"I have actually and I'm all for giving it a shot if you are." Alex
replied.
"You are?" he asked astonished.
"Yeah," she said smiling.
"Well about we go out for a late dinner tonight after work then." Jimmy suggested.
"Sounds good to me." Alex said, seeing the happiness cross his face.
"Would you mind if I kissed you right now?" he asked.
"No I wouldn't mind a bit." Alex replied.
Jimmy had been sitting on the front of one of the fire trucks and Alex had been standing in front of him. He slipped his arms around her waist and moved her to where she was standing in between his legs as they came together and kissed. Kim was still talking to Bobby on her cell phone and was standing at the top of the stairs and figured Alex had accepted Jimmy's proposition.
"It looks like the 55 has another couple in the house." Kim said as she headed up to her bunk.
"Really who?" Bobby asked as he put Keira down in the crib after changing her.
"Jimmy and Alex." Kim replied.
"When did they get together?" he asked curiously.
"Tonight I think. He'd asked her out Saturday but she gave him her answer I'm assuming about five minutes ago." Kim replied.
"I take it she agreed then?" Bobby asked.
"Well seeing as how they are kissing on the fire truck I'd say so." Kim said laughing.
"That would be a pretty good indicator for a yes." Bobby said in return, laughing also.
"Gotta run, a call just came in. I'll see you when I get off." Kim replied, heading downstairs.
"Ok, Love you and I'll see you when you get home." Bobby said back to her.
"I love you too." Kim said, before hanging up her phone.
She and Alex arrived a short time later at a park not to far from where their apartment was located. The found a teenage boy who had fallen out of a tree trying to get the family cat which was up in the tree.
Alex saw the boys friends gathered around and said, "So what were you doing up in the tree?"
"Trying to get my cat out. I brought her out to show my friends because I just got her yesterday and a dog scared her and she ran up the tree and I was trying to get her but fell and hurt my ankle." The boy replied as Alex tended to his ankle.
"Do you live near by?" Alex asked, seeing several complexes around the park.
"Yeah, just across the street." The boy replied, searching the tree for his cat.
Kim monitored the boy's vitals while Alex stabilized his ankle in a splint.
"Could one of you try and get Lucky out of the tree?" the boy asked, not wanting to leave till his cat was taken care of.
"We can try and coax her out." Alex said noticing the dogs were gone and seeing the boy relax a bit.
Kim looked up into the tree and saw a gray furball huddled on one of the branches and said, "Come here Lucky, you can come down now."
They heard a soft meow and Kim kept talking to the cat noticing it was moving ever so slightly lower till it was about 3 feet above her head. After five minutes of coaxing the cat crouched down like it was going to spring off the branch and Kim heard Alex say, "You'd better catch the cat if it jumps."
Sure enough the cat leapt from the branch and landed on Kim, sinking its claws into her uniform.
"Ok Lucky, easy on the claws." Kim said, feeling the cat's claws through her uniform top before she picked her up to loosen the hold the cat's claws had on her top.
The cat looked up at Kim with yellow green eyes and rubbed its head against her cheek several times as she knelt down next to the cat's owner.
"Looks like you've made a new friend Kim," Alex said laughing, watching the cat's actions.
Kim had to laugh and scratched under the gray tabby's chin hearing a rumbling purr of happiness at the action. The cat's fur was like crushed velvet in texture and she missed having pets, maybe eventually she'd get another one but was content to spoil this one till she had to help Alex get the boy into the ambulance. She passed the cat to the boy as they loaded him into the ambulance when the boy said, "Could you take her up to my mom who's in our apartment across the street?", pointing to the complex right across from the bus.
"Sure, what apartment number do you live in and I'll take her up there." Kim said picking Lucky up once more.
"3c." the boy replied.
"I'll be back in a second Alex." Kim said as she headed across the street with Lucky, purring contently in her arms.
Kim headed up to the third floor of the complex and knocked on the door to apartment 3C.
"Can I help you?" A middle aged woman asked, cracking the door.
"I believe I have a little gray cat that belongs to you." Kim replied; "Your son fell out of a tree trying to get her down when a dog scared her."
