"So I got offered a Fed job. " Erin said as she sipped her coffee. Liv's eyes whip up to hers.
"Do what?" She asked as they move forward in the food truck line.
"My own task force, I get to choose our focus points."
"You gonna take it?"
"I'm not real sure, I'm considering it."
"You'd be a fool not too at least consider it. I mean I know you love and respect Hank I do too…" She paused to order. "Clam chowder please. Veggie sandwich for my date."
"But-"Erin starts.
Liv held up her hands. "Don't yell at me! But you gotta decide if you're cool being the Robin to his Batman for the rest of your career and yes, I know that he gave you the job but you got the attention of the FBI on your own merit E. On some level as long as you work beneath Hank you'll be viewed as his daughter because well you are his daughter."
Erin huffed. "You're a bitch when you're right you know?"
"But ya love me."
"I know I do! Hi Erin." Kelly said as he hugged a startled Liv from behind.
She looks over her shoulder and grins. "Did you cut the line to get to me?"
He kissed the crook of her neck. "Hey lover, yup I did. Klaire has the sniffles fix her."
"Fix her? What is she a genie? Erin sniped.
"Where is she?" Liv clarified with a bit of a scowl.
"In the car with Rainey I just needed to know what to do to fix her sniffles and snotting." Liv had taken a friends shift so Kelly was solo parenting for the day.
Liv laughs at Kelly's utter confusion she can't help it. "Dimetapp. My love, just give her some cold medicine."
"Really?" He said surprised.
"Really Kelly that's all." She took out her script pad and did the math to figure out dosage and the proper prescription for her condition and symptoms. "Fill this." She signed it tore it off and placed it in his hand. "I love you, call me if anything gets worse or better."
He took the script. "Got it." He leaned down and kissed her once, twice, a third time as a woman behind them gives them a tired eye roll. "I'll bring you dinner. "
"That a euphuism?"
"Real food sex optional." He with a glimmer in his eye Liv hadn't seen a while.
She laughed softly watching him walk away. "Bye Kell."
"See ya later Boo!" She growled at the use of his favorite pet name for her. He laughed. "Love you Liv, have a good day."
"Love you back." She returned as he spun around to leave.
"Sometimes I look at you and Kelly and I wonder how it works for you. I'm jealous, No way could Owen and I just let the other be who they are…. I just if I took the task force thing? I could start over." Erin said grabbing their food.
"Do you wanna start over or do you just want to stop wanting to be in love with him?" Liv glanced at her while paying out.
"Damn it!"
"Yup I just get you." Liv said as the found a table in the warm sun and parked it. "That's why Kelly and I work E, we want to be in love. It's not something I ever fought with it just is." She stirred her soup with a goofy smile on her face.
"He follows with his eyes wherever you go, if you're dressed to the nines or frumpy. He thinks you are as awesome as I do. It'd be the only thing that made leaving you bearable. I can trust him to take care of you. "She said kindly as she bit in to her sandwich,
Erin's eyes get big as she speaks with her mouth full. "Ooh that reminds me I gotta borrow that one dress of yours the maroon short sexy yet classy thing you used to snag Carver at the fundraiser thingy."
-/-/-
Brittany had followed Kelly to the hospital and then found herself drawn to the redhead's conversation she sat some distance away with her back to her. She listened as the woman prattled on about her life blah, how much she loved Kelly which Brittany didn't buy at all and someone named Carver…
-/-/-
Liv shook her head defensively. "I did not "Snag" Carver. I was more snagged than snager. "
"Whatever I need the dress for an undercover thing." Erin sipped her drink and eyed faceless blonde whose body language told Erin the woman was listening in awful hard.
"Fine… you have a key just go get it, I have a wheelchair Zumba class with Sylvie tonight she says I'll love the instructor." Liv Ladled up some soup.
Erin snickered. "They have that? Wheelchair Zumba is a thing?"
"Not sure, I just know Sylvie has that whole lost puppy that needs friends thing and I just remember feeling the same way when I first got with Kelly I mean everyone was skeptical of me and I'm almost positive there was a pool to see how long we'd last at one point."
"Yup, but don't worry. I put down for until one of you die." Erin smiled at her widely.
Liv shrugged. "Sometimes I wonder what Kelly sees in me."
