The Heart of this House

Follow the story of Andy Darden's younger sister and her relationship with Firehouse 51 and a certain Lieutenant. Naomi Darden is a surgical intern at Gaffney Chicago Medical Center (Chicago Med) but her heart is at Chicago's infamous Firehouse 51 where her family risks their lives every day. This is set across the entire Chicago franchise (so may turn into a PD/Med crossover)

Chapter 4 – I Know This Little Chapel

Three months later...

Naomi lay on her stomach; her head nestled on Harrison's chest and her back tingling where his fingers traced light patterns over her still sensitive skin. His breathing was still heavy so she watched his chest rise and fall, listening to the heavy thumping of her fiancé's heart.

"Maybe you should come on some more of my runs with me…You're struggling to keep up with me." She mused, trying to keep herself from shivering. Since her mother-in-law had insisted on a bespoke Vera Wang dress, she'd upped her weekly boxing sessions with Antonio to bi-weekly and was running every morning. Some ridiculous thing about "You don't alter a Vera to fit you, you alter yourself to fit Vera."

Harrison chuckled, before flipping the blonde onto her back, "I'm sure I could think of more pleasurable ways of exercising." His fingers interlaced with hers, pinning her against the sheets.

She fluttered her eyelashes, "Oh really, Mr Archibald?"

He swooped in to kiss her, capturing her lips in the way that always took her breath away. She interlocked her ankles around his waist and rolled them over, playfully locking his own hands either side of his head. He often forgot that she trained with a cop. "I love you..."

She allowed him to sit up, so that she was sitting in his lap with her legs wrapped around him. She ran her hands through his hair, whispering, "I love you too..." before closing the gap between them. There was hardly a millimeter between their bare skin as he wrapped both his arms tightly around her back, their passion bubbling over as they traced over one another's bodies.

Naomi groaned as her phone rang (although it may have been a moan from where Harrison had been kissing her neck). "Leave it…" Harrison mumbled between kisses, wrapping his arm around her waist and sliding her closer into his body. The obnoxious trills continued to play a ring tone that had been chirping more often in recent weeks.

She let out a defeated sigh, "It's your mother."

Now it was his turn to groan, as she reluctantly extracted herself from his arms and picked up the phone, wrapping herself in a sheet. He collapsed against the pillow and Naomi kissed him apologetically, before slipping out of the bed and going to find her wedding planner. It was highly likely that this was what the call was about.

"Hi Mrs Archibald…"

"Naomi," the blonde winced at the screech that emerged from the tiny little speaker, "I asked you to send me your guest list days ago… I still do not have your guest list. And we need to confirm the appointments for next week…"

Naomi tuned out, shaking her head and turning to the page in her planner where she'd started jotting down names. She ran her finger over the name that had been written and crossed out three times. The last three months had been strange. They'd become one of those annoying soppy 'engaged' couples. She'd basically moved into Harrison's apartment, even though she wasn't ready to give up her cute little house. Harrison's mother had essentially taken over the wedding planning and Naomi found herself spending the majority of her free time in the office of the award winning wedding planner who was apparently essential. Harrison was thrilled that his wife-to-be and mother were seemingly getting along - he missed the passive aggressive snipes - and the absence of Kelly Severide in their lives made him extremely happy. Naomi knew that Harrison felt threatened by Kelly; her relationships with Matt and Kelly were far from normal and often caused problems in her previous relationships. Since Matt's engagement to Hallie, however, Kelly seemed to be picking up the 'slack' which meant that he faced the full force of Harrison's jealousy and disapproval at the nature of their friendship.

Between her shifts, studying for her ever looming boards and the god damn wedding planning, Naomi didn't have a lot of time to visit the firehouse and her visits were usually very fleeting. It was usually to drop off a box of baked goods, during which Kelly tried to make himself very scarce. She might've forgiven him for the events of the gala, but he hadn't forgiven himself so their interactions were limited to a nodded greeting when they did happen to cross paths.

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"So why are you fighting this time?" Leslie had asked after the most recent girl's night, when they'd spent the night at her apartment and Kelly had darted out of the door before the girls had stirred themselves from the alcohol induced slumber party.

"We're not fighting…" Naomi muttered, as she poured them all some coffee.

Gabby raised her eyebrow, "Is that why the two of you can't be in the same room for more than ten seconds?"

