AN: I own nothing but Liv, I stretched timelines and added stuff I changed the background between Erin and Liv to fit the show you can go back and re-read the changes in the previous chapter if you like. There's a tiny CPD snippet at the end! If you liked it please do review! There's exciting stuff heading Kelly and Livvy's way.
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Liv's phone ring out loud police sirens. She groans and opens her eyes she answers the phone. "Hey Slut bucket, you better have something good I'm hung over and my head hurts. Kelly looks so sad you'd think someone shot his puppy and he's still asleep."
"I collared Keeler for questioning." Her friend answers snappily.
"Atta girl. Be there in a bit." She hangs up.
She rolls over. "Hey Kelly," she ran finger tip down his jawline. "Wake up babe."
"Mhhmm, love you too." He mumbles in his sleep, she smiles a little. She shakes him and starts. "What?"
"Erin picked up Keeler for questioning but I'm all for hearing more about how much you love me on the way to the station."
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The ride to the station is silent until he looks at her shirt as he's reaching for her hand. "Sarc my second favorite asm." He laughs. "We'll work on your first one later. He kisses her hand.
"That a fact? "She smirks.
"You betcha." As they pull up Keeler's leaving. "Kelly…" it's too late he's already out of the car and across the street looming over the smaller man. Liv honks the horn and draws Erin's attention "Grab him, before you're forced to arrest him please!"
He stomps back to the car and gets in slamming the door. "Why'd you stop me? She's been missing three days!"
"I know that but I also knew what was coming next and I don't have bail money."
"You might wanna get some because I'm going to find her anyway I can. Waiting for your precious Erin to do her job is wearing thin." He barks at her starting the car.
"Kelly what are you going to do?"
"Right now, I'm going to take you to work. Don't look at me like that you know I trust you Olivia. This gives you deniability. You see a crime committed you have to report it or lose your license. This way you won't. Doc Livvy stays."
He drops her off at the front entrance. "Be careful Kelly Benjamin."
"Always." He says with a grin and kisses her in a way that makes her heart stutter. "Bye, Liv."
"Bye, love you. I do hope you find her babe."
"Me too I'll pick you up at shifts end." He waves and leaves.
She watches him drive off and she hopes she's not letting him do something stupid because she's afraid of letting him stew any longer. She wants her boyfriend back and if letting him do this by himself gets her there then that's fine. It might be cold and but it's the truth. She wants Kelly back even if it's impulsive Kelly.
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She's putting on a Netflix movie for ER waiting room when her phone rings. "Baby." She answers.
"I found her, she looks bad Livvy, I'm having her sent to you." He sounds close to tears and her first instinct is calm him down and try some form of comforting because Kelly just doesn't cry.
"Breathe Kelly, you found her that's the important thing." He hiccups but she pictures him nodding.
They bring in the bruised and battered girl and her heart clinches. She orders tests and x-rays and gently shoves Kelly out of the room. "Livvy I-"he stutters.
"Baby, I have to ask personal and painful questions. I need you to trust me now okay? I've got her I promise. Do you believe me? "She asks holding his hand.
"Yes, I trust you Olivia it's not that baby. I-"
"You can stand just outside the door honey." She lets him go and turns back to her work.
"She kicked me out." He tells Erin.
"That's her job, some stuff that might need to be done; well you don't want your brother there. Liv's a Doctor first and your future wife second. Yes, I know Cole told Owen, Owen told me." Erin said leaning on the wall across from him.
"What do you think she'll say?" he asks just to distract himself.
"I think you need to ask her to find out." She hedges with a sly smile.
A nurse walks by "Grayne needs a rape kit in bay 3."
"Jesus, she's in pediatrics, what's the world coming too?" another comments from the nurses station.
"No, it's a woman somehow they're connected she won't let anyone else touch her." The younger girl answers walking back to the exam room kit in hand.
Kelly's eyes fill with angry tears and he walks off.
Sometime later.
E, I'm going to have her moved to a room but then you can ask your questions where's Kell? "Liv comes out of the room ditcher her gloves in a nearby biohazard bin.
"Overheard about the rape kit." She answers lowly.
"I'm going to check on him, keep an eye on Katie will you." She doesn't wait for answer just rolls down the hall.
"He went-"
"I know where he is." She said.
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"Hey McFireballs thought I could find you here." She said rolling into the sun room.
"You're good." He clears his throat and sniffs.
"I know you and I told you that I loved you in this room. Figures you'd go back to one situation that scared you to avoid another that's flat out terrifying." She rolled up beside him taking his hand.
