Hello! I promise I'm still writing Real Firefighters but writer's block combined with a great episode last night led me to write this! Hope you like it. Reviews are welcome.
No, I don't own Chicago Fire.
"Hey Shay." I called out as I heard the door open and close.
"Hey Kelly." She had been out late; maybe she celebrated signing the papers for the house. I heard her walk all the way into the apartment and I turned to see her tear stained face.
"Come here honey." I softened my tone and held my arm out to her. She buried her face into my open arm quickly. My heart broke when she began to cry. "What happened?" I tried to figure out what was going on.
"She left." She sniffled out the sad words in between her tears. "Daniel offered split custody if she moved to New York with the baby and she did." Shay sat up a little more, still leaning on me.
"Oh, I'm really sorry." I tried to sound as compassionate as I could; it was hard for me not to go kill Clarice. She has left the woman who might as well of been my sister twice now. "You don't deserve anything she did to you."
"That doesn't mean it didn't happen." She wouldn't make eye contact with me. "I let myself fall for her again, I'm so dumb."
"Hey, don't say that. You are not dumb. You were in love."
She smiled a little. "That's just a nice way of saying I'm dumb isn't it?"
"I believe from the bottom of the heart that you are not dumb. Your pregnant ex-girlfriend came back to you. The same girlfriend you went head over heels for the first time. I know I would never dream of saying no."
"I guess." Now she was sitting up just leaning on my shoulder a little bit. "I guess Dawson was right, gosh I'm never going to hear the end of this." She was still crying.
"You will I promise. Dawson just cares that you are ok. If she gives you crap about it, which I'm sure she won't, just let me know and I'll talk to her ok?" I tried to look at her reaction but the angle she was leaning on me made it difficult.
"Ok." We sat in a comfortable silence for a minute or two until she spoke up again; "I just really loved her and Wesley. I had myself convinced we were going to be a family. She took that away. Why does she always screw with me so much?" She asked herself in desperation as she started to cry again.
"It's in her nature Shay. She seems so loveable and she is. But she can't seem to make a long term commitment, and she hurts everyone in her path." I tried to console her, but nothing I could say seemed to help.
"I guess I know how Daniel felt now." She seemed lost in her own world. Her words broke my heart. Shay was always so tough and strong, but now she couldn't be consoled past crying. We both allowed our conversation to settle into another comfortable silence until she suddenly got up. "I'm going to bed." She plainly told me, still with tears running down her face.
"Ok. I'll be down here on in my room if you need me." I offered my support knowing there was nothing else I could do.