It's pouring rain when they walk out of the theatre. "Oh my god, it's a monsoon." She said as they stood watching under a portico waiting for it to let up.
"Shit any second now Rose Dewitt's gonna come floating by on her door." Kelly said.
"I'll never let go Jack!" she retorted "Cheesiest movie ever but I had seriously scary thing for Dicaprio so you get points for the reference."
"Ready to make a run for it Red?" He asked tipping the chair back to go down a curb.
"Now or Never Baby."
He grabbed her chair and took a sharp turn just to make her scream. "If I didn't wanna get to the car quick I'd revoke your driving privileges." She tries to threaten but is laughing when stops by the old Mustang,
"Live a little Boo!" He said kissing the top of her head.
"Don't call me Boo."
He put her in the car and tossed her the keys as he stowed the chair. She starts the car and turns on the heater.
"You're soaked Kell."
"I've had worse." He lean over and kissed her. "Sorry, the heater is total shit in this car. It takes a second."
She reaches over spiking his hair into a Mohawk. "Look now you're all punk."
"Yeah a graying punk." He locked in the mirror and undid her work.
"I think it's hot!" her phone rang out the opening riff of Fire and Dynamite.
"Hey Vivi, No I'm off. I went to see catching fire. Jennifer Lawrence wears a Lycra body suit you'll wanna see it. Uh I liked it I think my boyfriend was a little disappointed that it actually had nothing to do with arson." She put on her seat belt
Kelly laughed setting the car in gear. "Um, we met when he pulled me out of the burning building Mom and Dad don't know about."
"No, Vivianne lets not tell Dad, because he's going to try to lock me in the house to keep me from going to work like last time!"
"That's an approach I haven't tried." He teased adjusting the rear view mirror
"You don't have the stamina to keep me entertained the way I'd want Kelly and all Dad had to do was watch soaps with me he bailed on number four." They wait on traffic in the parking lot.
"Well, I don't know! I think so, when you say it like that I sound like a sycophant. He asked me out! Well you told me to get a life outside the hospital and I did." She ran her fingers through her hair trying to air dry it.
"I know I've missed the last three Sundays I'm sorry I would but that's one of the two or three days Kelly and I have off together. Because it seems unfair to subject him to our madness this early on. Fine, I'll ask."
She looked over at him. "Every Sunday all of my siblings get together and fix a family dinner for our parents. Would you like to come? Please know that you should feel free to say no, really."
"I'm in it'll be fun." He leans across the car to kiss her.
"If I didn't like you so much I'd question your sanity."
"We'll be there. Kelly, you better vacate this parking space before that teeny bopper in the Nissan gets out and shanks your ass." She points out the window to the pissed off girl waiting for their parking spot.
-/-/-/=
Kelly sat Indian style on the bed behind her watching her do her hair. "What are you doing?"
"Scrunching my hair." She crumpled sections of her hair in her hand to create bed head style waves.
"Scrunching?" he asked brows quirking
"Don't ask ok? Can you hand me the hair dryer? It's in the third drawer on my right."
"You keep a blow dryer at my place?" He said surprised but still getting up to do her bidding.
"And a curling and flat iron, half my makeup, a tooth brush and clean underwear."
"Dude, you're my girlfriend for real. "He smiled at her in the mirror.
"I am."She smiled back.
"Where do you keep your underwear?"
"Weirdo!" she stared at him a second before laughing.
"Why'd you put this where you can't reach it?" He leaned down.
"Oh I can reach I just wanted to watch you bend over." She pinched his butt.
"I feel objectified."
"Wouldn't be the first I've seen that calendar your department puts out." She raises her eyebrows at him.
He kissed her handing her the blow dryer. He looked in the mirror to make sure her red lipstick hadn't come off on him.
-/-/-/-
"Mom, I'm home!" she calls out as they come in through the back door into a very large kitchen. They hear many footsteps and they are converged on by almost 2 dozen people. She doesn't even have time to take off her coat.
"Libby!" shouts a tiny girl in the back of the fray. Kelly goes over to pick her up as he gets closer he sees the girl in her Belle night gown has Down syndrome.
"Hi I'm Kelly." He squats down to her level as a blonde woman he assumes Liv's mother watches.
"Libby!" the girl points to Liv.
"Ok, I'll take you too her." He holds out his hands and the girl jumps into his arms trustingly.
"Hey Ollie," A man with fading into gray- blonde hair wades through the children to kiss Liv on the cheek.
"Hey Daddy." She said kissing his cheek and giving him a hug.
"Who's the man carrying Hadley around?" He whispers in her ear.
