Liv had left her phone in his car so he brings it back to her while he has a second.
He walks up to the nurse's station. "This is Dr. Severide's phone could you page her-"then he hears her laugh. "Never mind."
"Seriously, I never seen someone use an arrhythmia to flirt with a twelve year old girl. "Yup your heart skipped a beat we'll have to fix it unless it's about me then we'll leave it!"
"It worked. It distracted her." Kelly watches them come around the corner a sandy haired man pushing her chair one handed and walking beside her as they talked.
She loops her scope on her neck. "Nice to know your skirt chasing charm is used for good and not evil these days."
"Just a shame it never worked on chastity belts."
"That wasn't a chastity belt it was common sense. You got more tail than a rabbit trap."
"Careful you'll give me an ego boost Darlin'" the guy flirts and Kelly's teeth grit of their own accord.
"Like you need it Jase." She looks up and sees him. "Oh wait that's my husband." She rolls toward him and Dr. Flirty follows.
"Hey Baby, everything okay?" she tilts her head up in a nonverbal cue for kiss me.
He kisses her keenly aware of the other man boring holes into him. He kisses her deeper just to fuck with the guy.
"Everything's fine. You left your phone in the car."
"Oh, I need my life line. "She makes a grabby hands gesture.
"Erin's texted you five times in as many minutes." He pulls her phone from his pocket, in its zebra print and pink "Fireman's Wife" case. She takes the phone from him.
"Thanks Babe, This is Jason Holmby he's in cardio we went to med school together than did part of residency together. Jason this is my husband Kelly."
The guy offers his hand and smiles Kelly's not buying but he's pretty in the polished up way that he knows Liv's been known to like. Upon closer inspection he knows how the man wins women over he has one blue eye and one green. He shakes the guys hand with a healthy dose of distrust.
"Grayne you gonna meet me in the cath lab?" he asks.
"It's Severide." Kelly corrects. Liv scowls up at him.
"Can't, I'm helping Planter run the ER today. Take care of the girl but keep me updated." She replied glancing at him.
"You got it. She'll always be Grayne to me." Holmby said and walked off.
She wheels as close to Kelly as the chair will allow. "You didn't have to do that you know?" She set the chair to stand position.
"Do what?" he feigns innocence.
She deepens her voice as she fixes his jacket collar. "It's Severide. "She smiles at him. "Everyone here knows I'm married I wear my rings on lunch break just so I can say I've worn them every day of our marriage." She pulls him into a hug and lays her head on his chest. "Jase is harmless all talk and tall tales. I'm so tired." She yawns.
"Someone shouldn't have stayed up so late organizing the entertainment center." He laughed kissing the top of her head. Tiny flecks of paint still hang on to her fiery hair.
Her pager goes off. "Nooooo." She whines.
"Ya gotta go babe."
She gives him her best puppy dog eyes. "But you're my squishy and I love you."
"Do what? Are you calling me fat?" his brows scrunch as she laughs.
"Finding Nemo was on in the waiting room." She answers sitting down.
"Wait what's a squishy?" he asks.
"Watch the movie! It's on Netflix." She answers tugging her ponytail tighter she rolls off.
"I can't watch a kid's movie in the firehouse."
"Sure you can every dad in the place will sit down to watch. I gotta go. I love you bye." She hollers over her shoulder.
"Love you too Livvy."
-/-/-/-
He drops by Erin's precinct to get the dirt on Holmby.
"Okay Kelly, I know why you're here. You saw Holmby and you're freaked out." She stands on the stairs drinking out of a coffee cup that reads: If you think I'm crazy you should see me with my best friend."
"I'm not freaked I'm curious." He defends. "And that coffee cup is scarily truthful." He adds.
"What about?" She said plainly.
"Did they sleep together?"
Erin smirked. "No beating around the bush huh? No they didn't. Liv was intimidated by his attitude, and he was… he was pre- Olivia you times a hundred. He wants her always has but she was never interested."
"Why not I mean… I'm not stupid." He pushes.
"You can have connections with people of the opposite sex, that aren't sexual Kelly."
"Not if you're straight you can't." he said dryly.
"You can if you were the kind of prude Livvy was."
