AN: I did a slight time jump so that the baby would be born in the right season. Before I had stuff set in the summer it is now semi current and picks up around when Chief's dad shows up. As a result you don't see Klaire's first birthday or Liv and Kelly's anniversary. I can always write someone shots in the off season if you guys would like. I own nothing but the people of my own creation. Enjoy!
At nine months pregnant Liv is on permanent bed rest. It's not easy for her to stay there but she does. Kelly "runs errands." At least three times a day to check on her.
"Baby!" he called out.
"Where I'm always at!" She shouted back.
"Can we repaint the bedroom?" she asked as he steps into the room.
"No." he said.
"I'm tired of this color! "She whined.
"Livvy. You're nitpicking."
"I am not! I am so goddamn tired of staring at these four fucking walls." She said picking up the plastic guitar to play guitar hero.
"You're almost there baby." He climbed up into the bed with her. "Just hang on a little longer."
He put aside the toy guitar and pulled her into his arms. "Do you know how proud of you I am?" he asked threading his fingers into her hair.
She shrugged against him. "Gotta do it for Aaron. There's nothing to be proud of." She retorted softly.
"I thought I was going to have to hog tie you to keep at home and once again you proved me wrong. You have done everything asked of you with a smile…Ok mostly smiles and curse words but still I'm proud of you." He confessed/
"He'll be worth it.'" She said looking up at him.
"He will." He agreed leaning into kiss her. "So, if I let you paint what color would you choose?"
"Orange maybe… honestly once I'm not trapped in here I'll want my green back so why bother?"
"Fair point. Do you need anything before I head back?" He inquired as he kissed her temple.
"A root beer my Oreos and goodbye kisses?"
"Gotcha. Be right back."
"Oooh check on Calamity Klaire while you're up?"
"Will do." He said smirking. Klaire is a little over a year old now and definitely keep them on their toes.
He walked into Klaire's room to find her sleeping soundly curled into a ball sucking her thumb. He wanted to kiss her but he dare not wake his sleeping terrorist.
He backed slowly from Klaire's room. He headed down to the kitchen and fixed her drink and snacks.
"You're so whipped." Capp said from the living room. He'd apparently come in when Kelly decided to take longer than five minutes.
"I'm not whipped I'm married." He replied in a snappish tone.
"You just poured her root beer into a frozen glass mug. You are whipped."
"It tastes better that way." He passed by him and Capp grabbed a red velvet Oreo. "Put that back if you wanna keep your hand. Liv will cut off the hand that pilfers her stash."
"It's a cookie." Capp said slowly as though Kelly was stupid.
"And she is very pregnant and bed bound. Put the limited edition cookie back or there will be bloodshed." He reiterated.
He put the cookie back. "Thank you. You may buy your own at the Walmart on Greenfield." He took the elevator up so as not to spill anything, "Be at the truck in five I was told to kiss her goodbye so it may turn into ten minutes."
He returned to the bedroom.
"Snacks as you requested as well as your root beer. Tiny Terror is sleeping." He leaned in and kissed her. She grabbed his shirt to pull him closer and kiss back. "Definitely ten minutes." He muttered to himself tilting her face up to change the angle of the kiss.
"What?" She asked. She nipped at his bottom lip.
With not being able to engage in their sex lives as they usually would kissing has become their only outlet. It has turned into a bit of a competition of who can drive the other crazy fastest. "Maybe fifteen or twenty." He amends as he kisses her back harder.
The sirens blare outside from the truck. He begrudgingly disentangles from her. "Fuck. I'm going to kill them all."
"You say such sweet things Kelly." She grinned up at him.
He kissed her again quickly. "I'll be back later today if I can."
"See you then. Thanks for the bedside service." She smiled brightly.
"Be careful!" She shouted down to him as he was leaving.
"Stay pregnant!" he shouted in return. "I love you!"
"Really? Sirens Tony?" he complained as he got in the truck.
"You can't have sex we were just helping you out."
He rolled his eyes. "Severide all I'm saying is she's pretty and you've got to be…frustrated. She's your Kryptonite."
-/-
"Hey Severide how's the wife?" Casey asked.
"Stir crazy and big as the squad truck. Nothing quite like watching your teeny tiny wife gain thirty pounds." He plopped down at the card table in the truck bay.
