Alrighty then. Here it is, the very last chapter *tear*

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Absolute Firefighter ~ Chapter 16

After leaving work, Bridgette bolted home to shower and get ready for DK's. Dressed in blue jean shorts, and a pink tank top, she threw her hair in a bun and did her makeup. She grabbed her backpack and stuffed it with her swim suit and a change of clothes, then headed off.

Bridgette parked her car on the street in front of DK's house. She could hear the radio, along with laughing and yelling, while she walked up the driveway to the backyard. Kim was in the in-ground pool with the kids, Joey, Charlie, and Walsh's son - Matt. She gave Bridgette a smile and wave when she walked in. Across the yard there were 3 big picnic tables set up. Bridgette saw her parents sitting at one of the tables, along with Brianne, Billy's wife - Keira, Faith, and Sully. Her dad's back was to her, so she motioned for the others to be quiet, while she snuck up behind where he was sitting.

"Hi Dad!" She exclaimed, as she wrapped her arms around him from behind, and gave him a kiss on the cheek.

The others laughed when Lieu jumped. He joined in with a smile and pulled his daughter on his lap and gave her a squeeze, "How was your day?"

"It was good." She replied, "Where's everyone else?"

Brianne pointed down to the far end of the backyard. Bridgette stood up and looked to see Jimmy, Logan, Walsh, DK, Zach, Ty, Bosco, Doc, and Carlos playing a game of football.

"Yeah, I didn't see that coming." Bridgette said sarcastically.

"So what's been up with you kid? I haven't seen you in awhile." Faith smiled.

Bridgette smiled back and shrugged, "Working and stuff."

"Driving me insane." Lieu added.

"Liar!" Bridgette giggled, giving him a very light and playful smack on his back. She then looked back at Faith, "Where's Emily?"

Faith rolled her eyes, "Grounded, so she's home with her father."

"Oh, that sucks." Bridgette replied.

"Whenever they get done, we're eating." Brianne said.

Bridgette looked back down to where they were, "That'll be the 12th of never."

Everyone laughed, "Definately." Brianne said.

"Who's the blonde guy?" Bridgette asked, referring to Zach.

"That's Zach, I guess you haven't met him yet." Brianne smiled.

"Guess not." Bridgette smiled.

"We'll fix that." Brianne replied.

Lieu looked at Brianne and raised his eyebrow, "Get it out of your head, Brianne"



"I didn't say anything" Brianne smirked.

~*~

"Come on guys, I'm getting hungry." Bosco said.

Ty looked over to Bosco, "Yeah I'm about there."

Zach chuckled, "I'm not going to argue with that."

"Let's go." Walsh said, tossing the football to himself, and then heading up the backyard along with the others.

Zach spotted Bridgette and then looked to Walsh, "Who is the hottie standing with your wife?"

The next thing Zach knew, DK had waffled him in the back of the head and said, "The hottie is the Lieutenant's daughter. If you even think about it I'm going to break your neck."

"Awe, come on DK. Don't break his neck, start with a leg or something." Jimmy joked.

"Ignore them man, just be nice to her and they won't kill you." Walsh said. He then shouted, "Bridgette!"

Bridgette jumped hearing her name being screamed, and then turned around, "WHAT?!"

"Catch!" Walsh shouted, launching the football.

"Oh Christ." Bridgette said under her breath, as the ball came sailing her way. It came right to her, all she had to do was reach out and catch it. "Score." she said as it landed securely in her arms.

"NICE!" Walsh exclaimed.

"Thank you, thank you." Bridgette said taking a bow.

"Come here Bridge, I wanna hug!" DK teased.

"Ew! No way you're all yucky!" She replied, running around to the other side of the table.

DK slowly walked around the table, pretending he was trying to catch her.

"DK you might be bigger than me, but I WILL launch your ass in the pool." Bridgette threatened.

"Woah, watch out man!" Bosco joked.

"Whoo, stay away from that one!" Ty added.

DK laughed, and then walked up on his deck to the barbeque with Walsh, to start grilling.

