⋆° დ ༄ UNTIL THERE WAS FOREVER
chapter six. some friend.

"Mama"

Sam wakes up from a dead sleep and sits up and looks at the baby monitor, then she nudges her finaceé and says, "Jay, wake up. Did you hear that?"

Jay squirms around and says, "hear what?"

"It sounded like Gracie said something"

"I think you're hearing things, baby. Go back to sleep"

Sam gets up from the bed and puts on her robe and walks to her daughters room and over to her crib, where she is standing straight up, and says, "mama"

"Oh, my god. Oh my god, baby" Sam smiles, picking up Gracie from her crib, "you just said your first word"

"Daddy"

"Oh my god, that's your second word" Sam smiles, then races back to hers and Jay room and sits down, setting Gracie in between her and Jay, then nudges him to wake up, "Jay, she just said her first two words, wake up!"

Jay sits up on the bed and says, "I'm up, I'm up!"

"She just said mama and daddy"

"Really?"

"Yes. I swear. Come on baby. Say mama, daddy"

Gracie looks at her mother confused and then crawls over to sit on Jays lap and rests her head on his chest as he wraps his arms around her in a hug.

"Sam, if she's been saying her first words, why isn't she saying them now?"

"I don't know, but I'm telling you, she said them"

Jay looks down at his 1 year old, who looks up at him with her innocent hazel eyes and says, "can you say mama and daddy?" and Gracie just shakes her head no, "see"

"Jay, she's playing us"

"Sam, she's one"

"And spoiled. She's putting us against each other"

Jay chuckles and gets up from the bed with Gracie in his arms, "I'm gonna go put her in her crib and when I come back-" but before Jay could finish, Gracie starts crying, "what's wrong, baby? You want to sleep with us tonight?" Which makes the girl stop crying, "maybe she's a little spoiled" then Jay brings Gracie back over to the bed and lays her in between them and then kisses her forehead, "night babygirl"

Gracie yawns and closes her eyes.

"A little spoiled? She's a lot spoiled" Sam laughs as her and Jay her under the covers.

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"She was the only one in the house. We found a purse. All it had was 64 dollars in cash, make up, two condoms, and a dime bag of heroin. So, we have no idea who she is." Burgess informs the intelligence team at the crime scene, which happens to be the home of an ex baseball player, while Erin and Sam look over the body.

"Well, she's somebody's daughter." Voight says. Jay walks over to the group and says, "no alarm, no sign of forced entry, and no sign of Jake McCoy. Just some smashed stuff and missing memorabilia."

"Hey, boss?" Adam says, and everyone looks up to see Ruzek on the second floor, "McCoys cell keeps going to voicemail. I found his lawyers business card. She said he's on his way back from a hunting trip."

"Why would you tell your lawyer you were going on a vacation for the weekend?" Sam questions.

"Let's get a pinging order. Find out where he's at" Voight tells Adam who says alright.

"Yo, we got a lot of press showin' outside, Sarg" Kevin says, opening the door a crack to peak outside.

"Alright, comb the neighborhood, check for security cameras" Hank says then looks at kevin, "I want you to find witnesses before the press does, you understand?"

"Copy that" Kevin says.

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"So, Gracie said her first words last night" Sam tells Erin, as they walk up the stairs to the unit.

"Oh, my god, that's awesome" Erin says, pulling the girl into a hug, "what were they?"

"Mama and daddy"

"That's cute. What did Jay say about it?"

"He doesn't believe me?"

Erin chuckles and says, "come on"

"I swear. When I brought her into our room last night, she wouldn't say anything. It's like she's knows what she's doing"

"Sammy, she's one"

"I know, that's what Jay said"

As the two detectives get onto the unit, they see a vase of Daisies on Erin's desk and Sam says, "what, you got a boyfriend and didn't tell me?"

