've been drinking so it wouldn't be safe. What do you think?"

"Sure. Sounds good" he smiles.

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Jay walks out of the bathroom and walks past Sam's room, with the door cracked open a bit, he sees her bending down, to put lotion on her legs.

Jay clears his throat and knocks on the door and says, "Hey, Sam. Do you have an extra blanket and pillow I can use for the couch?"

Sam opens the door with her foot, while putting her hair in a pony and says, "The couch? I wouldn't dream of it. You can sleep in here with me...if you want"

"In the same bed?" Jay asks nervously.

"Yes silly. It's not like we're gonna do anything, right?"

"Right" Jay says following the dark haired girl into her room.

Jay was beyond nervous, if you can believe that. He gets to sleep in the same bed with a beautiful woman, but not getting the chance to kiss her, like he wanted to all night, might just kill him.

Sam climbs into the left side of her bed, followed by Jay who is still fully clothed.

"Jay..."

"Yeah"

"What are you doing?"

Jay looks at the girl confused, "You said-"

"No, not that...you can't be comfortable sleeping in your clothes, can you?"

"I mean..." Jay hesitates.

"Jay, it's okay" Sam smiles and turns onto her right shoulder.

Jay takes his shirt off, then unbuckles his pants, which slides off easily and pushing them aside and climbs into the bed beside her.

"Jay, I'm cold. Do you mind if I snuggle up to you?" Sam asks, but she wasn't cold, she was quite hot actually. She just wanted an excuse to sleep closer to her handsome new partner.

"Y-Yeah" he stutters.

Sam slides her body closer to the gorgeous man, until her back reaches his chest, while he wraps his arm around her waist and smiles.

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The next day...

Sam was in the break room, stirring her coffee around with a spoon, when Jay walks in and grabs a cup of coffee himself and says, "Hey"

"Hey" Sam smiles.

"So I was thinking...maybe one of these nights, you come over to my place and I can make us dinner or something"

Sam taps her spoon on the top of her cup and puts it into the sink, thinking about what Jay just asked her. She was gonna say yes, she just wanted it to seem like she wasn't overly excited about it, "Yeah, okay. It's a date" Sam then stops immediately by what she just said, "Sorry"

"No it's okay...it's a date" Jay smiles and that sends butterflies to Sam's stomach.

The two walk out of the break room at the same time Hank walked in from being questioned by Internal Affairs about the murder of Sheldon Jin -which Erin had filled Sam in on-

"How'd it go?" Sam asks.

"It went. They asked stupid questions, I left." Voight says.

"Boss, where they at with Jins murder?" Ruzek asks and Sam takes a sip from her coffee cup.

"Nowhere. Where's Antonio?"

"He's meeting an informant. He got a tip on some armored van thing" Al answers.

Hank sighs and walks towards his office when Jay walks towards him and asks, "Sarg, why aren't we looking into Jins murder on our own?"

"For the same reason I told you last time you asked. They don't want us anywhere near it since he was in our unit, okay? He was a police officer. Area central is all over it"

"So they had no update this morning?" Kevin asks and Erin and Sam look over at Kevin in disbelief, like he really just asked that.

Voight turns around and walks over to Atwater and says, "The update? The update is they're coming for my badge" Hank shouts, "So when there's another update, I will convey it! Okay?" Voight then looks around at his team, "Until then, just do your jobs"

Hank then walks into his office and slams the door. Sam sighs and sits at her desk which is facing right up against Jay's.

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The intelligence team are all downstairs in the back entrance, putting on their vests while Al and Antonio prep Adam for a little undercover work.

"We'll be right behind you. Eyes and ears the whole time" Antonio states, while Adam buttoned up his 'work' shirt, "You got two distress signals. For visual, just run your hands through your hair. For verbal, just say popcorn"

"Popcorn" Adam repeats.

"Either one of those or both and we're moving in"

"Alright, got it"

Sam moves her hands inside her vest for warmth, as Hank walks out of the small control center the 21st has. "Hey. We all go home tonight" and with that the team heads out.

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The team is following after Adam, while he's under cover in one of the armored vans. Voight, Dawson and Atwater in one car and Olinsky, Lindsay, Halstead and Miller in the other.

Adam starts talking about a bad sushi incident, when Sam leans in closer to Jay and whispers, "Definitely do not make sushi"

Jay nods his head in agreement. Then in a second someone rams into Voight's car.

"Popcorn, popcorn, popcorn" Ruzek starts yelling, while shooting at the armed men, who are shooting back.

Al, Erin, Jay and Sam get out of their vehicle and start shooting at the unknown suspects.

As the intelligence unit is having a shooting match with the suspects, the unknown men get into an unknown car and drive off. Jay and Sam run towards the car and shoot at it, trying to make it stop, but they make a clean getaway.

"Hey you okay?" Jay questions, looking Sam over to make sure she didn't get hurt.

"Yeah, I'm good, you?"

"Yeah"

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Sam walks out of the break room and sees Jay stuffing something into the top drawer of his desk and asks, "Hey, you okay?"

