So here's Chapter 9! The girls go to a carnival
Sorry for the delay, I've been ripping a garden apart in the last few days (I'm the man of the house, apparently).
An awesome person gave me the idea for this chapter so she gets all the credit for this chapter and you should all follow her on twitter if you don't already. Her name is Shawsonlover24 and she's also got chicagofireemt
Message to Shawsonlover24: I wrote it and then remembered that you said about Navy Pier after I wrote that they went to a carnival!
Anyway – glad everyone is enjoying it, thank you for all of the reviews! Chicago Fire isn't mine and hope you all enjoy chapter 9!
Shay's Point of View:
I didn't think I would ever be so excited to walk back through the doors of Station 51 but here I was, almost skipping towards my beloved ambulance that I haven't seen in two freaking weeks. Despite me insisting that I'm fine, the Chief wouldn't put me on a shift for another week. The whole team crowd me when I hurry through the doors to the common room.
"Welcome back, Shay!" Otis pats me on the back.
Everyone else welcomes me back and they start congratulating me on being a hero and all that rubbish. I try to look for Gabby and soon, I'm blocking out the embarrassing comments on how I should get a medal (It was Mouch being slightly dramatic) because I see her over in the kitchen area. She catches my eye and smiles. Then, she stops what she's doing and walks over.
"Stop smothering her, you guys." Dawson orders them, "She's just walked through the door."
She pulls my arm and drags me out of the room. We head towards the locker room and as soon as Gabby checks that the room is empty, I pull her close to me.
"Thanks for the rescue." I smile.
"It was my pleasure." Gabby winks.
Before I can speak, I hear the door open and we jump away from each other. Seconds later, Casey comes through the door. He tries to turn around and go back out of the door when he sees that Gabby and I are the only occupants of the room but decides against it.
"Welcome back, Shay." He says with an awkward smile.
"Thanks Casey."
"You two okay?" he asks, looking at the space in between us. It's now that I realise that we're at each end of the row of lockers. It's natural for someone to suspect something was going on before they walked in.
"Yeah we're fine. We're going to go and..." Gabby struggles to find words.
"Do inventory. We're going to do inventory." I finish. She looks at me and smiles at me gratefully.
We both hurry out of the room and to the rig to hide out for a while. At least there, we can have some privacy.
When I close the doors and turn around, Dawson is closer than I think she is and I almost jump out of my skin.
"Hey." I say.
We're close enough that our breaths are mingling.
"Hey." She repeats.
Then, we're kissing. We've barely seen each other in the past week unless we're going to bed because Dawson had to go back to work. All of our kisses so far have been slow and passionate, but this one was different. It was raw. I move down to her neck and then... we hear the siren.
"You've got to be kidding me." I hear Gabby groan.
I smirk and kiss her quickly on the mouth before opening the ambulance doors. I see the guys rushing to the trucks and Kelly catches my eye and raises his eyebrow when Dawson emerges behind me. We both put our heads down and jump into the front seat.
When we arrive at the scene we're put straight into work. There was a two cars collision and we had minutes before they blew up. One car had a mother and her two children in and the other had a drunk driver at the wheel. I always have to resist ignoring the drunk driver and leaving him there to die. A mother and her kids could die and he's probably going to get away with a broken bone or two.
We manage to get everyone out of the vehicles and the fires are put out before the situation gets worse. On the way to the hospital, I can't help but listen to the conversation going on in the back of the rig between the mother and Dawson.
"We were on our way to the carnival." The lady told Gabby.
"It's in town again?" Gabby asked.
"Yes, the boys love to go every year. Last year, they ate so much cotton candy they were going crazy. Do you think they'll be okay? They're all I've got."
We arrive at the hospital just as I hear Gabby reassure the woman that her children appeared to be perfectly fine at the scene. After we gave the woman to the doctors and filled out our paperwork, we jump back into the ambo and start to drive back to the station.
"Go out with me." Dawson suddenly says. I frown at her slightly because of her abruptness but then I smile.
"I'll see if I can fit you in to my schedule." I wink at her. She hits me lightly on the shoulder and we start laughing.
"We're going tonight." It sounds like an order more than an invite to a date.
I laugh at her and hold her hand as I drive back to the station.
After our shift, Dawson drags me to her car.
"Come on, we're going to be late." She says as we jump into the vehicle.
"Where are we going?" I ask her.
"Not telling."
After driving for about 10 minutes, I start to see the crowd and flashing lights ahead of me.
"You're taking me to the carnival?" I ask and she nods with a nervous smile.
"Is that okay?" she questions me.
"Girl, of course it is." I grin.