"Speaking of the pool." Ty said, wiping the sweat from his brow.

"Yeah, definately." Jimmy replied taking off his shirt, shoes and socks.

"See you guys are lucky, you can play football in your swim trunks. Then ya just jump in." Bridgette said.

"Pays to be a guy." Jimmy laughed. He put this things under the table before walking over and diving into the pool with Carlos, Doc, Bosco, Zach, Ty and Logan.

"Think they'll break the hoop this year?" Bridgette asked, watching them start a game of pool-basketball.

"Better not. We just got the big one fixed I don't need another one to get fixed." Brianne replied.

Bridgette laughed, "For real."

"Bri you're slacking off!" DK teased.

Brianne rolled her eyes and then looked to Bridgette, "You wanna help?"

"Soitenly." Bridgette smiled, making her best impression of Curly from The Three Stooges.

Ruth got up to help along with Keira and Faith. They all headed up the deck, and then inside DK and Brianne's house, to start getting the food set up.

Bridgette's eyes widened seeing the counters filled with different dishes of food. "Oh, life is good." She smiled as she walked over and started to uncover things.

"Ruth can you give me a hand with this salad?" Brianne asked.

"Sure thing." Ruth replied, walking over and grabbing a spoon.

"Need some help?" Kim asked, walking in from the pool.

"No dripping." Brianne smiled.

"I'm dry!" Kim replied.

"Grab something and start stirring." Brianne said.

"No problem." Kim replied.

"Keira made brownies!" Bridgette giggled, spotting the container which held them.

"Don't you touch!" Keira smirked, grabbing the container.

"I wasn't!" Bridgette giggled.

"Bri can I get some plates please?!" DK yelled through the window.

"Bridgette can you grab those plates off that counter and bring them to him?" Brianne asked.

"Yes ma'am." Bridgette replied. She walked over and grabbed them, then skipped outside.

"Here ya go." Bridgette smiled. She handed them to DK, who was busy grilling burgers along with Walsh, while Lieu stood talking to them.

"Thank you very much." DK replied taking them from her.

"Dad, don't get too close ok?" Bridgette smirked.

DK and Walsh both laughed, and Lieu grabbed her putting her in a headlock. They playfully wrestled for a second until Ruth shouted from inside the house, "Stop Bridgette. Before you hurt him, and then I have to hear about it!"

"He started it!" Bridgette replied, fixing her hair.

"Did not." Lieu smirked.

Bridgette giggled, while Walsh cracked open a beer.

"Starting early Walsh?" Bridgette laughed.

"Are you kidding? This is late." Walsh replied.

Bridgette laughed, while DK thought for a second and then spoke, "How many did we let you have last year?"

She shrugged, "Uh, two or three?"

DK looked to Lieu, "She allowed to drink, Dad?"

Bridgette turned and and looked at her dad. He gave her a smirk and then looked back at DK, giving him a slight nod. She lipped "Thanks" to him, and he winked back to her.

"I'll wait for Brianne to bust out the daquiries." She smiled to DK.

"Alrighty." DK replied, while he flipped a few of the burgers.

"Hey Bridge," Walsh said, holding out his apron that read, "KISS THE COOK".

"Not on your life Walsh." Bridgette laughed. She turned and then walked back into the house.

~*~

A half hour later, DK shouted loudly, "Food's done!"

"Thank God!" Brianne replied, putting out one of the bowls of salad on the table.

The guys jumped out of the pool and dried off, while Kim and Faith went to get the kids out and dried. Bridgette finished helping Brianne get everything outside and ready, before she went to get a burger. While she was standing infront of the table with all of the condoments, Zach walked over next to her, to grab the mustard.

Bridgette took a deep breath, "Hi."

Zach smiled, "Hi, how are you?"

"I'm good. How are you?" Bridgette replied, while she put ketchup on her burger.

"Pretty good. You're uh, Lieutenant Johnson's daughter, right?" Zach asked.

Bridgette laughed, "Yes. But I prefer Bridgette."

Zach mentally kicked himself in the ass for saying that. "Sorry Bridgette."

