Upstead comfort fics

The Truth About Roy Walton

(I got two requests for Hailey telling the unit about Roy and it doesn't go too great, which sends her into a spiral and Jay comforts her and calms her down.)
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Hailey was a ball of nerves as soon as she woke up. She and Jay had been married for a week and a half, and Hailey was now preparing to tell the unit the truth about Roy Walton. Voight wasn't going to be at work that day, and Hailey was still struggling with the guilt of it.

When Jay had found her hysterically crying in her car after Kim had mentioned something about not knowing the truth about what happened with Walton, he took her home and they talked for over an hour. That's when they decided she needed to tell the unit, and then they found out Voight had a day of meetings and wouldn't be there, they chose to do it that day.

As they approached it, Hailey's anxiety had spiked and she hadn't been able to eat much all week. The only reason she'd slept at all that night was because Jay gave her two Benadryl before bed and she passed out.

"Can I just stay home?" She asked.

"Hailey, I'm not going to force you to tell them, but I think it's going to be better for you mentally to tell them. Maybe not at first, but it will in the long run, babe. They know how Voight gets, you're not the first person he has manipulated, Hails. Even if they get mad, they will understand," Jay said while running his hand across her shoulders.

"Okay," she sighed and got out of bed.

The two Halsteads got ready for work and headed to the district. Hailey was practically vibrating from anxiety the whole drive. They'd taken separate cars so they'd have enough if they had to split up for a case.

Jay parked next to Hailey and they walked upstairs, Hailey scratching at her right hand the whole way up until Jay noticed and stopped her then kissed her head. "You're okay," he reminded her and she nodded.

"Look who decided to show up!" Adam called from his desk.

Hailey huffed and stepped behind Jay, grabbing the bottom of his jacket. Jay shook his head at them and turned to Hailey.

"You're safe, Hailey Anne," he whispered.

She nodded and wiped her cheeks and tried to stop more tears from falling. "Okay," she sighed shakily.

"Yo, what's going on?" Kevin asked.

Jay looked down at Hailey and she nodded then stepped infront of him.

"Um, I need to tell y'all something, and I'm really, really nervous about it. I'm just going to start by saying I'm so sorry and I absolutely hate what happened," she took a shaky breath before she continued. "I killed Roy Walton. I didn't want to, I swear, and I didn't want to hide it either." She looked at her coworkers hesitantly.

Adam and Kim looked pissed and Kevin just looked shocked. He was the first to speak up. "What happened?"

"Uh, after I left Adam, I figured out Voight was doing things on purpose. He was giving us bogus leads so he could do things his way. So I found him and went to stop him. He, uh, he y-yelled at me and put a gun in my face. He had Walton cuffed and was beating him up. He didn't call it in, and I begged him to stop and call it in. To do it right. He agreed, and then he went to uncuff him, and Roy grabbed his gun. We kept telling him to drop it but he wouldn't and pointed it at Voight and I had to shoot. I didn't want to, and then Voight wouldn't let me help him or call it in. He forced me to go home and I don't know what happened after that and I'm so sorry. He made me hide it and I didn't want to," she was crying when she finished and suddenly jumped back towards Jay when Kim stood and started yelling.

"HAILEY! What the hell?! Do you have any idea how terrified I was that he would come back to finish me off?! Or Makayla?! She wouldn't sleep, she was afraid of going to school, and she had a panic attack every damn time someone came to the door. You could have prevented that! Why would you do that to us?!" Hailey's breathing picked up and then Adam started yelling and she was spiraling.