Hi guys, i'm back with a little oneshot, let me know what you think
Big Thanks to Rhi and Jana for helping me with this one!
"Trav come on what is it?" Andy nagged. "You've been angry chopping those poor carrots for minutes now". Travis kept all his focus on the task at hand though. Andy grabbed the bag of carrots and hid them behind her back making sure he would look up. "I slept with someone" he blurted out while turning around to her. "You did!? With who? I need details! Wait if you are angry chopping carrots instead of sending flirty texts something isn't right? What is it?" Andy dropped the bag of carrots on the counter and focused on being there for her friend. "It's nothing." Trav tried to end the convo, he wasn't used to spilling his secrets to Andy. Contemplating for a second, he knew he could trust Andy a part of him was eager to let it all out.
"Okay, it's someone I shouldn't have ended up in bed with. It was good, it was so good but... it's just too messy." Andy raised her eyebrow. "There is no such thing as too messy Trav." She chuckled. "Messes can be fun just make sure you don't get too attached. You deserve to have some fun, it's been a while since you and Emmett broke up. Don't let the messiness stand in your way." She smiled and nudged him.
Ever since she got back to 19 they've become closer than they used to be and she felt kinda proud that after everything he trusted her with his relationship struggles. "I like him, I do really weirdly like him, but I didn't even know he was gay until he ended up in my bed... HOW? Have I been single for that long that even my gaydar left me?" he threw his hands up. The campaign had kept him so busy that he hadn't realized how much time had passed since his breakup with Emmet. "Trav come on that gaydar didn't leave you, maybe it just took a little while to get it started again. You know practice makes perfect" Andy started laughing seeing the look on Travis his face. "Enough about me, speaking of messy love lifes what's going on with you? Who is the next love of Andy Herrera? You know I always thought you and Sullivan would last." He paused for a moment.
"Isn't it weird working together with your ex?" he then asked. "You know technically I work with two of them." Andy pointed out. "JACK! right of course! I almost forgot about all of that. I heard a rumor he proposed to you in the turnout room?" he lives for the gossip but never got this particular rumor, that circled the station at the time, confirmed from neither of them. "Well, yes and no. He didn't propose but he wanted to, had the ring and all." Andy cringed a little thinking back to that day. "So, what about the other one, you know, the one you did say yes to." Travis joked. Andy sighed. "I- I still love Robert and a part of me probably always will. Us Working together again has been a good thing honestly. After everything I put him through it surprises me that we found our friendship again." Travis's lips curled up a little hearing this confession. "You know I'll always be team Surrera." He gave her a serious stare.
"We will see. Anyway, speaking of my date life and not my exes; I'm confused, there is this one guy that's been chasing me for over a month now and he asked me out on a date, and I might have said yes but he hasn't responded yet and he usually is a very quick texter. I just hope he's alright. I don't know how to feel about him he's not really my usual type." Andy admitted. "Your usual type is big strong hot firefighter men, right?" Travis confirmed. "Can you blame me?!" Andy laughed. "Nooo I totally get it." He smirked. "There is just something about that uniform and saving kittens and babies that is irresistible" Travis sighed, seeing the image in his head clearly.
Andy poured them both a cup of coffee and held up her cup. "To firefighters" She toasted. Trav grabbed the other cup and they cheered. "To firefighters". After a few seconds of silence Andy continued talking, needing to get more off her chest. "I just don't know what to do about this guy. I don't think it could ever be something serious and I'm not even sure I like him like that, but he is a damn great kisser." She blushed a little thinking back to their kiss. "We do love a good kisser. Andy just go out with the guy maybe it'll be fun and maybe a date will make you realize he is not the one but that doesn't mean he can't be your mister right now." Travis winked. "Now give me back my carrots I need to chop." they bursted out in laughter.
When the door opened, both looked up to see who it was. "Eli hi!" they both said in union smiling from ear to ear. Eli who was looking a bit uncomfortable, quickly got himself back together and shook his head before he started to talk. "Trav can I talk to you in private for a second? I have some insights into Dixon that we need to talk about."
"I'm cooking right now can it wait till we're finished?" Travis felt bad for leaving Andy since they spent more time talking than actually prepping dinner there was still a lot to do. "Trav it's okay I got this, you know I got a lot to think about. Like who that mystery man of yours is" She winked at him. "You sure? I'll do the clean up I promise!" Andy nodded at them "Yes go do that mayor thing and make sure that ass of a Dixon gets what he deserves" while she continued prepping dinner. "You're the best." Trav thanked her as he walked out of the kitchen.
