Dr. Severide to main service ER. Exam three." Liv rolls out answer the page. She swings into the room. There is a man with a life size Easter Bunny embedded in his chest. "Who called for Trauma consult?"
"I did, Easter decor at a department store fell on the patron here, we need to get this off him before he goes into shock." Rhoades says. Figured Zinetti could make the best call." Rhoades answers.
She pulls on golves. "Zinetti is sick, you got me. Did you get films? It looks to involve the lungs just from naked eye vantage point."
"Yes." He hands over the xray which she holds up to the light to review
"One of the glass shards is set between the heart and lungs, bisecting the brochical tree." She says aloud."Lovely, we'll have to do this carefully. We can't move that shard even centimeter without the guy bleeding out."
"Which is why I called you." Rhoades puts in/
"Lets do it, someone get me the rescue squad that brought him in."
"Where ya want me baby?" Kelly said stepping forward with a circular saw.
"Baby?" Rhodes Clarified.
"We're married..." Liv retorts completely nonplussed.
She glanced at Kelly."Can you give me ninety degree cuts around the base of the embed on all sides?"
"You got it, this is gonna be slow goin'."
"Fluids and blood at the ready get me some cold saline bags to cool the saw blade as well."
"Yes doctor."
"Ready?" Kelly asked. She nods. "Then put your goggles on Livvy ."
She takes clear plastic glasses Maggie hands her,"Right just like when we give Klaire her medication. Less Blood, same amount of objects flying in my face, I'll feed saline to the blade, you cut."
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Rhoades watches intrigued by how silently in sync they are. Everyone says that Severide is hard on her students and sometimes her co workers, as she gives one hundred percent of herself she expects others to go as full tilt as she does.
She is quick and confident, they pause at the exact same time as the guy accelerates in rhythm.
They share a glance. "Cruz go find the other saw and cut from the other side." He commands one of his men.
"Grab my spare gloves for Liv too."
"We have to move the section off Kelly." She said impatiently.
"I know, as should already know I'm not letting you cut your hands a part doing it."
The other man returns and they get the glass off the guy in short order. The others can say what they like about her, but Severide is good. Sure, she might be hot headed and emotionally motivated. Hell she may even be as possessive and hard assed as they say she is but he likes her.
"Rhoades..."
"Yeah..."
"I think this is mercury glass, means it will melt at a certain heat point. Be careful, keep me updated." She packs off what she can of the wounds. And he dives I to help her as her husband steps back.
"How do you know that?"He glances at her.
"My brother is an art teacher, are pressors and blood products on board? Pack him on platelets too."
"Yes." Doctor April Says over his shoulder. "Okay, Rhoades, its all you. Go."
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"So that's Rhoades huh?" Kelly says as everyone files out of the exam room and Liv shucks her gloves.
"What does that mean?" Liv asked laughing as she tore away her smock.
He shrugs."I just expected someone a bit more...your type."
"My type? My type is you babe? I said he was nice to look at not that I was going to have some clandestine affair, You're cute when you're intimidated." She smiles up at him.
I'm not intimidated."
"if you say so my love." She murmured.
"Though I am sorry the ornament fell on the dude, because seriously that is some next level Grinch shit. I really liked getting to work with you."
"That's very sweet but you did the heavy lifting I just poured water on a saw blade..." She retorts dryly while grabbing his hand.
"it was kinda fun, the only other person i could pull off silent communication with like that was Shay."
She smiled at him. "I love you."
"Love you too."
"What does it say about us that a trauma is something we can find the romance in?"
"We probably need to go some place other than Molly's to get lit, then go home and have sex." He kisses her quickly. "Gotta head out Baby..."
"Bye Kell..."
He lets her go"Bye...Think about me when you're naked "
Liv laughed. "Every time, all the time."
He leaves and April finds her standing in the empty room smiling goofily. "They gotta clear this exam Severide. What's with you?
"Just surprised he can still surprise me with the things that come out of his mouth."
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Liv had just gotten in from having a quick lunch at drive thru with her dad while on her break. She rolls back in singing Simon & Garfunkel's "Cecilia" as a result.
"Must be Dad Day for you Liv." Choi says walking by. "Voights waiting on you in Admin."
"Huh wonder why?" She retorts moving for the elevator.
"Got you covered for the five it takes to find out."
"Thanks." She said heading up to combined ED's administrative offices.
She finds him leaned on the edge of Sharon Goodwin's desk. "Erin's fine." He says automatically reading her mind.
She exhales a noisy breth. "Thank God."