"She's gonna be real sensitive about that for a while." Hermann advised.
"I'm not stupid Herrmann."
"No I mean crying and putting on a girdle to hide it. So really as your friend I'm telling you no jokes and no being your usual flirt with every female in a ten mile radius self." He tacked on.
"A girdle? They still make those." Kelly asked cocking his head to the side.
"They're called spanx now." Chief horned in
-/-/-/-
They take out cerlage and Aaron stayed put. She does every home remedy to activate labor she knows. They even have sex but she's too pregnant to really enjoy it and Kelly seems to have really missed sex because it is an uncharacteristically short affair.
Aaron still refused to budge.
"Come out damn you!" she growled at her belly as Kelly lay beside her.
"He'll come when he's ready Liv."
She just stared at him. "You're only a day overdue."
She continued to stare. "Wanna give it another go?"
"I'm going to shower." She said feeling rather dejected.
He scowled deeply confused. "Is that a no? Wait you've never turned me down. It doesn't feel good."
She rolled over with a good deal of effort to kiss him. "Typically I'm all over anything Kelly related even the most in the most tangential of ways but I'm just too pregnant for that okay?"
He sputtered utterly beside himself. "But-You've never not…we have never had bad sex."
"It wasn't bad trust me I've had worse it was just…quick." She tried to soothe his bruised ego.
"You have never had unsatisfying sex with me!"
She smiled try as she might to fight amusement she failed completely. "Kelly I'm pregnant and really uncomfortable no matter what. It's not you."
He just looked at her. "I think we built up in our heads and because I'm an unattractive whale it went really fast because you're unaccustomed to celibacy. So once the six weeks no go is up I'm all yours." She said.
"Do you really have to wait six weeks? Because you are the farthest thing from unattractive and once your body is no longer home to Aaron I'm going to get very, very creative with how many different ways and places I can screw you." He replied as he peered over at her with a smile.
"Yeah we have to wait unless you want another baby right away. You could give me something to look forward too." She teased.
His retorted in a light conversational tone. "True… and I want you to heal so that it only hurts if I intend for it to."
"Hmm..."
"I have a whole lurid list of dirty shit I'm going to do but I think I'm going to start by using that purple thong I like to tie your hands behind your back and fuck you clear across my desk in the officers' quarters…I might just make you beg me to make you come so that the next time I have to do paperwork I can remember that raspy way you say my name when you're close…"
"Oh…" She said trying to sound unaffected but was very much so as he could tell by the flush of her skin and the way her pupils are blown. He leans down and kisses her then whispers in her ear.
"Then I might just go down you in the elevator and when your legs are thrown over my shoulders and your thighs tingle from the burn of that day's stubble fear will be the very last thing you feel and the reason you can't breathe won't have a thing to do with the closed door."
"I'm going to need you to stop…" She says softly.
"Why? Turned on?" He grinned victoriously.
"Very."
"Good." He muttered sucking a bruise on to her clavicle. "Hold on to that thought and tell me if this hurts." He said as his hand slid down to tease her body.
He brings her off quite fast with her gasping for breath and keening his name.
"You okay baby?" he asked watching her come down from the high.
She nods dumbly.
Klaire begins to cry. "I'll get her." He said pulling on his pants.
"The oxytocin from the orgasm starts labor and penetration irritates yours cervix into dilation. That should help him arrive. "He said while washing his hands. "I read the book you left on the toilet." He explains.
-/-/-
Kelly rolls back into check on her his next shift. It's late he expects her to be trying to get some sleep when he walks in what he sees is far from it. She's standing in the chair dancing being spun this way and that by Erin.
The music is loud and has a tangy guitar and thumping drum back beat.
"They're laughing and holding each other up as they move across the library nook that is Liv's happy place.
Erin is definitely drunk and Liv is just happy.
He knocked on one of the book shelves. Liv's head whips around red locks flying "Hi Honey!"
He smiled "Hey baby."
"Uh oh, its McFireballs… Hurry sit down!" Erin drunkenly whispered.
He crossed the room. "How long have you been on your feet?"
"Few minutes. I'm trying to jar him loose and Erin is trying to forget that she broke up with Halstead for no real reason." Liv huffed giving an eye roll.
