Jay Halstead

++it became hard to bring her back down. "Do you wanna go somewhere more private?" Jay asked, mentally cursing himself for how bad that sounded. "I mean so you can yell at me. I have Whiskey back at my place, too."

Jay put his hands up to quiet Erin a little bit as he let out a breath and nodded his head. "I know that, Erin." Jay said, "It's all in the way someone is raised and the choices they make." Jay had no idea what to say to Erin at this point, she was always so passionate about things that sometimes ++

++moment. Sometimes he's right, other times he's wrong. But what he lives with is knowing he made the best decision that he could in the moment. Erin, you made the best decision that you could in the moment."

++let out a small breath before patting Erin's back. "I think that if we had of waited for backup, those kids would have killed some innocent bystanders." Jay said, "You know, Voight said something to me at the beginning of all this. That he makes decisions based on what he thinks is right in the ++

Jay had given Erin a nod as he ordered two more and then watched as Erin downed both of them and put up two more fingers. Jay knew what it had been like with everything, considering he had to watch kids die, and kill them himself either through being a part of the CPD, or when he was on tour. Jay ++

++worse than they already were.

Jay set up his sniper from a rooftop not that far away and took aim through it. He sighed when he couldn't get Brian into his sights. "Hey Sarge?" Jay said into his radio, "If you can get Hailey to get Doctor Charles further to his right, I can make the shot."

Jay had come with the rest of the team to the location, knowing that one of their own was pretty much being threatened. It had been a good thing he wasn't in there with Hailey, because Jay would have been half tempted to just shoot the guy through the door. Which would have made things a lot ++

++feel like I did better than last year." Jay said as he remembered just the small party in his apartment last year. Oh yes, this was definitely much better than that.

Jay looked over where Will had been looking and then he followed his brother over to that table and sat down. When Will was asked what he was doing for his birthday and he let out that shout of excitement, Jay couldn't help but laugh as he took another sip of his beer and then set it down. "I ++

"Kim? Is your lucky number '4'?"

~Main Ships~ (Will do any, but these are my fave five for Jay)

1. Erin Lindsay
2. Hailey Upton
3. Adam Ruzek
4. Kim Burgess
5. Kevin Atwater

++Cove, get drunk, go to Caesar's Palace, did I say get drunk?" Jay had asked with a wide grin on his face, just hoping that Will would be happy with the sudden news. Jay really wanted to go all out this year for his brother.

++though he were a child who had just ruined the DisneyWorld surprise their parents had been hiding from them. "I mean, we aren't going to go to the extremes they did in the Hangover. I really don't wanna lose a thumb, but we could have a blast! Do some gambling, get drunk, go to the Pirate's ++

"Well that really depends on how drunk we get." Jay had said to Will's 'tiger' joke. Jay's excitement was almost bursting at the seams and he let out a strong breath as he rose both his arms in the air, "We're going to Vegas!" Jay had exclaimed in an excited kind of tone and then laughed as ++

++all need to trust one another a little bit more." Jay went silent a second to gather his bosses reaction and when Voight continued to stare at Jay waiting for the end of that sentence (because Voight could always just pick up on these things), Jay added on: "Especially you, Sarge."

++firm tone, trying to be respectful but at the same time trying to exert some seriousness into the situation at hand. "I believe that we have a comminication issue within our group." Jay said to him, "Now it is my understand that we are all like family in this group, yeah? So, I feel that we ++

++that. So communication was broken down by quite a bit.

Jay walked into Voight's office after he had seen Kevin walk out, and he closed the door. When Kevin had come in he came in calm with a simple question for the Saergent, but Jay was coming in like a wrecking ball. "Sarge!" Jay said in a ++

++could know what was going on 24/7 with all of them. But the thing was, Jay wanted to know all of Voight's truths as well. He believed that as a team they all needed to be there for each other and Jay never believed for a second that any of them did anything to disearn anyone else's trust in ++

> @detectivevoight.bsky.social

Anger had been biting at Jay a lot lately. Not because of his own life, but because he had been working for a man who hid so much from them. 'Tell me the truth, so that I can lie for you'. Jay supposed that was a line for only them to know so that Hank Voight ++

++his beer to his lips and let out a squeak of a giggle. Like a child on Christmas day. "Can you guess? I bet you can't." Jay said as he leg began to bounce up and down.

++sitting and drinking away, Jay looked at Will with a smirk. "You gotta get ready, bro." Jay said to Will, "I feel like I have hit the ultimate for bro's birthday. Something we've never done before." Jay could barely contain his excitement even setting it up for Will. He smirked, as he brought ++

++year, tomorrow, they were going to celebrate Will's birthday in hardcore style! Jay may have been getting ideas from The Hangover, but he decided that maybe inviting a tiger to the party was a bad idea.

That night, Jay met Will at Molly's and ordered them both a beer. Once they had been ++

> @doctorhalstead.bsky.social

A brother birthday celebration. Something that Jay and Will got to do twice a year for one another. Jay felt that one day they wouldn't do it anymore because one day they would get too busy for one another. Hey, it happened once, it could happen again. But this ++

"It sure is!" Jay exclaimed in a teasing tone, "We should run next door and tell Goosy Lucy." Was he drunk? Maybe...

"Oh, you didn't hear?" Jay asked, "The sky is falling."

"I see my brother! What's up, Will?" @doctorhalstead.bsky.social

++so that he could buy another when Erin ordered her drink.

++drink, especially on bad days. Bad days were the worst. "Is it a beer or Whiskey kind of day?" Jay had asked her, as he lifted up his own drink, his brows lifted. Jay had a glass of Whiskey in hand as he pounded it back and set the glass back down on the counter, just clearing the amber liquid ++

> @erinlindsaycpd.bsky.social

Jay was sitting at the bar enjoying his drink when he had noticed Erin walk inside. He let out a small huff and then leaned back in his chair as she approached. Together or not, Erin was still Jay's best friend and he was definitely more than willing to buy her a ++

++the bullpen waiting on orders from Voight for a case, it had all seemed hopeless. Voight never came out and Jay was bored. So Jay looked around at everyone inside of the room as he tapped his pen. "Anyone... wanna do a run with me?" Jay had asked.