"How was school today Squirt?" Kelly asked as Hannah walked up to the firehouse
"School" Hannah replied as she shrugged her shoulders
"I thought mom was getting you from school?"
"She's running late, she said she'd get me from here"
"You excited about tomorrow?" Kelly asked
"Yeah, Hannah replied, slightly deflated
"What's wrong?" Kelly asked
"What if Cooper finds out?"
"What do you mean?"
"When he gets back from Detroit"
"Hannah he can't hurt you ever again. Your Mom and I and Erin will never let that happen"
"It can't stop him"
"I promise you, he won't hurt you ever again" He said hugging his daughter
"You promise?" She questioned
"Absolutely" He replied, "Now let's go inside, I think Pouch misses you"
"What are the different blood types?" Capp asked Hannah as she sat at the squad table
"A,B, AB and O" Hannah replied as she threw the ball for Pouch
"Correct, again" Capp replied
"Ask me another one, a bit harder this time"
"Alright then" Capp replied as he looked through the book
"Name the two circulation systems"
Hannah looked at him confused
"What, you highlighted it"
"Uhhhh Pulmonary and Systemic"
"Yep" Capp replied as he put the book back on the table "Why did you need me to quiz you if you've got the whole thing already memorised"
Hannah shrugged her shoulders while Kelly laughed to himself
"How late did your mom say she would be?" Kelly asked
"She just said she had something to do and she'd be late"
Kelly looked at his watch. 6:24 pm
The alarm echoed throughout the firehouse
"Squad 3, Truck 81, Engine 51, Ambulance 61, Battalion 25"
"I'd say keep studying but I don't think you need to" Capp said as he walked towards the Squad truck
Hannah watched as all the trucks left the firehouse
"It's just you and me again Pouch" She said as Pouch sat in Kelly's chair
Hannah's phone began to ring. Mom.
"Hey Mom" Hannah said answering her phone
"Was wondering where you two were hiding" Kelly said as he walked up to Katherine and Hannah sitting on the bench out the front of the firehouse
"You hungry?" Hannah asked as she handed her dad a burger
"Thanks" He said sitting next to her
"Sorry I was late" Katherine explained "but my appointment went a bit later than expected"
"What appointment?" Hannah asked
"I know we've decided to buy a house together" Katherine explained to Kelly "But I've decided to finally become a Lawyer"
"Wow" Severide said, shocked
"I just feel that now's the right time and it's all OK I had a job interview at the State's Attorney Office as a paralegal to become a lawyer"
"Mom that's great" Hannah said hugging her mom
"Kelly?" Katherine questioned "Are you OK with it?"
"Yeah" He replied "I'm not going to stop you pursuing your dreams and don't worry about the house, we'll make it work"
"Uncle Matt said you can stay at his tonight too" Hannah explained to Katherine
"I was kind of hoping I had somewhere to stay tonight, wasn't looking forward to sleeping in the empty house"
"Don't worry if you had to it's in a lot better condition than it was at first" Hannah explained
"That's promising" Katherine replied
"Yeah Matt and I have done a lot of work on it lately" Kelly teased
"Hey I have too" Hannah replied "I'm just slightly disabled at the moment"
"Sure" Kelly laughed
"Hey Will told me no strenuous work for 6 weeks" Hannah explained
"Doesn't mean you could sit on your phone while we fixed the walls"
"I wasn't sitting on my phone the whole time" Hannah replied
"Did Uncle Matt take it off you?" Katherine questioned
"Maybe" Hannah said quietly "But I was going to help out when they weren't lifting things"
"We'll let you off this time" Said Kelly "But you have to help tomorrow, we don't have much time to move the stuff out"
"It's going to be fine, most of our stuff is still in boxes"
"What about your stuff at Matt's?" Kelly asked
"Dad I've been living on a couch for the last fortnight, I don't have much there that won't fit into my school bag"
"I think it's time we head home for some sleep" Katherine said to Hannah
"Now?" Hannah questioned
"I'm tired and we've got a big day tomorrow"
"Ok"
"Hey, one more sleep and we'll be in our own house" Kelly reminded Hannah
"Yeah, that's if I can sleep"
"You better" Kelly replied
The firehouse sirens rang out throughout the house
*Ambulance 61, Squad 3*
Hannah looked at Kelly "Make sure you get some sleep"
"Sure, but first I've got to save the world" Kelly joked to Hannah
"I love you" She said before he walked away
"Love you too!" He yelled running over the squad truck
"Come on pumpkin" Katherine said walking over to the car "Have you got a spare key?"
"Of course, Uncle Matt gave me my own key" Hannah replied taking it out of her pocket
"Of course" Katherine replied putting her arm around her daughter
Hannah lent against the car looking at the house
"You going to come in?" Casey asked as he put a box in the tray of his ute
"I can't go in there" Hannah replied
"You know he's not there, he can't hurt you"
"There's just too many memories"
"Come on, there's only a few boxes left" Casey said to Hannah
"OK then" She replied following him back in to the house
Hannah walked through the front door, one she hoped to never walk through again. Everywhere she looked reminded her of Cooper, of what Cooper did. Hannah went up to her room. Everything still in boxes. Her bed was half dismantled by her dad, the mattress already in the trailer.
"I'll take these boxes down, you take the rest of the base apart" Casey said handing her a screwdriver.