"So do I." Brittany muttered to herself.
"It's simple Livvy; he sees the same thing I do. His best friend who'd do anything for him."
-/-/-
Kelly goes into the firehouse determined to stay on task and not get distracted but it's the first time both of the girls are sick and he has to leave them at home. Liv had gotten food poisoning and Klaire had a pretty heavy summer cold.
He walked into the common area texting Liv. "Hang tough babe, just until I get back."
A few minutes later his phone buzzed. "In the bathroom trying to clear Klaire's lungs with steam. I think it's turning bronchial on us. Also, I think I hallucinated."
He called her. "What do you mean hallucinated? That's not normal for food poisoning."
"Klaire's stuffed alligator tried to feed me bananas ok? I think I'm dehydrated." She explained.
The alarm ping over his head. "Shit! Baby, I gotta go. Drink my PowerAde's ok."
"Nasty." She whined the noise bounced off the bathroom tile and echoed back to Kelly a bit.
"I know, just do it. I love you." He ordered
She sounds drowsy to him in reply. "Be careful. Did I say that? Be careful. I love you."
-/-/-
She and Kelly were just meant to be she knew it. He might not know it now but he would soon enough. Their second meeting in Vegas had been pure fate in Brittany's mind. Sure Kelly needed convincing away from his poisonous bitch wife but she merely needed one tiny second a singular opportunity. A fire would do nicely. She'd picked up a scanner in hopes of not having to set one herself. She didn't get off on being rescued like the redhead. "Crippled whore." She muttered.
The scanner called out to his squad. It was destiny bringing him to her again.
When she goes to the fire she has every intention of just watching until she hears his voice over the radio. So she runs up to the scene. "Chief I'm Kelly Severide's girlfriend… I tried texting him, can I talk to him just to check in."
Wallace looked at the blonde. "He has a wife honey, I know her well."
"Yes well, no one knows about us yet," She retorts as she gets shoved behind yellow crime tape.
"Stand behind the tape and let the man do his job." He said and walked away. "Either the boy's crazy or she is." He muttered to himself.
Kelly is safely back on the ground and headed for the truck. "Chief let's not tell Livvy I almost fell out of a copter stranded on the roof today." He said with a genuine smile.
"And the girlfriend? What should I tell her?"
Kelly glanced at him oddly. "Only girl I got is Livvy. There could never be anyone else. You hit your head chief?" He asked grabbing the truck door.
"Pretty blonde over by the tape said she was your girlfriend."
He turned to confront who he knew had to be Brittany but she was gone. "No one's there Chief. Look I had to work so hard to just snag Liv's attention I will never need anyone else. She holds more than my attention. I ain't all Severide." He said sliding up into his seat,
-/-/-
When they pull in from the fire they find Liv sitting inside her truck waiting on him. The fact that she looks like hammered shit and he still thinks she's gorgeous, that he even wants to force feed her chicken noodle soup until she feels better tells him just how deep in love he still is. "Hey Baby."
"I got called in something about over flow from injuries from the downed copter on the news. Are you okay? Was it your call? I tried to find the truck and never caught it." She looked him over with her critical doctor eyes and even tired from sickness the look makes him feel squirmy inside.
"It was but I'm fine how are my sickly loves?" He asks waving at Klaire who sneezes in reply from the backseat.
"I wanna die and She's about to cough her little head off. Look I gotta go but I need you to take Klaire until Lindsey can come get her. She needs a neb treatment too." Liv yawns.
"Erin's coming?"
"Owen's wife Lindsey not Erin Lindsay."
"Got it. You look hot Doc, in a death warmed over zombified kind of way." He flirts.
He leaned in the window. "Kiss me woman!"
"I'm sick… I don't feel like it." She pouted.
"Liar, Liar, Lab coat on fire." He sing songed
"I'm never eating clam chowder form the food truck outside the hospital again."
He cupped her chin in his hand and planted a hard kiss on her mouth. "You were puking when I left I didn't get my goodbye kiss so there."
He opened Klaire's door pulling her still in the car seat from the truck. "Hiya Klairey Girl." She just stared at him with tired slightly glassy eyes. "You are a sick girl huh? No smiling? Man you're getting heavy. Say bye Mommy. Bye Livvy, hydrate."