Dawson parks the car and we hurry to the line to get our tickets. When we're inside, Dawson drags me to a stand. It's a milk bottle game. Knock them down to get a teddy bear. I expect Gabby to force me up to the plate but instead, she smirks at me and picks up the baseballs that the man gives her in exchange for two dollars. I watch her patiently as she misses the first shot. Then she misses the second. Then she throws the third ball and I let out a weird noise that's never come out of my mouth before when she knocks down all the bottles. The woman hands over a teddy which I fall in love with. I'm not even a teddy person but this one was so cute and fluffy. Dawson and I walk away from the stand and she hands the bear to me.
"This is so cheesy." I laugh, "I love it."
I kiss Gabby and then we walk. She links her arm with mine and we watch all the happy families and couples around us. I spot a Ferris wheel and stop to watch it for a moment.
"You want to go on it?" Gabby asks me.
"Yeah, okay." I smile. We get in the queue and wait to go on the ride.
When we're on the ride and we start to go round to the top, Dawson looks at me.
"Are you having a good time?" she questions.
I kiss her before I answer.
"I could be in a cell block and have a good time if I'm with you." I tell her.
"That was cheesy." Dawson winks.
Suddenly, we stop at the top of the ride and I'm distracted by the view of Chicago. I stand up and gaze outside.
"It's beautiful." I mumble. I look to Dawson and see that she's looking at me as if to be intrigued.
"I've never been on a Ferris wheel before." I admit, "I was scared of heights as a kid and it wasn't until I became a medic that I got over it. Climbing across a ladder between two burning buildings wasn't something I ever thought I'd do, but it got me to accept heights."
"I'm glad I got to experience it with you." Gabby pulled me into an embrace, "You're amazing."
I pulled her into a hug and we stayed like that for a few moments. Then, I had an idea and I let go of her.
"Let's take a picture! You, me, Alfred and the great city of Chicago." I say as I pull out my phone.
Dawson picks up the teddy bear and we pose for a few photos. In the last one, Gabby surprised me and pulled me into a kiss and I take the snap.
When the ride starts to move again, we sit back down and look through the photos we took. There are ones of Gabby snuggling into me, ones of us pulling faces, the one of her kissing me and a couple of us smiling into the camera.
"When do you want to tell people?" I ask her.
"I don't know." She answers, "I think we need to give Matt some time, though. He didn't take the break up very well."
Then, I realise that we haven't spoken about her breaking up with Casey. Even during the time we had off work, we were focused on being together and forgetting everything around us. It wasn't for days after the arrest of the guy who tried to kill us all, that I actually found out that he'd been caught. A total of 27 people died during the bombings. Cops, fire fighters from other houses and innocent people were killed due to that psycho.
I had to let the thoughts out of my mind for now though. Tonight was mine and Gabby's first official date. By now, we were at the bottom of the ride and Gabby was standing up to go. When we were walking away from the ride, Gabby took my hand.
"By the way, why did you name the bear Alfred?" she asked me.
"My first shift at 51, the first day we met, our first call together was a fire down West Wrightwood Avenue." I began, and then she interrupted.
"The 70 year old man who didn't make it was named Alfred; he lived on the fourth floor. He saved the children in the flat opposite his."
"Yeah, that's it. He locked them in the closet with a roll of tape to cover up all the gaps around the edge of the door," I said, "He was a hero."
"I forgot about that call." She smiles sadly. We're walking towards a hot dog stand now, not that either of us are paying attention to where we're going.
"I knew that I wanted to live up and be a hero like Alfred was. He made me know that station 51 was where I was meant to be."
"Well, you saved that girls life, and many others along the way." Dawson told me, "You're a hero too."
We pay for two hot dogs and go to a bench to eat them.
"This has been amazing, Gabby." I grin.
"Not too bad for a first date, right?"
"Not at all, I'll have to step up my game." I smirk.
We spend the rest of our night playing games, taking photographs and carrying Alfred the bear around with us. Then, when we decide to go home, she comes back to my place and we walk in to find Detective Lindsay and Kelly making out on the sofa.
I clear my throat loudly and Kelly looks up at me.
"What?" he asks with a scowl. Then he sees the teddy in my arms and laughs.
"You're taking the covers to the dry cleaners tomorrow." I announce. Then I drag Gabby to the stairs. Before going up them, I look back.
"Good night Erin!" I call. I like her. I like her for Kelly. She's been spending every night over here since the bombing and the four of us have bonded quite a bit. When Kelly suggested a double date, all three of us both shot him down immediately and I knew that Erin was my type of person.
Dawson and I have gotten into the habit of sleeping together. Not together but neither of us sleep very well when the other one isn't there. She had done a night shift at the beginning of the week and when she saw me the next day, she thought I was high. So she then decided to change all of her night shifts to day shifts and would crawl into bed with me at night.
Now, I'm in bed watching her sleep. I can't believe how lucky I am to have her. I can't believe that she's with me. She's attracted to me.
Gabriela Dawson loves me.
