What’s Mine Is Yours
Chapter One: Truck T-Shirt
Hey Upstead friends!! So I've been working on this multi-chap for ages, and I'm so happy to finally be posting it! Each chapter will take place during a different time in Hailey and Jay's relationship. I hope y'all enjoy <3
Story Summary: Five times over the course of Hailey and Jay’s partnership that Hailey wears Jay’s clothing, and the one time Jay wears hers. Kind of.
Chapter One Summary: After Hailey and Jay arrive at a crime scene, Hailey gets covered in blood while saving a victim's life. Hailey doesn't have anything to change into, but Jay has something she can borrow. [Pre-canon Upstead set sometime in season seven.] [tw: blood]
“Babe, there’s something lonesome about you, something so wholesome about you. Get closer to me.” — Hozier, From Eden.
Jay slipped his memo pad into the back pocket of his jeans and thanked the witness with a dip of his head. His mind whirled too quickly to focus on anything other than his partner, and he was sure the notes he’d just taken were complete gibberish.
Cops and crime scene techs milled around him, but as Jay stepped off the porch, he only had eyes for Hailey. She stood next to a prone woman on a stretcher, and her hand slipped from the victim’s grip when the paramedics loaded the gurney into the waiting ambulance.
Jay made a beeline for Hailey as soon as the ambulance doors slammed shut, dodging patrol cops and cutting across the downtrodden grass. Her shoulders sagged as she stumbled back a few paces, but it wasn’t until he was closer that he saw her furrowed brow. She closed her eyes and wiped her forehead with the back of her hand; she didn’t seem to notice the small smear of blood the gesture left behind, but Jay’s gut twisted painfully at the sight.
That twisting had been a horrible wrench twenty minutes ago when Hailey’s, “All clear!” hadn’t echoed his own.
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