That evening when he got home, he found Kim was sitting on the couch
reading a book. She looked up from what she was reading upon hearing the
front door open. Judging by the look on his face he'd had a rough shift and
she was pretty sure most of it was caused by the newbie.
"Rough shift?" Kim asked, putting her book down.
"Oh yes," he replied, taking a seat next to her on the couch; "Joey and Keira get to sleep ok?"
"Yep, their both out like lights. How much was caused by the newbie?" she asked curiously.
"About half," he replied, relaxing a bit when she wrapped her arms around him.
"More questions?" Kim asked as he stretched out with her across the couch.
"He started in right when he came into the station," Bobby replied.
"So the other half actually had to do with work right?" she asked.
"Yeah. A lot of major calls came through tonight. This was one of the busiest days I've seen in a while." He replied.
"I saw on the news earlier about a bunch of fires that were started. Anyone get hurt?" Kim asked.
"Luckily no. There weren't any civilian casualties either." Bobby said back to her.
"That's good. Those days are the ones we all wish we had more often." Kim replied sighing.
"You know it," Bobby said in response.
"You seem tense. Go take a shower and I know just the thing to help you relax." Kim told him.
"Another massage?" he asked.
"Yep, only minus the cold lotion." She replied smiling.
"Thank goodness," Bobby said laughing, getting up to go take a shower.
Kim got up from the couch and went to get the vanilla lotion and held it next to the lamp that sat on the bedside table, to warm it up a bit. While he was gone she lit a few candles around the room and turned on some soft music that would hopefully help him relax.
As he stood under the spray of hot water, it relieved some of the tension he felt from earlier. Fifteen minutes later he finished up in the shower and headed back towards their room, after checking on Keira.
"You ready?" Kim asked as he lay down beside her.
"Work your magic on me baby," he replied, as he stretched out on his stomach.
Kim smiled and straddled his lower back and put some lotion into the palm of her hands and put it on him. She then pressed down gently on his shoulders, working the lotion into his skin and continuing down either side of his spine. She moved her hands in parallel lines up either side of his back, gently using the palms of her hands to release the tension in his muscles. She worked her way across his shoulders and then down the sides of his torso, feeling him starting to relax under her touch. She began to knead his muscles with her fingers, starting at his neck and shoulders and working her way down his back slowly. She then began to rake her fingers down his back, starting at his shoulders and ending at waistline of his boxers. She gently began to massage his neck and shoulders by using small circular strokes.
When she was finished she moved to sit on his right side and asked, "How do you feel now?"
"Like I'm in heaven. I really needed that, thanks," he replied, smiling at her.
"Anytime," she replied smiling curling up with him as they got ready for bed.
The next morning Joey began to play with Keira while Kim started breakfast. Keira was cooing up a storm in the next room, which made both Joey and Kim begin to smile. She stood in the doorway between the kitchen and the living room and watched her son playing with his sister for a bit while breakfast was cooking. She started to cut up some fresh strawberries to go along with the French toast that was cooking when out of the blue she felt someone grab her by the waist and gently bite her neck and start growling causing her to jump.
"Are you trying to cause me to have a heart attack Bobby?" Kim asked laughing, returning to cutting the strawberries.
"I take it I surprised you then." Bobby replied.
"Surprised isn't the word I'd use. More like scared me half to death. Which really isn't a good thing to do with me trying to cut strawberries." She said smirking.
Bobby laughed at her statement and said, "Remember when I said I'd get you back when you least expect it? Well that was it."
"Why doesn't that surprise me," Kim replied giggling, checking on the French toast.
That afternoon at the firehouse while Bobby was getting the bus ready Jimmy came outside, finding him working in the rig.
"When is Kim coming back?" Jimmy asked.
"Monday. Why do you ask?" Bobby replied.
"Because I don't know how much more of Craig I can stand." Jimmy groaned.
Bobby had to laugh and said silently to himself, "At least I'm not the only one complaining."
"That makes two of us, at least you don't have to ride with him all shift. I've complained to Kim every night this week about it." Bobby said laughing.
"What did she say?" Jimmy asked curiously.
"She figured he must be really bad seeing as how I rarely ever complain." Bobby replied.
"I think Alex is gonna blow a fuse before Monday because Craig keeps hitting on her." Jimmy said smirking.
"He's hitting on Alex! Poor woman." Bobby replied sympathetically.
"I imagine you'll probably being hearing about it during your shift too," Jimmy said, noticing Craig headed in their direction; "I'd better run your partner's coming."
