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Jay picked up the abandoned phone and quickly realized it belonged to Will. Unread messages and missed phone calls from a C. Rhodes had started to pile up and Jay opened his mouth to notify his brother when a new text showed up: ‘Please call me back. I love you.’ Those three last words stopped Jay in his track and he easily unlocked the device to access the previous messages. It didn’t take him long to conclude Will had a new girlfriend, he, apparently felt strongly enough towards, to want to introduce her to his family. And because he wasn’t sure when they would leave the precinct nor if Will was fine enough to drive home, he texted the stranger back.
It wasn’t before they entered the Police Department reality seemed to come crashing on Will and he realized his phone was missing:
“Here,” Jay said simply as he ended him the device.
“What did you -” Will started as they walked up to the reception desk.
However, he never got to finish that sentence.
“Will?” interrupted a stranger’s voice.
And Jay turned around to discover a man, probably around their age, maybe a few years older, brunet, wearing an expensive-looking coat and an obviously worried look on his face.
“Connor?” Will replied, visibly surprised. “What are you doing here?”
“You texted me,” the other man - Connor - answered. “Is that blood? Are you alright?”
He crossed the distance between them, completely ignoring Jay, to grab Will’s face and check him for any injury.
“Yeah, yes, I’m alright,” Will said. His hands came up to cover’s the other man. “Wait, you said I texted you? I -”
He crossed Jay’s gaze and Jay saw the moment Will realized what his brother had done. Jay shrugged.
“Gonna be honest, I didn’t see that one coming,” Jay said.
Definitely not a young model from New York, or maybe he was, just not a woman one. After all, Jay wasn’t blind, he could tell the guy was attractive.
“I’m Jay, by the way,” he added. “I’m the one who texted you.”
He held out a hand and his brother’s boyfriend - that was a new one - let go of Will to shake it.
“Connor Rhodes,” he said. “Thank you for the text, and bringing him back in one piece.”
It was a new one but, if the man cared half as much as he said he did, Jay didn't see a reason not to get used to it.