She laughed, "It's fine, I get that alot. So you're the new guy right?"

"Zach." he smiled, "You mind sitting with me?"

Bridgette smiled, "Not at all."

"Cool." He replied. They both walked over and sat next to each other at the end of one of the tables.

"So, do have a last name?" Bridgette asked.

"Peyton." He replied.

"Like Peyton Manning?" Bridgette smiled.

"Yeah, like Peyton Manning." Zach replied, after he took a sip of his beer. "Too bad the only thing I have in common with the guy is the name."

Bridgette laughed, "Nah you guys have more than that in common."

"Oh really, like what?"

"You're both hot."

Zach smiled and turned red, while Bridgette bit her lip to keep from giggling like a little girl.

"Thanks." Zach said.

"No problem." Bridgette replied.

"Uh oh, look who's hitting it off." Walsh said. He pointed over to Bridgette and Zach, who were both laughing and carrying on while they ate.

Brianne smiled, "It's cute."

Lieu looked over and smiled, seeing Bridgette laughing. He then looked at DK, "Think I could kick his ass?"

"You would NOT." Brianne said.

Lieu's face fell, he put his burger down and stood up, "You wanna bet?"

Brianne's jaw dropped, "Oh my God, I was just kidding!"

Lieu laughed, "I know."



"So how old are you?" Bridgette asked.

"I just turned 21 last month." Zach replied, "You?"

"19."

"When do you turn 20?"

"November."

"Cool," Zach replied, "Are you going to the Yankees game at the end of the month with all of us?"

Bridgette smiled, "Yeah. They gave my dad the tickets for his birthday."

"Bridgette!" Joey called, running over to her with Matt.

"Yes my dear?" Bridgette smiled.

"Will you go swimming with us?" Matt asked.

"Can I finish eating first?" Bridgette replied.

Joey frowned, "I guess."

"Come on kiddo we have the rest of the day to swim. Wait a little bit ok?" Bridgette smiled.

"Ok." Matt replied. They both turned and ran off again.

"So, how long have you known everyone?" Zach asked.

"Who?" Bridgette replied.

"The guys at the firehouse." Zach answered.

"Oh," Bridgette said, "I've known DK and Walsh my whole life. They were at the same house with my dad when I was little. They've been good friends ever since. I think I met Jimmy like 5 years ago or so. I can't remember but it's not as long as I've know DK and Walsh."

Zach nodded, "That's cool."

"Yeah they're awesome." Bridgette replied, finishing her burger.

"You're a fast eater." he teased.

"I was hungry." Bridgette laughed.

"Does DK have a pool table inside?" Zach asked, "I heard Jimmy talking about it."

"Yeah," She replied, "And air hockey. Why you wanna play?"

"Sure." he answered.

"Ok come on." Bridgette said, standing up. They threw their trash away and Bridgette walked over to where Brianne was sitting, "We're gonna go play pool, come get me when you're ready to go swimming ok?"

"You got it." Brianne smiled.

Bridgette smiled back and then stood up and walked up the deck steps, and then inside with Zach.



"You watching this Lieu?" Walsh asked motioning to Bridgette and Zach walking inside.

"Uh huh." Lieu replied.

"She's not even my kid, and I'm feeling a little concerned right now." Walsh said.

"I'm seconding that." DK added.

Lieu looked at both of them, "You two are the ones that told me Zach was a good kid."

"He is. But he's still a guy, and that's still Bridgette." DK replied.

"Exactly, and I know my daughter. If he even thought about it, she would deck the living shit out of him." Lieu explained.

"I would pay money to see that." Bosco chimed in.



~*~

"Bridge you ready?" Brianne asked, walking into the basement where the game room was.

"Hang on I almost won." Bridgette replied, while she and Zach remained deadlocked in a fierce game of air hockey.

"What's the score?" Brianne asked, walking over.

"9-9." Zach replied as he deflected Bridgette's shot.

"Dammit." Bridgette muttered, while Zach smiled.

