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Hailey rolled over, and reached out for him but was met with an empty space. She sat up and glanced at the clock, 6:45am. Hailey chuckled to herself, she should've known Jay would be awake already. She stretched her arms over her head, feeling a little sore, but so blissful. She walked over to her chest of drawers and pulled out a matching navy-blue sleep set. Hailey developed a large appreciation for delicate sleepwear, since her days were spent in Kevlar and beanies most of the time.
She padded downstairs to find Jay leaning over her kitchen counter, the smell of fresh brewed coffee wafting through her nose. He turned around hearing her footsteps, giving her a lazy, sleep riddled smile "Morning," holding his arms open for her. Hailey walked into his embrace and wrapped her arms around his torso, "Good morning," she kissed his chest lightly. As she pulled her head away to look at him and his sleepy appearance, she realized how small she was compared to his stature and had to tilt her head almost all the way back to meet his eyes. "Coffee's almost ready." Hailey went into her fridge and pulled out Jay's favorite creamer, placing it on the counter next to him and took a seat on her barstool. Jay placed a steaming mug in front of her, and sat on the stool next to her. He ran his fingers up and down her arm, taking in her pajamas. "These are cute." She smiled, "And so comfy." She angled her body into his and rested her feet on the legs of Jay's stool, so her legs rested between his. Jay dropped his hand not holding the coffee mug to her knee, absent mindedly tracing patterns on her kneecap.
They sat in a comfortable silence, drinking their coffee and enjoying the others presence watching the sun come up through her kitchen windows. Jay squeezed her knee and sat back in the stool, taking in her sleepy appearance. Hailey's hair was a little messed up from his hands the night before, but as she sat there, with no makeup on and eyes shining as the sun bounced off them, Jay suddenly realized how comfortable this was, not at all awkward or weird, considering that they had just spent their first night together. Hailey caught him staring, "Do I have something on my face?" She ran her hand over her face just in case, and Jay chuckled, "Not at all. I just realized something." Hailey raised her eyebrows at him to tell him to continue speaking, "This just feels right. It's not weird or tense, it feels like we've done this a million times."
Hailey smiled up at him, "Well...technically we have. It started out as our thing, we just added the kissing and the other things this time." Hailey felt her cheeks flush as she recalled the night prior. Jay smirked at her, "The other things were pretty amazing." He stood up and pressed his lips to her temple, taking their empty cups to the sink. Hailey stood and stretched her arms above her head, "That's one word to describe it. But you're right, not weird. Just feels nice." She sent him a smile and was about to say something, when her eyes caught the clock on the stove, 7:45am. "We have to get ready for work." Jay groaned, "Can we just not go?" Hailey let out a loud laugh, and Jay knew that her laugh was now officially his favorite sound.
She wrapped her arms around his neck, "As much as I wish that we could stay here, I don't think Voight would be pleased that his only two detectives decided to not come to work." He wrapped his arms around her torso, pulling her body flush to his, "Well if we can't stay here, we can at least help save the planet, save water and shower together." Jay wiggled his eyebrows at her, and Hailey stood on her tiptoes to give him an easy kiss, "Sure, because you're super concerned about the planet and saving water." He lifted her up with one arm and bopped up the stairs to her bathroom, Hailey laughing the whole way up. Jay turned on the hot water and pulled her into the glass stall.
Hailey and Jay took their own cars to the district, so as not to alert any of their co-workers to the new development between the two of them.
Hailey was halfway up the steps when she heard Platt's voice behind her, "Detective Goldilocks!" Hailey took a deep breath in, and turned around, smiling at her desk sergeant. "What's up, Sarge?" Platt eyed her up and down, and Hailey suddenly felt very exposed. It was as if Trudy had x-ray vision and could see the trail of kisses Jay had left down her torso earlier in the shower, through her tan colored sweater.
"Am I going to be receiving any more of your fan mail, hm? I really don't appreciate trudging up and down those stairs all day." Hailey chuckled, tucking a piece of hair behind her ear. "Nope! No more fan mail for me. Officially declined the FBI's offer last night." Platt's face softened, "Well…good. I'm glad to hear it. I guess you don't actually like nice suits." Hailey looked at her, with a confused expression. "What?" Platt smirked, "Take it up with Chuckles up there." Platt waved her off, and Hailey buzzed in, ascending the rest of the stairs to the bullpen.
Hailey took a seat at her desk, settling in and turning on her computer, checking emails and saving files before the craziness started for the day. Jay came around the corner a few minutes later, also settling into his desk. He looked across the way, and wiggled his eyebrows at her, all of a sudden feeling very thankful that he would be able to keep looking across his desk and see her perfect face across from him. That earned him a smirk and an eye roll, but making Hailey feel even more confident in her decision to decline the FBI and stay in Chicago, to stay with Jay.
Slowly but surely, the rest of Intelligence clambered up the stairs, Adam, Kim and Kevin taking their seats and chatting quietly amongst themselves. It was Friday, and all five members of the team were hoping for a slow day filled with paperwork so they could head out a normal hour and enjoy the weekend. Voight was called into meetings with the Superintendent all day, so the group was left to fend for themselves.
