I own nothing but Liv her family and any future progeny she can Kelly may have. There will be no Lindsay/Severide relationship in this fic. Please be respectful of that choice please do not send LIndseride Shipper hate mail. I'd like to say thank you for all of the follows, favorites, and reviews I have received. There's one little scene from CPD referenced and slightly rewritten in here. Thank you for reading and I hope you enjoy!-Meg
Kelly wakes too noise. "Baby turn down the TV please." The sound persists. "Livvy!" his eyes pop open to see a giant metal rectangle hanging above his head. It takes a second to clear; her feet and purple painted toes hang in his eye line. "Olivia Severide!" he hollers.
"Hi baby!" she leans forward and peers down hair falling around her face. She smiles at him brightly and it irks him.
"Really, Hi baby! Really that's all I get when I find you hanging above my head first thing in the morning?" he almost shouts scrubbing his hands down his face.
"Uh…I couldn't find a sex swing on such short notice?" She tries again.
He can't even stay mad because that was funny. He laughs. "That was a quick one Babe. Nice."
"What are you doing up there? You know I feel about the orange death trap."
"See when you call it something like that you send out the wrong vibe. I named it Bob. Nice harmless Bob."
"Yeah well I don't like Bob. He clashes with your hair." He puts a pillow over his face.
"Chill McFireballs I'm right here. Took a pee break." Erin said exiting their bathroom.
"That wasn't the TV. Damn it." He grumbles.
"I'm going down stairs." He grabs his pillow and yanks the covers off. He walks down stairs.
Erin glanced over at Kelly's bare butt. "Nice tush, Severide!"
"Cover up Kell!" Liv shouts turning back to him.
"You're too bossy. I need coffee." He complained yawning.
"Bring me a cup since you forgot to kiss me good morning"
"I love you. Get it yourself." He deadpanned.
"Fine be that way!"
About an hour later.
Kelly comes back up the stairs wrapped in the comforter. "Making breakfast naked is painful."
Liv chuckles mostly to herself as he grabs his clothes and disappears into the bathroom. He comes out dressed in lounge pants and tank top. He climbs up to stand on the mattress. He stands there silently for second looking at her expectantly. "Yes Honey? Oh…okay." She said finally figuring it out. She kissed him softly very nearly chastely.
"Uh, uh," he pulls her toward him a little by putting a hand on the back of her neck. He kisses her long and slow.
"Damn…I hate you both." Erin murmurs and Liv knows it must look as hot as it feels. He nips her bottom lip as they part.
"Good morning, I'll bring up breakfast for you guys. How do you like your eggs Erin?"
"Scrambled like Liv's brain right now." Erin teased.
"Ok so its official I'm jealous of your love life now." She said with a glint her eye.
Liv replies as she paints the trim white. "You mean the first time ever. I could always set you up until you and Halstead finally crack."
"Whatever."
"Hear that? That's the sound of your resolve slowly crumbling to dust. Liv grins shoulder bumping her.
"Wait, you get kissed like that every morning?"
"Depends on his mood and time but yeah…" Liv said in a self-satisfied manner Erin wasn't used too.
"If I wasn't here you'd have sex right?"
"Yup." She said honestly.
"I hate you."
"Get to paintin' bitch."
"I will push you." Erin threatened dryly.
"Kelly will kill you." Liv retorted.
They hear The Hippy, Hippy, Shake blare out of the kitchen speakers loudly followed by a startled scream from Kelly. They burst out laughing helplessly leaning into each other. "Good thing I already peed. That was funny." Erin said catching her breath,
"Olivia!" He shouts up,
"Sorry Tess did that!"
"He girly screamed, you need to pay Tess."
"I know she's evil and I love her." The women shared conspiratorial smile.
-/-/-/-
"Whatcha doin' for bio mom's birthday this year?" Erin asks as Kelly walks up the stairs he doesn't mean to eavesdrop. He's not actively trying it just happens.
"Same…polaroid picture and flowers." She answers then clears her throat.
"Gonna take Kelly with you?"
"He won't get it. No one does." He can picture her shaking her head as he mounts the final stairs.
"That's not the point Livvy."
"I don't have to understand it to be there for you." Kelly said walking in. "But you could always try telling me." He extends the tray he's carrying. "Breakfast. Come down please."
She pulls the lever to mechanically lower them to the floor. He sits the tray on the rumpled bed and then picks Liv up and sits her in the wheelchair.