"That's Kelly, he's fairly harmless the only person who might actually out charm Hads." She said loudly.
"Ok Graynes chill a second." She gets them to all to back out of her face as Owen comes up to kiss her cheek." So I can introduce you to someone get in order. Ok Kell, come here please!" She finishes.
"Hi Hadley baby!" She takes Hadley from him.
"My mother Mara, father Cole, Owen." A tall man with light red hair eyes him warily." Owen's wife Lindsey" The dark haired girl with a bright smile hugs Liv".Hey Chica, Where's Langston?"
"AZT time." A pretty blonde answers.
"Oh okay."
"This is my other sister in law Sarah Anne." She said "Hi Kelly first time's scary it's not so bad after." Sarah Anne Said.
"Vivi, " She points to a statuques blonde woman with Corn flower blue eyes "Liam's late, Rainey," A bi racial man comes bounding down the stairs cutting her off. "Hey Sis!"
"Hey Lang, thanks for joining the party."
"Sorry my life saving meds eats into your plans." He snarked.
"Anyway, Mila, Madden, Grady, Tess, you've met Hadley and finally Joshua. Guys this is Kelly Severide." She points to set of identical twin Asian girls a gangly dark haired boy with bangs in his eyes a young girl with glasses and a mousy brown bob and then to a chubby raven haired toddler braking and unbraking Liv's chair.
-/-/-/-
"Grady keeps eyeing my car. Like he's going to hotwire it." He says coming to her side she had taken off her blue plaid infinity scarf he'd bought her and sat in a white short sleeved shirt and jeans. Hadley wore her scarf as a new dress.
"He has Asperger's and is obsessed with classic cars. You go show him your car and you've made a friend for life." She put her arm around him and he brushed flour off her nose.
"What are doing? You're covered in flour."
"Making my contribution to dinner."
"Which is?"
"Apple pie. Cliché I know." She said and he smirked/
"Hey Grady wanna get a closer look?"
"Mommy! Kelly is going to show me his car!"
"Shoes!" every woman in the house yells to him. Kelly goes back and kisses Liv on the top of the head as she peels apples over the sink. "No matter what Grady tries to tell you flip flips are not shoes."
"Got it."
As they're heading out the door they run head on into a lithe blonde young man wearing a leather motorcycle jacket. His curling blonde hair tied back. "Whoa, that's a whole lotta big and brawny you must be Liv's? I'm Liam"
"Liam!" Liv hollered. "Did you just hit on my boyfriend?"
"No, I just mean you have a type. Typically they have superior chest muscles. Besides I have a girlfriend."
"This week." Langston teases blue eyes sparkling as he takes Kelly's spot by Liv.
"What does that mean?"
"It means that the only people more confused about your sexuality than you are the people you date and that's coming from the family lesbian." Vivi returned as she levered herself to sit on the counter on +Liv's other side.
"She'd be perfect for Shay, and hello Liam I'm Kelly." Kelly put his hand out to shake Liam's.
"Oh hell no, you just go show Grady the car and mind your own Baby."
"Who's Shay?"
"Repeat after me Vivianne Eliza Grayne. I will not screw around with Leslie Shay."
"Oh you don't like her."
"What was the first clue."
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"He's hunky and that is for sure." Mara Grayne stood next her daughter at the sink.
"Mama!"
"I'm old honey not dead, all I'm saying is I see what you see. He's great with Grady. He wasn't at all freaked out by us, just jumped right in with a big smile on his face and helped Hadley when he thought she was being left behind."
"He's a keeper; do I need to slice these apples thinner?" She said not daring to look up afraid her mother would see too much in her eyes.
"No you're fine. Is he the keeper?"
"Huh?"
"Is he the one the last guy you brought home was Carver." She put down the peeler and looked in her mother's all-knowing brown eyes.
"Look I think so but I knew going into this that Kelly's a notorious womanizer. I- just until he makes a serious move I'm not getting too attached. No matter how good in bed he is."
She heard the car engine rev. "Oh God!"
She rushed out. "Buckle up and stay under 85 please!"
"Baby come on now! We're just going around the block and we both know seat belts cause more injuries in a crash than they prevent!" Kelly said head stuck out his rolled down window.
"It's my baby brother, put your head back inside the car and put on the seat belts."
"Fine but Livvy's a prude!" Grady complained pulling on his belt.
"That doesn't mean what you think it does buddy." Kelly smiled and clicked in his seat belt and winked at Liv before pulling out of the drive way.
"He's rescue squad if like they flip it from here to Pine Street then he can get them out." A voice behind her said.