"Will do. Remember her meds and breathing treatment. The roids will make her twitchy and fussy. You got this?" She asks as she stars to pull off.
"I got it Hun, Love you."
"Back at you have fun with the extra Klaire/Daddy Face time." She smiles at them and backs out driving toward the hospital.
He sat her on the coffee table preparing to lift her out of the seat. Pouch jumps up to play with his friend. "Back Pouch, good boy sit… you can look, no licking though she's sick." Pouch cocked his head then wandered back to Mouch.
He lifted her out of the seat. Her back is sweaty. "Whooo, you hot girlfriend? You're drenched. Wanna go change? Daddy will get you dry. You wanna smile? No? It's okay…"He stood swaying with her. "I'm sorry you're sicky." he kissed her chubby cheek. He hadn't shaved and she fusses. "I'll stop! I'll stop; I know scratchy faced Daddy is no fun… I sorry." He turned to find the entire house staring at him. "What?"
"Ignore them Kelly. Can I hold her?" Gabi asked holding out her hands with a bay fevered expression that looks as though it about to give Casey the dry heaves.
"Here Gabi you can try but she gets clingy sometimes." He said kissing Klaire's long dark baby curls. He hands her to Gabi.
She lasts all of thirty seconds in Gabi's arms before she cries and fusses for "Dada"
Liv says Dada is just baby babble and not a real word but he thinks she's jealous because she hasn't said Mama yet.
She cries in a high pitched frustrated wail. "Dada! Buhh… Dada." Her face turns red as she screeches again.
He moved into her sight line. "I'm here, right here… "When that doesn't work he decides to take her back. "Okay gimmie Gabi before we get a baby hulk out."
He takes her and she rubs her tear and snot covered face and rubs it on the shoulder of his shirt. "Thanks Klaire…" he muttered.
"Pay back for handing her off." Herrmann said as Kelly walked back to his locker to get the spare things he keeps for Klaire and his spare shirt.
He took her to his quarters and laid her on the bed and changed her clothes. He talks nonsense to her as he dresses her in a black onesie with pink fire trucks on it. Then he forces her meds down her as she screams at him. "I know, you can hate me gotta be done baby. It's gotta be."
Her breathing is getting a bit too wheezy for his liking. He picks her up and is carrying her in to the common area to get Gabi to help him with the breathing treatment when he feels her heart go crazy against his chest. Then seconds later she goes limp in his arms.
Klaire! Klaire wake up, come on Klaire…." When he can't wake her his heart drops. "Gabi! Mills!"
Mouch is closest on the couch. He gets up and rushes over as does everyone else. Kelly never screams like that, in fear. "I think she fainted, she's not breathing very well…" He said panicky as he clutched his baby.
"Kelly I need you to look at me." Gabi said gently. "Give her to me, come on…" She coaxed as she can feel Kelly starting to flip the fuck out.
"Can I carry her please, I can, I can do it." He begs and she nods as they run for the ambulance.
Gabi rushes into the ambulance. "Brett drive. Mills with me." She commands.
"GO!" chief yells.
"Her resps are really shallow Gabi. I can barely feel them." She points to the gurney and Kelly gently laid her down his child looking super tiny on the big clean white and yellow bed. "Her heart it's like a hummingbird is trapped in her chest." His hands are shaking and no one bothers to comment.
Matt said. "We're right behind you." He slammed the door shut and they were off.
"Can you tell me what we're dealing with Kelly?" Mills asked. Taking her vitals as Gabi monitored her up. "Come on baby girl hang tough…just keep breathing okay?" Pete said low and gentle as Kelly had seen Liv do before.
"A really bad cold. Liv said it was starting to sound like bronchitis but wither being on so many meds she wanted to try to steam out the congestion. Too many meds causes reactions, she told me to give her a nebulizer treatment, I was going too, and I just wanted to change her first she was playing… She was just playing a little bit so…" He said clearly frazzled.
Gabi cursed. "Damn it, she's in tachycardia. Kelly you might wanna look away I gotta shock her."
"She's eight months old…" he said voice strained from holding his tears in.
"Look away man." Mills advised sympathetic pain etched on his face.
He looked away wishing to anywhere else as Gabi called for the lowest voltage to be used on Klaire.