"Oh my gosh Jeremiah! Is he ok?" The woman asked anxiously.
"He's fine just hurt his ankle, we will have to take him to the hospital though. You can come with us." Kim said, handing the cat over to the boy's mother. The woman put the cat in one of the rooms and made sure there was food and water left out and followed Kim down to where her son was.
After they took the boy to the hospital they stopped by and checked on Bobby and the kids to see how things were going.
"Mind if we stop by and check on Bobby and the kids?" Kim asked Alex as the left the hospital.
"I don't mind a bit. Things are so slow it beats going back to the station and driving around town in circles." Alex replied smiling.
Keira had just begun to cry and Bobby had just warmed up a bottle for her since it was time for her next feeding. After checking to make sure the bottle wasn't too hot, he headed into the nursery. Joey had heard her crying and had come in to check on her when he saw Bobby come in. He passed the bottle and towel to Joey to hold while he picked her up and proceeded to sit down. Once he was situated he started to bottle feed her when he heard a knock at the door.
"Can you get that for me?" Bobby asked Joey.
Joey nodded his head in reply and rushed to the door to see who it was. As he opened the door he was surprised to see his mom and Alex on the other side.
"Mom! Did you get off early?" Joey asked excitedly, giving his mother a hug.
"No sweetheart, we were in the neighborhood and decided to drop by since things are slow." Kim replied as she and Alex entered the apartment.
"Hi Alex!" Joey said brightly as his mother closed the door to the apartment.
"How have you been Joey?" Alex asked as she took a seat on the sofa.
"Pretty good. Mostly helping out with Keira." He replied, taking a seat next to Alex.
Kim headed down the hall to check on Keira and Bobby while Alex and Joey talked away in the living room.
"Hey," Kim said softly as she entered the room.
Bobby looked up in surprise to see Kim coming through the doorway and said smiling, "To what do I owe this pleasure of a sudden visit?"
"A very slow night at the firehouse," she replied, crouching down next to where he sat.
Joey eventually headed back to his room to play his gameboy and Alex headed in to see how Bobby and the baby were doing.
"Where did the fur come from?" Bobby asked, noticing the gray hairs on Kim's top.
"Got to get a cat out of a tree for a kid who fell trying to get it out himself." Kim replied, brushing the hair off her top.
"Why didn't you let Jimmy do that? Isn't that normally what they do?" Bobby asked.
"I never said I climbed the tree to get the cat silly. I coaxed it down and it jumped on me. Friendly little devil too." Kim replied laughing.
"It was so cute, it was giving her lovies and everything." Alex chimed in smirking from the doorway.
"Lovies?" Bobby asked laughing; "Lemme guess now you want a cat right?"
"Eventually yes. I used to have one growing up so it'd be nice to have another one." Kim said laughing at Alex's choice of words.
"What exactly are lovies?" Bobby asked smirking.
"All the cat did was rub its head against my cheek when I carried it over to its owner, I guess that's what Alex is referring to." Kim said noticing the amused look on Alex's face.
Kim got up and went in to check on Joey and left Bobby and Alex still talking in the nursery.
"Hey there sweetie, how's the game coming?" she asked sitting next to him.
"I'm slowly working my way through it. I thought Tetris was bad, but this one can be just as troublesome as that one." Joey replied as he sat up.
"I happen to be pretty good at Tetris, play you a round when I get off?" she asked her son; "Have you and your sister been behaving?"
"You're on. Yep. We've been good." Joey replied smiling.
"I'd better go, I'll see you when I get off in four hours." She said, patting him on the back as she got up.
"Ok. See you when you get home." Joey replied, watching her head back down the hall.
While Kim was gone Bobby asked Alex, "So what did this cat look like? I might surprise her for her birthday and get her one."
"It was a silver gray tabby. Its fur was a silver color and the spots it had were a dark storm cloud gray color with a black tipped tail." Alex replied noticing Kim headed back down the hall.
Bobby nodded his head and heard Kim say, "We'd better be heading out. I'll see you when I get off work."
She and Alex headed to the door and Bobby followed with Keira and said, "You two stay out of trouble. You want me to come pick you up after work?"
