Things were returning to normal after the explosion that had occurred over the weekend. On Monday everyone was asking Bobby if Kim and the baby were ok after hearing what had happened. The cuts Kim had sustained were almost healed and Keira wasn't showing any signs of distress after her entire ordeal from the weekend. When Jimmy had brought Joey over that afternoon, the first thing he did was hug his mother and Bobby as soon as he got in the door. He'd worried about them all weekend and was relieved to see them that morning. The next thing he did was go and check on Keira, seeing that she was all right.

It wasn't that he didn't believe what his mother or father had told him, just that he felt better seeing with his own eyes that everyone was ok. Saturday afternoon Bobby had called around, seeing about getting the window in the nursery fixed since Joey would want his room back when he came home on Monday. The earliest the window could be fixed was on Monday morning and he prayed the people coming to replace the window didn't bail at the last minute. Luckily they didn't and everything was back to normal when Joey had come back home.

Bobby ended up working with Craig that afternoon since Lieu needed Alex back on the squad after a couple guys had been hurt at the fire the teens had set last Friday. The shift that afternoon was relatively slow so Craig primarily spent most of the day asking Bobby a ton of questions. If the questions had at least been work related that would have been one thing, but it seemed like this guy was interested in everything but work related stuff.

"So, how long you been a medic?" Craig asked.

"Six years," Bobby replied.

"What do you normally do in your spare time?" Craig asked soon after.

"I don't have a whole lot of spare time. Between work and helping raise my daughter, that's normally all I have time for in a day." Bobby replied back.

"How old is she?" Craig questioned.

"Almost two months," Bobby replied smiling.

"What's her name?" Craig asked again.

"Keira," he replied back.

Craig noticed the wedding band Bobby wore and said, "How long you and your wife been together?"

"We've been married for almost two years. We've been friends for over five years." Bobby replied, getting kind of annoyed with all the questions.

I mean he'd rather sit and listen to the non-stop life saga Kim told him about Jimmy before they had gotten married than play twenty questions with the newbie.

Before Craig could get another question out of his mouth Bobby asked, "So, what made you decide to become a paramedic?"

Craig never got a chance to answer because they got a call they had to respond to. Bobby was thankful the endless battery of questions had been interrupted and was even more thankful when the shift was over. He honestly didn't know how on earth he was going to survive the rest of the week if he was working with Craig until Kim came back the following Monday.

That night when he came home he found Kim sitting on the couch. Keira was sitting on Kim's stomach, leaning against her mothers bent legs. Bobby sat down behind his daughter and leaned against Kim's lower legs and gently began to tickle his daughter's sides. Keira had started cooing recently and when Bobby had begun to tickle her she started in again, bringing a smile to his face. Eventually she wore herself out and Bobby picked her up and put her to bed for the evening.

When he returned and sat down next to her, Kim asked, "How was work this evening?"

"Not the same," he replied, pulling her over towards where he was sitting.

"How so?" she asked, curling up next to him.

"For starters you're not there, then there's the rest of the guys driving Alex up the wall about being the only woman in the firehouse, and on top of that I'm stuck with the newbie Doc and Carlos finished training." Bobby replied, putting his arms around her and resting his head on her shoulder.

"What happened to Alex?" Kim asked, afraid something had happened to her.

"Lieu needed her back on the squad after a couple guys got hurt." He replied.

"Can you tolerate the newbie till I get back?" she asked curiously.

"I've got no choice. I have to till you come back. This guy is more annoying than Carlos on his worst day. Today I had to put up with his version of twenty questions till we got a call. Then afterwards I didn't dare try and drive around the city like I did earlier so we went back to the station so I could try and get some peace and quiet." Bobby said back to her.

"Come on. Let's go get ready for bed since it sounds like you're gonna need all the rest you can get to put up with the newbie tomorrow." Kim said smirking as she stood up.

"Please don't remind me." Bobby groaned, following her down the hallway.

"I think I'm going to have to come back early just to meet this awful person. I've never seen you complain this much over someone." Kim said laughing.

"If you do everyone at the station would be eternally grateful." Bobby replied, sitting down on the edge of the bed.

"Everyone else severely dislikes this guy too?" Kim asked amusingly.

"Oh yes. Alex can't stand him because she can't stand Carlos in the first place. The rest of the guys try to avoid him at all costs." Bobby said.

"Sheesh, I guess you all really do need me back." She replied chuckling.

"More than you'll ever know." Bobby replied, wrapping an arm around her waist as he lay down.

Kim had to laugh at his response, wondering how bad this newbie was. She'd never seen Bobby complain about anyone like this so that had to be some indication.

"You know what?" Bobby asked.

"Nope, don't have a clue." Kim replied, laughing lightly.

"The guys at the station are right. You'd never guess that you'd had two kids with that figure." He said back to her.

"So the guys weren't trying to suck up when they said that." Kim replied, laughing still.

"I'm serious. You'd never know." He said honestly.

"That's the whole point you silly goose." Kim said giggling at his response.

"So you're laughing at me now eh?" he asked.

"You never said I couldn't," she replied smiling, lying on her side to face him.

"But I never said you could either." He replied jokingly.

"And just what are you going to do to make me stop laughing?" She asked curiously.

"Oh I don't know. Maybe this." He replied, placing a gentle kiss on her lips and ever so gently began nibbling on her lower lip.

"Impressive," Kim said, once the sensations had subsided from that kiss.

