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Casey walked out of the station house to see detective Voight waiting by his car. "Care to join me for a drink Lt Casey?" Voight asked as he took a step towards Casey. "Sure." Chief Boden watched his Lt and detective Voight. Wondering what was going on.
"All you have to do is change that report." Detective Voight said as he took a swig of his drink as he looked across the table at Casey who was sitting on the other side of the table. Casey shook his head. "The kid in the other car, he is paralysed waist down." Casey stared into Detective Voight's eyes. "I am not changing my statement." Casey stood up to leave. "I can take this to the next level believe me." Just as it got heated Chief Boden walked in. "Do you mind we are having a private conversation here." Detective Voight said as he and Casey looked towards Chief Boden. Detective Voight saw that Chief Boden had no intention of leaving Voight pushed his drink away before standing. "You are going to retract that statement." He walked out of the bar without another word. Chief Boden got out of his seat and sat were Detective Voight was moments ago. "I'm not changing my statement." Casey said as he looked his chief in the eye.
The next day was a quiet much to the relief of the crew. Mouch and Otis were on their daily bickering as they always did. Mills was making lunch for them all. Casey was talking to the Chief Boden. Severide, Hadley and Capp were sitting at 'their' table playing card games. Hermann was trying to watch TV with Dawson and Shay who had just came back from a call, Severide could tell that Matt was not being himself , he almost seemed to be paranoid. Casey had been talking to the chief for a good half an hour when the bell saved him from anymore questions.
Track 81 squad 3 ambulance 61 Warehouse fire.Everyone went into action mode. "Lt, you alright?" Cruz asked as he could see his Lt was looking down towards the ground he looked like he had not had any sleep for a week. "Yea, I'm fine Cruz." Otis and Hermann exchanged worried glances at each other. They got to work as quickly as they could. "Hurry boys, this building is not going to last for much longer." Casey yelled so his crew and squad 3 could hear him. They all knew what to do. Otis and Cruz opened all the doors with help from Mouch, Mills and Hermann ran into the warehouse with squad to see if they could find anyone in the building. Casey and Hermann were walking towards the back of the warehouse when Chief Boden's voice came through their radio. "Guy's you have to get out of the building, all units out of the building. It is going to flash." Severide and Capp turned around as did Otis and Cruz, Hadley and Mills turned around too. Casey and Hermann were about to when Casey saw a body against the wall. He ran over to the body, with Hermann calling out his name running after him. "Casey, what's going on? Get out of there." Severide yelled as he went back into the warehouse. Hermann picked up the unconscious kid but could not get Casey to move. "Casey. Let's go." Severide yelled as he grabbed Casey's arm and run towards the exit. Seconds after they got out the flash over happened. Making the three of them duck for cover as the building exploded. Hermann passed their patient onto Dawson and Shay before walking over to his Lt. "What is going on Lt?" Hermann asked as they got into the truck to head back. "Nothing" Casey said but none of his men believed him.
Capp, Hadley and Severide were sitting at 'their' table talking. "What the hell was Casey doing?" Hadley asked his Lt. Severide shrugged he could tell something was wrong. Mills, Cruz and Otis were in the kitchen while Casey was in his office. Chief Boden knew there was a clash between squad and truck, not just because of Darden's death but because squad always think they are better. "Severide! My office now." Chief Boden ordered as he walked towards the table making Severide jump a bit as he got up and followed chief Boden. "What happened out there?" Chief Boden asked as Severide took a seat. "I don't know what you mean?" Severide asked trying to pretend nothing went wrong. "How about Casey? What happened?" Severide put his head down, "He could have killed himself and Hermann, he went in when it was unsafe and he knew that the building was going to flash." Severide had not met eye contact with Chief Boden the entire time. "He seems unfocused, he is distracted. I don't feel safe around him, he is not the Matthew Casey, I know." Chief Boden had been watching Severide the whole time. "Kelly, I need to tell you something." Severide looked up at the mention of his first name. "Matt's being threatened, you cannot tell anyone alright, I'm telling you this because I need you to look out for him."
Shay and Dawson were sitting in the back of their ambulance talking about Dawson's love life. Otis and Cruz were watching TV with Mouch. Hermann was with Vargas, Vargas had gone to squad but that does not mean they could not still be friends and it meant that Hermann was able to sit at the table squad 'owned' While Casey and Severide were talking, well trying too. "Matthew Casey, tell me what's going on?" Casey sighed as he looked towards his fellow Lt. "Since when did you care?" Severide was taken back because Casey was right. Severide had been too busy blaming Casey for Darden's death. "I care because you are my fellow Lt and you almost killed a member of your crew today and me." Casey stood up and swung around to face Severide. "Kelly, you never know when to shut up do you, you did not have to come back into that building but you did and it was your choice. In fact you shouldn't have. IT IS NOT MY FAULT. You keep blaming me for things and I'm sick of it, ever since Darden died I have been taking your shit in the face. You were not the one that watched your best friend burn, were you? No. I looked him right in the eye, Kelly, I could see the pain. So leave me alone, for one in your life, don't blame someone else." "I didn't know" Severide said however before he could say more he was interrupted by Casey. "Well now you do, I have paper work to do." Severide knew that it was his cue to leave. He walked out of the room still watching Casey
Chief Boden had heard everything that was said between his two Lt's. He knew that the conflict between them and it was getting worse. He knew it was time to talk to his two Lt's. But he really did not know how too.
The end of the shift was nearing and everyone was getting ready to go home. Otis and Casey were in the locker rooms getting changed. "Casey there is someone out front for you." Shay said as she passed to her own locker. "Who is it?" He asked as he looked towards her after closing his locker. Casey was not having a good day by any stretch of imagination so it was only fitting that he person that was waiting for him was detective Voight "Great, you do realise you cannot ruin my day anymore, sorry someone has beaten you to that." Detective Voight pushed Caser's comment to the side. "Got some good news for you Casey, well I heard what happened to your car; I put my men on it and got the kid." "How do you know it was him?" Casey asked. He was not buying what Voight was telling him. Hell for all Casey knew it could have been Detective Voight himself. "He had this on him, this yours?" Detective Voight asked as he handed the bag over to Casey, Casey recognised it as his gym bag that had been taken out of his car. "This isn't my bag." Casey said as he opened his bag to see money sitting on the top of his clothes. "We can make this all go away Casey. With a simple move. It can save us a lot of trouble" Detective Voight said as he watched Casey take the cash out of the bag. "Not going to happen, Thanks for getting my bag." Casey said as he walked off after putting the money on the car bonnet. Detective Voight knew that he would have to step it up if he wanted to make sure his son stayed out of jail. He needed to call on a certain someone to help him. He got into his car and drove away from the fire house to a friend that has helped him out through a lot.