Chicago Fire
Our Time Now
Chapter 8
February 22, 2014
Author's Note: Wow! Thank you for all the amazing feedback on that debate pool, keep posting what your thoughts are, I absolutely love reading them! I also love how someone pointed out One Tree Hill, great show, one of my favorites, and it shows prime examples of great relationships; Nathan and Haley has been through a lot of shit, and I give props to the writers of that show, for giving Haley and Nathan a fantastic happy ending. But in correlation to Casey and Dawson, I cannot wait for what's next for them, this month long hiatus was like getting on my nerves, I love the Olympics and all, but blah.
Each one of your opinions were actually very well detailed and just great! I love them all, and I do consider each of them to heart. Especially, a few about trust and among other factors in their relationship. However, once I thought about it more, I believe Casey has been in love with Dawson ever since he laid on hers, and there's no doubt for him, but Dawson, I could also see it in her. She's been with him through anything, his mother's parole, Hallie's death, the Darden boys, even the whole Christmas Party shenanigan, I thought and felt like she's been there since the beginning.
Enough of my blabbing, enjoy this light-hearted and fluffy chapter, although there might be some cute little fights and a bit of drama at 51.
By the way, if anyone watched House MD, maybe you'll catch the little allusion in the chapter, Jesse Spencer (Casey) made his first debut playing one of the lead roles as a surgeon and a doctor specializing in Diagnostics. Also, pretend that Dr. Chase and the team worked at Lakeshore Hospital. I might get some diagnosis wrong, I don't study diagnosis, and I'm still in my first year of undergrad school, and med school is a long way ahead, but this is what I have been learning so far in my Biology class.
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Three Days Later
Third POV
"Well, Gabriela, it seems like that the ER doctors have gotten the diagnosis wrong for your foot." Doctor Chase told Gabby, with his Australian accent lingering through the air. Matt and Gabby had looked each other and both presented a questioning look.
"What do you mean?" Gabby faced Dr. Chase and creased her eyebrows in confusion.
"You said that the pain was opposing, meaning that it wasn't going away, right?" Gabriela nodded and proceeded for the doctor to go on.
"It seems like that your foot was bent at an odd angle when you first broke your fall, and one of the tendons connecting your foot to your knee cap had snapped. Meaning that you stretched that muscle a bit too far, and it had worsen the pain." Dr. Chase said, taking notes on his clipboard and looked at the couple in front of him.
"I actually attend med school classes weekly, and I am a paramedic, but could you please put it simpler?" Gabriela chuckled and joked.
Dr. Chase smiled and explained to her, "You broke your foot, and you need surgery to repair the tendon damage."
Gabriela nodded and agreed for the surgery, "Does this surgery have any risks?"
Dr. Chase shook his head, "Absolutely not, I have performed this surgery plenty of times, and each patient had been able to get back to walking within a month or two."
"Okay, schedule me for the next closest opening times."
"I have an opening for me and my team to do the surgery Friday morning at 9:30, is that fine with you?" Dr. Chase offered.
"Yes, that's sounds great. Quick question though, how long is the surgery?"
"It's very quick, if there isn't any problems during the performance, you should be out within 2-3 hours. Also, you will be on the anesthesia medicine the whole time, and it would make you feel like it was only an hour. Half of your recovery time will be taking place in a wheel chair, and the last half would be on crutches to work on your muscle memory, to regain that physical attentiveness in your leg and foot. Meaning physical therapy twice a week, the least." Dr. Chase explained.
"Sounds good, Doc. I'll see you first thing Friday morning." Gabriela and Matt offered a smile, and a thanks. On the other hand, Matt did one of those guy handshakes with a pat on the back.
"By the way, I'll tell my boss to yell at the ER doctors for their mistake, Dr. House likes to point out the obvious in everything." Dr. Chase joked and each of them laughed along.
The couple walked out of the hospital and proceeded for Matt's truck and went inside. Shift had started a few hours ago, and had asked Chief for lee way time to take Gabriela to the doctors, and the lost time would be taken out of his paycheck, and also for Matt to take his buzzer with him in case of a call when he was gone.
"So babe, do you want to head to the firehouse or you want me to drop you home?" Matt asked and took Gabby's hand with his, and tightened the grip on it for reassurance.
"Actually, I want to spend some time at the firehouse, I will even make lunch for you guys, if that's fine with all of you." Gabby said.
"Yeah, that's more than.." Matt got cut off by dispatch buzzing in through his pager.
Dispatch chimed in, "Truck 81, house fire at 1672 Dawn Street, three victims trapped."
"Lieutenant Truck 81, en route." Casey buzzed in, and took a sharp turn towards the freeway, and typed the address in the GPS of his phone.
"Well, guess were heading on scene." Casey said and looked at Dawson.
"Totally fine with me, I'll pitch in some help with Shay and Rafferty, if it's needed."
Meanwhile, Casey had pulled over for them to switch seats, so Dawson could drive him, although her foot was sore, she still could drive without getting harmed. and he could get his turnover coat and gear from the back, and put it on. The couple had arrived at the scene within 7 minutes, just as the others were arriving.
"Casey, before you go out, could you grab me my crutches?" Dawson asked.