Jay nods his head and their attention went back onto Erin, as Sam sits down at her desk.

"Alright, we have the driver Lee Pritchett" Erin says pointing to the victims picture that is taped onto the whiteboard, "Worked there three months, had a wife and a two year old kid at home" Erin then points to another picture on the whiteboard, "Dead crew member, apparently we got a lead on that..."

"Yeah, Jeff, I know him from my last..."

"Not yet" Erin says and Sam smiles to herself and thinks, 'good 'ol Erin'.

"And we've got the shooter in the armored van. ID and social came back bogus from the company. He started work there three days ago" Erin says crossing her arms over her chest, "We have calls into the company to find out who hired him and who put him in that van today...now" Erin says directing her attention to the patrol officer, Sean Roman who says. "DOA is Jeff Gamble. He's got a rap sheet five feet long. Possession, domestic battery, burglary, two prior armed robberies. His cousin Chris Gamble is basically his partner in crime. If Chris wasn't involved himself, I'll guarantee you he'll at least know what Jeff was up too"

"Why don't you and Burgass go find this cousin" Voight says walking to his office.

"Hey, you sure you're okay?" Sam asks her partner.

"Come with me" Jay says, getting up from his desk.

Sam and Jay head into the locker room so they can get some privacy from the others.

"Jay, what's going on?" Sam questions, making sure no one else is in the locker room, while Jay shuts the door.

Jay opens a letter and hands it to Sam, which reads, 'I know I can trust you - Jin', then Jay holds up a flash drive and says, "Jin sent me this"

"What's on it?" Sam questions.

"I haven't checked it out yet"

"You gotta show Voight"

"Not until I know what's on it" Jay says, taking the note back and then they leave the locker room.

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Sam and the team are gathered around the whiteboard, where Adam and Al are standing.

"Oskar Bembenek and his younger brother Jacob" Al says pointing to their pictures, "Oskar runs a crime outfit for the last twenty-five years. Prostitution, extortion, drugs, you name it. Now Oskar never gets his hands dirty. He always sub-contracts when it comes to taking people out. That's how he's lasted so long"

"This murder charge, what's that about?"Ruzek questions.

"He just had a mistress. Just wanted to break up with him. So..he stabs her twenty-five times. His shirt, it's got her blood on it. Now I knew this girl" Al says as Jay and Sam exchanged looks, "I knew this girl. Judy Martin. I was trying to turn her out as an informant against him"

The phone rings and Atwater answers it, while Antonio says he'll be back. "The supervisor from the armored van company, I've been trying to get a hold of just went home sick" Kevin annonces to the team. Voight looks at the dark haired girl, "Sam, you and Halstead, go"

Sam and Jay stand up from their desks, and Jay asks Kevin for the address, before they leave.

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Jay and Sam pull up to the front of Luke Kendrick's house, and Sam puts the car in park and Jay says, "You're just like Erin, she won't let me drive either"

Sam lets out a chuckle, "So what's on the drive?"

Jay shuts the laptop and sighs, "Jin was working with IA"

"Really?" Sam questions and Jay nods his head.

"Any shot Voight was mixed up with them?"

Sam looks at her partner in disbelief and says, "Don't get stupid on me now Jay Halstead"

Sam gets out of the car, with Jay not far behind her. As the two walk up the steps of the house, they step on either side of the door and Sam knocks, saying,  "Luke Kendricks!" but there was no answer so she knocks again.

"Body!" Jay says and they draw their guns from their holsters and Jay slams into the door with his shoulder to open it.

"Police!" He yells out as Sam follows after him with their guns pointed straight in front of them.

The two detectives clear the house and Jay returns to the body to check for a pulse. Sam takes out her work phone to compare the body to the photo they had for Luke Kendricks and says, "Yup, that's Kendricks"

Jay stands up and points at the couch and says, "Looks like he was trying to clear out"

"Okay, so, he's working for Bembenek. He hired the shooter in the armored van and then tips off the crew when he knows we've got a guy in there and we're following" Sam says.

"I'll call it in" Jay says.

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Sam sees Jay walk out of Voight's office, grab his coat and leave. Sam notices that her partner is upset, so she grabs her coat and goes after him.

Finally after catching up with Jay in the parking lot of the 21st precinct, Sam grabs a hold of his arm and turns him around and asks, "Hey, what's wrong?"

"Let me ask you something, straight up...do you think there's any shot, that Voight was involved with Jins murder?"

"Are you out of your mind?" Sam asks.

"That's an answer to a different question"

"No, there's no way he's involved." Sam says putting her hands inside her coat pockets for warmth.

"Yeah, well, he's gonna bury the case. For god-knows what reason"

"Why? What reason would he have?" Sam questions.

"Do you really think that you know everything about this guy?"

"I trust him Jay" Sam says taking Jay's hand into hers, "So please trust me"

And from that moment, that's what Jay did. He trusted Samantha Miller with everything he had.

To Be Continued...

a/n;

I love Sam and Jay already 🥰
I know it may seemed rushed a little bit with what happened between them in the beginning but it's all apart of their journey 🥰