This is my first Chicago Fire fic so I'll try my best to get the characters right. It will contain Severide's and Casey's friendship, Dawson and Casey moments. Hurt Severide. Concerned Casey . It's set in season 3 because that's far I got in the show so far lol.
"Mmm"
Otis looks at the chess board deciding on which piece to move. Cruz sits opposite to him his arms folded looking bored. Cruz opens his mouth to speak. Otis raises his hand to stop him.
"Don't...I'm trying to think."
"Otis you been trying to think for the last five minutes."
"A good player thinks carefully about their upcoming moves. Must never rush into it."
Cruz sighs and leans back in his chair.
"Still hasn't made a move? " Mouch asks.
"Nope." Cruz answers.
Mouch chuckles . "He will probably make his move next year."
"Probably yeah"
Otis gives them both a glare.
"Can you both shut up."
"Can you just make a move." Cruz says with a look of frustration.
"Okay. Okay. I made mind up."
Otis places his hand on his Knight ready to move but the alarm interrupts them.
"Engine 51, Truck 81, Rescue Squad 3, Ambulance 61, Battalion 25."
Cruz's head goes back and he let's out a groan. Otis shrugs and stands up.
"We'll continue when we get back. " Otis says with a grin.
This is the last time I'm playing chess with him. Cruz thought.
Dawson stepped into the truck. Her and Casey both smiled at each other. Casey's smile turns into a grin making Dawson grin as well.
"You good?" Casey asks her.
"Yes lieutenant" Dawson answers.
Casey steps in and slides next to Cruz. Cruz looks at his Lieutenant.
"Say Lieutenant"
"Yes Cruz."
"How can you do check mate early."
"Why you asking me about chess?"
"Because I need to know how to check mate as soon as possible so I can end the game with Otis."
"Okay well just say you don't wanna play anymore."
Cruz frowns. "Really lieutenant."
"That's the best advice I can give"
"I'm so gonna beat you when we get back." Otis says as he sits in the truck.
"If we ever finish the game that is." Cruz mutters.
"What was that?"
"Uh...yeah Otis you might need to think about that. I may even win."
"I'll prove to you my tactics are better."
"Oh can't wait." Cruz says sarcastically.
"Hey are we gonna sit here talking about a bloody game or are we actually gonna move. Squad has already left." Herrmann says.
"Cruz" Casey says his voice stern. His eyes on the steering wheel.
Cruz glances at Otis's smug face and Herrmann's pissed off one. He sighs and nods. "On it lieutenant."
Cruz starts up the engine drives out of the fire house.
The trucks pull up outside a building. A research facility. Lots of people came running out of the building. A woman in a white lab coat came up Casey.
"There is a gas leak in one of the research labs. Then it burst into flames. And...and oh it happened so quick. There is still people in there. But...but."
"Okay. Lets move in. Casey orders to his men.
Half of Casey's men went in while the other half stayed outside. Casey put on his breathing mask and ran in.
Chief Boden arrived.
"What's happened." He asks.
"Gas leak. Fire." Severide answers. "I'm going in."
Chief Boden nods. Severide orders his men to surround the facility. Then he puts on his mask and runs in.
Shortly after, Casey and Dawson came out with injured people. Mills and Brett ran over to them and helped them to the ambulance. More fire fighters came out with more injured people.
"We need another ambulance." Brett says as she gets out her walkie-talkie.
"Good thinking." Mills says as he lowers the patients on to the beds.
In the building, Severide searched through the rooms looking for any victims. He saw fire fighters walking towards the entrance with the victims. This could suggest that all the people were out of the building.
A man is walking very fast pace through the crowds got Severide's attention. This man wasn't walking towards the entrance he is walking towards a room.
Is this guy out of his mind Severide thought.
So Severide followed him. After going through several hallways where the fire hasn't spread yet, the man paused outside a room. He got out a bunch of keys and looked through them. The man kept glancing over his shoulder making sure no one was following him. He finds the right key and unlocks the door. He goes in.
Severide followed in shortly after.
"HEY SIR" He shouts out ."YOU NEED TO GET OUT OF HERE."
The man ignores him and walks up to a wall. He gets out a remote and presses a button. A screen came out of the wall asking for a hand scan. Severide watched with amazement. The man looks over his shoulder again, Severide this time hid in the room. Something in his gut told him this man was up to no good.
The man placed his hand on the scanner causing the screen to go green. The wall slid open revealing an elevator. All this reminded Severide of what you would see in those spy movies. The man stepped into the elevator the glass doors close behind him. The elevator dropped down.
"Severide where are you? " Chief Boden says through the walkie-talkie.