Casey nodded, walked out of the truck and grabbed her crutches from the back and quickly handed over to her. Dawson headed over to the ambulance and there was Shay and Rafferty waiting for the victims to get out of the fire.
"Lieutenant, I need you to put out the fire in the basement, it was started by an arsenic chemicals...it was homemade. You have two minutes to do a quick search with squad, and put out the fire, or else this place will blow up into pieces. GO!" Chief ordered.
Casey and the other members of truck agreed with the orders, and ran quickly inside. Doing a ground search, no victims had been found yet.
"FIRE DEPARTMENT, CALL OUT." Casey yelled out through the spewing fires of the third floor. From there he heard yelling of a young girl in one of the rooms, he found the room, and quickly got the child in his arms, and tried to cover her the best he could.
"Lt, no one on second floor or first, you can get out now, the fire is building too quickly and there's no time to put it out. Just get out of there." Herrmann buzzed through.
"Casey, fifty seconds, get out of there." Chief also pitched in.
"10-4, I'm close to the backdoor, get the paramedics, we have a young girl with third degree burns."
On the other hand, Dawson was nervous and pacing around as she saw the smoke of the fire getting darker and darker each second. And there he was, Casey and a child in his arms running out of the almost exploding building. Casey headed towards Dawson as she was the nearest paramedic, and put the girl on the backboard, Dawson quickly attached the C-Collar to her neck, and placed her on the gurney. She checked for a pulse, and nodded that she was alive and had such little time left.
"There's a pulse, she'll be okay if you get her to Lakeshore quick-" Rafferty cut her off.
"Whatever, just back off, we got this handled." Rafferty said with venom in her voice, and pushed the gurney towards the ambulance. Dawson quickly got mad, and held the topic for later when they were back at the firehouse.
Casey looked at her with an earnest "I'm okay," look with a small smile, and Dawson looked back at him with tears almost falling from her eyes, and Casey took his glove off and quickly wiped it away, with his hand lingering her cheek for comfort and assurance.
"You're okay." Dawson said and gave him a hug.
"I'll always be okay, baby." Casey let go and looked at her once again, and placed a swift kiss on her forehead. There he stood, with ash burns on his face and sweat matting his forehead. He was okay, and he saved the life of a young child.
They returned back at the firehouse ten minutes later, and Casey walked out of truck, as Dawson drove Casey's truck back to the house. Casey put his turnover gear back into place, and waited for Dawson in the garage. Once he saw her approaching, looking cute on her crutches, he grabbed her by the waist and pulled her in for a long awaited kiss on the lips.
Ten seconds later, "Do you guys ever get tired of it? You've been smacking lips since day one, and I'm tired of it." Rafferty called out.
"Did we ask you to watch, sweetie?" Dawson said back, even sounding a bit bitchy.
Rafferty rolled her eyes and walked away into the house.
Dawson rested her forehead onto Casey's, and said, "I'm so tired of her, and she's only been here for a few days. "
"She'll be gone before you know it, babe. Plus, you look hot when you're all mad, so I don't know if I want her to go just yet." Casey replied back with a joke hinted.
Dawson playfully hit him on the ass, and pinched it.
"My office?" Casey asked with a knowing smile.
"You know it."
The two walked into the house and went straight for his office, shut the blinds and locked the door, then started removing clothes as quickly as possible, it was getting steamy and steamier each moment, as he was placing light but sensual kisses on her neck. That is until there was a knock on the door, the two had just made it to Casey's bunk, and quickly, Casey put his shirt and jacket back on.
"Always getting interrupted." Casey shook his head and went to open the door. Dawson chuckled, and hid herself under the blankets, as her shirt was somewhere lying on the ground.
Casey walked out of his office, and shut the door behind him, and saw Severide, he was the one who interrupted them.
"Hey Casey, Chief wants everyone in the meeting room now. We were just waiting for you and Dawson, but it seems like you guys were having a bit of fun." Severide pointed back, wiggled his eyebrows with a knowing look, and noticed the blinds of his room shut.
"Shut up, and tell Chief that we're coming." Casey joked.
Severide nodded and walked away.
Casey walked back into his office, and saw Dawson putting her shirt and jacket back on, and grabbing her crutches that was also lying on the ground, and limped towards to get it.
"Sorry, babe, guess we'll continue this later, alright?" Casey suggested and put his hand on the small of her back. Dawson nodded her head in agreement, and they headed towards the meeting room. They both walked in, and took their seats.
"Woah, hey Casey, your hair is kind of disheveled, you might want to fix that, buddy." Shay pointed out and everyone laughed knowing what they were recently doing. Casey blushed and Dawson just sat their shaking her head at everyone's antics.
"May I have everyone's attention please? And Dawson, glad you stayed, because you need to know this information as well." Chief piped in, seriously. Everyone turned their attention towards Boden.
"It seems like we have another Arsonist on our hands." Boden said and it caught everyone's attention quickly.
Wow, another Arsonist? Who could it be this time? Leave your guesses down below and wait for my next update! :)
Meanwhile, if you like that little session in the office, check out my one-shot, "After Hours" with Dawson and Casey starring, and its located in the M Section.