"How bad?" He said avoiding her gaze.
"We both know I can't tell you that." She tugged on his hand. "Turn and look at me." He turns and there are tears tracking down his face. She slides her chair to the standing. "Okay, I'm not going to lie to you because that's not what we do. It's bad and downright horrible but the good guys are gonna win, Erin's gonna get him babe." She wiped his eyes. "Trust me?
"Always." He kissed her. "I love back by the way."
"What do I do now Livvy?" he puts his arms around hugging her as close as the chair will allow.
"Go be her big brother."
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"Ok Kelly we're going to talk about anything but what happened okay?" she stares at him directly with the eye that's not bruised and swollen shut.
"Okay." He handed her his phone." Want to help me pick out Liv's engagement ring?"
"Holy shit balls "she smiled. "One good came out of this you woke the hell up and realized you needed to put a ring on that one."
"I was thinking about it before this just made me sure life's too short to wait. So, Vivi Likes the first one…" he leans over close to Katie.
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Liv comes into the room and they're huddled together over his phone that still wears the indestructible case she gave him for Valentine's Day.
"Am I interrupting? Should I come back?" she teases.
"Oh no baby." he put up the phone.
"Do you need Kelly to leave Katie?" She asks gently picking up her tablet that holds Katie's file.
"No, it's fine."
"All of your tests came back negative but I want you redo the HIV test in six months because disease lies dormant for that long. In that your counts won't pick it up."
"How's that possible?" Kelly asks.
"Everyone's different babe. Lang was asymptomatic until he was ten."
"So I just come back and you'll do it?"
"Yup."
"Okay."
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Two months later.
Even through ear plugs Liv can hear her phone ringing She reaches for it blindly refusing to open her eyes. She pulls out an ear plug and answers. "What?"
"Hi baby what ya doin?"Kelly asks happily.
"Hey Kell I'm sleeping in the on call room." She replies and then yawns deeply.
"What do you need?" She yawns. She hears sirens but blows it off.
"Can you go to that fourth floor window on the east side in the child life room?" he asks.
"Why did someone jump?" She said with a little excitement at a good trauma.
"No Miss Doom and Gloom. Will you just go to the window?" he's laughing lowly in her ear.
"There better be something spectacular out there Kelly. First time I've gotten outta the chair in sixteen hours but I'm getting back in it for you. "She said grumpily.
She sits before the window with her arms crossed. "I'm here but I'm not happy about it what is so important that-wait is that your squad truck?"
"Talk to Erin a minute honey." He said distractedly.
"Erin what is going on? Why are you outside? I see my Mom, that ladder is moving Erin. It's moving toward me." She said half excited half nervous.
She watches Kelly climb up the ladder to her. "Erin is this what I think it is?" she asked voice shaking as Kelly gets closer to her and farther from the ground.
Kelly waves to her. "That's dangerous four points of contact put your hand down." She griped but waved back.
"Olivia, take a deep breath sweets it's about to get interesting." Erin advises. She can hear her best friend's smile.
"Open the window Babe!" Kelly shouts.
"What if I set off an alarm?" She shouts back
He said a little exasperated and he laughed. "I'll turn it off. Open the window!"
She struggles but gets it open. She leans out the window a bit as they move the ladder closer. "Don't lean so far out!" he admonishes.
She rolls her eyes at him as the ladder literally delivers him to the windowsill. He grins at her. "Hi!"
He goes wavy as her eyes fill with tears. "I know that I promised you no reenactments but I had to break that one, I hope that's okay. Exactly a year ago today, we met just like this. Well almost but you get my point." He shrugs a little smiling as she nods.
"Yeah." She answers lamely. For once she can't think of what to say.
"No one has ever changed my life so completely for the better in such a short amount of time as you have Livvy; no one has ever made me happier, made me laugh, challenged me, shown me what true love feels like or scared me as much as you have. I've loved every single second of it and every moment I've spent with you. I feel whole and like I'm a part of something important any time I'm with you. I love you so much more than I will ever be able to express to you. I want to spend my life with you; if you'll let me will you marry me?"
She sets still in shock for a second. "Erin said if you went all quiet on me to tell you that you're not being punked it's real." She laughs of course Erin would remember that conversation.
"Yes, I'd love to be married to you." She answers.
He grins at her. "I love you!" he turns and gives the thumbs up to the guys below and the sirens go off and her siblings and pediatrics kids release balloons.
