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18. surprises

Finn and Jocelyn got back from the integration room, finally got her to crack. They high fived, passing the paperwork and went to their desks. Jocelyn kicked her legs up, Sonny smiling at her.

"You know, that was the most fastest and easiest confession I ever got." She shrugged at the job well done.

"Makes the job easier for us." Finn agreed.

"Hey." Sonny whispers to her, got closer. "Wanna go for coffee later?" Jocelyn bites her lip, hiding behind her hair. Just before she could respond, she heard a voice that sounded so familiar and haven't heard in a long time, asking for her at the front desk. Jocelyn saw Jensen. Immediately her heart stopped as she saw her ex husband.

"What the..." She kicked her feet down, immediately earning Jensens attention. Soon as Jensen saw her, he was in awe. She had changed. She looks so good. The heavy tattooed man rushes to her side.

"We need to talk, now." He stays close to her, grabbing her arm.

"What the hell are you doing here?" She pulls herself away from him, her eyes were wide. What was he doing here all the way from LA? Finn and Mike had pretended to work to figure out who the handsome guy was and what's his position in Peña's life. She never said anything that shes with anyone, besides her dates but this guy, they knew that they had a long run. But this guy, they knew he was a cop due to the stance, of course the arm tattoo, the muscles, and the way he talks. Definitely had a thing.

"Hey!" He yells at the front and Issac and Yessina walked in, with their heads down. Jocelyn's eyes were about to pop out of her skull, The whole squad looked, Sonny took a double look. Finn had ducked his head and realized that those kids looked like her and that meant one thing. Her kids. Mike had almost spit out his coffee has he realized the same thing. Even though they were both wrong.

Sonny saw the face Jocelyn had made. She was terrified. Her kids? Her ex? He watched as she took the three into an interrogation room, sending the teenagers inside the room and seeing her and the man whispering words. The man looked almost terrified when speaking to her.

"Why in the hell are you and the twins here?" She growled between her teeth.

"This is my fault, i take the blame." Jensen steps back.

"This has to be good." She fakes a laugh. Jensen was now bothered, irritated. "You never took the blame when we were together even though it was your fault, so yeah, this is a must." Jensen balled up his fist. She was right but still, he hated to hear it.

"Do you want to hear it or not? I didn't come here to be a laughing stock." She rolled her eyes. "Yessina and Issac told me that you wanted to work things out with me, that you wanted me to go to new york and we can talk through this and i gave in." Jocelyn's lip curled. "Thats until I told them if theyre mom knew, Yessina said of course but when i was going to call her, Issac stopped me and said that she didn't know that they were going to New York."

"You thought that I wanted to work things out with you and you gave in?" Jensen felt the laughter she was going to burst out in his face when she heard that. "You really thought that i wanted you back? After all you did to me?"

"I know it sounds stupid." He rolled his eyes and is now pissed. "Can you blame me?"

"Yes, yes i can. You are such an idiot! You believed a sixteen year old!"

"Oh im the idiot!" The two started to shout, making Sonny get up and make his way to them. As Jocelyn saw Sonny walking up, she hid her face. She bites her thumb from the embarrassment.

"Hey everything alright?" He frowns and looks at Jocelyn, who never looked at him. "Jocey?" Jensen looks back at her.

"Jocey?" He repeated what Sonny said. "Thats a new one."

"Everything is fine." She had avoided eye contact with him and shoved Jensen into the room where the kids were waiting. The twins watched as the two came in, Jensen, standing away and into the corner and Jocelyn making her way to them all swiftly. Her hands gripped the chairs, giving the two a glare, a glare they were scared of.

"Yessina thought of everything!" Issac confessed easily. Yessina hit her hands on the table.

"You are such a snitch!" She yells at him.

"Shes a detective!" As they start to argue, Jocelyn just takes a deep breath. "She was going to know anyway!"

"When we get here, we agreed to say nothing!"

"Lying to her is worse than going to jail! I am too handsome to go to jail!"