She blocked his next shot, and then nailed the puck in, after bouncing it off the side. "Score!" Bridgette smiled.

"I'll get ya next time." Zach replied.

"Sure you will." Bridgette smirked. She turning to Brianne, "Ready when you are."

"Let's go." Brianne replied.

"I gotta grab my bag, It's outside somewhere." Bridgette said.

"Ok, go grab it, you can change in my room." Brianne replied.

After getting her bag, she went up into Brianne and DK's room to change.

"Cute!" Brianne said, as Bridgette walked into the kitchen in her pink flowered 2 piece.

"Thanks, I like yours better though." Bridgette said.

Brianne did a fake pose in her blue bikini, which made Bridgette laugh. "As soon as Keira gets her ass down her we can go."

"Move it Keira!" Bridgette shouted up the steps.

The bathroom door flung open, and Keira shouted "Alright already!"

~*~

"I don't wanna move.....ever." Bridgette said in a daze. She continued to drift around the pool, on an inflatable raft.

Brianne laughed while she drifted around the pool as well, along with Kiera. Kim, Ruth, and Faith were in the shallow end with the kids, laughing and playing. Lieu walked over and sat on the edge, putting his feet in the water. Bridgette floated up to him, "Hey there."

He smiled, "Having fun?"

"Oh my God, yes." Bridgette replied, "I wish you could get in though."

"Ah, next year." He smiled.

"Where's everyone at?" Bridgette asked, noticing that no one was sitting at the tables anymore.

"Playing basketball." He replied.

"Oh." Bridgette said. She felt bad because everyone had something to do but him. She looked around for a minute, and then saw the 2 person raft that sat on the edge of the pool. Bridgette slid off of her raft and then climbed out of the pool.

"Where you going?" Lieu asked.

"Hang on." She replied, as she walked around to the other side of the pool and grabbed the other raft. She also picked up her towel on the way back over.

He laughed when he saw her walking back around towards him carrying the raft. She put it in the pool, and then wiped the water off of it with her towel

"Come on!" she encouraged, putting it in the pool.

"I can't fall in." He said.

"You won't." She replied, holding the raft all the way against the edge, where they were, "Come on."

He carefully leaned over, and made it safely on the raft. "Don't make me fall." he said, once he was sitting up comfortably.

"I won't! Have a little faith in me would ya?" she replied, slowly climbing on. "See?" She asked, once they were both on and floating.

Brianne saw them floating around, and broke out into laughter, "Don't you two move!" she exclaimed, climbing out of the pool to get her camera.

"I saw that coming." Lieu said.

"Bridgette don't let him fall in!" Ruth warned, from the other end of the pool.

"What is he gonna melt or something?!" Bridgette exclaimed.

"Look over here you two!" Brianne said from where she stood on the side of the pool.

They both smiled as Brianne took the picture, trying her best not to laugh hysterically.

~*~



"I think they're finally done playing basketball." Keira said, looking out the window from the kitchen.

"Oh yeah, they can't get to the pool fast enough." Bridgette laughed, watching all of them canapult themselves in.

"Glad we got out." Brianne smiled.

Matt walked upstairs into the kitchen wearing his clothes on backwards. "Mommy, I did it wrong." he said.

Keira turned around and sighed, while Bridgette, Ruth, Kim, Keira and Faith all laughed.

"Good job Matty-o." Bridgette smiled, while Keira bent down to fix his clothes.

"See what you have to look forward to, Brianne?" Keira asked.



Bridgette let out a laugh, "Brianne? Yeah that'll be the day."

Keira bit her tounge, while Brianne let out a small giggle.

"What?" Bridgette asked.

Brianne smiled, "Might be sooner than you think."

Bridgette's jaw dropped, "Shut up."

"Brianne you better not be kidding." Ruth said.

"No she better not be." Kim added.

Brianne was smiling from ear to ear, "I'm not kidding."

Bridgette's mouth was still wide open, when Ruth rushed over and gave Brianne a hug. "I'm so happy for you!" Ruth exclaimed. Brianne continued to beam, as Kim and Faith hugged her.