"See ya," Bobby replied as Jimmy left.
"God I feel sorry for Alex. I don't know who could stand this guy to go out with him." Bobby said to himself before Craig's voice cut through his thoughts.
Alex had gone upstairs to get some peace and quiet from the torment Craig was being when she heard footsteps. She'd just laid down when Jimmy came upstairs.
"Whatever you do, keep the newbie away from me. I'm extremely close to wringing his neck if he doesn't back off." Alex said, hoping Jimmy would help her.
Jimmy laughed and said, "At least you don't have to be in the same vehicle as him like Bobby does."
"I guess I am fortunate then," Alex replied smiling, as Jimmy sat down beside her.
"Yes you are, according to what Bobby told me he's been bitching about this guy to Kim every night this week," Jimmy said.
"Really? What does she think about all this?" Alex asked.
Before Jimmy could answer they heard Craig's voice heading up the stairs.
"Damn, this guy is really starting to piss me off." Alex said looking towards the stairs, getting irritated by this guy's persistence.
All of a sudden an idea popped into Alex's head. She turned towards Jimmy and whispered, "I've got an idea on how to hopefully get him to leave me alone, but I need your help to pull it off."
"You need my help? What are you plotting Alex?" Jimmy asked hesitantly.
"When he gets to the top of the stairs, I want you to kiss me. Hopefully that will deter him from pushing me any farther." Alex replied, seeing the shocked expression on Jimmy's face.
"What if someone's with him!" Jimmy asked, wondering if he should follow through with this.
"We'll straighten it out later. Are you gonna help me or not?" Alex asked quickly.
Not giving Jimmy much time to think he reluctantly said, "Fine, I'll do it."
"I owe you big time. Now get ready." Alex replied.
Craig was walking up the stairs with Bobby not too far behind him, both were talking back and forth when they reached the bunks. Craig blushed when he saw Jimmy kissing Alex, but was also disappointed since he'd been trying to flirt with her before his shift started. Bobby on the other hand, couldn't believe what he was seeing. Craig quickly got something out of his locker and headed back downstairs, Bobby following close behind him.
When they had left the two of them pulled back and Jimmy asked, "Who was with him?"
"Bobby was with him."Alex replied.
Jimmy groaned when Alex told him that Bobby had come up with Craig, and Alex replied, "Don't worry. I'll talk to Bobby so he knows what was going on."
"Good because I can just see him telling Kim about that and me getting a phone call in the middle of the night from her." Jimmy replied, relieved Alex was going to talk to Bobby.
Alex got up and left to go look for Bobby, hopefully away from Craig so she could explain what he had seen. Craig had gone outside and Bobby was grabbing something from the fridge when she came downstairs.
"Bobby, we need to talk," Alex started to say.
Bobby heard Alex's voice and turned around.
"About what?" he asked, figuring it had to do with her kissing Doherty.
"I think you know what about," Alex replied, heading into the TV room since the rest of the guys were working on the engines downstairs.
Bobby followed her and said, "I didn't know you and Jimmy had hooked up."
"We haven't. I told him to kiss me to deter Craig from hitting on me anymore." Alex replied.
"That was staged? It sure didn't look it." Bobby replied.
"I know I was kind of blown away with the way the whole thing went, but I hoped it worked." Alex said back to him.
Jimmy still sat on the bunk upstairs, thinking about what had just happened. Even though the whole thing had been staged to get Craig to leave Alex alone, the kiss the two had shared was amazing to say the least. All he could think about was the feeling he'd gotten when he'd kissed her. He'd always admired her though, because was the first female firefighter he'd met. Everyone saw her as one of the guys, she held her own against them that's for sure. He'd never really thought about hooking up with her though. If he did, would it work out? If things worked out between Bobby and Kim then could they work out for them as well?
Craig sat asking Bobby all kinds of questions about Alex. Most of which Bobby wasn't going to answer because it wasn't his place to do so. He heard Craig say, "I was actually hoping I had a shot with her."
Bobby laughed to himself and said silently, "There's no way in hell you stood a chance with her."
Just to make the poor guy feel better he said, "You'll find the person you're meant to be with when the time is right."
"You really think so?" Craig asked curiously.
"Yeah. I didn't give true love much thought either. Then things changed for the better and I haven't been the same since." Bobby replied.
"Maybe you're right. You never know I might meet that person next week since I have a few days off." Craig said in response.
Bobby had no clue why he was so desperate to hook up with someone but asked, "What days you got off?"
"Monday and Tuesday," Craig replied.
