At Chicago Med:
Hailey walked into Jay's room carrying a bag. Jay hardly ate anything this morning and endured his ice therapy until the increase in pain medication pulled him to sleep. A Nurse was checking on him when she noticed Hailey, "His temperature is up." She whispers. "He should be waking up soon. It'll be best for him to do so on his own and take this Tylenol." She lifts up the small plastic cup and checks her watch. "I'll come back later and give it to him." The Nurse motions to leave with the tablets.
"I can give it to him." Hailey suggests.
"Sorry, It's against protocol." The Nurse says. "But I see that you're a Police Officer and the patient is Dr. Halstead's brother. I'll ask Dr. Halstead if he's OK with that." The Nurse sends a message through her tablet and before Hailey can even plead a case not to bother Will a response of, "Dr. Halstead approves and asks if you can get him to eat more than this morning."
She smiles and leaves the plastic cup on the tray in front of a sleeping Jay.
"Thank you." Hailey responses.
Hailey settles in, placing her bag down next to her as she watches Jay sleep. Despite his fever, he looks to be in a deep sleep. She receives a text from Kim filling her in on what is going on with Miller and Kevin's desk duty. They exchange thoughts and theories about Miller and the situation. Kim relay's that everyone is wishing Jay well and to keep them posted and of course if she needs anything to let them know. Hailey closes the text with a big," Thank You. I will." When Jay begins to stir.
His breathing hitches a little as he wakes, then becomes more pronounced ending with a slight grunt as he fully awakes. He notices Hailey and offers a quiet, "Hey."
"Hey yourself." She smiles. She notices he closes his eyes and frowns. "I know you don't feel well." She approaches the bed and stands as close as she can to him. She places the back of her hand on his forehead and feels the increased heat from him. "Here." She picks up the small plastic cup with the Tylenol tablets, "these will help with the fever." She offers.
He tiredly opens his eyes and holds up his left hand for the cup, he takes them willingly with a full glass of water.
"That's a good start." She smiles, "Are you up for some Manstra (Greek Tomato Orzo Soup)? I took it easy on the garlic, just how to like it."
Jay's eyes widened with surprise and smiles with appreciation but shows no sign of moving to eat.
"Not hungry? Will said you haven't eaten much." As she reaches the thermos bowl full of soup. She places it in front of him with a spoon. When she doesn't get a response, she looks at Jay.
He is just looking at her with his eyes half-closed.
"Jay, you OK?" Her voice filled with concern. "Are you in pain? You need me to get the Doctor?" She quickly asks.
"No" Jay's voice is rough with sleep, "The pain meds are working good. Can't believe you went home and made soup. You need your rest too, Hailey."
Hailey smiles, "I'm fine, really. I noticed too you didn't eat much and only picked the soft foods, and figured you wanted something easy to eat. Broken cheekbone flares up with chewing."
"Yeah." Jay agrees.
"I remember my brother breaking his sliding headfirst into home plate." She opens the container of soup and positions the tray closer to Jay, "Scored the winning run though." She ends with a laugh.
Jay eyes the soup and reaches for the spoon. Hailey reads his mind. "You don't have to eat it all, just eat what you can."
"Thanks, Hailey."
At District 21:
"What do we actually know about Officer Bailey?" Kim asks out loud.
"This isn't a witch-hunt Kim, just the facts about what happened." Adam retorts.
"Was just curious, Adam. He's new to 21."
"Two weeks." From an unmistakable gruff voice. Everyone in the bullpen looks at Voight. "Officer Bailey has been at 21 for just two weeks."
"Sarge," Adam starts "We really don't have much to add to the situation. Kim wasn't there. Kevin had his back turned to cuff Red and I was on my knees facing you. I wasn't looking at Bailey when he went over to Jay. So I don't know what we can add."
Voight, with his arms crossed, grunts his understanding and turns back into his office, and closes the door.