"AYE!" They immediately stop as she used her loud voice. "Nobody is going to jail." She looks at Issac. "Now, tell me how you decided to trick Jensen into your plan and why you are here?" She hums. Yessina knew she had to speak but didn't say. "Yessina Paloma!" Jocelyn yells at her to spill.

"Fine!" She yells back. "Moms never home! We left because all she does is work! We are all alone, and everyone is here. So yeah, we lied coming here because we all know mom gets, she didn't want Alex leaving the house when he had Winona, she had cried for days when you left." Jocelyn drops her head. Hurt. Since their father died, Alex left LA for New York with Evelyn, Winona and newborn Alejandro. Jocelyn in the middle of a nasty divorce and barely coming home, their mom decided to get two jobs just to keep the twins happy and to keep herself busy. "So i decided to let Jensen to get us tickets to come here because we just wanted to be with someone, come home to a house where someone actually comes back, you, Alex. Being alone in a house that were we used to all be together and now nobody is around. It was fine when you and Jensen used to come over, you two practically raised us,we at least had someone be there with us but since you two divorced-"

"That doesn't mean you have to lie to Jensen." She pointed at him. "Telling him I want to fix what happened, really Yessina Paloma? You cant do that."

"He is still in love with you, so technically its not a lie." She pointed at Jensen too. Jocelyn closes her eyes and Jensen shakes his head.

"Dont." Jocelyn raises a finger to her. "God damn it Yessina." Jocelyn shoves the chair, scaring them. "Do you ever occur in that little head of yours that something could happen?"

"We have Jensen-"

"It doesn't matter!" Jocelyn's arms fling around. "What if you had gone without him, do you know what would happen?"

"Your homicide stories don't scare me anymore."

"You don't get it, it isn't meant to scare you. We live in a world where people aren't all so jolly and kind. You are sixteen years old! I've been working here long enough to know what happens when you are alone. If not you, what if Issac? Mom doesn't know, Alex or I, whats your plan there hm? You could have gotten kidnapped or worse! Es que no tienes ni idea. Todo lo que piensas es lo que quieres. ¡No puedo creerte! Papá nunca te dejaría llegar tan lejos." (its just you have no clue. All you think is what you want.I cannot believe you! Dad would never let you go this far)

"Well dad isn't here!"

"Hey!" Jensen steps in. "Enough, the both of you. This is what we are going to do, Jo," He looks at her. "We can stay at your place, i will book us our tickets back home, we call your mom and tell her everything." Issac agrees, not liking any of this arguing or sitting in the small room, he wanted to get the hell out. "Yes?"

"But im not the one going to tell mom, you are." Jocelyn says to Yessina.

"Fair." He tells her. "Can we stay with you?"

"Get your bags, i swear to you Jensen that if i get in trouble for this-"

"You wont." He places his hands on her arms but she immediately pushes them away once again. Everyone followed Jocelyn in a line, all eyes on them. She starts to call Alex and tell him the story.

"Dodds, i will be back. Family emergency." Was all she said as they left the room. Dodds was left hanging as she didn't wait for an answer.

"My moneys on those are her kids." Dodds tells Finn.

"The way she looks, that guy is definitely an ex." Finn adds in his take.

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After dropping them off at her place, catching Alex up to speed, having a whole fight on the phone with their mother, Jocelyn went back to work and pretended that nothing happened. She steered clear and nobody dared to ask what happened and who they were. She was not having a good day, trying not to take it out on anyone. She was pretty much in her thoughts, trying to fix this and not have her mom come down to New York and start an even bigger mess. Liv sent Peña and Fin to check on a victim before Sonny had the chance to talk to her.

"I have never seen Peña so-" Dodds was looking for a word as he steps into the break room to find Carisi. "Paralyzed with fear."

"Yeah me too." Carisi coughs.

"I mean it was like how my dad would get when my mom would bring her husband around for our family dinners. Like did you see those kids? The boy looks just like her. Do you know if she has kids?" Sonny over pours his coffee, swearing as he burns himself. "You okay?"