"What, no. I don't know where they came from" Erin says, as they walk over to her desk and she takes out the card and the envelope reads 'Erin' but nothing on the card, "the card is blank"

"Well, I feel that's more creepy then romantic"

"Definitely"

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"Alright, Maya Collins, age 16" Adam says, taping the girls picture onto the white board, "I ran her prints. She's got one prior for possession. She's originally from Hailey, Ohio. No known address. Her case agent said she fell through the cracks in the juvie system."

"Cause of death is blunt force trauma to the head" Erin says, leaning off her desk to tape a picture of the victim's body where they found her, onto the board, "there was blood on the edge of the coffee table. Looks like she went into it backwards."

"M.E put the time of death somewhere between 12 and 2 a.m. the neighbor that called and made the complaint said he heard a girl scream at 12:30. Said that wasn't out of the ordinary at jake's house." Jay states.

"What are we looking at here?" Sam questions, "I mean, does Jake McCoy have a history of violence?"

"Well, I met Jake about 10 years ago or so. You know, before I came to intelligence. I mean, since then my contact was pretty sporadic. Now do I think that he's a killer?" Al shrugs, "Not the Jake that I know."

"Well, There is the robbery angle. I mean, the trophy case was cleared out, the house was tossed. And the girl, whatever she was doing there, she might have just been collateral damage." Adam says.

"Looks Like Vice was looking at McCoy for serving alcohol to underage girls in his house." Dawson says, looking at his computer then gets up from his desk and asks Al, "was he into underage girls?"

"You'd have to ask him, Antonio. You know, jake's got a gofer. A guy named Freddy Mays. He'd run a guest list." Al says.

"Alright, let's see if the robbery matches the M.O of any current crews. Alert local pawn shops. Anybody moving McCoy memorabilia. Crack off an investigative alert, contact CPD at midway, o'Hare, train stations. Tell our guys to keep an eye out for McCoy" Voight says.

"I'll talk to Freddy" Olinsky says.

"I'll go with" Dawson says.

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After the team had brought in Jake to interview him, Sam walks into the break room to get a cup of coffee, when her phone rings and she's answers it.

"Hey, Kells"

"Gracie said unkie"

"Wait, really? Oh my god. Wait, what the hell is an unkie?"

"I think it's supposed to be uncle, but she tried"

"Did you record her saying it?"

"What, no"

"Jay is never going to believe me now"

"Just tell him, I said she tried saying uncle"

"He won't believe me. You're my best friend, he'll think I told you to say it."

Jay walks into the break room and says, "Voight wants us to go talk with Jakes daughter"

"Alright. I'll talk to you later Kells. Tell Gracie me and her daddy love her"

"Will do. Bye, be safe" Kelly says and Sam hangs up her phone and follows after her finaceé.

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"All that stuff on social media is a total lie. My father, he couldn't have hurt that girl. He was with me" Marley says.

"The whole night?" Jay asks, Jake's daughter, Marley who is sitting on the couch with her mother beside her.

"Yeah. He was on his way back from a hunting trip, and he didn't wanna drive all the way home, so he crashed on my couch."

"Okay, and what time exactly did he get here?"

"I don't know. Sometime after 10, I guess."

"My daughters not the one that committed a crime here. She's traumatized by what happened." Marley's mother says, standing up from the couch, "I think it's best we have a lawyer here if you wanna ask any more questions."

"Okay, alright. Marley, how old are you?" Sam asks.

"18"

"Right, which means it's your choice if you talk to us, not your moms and not her attorneys."

"My dad didn't do this"

"That's not the question." Sam says, sitting on the side of the coffee table, "look, we know that this is a really hard time, and that you believe your dad. But if we're gonna solve this thing and figure out what did happen, we just need to know what time he got here."

Marley looks up at her mom then back at Sam and says, "1:15. He got here at 1:15"

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"Jake McCoys daughter said he didn't arrive until 1:15." Sam says, sitting at her desk.

"So, if the murder happened at 12:30, then he's got no alibi." Jay says.

