The confession
Jay's POV
I was sat at my desk at work just finishing up my paperwork for the day. Today we for a change had a pretty slow day, there had been no new cases and all of us has been catching up on paperwork. I'm not a big fan of paperwork and I preferred to chase bad guys and bring justice for the people of Chicago but I know that I had to do paperwork sometimes too. I look at my computer and edit the last bit of the report and look up at the clock and see that it's one hour until I'm going to meet up with my brother and have a drink. Will have seemed to be having some troubles lately and he have seemed really down and kinda sad so I really wanted to make sure his is going to be okay. I heard somebody sigh and I look up and meet to the sight of a very frustrated Hailey.
-"What's wrong?" I ask her looking at her with a lot of consideration and give her a small smile.
-"Doing paperwork is really frustrating.." Hailey tells me looking down at the files on her desk and I nod.
-"You sure that's all, you have seemed off the last couple of days? I ask her trying to get her to look at me.
-"Yeah, I'm fine Jay, you should go and meet up with your brother" Hailey tells me and I sigh and nod.
-"Yeah, you know you can talk to me anytime right?" She nods and give me a reassuring smile.
-"I know that Jay and I really appreciate that but like I told you I'm fine" Hailey tells me avoiding my gaze and I sigh and let it go for now.
-"Okay, Well I'm going to go meet Will now, but I will see you tomorrow" I say to her and she smiles and nods.
"-Yeah, see you tomorrow" She says and I shout off my computer and grab my jacket and give her an nod and then I leave the office.
~At the bar with Will~
I end up getting to the bar before Will is there and I find a table for us and the I get my phone up and send a text to Will to tell him that I'm here and that I'm at one of tables. Then I start checking various social media's and me email to pass time. Then somebody grabs my phone and look up and see Will sitting down and I shake my head at him and take my phone back.
-"Bro seriously.., are you sure you are a cop,you didn't even notice me.." Will says and I laugh and shake my head.
-"Yeah, well I was distracted by my phone, so how are you?" I ask him changing the subject.
"-Do not think I didn't notice you changing the subject little brother, but I'm great" Will says and he takes a sip of his beer.
-"Yeah yeah, whatever Will, but your lying... you don't seem that great man!" I tell him looking at him concerned.
-"Bro I'm good, you don't need to worry about me.." Will tells me and I shake my head and look at him seriously.
-"Yeah that has been a lot of that going around lately..." I tell him looking down at my beer remembering my conversation with Hailey earlier.
-"What do you mean?" Will asks me and I sigh and shake.
-"Nothing for you to worry about bro, so tell me what's been going on with you" I say and Will looks at me and nod.
-"I will, but your going to tell me what's bothering you to, okay?" Will says and I look at the table and take a sip of beer.
"-Okay" I tell him and he nods and starts to tell me what he's been going through.
He tells what happened to his patient and the fact the he was one that got her addicted to drugs and the that he and Nathalie were in a bad place.
-" I'm sorry to hear about you and Nathalie man but maybe you need thus break to figure out if you should be together. And Will you have to remember that you can't save everybody and you do your best the help people" I tell him looking him in the eyes and he nods.
"I know that but it's hard to let things go sometimes" Will tells me and I nod and give him a small smile.
-"I understand that bro completely!" I tell him and we clink our beers together and take a sip.
-"So your going to tell me what's bothering you now?"He asks me and I take a deep breath and sigh.
-"It's nothing for to worry about man" I tell him hoping his going to drop the subject.
-"Jay, I'm your brother, you can tell me anything and I want to know what's going on with you" Will tells me and I nod and look down at the beer bottle.
-" Well it's about Hailey..." I tell him playing with the label of the beer bottle.
-"What about her? I thought you guys were great?" He says looking confused.
-"Yeah we are, it's just that she has seemed down the last couple of days and she won't tell me why" I tell him.
-"Well, everyone can have a couple bad days, I'm sure she is fine and that you don't need to worry about her" Will tells me giving a small smile.
-"I know that but she would have told me if she was having a bad day, this feels like it's more than that and I'm just worried about her"I tell him and he smiles and nod.
"You like her, don't you!" Will says smiling at me and I look at him and shake me head not sure that I'm ready to tell anybody how I feel about Hailey.
-"What?! No I don't! I'm just worried about her because she is my partner" I tell him avoiding making eye contact with him.
-"Bro, You like her.. I haven't seen you this worried about anybody in a really long time and every time I mention her you smile really big" Will tells me and I sigh in defeat.
-"Okay you got me, I like her as more than a friend..." I tell him and he smilies really big and leans over and gives my shoulder a squeeze.
