I don't own the shows characters ( sadly) Please R & R and thanx to all who have already.
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The Beginning of Oct.
" So what are we gonna do for Halloween?"
" Well we usually turn the house into a Haunted House." Kim replied. " We have a pretty good turn out, and as you can imagine the boys go all out."
" Oh, I can't wait!" Ty exclaimed her voice filled with excitement, a huge grin on her face.
" Man, your just like a little kid." Kim said laughing and grabbing her bag from the back of the bus.
" Am not!" Ty replied grabbing her own bag. Then walking into the house. " So what seems to be the problem ma'am?"
" My son, something's wrong." The woman replied pointing to the crib in the nursery where her infant son lay.
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Later that night at the fire house. The rig had just returned from a call.
" Hey, where's my sister at?" Alex asked coming up to Kim.
" She's been up on the roof most of the night."
" Why what happened?" D.K. asked hearing what Kim had said.
" We had a shout that hit a little to close to home for both of us. We lost a patient."
" That bites, what happened?" Jimmy asked joining the group after having grabbed a bottle of water from the fridge.
" We got a call where a six month old boy was in repertory arrest. We tried every trick in the book to save him but nothing worked. On top of that we had to try and console the mother."
" Damn."
Jimmy walked over to the fridge to grab another bottle of water and then headed towards the roof. On his way there he stopped at his bunk to grab his blanket.
" Hey" he said while draping the blanket across her shoulders. " I thought you might like some company."
" Thanks. I guess Kim told everyone what happened."
" Alex asked where you were, so yeah she mentioned it. Do you want to talk about it?"
" Not really."
" I noticed you haven't been getting a lot of sleep lately."
" Wow, you've become Mr. Observant. Ever since the incident with Brook a couple of months ago I keep having dreams of the day Michael was born.
" Why didn't you tell me?"
" What so we can both suffer?"
" Well that's got to beat suffering alone."
" So what's going on with you and Brook? I haven heard anything through the station grapevine lately. Also are you still staying with D.K.?"
Laughing " You still haven't learned how to subtly change the subject…"
" Stop stalling Doherty and answer the questions." Ty growled.
" And your still impatient as hell" At that comment Ty glared at him " Ok, ok the divorce was finalized last week and no I'm not staying with D.K. anymore. I've gotten a place of my own."
" That's cool."
" Hey, lets go for a drink and something to eat after work tonight."
" Sure, why not. But you're buying."
" No problem."
*** Gipseys Pizza Place***
" So you want the usual?"
" Of course, come on now don't tell me you forgot how I like my pizza?"
" No I remember everything you ever liked and disliked."
So over the next two hours and several pitchers of beer they talked about everything that mattered. They then got a cab to Jimmy's apartment where they talked some more. At some point they both fell asleep on his bed. The next morning Ty woke up disoriented with Jimmy's arm draped around her waist.
" Morning" Jimmy said into her hair when he noticed she'd woken up. " I hope you slept well?"
Slowly turning in his arms " Good Morning to you to. I slept great, better than I have in a long time actually."
Jimmy couldn't resist, she looked so beautiful first thing in the morning so he kissed her. At first she was a little surprised but then she started to kiss him back and things heated up exponentially. Several hours later the both made it out of bed.
" I'll see you at work, I have to run home change and grab my uniform." Ty said kissing him quickly before leaving his apartment.
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" So how was your night out with Jimmy?" Kim asked while they were driving around waiting for their next call.
Ty blushed " It was nice, we had dinner and talked for a couple of hours."
" And?"
" What do you mean and?" Ty asked playing stupid.
" And what else? When I asked about dinner you turned bright red." Kim stated matter-of-factly.
" Well we went back to his place and talked. We ended up falling asleep and then woke up in each others arms this morning."
" And?"
" Well he kissed me and one thing led to another and we had sex. Happy Now?" Ty said her voice laced with frustration.
" For someone who just got laid you're acting very grumpy. What, didn't he satisfy you?"
" KIM! We are NOT having this conversation. Anyway you know damn well he's good in bed. It's just I don't know if I can do the whole relationship thing with him again. I know that's what he wants."
" Ok, time for a stupid question, but I have to ask it. You two love each other, even a blind person could see that, so what exactly is the problem?"
" The problem is that he wants more kids. But after Michael died I swore to myself never again."
" Have you told him this?"
" Yeah, I told him and he said didn't care or rather that it didn't matter."
" Give what you had another chance, both of you deserve happiness and I think you've found that in one another."
However, Ty decided to ignore Kim's advice and her heart. She would avoid Jimmy as much as she could, which wasn't that easy since they had to work together, now that Lt. Johnson had put her back on the rig two days after they'd slept together.
" DOHERTY!" D.K. yelled " What the Hell did you do to Ty?" he asked as soon as Jimmy had turned around and walked over to him.
" I think I scared her and pushed her to far to fast."
" Ok, your gonna have to explain that statement." D.K. replied confused.
" The other night we went out to dinner, then went back to my place where we talked and then fell asleep. The next morning we made love. That clear enough for you?" Jimmy snapped.
" Crystal Clear. But don't get pissed at me, cause you screwed up."
Sighing " Sorry man."
" Forgiven" D.K. said smiling. "I'm just glad it's you and not me."
At those words Jimmy just glared at him.
After two weeks things slowly started to return to normal.
" So all of you are working the haunted house this year?" Lieu asked his people.
" Yeah" they all replied in unison.
" Good because the guys from the 53rd will be covering all of our calls that night.