"Husbands are handy if I believed in monogamy I might get one." Erin said. She grabbed up a plate sitting on the floor.
"I lift heavy shit, change light bulbs, take out trash, kill critters, grill things, and provide sexual service though only to Livvy." He sits in the floor next to her as he clarified the last part of the sentence by nodding at Liv.
"You forgot nightly safety sweeps."
-/-/-/-/-
Liv sits in her chair with Kelly on the floor to her left and Erin in the floor to her right. "Tell about your mom." Kelly pushes biting into his eggs.
She nibbled her toast eyes narrowing in thought. "She was crazy as hell but she loved me. She smelled like White Diamonds and menthols. She was pretty once before her life got hard. I worry that I inherited her crazy and just don't know it yet. She always called me Olivia she never shortened ever. She was taking me to get ice cream the night of the accident. At least that's what she told me" She swallowed thickly. I was playing with a little pony toy when the car hit us. I remember looking up seeing the headlights of the oncoming car and not being afraid because she looked so happy." Tears misted her eyes until she shook her head to clear the memory and they were gone.
"Damn…Ok so your Mom was crazy but you loved her what's wrong with that?" Kelly asked.
"Nothing I guess unless you're my parents. I think they feel betrayed because I do something for someone who didn't put me first. My mom sees the grave of the woman who put me in this chair. My father sees who I could have been every time I lay flowers on that grave. That I might even be in the ground next to her." Erin squeezes her hand briefly then let's go.
"Liv, you aren't crazy you aged out of the diagnostic period without any symptoms." Erin said.
"I know that I'm a doctor but it doesn't make the fear go away." She smiled cryptically.
"I researched okay. I got scared when she started dating Carver." Erin defends when Kelly shot her a dirty look.
"Why?" Liv asked with a laugh,
"Because I thought you were dating him to keep you sane."
"And Kelly was for in the event I became a pyro right? She retorted jokingly.
Erin gestured between Kelly and liv. "I'm still not sure how this happened other than you've always attracted the skirt chasers. I think they like the idea of a challenge."
"Speaking of challenges, I can't believe you guys got three walls done." Kelly commented.
"We make a kick ass team." Liv said high fiving Erin.
"And we have been at since six. You sleep like the dead." Erin stated.
"Yeah well when you sleep attuned to the fire tone; you become condition to sleep hard when you can."
"Aren't you tired Livvy?" Kelly asked.
"Used to work 36's remember. I am and shall forever be queen of coffee and cat napery." She said proudly.
-/-/-/-/-
While they waited for the paint to dry Erin heads in to work Liv and Kelly go to see Divergent.
"Well that's two hours of my life I'll never get back." Kelly griped. He unlocked the door and walked in.
"It wasn't that bad!" she wheels inside as he tosses the keys in the bowl beside their door. He glances back at her in jeans a "Molly's Pub" shirt and his leather jacket. Her aviators are pushed on her head as a makeshift headband.
"Easy for you to say you like those post-apocalyptic bullshit love stories." He points out.
"I should have taken Rain."
He shrugs. "But then I'd lose my brownie points for setting through it."
"This is true. Whatcha wanna do now?"
"Truth? Take a nap or have sex." He said straight face and Liv laughed.
"Do ya one better, sex then a nap." She wiggled her eyebrows grinning.
"I knew there was a reason I married you." He picks her up and tosses her over his shoulder.
"Are you serious right now? We have an elevator Kelly."
"I'm a firefighter I can handle three flights of stairs."
"You know looking at this carpet we need stair runners or we'll be vacuuming all the time." She said quietly thinking aloud.
"Livvy my baby…"
"Yep."
"Hush."
He pinches her on the rear. "I can feel that a little you know?" She retorts pinching him back.
-/-/-/-
They lay tangled together with Tyrone Wells playing in the background, from Liv's IPod Dock. "You're not sleeping you're thinking Livvy I can feel it." Kelly said not opening his eyes.
"I'm just trying to figure how I want things arranged and hung up. I think we should move the-"
"Livvy Honey…shut up." He mumbles into her flowery scented hair.
"Will you tickle my back I can't unwind?" She curls around him tighter.
He runs his nails lazily up and down her bare back. "Then I'm doing it wrong baby. "He said referring to the sex they'd just had.
"Nah, Erin put monster in my coffee."
"What'd I do to deserve that?"
"We were painting."
"You can't run it off you'll get the shakes in a bit." He yawns.
"Or the trots as you so eloquently put it."
He laughs. "Those too."