"She's not a prude." He said feeling oddly offended in her place.
"She's been with three people no wait four. I told her she needed d to have at least one, one night stand in her life time."
"Uh, I didn't need to know." He said trying to feel possessive over Liv because of a faceless hockey player
"Some hockey player for the Blackhawks. It doesn't matter, he's not her type neither is Holmby. You're not at all who I pictured her with but she loves you, like she loves me minus the sex. You got nothing to worry about with Holmby he's a work buddy." Erin reassured patting his shoulder awkwardly.
"Who'd you picture her with?"
"Carver minus the self-entitled ego." She said honestly sipping again.
"One last thing." He cocks his head and squints.
"Yes man of many inappropriate questions?"
"What's a squishy?"
"Fuck if I know. We done?" she asked eyebrows raised.
"Yeah."
"Tell her to call me. Bye McFireballs." She turns to leave.
"Bye Erin."
"Fucking Grey's Anatomy that's what I get for marrying a doctor. I married the actual April Kepner!" he mutters to himself.
She turns back to him as he sprints down the stairs. "Wait she forces you to watch too?"
"You stole my little spoon for your Criminal Minds marathon so unless you want your whole precinct to know you need a cuddle buddy for a serial killer show. You won't mention my minor Grey's viewing." He threatens.
"Little Spoon. That's cute." She replies with a glint in her eye.
"I'm leaving." He spits out frustrated with her.
"You do that!"
"Why's she friends with you?" he mutters to himself.
"Why'd she marry you?" She retorts.
"Do you fight because you want him or for fun." Ruziaak asks as he comes up the stairs stopping on the landing next to her.
"Ew that is so Liv's territory." Her entire face wrinkled in disgust.
"When are you gonna let me meet Liv?" he asks.
"Half past never. Go flirt up burgess." She shoves past him.
-/-/-/-
Molly's is its usual loud and raucous good time but when she rolls in, for him it all becomes white noise nothingness. She looks good. She's wearing black frame glasses a tee shirt with a design he can't make out from here, ripped up jeans. Her hairs in a funky braided up do that makes her look entirely too young. She has very little make up on. He loves her like this, nerdy chic confident in herself comfortable in her skin.
"I married a nerd." He said mostly to himself. "And that's totally okay."
"Because she's a hot nerd?" Otis asks and he realizes he's spoken aloud.
"Dude, you're lucky you got a shot with Katie. Shut up." He warns.
"Why are there giant purple cartoon seashells on your boobs Babe?" he said referring to the design he can now see clearly "They aren't' giant!" she gripes.
"Baby, you may as well have a neon sign on your chest that says "Stare Kelly" they're giant." He confirms.
"A patient gave me this shirt because she said I looked like Ariel."
"Oh Seashell Bra that I can dig." Kelly grins at her and despite herself she laughs.
"If the doctor thing falls through you can work at Disneyland." Otis adds.
"Thank Otis."
Kelly pulls her close and leans down to kiss her. When she yanks his shirt to get him closer he almost falls off the stool and is forced to stand.
Miss me?" he asked laughing.
"Um hm. She makes the chair stand. She pulls him back in
'Well good, the feelings mutual." He cups her face in his hands and kisses her back deeply. The people around them are totally unfazed by them at this point. "How was…" his brain almost melts when her lips find one specific spot on his body where his neck meets his jaw. "You're not playing fair Livvy." He swallows thickly.
"Who said I was playing?" she laughs softly near his ear.
He draws a breath before answering her. Livvy, I will drag you into the bathroom and make you put your money where your big word using mouth is."
"Do you see me making any objection to that plan?" she backs away peering up at him. Desire barely banked in her pretty green eyes.
"Christ I swear!" he kissed her again making his intention blatantly clear. "You, me, and the closest flat surface I can find." He promises." Later, now how was your day? I like the nerd glasses and the Heidi up do." He continues.
"You turned me down, that's never happened before." She pouts.
"It's a painful experience trust me. Prude my ass."He murmurs the last part.
"Huh?" She asked confused.
"Nothing baby how was your baby sitting day?"
"Grady threw a decorative marble ball at me in one of his fits and hit me in the shoulder. I have a huge bruise and Tess thought it'd be funny to replace my contact solution with olive oil hence the glasses."