"Speaking to Andy about your mystery man huh? I'm intrigued" Eli asked as they walked into the locker-room. "Well yes you know when you got the swagger you can't hide it from your closest friends" Travis did his best Vic imitation but ended up laughing about his bad attempt. "To be honest I didn't expect to see you here today, especially not after how fast you rushed out this morning." Travis said while he stared at the locker behind Eli dodging his gaze "I had an appointment at city hall and what kind of campaign manager would I be if i wouldn't show up because I spent my morning in bed with my candidate" Eli flirted "Please, never say that again" Travis said feeling uncomfortable with Eli using the election in the same sentence as his bed. "What is going on with Dixon, you said something about insights?" He asked reminding how they ended up here "That may or not may have been a little lie to talk to you in private?" Eli let out a little laugh "Was it now?" Travis teased as he walked closer to Eli he couldn't help staring at his lips "Well yeah you, Travis, are very wanted" His hand found his cheek as he stared into his eyes. "It's good to be wanted" Travis licked his lips remembering the night they spent together.
"Are you sure this is a good idea" Travis whispered in a hoarse voice. His heart started beating faster and faster as Eli got closer to him. Travis couldnt help but watch his lips as he kept talking. Probably answering the question he asked before. Somehow his hands found his tie tugging it hard enough to get Eli to look up at him. The feel of his breath getting heavier with each passing second overwhelmed him knowing that if he did what he wanted, if he pushed Eli against the door and have his way with him this would no longer be a one night stand, this would be something more. Something more than celebration sex. Fuck it Andy was right he deserved to have some fun. Before he could make a move he felt Eli's lips on his. It was messy, passionate and complicated but somehow it felt right. Travis returned the kiss with desire, one hand behind his head, while the other was making his way to his tie once again, finally managing to loosen it and rip it off. He tossed it to the other side of the locker room. They paused for a moment, looking into each other eyes breathing heavily. Eli was about to say something, but this time Travis made the move, bulling him by his jacket to keep him in place, while Eli's hands found their way behind his neck ... They smiled into the kiss before giving themselves over to the feel of their bodies pressing against each other, the need to give more and take more from each other. While their lips and tongues moved a little slower but deeper as they got more familiar with their bodies again. There was nothing else to do but enjoy the moment. His hands travelled from his shoulders to Eli's chest unbuttoning his shirt.
Andy walked into the locker room on the hunt for some hand moisturizer but she found someone else instead. She suddenly stopped in her tracks and her eyes went as big as they could get as she saw Travis and Eli making out. Eli's shirt was unbuttoned and their lips rosey from their kisses. "Oh my god" She let out. Realizing this might bet he reason he hasn't texted her back. He looked pretty occupied. Eli and Travis both jumped apart as they realized someone had entered the room. The cold of the cold air on their lips as they tingled from their shared kisses. Travis was the first to speak. "Andy?" He asked embarressed and breathless. Meanwhile Andy opened her mouth in an attempt to speak looking from one to the other but nothing came out. What was there to say? The blasting sirens saved her from the awkward encounter.
They all ran out of the locker room following the smoke into the kitchen where they found the rest of the team who were working on getting the fire out. "What the hell happened?" Andy asked concerned realizing she was the last one in the kitchen. "Someone left the stove on and I think you can imagine how that went" Jack answered her frustrated. "What is that smell?" Travis tried to hold in his breath as he walked closer "That would be dinner, cremated dinner at this point" Jack held up the pan showing them the burned food. "Are you telling me one of my firefighters left the stove on?" Theo said in his angry captain's voice. "Theo come on things like this can happen, no one got hurt and the fire is out. There isn't a lot of damage. it's fine, i'll order pizza for tonight" Vic tried to calm down Theo. Everyone was a bit shaken up by the loud alarm and the flames in their kitchen. It's one thing to go out on calls where you put out fires but it's a whole other experience when it's at your own place of work. "You guys are firefighters sure as hell do you know you should do a double check to see if you left something on. Imagine the newspapers with the title 'Firestation 19 burned down by left on stove' Get it together people" He stormed out and went to his office frustrated thinking that chief Ross would see this damage as his experience since it happened on shift where he was interim captain.
They ordered pizza's and Travis and Vic stayed in the kitchen to clean up while the others continued their tasks for the day.
"I kissed him again." Travis broke the silence as he and Vic were cleaning up the mess created by the stove being set on fire. "I mean, 'I kissed him again' implies that the last time we just kissed, which was very much not what happened, but-"br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /"Okay, stop" Vic stopped mopping the floor and shook her head looking at Travis, letting out a little laugh, "I really do not need to know about your every hookup - or not-hookup. You can spare some details, you know!" she turned away and kept on mopping the floor. Travis lowered his eyebrows as he leant down to wipe the oven door. "That's not like you." He said, wanting to carry on talking anyway because what had happened was pretty strange. "Andy walked in on us." He said, once again breaking the silence. Travis shivered as he remembered the awkward moment when the Lieutenant opened the door and saw him and Eli kissing.
"She what?!" Vic exclaimed, dropping the mop, it clattered on the floor and made both jump a little. "Okay, now you are being weird." Travis's eyebrows furrowed even further as he went to pick up the mop. He took one look at her and could tell she was keeping something in. Vic never had a good poker face. "You know something." Travis said while pointing at her. "What? No, I don't." She looked around to try and avoid Travis's eyes which were trying to get info out of her. "Mhm..." He stood up, crossed his arms and tapped his foot. A total of probably only three seconds had passed before Vic couldn't keep it in anymore. "Andy kissed Eli a week or so ago." She blurted out, and before Travis could even think about reacting, Vic had to say even more: "They're trying to go out on a date, but he isn't replying or something, but it's clear now why..." Vic grimaced.