"Good God don't forget me!" Bridgette exclaimed, walking over and giving her a hug, "This is awesome Brianne! How far along are you?"

"A little over a month." Brianne replied, letting her go.

Bridgette's jaw was still wide, "And you waited this long to tell me?!"

"Well I didn't wanna tell everyone the second I found out, ya know?" Brianne replied.

"Yeah." Bridgette smiled.

Keira stood up from re-dressing Matt and walked back ok. She jokingly stuck her tounge out at Bridgette, and said, "I found out first."

"That's because you probably bought her the pregnancy test!" Bridgette giggled.

"She's right." Keira laughed.

"Do the guys know?" Kim asked.

"Yeah, he told them earlier." Brianne smiled.

"And my dad didn't tell me?!" Bridgette exclaimed.

Everyone laughed, before Brianne explained, "I wanted to tell you."

"Oh. I knew that." Bridgette smiled.

~*~

The cookout still remained in full throttle, while the sun slowly began to dissapear over the horizon. Bridgette was standing with Joey and Matt, teaching them how to juggle a soccer ball.

Zach strolled over and stood next to Bridgette. "So this is every Labor day, huh?"

"Sure is." Bridgette replied, passing the ball to Joey.

"They're trashed." Zach said pointing to the table where everyone was sitting.

"You haven't seen trashed yet." Bridgette replied.

His jaw dropped, "Are you kidding?"

"Oh no, I'm not." She smiled.

"Can I see the ball?" Zach asked.

"Here!" Matt said, kicking it to him.

"Hey, you've got a good kick." Zach smiled. He started juggling the ball on his knees, trying to show off to Bridgette.

"Ok, my turn." Bridgette giggled. She took the ball from him, and then juggled it on both knees, going faster than Zach did.

"So I guess you play soccer?" he asked.

She smiled, "Until last year, then I stopped."

He nodded, but before he could say anything, DK had snuck up behind Bridgette and grabbed her.

"DK PUT ME DOWN!" Bridgette laughed, knowing what was coming.

"Never!" DK teased while he continued carrying her over to the pool.

"DK come on, I don't wanna have to change my clothes again!" Bridgette pleaded.

"You dunked me last year girl, this year it's your turn!" he exclaimed, as he neared the deep end of pool.

Bridgette couldn't stop laughing, "DK come on!"

Before DK was ready to toss her in, they both felt a jolt from behind. Walsh had snuck up on both of them, and shoved them into the pool.



Everyone laughed hysterically. Lieu and Jimmy had both actually doubled over from laughing so hard. Bridgette and DK both surfaced giving Walsh a death look.

After a few seconds, Bridgette couldn't help laughing. DK wasn't too thrilled, but either way it was still funny.

After Bridgette and DK had gotten out of the pool, and both changed, Bridgette managed to get back at Walsh. She casually walked behind him, then grabbed his shirt and dumped a cup of ice down it. Walsh jumped, and then started moving around trying to get the ice out of his shirt.

"What do you call that dance, Billy?" DK joked, giving Bridgette a high five.

Once Walsh shook all of the ice out, he looked at DK. "It's called the, 'I'm gonna kick your ass' dance!" He went over, grabbed his best friend, put him in a headlock and then wrestled him to the ground.

Bridgette looked at Zach, "It gets worse than this, if you can believe it."

Zach laughed, and continued to watch DK and Walsh roll around on the ground, until they ran out of steam.



~*~

"Did my husband pass out yet?" Keira smiled.

"Not yet, did mine?" Brianne replied.

"Nope." Keira answered.

"At least they stopped wrestling." Bridgette said.

"That's true." Keira replied.

"I was going to get the hose out if they didn't stop soon." Brianne said.

Bridgette laughed, and then walked off of the deck. She saw Zach, sitting alone on the grass, while the others were on the side of the house playing basketball.

"What happened to you?" Bridgette asked, noticing he was holding an ice pack on his eye.

"Ah, I got elbowed by Davis." Zach replied. He took the ice pack off of his eye, and revealed a bruise that was already forming.