"If you want to you can, just leave me a voice mail on my phone before you leave so I know to wait on you." Kim said.
"Sounds good. See you in about four hours then," he replied kissing her goodbye before she left.
As she and Alex headed back to the station the two of them sat chattering back and forth on the ride back.
"So I take it you and Jimmy are together now?" Kim asked.
"Yep, we're going out for a late dinner when we get off tonight." Alex replied, thinking about the invitation for dinner.
Kim smiled and said, "Incase I don't see you before you leave, you two have a good time tonight."
"I'm pretty sure we will." Alex said in return as they pulled into the station.
Alex sat down outside the firehouse and Kim asked, "You gonna stay out here for a bit?"
"Yeah, it's a nice quiet night so I thought I'd chill out here for a bit." She replied.
"Ok, if you need me I'll be upstairs." Kim said, heading up towards the bunks.
Alex nodded her head in reply and relaxed in the cool night air of the city for a while. As Kim walked upstairs Jimmy saw her and asked, "Where's Alex?"
"Downstairs," Kim replied, watching him head in her direction.
She grabbed a book from her bag in her locker and started reading for a bit until it was time to start inventory on the rig. An hour before her shift was up she checked to see if Bobby had left her a voice mail on her phone. After listening to the message he'd left she put the book back into her locker and slipped her phone back in her pocket and went to start on inventory. Jimmy and Alex were liplocked so she managed to slip past them unnoticed outside.
As she worked on inventory she realized that it was a quiet and peaceful night around the city. Those days were few and far between so it was nice when they came. A short time later Alex appeared to help with inventory, Jimmy following close behind her. He blushed when he saw Kim already working and figured she'd seen them together on her way down. Kim heard footsteps coming and looked up, seeing them headed in her direction.
"Why didn't you come get me to help you?" Alex asked, climbing into the rig.
"I didn't want to interrupt." Kim replied, finishing the gauze count.
Alex looked at Jimmy, seeing him blushing and said, "Jimmy, she already knew about us before she saw us kissing."
A look of disbelief crossed his face as he said, "You did?"
"Yep," She replied, glancing up from the paper she had.
Jimmy eventually left to get ready for the end of his shift and Alex and Kim finished up inventory and headed to change. As the shift came to an end, Kim got her stuff ready and turned to Alex and said, "I expect details next time I talk to you."
"You got it," Alex replied smiling, walking downstairs with her where Jimmy was waiting.
As Alex and Jimmy headed off, Kim moved in the direction of where Bobby was parked waiting on her.
"Where are the kids?" she asked as she climbed into the car.
"Mel stopped by to see Keira and said she stay till I got back." He replied, "Any calls come in after you two left earlier?"
"Nope it was dead for four hours," Kim replied.
"I made a light dinner, which Joey tore into. When I left he was practicing for the Tetris battle that is to take place." Bobby said smiling.
"What did you fix?" Kim asked curiously, laughing at Joey getting ready for the round of video games.
"Chicken Pasta salad." Bobby replied.
"That sounds good. Joey loves anything with chicken in it," she said smiling.
"I gathered by the way he ate tonight," He said in response, chuckling.
"Chances are you'll be making that again too because he'll probably beg you to death to make it again." Kim replied grinning.
"He did that when I fixed Beef Stroganoff, if I remember correctly." Bobby said as they headed home.
"Yeah, I remember. You were about ready to go nuts too." Kim said laughing.
Bobby rolled his eyes at her and replied, "I didn't realize he was going to be that persistent. You could have warned me."
"I could have but your reaction was priceless so I'm glad I didn't." Kim responded giggling as they pulled up in front of the apartment complex.
"You keep this up you won't get any pasta salad." Bobby said jokingly.
"You wouldn't dare try it." Kim replied, grinning.
"What makes you so sure about that?" he asked curiously, slipping an arm around her waist as they headed to their apartment.
"Because you love me and wouldn't have the heart to do that." Kim said smiling, leaning into him as they walked.
"You're right. I do love you, very much. But you'd be surprised at what I have the heart to do sometimes." Bobby replied snickering.
