Characters are not mine...no matter how much i beg the producers etc for them haha.

So originally i thought Hallie's return wasn't a good thing and was a bit suspicious considering be returned just as someone connected to the Voight case was found dead so i had this idea and still not completely sure that Voight isn't involved in what happened at the clinic but i guess we will have to wait for that one haha enjoy and please lemme know what you all think about this story.

This is AU alot...set after ep 20, before the rest of the drama in the following episodes.

The Return

Casey couldn't keep the smile off his face at seeing Hallie walk through the elegant wooden door Dawson had picked out for the bar, oh he knew that he probably shouldn't, that she probably hadn't changed her mind on the baby front but he was still happy to see her. At the end of the day they were still friends, they may not want the same things out of a relationship but they could still talk and meet up and well, other things.

And hey. maybe she had changed her mind. Well he could only hope anyway. There wasn't anything wrong with grabbing a coffee and catching up. Right?

He didn't quite know what to do other than to smile when they arrived at the cafe, he was just so surprised to see her. They, drunk their coffee in silence but it wasn't as awkward as he'd expected it to be considering how it had ended the last time, it was as if they were just continuing on from where they had left off.

He hated that he wasn't sure about all this, Hallie always made things more complicated than he needed right now, and with what they had found at the end of their shift, it looked like it was going to get more complicated.

"You okay, Matt?" Hallie looked worriedly at him.

He smiled at her, "I'm fine.", he knew it was his standard answer but he didn't see any point in worrying her this time when he didn't know what it meant and knew that Voight was still behind bars.

She gave him a look as if to say she didn't believe him but then that was normal as well. He smiled again and they chatted about what they had been doing over the past few months

After and few more minutes of chatting, Matt began to feel groggy and a little nauseous, maybe he had been working too hard recently and was coming down with something. Or maybe he'd just drunk too much coffee and his body needed to sleep rather than be kept awake.

The silence only became awkward when they'd finished their drinks and didn't know what to do next.

"So..."

"Shall..."

They spoke at the same time, they looked at each other and smiled and Casey indicated to Hallie that she should continue first.

"I should probably let you get some rest."

Thinking about it, he was starting to feel the past few days catch up to him, maybe, if he rain-checked, and got some rest, he'd feel up to catching a movie with her later in the day as long as she wasn't back on shifts yet.

He was about to ask her as they stood up but he stumbled slightly and grabbed the table for support, suddenly dizzy and feeling rather warm, maybe he really was coming down with something, he sighed, that's just what he needed.

"You sure you're okay to drive, Matt?"

He sat down again and looked up at her, but felt a little disconnected from his surroundings; but the feeling went as quick as it came so he stood up tall, pretending that everything was fine because it was. Right?

"Come on, Matt, let me take you home."

And he found himself agreeing through the sheer exhaustion that had settled deep into his bones.

Even though the ride wasn't that long to his house, he found that he struggled to keep his eyes open.

But then he also found that the journey was taking a bit longer than normal, and attempted to open his heavy eyelids. His vision was fading in and out as if there was something dragging him down into unconscious oblivion.

Something that wasn't down to him being just tired.

Thoughts were muddling together in his mind, and he couldn't find one single thought to concentrate on. Something was wrong, he'd been given something.

Maybe... it was Voight, but then he was still in prison...but then again...they had just found Curtis dead...and it wouldn't take too much for someone to slip something into a drink...damn!

What about Hallie?

"Hallie?" His voice was thin and strained past the numbness of sleep that was creeping through his body.

Maybe. she'd been drugged as well, putting her in danger driving.

His head moved sluggishly round to look at her.

Except, she looked fine.

She even had a smile on her face, but it had an odd sadness to it.

Almost as if she was regretting what she was doing.

However, before Casey fell unconscious in the passenger seat of Hallie's car, speeding away from his house. He got a really bad feeling in his gut about everything which wasn't helped by her making a call to someone unknown; and just before he was pulled into oblivion, said something that turned his blood cold.

"I've got him."

And that was the last this Matt Casey heard.

TBC

Okay, I know this is AU and thinking that maybe Hallie wouldn't do something like this, but what if she was forced...but hopefully people will give it a chance. Lemme know what you think ! Thanks!