Bridgette crinkled her nose, "That hurts."

"You're telling me." Zach said.

Bridgette smiled, and took the ice pack from him. "Here I'll give you a break." she said. She took the ice pack and held it on his eye for him.

"Thanks." he chuckled, "It really hurts though."

"Awe. Poor baby. Do you want me to kiss it make it better?" She asked in a fake whiny voice.

"Sure, if you want." He replied.

She giggled and took the ice pack off his eye and gently kissed it. "Feel better?"

He laughed, "A little bit."

Bridgette smiled and put the ice pack back on his eye.

"So what if I said that my lips hurt?" he asked.

Bridgette's face turned a slight shade of pink. She pulled the ice pack down and replied, "Hmmm, I guess I'd have to kiss those too."

"Oh, well see cuz it hurts right here." Zach said, pointing to his lips.

"Right here?" Bridgette asked, leaning in and kissing him.

After a few seconds, they both pulled away and he smiled, "Yeah right there."

She laughed and put the ice pack back on his eye again.

"I didn't see that." Keira smiled to Brianne.

"I didn't see it either." Brianne replied.

~*~

Bridgette sat in the grass next to the tables, quietly singing along to the song that was on the radio. She was also watching Jimmy, Walsh, DK and Logan attempt to play horseshoes, after a few too many beers.

"Joey and Matt are finally asleep." Keira said to Bridgette. She walked over with Kim and sat down at the picnic table.

"Thank God." Kim said rubbing her forehead.

"Did Faith and Sully leave?" Bridgette asked.

"Yeah a little while ago." Kim replied.

"I need to start paying attention, I'm telling you." Bridgette smiled.

Brianne walked outside carrying a tray with strawberry daquiries on them, for the girls.

"Thank you." Bridgette said, taking one off the tray.

"Your mom's inside making the pina colada's." Brianne said. She handed out the rest of the drinks and the headed back inside.

Bridgette smiled and took a few sips, "Mmmmm." she smiled.

Keira laughed at her while she drank her own along with Kim.

Lieu, who was over watching the game of horseshoes, walked over to where his daughter sat.

"What'cha doing?" he asked sitting down with her.

"Nothing." She replied. She moved over so that she was infront of him, and then leaned back on him.

"Am I a recliner?" he asked, wrapping his arms around her.

"Maybe." She answered. Although he never drank, Bridgette decided to hold up her daquirie and ask, "Wanna sip?"

"No thanks." he replied.

"Ok. More for me." She giggled.

Both of their attention was quickly directed to where the guys were playing horsehoes. The song "Two Pina Coladas" was on the radio. DK Walsh, and Jimmy decided it was time for their own version. They attempted to sing, "BRING ME TWO PINA COLADAS! I WANT ONE FOR EACH HAND! LET'S SET SAIL WITH CAPTAIN MORGAN! AND NEVER LEAVE DRY LAND!"

Bridgette laughed herself silly along with Lieu, "Oh man, and they're just warming up too."

"I know." Lieu replied.

"Times like these make me glad you don't drink." Bridgette smirked.

"Tell me about it." he said.

"Kim, Keira!" Ruth called from the house.

"Yeah?" Kim replied.

"The boys are awake again." Ruth replied.

Kim rolled her eyes, as they both stood up and walked back into the house.

"Was I that bad of a kid?" Bridgette asked

"God no." he smiled.

"You're just saying that." She giggled.

"Ask your mother." he replied.

Bridgette laughed as a new song came on the radio. Lieu smiled as "My Girl" began to play. He gave his daughter a tight squeeze, and a kiss on the cheek before he quietly sang, "I've got sunshine, on a cloudy day. When it's cold outside, I've got the month of May. I'd guess, you'd say, what could make me feel this way? My girl, my girl, my girl. Talkin' bout my girl. My girl."

Bridgette smiled as he continued to sing. For the first time in 6 months, she was completely relaxed and free of worry. Her dad was back home, and with her and her mom. And that's how it was was supposed to be.