"So today you're of the opinion we should hold off on the baby train?" he asks smirking as he steps around to peer beneath the collar of her shirt where a deep purplish black bruise blooms like an Raorosach ink blot across the pale curve of her shoulder. "Oh my God, Liv!"
She shrugs. "He didn't mean it; sometimes he can't control his emotional response to stressors. It's not his fault honey it's the autism."
He tips her face up so he can catch her eye. "I know that. I love Grady, but he can't throw things at you he can't. One day he'll be too big for you or Vivi, Rainey, and your mother to control." He said in concern
"That day is fast approaching. I don't want to change his medications I want him to learn to moderate his emotions and the autism himself. I'm trying to help him get there Kell. Today? It was just a bump in Grady's long, long road." She said speaking as a doctor and a sister.
"About that baby train? You'll be an incredible mother one day." He kissed the top her head. "I missed you today." He joined their hands. "It was much too quiet."
"I invited some people from work tonight I hope you don't mind; last shift was hell mass food poisoning on a school field trip. Then an appendix rupture and a kid with worms."
"Worms?' he asked surprised.
"Don't ask."
"And that was just the first three hours. Grayne, Grayne's husband." Holmby said wandering over.
Kelly hadn't noticed the guy walking up he'd been too enamored by Liv. "Holmby." Kelly greets halfheartedly.
"Quarters?" Holmby asks Liv.
"Once the others get here sure. You need an audience for your ass kickin' you'll get! In the meantime mill about it's a friendly place."
"You aren't gonna introduce me?" he said seemingly offended and Kelly hides his smile in the crook of Liv's neck.
"Nope, be the social butterfly that you are I'm going to finish Kelly's beer and eat his sweet potato fries then I'll be there."
She picks up his beer. "You aren't serious?" Kelly gripes.
"Why should we pay for two when we can share?"
"My food too?" he said incredulously.
She popped a fry in her mouth. "I never kid about food. Ever. I love it almost more than you. You win by like a smidge."
"Gee Thanks." He said dryly/
"You know I love you. Even more in your bunker gear. "She tilts her head back at him smilingly pecks him on the lips.
A group of women come in. "Girls! Over here!' Liv shouts over the din of noise and music.
A group of five women and two men come in behind them.
They come over. "Kelly, this is Jill, Shari, Jodi, Faith, and Arianne, Jill's husband Andrew. The lurky one back there is Sarah's boyfriend Hudson. Everyone this is Kelly.
"The infamous Kelly. We finally meet." A pretty brunette with big brown eyes steps forward. Before Liv he'd of picked her up. Now, she barely hits his radar.
Be careful of Shari Kell she's fresh outta vampire school. She minored in phlebotomy and majored in man snaring."
"That's not fair." Shari Snipwa
Liv smirks. "Oh yeah… Holmby's here?" the girls eyes glitter.
"Why?" A brunette Kelly thought was named Jodi asked. Dry disgust obvious in her tone.
"He overheard us because Liv has no inside voice." A fresh faced blonde answers.
"I resent that Sare… I'm just used to having to make myself heard. Liv interjects.
"Where is he?"
"Flirting with my best friend's girlfriend. He's going to have even less luck than he's having with my wife." Kelly answered stifling a laugh.
"Think he knows Viv's my sister and a lesbian?"
"He's about too. Incoming." Kelly whispered as Shay walks by and then over to Viv where there's an almost obscene kiss.
"Well it either turned him off or on." Sarah murmurs.
Liv scoffed. "Ugh god, let's go get a table. You can come sit with us if you want babe."
"Uh, no that's alright. You go do your doctor talk thing that's confusing yet attractive. I'll stay here with Hermann."
"Will order me a braut and a beer?"
"Uh huh." He said distracted by Holmby staring at Livvy.
"You need an electric standy chair." One of her friends says as she sits down.
"No she doesn't don't give her ideas. You don't live with Little Miss I'll Do It Myself I do." He jokes.
"You're just afraid you can't keep up with me."
"Umm, maybe." He admits kissing her cheek.
