Part 4
Relief filled his entire body, it had felt like an eternity between him seeing Maria and her reassuring him that they were fine.
"Why are you here, I mean it's great that you came but...but I thought something had happened."
"I was doing some shopping and decided that getting a lift home from Daddy was better than taking the El all the way home with the pushchair. That's alright isn't it? You're off soon right?"
"Yeah I'm off in," he glanced down at his watched and was shocked to see that he only had five minutes left of his shift, "five. I'll grab the car keys, you can put the kids and bags in the car."
After he had given directions to Maria about the whereabouts of the car, he glanced over his shoulder, spotted Carter and Kerry looking bewildered at his exchange with Maria, deciding it was time to explain he approach them.
"Chief that was Maria. my wife." Thinking this was a good place to stop, he waited for a response.
"Your wife!" Carter stumbled.
"Yeah you know I mentioned, before you fired me, I had a kid." he was more focused on explaining to Weaver than taking in Carter's snide comments.
"Well, Jamie, that's my eldest, he's six and lives with his mom in New Jersey, but after I left here, I met Maria we got married and now we've got twin little boys, Leo and Vin."
"Oh," was all Kerry could utter, she remembered Dave mentioning a kid, but thought he was only doing it for attention, so she wouldn't fire him. She felt guilty all this time she had ignored him, never shown an interest in his life, but now he was married with kids. His life together. Complete. Perfect.
She didn't want to, but she felt jealous, angered that an obnoxious pigheaded man like him could have a perfect life while she had no children and her relationship falling apart.
"Right," Dave spoke, jolting Kerry back into reality, "that's my life story over with and so ends my shift, see you tomorrow Chief, Carter." He turned and fled before awkward questions could slip in.
"Malucci married now there's a turn up for the books" Carter commented then returned to his charts.
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He finally got Leo off to sleep, he was so happy to have a family around him, but he had not realized how much work it would be. Especially twins, the moment one would nod off to sleep the other would wake wanting to be fed or changed; the first few months had taken some getting used to.
They had finally settled into a routine, Dave would try to get seven to seven shifts so he was there to help with the boys in the morning then he would run them to Maria's mothers. He was thankful that Maria's mother lived so close; she loved to look after the boys.
Getting seven to seven shifts could be a full-size problem at County, the shift patterns there tended to be rather erratic and what with Weaver drawing up the roster he knew he was in for a lot of night and double shifts.
"Dave sweetie come on your supper's getting cold," Maria called from the bottom of the stairs.
"Shhh I've only just gotten Leo off and if he wakes up again there's no way I'm putting him back down," he replied in a frustrated whisper slowly making his way down the creaking staircase.
"Sorry. so come on tell me all about your first day of work."
"It was tolerable I suppose considering Weaver hates me, the new guy has it in for me and I had to tell my whole life story to about ten people in the space of an hour." Ok so that was an exaggeration, but it was how he felt.
"Oh and I nearly forgot three kids were sick on me and I had to change my scrub top about a dozen times," again an exaggeration.
"Oh so it was just a normal day then!" Maria looked at him with a glint in her eye "Don't worry sweetie, it'll get better I promise!"
Relief filled his entire body, it had felt like an eternity between him seeing Maria and her reassuring him that they were fine.
"Why are you here, I mean it's great that you came but...but I thought something had happened."
"I was doing some shopping and decided that getting a lift home from Daddy was better than taking the El all the way home with the pushchair. That's alright isn't it? You're off soon right?"
"Yeah I'm off in," he glanced down at his watched and was shocked to see that he only had five minutes left of his shift, "five. I'll grab the car keys, you can put the kids and bags in the car."
After he had given directions to Maria about the whereabouts of the car, he glanced over his shoulder, spotted Carter and Kerry looking bewildered at his exchange with Maria, deciding it was time to explain he approach them.
"Chief that was Maria. my wife." Thinking this was a good place to stop, he waited for a response.
"Your wife!" Carter stumbled.
"Yeah you know I mentioned, before you fired me, I had a kid." he was more focused on explaining to Weaver than taking in Carter's snide comments.
"Well, Jamie, that's my eldest, he's six and lives with his mom in New Jersey, but after I left here, I met Maria we got married and now we've got twin little boys, Leo and Vin."
"Oh," was all Kerry could utter, she remembered Dave mentioning a kid, but thought he was only doing it for attention, so she wouldn't fire him. She felt guilty all this time she had ignored him, never shown an interest in his life, but now he was married with kids. His life together. Complete. Perfect.
She didn't want to, but she felt jealous, angered that an obnoxious pigheaded man like him could have a perfect life while she had no children and her relationship falling apart.
"Right," Dave spoke, jolting Kerry back into reality, "that's my life story over with and so ends my shift, see you tomorrow Chief, Carter." He turned and fled before awkward questions could slip in.
"Malucci married now there's a turn up for the books" Carter commented then returned to his charts.
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He finally got Leo off to sleep, he was so happy to have a family around him, but he had not realized how much work it would be. Especially twins, the moment one would nod off to sleep the other would wake wanting to be fed or changed; the first few months had taken some getting used to.
They had finally settled into a routine, Dave would try to get seven to seven shifts so he was there to help with the boys in the morning then he would run them to Maria's mothers. He was thankful that Maria's mother lived so close; she loved to look after the boys.
Getting seven to seven shifts could be a full-size problem at County, the shift patterns there tended to be rather erratic and what with Weaver drawing up the roster he knew he was in for a lot of night and double shifts.
"Dave sweetie come on your supper's getting cold," Maria called from the bottom of the stairs.
"Shhh I've only just gotten Leo off and if he wakes up again there's no way I'm putting him back down," he replied in a frustrated whisper slowly making his way down the creaking staircase.
"Sorry. so come on tell me all about your first day of work."
"It was tolerable I suppose considering Weaver hates me, the new guy has it in for me and I had to tell my whole life story to about ten people in the space of an hour." Ok so that was an exaggeration, but it was how he felt.
"Oh and I nearly forgot three kids were sick on me and I had to change my scrub top about a dozen times," again an exaggeration.
"Oh so it was just a normal day then!" Maria looked at him with a glint in her eye "Don't worry sweetie, it'll get better I promise!"