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There are meet-cutes and then there's this - the scariest moment of her life. But then there he is with his half smile and his sea-green eyes and it gives her a whole other reason to not forget today.
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She can’t stop thinking about the dusting of grey hairs at his temple. Because that had always been the dream – to grow old together, to grow old loving her best friend and yet somehow, they wound up here.
- or an Upstead canon divergence from season 10
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It's the third time he's said, 'It's good to see you,' in the past eight months and Hailey has reached her limit.
- or a crossover speculation fic for the Upstead reunion
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There really should be a word for the exact kind of mortifying, stomach-dropping horror that happens when your not-actually-boyfriend’s mother catches him feeling you up. If there is a word for it, Hailey doesn’t know it.
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She thinks moving is the right thing for them. Knows it when their new neighbours, The Halsteads, take them under their wing.
And then their youngest son returns from deployment and suddenly she feels like she doesn't know anything any more.
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It’s not often in life he’s left speechless, but she seems to do it with ease. Only she’s not his and she’s leaving. He is too.
That is until he stumbles upon her in a bar a few weeks later with a different name and a hell of a lot of questions.
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What harm could come from him flying across the world to be her fake date at a family wedding?
She tells herself it’s all good. Tells herself they’ll be fine. She’s a damn liar.
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‘And if you could find a way through – you and Jay - if you could find your happiness again, would you want that?’
There will only ever be one answer to that question. But at this point it’s just hypotheticals. The reality is they’re separated. Divorced. But the thought that hurts the most – that they might one day become strangers to one another.
It’s not something she can comprehend.
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She’d thought he was a fireman but what else was she supposed to think about the man who willingly climbed into a burning vehicle before her eyes? The man who has half the ED in a fluster and who is now very obviously flirting with her.
And damn it if it isn't working.
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There's just something about the guy she meets on a New York rooftop underneath the stars. Something real and right.
Only it's never that simple.
A famous Upstead AU.
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He’s not a perfect man. He’s flawed. Proud. Sometimes rash.
But he’s also her best friend. The only man who can make her feel as he does with a simple smile. He’s the man that she loves. She’s made a choice to forgive him and he’s working on forgiving himself.
- or Jay comes home. Post-season 10 fix-it
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She doesn't actually want him to go. That's the thing. That's the thing that makes her so snarky with him.
But she needs him to go because try as she might, she can't get him out of her head even when she knows she should.
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She doesn’t do this. Doesn’t fall hard. Doesn’t get butterflies. Doesn’t lie awake with someone on her mind.
Especially not for the smug sniper from SWAT
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All the air leaves his lungs for the second time in two days.
Only this time it’s because of the woman stood in front of him rather than a bullet tearing through his shoulder.
7x10 hospital scene continuation
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How Hailey and Jay get through the next 8 months - or what happens after 10x03. Each chapter will focus on a different member of the team supporting Hailey in Jay’s absence.
He deserves the chance to be better; to be him again. She just hates that he’s had to go so far away to do it. Hates a little (more than a little) that he made the decision without her, despite her knowing it’s what he needed.
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He doesn’t recognise her. The blonde who is so determined on stealing their crime scene and she has a face he’d remember. That much he knows.
He also knows how easily she’s managed to get right under his skin and he doesn’t know quite what to do with that fact.
A different take on Upstead’s first meeting.
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It’s more for Jay, the first time he and his son make their way out into the fading evening sky. They bundle up warm against the chill in the evening air and end up finding some magic in the tiger striped sky.
Or how Jay, Hailey and their kids find comfort in Chicago sunsets.
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‘You okay over there?’ he asks her, holding back a smile. One eyebrow quirked in that all too familiar expression of his.
‘We just, we just kissed. A lot.’
8x03 scene continuation
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‘You like it?’ she whispers. It had felt good. It had felt a little like shedding the weight of the last year but it had taken some getting used to.
A post season 10 fic where Jay comes home and he and Hailey find their way through.
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She may have taken off the ring, but her heart still chooses him.
A post 10x20 story, because their story doesn’t end like that.