Chapter 12
Asking Shay to marry her helped Rafferty get out of the funk she was in and want to go back to work. Don't let her fool you though. She was still grieving. She just was out of the stage where she stayed in bed all day. Allison's grandpa called the next morning to check in.
"Hi grandpa. How are you?" Allison asked.
"I'm ok. How about you?" Allison's grandpa asked.
"I'm good. So… guess what I finally did last night." Allison's grandpa knew about her wanting to propose. Lucia wasn't good at keeping things to herself so she had to tell someone.
"You did it, didn't you? You finally proposed?"
"I did. The funny thing is, Shay was planning on proposing soon too." Allison sighed. "I just wish I had done it sooner. So grams would have been here to see it."
"I know sweetheart. I know. She would want you to be happy. And that's what you're doing. That's all she ever wanted."
Allison and her grandpa had talked for a little bit longer. She had gotten up early and wanted to let Shay sleep so she got up and laid on the couch and watched TV. That was when her grandpa had called. Now, she was going back to their room so she could lay back down next to Shay until she woke up.
Except, when she walked into the room Shay was wide awake, looking at her ring. "Damn it. I was hoping you'd still be asleep when I came back in." Allison said as she climbed back into bed.
"It's ok. Why are you up so early though?" Shay asked.
"I couldn't sleep and I didn't want to wake you up. So I went out to the living room and watched TV. Then my grandpa called and I just go off the phone with him." Rafferty laid her head on Shay's shoulder, wrapping herself around Shay.
"How's he doing?"
"He seems ok. He's so excited that we're getting married though. He wanted me to tell you he said congratulations and he can't wait for the wedding."
"I can't wait either. We could go elope right now, you know. Save us time and money." Shay said jokingly, kissing the top of Rafferty's head.
"Very funny. We both know that everyone at the firehouse will kill us if they're not there when we get married and I'm pretty sure Dawson would disown you if she wasn't your maid of honor."
"Who would you have as your maid of honor?" Shay asked curiously.
"Honestly, I don't know. Most of my friends I acquired because they were friends with Jason. I don't talk to them very much anymore now." Allison said with a bit of sadness in her voice.
"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to make you sad. I was just curious and I didn't think." Shay was cut off by Allison kissing her.
"Sweetie. You're can ask me those things. We're planning a wedding, our wedding." Allison said with a smile. It still felt surreal that they were engaged.
"I can't believe we're engaged. I mean I can, but I can't, you know? Do you want to start planning the wedding now or do you want to just enjoy it for a little bit and then start planning?"
"Honestly, with our schedules and everything, I think we should start planning now. That way we can pace ourselves and not stress. It'll give us a few months too."
"When do you want to get married? And please don't tell me the middle of winter because I don't think I can wait a whole year for you to be my wife." Shay said, smiling when she said wife.
"I was thinking somewhere between late September and mid-October. That way it's fall but still kind of warm too." Allison said down at Shay. She was leaning on her elbow and laying on her side facing Shay.
"I like that idea. And it gives us six months to plan." Shay went to give Allison a quick kiss, but Allison had other ideas and pulled shay down on top of her as she laid down on her back, resulting in a heated make out session, until they were interrupted by Shay's phone ringing. It was Kelly.
"Yes Kelly?" Allison said when she answered Shay's phone. She had been closer to it.
"I kind of need to talk to Shay. Is she there? I'm assuming she's there because you answered her phone. Can you just get her?" Severide said in a nervous hurried voice.
"Hang on." Allison said turning to Shay and covering the phone so Severide couldn't hear her talking. "He's rambling and it sounds like he's nervous or panicking or both."
Shay took the phone from her. "Hey. What's going on?" Shay didn't want to sound like she was worried.
"I'm freaking out Leslie! Erin thinks she's pregnant. She's like a week late or something and she really didn't think anything of it at first because I guess sometimes it's all messed up when she's stress or something. But then yesterday she said she wasn't feeling good and was nauseous and then this morning she was too." Kelly would have kept going if Shay hadn't interrupted.
"Whoa. Kelly slow down. Take a deep breath. Would it be a bad thing if she was?"
"I don't know. That's the thing. We haven't been together that long and I just started thinking about asking her to move in since she spends most of her time here anyway. Isn't it too soon?"
"Kelly Severide. Stop freaking out. You guys have been together for just as long as me and Allison and I'm already living with her and we're getting married. It's all about what's right for you ok?"
"I guess you're right. It's actually not that bad if she is. I can actually see a future with her." Kelly finally started to calm down and Shay could tell he had a smile on his face just thinking about what a future with Erin would be like.
"And you will be an awesome dad. And I'm sure your kids will grow up to either be a firefighter or a cop or they'll take after their Aunty Shay or Aunty Allison and be a paramedic or doctor." Shay had a smile on her face now.
"Thanks Leslie. I have to go. Erin's leaving work earlier so we can go see her doctor and find out if she is or not." With that they said bye and hung up.
"So Erin's pregnant? What's with all this baby talk lately! Not that it's a bad thing." Allison said.
"She might be. Hang on though." As if on cue her phone rang again.
"What do you mean you and Allison are getting married?" Kelly said as soon as Shay picked up.
"She asked me to marry her last night." Shay said looking down at the ring on her finger.
"Well that's awesome but now I really have to go. We can talk about everything later. We can go to Molly's?"
"Sounds good." Shay said hanging up again and turning to Allison. "They're going to the doctors now I guess to find out. I have to be at Molly's tonight anyway so he said they're going to stop by. You want to come with me?" Allison hadn't really been out socially since before Lucia passed away. Shay didn't want to push her to go though.
"Sure. Yeah. I want to be there when everyone sees our rings. Especially Dawson." Allison said giving Shay a kiss. "Come shower with me. Then we can go get breakfast and go grocery shopping. Then we can come back here and do whatever until we have to head to Molly's. How's that sound?" Allison stood up and headed for the bathroom.
"You had me at shower." Shay said getting up from the bed and chasing Allison down the hall and into the bathroom, pinning her against the wall and kissing her as she took off her clothes.
They had somehow made it out of the apartment to get breakfast before it turned to lunchtime. They're little shower sexcapade made showering a lot longer than it should have.
After breakfast and grocery shopping and taking care of the groceries, they laid down on the couch with a movie playing in the background as they talked.
"Last night, when you proposed, you said you wanted a house with a tree fort and a tire swing. Did you mean what I think you meant?" Shay asked suddenly. The thought at popped in her head and she had blurted it out.
"Well I don't want the tree fort or the tire swing for me and you." Allison said with a smile and a chuckle. "I think even if right now I feel like I wouldn't be a great mom, you could show me how to be. Or the second I see our baby, the maternal instincts would kick in. I've seen you with Hermann's son. You're going to be great mom. So when the time comes, I'll be ok with having kids. You have to carry the first one though because I kind of like the idea of me having to take care of you and talking to your belly." They both chuckled.
"The first one huh? How many are you planning on us having?" Shay asked amused.
"At least two. That way you can carry one and I can carry one."
"I like that idea." Shay said leaning in to kiss Allison.
i was having a hard time with where I wanted to go with this chapter. I didn't know if I wanted to have a little time jump or not so I just played it safe and went with picking up with the next morning. the next chapter will pick up where this chapter left Molly's just when they head over to Molly's. Hope you are enjoying the story thus far and as always review. :)
