On Monday morning they are back on the job with a new case to start with.
Voight and Hailey are currently making their way over to the crime scene in Voight's car.
"What happens if I run into Jay again?" Hailey asks half absentmindedly. Jay has been on her mind since she saw him, and not in a good way.
"I'll kill him." Voight responds just as absentmindedly as he drives.
"Don't joke." Hailey looks over to Voight.
"Whose laughing." Voight response in all seriousness.
He will kill Jay, just like the many others he has killed, butchered, slaughtered, bludgeoned to death in the far reaches of the secret dark corners of his mind and yet they are still alive and well and walking around.
"Sarge." Hailey pushes the point.
Voight looks over to Hailey with a look that tells her that he is just kidding, or maybe not.
Lunch time the team orders pizza.
Hailey, however, stayed glued to the information she was busy with about the current case. Her attention is drawn when a plate with two pieces of pizza is placed on her desk.
"I'm not hungry." Hailey responds as she looks up at Voight.
"You barely ate this morning." Voight states as he pushes the plate closer and then makes his way to his office before he draws too much attention to Hailey.
After Hailey has delved further into the case, she eventually picks up a cold piece of pizza, takes one bite and then puts it down again, she really is not hungry, she is even a bit nausea.
All through the day, there is not one moment when Hailey is not furiously busy with the case. Just like she was before she started sleeping on Voight's couch on the odd occasion. She cannot sit still, she cannot allow her mind any free moment to think about the situation with Jay. She'd rather stay busy.
At the end of the day, they finish up and head home.
"Hailey, are you alright?" Voight asks as they are driving.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Hailey answers back quickly.
Voight just gives her a side glance. "You want to go for dinner?"
"I really don't feel like it, Sarge."
That night Hailey also barely touches her food that Voight cooked.
"Is this about Jay?" Voight asks as he watches Hailey move the food around in her plate with the fork.
There's a pause before Hailey answers.
"I don't know." Hailey stares into her plate.
Voight watches her in silence.
"I'm calling it an early night, try and get some sleep." Hailey then gets up with her plate.
"Hailey, you know you're like a daughter to me, you can talk to me about anything." Voight tells her as he gets up and takes Hailey's empty plate from her.
Hailey gives him a smile. "I know."
Voight gives Hailey a smile. "Goodnight."
"Night Sarge." Hailey calls as she walks away.
After Hailey finished up, she climbed into bed and there she has been lying with wide open eyes and unable to fall asleep.
At some point she hears Voight coming up and going to his room and still she is still awake.
Hailey feels anxious, trapped, restless as she turns from one side to the other, but she just cannot relax and definitely cannot sleep. She feels like she felt back in her apartment those months after Jay just walked out of her life.
She thinks upon Voight questioning whether it is because of Jay, but she doesn't know, she does not feel like crying, so maybe not? But then again, she is feeling like she did before, so maybe yes?
Eventually she switches on the bedside lamp and checks the time and sees that it is just after 1am.
Turning onto her back, Hailey stares at the ceiling for quite a while, but she starts feels that familiar feeling from when she was back at her apartment those months after Jay left. She kicks off the covers and then she sits on the side of the bed for a few minutes. Hailey then gets up and goes to her door and for a few more minutes she stands with her hand on the door handle.
Eventually she opens the door and makes her way over to Voight's room.
Hailey gives two knocks on the door. "Sarge."
Voight wakes up hearing the knock and then Hailey calling him. "Yes." Voight immediately sits up, surely there can only be a problem.
"You want coffee?" Hailey is not sure what exactly to say to Voight, so she says the first thing that comes to mind.
There's a pause as Voight thinks about what she is asking. He does, however, know that Hailey did not wake him to offer him coffee.
"Yeah, I'll be right down." Voight knows that it is actually just Hailey asking not to be alone.
Voight then pulls on a jacket over his tracksuit and pulls on his shoes.
Stepping out of his room, Voight finds Hailey standing next to her door, leaning against the wall. Her head is hung forward with her eyes closed.
Voight steps up to her. "You want coffee?" Voight asks it like he knows it is not about the coffee.
Hailey shakes her head, it has nothing to do with coffee.
Voight then places his hand on Hailey's forehead to feel if she perhaps has a temperature. When he finds no sign of a fever, Voight runs his hand over Hailey's head pushing her hair back so that he can see her face.
"What's wrong?" Voight places his hand on her shoulder.