Around 11:30, Hailey stood and stretched her arms over her head, working to get the kinks out of her neck from looking down for so long. Jay glanced up, hearing her chair slide from underneath her desk, catching a glimpse of her torso as her arms raised above her head. Thoughts from their shower earlier that morning flooded his mind, the piece of skin exposed reminding him where his lips trailed off to, how Hailey guided his head to exactly where she needed him.
Jay stood as well, catching her eye, and nodding towards the break room. She walked around her desk and headed to the kitchen area with Jay right behind her, oblivious to the curious eyes of their friends.
Kim smirked watching the two disappear around the corner, Kevin caught her glance and the two smirked at each other. Jay and Hailey thought they were sly, but their co-workers all had eyes. Adam looked up from his own pile of reports, seeing Kim and Kevin snickering, "Bets on if they're makin out in there? It looks like the mysterious white box is gone from her desk." Kim jerked her head around, also noticing the box had disappeared, "Oh. Wow. I wonder…if she took it…" Adam popped up, "Well, darlin…let's go ask her hm?" The three of them stood and made their way to the breakroom.
Jay was pouring coffee into mugs for him and Hailey, since neither one of them slept all that well, but neither were complaining about the reason why. Knowing that the other three officers were knee dee in reports, Hailey took her moment of opportunity, leaning into Jay's back, wrapping her arms around his waist, her fingers slipping under his maroon v neck tee, dancing over the warm skin there. "Hurry up with that coffee, I can barely keep my eyes open over here," she rested her cheek against his back, feeling his muscles moving as he made each of their drinks to their liking. "Yes, Hails, it's coming." Jay smirked at her impatience, but loved the way she melted into him, still relishing in how her body was seemingly made to fit with his own. "So, Platt mentioned something about nice suits earlier, and how I don't like them. While she's right, I do hate them, what did she mean?"
Kim held up a hand as she peered through the blinds, signaling Kevin and Adam to stop talking and take in the sight before her. It was everything they all were waiting and hoping for. They looked at Jay smile down at Hailey, taking her right hand into his, turning her to face him and handed her the coffee, bending down to give her a quick kiss. As he pulled away to answer her question about nice suits and looked up, he saw them through the window, all looking like children who got caught with their hands in the cookie jar. Hailey followed Jay's pointed gaze, and turned a very bright shade of red as she realized they'd been caught.
Adam fist pumped, "YES! Pay up people. ." Kim rolled her eyes and Kevin shook his head, both reaching into their pockets to give Adam his rightfully earned cash. Hailey balked at the exchange and made her way to the door, swinging it open, "You bet on us? What were the terms?" Jay followed behind her, interested in hearing how Adam, of all people, won this. Adam cockily walked to his desk, plopped down his chair and threw his feet on the desk, "I said that it would take a job offer from the Feds for these two lovebirds to get their heads out of their asses and realize what we've all been seeing for years now." He nodded over to Kim and Kevin, "These two over here, said that you'd have a grand ol airport reunion. Clearly, that came and went." Hailey nodded at Adam, agreeing with his thought process. Jay shook his head and let out a laugh, "Well Ruz, first rounds on you tonight since we got you quite the pay up." Adam pumped his fist in the air again, "Damn straight."
The rest of the afternoon slowly ticked by, each member of the unit making significant ground on their mountains of paperwork. The clock struck 6pm, and one by one the glow of their computers went black, and they each flew down the stairs, eager to get to their respective cars before they could be called back into the building for whatever case may cross their paths. Jay and Hailey hopped into his truck, "We'll come back for yours later, that okay?" Hailey nodded at him, wiggling into the comfort of his heated seats, "Or maybe tomorrow. We'll see." Hailey sent Jay a smirk and Jay winked back at her. She watched him skillfully back out of the spot with his left hand, as his right hand found its home on her thigh, his thumb rubbing circles against the denim of her jeans. Hailey rested her palm on top of his hand, her fingers rubbing along his pulse point on his wrist.
Pulling into the parking lot at Molly's, Jay shut the car off and turned to look at her. "How long do we have to stay? All I really want is some dinner, and to pick up where we left off this morning." Hailey leaned over the console, her left hand wrapping around his neck, settling into the short hairs on his neck. "We'll stay two hours, tops. And we have the whole weekend to pick up where we left off this morning." Hailey leaned into him, pecking at the skin underneath his ear, knowing that was one of the spots that made him weak, "Specifically, picking up where your tongue left off this morning."
Jay leaned his head back onto the headrest and groaned, "Damn Hailey. I thought you loved me. You're trying to kill me." Hailey pulled away, unbuckling her seatbelt, "I do love you. I'm just giving you a preview of what's to come babe." Hailey shocked herself at the slip of her term of endearment, Jay's eyes locked on hers, but she dipped her head down, suddenly feeling sheepish. Jay noticed her change in body language and guided his hand to her chin, prompting her to look at him, "Hails, baby…I can't wait for what's to come." Hailey scrunched her nose at Jay and smiled, "Let's go. The sooner we get in there, the sooner we can leave." Jay threw his arm over shoulders, no longer feeling the need to hide how he felt about Hailey, they crossed the street and made their way through the front door of Molly's.