"Yeah, fine, thanks." Sonny cleans his mess and sits on the table as Dodds leaves. He rubs his forehead. She would told him. She tells him everything, almost. Was he the other guy? No, he has been in her place, no guy or kids. It had been itching his brain all day what if Jocelyn lied to him.

Sonny had met up with Bella for coffee. It was still itching him. He had nobody to talk to. And well, Bella was there and he just told her. He trusted Bella way more than Gina and Teresa.

"I think Jocelyn is married." Bella frowns on mid drink. She slowly puts her cup down and waited for him to say more.

"The hell you talking about? Aren't you guys seeing each other?"

"Two kids and a man came into the station, asking for her. She was all shocked. Her eyes were about to come out of her sockets. Plus the way the guy was trying to hold her and got close to her." He shakes his head. "The kids, don't get me started, they look young, they look like her and-"

"Did she say that shes married?"

"No."

"She moved her to New York with nobody, besides her dog. I highly doubt that she would leave her kids behind." Bella scuffs. "Come on Dominick, you really think she has some secret family?" Shes right, its probably all in his head. But who were they? "Say, you go to her place, ask."

"How am i going to just ask? Hey are you a mom and married?" He frowns.

"Fine, just go to her house and see. I don't know. But come on do you really think a girl that pretty would be single her whole life?"

"Not helping." Sonny looks off.

"You really like her." Bella can tell. The way he gets jealous and heated about her. Sonny will defend her even though she's not there. Like one night, his sister Gina said that Jocelyn sounded fake and a bit stuck up and he brought her ex husband into the conversation. Which she immediately shut up after that. "My big brother is in love."

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Jocelyn arrived at home. The phone calls from her mom were annoying her and now she has to come home to her ex husband and her rebellious siblings. She opened the door to see Alex, Evelyn, Jensen and the kids. Surprised that they all even fit in her small apartment. Her eyes wonder around to see Jensen in the kitchen, cooking.

"Hi." He smiles as he sees her. "Making dinner and thought it would be good to have the family here. Like you know, old times."

"Right." She just nodded. Jocelyn looks at Evelyn and with her eyes tells her to meet her in her room. The two went to the bedroom, closing the door behind them. "Dinner? Bringing you guys here? What the hell?" Jocelyn starts to take off her work clothes to wear more comfortable clothes.

"He insisted. Maybe he does want to-" Jocelyn stops her.

"Don't even finish that." She sat on her bed. "I will never go back with him."

Sonny got out of his car, hoping up the front steps and goes to the third floor to go see Jocelyn. He wants to clear things, make those rumors to rest and to have him stop stressing that she probably had a secret family and that he was just the other guy. He knocks and waits for the door to open.

"I got it!" Yessina jumps and heads to the door. She opens it to see Sonny. Yessina knew he looked familiar.

"Hi!" Sonny says as he smiles at her, hoping that Jocelyn would answer.

"Uh hello?" Yessina frowns, wanting him to wrap it up and say what he needed to say.

"Is-is ya ma home?" He stutters, sliding to see the truth.

"Uh no." She looks at him confused. Why would he ask about her mom? Sonny looks away from disappointment.

"Well can you tell her that I need to talk to her.
Ive been calling her and she hasn't been picking up."

"Sure, ill pass the message." Yessina watches him leave with his head down. She closes the door and heads to the living room to talk to Ale, Issac, and Winona. Jocelyn and Evelyn came out of the room.

"Aye? Who was that?" Jocelyn asks her as she heard the door close.

"Some dude, he said that he needs to talk to mom." She shrugs.

"Mom?"

"Wait.." It finally clicks Yessina. "He's the lanky guy from your job, the one sitting in front of you." Jocelyn's face softens.

"Sonny?" She said in such a saddening tone.

"Yeah, i guess." Her heart sank. He came for answers.

"Shit." She ran out of the apartment and try to catch up with Sonny. She races down and sees him heading to his car. "Sonny! Sonny wait!" She finally caught him. Sonny didn't want to turn but he did, slowly. On the third floor, all heads beside Jensen, peeked through the blinds, trying to see what is happening.