"Sure" Hannah replied beginning to take her bed frame apart
Hannah sat on her bedroom floor, alone, in the quiet. Memories of what happened began flooding back. The times she cried herself to sleep from the pain and fear. The cupboard she would hide in when Cooper had one of his moments. The walls Cooper pinned her up against countless amounts of times. If only walls could talk.
"Hey Squirt" Severide said walking into the room
Hannah jumped
"Hey, I didn't mean to scare you" He said sitting next to her
"It's OK" She said trying to unscrew her bed frame
Kelly watched her hands shake as she tried to take the screw out
"Hey, what's wrong" Kelly asked as he put his hand on Hannah's
"Nothing" She replied as she flinched and pulled her hand away from her dad
"Han, it's OK" He reassured
"I can't do it, I can't be in this house" Hannah said getting up and running out of the room
"Han?"
Kelly followed her down the stairs and out of the house
"I can't do this" Hannah said as she went out the front of the house, at the same time as Dawson showed up
"Han? What's going on?" Dawson asked as she walked up to her
"I-I can't be in that house" Hannah said beginning to panic
"It's OK sweetie calm down" Dawson reassured, hugging her
"I can't" Hannah continued to say as she cried in Dawson's arms
"Hannah?" Katherine asked as she came out of the house with Casey
"She's OK, she just had a panic attack" Dawson explained
"Oh Han" Katherine said as she hugged Hannah "I'm so sorry sweetie" she said as Hannah continued to cry in her mums arms
"The trailers full, how about you take Hannah home and start unloading it" Casey said giving Dawson his car keys
"Yeah, sure" She replied "Come on Han"
Casey went back inside the house leaving Kelly and Katherine out the front
"This is all my fault" Katherine said
"Hey it's not your fault" He reassured her
"I should have never put her in this situation"
"It's OK"
Dawson and Hannah pulled up in the driveway of the new house. "You want to talk about what happened back there?" Dawson asked
"Not really" Hannah replied
"it's ok. You can talk to me"
Hannah sat there quietly
"Hannah?"
"I'm just scared that Cooper will come back"
"Han there's no way he'll hurt you again. I can promise that"
"Everyone keeps saying that but how can I believe them"
Dawson let out a sigh "I don't know what I can say to make you feel better but I can promise you we will try our absolute hardest to keep you safe, I can promise you that"
Hannah smiled and nodded her head.
"Now come on, we've got a trailer to unload" Dawson said getting out of the car
"You picked your room yet?" Dawson asked as she put a box on the kitchen floor
"That one" Hannah said to Dawson "Across from Mom and Dads"
"Mom and Dads?"
"Yep" Hannah smiled
"The house is looking better since the last time I saw it"
"Yeah Dad and Uncle Matt fixed a lot of holes in the walls and some leaky pipes"
"Just dad and Uncle Matt?" Dawson questioned "apart from being at school I just supervised on the weekends and after school"
"Is that all you did?" Dawson questioned
"No, I tested some paints on the walls"
"I can see that" she said looking at all the random colours on the walls "Have you picked a colour for your room yet?"
"Still a bit undecided" Hannah said "but it's some shade of blue"
"Got any colours yet?"
"Yeah, come have a look" Hannah said walking over to her room
Hannah turned on the light to reveal eight different colours of blue in small patches over the walls
"Which Blues are your favourites?" Hannah questioned
"Probably those three, what about you?"
"Those two at the moment" Hannah said picking two of the three that Dawson picked
"Which walls are going to be which?"
"Not sure but I want one to be the dark blue"
"What's you dad said about it?"
"Not much yet"
Dawson laughed.
The front door opened and Kelly came in with Katherine and Matt
"The trailers still pretty full, have you guys done anything?" Kelly teased
"ha ha ha" Hannah said sarcastically.
We've been talking" Dawson explained
"About?" Casey questioned
"Paint colours, and the amount of holes in the wall"
"Yeah. Paint colours" Kelly said to himself
"Says the person who is happy to keep the plaster board walls" Katherine teased
"Why complicate things?" Kelly laughed
Hannah raised her eyebrow at her dad
"Don't you have boxes to get out of the trailer?"
"Fine" Hannah said walking out to the trailer
"Did she say anything?"
"Not much, she's just scared off Cooper still"
"Maybe she needs to talk to someone" Matt said
"She won't" Katherine replied
"A trait she gets from me" Kelly added
"We just need to keep an eye on her" Dawson added
"Easier said than done" Kelly replied
"We got pizza!" Hannah called out as she came through the front door with two boxes
"And garlic bread?" Katherine questioned as she put some plates on the fold out table
"Yep" Kelly replied, closing the door behind him
"Meat lovers and Chicken?" Hannah questioned as she put the pizzas on the table
"No veggie option?"
"Nope" Hannah said putting some pizza on her plate
"You are your fathers daughter" Katherine said to herself
"Yep" Hannah said sitting on the mattress in the lounge room
"I hope you're hungry" Kelly said opening the garlic bread
"You couldn't get anything with veggies on it?"
"There's capsicum on the chicken, I think"
"Sure" Katherine laughed
"Hey I got you a surprise" Kelly said to Katherine
"What?" She questioned
""Tada" he said revealing a box of ice-creams
Katherine smiled, "Thank you, but we don't have a freezer yet"
"Well we'll just have to eat them all tonight" Kelly laughed
"I love you" she said hugging Kelly
"You better" he teased
Katherine punched him in the shoulder and laughed
"Not regrets?" Kelly asked
"Not one" Katherine replied "Maybe one, how are the three of us going to fit on the one mattress?"
"We'll be fine"