"You are?" he asked astonished.
"Yeah," she said smiling.
"Well about we go out for a late dinner tonight after work then." Jimmy suggested.
"Sounds good to me." Alex said, seeing the happiness cross his face.
"Would you mind if I kissed you right now?" he asked.
"No I wouldn't mind a bit." Alex replied.
Jimmy had been sitting on the front of one of the fire trucks and Alex had been standing in front of him. He slipped his arms around her waist and moved her to where she was standing in between his legs as they came together and kissed. Kim was still talking to Bobby on her cell phone and was standing at the top of the stairs and figured Alex had accepted Jimmy's proposition.
"It looks like the 55 has another couple in the house." Kim said as she headed up to her bunk.
"Really who?" Bobby asked as he put Keira down in the crib after changing her.
"Jimmy and Alex." Kim replied.
"When did they get together?" he asked curiously.
"Tonight I think. He'd asked her out Saturday but she gave him her answer I'm assuming about five minutes ago." Kim replied.
"I take it she agreed then?" Bobby asked.
"Well seeing as how they are kissing on the fire truck I'd say so." Kim said laughing.
"That would be a pretty good indicator for a yes." Bobby said in return, laughing also.
"Gotta run, a call just came in. I'll see you when I get off." Kim replied, heading downstairs.
"Ok, Love you and I'll see you when you get home." Bobby said back to her.
"I love you too." Kim said, before hanging up her phone.
She and Alex arrived a short time later at a park not to far from where their apartment was located. The found a teenage boy who had fallen out of a tree trying to get the family cat which was up in the tree.
Alex saw the boys friends gathered around and said, "So what were you doing up in the tree?"
"Trying to get my cat out. I brought her out to show my friends because I just got her yesterday and a dog scared her and she ran up the tree and I was trying to get her but fell and hurt my ankle." The boy replied as Alex tended to his ankle.
"Do you live near by?" Alex asked, seeing several complexes around the park.
"Yeah, just across the street." The boy replied, searching the tree for his cat.
Kim monitored the boy's vitals while Alex stabilized his ankle in a splint.
"Could one of you try and get Lucky out of the tree?" the boy asked, not wanting to leave till his cat was taken care of.
"We can try and coax her out." Alex said noticing the dogs were gone and seeing the boy relax a bit.
Kim looked up into the tree and saw a gray furball huddled on one of the branches and said, "Come here Lucky, you can come down now."
They heard a soft meow and Kim kept talking to the cat noticing it was moving ever so slightly lower till it was about 3 feet above her head. After five minutes of coaxing the cat crouched down like it was going to spring off the branch and Kim heard Alex say, "You'd better catch the cat if it jumps."
Sure enough the cat leapt from the branch and landed on Kim, sinking its claws into her uniform.
"Ok Lucky, easy on the claws." Kim said, feeling the cat's claws through her uniform top before she picked her up to loosen the hold the cat's claws had on her top.
The cat looked up at Kim with yellow green eyes and rubbed its head against her cheek several times as she knelt down next to the cat's owner.
"Looks like you've made a new friend Kim," Alex said laughing, watching the cat's actions.
Kim had to laugh and scratched under the gray tabby's chin hearing a rumbling purr of happiness at the action. The cat's fur was like crushed velvet in texture and she missed having pets, maybe eventually she'd get another one but was content to spoil this one till she had to help Alex get the boy into the ambulance. She passed the cat to the boy as they loaded him into the ambulance when the boy said, "Could you take her up to my mom who's in our apartment across the street?", pointing to the complex right across from the bus.
"Sure, what apartment number do you live in and I'll take her up there." Kim said picking Lucky up once more.
"3c." the boy replied.
"I'll be back in a second Alex." Kim said as she headed across the street with Lucky, purring contently in her arms.
Kim headed up to the third floor of the complex and knocked on the door to apartment 3C.
"Can I help you?" A middle aged woman asked, cracking the door.
"I believe I have a little gray cat that belongs to you." Kim replied; "Your son fell out of a tree trying to get her down when a dog scared her."