"When were you going to tell me?" He straight up told her. Jocelyn stands there, in shock as Sonny looks hurt, annoyed.

"Tell you what?" He shakes his head and looks away from her for a moment.

"You have kids, you got a husband." He gets closer to her. "Are you married? Why didn't you tell me?"Her mouth opened. She should've told him.

"I know this is confusing but..." Jocelyn tries to make him stay and go in his car. "Those kids, they're not mine! They are my brother and sister, Issac and Yessina. I swear! They came here without my moms permission." She tells him. "Please, i would NEVER do that to you."

"Then whos the guy?" He licks his lips. Shit. Jocelyn didn't want to tell him about Jensen. Its a painful past and she doesn't want to talk about it. She would like to forget that she married him.

"He's no one." She whispers, looking away from him. Embarrassed once again. Sonny wasn't going to take that for an answer.

"Well he is someone because he knows you pretty damn well. He seemed very concerned when i called you Jocey and the way he tries to hold you." Damn it.

"Dom..." Her voice starts to crack. She didn't want to end this. She doesn't want to let go of Sonny. The one good thing in her life.

"Jocelyn i don't like being lied to."

"Im not." Her eyes start to tear up. "Sonny please..."

"I mean, fine, i might have believed that your siblings were probably your children, but that guy? Peña come on, nobody would do what he did to anyone if he's nobody." He called her Peña. Not Jocelyn, not Jocey. Peña. He was devastated. "I don't want to be part of some cheating scandal alright? Tell me." Jocelyn closes her eyes, tears slowly falling down her cheeks. Her lips quivers, looking away now from him.

"Hes my..." She chokes. "My ex husband." Sonny stands in front of her, speechless. He now looks like a complete ass. "We meet in the academy, married shortly after we graduated. I was young, stupid. The job separated us, i got what he wanted and he couldn't take it, he treated me so bad, so he divorced me, three years ago. He means NOTHING to me Dom, please trust me." He says nothing and now she is panicking. "Dominick please." She breaks.

"But why? Why didn't you tell me?" His face softens. "I would've understood, but you never said anything."

"I didn't want to be known as the woman who had a failed marriage, it scares other men when i tell them. I like you Dominick, and saying that would've scared you away. Trust me i wanted to tell you." She held her chest. "Its not easy." Sonny was trying to think about what else to say and not sound rude. "Im the idiot that should have came clean, yes. I have no secrets, you know everything about me." Still nothing. "I don't love him." Sonny didn't know what to say next. Seeing her so broken and fighting with herself honestly made him feel so horrible. The thoughts won. "If you don't want to see me anymore, i understand." She wipes her tears. "I can tell Liv that i want to change partners, i can be with Fin and you can be with Dodds. We can pretend-"

"No." He stops her. "Im the idiot to believe everything what the guys were saying and it was driving me crazy and the way he was with you..." Her look softens as she looks at him. "I don't want to switch partners, i don't want to stop seeing you. I want you." He gets closer, holding her hand. "I talk about you to my family every Sunday dinner, i look forward to see you every day at work and even spending time with you. I never liked anyone like this before." He confesses. Sonny will do anything to make her stay. "Jocelyn..." She runs to his arms, wrapping hers around his neck. He falls into her embrace, calming touch that he loves.

"Dominick." She whispers softly in his ear. He just hugs her tightly.

Everyone in the small apartment, that were being nosey, disperse as the door opens. They acted like they did not see Jocelyn and Sonny arguing, crying and hugging all within 30 minutes.

"Oh hi Jo." Alex acts cool as she walks in. Jensen takes a deep breath as he sees her but immediately wipes that smile as Sonny follows behind. It punched him right in the face.

"Sonny is joining us." She introduces him to Issac and Yessina. And when it came to Jensen, the two immediately knew that they didn't like each other. The tension was intense. The others did not care and turned all their attention to the man in Jo's life. It was a win for Carisi but a loss for Rogers, as he wished that she wanted him back. It was too late and Jocelyn isn't going to change her mind.