The thing whines and then discharges. "And I just lost respirations. Step on it Brett." Mills demands as Gabi starts an IV line.
"Cardio pulmonary failure isn't uncommon in Ebstein baby's Kelly. She's going to be fine." Gabi said. "Up side? I got normal sinus rhythm back."
"Why didn't Liv tell me?" He asked
Gabi glanced at him quickly. "Tell you what Kelly? What good would it have done for you to know a common cold could take her down?"
"I would have done the fucking treatment first thing like she told me." Kelly retorts in a near shout.
"It's going to be fine." She said again.
Tired of being placated as fear swarms his insides this time he does scream. "Gabi! You aren't a parent don't fucking tell me its fine like I'm overreacting as Mills crams a tube down my baby's throat ok? Don't its fine me! She has bad heart!"
Brett cuts in. "We're here."
They unload and of course the first person to greet them is Liv. "Clear Bay Three for me. What do we- Oh God…What? Oh God…" Kelly can see the moment Liv's heartbreaks and fear fills those eyes he loves. He steps toward her but she's chasing after Klaire the second the gurney wheels hit concrete.
"I've got this Severide! Page Jason…" her superior cut her off.
"Arata that's my baby!"
"Exactly. Let me work!"
Kelly wrapped his arms around her from behind effectively pining her arms to her sides so she can't follow them. "Let them go Baby." He said into the crown of her of hair as he kissed her on top of the head.
"I don't understand." She said softly barely above a whisper/
He cleared his throat as they watch their baby disappear behind closed doors. "Come on let's sit down."
"I am sitting! Tell me!" She snapped at him.
"I'm not really sure. She was clammy so I switched her clothes out and got all the meds down her all of it. I was going to go ask one of the guys to help me do the nebulizer thing and she just went limp in my arms. Her heart rate was so fast… so fast Livvy. I was afraid she was going to die in my arms. "She squeezed his hand in reassurance.
She pushes the chair in swift clean motions and turns sharp to repeat it dawns on him; his wife who can't walk is pacing like a caged line. "The digoxin should have righted the rhythm; did it right itself out once the meds circulated?"
He shook his head. "No, I mean I don't think so they shocked her."
She doesn't seem surprised she'd expected it she keeps up the pushing. "What voltage and how many times?"
"I don't remember."
She waves him off. They had switched rooms but she continued moving like she was scared to stop. "It could be WPW or arrhythmia I'd need to look at her EKG and check wave form; it could be a random occurrence in conjunction with the repertory stress. I'm a shitty mother I should of upper her dosage of Dig got her on proper antibiotics… I should have just stayed home with her I knew Kelly, I knew and I went in anyway."
He stepped in front of her as she rolled across the same strip of carpet repeatedly. "Never knew a crippled girl who paced." He tries to shoot her a soft teasing smile.
Her tone is flat. "I'm awful okay just let me pace."
"No." he lifted her from the chair and hugged her. "I'm bigger than you." when he felt her tense ready to fight his affections.
"I'm smarter than you," She retorts quickly.
"That's okay, it totally turns me on." He returns in her ear. He kissed her cheek, her hair, her temple. He wants her to know he loves her. First, last and always. Placing blame changes the fact that their baby girl's beautiful joyous heart was formed already broken.
He carries her over and sits down on a couch. "Worse Case me Doc." He said seriously.
"Surgery."
"Middle ground?" She swept her messy falling hair off her neck.
"Pacemaker." Her tone is dry, clear, methodical all doctor.
"Easiest?"
"Up her digoxin." She sighed tiredly.
"If you were her doctor what would you advise?"
She stares at him before speaking and he knows he's made a misstep somehow. "I'm not her doctor Kelly. I'm her Mother."
"I know I just…like to know all the angles." He said softly.
"They aren't going to let me treat her. I know you dislike Holmby but he's good." She confides.
Kelly nods kissing her temple. "They stuck us in the bad news room Kell." She said taking note of where they are. Tears clog her throat and flood her eyes nearly brimming over.
"It's just a room baby." He brushed his hand down her hair. "Just a room." He wipes her tears and then wraps her tight in his arms.
Erin walked into the room. She's clueless to Klaire's distress. "Creepy place to make out. I have your dress got it dry cleaned even." Liv just looks at her. "Who died?"