"Alright. Anything from Vice on Mayas pimp?" Hank asks.

"Nothing"

"Okay. What about this laptop of McCoys, been recovered?"

"Checking pawn shops" Dawson says, and Hank walks back to his office.

"Hello?..hello?" Erin says, then hangs up her cell phone. Sam looks over at Jay then back at her friend and asks, "Who was that?"

"Don't know. They hung up. Says the call came from Easton, Kansas."

"Really?"

"What?"

"Jay tracked down the florist. They're from Easton, Kansas." Sam says as she and Jay walks over to Erin's desk.

"Yeah, they said the flowers were paid for in cash. There's no way in knowing who bought them" Jay says.

"What?" Erin says, weirded out.

"I know, it's probably nothing. But I'm gonna run the number anyways" Sam says, writing down the number and the couple heads back to their desks, "I don't need you getting murdered in your apartment by some weird stalker dude"

Erin scrunchies up her nose and throws the flowers in the trash can next to her desk.

As the commander walks onto the unit she walks into Voights office where he and Al are talking and tells Olinsky that he's off the case. When Al walks back to his desk and sits down, commander crowley walks back out and says, "was I not clear?"

"Oh, you were commander. And, you know, I'm just gonna stay right here at my desk." Al says, standing up, "what? You want my badge? Here, come and get it" then the older man slams his shield onto his desk.

"I don't need an invitation, detective. You interfere with this case, that badge is gone."

Al throws his hands in the air and says, "alright" before the commander leaves the unit.

After moments of silence, Dawson says, "we got a tip from a pawn shop sweep. Somebody just tried to pawn a bunch of stuff from Jake McCoy. Guy named John Dolan, he's got one prior for burglary"

"Alright, have Ruzek and Atwater hit it" Hank says before walking into his office and closing the door behind him.

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The team minus Al, are gathered in the tech room and Kevin says, "McCoy had a file called 'lost girls' and I found Maya Collins" then the officer turns the computer around to show the team a video.

The video is basically of Maya in a motel room, and McCoy asking her a bunch of random and weird questions.

"He has three more files just like that. No sex, just talking" Kevin says.

"Maybe McCoy was telling the truth" Dawson states.

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After Atwater finishes taping up pictures of the prostitutes that McCoy was talking to, onto the white board he says, "McCoy made videos with three other prostitutes besides Maya. All of 'em the same thing, no sex, just asking questions."

"So McCoy really was just trying to help those girls." Al says.

"Maybe but whether or not he killed Maya is still to be determined." Dawsonhh hall says.

"Vice was able to ID one of the girls from the videos. Her name is Alicia Meyers" Sam says and Kevin points to her picture, "she's got two priors for solicitation, and she got popped in the same sweep as Maya a year ago"

"They got any information on her pimp?" Voight asks.

"No, but they know which motel she turns tricks at" Jay says.

"Check it out"

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Sam and Jay walk into the office of the motel and holds up a picture of Alicia to the manager and Jay  asks, "We're looking for her"

The guy looks at Sam then back at Jay and asks, "how long you want?"

Jay scrunchies his face up and looks at his finaceé then takes out his shield and says, "this long?"

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"Look, my friend called me and said there was a party here, so I'm not doing anything illegal." Alicia says, sitting on the dirty motel bed.

"We're not here to arrest you, Alicia." Sam says.

"Great. See ya" Alicia says, standing up. Sam holds out her hand to stop the girl and says, "We need your help."

"Look, I'm gonna scream. I'm gonna scream here in two seconds if you don't.." Sam interrupts the sandy blonde girl, holding up a picture of Maya's body and says. "This is your friend. Maya? She was murdered. And we think that whoever she works for, her pimp, did this to her. What's his name? Alicia who is he?"

Alicia gets teary eyed and sits back on the end and says, "saint"

"Saints your pimp too?" Jay asks.