-/-
Sometime later Kelly looks over to find her and a few others playing quarters, she laughs as she sinks a quarter into the shot glass. "Fourth in a row. Beat that Bitches!" she raises her arms in victory and does a little dance in her chair. That Holmby guy hasn't taken his eyes off her since they sat down. If it was just an appreciative glance he could have let it go, because honestly she's gorgeous a guy's gonna look. Hell Kelly had been watching her himself for his own enjoyment but this guy's poker face is shit he can tell exactly what the man wants.
"It's annoying but you can't fault the guy for looking buddy." Hermann said sitting his beer in front of him.
"Am I that obvious?"
"Nah, you're newly married if you weren't possessive I'd be worried for you." Herrmann leaned on the bar.
"Guys pushing it. See how he keeps reaching around her to grab stuff. He's finding ways to touch her and she's just letting him."
"That was slight. She doesn't realize he's doing it. You're looking for stuff Severide." Gabi said walking up.
Then the guy puts his hand on her leg where Liv has no sensation. "Fucking hell no." he growls out.
"Kelly…" Gabi tries to stop him from making a scene,
"No Dawson he is taking advantage of her circumstances. That is not okay." There's nothing she can say in defense of that. She lets him go.
He makes his way over in three long strides. "You have exactly five very short seconds to remove your hand from my wife's lap. If you don't I will and I'll break every bone in your fucking hand. I'll name then while I do it. Marry a doctor and you pick shit up." Kelly said eyes dark with anger.
"Kelly no one's touching me." Liv said in complete cluelessness.
"That's the point Liv; he touched where he knows you've no sensation. Five…" Kelly said never taking his off the guy.
Liv looks somewhere between disgusted and hurt. She rolls back into Kelly and the guys hand falls away.
"Get out." Liv said stonily.
"Liv it wasn't even like that we're friends." He sputters.
"Do I need to explain good touch bad touch to you Jason?" she spits back lividly.
Holmby sits there dumbfounded at having been caught. Kelly reaches around Liv he grabs the back of Holmby's preppy polo collar and one handedly jerks the man out of his seat and dumps him to the floor. That's when his squad rushes over to hold him off Holmby. "My lady said leave. You'd best do it before they let me go." He warns coldly.
The guy scurries out the door and Kelly angry with the whole situation slams out the side door into the night air.
Kelly doesn't have to see her to know she's there. "Liv I'm not mad at you babe." He said without looking back at her. He can't look at her now because if does he's going to go track the guy down and kill him for putting hurt in her eyes.
"It feels like you are." She said plainly.
"I'm not, I'm mad that the asshole thought it was okay to touch you like he had the right to do as he pleased with my wife! That's not even mentioning the fact that he stared at you all night like a lecher.
"Sometimes people let their work environments change their boundaries, if I somehow precipitated that with my actions it wasn't my intention." She said trying to take responsibility for the whole thing.
Now he has to look back at her because this isn't on her. He sighs deeply. "Honey I saw your face that was neither an invited or expected thing. We're fine okay." He looks over at her sitting in the doorway with her arms crossed over her knees. She looks up at him waiting.
She nods. "I'm just going to let you be for a bit."
He tilts his head at her. "He touches you again; I will show no restraint whatsoever."
"I know."
A few minutes later Matt walks out to join him.
"You okay?"
"No, turns out I don't much like it when other men show any interest in Liv. I was curious at first then jealous then just plain pissed. She oblivious to all of it." He smiles in utter wonder.
"There's a reason for that. The second you walk into a room? She sees nothing but you. You can't see it because you're in the middle of it but you're the axis her whole world turns on. She thought that guy was a friend, Hallie called hers a "Work Husband," because after about the third seven syllable word she'd lose me. She needs someone on her level that does the same thing. We have a whole house of people she doesn't."
"That's true I usually zone out and stare at her mouth while having dirty thoughts." He agrees laughing to himself.
"Look no one will ever care about you or love you as much as she does remember that next time you get jealous and for the love of God deck the perv the next time you see him." Matt counsels.
-/-/-/-
"Viv! I've got it handled. No you cannot call Erin and have him arrested! Because he touched my knee it's not a crime." They hear liv shout from inside seconds later She appears back in the door way. "Can we go home? My nights officially ruined."