She doesn't bother looking back. "You're an asshole Owen, How'd you know he was squad?"
"That quilted jacket you had on is CFD. Dad's got questions he's just keeping them for dinner conversation."
"Lovely." She muttered turning for the house.
-/-/-/-/-
"You have been working on that pie for an hour baby, it's going to get eaten it doesn't have to be pretty." Kelly said coming up beside her at the island as she cut minute little decorations into the pie crust.
She shot him a dirty look. "What'd I say?" he held up his hands in a "Don't Shoot!" gesture.
"The desserts are my thing and I want them to be pretty." She said.
"Okay, then baby's touchy 'bout pie I get it. Can I have an apple slice?"
"Go away before I smack you with my rubber spoonula thingy."
"Is that the technical term for it spoonula thingy?" he asked as her eyes narrowed.
"I am not playing Kelly Benjamin."
"Livvy?"
"What Tess is a mess?" She returned smiling over at Tess.
"Can I have apples too?"
Kelly grinned at her biting into an apple slice while he slipped Tess one. "They're for decoration quit eating the decor you two!"
"I get that you like perfection, I noticed after watching you do your make up today but it's a pie baby. We're going to eat it!"
"And I really am going to hit you Kelly! Get out of the kitchen." She made as swipe at him with the spatula.
-/-/-/-
"Ollie kicked you out didn't she?" Cole said watching the man standing on the stair landing hands stuffed into his jean pockets looking at a picture of Liv.
"The lady is particular about pie." He said giving him a grin Cole knows had to have charmed his girl.
"Nah, the dessert's her forte she wanted to go to Paris and be a pastry chef until she burned herself making Carmel and that was that."
"Oh so that's what that scar is," He stood looking at a picture of her as a little girl. "She sure was a pretty little thing; she's so tiny in that little chair."
"Oh so you actually adore her, good." He steps on to the stair landing with Kelly.
"I do, it's hard not to be bowled over by all that fearlessness." He smiled to himself. "Only woman who ever bossed me around before she'd let me do my job."
"Name one thing that annoys you but you still love about her." Cole asked trying to discern how real this thing is.
"She plays Candy Crush at night to unwind after her shift I hate that fuckin' game but I still find it cute when she wakes me up to do the timed levels for her because she can't click fast enough."
Cole glanced at the picture Kelly was looking at. "That's her adoption day picture. I remember the first time I saw her was in this rinky dink hospital in this run down suburb of Chicago, she had the Halo on and everything. She looked at me and said "I never had a Daddy I have a Mommy she died her name's Cassidy, Are you my parents now? Are you going to be the Daddy? And if you think it chokes up now you should have seen me then. Owen is biologically ours she's the first child that found a place in my heart on her own fearless little merits. Questions? She had em' but not fear. Livvy doesn't do fear or love either really at least not often, Owen's the one who broke down those walls first. She loves you Kelly or she wouldn't have brought you home. You and one other guy in thirty years. You're a little afraid of me that's good means you're smart. You screw with her heart and thirteen of us will come after you."
He turned to leave but stopped. "If you earn her, if you earn her love and respect? It'll be fine."
=/-/-/=
"Soup's on Grayne's!" Owen shouts.
They all sit down and begin fixing their tacos. "So Rain I like your hair do." Liv commented to the dark haired girl on the opposite side of who Kelly thought was Vivi. "It's easy just a sock bun and a bandana."
"You'll have to show me. How's the SAT Prep course?"
"Preppy. How's it dating a firefighter?" She asked crystal blue eyes shining beneath an overabundance of eye liner.
"Busy."
"And by busy you mean between the sheets right?"
"Rainey!" she scolded.
Kelly knocked shoulders with Liv. "Shut up! I can feel you thinking and you have no shame! "He points a him not looking his way.
"Part of my charm right? You're blushing, never took you for a prude sweetheart."
"What does prude mean?" Grady piped up.
"And on that note how'd you two meet?" Mara asked trying to change the subject.
"A prude is like a really crappy car that refuses to go fast." Kelly answered.
"Nice save." Liv mutters.
"But my sisters in a wheelchair not a car." Grady challenges.
"No she's not a car."
"She's more like a jungle gym babies always climb on her and push her like she's a toy it bothers me." Grady said giving them a scowl.
"It bothers me too cause I'm selfish and want to spend all my time with her but she helps those kids and babies right? So it's okay to share. " Kelly points out.
"I picked out her Lego scrubs last Christmas."
Kelly goes with subject change easily "Solid choice but I like ones with chili peppers on them."