He cuts to the chase."Boden's in trouble. There's a woman who has accused him of assault and now she's missing. We had no choice to bring him in, he's waving council but he needs it, and I think he needs someone good." Liv gapes at him in utter shock Kelly hadn't mentioned anything. They must have brought him during that last call.
"Hank..."
"Look Kitten, if I thought he was avoidable here I'd let you... but..."
"Erin has his number too."
"I need you to bring him in on it so Boden and Boden's men will accept the help."
"Fuck..." She swore ripely in a whine.
"I know."
"No, you don't. Kelly will be so mad at me."
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Kelly has some idea of why Voight is here after all Boden had been arrested last night on false accusations he's sure but he has no clue why Liv is there with Ronan King.
"Whose the hottie trailing Liv?" Brett asked standing in the common area doorway and Gabi wonders over.
"Oh my god!" Gabi whispered. That's her Ex. He's some sort of pricey lawyer who can afford to take on pro bono's."
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"He's Livvy's ex? Liv's? I dated girly man Carver Collins that Liv?" Brett said disbelievingly.
"Yes." Kelly retorts sharply.
"I wonder if she's come to tell you they're running away together and Voight's for his protection?" Brett teased.
He just looks at her because it's not like he can say anything without accusing Liv of something she hasn't done.
She looks for him as she's headed through the door. She's wearing a white top with cutouts in the shoulders and extremely tight black jeans. There's no way she's wearing underwear. It makes him smile.
When her eyes find him she gives him a tense smile. "I can explain."
He leaned in and kissed her, she'd left her hair down in it's natural state and he moved a strand behind her ear. "Hey Baby."
"Hey, look Voight said Boden needed a lawyer and when Voight thinks you need legal help you do. Ronan's the best defense attorney in Cook County.
They go into the meeting room. "I'm doing Liv a favor, I'm Boden's attorney. He's adamant he never did anything to the victim but there's nothing to back that up. It looks like he did it, and that's all that matters unless I can prove someone set him up as he claims. I need any information you may have."
"Interoffice politics maybe?" Patterson said.
Liv shook her head, "They'd come at him straight the way you did with Kelly, if they wanted to make him look bad as leader, it's easy enough without beating a woman. Kelly married a woman he rescued, Matt's screwing someone who works under him, then there was Brett and Cruz. Not to mention he lets Kelly and Matt run their trucks on their gut? He's where the buck stops sure, but only barely it's gotta go deeper."
"She's got a point." Kelly said putting his arm around her.
Gabi smirked at her. "You need to stop spending so much time with Kelly."
"She thinks like a fire fighters wife ain't nothin' wrong with that." Herrmann retorts.
"What about the arson case, it was a pro job, clean expensive. Bloomington was being paid off... I'm easy to discredit I was new and didn't last long,, Kelly too because he's attached however tenuously to the corporate lawyer in his management class... boden not so much." Gabi said.
"Ro? You got the photos of the victim?" Liv asked scowling in thought.
"Yeah."
"toss em..." She gestured in a catch motion.
"What? Kelly asked
"Something from my post mortem classes with the ME, in medical school. I wanna check..." She looked at the photos. "I need someone to pretend it hit me. Ro, you're tall enough let's walk it through."
"How bout fuck no." Kelly says leaning away from her staring at her hard.
"It's fine, no one is actually hitting me, it's like when I'd help him prep sometimes you have to physically walk it through. When the person is struck it leaves behind an impact point, bruises, which... these are too high along the orbital bone to have been perpetrated by Boden. This guy's well over six feet. Ro's six foot three and a quarter."
"How do you know that?" Brett asked.
"Science..."
"And his exact height?" She points her thumb back at Ronan
"I bought his first suit for this first mock trial. It was anniversary gift."
"To answer your next question, it was hand tailored and I cheated, emotionally speaking." Ronan said. "People always ask."
"That they do. Voight? I'm ninety percent sure it was someone way taller, and there are practically no defensive wounds, someone comes at you with a wine bottle you at the very least toss your hands up it's common sense. The cut on her lip is from biting it in anticipation not the actual blow. You remember when Erin and I got in that wreck? I had three stitches because I saw the car coming and bit my lip through. Same here goes from bottom to top not sideways as being hit would."
"Alright...you've all given us stuff to go off of and I'll call you if anything else comes up." Voight says and Liv turns and rolls to the door.
"Love..." Ronan says lowly.
My name's Olivia or Severide to you Ronan and I'm to tired too do the thing where you talk me out of my feelings." Liv said swinging through the door.