He climbs through the window and kisses her. "I love you too." She kisses him back. "Hmmm." He laughs. "We could keep kissing or I could show you the ring." He said still holding her face in his hands.
"Does it make me shallow if I wanna see?" She asked smiling.
He lets her go for a moment. "No, it makes you a girl." He pulls a velvet box out of his fire jacket and opens it. He puts the round cut center set diamond on her hand. The band is platinum and covered in diamonds. "Katie was the tie breaker. She helped pick it."
"Wow."
"Yeah, I showed to the girls and Hadley wants it so watch out. And I quote, I want. Keely, I want it."
She laughed. "We should go down before you get fired for using the fire trucks recreationally and I get the hospital sited for noise ordinance violations."
"Are you shaking Kelly?" When he steps behind her to push the chair she notices his trembling hands.
"I was nervous. You cried." He defends.
"Happy tears. Why were you nervous? You knew my answer."
"No, I didn't." he kissed her forehead. "Let's head down."
"I'm sure my mom bawled."
"Before I was even halfway up the ladder and Erin-"
"Oh shit! Erin!" she raced back and picked her phone up off the floor. "E, you there?"
"He asked! Get your ass down here so I can hug you!"Erin said laughing.
"Love ya!
"Back at ya even more."
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"Erin I hated every single one of those bitches why would I put myself through the motherfucking gauntlet? "She said lying in bed reading her trashy novel and eating ice cream as they talk on the phone.
"Because I was one of those bitches and you loved me anyway…"
She whined giving a childish grunt. "I was going to stay home and have sex with Kelly, I kind of hate you."
"Bring him and have hotel room sex."
"I can stay home and have equally satisfying sex if I rent a room it's like paying for it and then I just feel dirty." Kelly walked in laughing having over heard her.
"What are you trying to avoid Livvy?" he asked crawling on top of her. He put aside her book. He kisses her awaiting an answer.
"My ten year high school reunion, I hated those people they were judgmental. Carly Zimmerman said I'd die a virgin and black mailed her brother into dating me for four months then he publically dumped me at homecoming and told the entire senior class that the reason he dumped me was because I laid there stiff as a board because I couldn't feel anything when he put it in. I never let get past third base."
"Asshole." She mutters spooning up some ice cream.
"Point him out and I'll pull the fire alarm then when the fire trucks come I'll blame him." Her ring flashes at him as she feeds him.
"Kelly Severide! Isn't that illegal?"
He speaks around the ice cream. "Slightly, but I work there they'll believe me."
"How bad do you want me to go to this thing Erin?" She cocks her and squints and it makes him smile.
"I'm making Halsted be my date and we're fake engaged what does that tell you."
"That Stephanie got to you. Tell me is your ring from one of those toy dispenser things?" she teases.
"Thought I'd borrow yours?"
"Uh no," she states plainly. "Anyway that's like you'll die a spinster bad luck. No thanks."
"Fine, just promise me you'll go?"
"Only because I love you more than I hate all of that shit I went through which is a lot."
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"We'll ditch out early if you want." He stands in the bathroom door watching her get ready.
She glances over at him in his black on black suit and stop dead in her tracks. "I'm still not quite sure how I landed you." She murmured to herself.
"You're bossy and it turns me on." He walks further in the room and pulls down her dress for her as she has the chair in a standing position. "You look beautiful." Her dress is a red ombre bandage style vee necked dress with a cut out in the back. it fades from deep red to black at the bottom. Her feet are still bare of shoes and her pedicure is bright pink.
He kissed her lips obviously still bare of lipstick. He likes her like this just naturally beautiful no, additives or anything faked. Just Livvy his girl.
"Too short?" She asks about the dress.
"Nah, it was just riding up. Wouldn't want Carly Zimmerman's brother to peek the good's he hated on."
"Snapshot?" he held up his phone. He steps up behind her and puts an arm around her waist his chin resting on her shoulder. They smile and snap the picture. He posts it to Instagram with the caption "St. Iggy's ain't seen nothin' like us! #hotcouple #Livvy10yearslater" and her phone dings a few minutes later " renee_royce wants to know who I am." She tells him before answering the other woman.
DocLivLou: I'm his fiancée Olivia, you're baby boy is cute.
"Shay did Viv leave her metallic snakeskin print heels here?" She shouts.
"Ok that sounds really hot." Kelly comments as he watches her apply mascara. "You're dad just gave me permission to kick the Zimmerman kid in the balls for him."
"You're joking."