"Oh my gosh Jeremiah! Is he ok?" The woman asked anxiously.
"He's fine just hurt his ankle, we will have to take him to the hospital though. You can come with us." Kim said, handing the cat over to the boy's mother. The woman put the cat in one of the rooms and made sure there was food and water left out and followed Kim down to where her son was.
After they took the boy to the hospital they stopped by and checked on Bobby and the kids to see how things were going.
"Mind if we stop by and check on Bobby and the kids?" Kim asked Alex as the left the hospital.
"I don't mind a bit. Things are so slow it beats going back to the station and driving around town in circles." Alex replied smiling.
Keira had just begun to cry and Bobby had just warmed up a bottle for her since it was time for her next feeding. After checking to make sure the bottle wasn't too hot, he headed into the nursery. Joey had heard her crying and had come in to check on her when he saw Bobby come in. He passed the bottle and towel to Joey to hold while he picked her up and proceeded to sit down. Once he was situated he started to bottle feed her when he heard a knock at the door.
"Can you get that for me?" Bobby asked Joey.
Joey nodded his head in reply and rushed to the door to see who it was. As he opened the door he was surprised to see his mom and Alex on the other side.
"Mom! Did you get off early?" Joey asked excitedly, giving his mother a hug.
"No sweetheart, we were in the neighborhood and decided to drop by since things are slow." Kim replied as she and Alex entered the apartment.
"Hi Alex!" Joey said brightly as his mother closed the door to the apartment.
"How have you been Joey?" Alex asked as she took a seat on the sofa.
"Pretty good. Mostly helping out with Keira." He replied, taking a seat next to Alex.
Kim headed down the hall to check on Keira and Bobby while Alex and Joey talked away in the living room.
"Hey," Kim said softly as she entered the room.
Bobby looked up in surprise to see Kim coming through the doorway and said smiling, "To what do I owe this pleasure of a sudden visit?"
"A very slow night at the firehouse," she replied, crouching down next to where he sat.
Joey eventually headed back to his room to play his gameboy and Alex headed in to see how Bobby and the baby were doing.
"Where did the fur come from?" Bobby asked, noticing the gray hairs on Kim's top.
"Got to get a cat out of a tree for a kid who fell trying to get it out himself." Kim replied, brushing the hair off her top.
"Why didn't you let Jimmy do that? Isn't that normally what they do?" Bobby asked.
"I never said I climbed the tree to get the cat silly. I coaxed it down and it jumped on me. Friendly little devil too." Kim replied laughing.
"It was so cute, it was giving her lovies and everything." Alex chimed in smirking from the doorway.
"Lovies?" Bobby asked laughing; "Lemme guess now you want a cat right?"
"Eventually yes. I used to have one growing up so it'd be nice to have another one." Kim said laughing at Alex's choice of words.
"What exactly are lovies?" Bobby asked smirking.
"All the cat did was rub its head against my cheek when I carried it over to its owner, I guess that's what Alex is referring to." Kim said noticing the amused look on Alex's face.
Kim got up and went in to check on Joey and left Bobby and Alex still talking in the nursery.
"Hey there sweetie, how's the game coming?" she asked sitting next to him.
"I'm slowly working my way through it. I thought Tetris was bad, but this one can be just as troublesome as that one." Joey replied as he sat up.
"I happen to be pretty good at Tetris, play you a round when I get off?" she asked her son; "Have you and your sister been behaving?"
"You're on. Yep. We've been good." Joey replied smiling.
"I'd better go, I'll see you when I get off in four hours." She said, patting him on the back as she got up.
"Ok. See you when you get home." Joey replied, watching her head back down the hall.
While Kim was gone Bobby asked Alex, "So what did this cat look like? I might surprise her for her birthday and get her one."
"It was a silver gray tabby. Its fur was a silver color and the spots it had were a dark storm cloud gray color with a black tipped tail." Alex replied noticing Kim headed back down the hall.
Bobby nodded his head and heard Kim say, "We'd better be heading out. I'll see you when I get off work."
She and Alex headed to the door and Bobby followed with Keira and said, "You two stay out of trouble. You want me to come pick you up after work?"