"I knew those were revenge pants." Gabi whispers to her as they walk out together. "You look really good."
"Great! Because Nat had to help me put them on and Kelly's going to have to cut me out of them."
Kelly pushes her chair,"I only have one question." Kelly put in/
"Why revenge pants?" Liv wondered aloud.
"Nope, are you wearing panties? Because I have a bet with myself and I'm betting no, because of panty lines...or trying to turn me on I'm good with either or both."
Liv cakled with laughter. "Oh my God Kelly." Gabi says shaking her head.
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Kelly and Liv decided to meet up with everyone at Molly's for a nightcap. Liv is sitting with Erin a table or two over as Kelly talks with the guys.
"So apparently someone had to be the bigger woman and call up King today." Erin says nonchalantly.
Liv nods. "It wasn't so bad, I mean Kelly wasn't mad at me all and I think Ro's going to fix things for Boden so good I just...Ronan's still Ronan. I felt so..." Liv sighed and sipped her beer."Why can I be friends with Carver and not Ronan. Why does it even matter? Why does it still hurt? I have Kelly! I'm happy!"
"You thought you were gonna marry him Liv." Erin points out.
"I never said that." Liv defended.
"You didn't have too."
Liv groaned. "You think Kelly can tell?"
"That you're still attracted to Ronan or that you're still hurt?"
"Either."
"Probably, I mean you did by your own admission wear the revenge jeans but honestly as long as he's got you? As long as you're still all about him, which you are because you keep checking him out and wanting him to come over here. As long as it's him you're more into, I don't think he cares who else you've been into."
"That's fair I mean it's not like the man is lacking in the confidence department or any other for that matter."
"Communication?"
"We're getting much better." She said watching Erin bite into a potato skin.
"These are awful." Erin spit into napkin
Yeah I don't come to Molly's for the food since Cruz broke up with Brett." She replies. "Kell!" She calls waiting for him to turn to her. "Hi!"
He laughed. "Hi!"
She's smiles back at him. "Jesus you two, just come sit by her." Erin says laughing.
" 'Cuse me Patterson. "he said picking up the newspaper he'd made it into the "Heroes." Section.
He drops the paper next to Erin's elbow. "Baby nabbed a peeping Tom." Liv said as Erin reads the article. He comes to srand beside Liv. "Which I know you do a lot but...this makes it so Kelly has to get his rank back. It'd make the department look bad otherwise."
He leans down and kisses Liv. "Are you ever not all up on my friend?"
"The only way that man is not all up on Liv is if he's asleep or Dead." Boden says walking up to them.
Liv squeals before saying "Ronan did it!"
"As I understand it you played a rather large part in that.."
"It's what family is for right Chief?"
"Right! My first act as reinstated chief is to give you back your rank Lieutenant. That is if you wish to work under me again."
"Yes sir! I'll see you next shift." Kelly retorts and turns back to Liv to hug her.
He kisses her and gets no reaction. "Kelly..."
"Yeah." He narrowed his eyes analyzing her distracted face as she looks over his shoulder.
"Call 911."
"Why?"
"Because that's blood under that door." She answers rolling behind the bar. She tries to push it open but there's something solid stopping her progress on the other side.
She pushes the Chair into standing position and looks into the porthole style window in the door. She sees nothing and looks down through the window and sees... "Herrmann! Shit he's hurt! I'm going in through the back..."
Kelly runs behind her as does Gabi and Chief.
Kelly turns the corner just in time to see Liv dive for the floor. He watches helplessly as she takes a really nasty hit on the way down but it doesn't phase her as she situates herself. "Towels! I need to staunch the flow." Gabi grabs them off a nearby shelf.
She rips open Herrman's shirt to expose the wound. "She presses the towels hard to his chest. "Relay to dispatch mid chest stab wound...look deep might involve the lungs or other organs."
He repeats all that into the phone. "He's lost at least half a unit." She moves pushing herself up and over to straddle his chest pushing down her body weight.
"Not that I have fantasized about you but if I had, it would have involved less blood positioning aside," Hermann jukes weakly. Liv's returning laugh is flat. "Just keep breathing do that for me okay?"
She looks to him. "What's the Ambo ETA?"
"Two minutes."
'Okay, were good.' She nods. "You're going to be fine Christopher." She says it with conviction as if she can force him into good health but Kelly can see the fear in her eyes.
Liv is never afraid amidst crisis. This is not good at all.
an: I own nothing but Liv I rearranged and tweaked some scenes.