So Kim wouldn't meet the newbie till Wednesday but that meant two days that the station would be back to normal without being driven up the wall by Craig, which would be a blessing upon itself.
That night when the shift was over and Craig had left, Bobby found everyone downstairs talking and said, "Got good news for you all."
"What's that Bobby?" Jimmy asked.
"Guess who has two days off next week." He replied.
"Please tell me its Craig," Alex begged.
"Yep, he's got two days off next week. So two days of normalcy around here." Bobby replied smiling.
"Thank god! What two days did he get? That's something we all need to celebrate while he's gone." Alex replied joyfully.
"Monday and Tuesday," Bobby said back to the group at the table.
"Perfect! We all can go out and celebrate Kim coming back to work and him being gone for two days after our shift on Monday! But you can't tell her about this Bobby." Alex said.
"I won't say a word. What did you all have in mind planned to do?" Bobby asked.
"Hey Jimmy, lets go with your idea of going out dancing!" Walsh chimed in.
"Sounds good to me. What do the rest of you all think?" Alex replied.
"I'm game, and I'm pretty sure that'd be cool with Kim too." Bobby replied.
"Awesome, this is going to be a blast!" Alex said with excitement.
That evening when he came home, Kim saw Bobby was a lot more energetic than he had been since he'd been working with Craig.
"Someone's full of energy this evening," she said smiling, placing a tender kiss on his lips.
"I have every right to be. Guess who's not going to be around the firehouse for two days next week." Bobby said.
"The newbie?" Kim asked.
"Yep, so two days the firehouse will be back to normal." He replied smiling.
"How'd your shift go tonight?" Kim questioned.
"Pretty good, although Alex was ready to kill Craig." Bobby said laughing.
"What did he do to her?" Kim asked nervously.
"He was trying to hook up with her." He replied, chuckling.
"Oh god, he's lucky she didn't kill him." Kim replied in astonishment.
"I know, that's what I was thinking. Then after she shot him down he kept asking me all kinds of questions about her. None of which I answered either." Bobby said.
"Sounds like he's the obsessive type." Kim commented, not realizing that statement couldn't be more accurate to describe him.
"Yeah it does." Bobby said in agreement, not foreseeing the troubles that lay ahead.
"You up to working on that little routine we've got to put together?" he asked curiously.
"Sounds good to me," she replied smiling, getting up off the couch and following him back to their room so they could begin working on their little dancing project.
"Rough shift?" Kim asked, putting her book down.
"Oh yes," he replied, taking a seat next to her on the couch; "Joey and Keira get to sleep ok?"
"Yep, their both out like lights. How much was caused by the newbie?" she asked curiously.
"About half," he replied, relaxing a bit when she wrapped her arms around him.
"More questions?" Kim asked as he stretched out with her across the couch.
"He started in right when he came into the station," Bobby replied.
"So the other half actually had to do with work right?" she asked.
"Yeah. A lot of major calls came through tonight. This was one of the busiest days I've seen in a while." He replied.
"I saw on the news earlier about a bunch of fires that were started. Anyone get hurt?" Kim asked.
"Luckily no. There weren't any civilian casualties either." Bobby said back to her.
"That's good. Those days are the ones we all wish we had more often." Kim replied sighing.
"You know it," Bobby said in response.
"You seem tense. Go take a shower and I know just the thing to help you relax." Kim told him.
"Another massage?" he asked.
"Yep, only minus the cold lotion." She replied smiling.
"Thank goodness," Bobby said laughing, getting up to go take a shower.
Kim got up from the couch and went to get the vanilla lotion and held it next to the lamp that sat on the bedside table, to warm it up a bit. While he was gone she lit a few candles around the room and turned on some soft music that would hopefully help him relax.
As he stood under the spray of hot water, it relieved some of the tension he felt from earlier. Fifteen minutes later he finished up in the shower and headed back towards their room, after checking on Keira.
"You ready?" Kim asked as he lay down beside her.
"Work your magic on me baby," he replied, as he stretched out on his stomach.
Kim smiled and straddled his lower back and put some lotion into the palm of her hands and put it on him. She then pressed down gently on his shoulders, working the lotion into his skin and continuing down either side of his spine. She moved her hands in parallel lines up either side of his back, gently using the palms of her hands to release the tension in his muscles. She worked her way across his shoulders and then down the sides of his torso, feeling him starting to relax under her touch. She began to knead his muscles with her fingers, starting at his neck and shoulders and working her way down his back slowly. She then began to rake her fingers down his back, starting at his shoulders and ending at waistline of his boxers. She gently began to massage his neck and shoulders by using small circular strokes.