At Chicago Med:
Jay only ate half of what Hailey brought him and drifted off to sleep. Hailey is looking through her phone at the various texts she's getting from the team when Will walks in. She looks up.
"How is he?" He whispers
"Fell asleep about an hour and a half ago."
"Did he eat?"
"Only half." She holds up the container.
"That's better than nothing but still not much." Will says concerned. He walks closer to Jay and looks over the monitors, places his stethoscope on a sleeping Jay, and closes his eyes to listen to him breathe.
"Can you just leave me alone?" A stern, angry, rough voice but eyes are still closed.
Will removes himself quickly from Jay.
"Just seeing how you are." He notices a slight sheen of sweat on Jay's forehead. He runs the temper wand over.
Jay's eyes snap open, a frown of anger across his face as he attempts to swat the device with his left hand. The sudden movement causes pain in his chest and shoulder.
"Ahgggrrr" he growls.
Hailey quickly rises from her chair and moves closer to Jay but Will holds up his hand to stop her.
"Your fever is up a bit but the congestion sounds the same. I was hoping you would have eaten more. You need fuel to fight this." Will explains. "How's the pain with the added relief? Are you taking deeper breaths? Would you like some more ice?"
The rapid-fire questions just irritate Jay more. A stern look at his brother serves as a warning but Will doesn't care, he goes to place an ice bag over Jay's chest.
Jay angrily knocks the ice from Will's hands. "STOP!" Jay loudly growls. The movement jostles his shoulder and chest. He quickly grimaces and growls in pain grabbing his chest. The sudden intake of air to raise his voice resulted in a deep chesty cough. Jay tries to sit up and elevate the pain and help stop the coughs but it just increases his pain.
"Easy, EASY!" Will grabs Jay to stop him from moving. "Calm down." But Jay fights Will, moving to get out of Will's grasp. "STOP It Jay! Calm down!" Will pushes the Nurses' button for help. Jay is still coughing in between grunts of pain. Will reaches for the oxygen mask and is able to secure it over Jay's face. The Nurse runs in, "5 of haloperidol" she quickly goes to retrieve the medication.
Jay tries to grab the mask,"NO WIll! NO" deep painful coughs rattle his chest.
"Breathe, just breathe." Will tries to soothe, coaxing Jay to lie down.
The Nurse arrives and quickly injects the medication before Jay can continue his protest.
Will raises the head of the bed more towards a sitting position than a reclining position. Jay's coughing slowly subsides and he lies back on the bed, exhausted and in pain, eyes screwed shut huffing into the oxygen mask. He places his left hand over his chest protectively. Will pushes the PCA for pain relief. "Nurse, can you page Dr. Marcel?"
"Yes Doctor." as she leaves the room.
As Jay calms down as the pain relief enters his system, Hailey wide-eyed after seeing what just happened looks to Will for an explanation.
"His fever is up. He feels miserable. He's in pain, exhausted, clearly doesn't have an appetite, just all around grump-fest and he can't do anything about it."
Upon hearing this Jay opens his eyes and glares at Will.
"I know you too well Jay. You're just lashing out, glad it was at me and not Hailey."
Jay's features soften after hearing 'Hailey' and turns to look at her. She is still unnerved at Jay's behaviour but accepts the explanation.
"Sorry." Jay says, eyes drooping closed.
"I'm going to talk to Dr. Marcel and see what we can do to keep you comfortable," Will says and leaves the room.
Hailey takes a moment to absorb what just happened. She looks at Jay. This is the first time she's seen him burst out like this, and physically too, at his brother. Yes, he's sick and injured but still, this is the first time.
She slowly walks over to Jay and he senses her presence. He slowly opens his eyes and reaches out with his left hand to her. She looks at it and takes it with her left.
"I would never hurt you, Hailey, never." His voice is muffled under the mask but she hears it clearly.
She caresses his forearm with her right hand. "I know, Jay." She takes a breath. "You need to rest."