"What is it with you and poop jokes?" she kisses him.
"I enjoy low brow humor. We're staying up aren't we? What do you want to move where?" he opens his eyes to look at her beaming at him.
"Hey keep tickling!"
"Yes'm."
-/-/-/-
Liv's kissing Kelly goodbye for the day when the person behind them honks. She jumps and Kelly laughs.
"Bye Doc Livvy have fun saving lives. I love you."he gets out of the truck slamming the door.
"Love you more. Be careful." She glances in mirror. Vivi grins at her. She flips Viv the bird.
"Nope not possible, be careful to please." He blows her a quick kiss before the guys notice. "See ya later baby. I'll call you!"
"Sister!" Vivi pulls up next to her.
Liv rolls down her window. "Yes sister dear." Liv peers at Vivi over her shades.
"Lunch at Bergstein's Deli you in?"
"Yeah."
"That sister dear was sarcastic not sincere don't think I don't know."
"Well don't honk at me when I'm kissing my husband good bye hoe bag!"
"Twat face."
"I'm telling Mama you used that word!" Liv threatens childishly.
"Should we break it up?" Shay asked walking up beside Kelly.
"You kidding me, my thirty year old wife just threatened to tattle to her mom. Best entertainment I've had all week." He said laughing as the girls rev up.
"They must have been a riot growing up. I saw that by the way, blowing her a kiss?"
"If you tattle I'll cut your bangs in your sleep again!"
Kelly shrugs. "I love her a lot."
"Hey no touching anything I like!" he warned Vivi.
"Something tells me we're lucky they survived to adulthood." He commented to Shay who nodded in agreement.
-/-/-/-
The girls are done fighting and are eating lunch when Kelly calls.
"Hi babe… really…you found what in a trunk? Like a full torso or…" Liv asked still eating as Vivi set aside her sandwich looking a little green. "Is it bad I'm glad it was Mills who got socked and not you? Because, you're pretty."
"He found what?" Vivi scowled while inspecting her manicure.
"A dismembered torso. Ok I'll go with you after work.. Think Erin will let me see it? Yeah I know I'm a twisted girl but you love me." She grins evilly picking up her dessert.
-/-/-/-/-
"He's not a serial killer baby." Erin watches smiling as Kelly pulls Liv up the precinct stairs into the reception area.
"The guy was carting around chunks-o-human. That's some mob type shit." She points back toward Kelly making Erin snicker.
"Hey Platt." She said as Kelly rolls her to the desk.
"Livvy Talks A lot how ya rolling' these days?"
"On a standy chair." Erin answers. "Hey Liv Lou. Come to protect your man? "Erin hugged her from behind.
"Nope. I wanna see it." She leered.
"You know I can't satisfy your morbid curiosities Kitten." Voight said coming over. He leaned down and kissed her cheek. "You're a ball and chain now huh?" He nods toward Kelly.
"I prefer honest woman." She retorts.
"Kelly we just need you to ID him and you can go. Thanks for doing this. Voight says.
"Here sip." Liv waves her Starbucks under Erin's nose. "You look tired Mocha Latte."
"I'm going to get Mono. You kiss him on the daily." She points to Kelly but still sips holding out her phone and they smile snapping a selfie.
"Really girls? Voight said shaking his head.
"What its woman crush Wednesday." Erin replies.
"I'm not even dignifying that with a response."
"This way Kelly. Be back Liv Lou." Erin directs him to the ID Room.
"Kay."
-/-/-/-/-
"That's not him. Why's his neck all red?" He said looking through the two way glass,
"Complicated capture. You're sure?"
Kelly nods. "Yeah positive."
"Can you come and look at some mug shots?"
"Sure, can you help me figure out Liv's wedding present?" he asks while he has a moment away from Livvy.
"You still haven't done that? You've been married a month!" she glances back at him as she's heading for the door.
"She's hard to shop for!"
"She's Liv!" She replied as though he was utterly stupid.
"What does that even mean?"
"You got a mural! I won't even mention the comments you made beforehand. Yes, I'm still mad that you made her cry! Give something thoughtful and personal. "She rails at him hands flying as she talks and he's a little frightened.
He looks at her blankly. "Ok what's your favorite thing about Liv?""
"Her optimism and compassion. She makes me better as cheesy as that sounds."
Erin nods in approval. "Real love does that for ya."
"That's not an answer Lindsay!" he retorted exasperated.
"She's your wife not mine." She points out.
"You're her best friend." He returns.
