Arriving home from the hospital, Chief Wallace Boden dropped down on the sofa and put his head in his hands and started to cry. He had never broken down like this, not even when Andy Darden died. But on this night he wept for his men.
"Mr. Severide? Mr. Severide? How are you feeling?" A nurse stirred Kelly to alertness.
He squinted his eyes and tried to focus on the face, but it stayed a blurry. He closed his eyes again and quickly opened them, the blurriness kind of gone but still there this time, "I'm, uh…ok…sore, but ok."
"I will get you some pain meds. CT will be down in about 10 minutes for the re scan," she said walking out to retrieve the drug.
Kelly sighed and looked out the window, the sun could be seen over the tall buildings in Chicago. A new day had begun and his mind went immediately to his partner, Matt. He pressed the call button for the nurse, "Mr. Severide, is everything ok? I have your pain medication."
"Matt Casey? He's another firefighter in yesterday's building collapse. Do you know how he is?" Casey asked before wincing because of the pain in his head.
"I am not sure, but I can find out for you. Here is your medication and I will be back, hopefully before you go to your scan," she inserted the needle into the IV port and watched Kelly relax.
Coming back from his scan, Kelly entered his room once again to see that Shay was there waiting for him, "hey stranger! How are you feeling?"
Kelly smiled, "I'm alive!" He shrugged.
"That's good," she smiled and turned her attention to the rising sun.
"Mr. Severide? News on your friend. He's ok, still unconscious, still on the ventilator and in CCU. I'm sorry that's all I know," she smiled as she went about taking is vital signs.
He stared at her and smiled, not saying anything.
Meanwhile in the room of Matt Casey, a neuro surgeon was looking over Matt's CT results from the previous day. He ordered another scan and left at that waiting for those results. Through the night Matt's vital signs stayed stable so there were no worries there. A few minutes after the neuro surgeon left, his orthopedic doctor came through the door to examine his x-rays of his broken body. Smiling at himself and satisfied with everything he left.
" Tori? Matt Casey will be fine as far as the broken bones throughout his body. His femur stabilized wonderfully so no need for surgery. Same with his arm, but I am available if anything happens," the doctor reported. A shake of the head from Casey's nurse, Tori, was the only response.
Chief Boden couldn't sleep anymore so he got up showered and made his way back to hospital. Arriving at Lakeshore, he made his way first to Lt. Severide's room, he peeked and found Shay already there fast asleep in the chair next to Kelly's bed. He smiled glad she looked semi better. Kelly was watching TV, a cheesy soap opera.
"Hey Kelly! You look better! How are you feeling?"
"Oh hey chief! Yea I'm good! Got my results of this morning's CT scan and the bleeds cleared. Probably go home tomorrow!" Kelly very excited of the news.
"That's great news Kelly!" Boden again smiled and patted Kelly on his shoulder. "I'm headed up to see Matt, I will tell him the news!"
Kelly thanked Boden as he left and made his way to the CCU. Again without any problems he was let in to see Matt.
Again before entering his room he stopped took a deep breath and pushed the door open. Relieved to see Matt still there, his color a little better and his vitals stable. He sighed and sat next the bed and grabbed Matt's left arm, careful of the IV and smiled, "Kelly gets to go home tomorrow. He's doing much better. Now you just need to get better. Come on lieutenant, you can do it. Come back to us!"
Boden watching Matt's face the whole time noticed his eyelids twitching, like Matt was trying to wake up. Just then the neuro surgeon walked in and smiled, "I assume you are Lt. Casey's chief, correct?"
Boden nodded.
"Good! I have the results of Casey's scan results from this morning. The bleed has clotted and is not currently bleeding. Which means it is safe to try and get him to wake up," the doctor explained without looking up from his notes, that he didn't notice the grin on Wallace's face.