"I'm still in the building chief, there is still one person in here, his not injured or nothing but his being a hard to get at the moment."
"What does that mean?" Severide ignores him and watches as the elevator rises back up. The glass doors open welcoming the fire fighter in. "Severide! " Chief Boden says now sounding concerned..
"On it now chief."
Severide steps into the elevator the doors shutting behind him. He waits for the drop.
The man was pacing around the lab gathering the research together.
"No one can know about this." The man mutters as he stuffs the papers in his bag "No one can find this. Not after everything I have done to get this far."
He puts the test tubes in a sealed box followed by bottles and equipment. He goes and opens the fridge and gets out a glass cylinder full of red liquid. This was his most treasured item out of them all.
Without you my pretty I won't have my finished experiment.
He opens another box. He was about to put the liquid in but a voice interrupts.
"HEY."
The man spins round his special ingredient pressed to his chest.
" You followed me ."
"You need to get out of here. Sooner or later the fire could come down here." Severide says.
"You followed me." The man repeats not even listening to what the lieutenant has said.
"I followed you because I need to get you out of here .What are you thinking coming down here just to grab your research papers . You are risking your life for all this."
The man said nothing. Severide approaches him. The man freaks out and steps back
"Get away from me."
"Sir I'm just getting you out of here."
" I said stay away I'm not ready to leave yet. "
"I'm sorry but you need to drop all this."
"Leave it behind for it to be found forget it."
" I don't care what you are doing down here but all I care about now is getting you out to safety. ".
The man hugged his container. Severide holds out his hands ready to take the glass container off him. The man wasn't going to back down that easily.
"HANDS OFF."
"Sir"
Severide moved over to the shoulder hoping to escort him out. The man glares at him.
"DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND ENGLISH."
Chief Boden shouted through the walkie-talkie again. Severide knew he was running out of time. He was going to have to force the guy out.
"I'm sorry but you leave me with no choice."
He goes to grab the man but the man fought back. Severide couldn't get to him not with the long cylinder container in the way .So Severide goes to grab the container. This infuriated the man even more .They both pulled back and forth at it like a tug of war game .
The container slipped out of the man's hands and hits the ground. The glass smashed causing the liquid to spill everywhere.
"NO" the man screams.
Red smoke rose from the liquid. The man panicked and covered his face. He looks at Severide's breathing mask. That gave him an idea. He shoves the fire fighter into a table causing his helmet to fall off. The man leans and grabs one of his glasses and smashes it on Severide's head. Severide collapses on the ground blood trickling out of his head where he got hit. The man takes the breathing mask and puts it on.
He presses the button causing the elevator to come down. He grabs his bags and boxes. He steps into it and goes up.
Severide lays in the red puddle, the red smoke making its way into his mouth and nostrils. He made no movements whatsoever.
Back outside, everyone started getting concerned about the length of time Severide has been in there for. The panic alarm went off signalling Severide was in danger.
Casey immediately charged into the building following his friend's distress call. He reaches the room. He steps into the secret elevator and goes down .Once in the room, the doors slide open revealing the unconscious fire fighter on the ground.
"SEVERIDE ." Casey yells as he comes up to the lieutenant .He checks for a pulse and sighs with relief that he was still breathing. He notices Severide was not wearing his mask or his helmet. "Damm it Sev what happened." Casey says as he carefully gets Severide to his feet.
He puts Severide's arm over his shoulder and carefully leads him to the button on the wall. Casey presses the button. The elevator comes down. Casey goes in with Severide still leaning on him.
Halfway up, Severide's eyes flutter open. His head was pounding. Confusion appears on his face wondering how he got into the elevator.
"Kelly?"
Severide looks over. He smiles a little.
"Good to see you Matt."
The doors open and they both step out.
"What happened?" Casey asks.
"This guy he was a nut case. He didn't wanna leave so he fought back and well something of his got broke. He freaked out and knocked me out."
" Seriously? "
"Uh huh"
They both go left, right down the hallways until they finally reached the entrance.
"I got him." Casey yells.
Chief Boden notices the mask and helmet missing. He immediately insisted for Severide to be checked out.
While all the hoses started spraying water to take out the fire, Brett patches up Severide's cut on his head.
"How do you feel?" Brett asks.
"Headache but I'll live." Severide answers.
"You are gonna have Boden on your case when we get back." Mills says.
Severide sighs. "Yeb."
"Did anything happened that we should be aware off." Brett asks.
Severide puts on a smile.
"Guys I'm fine just got knocked out that's all. Just a cut. Nothing else is going to happen to me!"
However Severide was wrong. This was just the beginning.