"Klaire had an episode. Her heart… she coded in the ambulance. That's all we know." Liv said.
"Oh my God! I can't believe I just said that…I…" Erin stutters.
"It's fine Erin really."
"No, it's not you're crying." Erin stepped closer to her/
She's not even aware of her tears until Kelly woes them away. She's totally numb. "I'm scared and hormonal. You put your foot in your mouth its fine."
Erin gathered her into a hug completely ignoring the fact that Kelly was holding her. "She is going to be fine she's a tough girl Livvy." Erin squeezed her tight in only the way best friends can do. It's the kind of hug that jams all your pieces back in place.
Liv sighed. "All the things that could be wrong keep going through my head what if I missed something Erin." Her confession falls into Erin's blonde hair.
Erin pulls over a chair and sits directly across from her so close their knees touch as they hold hands. Kelly said nothing he'd had a friendship like theirs he gets it. "Don't think about it, we'll just sit here and not think about the pink elephant in the creepy room okay? " Erin sits still with her for all of five minutes. "Have you eaten? Has it passed? You know what I'm going to go find carver and see if he can give you fluids." Liv nods knowing Erin is an actions kind of girl.
"Hey tell Carve I need a banana bag." Erin nods. She looks over at Kelly. "It's not sexual and involves needles."
Erin returns with Carver in tow. He totes an IV kit. "Jesus you look like shit!"
"Thanks Carver I somehow forgot between my daughter being in peril and being sick as hell how much being attractive for you was oh so important. "She snarls.
"I have to touch her. Try not to be a dick about it this time around." He directed at Kelly. "It's probably, the leak messing with the electrical circuitry of her heart. She's not yet old enough to do the cone procedure at least not here…" He said as he went to work trying to find a vein.
"Carver…This is one of those rare times when the fact that you are smart than me is not in fact sexy."
"I'll shut up." He draws out a needle. "Big Stick…and Flash, try to keep your arm unbent."
"Thanks."
Kelly just stares at them dismayed. "Are you two gonna do the brain sex thing? Because it's confusing and uncomfortable and makes me feel dumb as a fence post." Erin asked.
"Eh her husband's here it wouldn't be right." Carvers reply startles a laugh out of Liv.
"You totally still do it!" Erin said.
"Do what?" Kelly barked.
"Mental connection, it's not sexual or remotely inappropriate." Liv starts. He tapes her up and sets up the IV and drip rate/
"She's the only one who challenges me mentally with the way I approach medicine and patient care. I miss it sometimes you're all set Olivia. If it doesn't stay in your system come find me I'll run tests to rid you of the bacteria via antibiotics."
"Thanks."
"She'll fine Sweets. Holmby is an asshole but he's good." Carver confides tossing his gloves in the trash.
"You only say that because he chased her skirt more than you did Carve." Erin quipped.
"Pleasure as always Erin." He sniped
"Bite me Nerd Boy." She retorted.
"You're my wife." Kelly snarled after Carver left.
"I know." She smiled. "It's sweet when you're jealous Kelly." She kissed him.
"I can't do that thing… whatever it is for you."
"Eww. I feel ya." Erin put in.
"Shut up Erin. You don't need to do that… you do other stuff he could never do and no I don't mean sex." Liv said brightly.
Holmby comes in I've got her stable using meds for the moment but I want a full battery of tests to determine our course of action from this point forward."
"What'd I miss?" Liv asked bright smile gone in its place is a deep, dark scowl.
"She has RSV that's trying to morph into pneumonia. That stressed out her heart causing an arrhythmia. It alerted me to the fact she has Wolff Parkinson White Syndrome as a complication of the Ebstein's Anomaly."
"What's that? Kelly asked.
"An accessory conduction pathway in her heart, it's not meant to be there and alters her cardio rhythm." Holmby answered.
"English please." Kelly said growing tired and impatient.
Liv turned to him. "Babe in order for any heart to beat it requires electrical pulses created naturally in the body when your brain tells your heart to beat."
"OK…"
"And those pulses follow a certain path way to simulate your heart muscle into beating. Klaire's path is altered because she has an extra path due to her heart being malformed in the first place. The anatomy of her heart is different than a normal child's altogether." Liv explained/
"So block the pathway until we can fix the tricuspid valve." Kelly said.
