Mathew Casey was sitting at home when he heard a knock on the door. He looked up at the clock to realize it was 10:30. He walked over to the door to see Kelly Severide standing at his door with a pack of beers. "What do you want?" Matt asked. Kelly Severide was the last person Casey wanted to see today. "I want to talk Matt." Matt sighed as he let in his fellow Lt. "What do you want to blame me for this time Kelly?" Matt asked as he walked towards his couch. "I want to apologize, I want to apologize for my behaviour these last months, I know now it was wrong and I'm sorry." Matt and Kelly stood in silence looking at each other for a couple of minutes. "I want to help you." Matt had known Kelly was hurting when Darden died but so was he, everyone was hurting and not one other person blamed him for Darden's death. But something inside Matt told him that he may need him soon. "I heard a game on now, we could go to a pub and catch the second quarter. Kelly smiled as they walked out of the house unknowing someone was watching them.
"Wait up, back up, detective Voight did what?" Kelly asked as they talked at the back of the bar. "He is trying to keep his son out of jail, he is threatening me and I am scared Hallie will come into it soon. "Did you go to the police?" Kelly asked as he took a swig of his drink. "Kelly, he is the police." Kelly put his drink down. "Talk to detective Dawson, Gabby's brother." Matt nodded but Kelly knew he would not go. "You talk to him or I will." Casey nodded as he took a good swig out of his drink. The chatted about things they had missed out on when they had their 'I hate you' spell. They decided it would be best to leave when they looked at the clock to see it was 12.
The station house was quite the next day when Matt and Kelly walked into the station house getting some funny looks from squad and truck as they both walked into the locker room. "Did you see the strange looks we got from our teams?" Kelly asked as they got changed. "That tends to happen when we have been at each other for the past 4 months, it will take them a few months to get use to us being friends again I think." Matt replied making Kelly smirk. "Severide, Casey. My office now." The two looked at each other and shrugged before following Chief Boden into his office.
"I want to know that you too can work together." Chief Boden saw the smile his two Lt's shared. "I think we can make that possible." Matt said as he patted Kelly on the back. "So you guys have talked." They both nodded. "That makes this job a whole lot easier." Kelly elbowed Matt. "I need to speak to detective Dawson, would I be able to do that today?" Chief Boden nodded as he picked up his phone. "I'll see what I can do." The two Lt's nodded as they left the office and walked into the kitchen.
Otis and Hermann were sitting on the couch listening to their Lt talking to Kelly. "Do you think they are really talking or just an act?" Cruz said as he walked over and sat on the couch. Hermann and Otis laughed as they looked behind them towards the two Lt's before anyone could question the two Lt's. "I think it's an act, I think they got into trouble with Chief Boden." Otis said as they took their attention off their Lt's.
Truck 81 squad 3 ambulance 61 house fire. They all got into action and jumped into their trucks. Severide, Hadley and Capp were the first to get to the scene. "Will ya hurry Casey, what are you doing having a lunch break." He said through his radio getting a chuckle from Capp and Hadley. "Shut up Severide." Hadley, Capp and Severide got to work as truck 81.
Mouch, Otis made a vent for the fire. Capp and Hadley went in while Mills and Hermann went on elevator. Casey and Severide went into the building; they knew they did not have long before the building would flash. "We have someone." Hadley called out as they started to get him out. Severide and Casey found one other that Capp got out leaving the two Lt's in the building. "Do you see the weird looks our men are giving us?" Severide asked as they checked the last room. They had checked all the rooms now and found nothing. "Yea well we are not trying to kill each other, which we have been trying to do for the past 3 months or so. You asked me that this morning." Severide laughed as he realized he had. "I know it's just strange." Casey nodded in agreement. They began to walk out of the building, just as they got out they had to duck for cover as the whole house was engulfed into flames.
Hallie was walking to her car after a heavy shift when she saw her car had been broken into. She ran to the car, without even thinking she picked up her phone and dialled Matt's number. She waited for him to pick up. "Pick up, come on Matt." Her hopes were dashed when his phone went to voice mail. So she decided to ring the fire house.
Casey and Otis were in the locker rooms getting ready to go home when Hermann and Mills came in like they planned. "Lt, what is happening with you and Lt Severide?" Otis asked. Matt looked at Otis. "We are helping each other; he finally remembered I am awesome." Hermann and Mills knew it was not the whole truth whatsoever. They all nodded their heads as Kelly walked in. "what?" he asked as he got funny looks from all of truck 81. "You ready Casey." Casey nodded and waved goodbye to his team before walking out of the locker rooms and down the hall.
"51" Cruz said as he picked up the station house phone to hear Hallie. "Oh hey Hallie" He said as Casey and Severide had walked past. Casey stopped and walked towards the phone when he heard Hallie's name. Cruz could tell something was wrong. "You alright" Cruz asked getting Casey almost snatching the phone out of Cruz's hand. "Hold on" Cruz said as he passed the phone to Casey. "Hey" Casey said into the phone. He listened to everything she said as his eyes went wider. "I'll be there as soon as I can." He looked towards Severide. "Can we talk tomorrow?" He asked getting the nod from Kelly he raced off and got into his truck and drove towards the hospital parking lot. "Matt what is going on?" Hallie asked as Casey looked at the damage done to her car.
"Hallie, I need to tell you something." He said as he looked right into Hallie's eyes. "I think you may be in danger, I don't want you to get hurt and because of this I think we should have a break while I sort this out." Hallie walked towards Matt. "Matt, I want to be with you, we can get through this together, let me help you."
Authors note: Will Casey let Hallie help him and what will Detective Voight do next. Hmmmm