"This the longest conversation Grady had with anyone all week he must like you Kell, Nice job holding eye contact buddy!" Liv said and Lang reached over to ruffle the child's hair.
"I like him okay his car is cool." He said grudgingly.
"Well at least some appreciates it. Livvy took one look and went uh I don't think my chair will fit."
"Oh for crying out loud Kelly it's a car not a person!" she drops a chip back on to her plate and stares at him.
"You never did answer your mother how'd you meet him Ollie? The hospital?" Cole asked
"There was an electrical fire in the Porter Street Women and Children Clinic and he rescued me." She said quickly staring solidly at her plate.
"What?" Her father asked in clarification.
"Seconds before it blew up." She finished.
And the table explodes into accusatory questions
"What? You didn't tell me that?" Vivi yelled.
"What the hell Liv?" Owen accused
"Why were you in that fucking ghetto clinic the last women who ran one ended up fucking dead Olivia she was dead!" Langston nearly screamed. Joshua began crying.
"Look, everyone." They continued hurtling questions and incriminations at her.
"Be quiet!" Kelly said above the din. "Look I'm sorry if that came off rude but she was there because she's a doctor and she took an oath to heal people and that's where she's needed is the in places no other peds doctor will go! I got to her in time and she's fine that's all that matters."
"Thank you Honey." Liv said pausing to take deep breaths.
"Look, I didn't want to tell you guys because it's over and I didn't want you to worry."
"Too late sweet girl." Her father said. "Next time tell us."
"Please God let's hope there's not a next time." Kelly said.
"Do you worry for him? "Sarah Anne asked softy nodding toward Kelly.
Something in the camaraderie of worrying over what you can't control forces her to be honest with Sarah Anne even if reveals too much. "Every second we're a part and if he's even five minutes late I worry that Shay's gonna show up at my door with the chief and tell me that thing I feared happened but we took oaths to help people and so we do. Even if it endangers us." She exhales. "Now for the love of God someone change the subject and let a girl eat her tacos."
-/-/-/-
"Do you really worry like that? About my safety?" He breaks the silence of the drive back to her place
She looks out the window then back at his tense expression "I can't lie Kell, I was too honest as it is."
She exhales a long breath and justifies her feelings. "I get that your feelings aren't as progressed as mine but…I live with the worry and when I knew I was falling for you I accepted that it would become a part of me. Just like the doctor in me knows when Lang's gonna die I can read his counts and I know if I can pull him out of it or if we're going into full blown AIDS territory where I can't save him."
"It lives in the same place as the knowing too much and not enough lives. I get it if ya know I'm too serious and you wanna bail."
"I'm not going anywhere. If I was going to bail I'd of done it by now. If you can live with the fear then I'm not leaving you for having fear about what I do. I'll try to be on time from now on though."
"Thank you." She whispers.
=/=/-/=
"No coffee this time just me." He looks up and she's sitting calmly as can be in Betty Boop scrubs.
He asked grinning. "What are you doing here?"
"Well, we officially work the exact same hours and I'm on something doctors never get lunch break. Wanna have celebratory sex in the fire house?" she asked as she reached over and pulled the curtains down.
He yanked her into the room slamming the door behind her locked it. "You just might be the perfect woman. "He kissed her,
"Hair down." He pulled out her ponytail.
"Ouch Kelly." She said against his mouth.
"Sorry but not really cause you know, your hair…" he wrapped his hand into her hair tilted her back and kissed her deeply.
They break apart only when the need for oxygen demands it. "Clothes off now." She said panting slightly.
"I like it when you get all Dr. Bossy Pants on me." He said kicking off his shoes. He watches her lose the scrub top and his heart bear slows at the sight of skimpy black lace covering her breasts.
"You planned this." He said yanking the shirt over his head as she pulled off her sneakers.
"I hoped for it, the thong matches. There's a garter belt but that seemed like too much work." She lifted herself with one arm and yanked her pants down with the other hand,
"Waitin' on you Lieutenant Severide." She smirked at him.
He dropped trough and kicked out of his pants. He walked over in his under wear and picked her up the same as he did when rescuing her. "In the interest of full disclosure I feel I should tell you I have had sex in the firehouse but never in my quarters." He laid her on his bed and loomed over watching her carefully.
"Well I plan to make you forget anything before. Now stop talking and fuck me." He kissed her.
"With pleasure." She grabbed his face and kissed him hard.
He's lying on top of her when she decides to tease him a little. "Are you gonna put it in or just stare at me all day?"