"We're not fighting," She insisted, taking a sip from the dark blue mug, "We're just working some stuff out."

"Oh my god, you slept with him…" Leslie shouted, banging her own coffee onto the kitchen counter. She held out her palm to Gabby, "You owe me ten bucks"

"I did not sleep with him!"

Gabby noticed how quickly she denied it and pursed her lips, "Me thinks you doth protest…"

"I didn't sleep with Kelly. Neither one of us would be breathing if we did."

Leslie lowered her hand and quickly grabbed her saviour mug of coffee again, "That's true, Andy would kill you guys."

"We… um," Naomi frowned, wondering how to explain everything, "Harrison was…"

Gabby scoffed, "Okay… why are you still engaged?"

"What?"

The Latina drummed the kitchen island excitedly, "Your fiancé is jealous of your relationship with Kelly isn't he? So he said something to Kelly and now Kelly is wandering around like a lost puppy because Harrison told him to stay away…"

Naomi let out a breath, "Something like that."

Leslie laughed, "Yeah, I'm with Gabby on this one. Why are you still engaged?"

"What are you talking about?"

"There was… let me see… Jeremy and…"

"Oh, and Paul, Trevor, Michael, Adam… and… Oh, who was that one who punched Matt?"

"That was Christopher. Your point is?" Naomi rolled her eyes at the mentions of her exes.

"Every single guy who has made even a whimper about being jealous of your relationships with Matt and Kelly usually gets booted within three days."

Naomi made to disagree, before realising the truth behind what they were saying, "This is different…"

"How is it different? What did the dragon lady threaten to sue you or something?"

She shook her head.

"Then what…"

Leslie noticed how Naomi's eye kept falling to her engagement ring and how she adopted this odd expression every time she saw it on her finger, "Oh my god. You really love him, don't you?"

Gabby stopped at the interruption and frowned as Naomi's head snapped up.

"Who Harrison? Yeah, of course I love him… that's why I'm marrying him..."

"No, I mean… There's never been a guy that you put before the boys…"

"What are you talking about, Les?"

Leslie Shay suddenly got it. Harrison genuinely made Naomi happy. She was genuinely in love with the guy… the guy that they'd all been secretly hoping would be axed soon... Naomi was going to spend the rest of her life with him. It was probably time they all got used to that.

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"… And hurry up with that guest list, I want to send out the Save the Dates…"

Naomi snapped out of her day dream, "Hold on… We haven't decided on a date yet."

"I thought Harrison would've told you. The Library has an opening in September…" From her tone, Naomi could tell that the woman had not told her fiancé of the date either; a date that was only three months away.

"But Harrison and I didn't want to get married that quickly…"

"… Nonsense, the sooner that you two are married, the better." The older woman interrupted and Naomi had to resist the temptation to hang up, "and don't forget the dress fitting on Wednesday."

Huffing, Naomi said her goodbyes and threw the phone at the couch before hitching up the trailing white linen and shuffling back towards the bedroom.

"Your mother has booked a venue in September." She said shortly, collapsing on the bed next to Harrison.

"Wow, that's soon…" The lawyer slid his arm through the sheets and pulled her towards him, she gasped as his cold hands found her waist.

She snuggled into him, "I was hoping we'd have longer… I want more of this… this engagement bliss."

"Do you really want to wait? Because I can call my mother and tell her to find a new venue for…"

"No…" Naomi interrupted, running her hand over Harrison's chest, "I want to marry you… and if marrying you in September makes your mother happy."

Harrison ran his hand down her arm, "But are you happy?"

"I couldn't care less…" She muttered, propping herself on her elbow, "We could elope to Vegas and I'd be happy."

He kissed her, pulling her back on top of him, "So, what else did she want?"

Naomi untwisted herself from the sheet and settling her legs either side of his torso, ruffled up her hair, "Do we have to talk about your mother right now?"

She smiled as he pulled her face down towards his, "No… No we don't…"

A.N. Two chapters in one day, you lucky people! Thank you for all the encouraging reviews, I wasn't expecting this story to be received so well. Please keep reviews and suggestions coming!

I know that this is a short one, but I want to get the story moving a bit (hence the time jump). I know things with Kelly were left on a bit of a cliff hanger, but I'll address that in the next couple of chapters.

Let me know what you think? How do we like Harrison? (I've given him a FC, Lucas Medeiros, so now I'm getting a little attached to him)

~ C.I

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