"I need to do some tests first but depending on the severity of the WPW will determine the course of treatment."
"I can see her please let me see her."
"Sure thing Grayne. I had her admitted. Room 602. I'll schedule the testing for tomorrow."
Liv nods. "Thank you."
"No problem."
Liv Kelly and Erin all head for the elevators. Kelly pushes the IV Stand Liv is attached too. When they flood into the room Klaire is standing her crib. "Hi My Baby!" Liv cuts Kelly off to pick her up. "Hey Doll Baby! What ya think."
"There's my Girl." Kelly said smiling widely as he leaned into kiss her. "You guys are gonna get all your tubing tangled." Klaire latched on to him so he picked her up. "You scared Daddy, yes you did?"
"Truck 81, Squad 3, Ambulance 61. Tanker accident." His radio alerted. "Humboldt."
"Fuck." Kelly swore. "Don't say things like that Klaire. You know when you can say things." He advises.
"Go." Liv said.
"I rode in the ambo."
"I'll take you." Erin offered.
Liv smiled softly. "Kisses then go."
He kissed Klaire. I always have to kiss and go!" He kissed Liv.
"An old lady might need help across the street Honey. Klaire is stable go."
"That's boy scouts not firefighters!" He clarifies and is gone.
-/-/-
Sometime after his last rescue Liv texted him. "She's acting funny Holmby is rushing the tests. I'm watching the pattern on the monitor… her heart waves seem all kinds of fucked up. I will let you know as we do the Echo and ultra sound. They may do a dye injection to check flow and find the accessory path way."
"Wait! Don't call she's asleep. Just trust me okay? I love you."
He calls anyway. "Damn it Kelly!" she growls out at him.
"Fucking whisper Olivia! I have no clue what you just said!"
"You come here!" she whispered to someone. "I have to fill my husband in. What's your name? Well Calibri you may be a second year res but guess what I'm a fellow so I'm going to go stand right outside the door and explain heart waves to my husband and if her heart goes over five beats faster than what is expected from an Ebstien's Anomaly baby on the digoxin regiment she is currently on and you fail to come get me? I will call the medical ethics board and have your license put into question is that clear? Got it? Good! Now go!"
He smiled listening to her ream someone. "I was wrong Babe, you're not Kepner…you're Bailey."
"Thanks I think. Ok so her heart stopped twice more and…. Wait Kelly! Okay let me finish. Shocking her is going to eventually stop being effective so they will probably burn away the extra pathway to right her rhythm until she is old enough to undergo surgery at optimal strength and growth."
"Not effective? Burn away?" He clarified.
She leaned her head back on the wall. "Eventually her heart won't respond to electrical resetting. She could die, which is why we're rushing the tests to do the ablation quickly. They will insert a catheter into her femoral artery running it up to her heart to inject a chemical that freezes and or burns away the path that's misfiring."
"I don't understand I thought we were a long ways off from surgical correction."
"So did I, Ebstein's is an extremely rare Anomaly. So much so that no two cases are ever the same. Let's just pray the ablation works as a stop gap long enough to hold off the actual surgery. Jason's never done one even under another surgeon. We may have to transfer to the Mayo Clinic cardio branch."
When she hiccups and holds back her tears his heart twist. "Livvy I'm not mad at you babe." He said knowing his wife well enough to know she's piling on the guilt to her delicate shoulders.
"I can't fix her Kelly I'm not some rock star surgeon. I'm just an ER Doc."
"You're something more Livvy, you're her Mom. Listen babe, I will meet you there the second shift is over. I love you. Gotta go."
=/-/-
Liv wakes with a crick in her neck from sleeping in the plastic like bed/chair. She looks about startled unsure of what had woken her. She can hear Kelly humming and shifting his weight on his feet in a little dance in a corner of the room facing the window as he holds Klaire who is smiling at Liv from his shoulder. She bunches his shirt up in her tiny hands.
She makes spit bubbles and slobber slips down her chin on to his collar. "Come on Klairey, just go to sleep baby. More spit and giggles.
Liv groaned giving a satisfying stretch. "What time is it?"
Noon-ish you've been out maybe four hours. Go back to sleep Olivia Blair." He demanded.