When she was finished she moved to sit on his right side and asked, "How do you feel now?"
"Like I'm in heaven. I really needed that, thanks," he replied, smiling at her.
"Anytime," she replied smiling curling up with him as they got ready for bed.
The next morning Joey began to play with Keira while Kim started breakfast. Keira was cooing up a storm in the next room, which made both Joey and Kim begin to smile. She stood in the doorway between the kitchen and the living room and watched her son playing with his sister for a bit while breakfast was cooking. She started to cut up some fresh strawberries to go along with the French toast that was cooking when out of the blue she felt someone grab her by the waist and gently bite her neck and start growling causing her to jump.
"Are you trying to cause me to have a heart attack Bobby?" Kim asked laughing, returning to cutting the strawberries.
"I take it I surprised you then." Bobby replied.
"Surprised isn't the word I'd use. More like scared me half to death. Which really isn't a good thing to do with me trying to cut strawberries." She said smirking.
Bobby laughed at her statement and said, "Remember when I said I'd get you back when you least expect it? Well that was it."
"Why doesn't that surprise me," Kim replied giggling, checking on the French toast.
That afternoon at the firehouse while Bobby was getting the bus ready Jimmy came outside, finding him working in the rig.
"When is Kim coming back?" Jimmy asked.
"Monday. Why do you ask?" Bobby replied.
"Because I don't know how much more of Craig I can stand." Jimmy groaned.
Bobby had to laugh and said silently to himself, "At least I'm not the only one complaining."
"That makes two of us, at least you don't have to ride with him all shift. I've complained to Kim every night this week about it." Bobby said laughing.
"What did she say?" Jimmy asked curiously.
"She figured he must be really bad seeing as how I rarely ever complain." Bobby replied.
"I think Alex is gonna blow a fuse before Monday because Craig keeps hitting on her." Jimmy said smirking.
"He's hitting on Alex! Poor woman." Bobby replied sympathetically.
"I imagine you'll probably being hearing about it during your shift too," Jimmy said, noticing Craig headed in their direction; "I'd better run your partner's coming."
"See ya," Bobby replied as Jimmy left.
"God I feel sorry for Alex. I don't know who could stand this guy to go out with him." Bobby said to himself before Craig's voice cut through his thoughts.
Alex had gone upstairs to get some peace and quiet from the torment Craig was being when she heard footsteps. She'd just laid down when Jimmy came upstairs.
"Whatever you do, keep the newbie away from me. I'm extremely close to wringing his neck if he doesn't back off." Alex said, hoping Jimmy would help her.
Jimmy laughed and said, "At least you don't have to be in the same vehicle as him like Bobby does."
"I guess I am fortunate then," Alex replied smiling, as Jimmy sat down beside her.
"Yes you are, according to what Bobby told me he's been bitching about this guy to Kim every night this week," Jimmy said.
"Really? What does she think about all this?" Alex asked.
Before Jimmy could answer they heard Craig's voice heading up the stairs.
"Damn, this guy is really starting to piss me off." Alex said looking towards the stairs, getting irritated by this guy's persistence.
All of a sudden an idea popped into Alex's head. She turned towards Jimmy and whispered, "I've got an idea on how to hopefully get him to leave me alone, but I need your help to pull it off."
"You need my help? What are you plotting Alex?" Jimmy asked hesitantly.
"When he gets to the top of the stairs, I want you to kiss me. Hopefully that will deter him from pushing me any farther." Alex replied, seeing the shocked expression on Jimmy's face.
"What if someone's with him!" Jimmy asked, wondering if he should follow through with this.
"We'll straighten it out later. Are you gonna help me or not?" Alex asked quickly.
Not giving Jimmy much time to think he reluctantly said, "Fine, I'll do it."
"I owe you big time. Now get ready." Alex replied.
Craig was walking up the stairs with Bobby not too far behind him, both were talking back and forth when they reached the bunks. Craig blushed when he saw Jimmy kissing Alex, but was also disappointed since he'd been trying to flirt with her before his shift started. Bobby on the other hand, couldn't believe what he was seeing. Craig quickly got something out of his locker and headed back downstairs, Bobby following close behind him.
When they had left the two of them pulled back and Jimmy asked, "Who was with him?"
"Bobby was with him."Alex replied.
Jimmy groaned when Alex told him that Bobby had come up with Craig, and Alex replied, "Don't worry. I'll talk to Bobby so he knows what was going on."
