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22. deal

Sonny and Jocelyn sat by the bar of Teddy 'Brown Sugar' BQQ restaurant. Amanda and another UC was trying to get him for CP. Olivia and Finn were at a table by the stairs watching through Amanda's necklace camera.

They acted like a couple, hands over each other, Jocelyn brushing his hair to make it real, Carisi almost forgot they were on the job until Finn texted him to eyes on Teddy and not on Jocelyn, the touchy couple was a bit too convincing.

"Enjoying this too much Carisi?" Jocelyn puts her hand on his thigh, making him smile and look away.

"Gotta make it believable." He coughs up.

"As the Lieutenant sits right in front of us? No shame." She whispers to his ear. She knew she couldn't over do it, i mean they were working. "Any eyes on Rollins?" She tosses her hair to the side as she couldn't find her and the UC.

"As you were too busy keeping your hands on me, she went downstairs, I lost visual." He puts his hand on her thigh, making her stop mid drink. He fixes her hair, he fingers brushing against her neck. He leans in, Jocelyn closes her eyes, ready. "Lets go get him." He pulls away and follows Finn and Liv. Jocelyn scuffs and jumps off the bar stool and goes after them. She pulls her gun out as they head downstairs, arresting Teddy Hawkins.

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After Teddy Hawkins kindly gave the team the opportunity of catching a ring that he knows, it was time breaking down doors and catching the nasty sons of bitches.

"Peña, Carisi is on his way to you." Liv said as they arrested two of the three guys that were uploading.

"If its not too late, tell him to turn back. Its 1 am and babybanger here took the night off." Jocelyn sighs as she looks at the laptop to see any activity. The car opens and Carisi hops in.

"Anything yet?" She shakes her head. "Listen, Lieutenant, its late, its cold, Jocey here looks like she's going to be cranky in the morning if she doesn't get her beauty sleep." Jocelyn slowly turns her head to him, eyeing him.

"I definitely dont want that, she's already a pain enough, imagine with no sleep." They heard Barba on the other line. She rolled her eyes.

"Lets just call it a night."

"I hear you." Liv agrees. "Look, we already got two, so let's uh start again in the morning." Jocelyn sees the screen, he logged on.

"Wait a min. Looks like pop pop here woken up from his sleep." She eyes his apartment to see anything.

"Bad luck for him. Another minute, we wouldve been out of here." They got out the car and head up to apartment. Sonny breaks down the door and the entered.

"NYPD! Wheres your computer?" Jocelyn marches in. The old man was sitting in front of his tv.

"I don't have a computer." He groans.

"We have a search warrant." Sonny hands him the paper. They start looking around and to be honest, they didn't find the computer. They tried to tell him where was his mortem and he was just straight up confused.

"Hey, Jocey." Sonny pats her arm, looking down, the wire going through the wall. They head straight to the neighbors house. The door to the neighbors place opened, to their surprise, counselor Pippa Cox. Their faces dropped to see her.

"Counselor..." Jocelyn needed to play it cool. "Can we come in? Our cells are down and we need a computer. Do you have one use by any chance?"

"Yes, of course. My husband's up." She lets them in. Jocelyn and Sonny looked at each other. What are they getting into?

"He has his own home office?" Sonny asks her.

"Needs it." Pippa laughs. "You know him, always working." Jocelyn steps in front of Pippa, stopping her from opening the doors to Hank Abrahams office.

"This is a police matter." Sonny and Jocelyn open the door and see him on his computer.

"Deputy Commissioner Abraham-"  He deletes the screens. He whips off the headphones, shocked to see the detectives and cops in front of him.

"What are you doing here?"

"We're about to ask you the same question." Jocelyn couldn't believe it. One of their own. "Step away from the computer. Now." He gets up as Jocelyn slowly walks up, snatching the computer from his desk. She sees the photo of his family on the screen. It made her sick. She refuses to sit down as she tries to get back what he just deleted and Sonny called Liv to come down. Abraham starts to tell them to keep it hush and let it slide, Sonny, he couldn't look at him, steps out. Jocelyn just stays there with Abraham.

