Jay Halstead imagines

Stalking - Jay & Will Halstead

For a week now, it feels like someone has been following you. Every day this past week, you've seen a man from around your age. Every day it feels like he's getting closer to you. When you were younger, you experienced something just like this. Whenever you went to work, this man would follow you all the way there. You never told your brothers. Before you wanted to speak up about it, the man was gone, and he stayed away. Now you were in the same city as your brothers, and it was much harder to hide things from him, especially since you worked with Jay. You worked with the intelligence unit as a tech analyst. You basically searched through social media to find links between victims and suspects.

When you arrived this morning, there was nobody there. You placed your bag on your desk and put your coat over your chair. You walked to the kitchen to make yourself and the rest of the team some coffee.

"Morning, sis."

The cup filled with hot coffee slipped out of your hands and splattered all over the ground. "Jesus, Jay," you hissed under your breath as you started to pick the broken pieces from the floor.

Jay immediately walked over to help you clean it up. "Jumpy much?"

"Yes, what do you expect? Nobody comes in for another hour, and I'm here all alone as a woman."

"In a building filled with police officers." Jay looked at you with a questionable look on his face. "What is going on? You have been jumpy this whole week and refuse to come over for dinner."

"It's nothing."

"So there is something." Jay leaned against the counter.

You put the last pieces in the trash and turned back to Jay. "No, there is nothing. It's all in my head, nothing to worry about. I've just been wrapped up in this insane thriller, and it just got to me."

"What is it about?"

You knew exactly what Jay was doing. He was trying to figure out if you were actually reading a book or if you were lying to him. "It's this book called Ghost of Us. A woman lives all alone, and she is haunted by the ghosts of her past, literally. For starters, her mother died when she was young, and now that ghost haunts her. But she also has an ex-boyfriend's little sister, but her baby is the worst. She sees them everywhere in the street and-."

"Right, got it. It's fiction; you know that, right?"

"I know. But sometimes books just get to you. Not that you would know." You filled two cups of coffee and handed one to Jay.

"But come over for dinner tonight with Will and me. He complains that he hasn't you this much all week."

You rolled your eyes. "You guys are overprotective."

"So that's a yes?"

"I can't. I'm meeting with a friend tonight."

Jay raised an eyebrow. "A friend? Which friend?"

"Monica. You haven't met her yet, but she's cool."

"Morning," Adam walks into the kitchen, giving you the great escape from this conversation. You have no friend Monica, and you are definitely not meeting up with her tonight.

Sitting down at your desk, you notice that there is something scribbled on a post-it note.

You looked gorgeous yesterday.

You look around to see if anyone has noticed the note. Of course, they haven't, because nobody looks at your desk. You quickly rip up the note and put it in the trash. Whatever you thought was in your head, it's real. Someone is stalking you. And there is no way you can say that to Jay. He would go crazy and would never let you leave his side.