"Ok, why do you love her?" Erin tries a different tact.
"I just do. I always have. I think in varying degrees since the day I met her." The sincerity in the answer surprises her a bit though it shouldn't. They had the true once in a lifetime love others wished they had. They just jumped in and went for it. Erin envied that she was a carless woman's daughter and it always made her leery and overly cautious.
"Look make the gift something from your heart. It doesn't matter what it is big or small expensive or cheap Liv doesn't give shit. What she does care about? Is knowing every time she sees it that you love her epically and forever that's who she is. If you give her a gift like that? One that you don't care what anyone thinks because it's soft and romantic and really not you? That's how you win because she knows all of you, she'll know if you're just low balling it." Erin advised.
"Gee thanks for making it sound so easy!" he sniped sarcastically.
-/-/-/-
They walkout into the bull pen where Liv sits talking to someone Kelly recognizes but can't place. Liv smiles at the guy tossing what looks like a grenade up in the air. "Who's the Howdy Doody guy chatting up my wife?" Kelly asked.
"Ruziek, he's harmless. Liv would break him."
"Please tell me that grenade is fake." He said apprehensively watching her deftly toss it up with quick steady hands.
"It's a de-armed dud." She said dryly.
"O!" Erin shouts.
"Hey bitch what up? He find your perp so I can go home?" she pitches the grenade like a fastball Erin catches it bare handed.
"Okay that was…." Jay trailed off seeing the steel look Kelly gives him. The "Hot." Goes unspoken.
"We like baseball." Erin said smilingly.
"Nah I like the uniforms, learned to throw because guys think it's hot." Liv replied.
Kelly grins he can't help it. "You're really honest when could lead to bad things. "Kelly added in shaking his head.
"You recognize anyone on that board Kelly?" Voight asked pointing to a large cork board filled printed out mug shots.
"That one. Definitely." He points to a menacing looking bald white man.
"Jacob Sims leader of the Northside drug and white supremacy gang." Voight said. Liv swats Kelly's arm.
"What? "He said in surprise rubbing his arm.
"Could you stop getting in scrapes with the dredges of Chicago please? I need a break."
-/-/-/-
The idea for her wedding present comes to him as she's falling asleep on his shoulder. He wakes before her purposefully and slips out. When he returns she's in the kitchen making dinner and eating a late lunch wearing nothing but his "Real Men Marry Doctors." Tee shirt.
"Hey Babe." She leans forward to kiss him. Sandwich in hand.
He peers at the food suspiciously. "Are you eating tuna fish sandwiches and Doritos?"
"Extra onion." She nods.
"For the first time in the history of ever I don't want to kiss you." He teased.
She rolls her eyes. "You're a butt face. I made extra chicken enchiladas for you to take to work all Jones will need to do is reheat it."
He sits a lilac gift bag on the island. "That's yours." He points.
"Ooh presents." She stops what she's doing to pick up the bag.
"Figured I needed to buy your wedding present." He watches her open it. He watches confusion color her face when she pulled out the necklace with a tiny framed sound wave pendant. "I remembered seeing that you could print out sound waves. So I recorded myself saying, "I love you." Had it put in a little frame so you can wear it always knowing you have the words I had such a hard time saying the first time. That way you will always have my last words to you, with you should something happen to me."
Her eyes went misty. "Kelly… Thank you."
"The back is engraved. "Don't cry."
"I don't like thinking of the things that could happen to you." She sniffs back her tears.
"So don't Baby." He said coming around to help her put it on. She flipped it over and read the inscription. Livvy, I love you, I'll never stop.-Kelly below it is their wedding date.
"Do you like it?" She nods unable to form words for a second.
"I love it!" he clasped the necklace for her.
"Good I'm glad." She tilts her head back. "I love you and all but seriously I'm not kissing you until brush your teeth."
"It's just tuna."
"That's gross."
She shrugs. "Your loss Severide."
-/-/-/-
Kelly invites the guys over for poker night. When he hears scraping on the ground floor even over AC/DC blaring through the house. He starts to worry. "Liv Honey!"
"Moving the settee, I got on sale be right up." She quickly texts her Mom. "I really am married. It's Kelly's poker night." Her phone chimes. "LOL! Yes, you are baby. Daddy said own those smoke eaters."
"What in fuck's a settee?" he asks the guys.
"It's a fancy couch you won't be allowed to sit on." Mouch answered.
"I'll do it you're gonna hurt yourself." He shouts down getting up.