"It was an innocent mistake. I clicked too many buttons." He looks at Peña. She looks away from him. He wants to smooth it over still, hide it under. "Look... Jocelyn Peña, right?" She closes her eyes. "Lets say call them off, let me see why this happened before this gets all out."

"I don't think so." She shakes.

"You like your job Peña? Do you really want to keep it?" She says nothing, she lets him blabber. "You let this out, bad things will happen. you will loose your job because of this mistake." He says all so tough. "Or what about you and Carisi disobeying the rules, seeing each other? I mean going to a different bar and acting all is fine that you guys are away?" She slowly turns her head to look at him. Is he being for real? "Its really not looking good for you. I mean Carisi, yeah hes a good detective but do you really think hes going to want you after he lost him job?" She had enough. Jocelyn walks up, closer to Abraham. He tries to stand tall but the face and the curled lip she had made him feel small. She had one terrified look.

"Are you threatening me?" She spits. "Because honestly, they wouldn't give a single thought about two of their detectives having a good time. What they're more interested is one of their own uploading photographs of kids." He gulps, she saw how hard he did. "You don't want to cross that line with me." Sonny walks in, he sees the stare down.

"Liv's on her way."

"Good. I need to get out of here." Jocelyn doesn't pull her eyes away from Abraham as she walks away. Jocelyn gets to the street, let's go a couple breaths and stands there. She was sick. For someone who works in this line of work, his wife who protects children, what is the mind set there?

"Peña?" Liv says as she sees one of her detectives, hands on her knees. Jocelyn picks up her head and plays it off. "You-"

"Everything was by the book." Jocelyn tells her. Who knows how this might look like. Nobody liked the guy. This wasn't a hit.

"Hey, i believe you." Liv puts her hand on her shoulder. "Just stay here, We can take this." Her and Tucker went up to the apartment.

"Hey." Carisi walks down the steps to find her. "What did he say to you?"

"He knows." She whispers, keeping it down so nobody else could hear. Sonny frowns.

"Knows what?"

"Us!" She yells but covers her mouth as cops pass by. "He knows that we are together." Sonny looks around and pulls her away. "When you left, he told him to cover it all, and if i didn't, he will come to saw that he saw us at a bar, all handsy and you and i will lose our jobs." She licks her lips.

"Thats not going to happen." Sonny shakes. "He has no proof. 1PP wont take it as seriously than this." He puts his hands on her arms. "Nobody will know."

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Jocelyn meets with Barba at the bar after the whole thing with Abraham plea. Barba orders whiskey for them both. Jocelyn sits down with him at the stools in front.

"He pleaded guilty." Jocelyn nods, good. "20 years on the registry, protective custody."

"Slap on the wrist." She gulps down the hard liquor back, ordering another one. Rafael stays quiet. "He gets it easy while his family have to live with the fact that they're related to him." She fakes a laugh.

"Tell me about it." He sighs. He wanted to ask her about if she knew about this deal that Abrham wanted to make but Barba and Tucker didn't care about that.

"Do you know what happens to two people that work together, they start dating without telling anyone?" She asks. If she had to say that Sonny and her were together, she wanted Rafa to know first. She trusted him. She trusts him with her whole heart.

"1PP wont be happy, thats for sure." He sighs again. "They look over every case they have together. One stays and the other gets kicked off to another unit, i dont know." Theres worse but he didn't want to scare her off. "Thats why I don't date at work." Jocelyn looks ahead. Should they say something? Risk it? It's something that her and Sonny need to talk about. Honestly, she doesn't want to loose him.

"So im off the roster then huh?" Rafael lets go of a little chuckle. "I guess my plan making you love me is over."

"Sorry to make you work so hard." He plays along.

"I guess being friends will have to suffice." The two stayed in the bar, sipping their drinks, chatting about their lives and stupid little things. They stayed until close. For the first time in a really long time, Jocelyn Peña finally has a friend.