"Hey, Hailey," Jay greets when he opens up the door the following night, Casper right behind him.

"Hey," she greets her partner as he lets her in. "Hi, Casper. Are you being a good boy for your dad?" The happy puppy wags his tail greeting his friend.

"So, how are we doing this?" Jay asks, referring to training Casper the tasks he needs to learn.

"We are going to do this in pieces," Hailey tells him. "So, I know we're training him to wake you, but is there anything else from the list that you want to train him for?"

"Yeah, Will and I decided on: grounding during a flashback, intervention with sensory overload, guiding during a dissociative episode, and getting help. Will said that the last two were just a precaution."

"Okay. We are going to do one task at a time. I think we should focus on waking you up first. Does that sound okay to you?" Hailey asks, wanting Jay to be in charge of the process of training Casper the tasks.

"Yeah, that's probably going to be the most helpful one."

"Okay, the first step is to get Casper to get on your lap while you're sitting down. So sit on the couch."

Jay does as he is told, watching to see what Hailey does next. Hailey then grabs the bag of training treats that Jay keeps in the cabinet that he converted for all of Casper's things. "Casper," she calls. The puppy looks over to her, "Get on your dad," she tells him, seeing that she has his attention. Hailey shows him the treat and moves it over Jay to get Casper to climb on his lap.

"So this looks like it's a two-person job?" Jay comments.

"It probably is," Hailey answers after a moment.

"Are you sure you're okay with helping me train him?" Jay asks, not wanting to burden his partner.

"I'm sure," Hailey answers him. "Hey, next time we do this, we should see if your brother is free. I'm sure he would want to be a part of this process," she adds as an afterthought.

"I'm sure he has better things to do than help train a dog for his broken brother," Jay rebuttals with a scornful laugh.

Casper, who hears the change in Jay's tone, starts to push his head into Jay's chest causing him to absent-mindedly rub his head.

Hating to hear her partner refer to himself as such, Hailey is careful to how she responds, not wanting Jay to twist her words, "Jay," she sighs, "You're not broken. I don't think that and I know Will doesn't think that of you."

"You don't know what he's thinking," Jay answers despondent.

"Okay," Hailey answers, knowing Jay is being stubborn. "But, I know how he feels about you. We talk and you know what he told me?"

"What?" Jay humors her.

"He told me that growing up it was his job to protect you, that he thinks he's failed at being an older brother as you two got older. He regrets leaving you when you needed him and if he could change it, he would. He told me that he and I would have problems if I ever hurt his little brother," she list, hoping Jay will believe her. "He cares about you and he just wants you to be okay– we both do. He sees how much having Casper has been impacting you for the better."

Seeing that he is just going to shut down on her, she changes the subject, "Do you want to try this again?" she asks.

"Yeah."

"Okay, Casper, come here," she calls for the dog. Casper looks at her but doesn't move, giving her a look that says: I'm not leaving my human.

"Casper, go to Hailey," Jay orders the dog, gently pushing him off of him and onto the floor, seeing that he isn't listening to her. Casper, now on the floor, looks at Jay. "I'm okay," he tells the dog as if reading his mind before he goes over to Hailey.

Hailey repeats the commands that she ordered Casper before they got sidetracked. They repeat this step multiple times; each time they have trouble getting Casper off of Jay, as he senses something off with his human.

The two stop decide to stop when they realize Casper is not going to leave Jay easily at the moment, even if it is only across the room. Casper settles on Jay's lap, believing he is small enough to be a lap dog, wanting to comfort his human.

During this time, Hailey can see how much Casper cares for Jay, in his own dog-like way. "Jay, I'm going to head home," she tells him.

"You don't have to go," Jay responds.

"It's getting late and I think someone wants you to themself right now," Hailey answers, referring to Casper.

"Okay, text me when you get home?" Jay asks his partner.

"I will," she answers while gathering her things.

"See you tomorrow," Jay says as she walks out of his apartment leaving him alone with Casper.

Arriving at her own home, Hailey walks in to find Vanessa in the living room watching an old television show. "Hey, how was Jay's?" she asks.

"Good, trying to teach Casper some new tricks."

"Cool."

Hailey excuses herself so she can call Will from her room. The first thing Hailey does is text Jay so he doesn't send out a search party. She then calls Will, hoping he is not busy. He answers on the third ring, "Hey, what's up?"

"We starting the process of training Casper the first task tonight," Hailey tells him.

"How did that go?"

"It started good and then we hit a bump."

"What happened?"

"I mentioned that the next time we were going to work with Casper we should see if you were free too. You know, so you can also help with the process."

"Okay?" Will questions, not following where this is going.

"Would you want to be involved in this process?" she answers with her own question.

"Hailey, what kind of question is that? He's my brother. Of course."

"You need to let Jay know somehow," Hailey tells him.

"What happened?" Will asks, starting to get a picture of what happened.

"When I brought it up, Jay implied that you had better things to do. He said something along the lines of better things to do than help train a dog because he's broken."

Hearing this, Will is deeply saddened that his brother referred to himself as broken, "I'll talk with him," Will promises. "I'm off tomorrow; I'll get him and Casper to come over for dinner tomorrow."

"Thanks, Will."

"Not even a question, he's my brother. How did it go before that happened?"

"We did it once and after that Casper wasn't willing to leave Jay's side," Hailey manages a small laugh.

"They are quite attached to each other," Will comments. "Hey, Jay is calling me. I got to go."

"Okay. Bye." Hailey hangs up the phone, glad that Will is in the loop, even if Jay finds out and gets mad at her for a while. Hailey goes back out to the living room to join Vanessa, hoping her hard-headed partner will listen to his brother.