Jay Halstead Imagines

Before It's Too Late

Jay Halstead x Manning!sister

Requested by @raveenasblog on tumblr: where reader is Natalie's younger sister but a badads heart surgeon and she always help the Halsteads in taking care of their father. And she advices Pat to be a little nice towards Jay because she loves him and is a little protective of him...

The Halsteads and the Mannings have always been neighbors since the children of both families were young. Will Halstead always had a crush on the older Manning sister, Natalie, while the younger Manning sister, Y/N, was best friends with the youger Halstead brother, Jay.

When the children grew up, both the Manning sister went to Med school going to different fields of medicine while the Halstead brothers went their separate ways, Will to New York to study medicine and get away from their broken home and Jay to join the army.

Years later, Y/N went back home to check on her parents as well as her best friend's father, Pat. It was then that you discovered that Pat, the Halstead's patriarch was sick. You became his doctor and the father could never ask for a better doctor. The man had watched you grow up into a beautiful and talented woman who now takes care of him.

Jay came home by then and went into police academy and well, he rarely went home as Pat disagreed about him going to military and becoming a cop. Will, on the other hand, finally became a doctor and came back to Chicago after dealing with some issues in New York. The brothers were reunited but the family was never whole.

You watched as Jay became part of Chicago's finest while you and Will continued to be the best doctors you both could be.

Then, years later, Pat got worse and there was little you could do. You told both Jay and Will to do all the necessary preparations they needed to do and to be ready for the worse because their father had little time left. Both brothers took it hard but Jay took harder. He spent the latter part of his life angry at his father because Pat told him that he was a disappointment.

Jay couldn't accept the fact that his only parent left was about to die. At first, he was mad at you, his best friend who he had feelings for ever since he could remember. He just never admitted it. Then, he was just a mess. You would find him crying in a corner or staring into space but never too far away from his father's hospital bed.

One night, you had sent Jay home. He had been at the hospital for a while and he desperately needed to get a shower, to eat and to sleep. Jay fought to stay but you promised him that you will call him if there were any changes while he was gone and then Jay nodded and left. He knew that his father would be fine as long as you were there to help him. You had always been there for his family and for that he was eternally grateful to you.

So you stayed behind in Pat's hospital room, taking a seat by Pat's bed while you got some work done. You had the night shift and since you had already seen your other patients, you decided to stay with Pat.

Pat had been watching you grow up the past couple of years and he continued to watch you as you currently stayed by his side, doing everything you can as his doctor. But you were more than just his doctor. To him, you were like a daughter to him, you and your sister, but more you since you had always been there for him and vice versa. He also knew about your not so secret feelings for Jay, has known for quite a while now. He knew because you looked at Jay the same way he looked at his wife before she died.

"Y/N...I want you to listen carefully to what I'm about to say to you." He told and you looked up from the files you had been reading and smiled at him, telling him you had his full attention.
"I want you to take care of my boys, just like you have been the past years. I know they will be in good hands because they have you. Will and Jay are both stubborn but I know they will listen to you. I may not have ever told them how proud I am of the men they have become but I am. I just wanted them to never settle and keep on improving. I love my boys, Y/N. I do, I really do. Sometimes I wished I had showed them how much but then they wouldn't be who they are now if I hadn't kept on pushing them. Oh, and please for the love of God, tell Jay that you love him. I know you do because you look at Jay the same way I looked at their mother. But don't forget to take care of yourself. I wouldn't mind if you and Jay end up together because I've always considered you as my daughter. Thank you for everything, dear. Just thank you." Pat said.