"I don't know." Hailey says as she rubs her temple.
"I just don't want to be alone." She whispers like it's a confession that no one can know about.
Voight lets his hand run down Hailey's arm.
"Come, I'll sit with you." Voight then steers Hailey into her room.
Hailey gets back into bed and Voight then pulls the covers up higher and tucks it under her chin before taking a seat on the edge of the bed.
There's a short silence.
"Do you want me to run Jay out of town?" Voight asks in all seriousness as he folds his arms. He has no problem doing so.
Hailey thinks about it. "I'm not sure if it even has to do with Jay."
"You were fine until he showed up." Voight states as he watches her. He could immediately tell the difference.
"I don't feel like crying, I just feel anxious." Hailey closes her eyes as she exhales. "I just…." Hailey then stops like she is not sure about the words to use.
But Voight understands.
"I'm not going anywhere." Voight says as he gets up and pulls the chair closer from the corner of the room.
He then places the chair next to Hailey and takes a seat.
Hailey opens her eyes to see what Voight is doing and once he sits down, Hailey closes her eyes again feeling relaxed.
Voight feels anger as he watches Hailey. Jay is not even in her life anymore and see what he is doing to her.
At some point Hailey wakes up and finds Voight still seated next to her. Voight is asleep with his head resting in his hand with his elbow resting on the arm of the chair.
Hailey then closes her eyes and falls asleep again.
Voight wakes up as the sun starts to rise. He sits up in the chair where he fell asleep.
He watches Hailey who is still asleep. Voight thinks upon the fact that Hailey is like a daughter to him and he will treat her as such. He will protect her, especially from Jay. He will not allow Jay to break her heart again like he did. And just like Voight is, he is ready to do anything that must be done to accomplish this.
When Hailey wakes up, she opens her eyes and finds Voight still on the chair next to her.
"Good morning." Voight greets her as he is sitting with his fingers intertwined.
It is clear that Voight has been awake for some time, and he didn't leave, he was watching her sleep, waiting for her to wake up.
He didn't go anywhere, just like he said.
"Morning Sarge." Hailey greets back as she yawns.
With that Voight gets up and moves the chair back to the corner. "You can sleep some more, I'll cover for you at the office."
Hailey looks at the door where Voight just left, wondering if she feels like sleeping more or getting up.
By the time Voight has dressed and comes past Hailey's room, he finds the door still closed and assumes she went back to sleep but when he reaches the kitchen, he finds Hailey busy in the fridge.
"Thought you were sleeping in." Voight notes as he fills the kettle with water.
"I don't sleep in." Hailey answers as Voight already knows this.
They then make breakfast.
Hailey then ate her food, slowly but she's eating, until her phone rings.
She picks it up and looks at Jay's name.
Immediately she loses her appetite.
"Who is it?" Voight asks as Hailey is just staring at her phone.
She just continues staring at it until Voight holds out his hand.
Hailey then gives Voight the phone.
He answers and remains silent.
"Hailey?"
And there it is, Jay's voice on the other side of the line.
Voight ends the call and then he blocks the number on her phone.
Hailey then spends the rest of the time of Voight finishing his breakfast, pushing her food around her plate not feeling like eating anymore.
It is Jay.
It's Jay's fault that she is like this.
Again.
She thinks back to the night she proposed to Jay.
She remembers when Jay proposed to her.
She remembers them saying their vows to one another.
She remembers the overflow of the emotion of love between her and Jay.
How did it get to this?
"Hailey." She looks up at Voight and realizes that he has been standing next to her talking to her, but she is so far away in thought that she did not even hear him.
"Are you finished?" Voight asks even though he knows that she is not going to finish her food.
"Yeah." Hailey then hands her plate to Voight as she remains sitting.
Hailey's phone rings again.
She stares at her phone sitting on the table next to her.
Voight did block Jay's number, maybe he is phoning from another number.
Picking up the phone, Voight answers the phone, and he has to restrain himself from telling Jay to get lost.
Voight again remains silent just to confirm before he starts telling Jay where to get off.
"Mrs Upton?" A woman's voice on the other side of the phone catches Voight off guard.
"This is her phone." That's all that Voight says being suspicious of the call.
It then turns out that it is the attorney calling, and so he hands over the phone to Hailey.
The call ends and then Hailey puts her phone down and then stares at it.
"What is it?" Voight asks.
"The divorce papers were returned unsigned."