"Hmm. Okay." He cupped her face in his hands and kissed her.
Erin poked his cheek. "Eww, PDA." She poked his cheek again.
Liv broke the kiss to swat away Erin's hand. "Look I love you but you did this to yourself! No one said you had to break it off." Erin opened her mouth to speak. "Uh no, I'm not finished. You can use Hank as an excuse but that is all he is an excuse. So that you don't have to choose." Liv said pointedly.
"What do you mean choose?"
Liv answered dryly. "You don't have to choose happiness if there's nothing making you happy Erin."
"Whoa and shit is getting real so I'm going to bail." Kelly said.
"I didn't mean to ruin your Kelly buzz."
"Eh He'll be back he likes me." She kissed him again. "Wake me when you come in and please be careful."
"Will do. I might even leave Lushy in my spot if I'm feeling nice."
"Love you."
"Back at you even more."
Once Kelly is gone Erin says. "I like Jay."
"Yeah?" Liv replied noncommittally.
"I love Owen."
"Thought so. Dance it all away?"
"Okay."
-/-/=
Her labor starts Early that morning waking her up. It's sharp and sudden then is a deep twisting pain that frightens her just a bit. She shakes Erin who is drunkenly half sprawled over her in sleep. "Erin…"
"Go away Whore." She mumbled squinting back at Liv.
"I think I'm in labor."
Erin opens and closes her mouth. "Like how sure are you scale 1-10?"
"Seven." She said exhaling a breath.
"What do I do? Do we go to the hospital? Can we even? I think I'm still drunk." Erin chattered nervously.
"Just call my mother and tell me it's going to be okay before I burst into tears ok?"
"It's okay! We're gonna kick ass at having babies!"
"Okay great good. I need my phone…" She groaned as another contraction started.
She finds her phone downstairs in the fish bowl they use for "Sweet things to do my spouse" treats. It's something her mother suggested when Kelly was struggling. She dials Kelly and pulls out a note for fun. "Free Back rubs!"
"Not happening' today." She muttered as Kelly's voicemail picked up. She rolled to the window and looked out as the beep sounded. "Hey my love I think my labor has started I've had one or two strong contractions but not much to write home about its really coming down out there and Erin's still buzzed so I'm staying put until you come home. Don't worry! Try to finish your shift alright I love you! Bye Kell."
-/-/-/-
Kelly has a really long fire to put out, and secondary search it takes about an hour and half for them to do everything they need to. He picks up his phone and sees. "Missed Call: The Boo."
He listens to the voice she gets as far as "Hey my love I think." Before he freaks out.
"Guys we gotta roll out!" He ordered already heading back for the truck.
"We just got back…" Capp complained.
"And my wife finally went into labor but is stuck at the house with her drunken dumb ass friend! Now, we're going! Get in the fucking rig now!" He growled out steadily losing his cool.
"Well don't just stand there delivering your own baby is scary! Let's avoid it! Go!" Chief said.
=/=/=
Kelly is first through the door. He is greeted by a scream. "AHHH!" He hears Liv sobbing and runs up the stairs.
"Where's my mother!" He hears her screech at Erin.
"I don't know is this supposed to happen this fast because holy fuck I'm not made for birthin' babies!'
"I don't know Erin! It can happen this fast but….Oh my God! I am not supposed to be able to feel this shit… Ahhh Fuck! I hate Kelly! I hate him!" she finished crying all the more.
"Here hold my hand! I've got you! We've got this." He hears Erin offer as he starts up the top level stairs.
He takes the stairs two and three at a time. "I've decided after experience that I no longer want to give birth…and okay…I totally hate Kelly but I want him…"
Kelly turned and walked into the room. Liv is lying in the bed and holding Erin's hand in a white Knuckle grip. "Hey baby you needed me?" He asked.
She dissolves into tears. "Hey don't cry!"
"But I think its happening and I'm not ready."
"Well baby you may have to get ready."
"That's not helpful! I'm scared!"
He kissed her. "I know you are I am too a little but I've got you and nothing bad is going to happen."
"Promise me."
"I promise you Livvy." He turned. "Your eyes look a little glassy I need to check your BP."