"I need you to go get your poker food outta the truck." She shoves the couch it doesn't move an inch and she groans.
"You bought groceries and a couch in one trip?" Kelly asked from the bottom step giving her a bemused smile.
"Yup I am amazing! Help me!"
They abandon their game and they all troop down the stairs.
-/-/-/-
"I love it! I have my personal moving company."
"Hold my cigar don't smoke it. It's expensive." Kelly said handing it to her and moving her out of the way and yanking the couch in.
"Keys?" Cruz said.
She tosses him the keys. "Smoke it if I want." She took a puff and smirked at Kelly.
"You're Lucky I love you. How'd you get this outta the truck?" he grunts as he and Herrmann pick up the heavy French high backed couch.
"Buff kid down the street batted my lashes talked real sweet and boom."
"Don't flirt with him he looks like a little hood rat." Matt advised glancing outside.
"Were you a hood rat Matty?"
He smiled at her. "What'd I say?"
"Matty that's very sisterly. I'm about as hood rat as you are Livvy." He retorted.
"Something tells me she's a bit more hood rat than you Matt." Kelly smiled at her as he and Hermann settle the couch into a corner, "She's friends with Erin and Voight calls her Kitten the amount of fear it strikes into my heart alone gives her more street cred than you."
"No, not in the corner babe. By the window for the light." Kelly sighed but did her bidding. "Sorry Kell."
He shook his head. "Shoulda seen it coming."
"Why's Matt glaring at me like I have two heads?" she asked.
"He didn't know Voight was your second Dad." Kelly answers.
"I wouldn't go that far but yes, he is pretty much Erin's Dad. I grew up around him I see sides of him you guys won't."
"I've been meaning to ask how was your Golden Oldies date Mouchy?" Liv changed the subject.
"It went well. At least someone thought to ask!"
"In case it escapes you Mouch we're not gossipy women." Cruz said with an arm load of groceries and take out Otis brings in another load behind him.
"I can never sit on this fancy couch can I?" Kelly said leaning on the handle bars of Liv's chair.
"It white Kelly Benjamin what do you think? It's for looks baby." She tilted her head back looking up at him.
He kissed her. "You bought a couch for looks you confuse me." He said against her mouth.
"Welcome to marital bliss buddy." Hermann said.
-/-/-/-
When they all head back upstairs Liv offers her hand to Kelly to pull him into the elevator with her. "Shoulda taken your advice after all." Matt muttered.
"We're not having sex." Liv retorted.
"Let's be real, if I really wanted too I could sweet talk you into it."
"Just get in the damn elevator Severide." She pushes the up button when he steps on. Between floors she pushes the stop button. "Don't go getting any bright ideas baby I just wanted to have a private conversation."
"Damn…"
"Sorry, did you get Bloom to go in for treatment?"
He leans on the wall arms crossed. "Barely…had I thought for a second I miss read things." Kryptonite by three doors down cuts off his train of thought.
"Owen thought I needed cool Elevator music he wired the system to play my IPod through the elevator sound system.
She continued. "I'm glad you got him help and the doctor in me is supposed to tell you that getting him there is the most important part because it's the first step but as your wife, I need to remind you that no matter how many times you put your hand out and your heart on the line it's up to him to get well. It's on him, not you babe. I love you very much but ya gotta know when to cut your losses if you need to Okay?"
"And when's that?" He cocked his head in question.
"When the addiction makes him force the consequence off on to you."
"That's cynical baby." He inched closer to her.
"Yeah but it's the truth."
"Can't argue that." He leaned down and kissed her tasting of cigar smoke and beer. He takes the kiss deeper. She sighs softly.
"Come on man, she'll still be here when we leave!" Cruz shouts. He breaks the kiss and pulls the elevator stop button back into mobile mode. "Jealous Much?" he asks then adds to Liv. "I don't like people."
"Very." Cruz retorts.
Liv laughs. "Don't drop ash on the carpet please Honey." The elevator stops and the door slides open and she exits going to the kitchen to unpack groceries and sit take out Chinese on plates.
"Its ready boys." She shouts watching them descend like hungry vultures it's quite frightening she snatches up her fried rice before someone can take off her hand. Kelly kissed her cheek. "Thanks Baby."
"Welcome." She fishes a spoon out of the silverware drawer.
Sometime later she's upstairs cleaning the bathroom singing along lowly with her IPod. She feels something cold and wet glide down her back. She squeals as Kelly stands there grinning. "Ice." He states the obvious.