Alicia nods her head and says, "yeah. He killed Maya."

"How do you know that?"

"He has a saying, 'you fly, you die'"

"So, Maya was trying to get out?" Sam asks.

"Yeah, that baseball player said he was gonna take care of her."

Jay takes out his phone to show the girl a photo of Jake and asks, "that him? You're talking about this guy?"

"Yeah, that's the guy. To me, he seemed like a regular John."

"Alicia, when's the next time you see him?" Sam asks.

"Noon. Saint has eyes everywhere"

"We're gonna get this guy off the street. I promise you that"

"Well, you better be damn sure"

"I am sure"

"Saint comes around at 5 to midnight to get his money."

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As the team is on stake out for Saint to arrive, Sam looks over at Jay and just smiles. She's lucky to have such a good man in her life and for the kids.

"It's saint" Alicia says through her wire, as a black car rolls up to the motel.

After saint collects his money, Hank says, "move in"

As they roll up behind Saints car, they all get out of their cars, guns drawn and Jay says, "Chicago PD. Don't move, hands up!"

"Hey, hey. What is this?" Saint asks, with his hands up.

"Get on your knees! Do it!" Sam shouts.

"Do you really think you could just kill Maya" Alicia says, getting in Saints face.

"Bitch you talkin' crazy"

Alicia slaps him and says, "she was my friend" before Jay pulls her away.

Kevin takes a look inside Saints car and says, "Sarg, looks like we got an all star ring in the glove box."

As Adam cuffs Saint and picks him up off the ground, the pimp says, "hey, that's not what it looks like"

"It never is" Hank says.

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Olinsky walks onto the unit with Freddy Mays as Voight just so happens to be talking with commander crowley and asks, "Where's Jake?"

As Adam takes Freddy, the commander asks, "detective, I was very specific."

"Do you wanna know what happened to that girl or not? Cause I can get McCoy to talk" Al says.

"So you're not gonna feed him information? Help him get out of this charge too?"

"No I'm not"

"I'm gonna go get a sandwich, maybe an iced tea as well. Probably take me about 45 minutes. When I return, it'll be for your badge and a to-from. And I'm recommending a ten day suspension and mandatory enrollment into the behaviorist intervention system." Commander crowley says, heading for the stairs, "welcome to the new and improved Chicago police department, Al."

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After Jake confesses to Al that he did kill Maya but it was an accident. Sam and Jay walk over to Erin's desk and Sam says, "okay. So the phone number is a hard line that's connected to a local diner in Easton, which is right outside of Leavenworth."

"Outside the penitentiary?" Erin asks.

"Yeah. I spoke to the local sheriff and he says it sounds a lot like this whack job they have in town who does stuff like this all the time" Jay states, "he's a peeping Tom type. They picked him up. He's locked up. He's in county, so we're good."

Erin sighs and says, "it's weird. You know, my mom told me once that my father did a stretch in Leavenworth."

Jay and Sam look at each other with questionable looks.

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"Can you say mama, or daddy or uncle or Wyatt or Denise or something" Sam sighed, letting her head fall back on the couch as Gracie pulls on her mother's shirt confused.

Jay walks into the living room from the kitchen and sits next to his finaceé and daughter and says, "you still think she said something?"

"Yes. She most definitely did"

Gracie crawls over into Jays lap and lays her head on his chest, putting her thumb in her mouth and says, "daddy" before closing her eyes.

Jays eyes go wide and says, "oh, my god. She just said daddy"

Sam scoffs and says, "she is such a daddy's girl" before getting off the couch, "you're putting her to bed" then the brunette walks up the stairs.

Jay smiles and kisses the top of his daughters head, moving the hair out of her face and says, "you are daddy's girl, huh princess?"

Gracie puts her small hand on Jays arm and rubs it up and down.

"I'll take that as a yes"

a/n:

Gracie is such a daddy's girl 💖 her and Jays relationship is going to be amazing!