"My gear bag. It's in the closet."
He comes back. "How close are the contractions?"
"It's one big it fucking hurts! Does that answer your question?" Snarled at him as he put the cuff on her.
The blood pressure cuff beeps. It reads out 200/138 "Fuck."
He went and got Liv's blood pressure pills. He crushed one up using the end of the haligan still on his belt.
He scooped the powder into his palm. He strode back over to her. "Open your mouth."
"I can't…"
"Liv you're only going to pregnant for the next ten minutes tops." He retorts. "I need the ambo guys." He radios over. He dumps the powder into her mouth.
He tosses back the covers and pulls down her pajama bottoms all business he looks down. "I can see the head a little." He radios over.
"Really?" Liv said managing a smile.
"He has my hair… Can you push?"
"How am I supposed to know how I can feel the pain and pressure but pushing is different."
"What would you tell yourself if you weren't freaked out right now?" He counters.
"That my body knows what do and even though my sens-holy mother fuck AHHH I should just push like normal."
He leaned up and kissed her. "Then just do that okay. Just push and I'll catch him. So just hold Erin's hand and push!" He looked to a shell shocked Erin. "You Ok?"
She nods swallowing deeply. "Monitor that blood pressure read out and keep her calm. Otherwise she will stroke out if her BP gets too high and the stressors kick in."
"She hasn't had autonomic reactions since high school."
"Just keep her calm Lindsay!" He barked at her.
"You're bickering isn't helpful… gotta push…"
"Wait she'll need leverage!" Erin said pushing her up so she is half propped on Erin herself and half on the pillows. "Ready?"
"Been ready."
"And Push…1…2…3.." Kelly says.
"4…5…6.." Erin picks up.
At the end of the ten count she stops for breath and then they hear the Mills and Brett coming up the stairs.
"Kelly…"
"Yup, you're doing great baby… he's right there three more pushes tops."
"No, I know I was going to say you're doing really well and I love you."
"I reserve the right to freak out later." He said with a tight grin.
"We're here! I'll take over." Brett said.
"No thanks I finish what I start. I may need the fetal vacuum to help strengthen her pushes though."
After a few unsuccessful pushes of the head moving forward inch by inch only to slide back and Liv dissolving into exhausted tears does he accept help.
"Liv wanna try the vacuum thing?" He asked.
"He'll have a weird spot on his head."
"We'll put a cap on his head no one will know." Erin said moving Liv's sweaty hair off her neck and kissing her cheek. "It'll get him out and it'll be over." She adds.
Liv nods. "Alright, do it."
Kelly can't help but feel Erin is doing his job but his hands are kind of full. He backs away to let Brett attach the machine. "I'm delivering him just so you know. Don't expect me to move."
"Never!" Brett said smiling. "Liv When I tell you too I need you to push as hard as you can." She turned to Kelly I'll monitor the suction on this thing you just catch…"
"Got it." Kelly nods.
"Push Liv!" She does and the head pops free. Brett reaches around to clean out the baby's mouth and nose. "One more and…well just grab him Kelly."
A very loud cry fills the room.
Kelly laughs down at the baby in his hands. If anyone notices the happy tears crowding his eyes no one says anything, "Hi big man…" He laughs.
"Let me see!" Liv demands and when he looks up at Liv to hand her the baby he starts to cry for real. "What is something wrong with him?"
"No he's perfect I'm just happy." He said laying him up on to her stomach. He kissed her and then watched her looking at Aaron and counts his fingers and toes. She covers him in the bed blankets.
"So you're my Oreo lover? Wait did someone get the time?"
"5:26 AM February 1tth." Mills said.
"Okay, Erin Autumn meet Aaron Shay Porter Severide."
"Most terrifying, gross, unbelievably cool, bestie experience yet Livvy." She said watching Kelly cut the baby free from the umbilical cord.
"Nah Nah!" Klaire hollers from the baby monitor. "Nah, Nah,"
"Who's Nah Nah?" Brett asked.
"I'll wash up and go get her then we need to get you into the ambo and to the hospital. Besides, she likes me better than Nah, Nah."
"Nah, Nah, is Liv's Mom…I'll do it… no baby yuck." Stay with your wife."