"If you want to you can, just leave me a voice mail on my phone before you leave so I know to wait on you." Kim said.
"Sounds good. See you in about four hours then," he replied kissing her goodbye before she left.
As she and Alex headed back to the station the two of them sat chattering back and forth on the ride back.
"So I take it you and Jimmy are together now?" Kim asked.
"Yep, we're going out for a late dinner when we get off tonight." Alex replied, thinking about the invitation for dinner.
Kim smiled and said, "Incase I don't see you before you leave, you two have a good time tonight."
"I'm pretty sure we will." Alex said in return as they pulled into the station.
Alex sat down outside the firehouse and Kim asked, "You gonna stay out here for a bit?"
"Yeah, it's a nice quiet night so I thought I'd chill out here for a bit." She replied.
"Ok, if you need me I'll be upstairs." Kim said, heading up towards the bunks.
Alex nodded her head in reply and relaxed in the cool night air of the city for a while. As Kim walked upstairs Jimmy saw her and asked, "Where's Alex?"
"Downstairs," Kim replied, watching him head in her direction.
She grabbed a book from her bag in her locker and started reading for a bit until it was time to start inventory on the rig. An hour before her shift was up she checked to see if Bobby had left her a voice mail on her phone. After listening to the message he'd left she put the book back into her locker and slipped her phone back in her pocket and went to start on inventory. Jimmy and Alex were liplocked so she managed to slip past them unnoticed outside.
As she worked on inventory she realized that it was a quiet and peaceful night around the city. Those days were few and far between so it was nice when they came. A short time later Alex appeared to help with inventory, Jimmy following close behind her. He blushed when he saw Kim already working and figured she'd seen them together on her way down. Kim heard footsteps coming and looked up, seeing them headed in her direction.
"Why didn't you come get me to help you?" Alex asked, climbing into the rig.
"I didn't want to interrupt." Kim replied, finishing the gauze count.
Alex looked at Jimmy, seeing him blushing and said, "Jimmy, she already knew about us before she saw us kissing."
A look of disbelief crossed his face as he said, "You did?"
"Yep," She replied, glancing up from the paper she had.
Jimmy eventually left to get ready for the end of his shift and Alex and Kim finished up inventory and headed to change. As the shift came to an end, Kim got her stuff ready and turned to Alex and said, "I expect details next time I talk to you."
"You got it," Alex replied smiling, walking downstairs with her where Jimmy was waiting.
As Alex and Jimmy headed off, Kim moved in the direction of where Bobby was parked waiting on her.
"Where are the kids?" she asked as she climbed into the car.
"Mel stopped by to see Keira and said she stay till I got back." He replied, "Any calls come in after you two left earlier?"
"Nope it was dead for four hours," Kim replied.
"I made a light dinner, which Joey tore into. When I left he was practicing for the Tetris battle that is to take place." Bobby said smiling.
"What did you fix?" Kim asked curiously, laughing at Joey getting ready for the round of video games.
"Chicken Pasta salad." Bobby replied.
"That sounds good. Joey loves anything with chicken in it," she said smiling.
"I gathered by the way he ate tonight," He said in response, chuckling.
"Chances are you'll be making that again too because he'll probably beg you to death to make it again." Kim replied grinning.
"He did that when I fixed Beef Stroganoff, if I remember correctly." Bobby said as they headed home.
"Yeah, I remember. You were about ready to go nuts too." Kim said laughing.
Bobby rolled his eyes at her and replied, "I didn't realize he was going to be that persistent. You could have warned me."
"I could have but your reaction was priceless so I'm glad I didn't." Kim responded giggling as they pulled up in front of the apartment complex.
"You keep this up you won't get any pasta salad." Bobby said jokingly.
"You wouldn't dare try it." Kim replied, grinning.
"What makes you so sure about that?" he asked curiously, slipping an arm around her waist as they headed to their apartment.
"Because you love me and wouldn't have the heart to do that." Kim said smiling, leaning into him as they walked.
"You're right. I do love you, very much. But you'd be surprised at what I have the heart to do sometimes." Bobby replied snickering.