"It's… you're not funny." He said kissing her and driving his hips into her.
"I still got you."
"Nope you didn't you make that little breathy sound… when I start. Heard it." He said all cockiness and pride.
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She's sitting up to put her clothes back on. "Hey wait." She looks over her shoulder at him and he's holding up his phone and snapped a picture.
"Delete that now!"
"No you look pretty."
"Don't instagram it." She told him leaning over to kiss him and retrieve her bra from the headboard p0ost.
"I won't all you see is your back though."
"Do you have a hairbrush here?" She asked finger combing her hair.
"Bed head not your style baby?"
=/=/=
She rolls past Shay on her way out.
"Is your hair different? It's got lots of volume today." She asks and Liv snickers.
"Nah just left it down. You coming to dinner after shift? I'm cooking for Kelly you might as well join in."
"Maybe what ya making?"
"Haven't decided but I'm a better cook than he is so there's that."
"I take offense to that!" he said walking up behind her to kiss her on the top of the head. "Thanks for lunch babe." He said seriously and without a hint of humor.
"Anytime. Gotta go." Liv barely manages not to laugh.
Shay sees Liv's ponytail holder circling Kelly's wrist and puts two and two together. "You did not."
"Oh if you think I did then I probably did! Bye baby! He shouts as she rolls out the door.
"So she any good? I mean you keep coming back for more." Shay asked leaning over the back of a chair in the common room.
"I'm not answering that Shay." Kelly said plopping down next to her.
"Well if a girl can't feel then she's probably a crappy lay."
"She's not… I mean she has sensation just not… it's none of your business." He answered uncomfortable with the conversation.
"You've always told me before."
"She's different…. It's different and not because she's disabled but because-"he scratched the back of his neck. "Never mind."
"You're in love with her." Shay said in wonderment.
"I don't like using that word… just trust me it's different."
-/-/-
Casey gets a text from Shay.
Shay: Look I barely like Liv but if someone doesn't help Kelly build this ramp he's so insistent on then we're going be scraping pretty lil Red off the pavement."
-/-/-/-
"Are you trying to kill her or show her you love her?" comes from behind Kelly.
"I can do this I don't care what Shay thinks." Kelly said around the nails in his mouth.
"I know you can but do wanna be right or do you want your girl safe? We only have to take down part of it and add a rail I can tell by looking that incline's too steep to negotiate without one and then there's state regs." Kelly sits down in the grass dejected/.
"Those stairs at Molly's are even worse and because it was built before the ADA they don't have to change it but I can guilt trip Hermann into it."
"Damn you really do like this one don't you?"
"A lot." He sees her truck pull up and smiles. He gets to his feet as she kills the engine.
"Hey Kell, can you- what in the hell are you doing?" he walks over kisses her through the open driver's side window.
"I'm building you a ramp." He watches her get out of the car. She's wearing her hair piled on top of her head and a bandana tied around her head. Her shirt reads well behaved women rarely make history. She's wearing black lace leggings that her skin shows through.
"Well baby, it's a really sweet gesture and I love you for it but you're testing it out." She said but he wasn't offended he was going test it anyway.
"You let Rainey do your hair didn't you? You look pretty."
"Thanks I felt lazy."
"Come on I'll Piggy back you inside and come back for the chair and groceries."
"Oooh I like the shoes. They're sexy." He said glancing down at her feet as he picked her up.
"They're from Viv's Stripper Phase. Hey Casey."
"What are you making for dinner?" They walk toward Casey.
"Baked Garlic Parmesan chicken, Homemade Mac and Cheese and A salad. You staying' Casey I make enough to feed an army its reflexive." They walk past him and up the stairs.
"I guess."
"Kell, turn…I meant your body not your head so I can close the door." She kissed him anyway.
-/-/-/-
"Shay I know you don't like Liv but you need to learn too because she makes him happy." Casey commented as they watched the pair standing in the kitchen talking.
"She's too needy."
"But she's not I know what it takes to be a doctor I was practically married to one and to be a doctor you have to be driven and independent even more so if you're disabled, you just don't like her because Kelly needs her and you aren't used to him needing anyone but you."
She sighs but doesn't respond. "Hey Shay settle an argument for us?" Liv said.
"Pudding cups count as dessert right?" Kelly as sitting the dish of Macaroni and cheese on the table.
"Yeah."
"See baby, you're just a dessert snob."
"You remember you said that when you want something. Come on y'all soup's on."
AN: Merry christmas readers! if you enjoyed please review, Fire and dynamite is by drew holcomb and the neighbors! i own nothing but LIv!