"Are you five?" She reprimands.
"Thirty two." He corrects gulping his beer.
"Get it out and go!" She demands.
"Gotta take a leak. Watch my cards?"
"Anything I win is half mine. Get the ice." She whined. He fishes it out and snaps her bra. "Are you trying to die?"
"I love you."
"Kiss my crippled ass."
"Hey I went from five to junior High. Next I'll leave a hickey where your Dad can see it." She rolls off shaking her head,
Kelly comes back down to hear "How do you like me now boys? Never underestimate me. Uh, uh, pony up gents."
"How'd you do that?" Otis asked.
Kelly walks over and watches her collect her chips. "Hi Kell, I owned them. It was fun. Half mine, mama needs a new Tory Birch bag."
"I can see that." She goes to roll away. "Uh no, you're staying right here and helping me." He sat down and proceeded to help her settle into his lap. She wore jeans one of his dress shirts and knee high boots. She rolled up her sleeves and shuffled the cards of the next game.
"Texas Hold em' boys?"
"Strip poker?" Kelly whispered in her ear when she leant back. She dealt the cards.
"You'll lose but if that's your play I'm down baby." She fiddled with the end of her messy side braid as she concentrated.
He watches her play for a bit. "Is there anything you're not good Livvy? Where'd you learn this?" Kelly asked.
"Dad. I'm okay at darts too. Poker is all psychology. It helped with my human behaviors class in college."
"How? Herrmann asked,
"You all have tells, except for Bowden he's pretty stone faced. The rest of you I know when you're all lying or embellishing your stories." She threw chips into the pot.
"That's not true." Otis said.
"Is too. You're eyebrow twitches when you're nervous you do it anytime someone mentions Katie and you are in Kell's presence my money's on the fact that you automatically flash to something dirty and you fear for your life for thinking dirty thoughts about Kelly's sister when he has something deadly in easy reach." She grinned brightly knowing she was right.
"Heh, you pegged him. This is an attractive talent do someone else." Kelly said.
"You turn your wedding band on your finger with your thumb when you see a pretty girl. Your nostrils flare when you lie. Has to do with intake of air because you're afraid of being caught in a lie and yes, I know you hated the vegetarian lasagna last Tuesday."
He sits there mouth agape as the boys laugh. She turns and kisses his cheek. "Thank for you eating the lasagna anyway."
-/-/-/-
Matt and Kelly clean up the poker game and refuse to let Liv help. She sits at their kitchen table. "Matt can I be nosey?"
"Uh sure?"
"Why'd you need Kelly's advice?"
He threw away beer bottles. "Gabi and I can't find a place, it shouldn't be this hard but we're so different and I don't know…"
"Actual relationships are work Matt, You and Gab aren't all that different trust me. Kelly and I? We're different as night and day, he drives me fucking nuts but I adore him. I wouldn't trade our journey for anything in the world. You can't find a house because Gabi is a woman and we're picky bitches but it doesn't mean you aren't meant to be. It just means you haven't found your home. Don't over think it trust your instincts and you'll be fine."
"Did you trust your instincts?"
She nods. "I've never been happier."
"You adore me?" Kelly grins at her as he turns on the trash compactor.
"Shut up asshole." She said without heat.
"I love you."
"I know."
-/-/-
Kelly comes up stairs with popcorn and drinks because they're watching Finding Nemo so he'll finally know what the fuck a squishy is.
He tosses Liv her bag of cinnamon sugar drizzled kettle corn she makes no move to catch it. She has funny look on her face. "Did I miss the squishy reference?" He scowls.
"No, when you were downstairs your phone rang, I answered it. I'm sor-"
"Baby you can answer my phone. I got nothing to hide its okay." He smiles softly its sweet that she was so concerned with invading his privacy or breaking his trust.
"It was Bowden Rebecca Jones committed suicide." She said quickly like ripping off a band aid.
He stands there stock still barely breathing it scares Liv. "Are you okay?"
"What?" He said utterly confused.
"Are you okay baby? Bowden said call him if you need too, and I made him give me the number of your house chaplain "
"No, yes, I mean I'm fine are you sure about Jones?" He sputters.
"Yes, I am. Sit down Kelly, just come here." She gestures for him to come closers
He climbs into his side of the bed and she holds his hand. They remain silent watching the Nemo start menu on the DVD over and over again.
"Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming." Dory sang prophetically and that's what house 51 would have to do. Or at the very least just stay afloat.