She shook her head. "I'll take a shift you've been working." She pulls her hair up and transferred into the wheel chair. She pointed to Kelly. "You sit, Stay." She demanded like he was a small dog.
"No! I cuddle the baby. You sit." He retorted.
She grinned. "I always do. "
"Point taken." He leaned down to kiss her. "Mmmma" Klaire said mimicking the kissy noise.
"Give daddy smooches." Kelly said bouncing her.
"No." she said plainly.
The both of them light up. "That was a word Liv a real one."
"Mama Smooches?" Liv tried.
Klaire's brow furrows with her little eyebrows crunched down. Her bangs falling in her face. "No."
"Well someone peed in her rice puff thingies." Kelly said jokingly.
"Hey Liv!" someone said and Kelly turned and recognized one of Liv's friend's from the bar. A cute little blonde with the hipster looking husband.
"Hey Sarah."
"Arata needs me to sign off on some of your open cases. I need your passcode."
"KKE-1751."
-/-
When Dr. Holmby comes in Kelly freezes. "Hey Grayne, her wave pattern its holding just not in sustainable quantities based on my reading I'd say we do the Chem Ablation today so you can take sweet girl home" He said finally looking up from the file. "Oh hey Kelly. May I see her?" he held out his hands. "Come here Darlin'." She went right to him. "Figures you'd be an easier catch than your mom." He quipped.
When he puts her in the crib she gets fussy. Without missing a beat Liv sings. ""Okay I can say something crazy?"
"Uh uh." Kelly said. "Nope ya can't." he groused.
"I love crazy." Holmby jumps right in and Kelly rolled his eyes until they sang the song pretty damn well and Klaire lets him examine her smiling.
When it gets to the proposal at the end Kelly cut in. "You can't do that even in hypothetical song form." Kelly said to Holmby making laughter bubble out of Liv.
"She's first on my docket. Nothing after midnight. 6:30 am I'll see you guys in the cath lab. Any questions?" Holmby said.
"What's the mortality rate for this? Can I- We I mean can we go back with her?"
"Mortality rate is low, I do this every day. Less than three percent chance of death. No, Kelly you can't go back with her due to the level of sedation needed."
Liv exhales and asks a question too. "Can I carry her back to you so she's not frightened when she goes under?"
"Scrub up, you got clearance just don't stay."
She nodded. "Right don't stay."
"Anything else?"
"Nah Jay I can explain the rest." Liv wanted until Holmby left and exhaled deeply. She looked at Klaire. "For once I wished I wasn't a doctor. I think being clueless might be easier. I just know all the risk and the complications and freak fucking accidents that happen and I can't focus on the good things. "
Kelly looped his arms around her shoulders. "Being clueless is as equally frightening but here's what we know. Holmby is good, not as good as you but good and this has to be done to prolong that little beautiful one's life. So we just breathe and hang on until we're outta this hot zone."
"I feel useless." Liv said tears flooding her eyes.
"Don't because you aren't useless. You're my whole world barring the ankle biter."
"Yeah?"
"Yeah, a man went back into a burning building for his wife this last shift? You could tell Matt was surprised but not me… or Herrmann. I'd barrel in there after you a thousand times no matter the cost."
She prodded. "Even when you think I'm being stupid or making you paint the house again?"
He wipes the few tears that had ran down her cheeks. "Every single damn time Livvy."
He kissed her. "Do you two ever stop horniest people ever." Erin teased interrupting them as she walked in. She picked up Klaire. "Hello gorgeous girl! What kind of trouble we causing today? We could toilet paper the nurse's station."
"Stop trying to make her a delinquent. Watch the Cardio Telemetry Leads don't disconnect her."
"Mommy's nervy. P.S. there is nosey ass blonde bitch lurking outside the room."
"I got it." Kelly said leaving.
Erin asked as she watched her best friend closely obviously concerned. "How's it hangin' Liv Lou?"
"I'm scared." She confessed.
AN: I own nada but the Original Characters! As you can see I'm using Brittany in a different manner. Also, the next chapter will pick up where this leaves off. I'm sorry for the delaying updating I've been battling a toothache and a busy schedule as well as half my edits can up unsaved but oh well its done now I hope you guys like it. I've started work on an Agents of SHIELD series so if there is a delay in this that's why! Thanks a ton!-MM