Troubled waters - Upstead

Chapter 1

NOTES: This fic is based of what I think might happen in season 9 episode 13. If you get easily triggered by things please make sure you read the trigger warnings at the end of this note before you continue reading! None of this is cannon, obviously as 9x13 hasn't aired yet but I thought it would be fun to wrote a fic based of what we know and some theories that I have for the episode so this has all been made up in some dark corner of my mind.
 
This is my first time doing a fic with multiple chapters and it should be updated weekly so the last chapter is uploaded just before 9x13 airs!

I just wanna say a few thank yous to the people who helped me with this fic so first off i want to say thank you to Mar (@marxupton on twitter) who came up with the amazing title of 'Troubled Waters'.

The second person i want to thank is Dynn (@haileychrlie on twitter) for going through this and making sure that the medical stuff that is in here made some sense and that I wrote the right things I wrote have some medical accuracy to them.

And last but definitely not least the biggest shout out to my amazing beta reader Mak (@alonsosupremacy on twitter), Mak I cant thank you enough for being my beta and making my fic 100 times better than it already was, I appreciate you so so so much!!

Now on to the trigger warnings, this fic does have some heavy topics so please make sure you read these before you continue.

This fic includes:
- talk about human trafficking
- kidnapping
- physical and sexual abuse
- drowning

If you're still here, I worked really hard on this fic so i hope you like it as much as I do, enjoy!!

Chapter One

She was running out of time now and running out of air. She could hear muffled voices from above the water as she tried to pull her foot out of the rope it was caught on, but she had no luck. All she wanted to do was scream, but she knew she couldn't. 'I have to save as much oxygen as I can,' she thought to herself, trying to get the rope off of her foot again, but it seemed like there was no way it would come off.

Hailey closed her eyes, thinking of Jay. She had to get out, for him. She knew her time was running out, so she tugged on the rope harder, but like all the times before, it wouldn't budge. She was becoming light headed now and she pulled and she pulled, but it wasn't enough because the darkness soon took over and she fought it until finally the darkness won and everything went black.

Earlier that day.

The day started out like any other. Hailey usually woke up just slightly before the alarm (or in her case today, two hours before the alarm) and cuddled with Jay, showered while he made coffee, and then got dressed and went to work, with Jay driving of course. They walked into the front to be greeted by Trudy, who gave them each some court orders and some more items that had been delivered to the twenty first for both of them. She swore she didn't know what they were, but the pair of detectives knew that she most definitely did know, because Trudy always knew everything. They made their way up to the stairs of the bullpen– although not without Trudy making a joking comment at their expense as they walked away from her at the front desk of course.

As per usual, they were the first two there. Kim and Kev were on time ninety-nine percent of the time– Kev more often than Kim now since she had the school run with Makayla– and Adam was usually late unless he was with Kim or had gotten stuck with a bad spell of insomnia.

Hailey made her way straight to the break room and put the coffee machine on, Jay slowly followed her after putting his jacket on the back of his chair.