-"Thats great bro! I'm so happy you found someone!" He tells me smiling and I return his smile and nod.
-"Yeah..." I say and look down
-"So when are you going to tell her?!!" Will asks me smiling.
-"I don't know..., I just don't think she feels the same way..." I tell him and he laughs at me and shakes his head.
-"Jay, she feels the same way!" Will tells me and I look at him confused.
-"How can you be so sure about that?!" I ask him curios too know.
-"I just know this stuff!, no but seriously the way she acted after the you got shot, made me realize she has feelings for you" Will tells me and I nod and smile.
-" Well, I think I have somebody I need to go see.." I tell him standing up and he nods and smile. I put on my jacket and puts some bills on the table and start to leave.
"Go get your Girl!" Will tells me before I leave and the bar.
I get into my car and I start to drive towards Hailey's apartment before I can change my mind. I reach her apartment way to fast for my liking and I look up at see that lights on and her car is in the drive way, at least she is here. I take a couple of deep breaths and I try to calm my nerves and then I get out of the car and raise my hand and knock on her door. I takes a minute or two, at least that what it feels like,before she opens the door and she looks at me with a bit surprised and confused and then she steps aside and lets me in.
I walk inside and Hailey closes the door behind us, she starts to walk towards to kitchen I follow her. She grabs two glasses and a whiskey bottle and we sit down on in the living room on her couch. She pours the whiskey in the glasses and I take my glass and clink it against hers and then take drink it. I take a deep breath and look at her, at the women I'm hopelessly in live with. She looks up and meets my gaze and I let myself get lost in her blue eyes. She runs an hand through her blonde hair and sigh and then she starts to talk.
-"So what are you doing here? Weren't you suppose to meet up with Will tonight?" Hailey asks me.
-"Yeah well I did meet up with him earlier but I was worried about you so I left so I could check in on you" I tell her being completely honest.
-"Jay..., I appreciate it really, but like I told you before I'm fine and it's nothing to worry about" Hailey says avoiding my gaze and I take a deep breath and sigh in frustration.
-"Hailey, just tell me what's going?! You can tell me anything..." I say a bit frustrated and angry with the situation.
-"Jay..., this doesn't concern you" Hailey tells me and I shake my head at her.
-"This does concern me Hailey! Your my partner and I really care about you" I tell her.
-"Jay..." She says looking at me and I look at her and give her a small smile.
-"Hailey, just listen to me okay..." I say before she can interrupt me and tell me another lie or denying the problem again.
-"I care about you a lot and I don't like to see you upset and sad but what makes me even more sad and frustrated is you keeping things for me.., I want you to be honest with me and telling me things... and to realize that I'm always going to be here for you no matter what you tell me or do" I tell her and I see her starting to tear up a bit and I resist the urge to reach out and wipe her tears away.
-"Jay, I care about you too... and I really want to be more honest with you and tell you things... but you have to trust me when I tell you it's nothing for you to worry about okay?!" Hailey says looking me in the eyes and I sigh and nod.
-"Of course I trust you Hailey..., I just want to know what's making you upset.." I tell her and she gives me a small smile and sigh.
-"Well I guess you deserve the truth..., a couple of days ago my dad reached out to me and I guess that really surprised me and made me think through a lot of stuff and relive some memories" Hailey tells me and she takes her glass and take a sip of her drink.
-"Well if you want to talk more about that, you know I'm here to listen" I tell her and she nods.
-"I know that Jay but there isn't that much to say.., you know that he abused me when I was younger and that I don't keep in contact with him, him contacting me isn't really going to change that" Hailey says and I nod and give her a small smile.
-"Okay... but if you ever want to talk about it, you know that I'm here for you" I tell her and she smiles and I smile back.
-"I know that Jay and I really appreciate our partnership and friendship" Hailey tells me and I nod.
"I do too, but whatever this is between us is way more then friends and partners" I tell her looking eyes with her and we just sit there looking each in the eyes for a while.
-"Jay..., what do you mean?" Hailey asks me.
-"I mean that the way I feel about you goes way deeper than just a friend..., I'm in love with you" I tell her and she looks at me with a really chocked expression.
"I been for a while.., ever since you where there for me during the Camilla thing and ever since that I been falling even more in love with you every day" I tell her before she can say anything.
"Jay..., remember when I was going to tell you something in the hospital but then your phone rang?" She asks me and I nod and look at her wondering where she is going with this.
-"Well I was going to tell you that I loved you, Jay I'm in love with you too and I been for a while and I think I realized that when your were shot last year" Hailey tells me and I look at her and smile really big.
Then I lean in and our lips meet and nothing else matters any more than me and her being here together and in love.