He shook his head "Note to self-Papa Grayne don't play."
"Carly Zimmerman was jealous or wanted to fuck you." Shay handed her the shoes.
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They take his car and when he helps her into her chair he feels Erin watching him and measuring the amount of care he treats her with. "You set baby?"" he asks setting her feet more precisely in the feet rests.
"Yeah."
He walks beside her holding one of her hands until she needs help jumping a curb and the girls walk ahead of him and Halsted then stop cold.
"What're we doing here?" Erin asks her when they catch up into hearing distance.
"I don't know remember I wanted to stay home and…well you know." Kelly laughs a little.
They stand and sit there respectively holding hands as they stare at a group of screechy fat women. Kelly sees nothing to be envious of at all. Though there seems to something personal going on between the two. So neither man says anything.
"We're here because no matter how much we deny it, it matters how we were treated and that they never saw who we actually were but E, it'll never change those girls are who they've always been and so are we." Liv kissed the back of her hand.
"You're the only person who never hated who I really was." Erin kissed the back of her hand then dropped their hands once she realized they were being watched.
"Who was I to talk I was in the real life cheaper by the dozen and my biological parents were crazy and addicted to everything, hell anything bad for you."
"Baby," Kelly leaned into their space.
"Yeah." She laughs a little at his sudden need to speak. She wipes a tear forming in the corner of her eye.
"I take back my early statement, even high school me picked you over that shit over there just sayin'."
"Babe!"
"I have slept with maybe half of Chicago but I draw the line at Pill Poppin' Annie and Fluffy Francine." Liv just rolls her eyes used to his humor but it makes Erin burst out laughing.
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She sits on a stool in the abandoned Molly's Bar. Shay had given Kelly the key with a critical eye. He's making them burgers on the cook top. "Are you okay back there honey? Do you like have any fucking clue what you're doing?"
He pokes his head out the cook's window. "That was offensive."
She laughs. "Oops, did I hurt your fragile feelings kitten?" she picks up a pretzel.
"Don't eat that men don't wash their hands in the john." Her face scrunches in disgust and she drops the snack.
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He sits next to her and they eat their burgers.
"When Erin said you're the only one who never hated her? What'd she mean?" he watches her crush a chip with a fingertip.
She glances up at him. "E was a street kid with junkie parents when Hank took her in, cleaned her up, and got her in at Ignatius. She made up this story that she was this posh kid with jet setting parents and she was staying with family. She joined the Bitch Squad but they found out the truth and blackballed her. If those girls thought they were better than you….well it got ugly fast. I was the smart, weird, disabled girl, there on reduced rates so that school looked rounded and inclusive. I had no friends. Not one. I took a chance one day and asked Erin if I could eat lunch with her and the rest as they say is history. So, is Gabi gonna retry the fire academy?"
"I don't know but I did just get word while I was working on our dinner that Jones is the candidate for 51."
Liv rolled her eyes at him. "I don't trust anyone who relies on their name to get them through life."
"Me either which is why I have my eye on her. Now, if you're done with dinner I have a plan I think you'll like." He picks her up and sets her on the edge of the bar, "Ever done it in a bar on the bar?"
She laughs and then the heated look he gives her pulls her up short. "Oh my God, you're serious. Kell you're unbelievable."
He squeezes between the bar stool and the bar and stands in the gap of her legs. "That's not a no, or I don't want too." He grins. She pulls on his shirt lapel.
He kisses her. "What if someone comes in?" She said as he pushes down the strap of her dress and kisses along her neck as his other hand crawls up her skirt. "I locked it.' He answers stopping to look at her pressed back against the beer taps. He pulls her forward so that she has to hang on to him or risk falling.
She kisses him back. Her hands blindly landing on his belt buckle. Her phone trills out police sirens. "Damn it Erin." She groans in frustration.
"Ignore it." They go back to making out and the ringing stops then starts again after less than a beat.
"You answer it because if I do she'll get bitched out." She watches him move down the bar and she scoots back watching him bend to retrieve her phone from her purse on the floor.
"What Erin? What? Why? He's been locked up for two months, how'd this happen? Yeah well a lotta good that does my sister Lindsay!" he hung up.
He answers her quizzical expression. "Keeler walked on a technicality at his bail hearing today!"
"What?"
"Lindsay said he had to have known a higher up."
"Kelly promise me you aren't going to act first and think later."
After a silent beat. "I wish I could promise you that baby I really do." He kissed her again so he didn't do something stupid at least not right this minute.