"Beat that," Bobby replied, a smirk still on his face.

"I'd be more than happy to top that," Kim said back, an evil smile on her face.

"Uh oh, what did I get started," Bobby thought to himself, seeing the look on Kim's face.

Kim got up and left the room for a brief moment, and then returned several minutes later. Bobby had no clue what she was up to or what she was planning on doing to him.

"Sit up," Kim said as she sat back down.

"Should I be scared to sit up?" Bobby asked curiously.

"No, you shouldn't," she replied smiling.

Bobby sat up, wondering what on earth was going to happen. Kim sat down beside him and gently held his face with her hands and kissed him. Her tongue slipped into his mouth, passing the small ice cube she'd hidden in her mouth to him, feeling him jump when the cold piece of ice entered his mouth.

Kim pulled back and looked at the shocked expression on his face and started to laugh.

"There you go laughing at me again," Bobby said jokingly.

"What! I can't help it your reaction was too funny." She said, still laughing.

Bobby shook his head at her and said, "Just wait. I'll get you back when you least expect it."

"We'll see about that now won't we," Kim replied curling up under the blankets;" You'd better get to sleep so you can have a fun day of putting up with the newbie tomorrow."

"You're pushing your luck Kimberly," Bobby said jokingly.

"Since when did you use my full first name Roberto," Kim teased.

Bobby rolled his eyes at her and had to laugh and said, "You've always got to get the last word in don't you."

"You're just now figuring that out? We've known each other how long and you're just now noticing that?" she said in mock horror.

"I see why you and Jimmy clashed so often, both of you have to get the last word in and that's why things drug out forever because you two wouldn't back down." Bobby said snickering.

"You bring Jimmy into the conversation I'm bringing the newbie into it." Kim replied, knowing that whenever she said the word newbie, she was tormenting Bobby to death.

"You're asking for it Kimmy," Bobby warned jokingly.

A smirk crossed Kim's face and she leaned over and placed a gentle kiss on his cheek and whispered the word newbie in his ear. Bobby rolled over to face her and said, "Don't say I didn't give you fair warning."

Without warning, Bobby began to tickle her sides. She tried curling up into a ball to avoid his fingers but that only made him tickle her harder.

"Bobby! Please stop!" Kim gasped out in between fits of laughter.

"You should have listened," Bobby said smiling.

"Bobby! Don't make me take drastic measures!" she gasped as he still tickled her as if there were no tomorrow.

"I don't think you're in any position to be using drastic measures," Bobby replied laughing, thoroughly enjoying tormenting her.

She'd managed to clamp her legs around his mid-section and threw him off balance. As he fell beside her, she managed to roll him onto his back and pinned his arms to his sides.

"I tried to warn you," Kim said smiling.

"You actually think that I can't get up?" Bobby asked comically.

All of a sudden he sat straight up, freeing his arms and grabbing her by the waist to keep her from falling off the bed.

"It's a good thing you caught me or else you'd be paying for it." Kim said laughing, poking him in the stomach.

"How so?" he asked curiously.

"I've got my ways," she replied smiling, watching his reaction.

"You do eh?" he asked, resting his right hand against the small of her back.

"Oh of course I do," she replied smiling, placing an inviting kiss upon his lips.

"This wouldn't be one of them would it?" he asked, nibbling on her neck gently.

"Maybe," she replied softly.

Bobby nipped a little too hard on her neck, causing her to gasp and say, "Take it easy there Dracula"

Bobby looked up at her and said, "Dracula?"

"Who else goes around biting people on the neck for a living." She asked laughing.

"Very funny Kimmy," Bobby replied smiling.

"What did you think I was going to say? Newbie?" she asked innocently.

"You're enjoying tormenting me about that aren't you?" he asked curiously.

"As a matter of fact I am," Kim replied laughing.

The next day at the station Bobby was working on the bus when Craig came in.

"Am I with you again today?" he asked, seeing Bobby look up.

"Yep, go get changed and you can help with inventory." Bobby replied, going back to what he was doing.

As Craig left to get ready, Bobby prayed silently that he didn't have to sit through another round of twenty questions with the newbie. A short time later Alex walked passed the bus, seeing Bobby getting this ready for his shift.

"How's the newbie?" she asked.

"I swear if I have to put up with the same stuff as yesterday I'm tempted to make Kim come back early. She drove me up the wall last night because I was complaining so much last night." Bobby replied.

"You wouldn't," Alex gasped in mock horror.

"If the newbie does the same stuff as yesterday, oh yes I would." Bobby said back, laughing at Alex's reaction.

"If there was a way I could get back on and relieve you I would but I can't." Alex said, trying to make him feel better.

"I know you would. You'd better run along and get ready for your shift." Bobby replied.

"Ok, try and remain sane for three more days," Alex said back, heading inside.

"Easier said than done," Bobby called back to her laughing.

Craig returned and helped Bobby finish the rig and started in asking questions yet again.

"So what does your wife do?" he asked.

"She's a paramedic as well," Bobby replied, silently groaning seeing that this shift would be no different than yesterday's.

"Oh really? Do you all swap work stories?" Craig asked, thinking that she worked at a different station.

"Not really, we tend to not take work home with us." He replied, praying for a call to come in.

"How did the two of you meet?" Craig asked.

Bobby never had a chance to answer when a call came in, sparing him from having to tell Craig all about his personal life.

"Boy is Kim in for a major complaining session tonight," Bobby said to himself as they headed towards the location of the call.