"Yeah babe, we'll salvage it."
Salvaging the night means painting their bedroom and eating the Jell-O pudding cups meant for her siblings.
"Hey Livvy! I was thinking does the Elevator count as a room?" he glances over at her carefully painting the wall mint green.
"Uh I don't know why?"
"We haven't done it there yet. In fact never have I ever loved it up while going down if you know what I'm sayin.'" He wiggles his eyebrows laughing when she blushes.
"Kelly Severide!" she slung her paint brush and the mint green hit the nape of his neck and dripped down.
"Oh it's on now roll your little butt away fast woman!" she rolls away but he still caught up to her sliding the roller down her neck and over her arm. "Arghhhhhh, it feels weird stop," she dabs her brush over the gray spot at the front of his hairline. "There now it's colored you can't whine about it now!" she teases.
They sling paint all over each other for the better part of an hour.
Later they post a picture to Liv's Instagram. They're covered head to foot in green paint. "Paint war, we aren't sure who won but the walls definitely lost."
Afterward they shower together in an attempt to remove the paint only to end up having sex mostly still covered in paint. It turns out that flat surface he promised her was the glass shower wall.
"Did you plan that?" he asks. After all, she had started the paint war,
"What running out of hot water? "She retorts smartly while dressing.
"No, seducing me." Kelly asked smiling towel drying his hair and watching Liv's flat stomach disappear beneath the t-shirt she's putting on.
"As if I'd have to seduce you."
"You make a good point." He walks over and shoves her to lie back on the bed.
"Again?" she said only half surprised.
"You had something better in mind?" he kisses her slowly as he climbed on top of her.
"Not really, I was going to catch up on The Following but…"
He stops peering down at her. "You waited on me that's sweet."
"No, its scares me a little I didn't want to watch alone. I could really care less if you're caught up." She said honestly as she leaned up to kiss down his chin and over his Adam's apple.
"Well now, you're just mean! I'm no longer your squishy."
She laughs against his skin. "Still don't know what is huh?"
" . Let's watch. Where'd we leave off?" he asked. He loved doing little things with her even if it is just watching TV.
"Joe taking over the cult. You need pants without them something will happen I know us." She said pointing to his towel wrapped waist.
"I should be ashamed I'm so slutty but nope nada zilch. "He turns to his dresser fishing out grey boxers.
"What happens when you get old and it no longer works Kell?" she asks getting settled in bed.
He glances at her pulling the boxers on. "I'll cry, and then buy Viagra."
She laughs. "What's sad is that I know you're dead serious."
"Kind of a shame we only got one wall done." He nods to the lone green wall.
She shrugs. "That's why Viv helps she's goal oriented you're sexual reward oriented."
"You make me sound like some caveman." He complains.
"Kelly no make fire, Kelly put out fire. "She teased and he laughed.
-/-/-/-
After their TV marathon he finds Liv sleeping on his shoulder. He takes the glasses from her face and he slides his body away from her and tucks her under the covers before going to lock up for the night. He walked around the house in the silence and darkness.
He stops in the kitchen for a glass of water. He drinks it over the sink letting his mind wander. Kelly has never liked the quiet mostly because he'd never lived with it. His parents had always been noisy fighter. 51 was almost constantly in motion and Shay wouldn't know quiet time if it bit her butt. He wants there to be noise and chaos in this house. He wants it not to be of their extended family but of the one they make with the people they claim or create as their own.
The revelation that he wants children should be startling but it's not its exciting and oddly comforting.
When he returns to bed Liv's looking at him with sleepy eyes, hair spilling across her pillow, and a soft smile. "You shouldn't leave me alone when we watch scary stuff I dreamed it was the zombie apocalypse and Joe Carroll tried to eat my face." She said as he climbs in bed.
He turns off his bedside lamp. Plunging the room into darkness. Bummer I like your face." He teases.
"Ass!" she retorts.
"I love you." He replies rolling over to kiss her. "Goodnight baby, sleep well."
"Night Kell. Love you." She returned holding his handing in hers.
AN: Thank you for reading. Please do review if it strikes your fancy. I own nada but my plot ideas, and characters.