14. Nutrition

"Dude, you gotta eat better," Hailey said, looking at the nutrition facts in the restaurant menu she was reading. She was looking directly across the table from one of her CI's, Carlos.

"You ain't my mama," Carlos replied as he stuffed his face full of some concoction that had pancakes, waffles, bacon and sausage on the plate.

Hailey shrugged. She hated Carlos but for a low level drug dealer, he provided her with some awesome information. Except he was the worst person on planet earth she was convinced. Absolute worse to deal with. She had pinched him last year on a serious drug charge in a murder investigation and realized she could give her some information so told him to work it off. "Nope. But come on, even my partner eats better than this. This has to be a bazillion calories."

Carlos shrugged. "Timo is getting some serious weight in next week. I think Tuesday."

Hailey stood up and slipped Carlos some cash as she walked by him to the exit and walked out of the rundown diner that Carlos frequented way too much. She would be much more comfortable meeting him in a back alley but he insisted on here and considering how much information he gave her and how much it panned out, she agreed on it. So far, it was an okay spot.

She walked upstairs and Voight looked pissed. "Nice of you to make it, Upton." Make that homicidally pissed.

She took off her jacket. "Yeah, traffic." She didn't want to divulge Carlos' tip right now.

"Robert Lynch was found murdered this morning. Bullet to the side of his head," Voight said as he put up his picture on the whiteboard.

She could see out of the corner of her eye that Adam and Jay shared a look. She then shared a look with Jay but continued listening. She didn't like that look at her partner and Adam shared and she knew there was evidently more to the story. And the more that Voight continued and Rojas explained how there was no ballistics yet, Hailey knew this was personal.

Voight disappeared into his office and Adam, her and Jay met in the locker room. "What was that look about?" Hailey demanded to know.

"From what we remember, Robert Lynch is one of the old guard guys at the social club that we think Voight still goes to," Halstead explained.

Adam leaned against a locker. "Voight hasn't really brought any of his more shadier mob connections in on a case in a long time."

"I'm guessing this is before my time," Hailey said.

"Oh yeah," Jay said, nodding. "Not a good road."

Hailey wanted to know more but the look on Jay and Adam's face both said that was a conversation that was best suited outside the doors of the 21st. "So what do we do?'

"Try and reign Voight in. Antonio usually did it the best," Adam said, sagely.

"The way both of you are looking at me makes me think you want me to reign Voight in when I don't even know what half of the stuff is behind door number 2."

"Come on Hailey, you've heard the rumors when you were in Robbery/Homicide," Jay said.

"Anyone forgetting I was undercover for a large amount of time?"

Adam nodded. "Long story short, Voight ended up in jail, he got out, IA gave him his job back in turn for busting high profile criminals."

She looked at her partner and then Adam. "Alright, starting to see a little bigger picture now."

"You've never asked around about Voight?" Jay asked, incredulously.

She shrugged. "Sure. But I also heard the rumors and I've been a cop ,long enough to know that you don't believe rumors."

They were absolutely no closer to finding who killed Lynch and Hailey wasn't really opposed to not finding out who did it and also tempted to ask Voight to pass it off to Homicide, as it really wasn't an Intelligence case. Finally she stood up at looked at Jay. "Let's go get some lunch."

"Now?"

"We do have to eat, don't we?"

Getting the fact that she needed to talk about something, Jay grabbed his coat. He looked at Rojas. "Cover for us?" She just nodded. Hailey was half way down the steps.

They ended up at some food trucks not far from the district. "We never get lunch," Jay observed.

"Hayden's on a nutrition kick right now. Even meal prepping. Made a disaster of my kitchen last night and didn't even have the courtesy to make me lunch either. Got me thinking maybe we should eat a little better."

"That would involve going to a grocery store," Jay retorted.

"Which I already go to," she shot back. "You would have to go or I would have to go for you."

"That latter option sounds better. Why we really out here?"

She winced as they sat down on some benches. "You took over most of Antonio's CI's, right?"

"Yeah, Atwater and I."

"I think we might need to talk to Jenny."

"We?"

"Carlos told me that Timo's getting some serious weight in on Tuesday next week. Carlos has never been wrong but.."

Jay sat there and thought about it. "You want Jenny to confirm it?"

"Either that or I call Rixton with this hella tip for Narcotics to pounce on."

He looked at her. "You'd really give this tip up?"

"Rixton wouldn't rat out Carlos."

"He wouldn't. I think we talk to Jenny. I'll call her."

"Awe, why thanks, partner."

He took the last bite of his taco. "So if Hayden's actually on a nutrition kick, is he making us dinner tonight if we get out of here at a somewhat decent time, which is also highly unlikely given Voight's mood today."

She lifted an eyebrow. "Us?"

"Figured it was worth a shot."

"Text him and ask him. I think he's at Tammy's tonight."

"Well if you're not going to make me food, I'll find someone who is willing."

She stood up. "Fighting words there, Halstead."

He put his arm around her shoulders and kissed her hair. "I know. But you had a point earlier, we do gotta eat better. Microwave dinners are also getting really old and disgusting."

"Sunday meal preps at my place then? To avoid having my nephew destroy my kitchen again."

"Deal."

"And you gotta text Antonio and ask him what he knows about Lynch. Or I will," Hailey said. "You have his number."

Jay raised an eyebrow but kept his arm around Hailey. "You think Voight is really in this deep with Lynch?"

"I do. I have a gut feeling someone made Voight put Lynch's name on that whiteboard because this ain't an Intelligence case."

Jay sighed. "I'll text Antonio."

She repeated the same words Jay had just told her. "Deal."

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Amazon put season 1-4 on so I've been binge watching and well... you get this.