"Good because I can just see him telling Kim about that and me getting a phone call in the middle of the night from her." Jimmy replied, relieved Alex was going to talk to Bobby.
Alex got up and left to go look for Bobby, hopefully away from Craig so she could explain what he had seen. Craig had gone outside and Bobby was grabbing something from the fridge when she came downstairs.
"Bobby, we need to talk," Alex started to say.
Bobby heard Alex's voice and turned around.
"About what?" he asked, figuring it had to do with her kissing Doherty.
"I think you know what about," Alex replied, heading into the TV room since the rest of the guys were working on the engines downstairs.
Bobby followed her and said, "I didn't know you and Jimmy had hooked up."
"We haven't. I told him to kiss me to deter Craig from hitting on me anymore." Alex replied.
"That was staged? It sure didn't look it." Bobby replied.
"I know I was kind of blown away with the way the whole thing went, but I hoped it worked." Alex said back to him.
Jimmy still sat on the bunk upstairs, thinking about what had just happened. Even though the whole thing had been staged to get Craig to leave Alex alone, the kiss the two had shared was amazing to say the least. All he could think about was the feeling he'd gotten when he'd kissed her. He'd always admired her though, because was the first female firefighter he'd met. Everyone saw her as one of the guys, she held her own against them that's for sure. He'd never really thought about hooking up with her though. If he did, would it work out? If things worked out between Bobby and Kim then could they work out for them as well?
Craig sat asking Bobby all kinds of questions about Alex. Most of which Bobby wasn't going to answer because it wasn't his place to do so. He heard Craig say, "I was actually hoping I had a shot with her."
Bobby laughed to himself and said silently, "There's no way in hell you stood a chance with her."
Just to make the poor guy feel better he said, "You'll find the person you're meant to be with when the time is right."
"You really think so?" Craig asked curiously.
"Yeah. I didn't give true love much thought either. Then things changed for the better and I haven't been the same since." Bobby replied.
"Maybe you're right. You never know I might meet that person next week since I have a few days off." Craig said in response.
Bobby had no clue why he was so desperate to hook up with someone but asked, "What days you got off?"
"Monday and Tuesday," Craig replied.
So Kim wouldn't meet the newbie till Wednesday but that meant two days that the station would be back to normal without being driven up the wall by Craig, which would be a blessing upon itself.
That night when the shift was over and Craig had left, Bobby found everyone downstairs talking and said, "Got good news for you all."
"What's that Bobby?" Jimmy asked.
"Guess who has two days off next week." He replied.
"Please tell me its Craig," Alex begged.
"Yep, he's got two days off next week. So two days of normalcy around here." Bobby replied smiling.
"Thank god! What two days did he get? That's something we all need to celebrate while he's gone." Alex replied joyfully.
"Monday and Tuesday," Bobby said back to the group at the table.
"Perfect! We all can go out and celebrate Kim coming back to work and him being gone for two days after our shift on Monday! But you can't tell her about this Bobby." Alex said.
"I won't say a word. What did you all have in mind planned to do?" Bobby asked.
"Hey Jimmy, lets go with your idea of going out dancing!" Walsh chimed in.
"Sounds good to me. What do the rest of you all think?" Alex replied.
"I'm game, and I'm pretty sure that'd be cool with Kim too." Bobby replied.
"Awesome, this is going to be a blast!" Alex said with excitement.
That evening when he came home, Kim saw Bobby was a lot more energetic than he had been since he'd been working with Craig.
"Someone's full of energy this evening," she said smiling, placing a tender kiss on his lips.
"I have every right to be. Guess who's not going to be around the firehouse for two days next week." Bobby said.
"The newbie?" Kim asked.
"Yep, so two days the firehouse will be back to normal." He replied smiling.
"How'd your shift go tonight?" Kim questioned.
"Pretty good, although Alex was ready to kill Craig." Bobby said laughing.
"What did he do to her?" Kim asked nervously.
"He was trying to hook up with her." He replied, chuckling.
"Oh god, he's lucky she didn't kill him." Kim replied in astonishment.
"I know, that's what I was thinking. Then after she shot him down he kept asking me all kinds of questions about her. None of which I answered either." Bobby said.
"Sounds like he's the obsessive type." Kim commented, not realizing that statement couldn't be more accurate to describe him.
"Yeah it does." Bobby said in agreement, not foreseeing the troubles that lay ahead.
"You up to working on that little routine we've got to put together?" he asked curiously.
"Sounds good to me," she replied smiling, getting up off the couch and following him back to their room so they could begin working on their little dancing project.