"Ewin!" is the next word they hear as Kelly gingerly loads Liv on to the gurney
-/-/-
As they load her into the ambulance her Mom pulls up.
"Oh I missed it! The kids were going nuts getting ready for school and then I hit traffic. Don't take Tollerman to Med."
"We're headed that way. Can you help Erin with Klaire and enact the phone tree please?" Kelly asked as she tries to look inside the ambo. "You get first holding dibs. I'll text you the room number."
"Who delivered him?"
"I did!" He grinned brightly climbing into the ambulance.
-/-/-
Kelly leaned on the door holding Klaire to his chest as he watched Liv sit with her knees drawn up and Aaron lying balanced in her lap.
"You did it babe." He said and she looked up from making faces at the baby.
"I had some fantastic help ya know."
"No, Liv I mean you had him. You held out and did something not many people in your position have done. I'm really proud of you." He explained with a half-smile.
"Thank you. You saved my life today, again with the blood pressure meds if you hadn't thought on your feet I'd have stroked out for sure." He shrugged. "You weren't even scared to deliver him."
"I was trust me I just hid it. You were scared I couldn't add to it." He hitched a squirmy Klaire higher in his arms. "Should we do introductions while it's quiet?" he nodded between Aaron and Klaire.
"Germ-Ex her hands and bring her over." He did as she said and then Kelly sat on the edge of the bed holding Klaire.
"Klaire that is brother…" Kelly told her and she stared at the baby for a minute before snaking a hand out to grab him.
"No sweetheart be gentle…" Liv said kindly snagging her hand.
Klaire scowled and then gave a frustrated. "Love it!"
Kelly laughed. "Listen Klairey, I know you want to love it but you have to be easy with him."
Klaire nods at him. "Nice…mine…" She said as she reached out and touched his hair. "Hi Mine!" She leaned down and kissed him then looked up at Liv. "It mine! Mama it mine."
"Wait does she think his name is Mine? Or does she think he belongs to her I'm confused." Kelly asked.
"I'm not exactly sure. So, Brett asked me who he looked like and it dawned on me. I don't know because my parents have no baby pictures of me and Benny has never shown me any of you."
"Those are definitely your cheekbones Liv."
"And your chin and eyes. He looks like a baby pixie."
Kelly lifted his hat to expose his ears. "No points I guess you didn't have an affair with Meliorn after all."
Liv gasped. "He's beautiful." She said kissing his soft cheek. "I knew your read my book." She adds dryly.
"Mine!" Klaire said again and Liv grinned.
"Yes my Darlin' he's all yours. Can you say brother?"
"Mine!"
"Alright I think she's calling him mine for now.
-/-/-
Liv went to the bar where Kelly was talking to the OFI officer who had offered him the investigative job.
"I gave it a lot of thought mostly because my wife asked me to at least consider it." He smirks catching sight of her in the mirror hanging above the bar. She's wearing a bright yellow sundress covered in hibiscus flowers befitting the Luau theme of the party honoring Chief's dad. "But I'm not made for desk work. I'm made for rescue; it's because of rescue squad that my life is where it is today. I'm good with where I'm at."
"When you change your mind you know where to find me." She replied getting to her feet.
"Not likely." Liv said smiling as Kelly turned on the barstool.
"You good with that baby?" He asked once the other woman walked away.
"I'm good with whatever makes you happiest Kelly. I know who I married." She retorted threading her fingers through his.
"Why're you so good to me huh?" He asked kicking his chin up at her.
"You're nice to look at and a spectacular lay." She said shrugging one of her bare shoulders.
Kelly joked. "So shallow, my baby is shallow."
"I am not you know I love you."
He leaned over to kiss her. "The hair over one eye thing with the red lips were for me weren't they."
She kissed him back. "It's called a Veronica Lake do… but yes I was playing into your weird fetish for my hair."
"You're hot…and I like it."
"Buy a girl a fruity drink?"
"Sure but liquoring you up and taking you home is fruitless we can't have sex." He deadpanned.
"Five weeks two days Kelly."
"I'm counting Livvy."
"I've no doubt." She smiled. "Learn to hula with me." She pulled him to his feet leading him on to the dance floor.
AN: Meliorn is from the Mortal Istruments Series. I do not own him.