"Ooh crap." Travis's eyes widened and then he remembered the conversation he had with Andy. "We literally talked about him. We didn't use names, but we both talked about our encounters with Eli. To each other. And now she knows that he and I are... seeing each other...". The dots connecting for him, he facepalmed himself. "When did our lives get so messy?" Vic laughed and looked at the floor, which was now mostly dry. Travis let out a large sigh and said, "I don't know, man." All in all, Travis was just a little annoyed the mess that was about to unfold was going to get so much worse now that he knew Eli and Andy were trying to start something. As if sleeping with your campaign manager wasn't messy enough.
"Hey, how long did you know?" Travis asked as he ripped off a piece of kitchen roll. "She told me pretty soon after it happened." Vic replied. "I'm impressed." He nodded his head and wiped the counter. "Vic Hughes keeping a secret for more than 5 seconds? That must be a new record..." he joked. "Oh, shut up." She frowned jokingly, a little laugh in her voice as she hit him gently on the shoulder. She then put a little bit more of a serious tone of voice on to say, "You need to talk to her, Trav." Travis sighed. "I will. She seemed pretty weirded out after she caught us-" He started before Vic interrupted. "What did I just say? Spare the details!" She raised her voice. "Sorry." He looked down and then laughed a little, hearing a small chuckle from Vic too.
Andy went into the Turnout room to try and get out of her head by organizing and cleaning up the room. It was her fault their dinner was burned, she was the one that endangered their station. What if they were on shift when this happened. She shook her head trying to get rid of her thoughts and started cleaning up the room
Robert followed her wanting to check in. "Andy? Are you okay? did you leave the stove on?" Robert asked as he stood beside her. She nodded slightly. "That isn't like you, what happened" Robert asked worried, knowing all the ins and outs about her this behavior was new, even for him. "I just didn't expect to be caught up in a messy bisexual love triangle." Robert looked at her surprised, "Bisexual love triangle?"
"Yes, Robert you heard that right. So, this guy has been chasing me for so long you know the texting, first kiss and planning dates but I was too busy with work and the whole mutiny thing that I forgot so we just ordered in and stayed at my place talking the whole night. But I finally agreed on a redo of our first date. Here comes the good part now, Trav just told me he ended up in bed with someone which turned out to be the same guy last night and I may or may not have walked into them while they were making out here, at the station. I'm sorry but i don't feel like living in a romcom." She had to take a deep breath after all that.
"That's..." Robert started slowly, still processing everything Andy had just, in a very fast pace, told him. "A lot... Wait you and Travis both know this guy?" he then asked as he got his wits around it all. Andy nodded at him. "Well now Travis knows him better than me, including aaaall his skills in the sheets but yes we both know him, and you do too."
Robert looked at her shocked but couldn't help but let out a little laugh hearing the frustration in her voice. "I'm sorry but hey you always dreamed about having your own whole romcom experience, I guess this is it?" he teased her. "Robert come on!" Andy whined and threw a flashlight at him. "Yes, I wanted that and I got that with you but you know I always root for the queer couples. I would be the side chick who isn't even sure if she has feelings. Honestly, I somehow feel relieved that I have a way out of that date right now. That says enough I think." "Andy if you aren't sure about your feelings that tells me enough. You love hard, you fight for the things you want and if something is holding you back you aren't truly into him. You deserve someone who chooses you and doesn't play these games with you. let him know." He gave her an understanding smile.
"Is it Eli?" Robert asked "Yup" Before she could say something more Travis ran into the locker-room finding Andy and Robert "Andy, Andy! There you are I looked for you everywhere I think we need to talk. Vic told me I'm so sorry! I didn't know if I had known I would've never slept with him. I feel dirty" He vented slightly out of breath from running. He looked up from Andy to Robert. "Did I interrupt something?" He was suddenly very aware that his storming in might've ruined a moment. "Trav it's okay!" She smiled at him before turning to Robert "Robert, can you give us a minute?" He nodded and left the room giving them some privacy.
"Trav, I know that don't worry about it. I know you would never if you realized he was the guy i was talking about. I was just surprised that's all. I never expected us to get in a situation like this. It's messy also what the fuck was Eli thinking? You're my friend and coworker but he's chasing us both... maybe he lives for drama" "Or remember what Maya used to say? Monogamy is for the weak maybe that's his believe too." Travis let out a little laugh relieved Andy seemed to have taken the whole situation so well. Their friendship grew so much.
"Could be, idunno but Trav whatever you decide to do I'm here to support you. I meant what I said earlier you deserve happiness if Eli is the one that makes you happy right now go for it. Just make sure you don't get played or he must deal with an angry Andy." She winked at him "Oh I'm sure you and Vic would kill that guy if he messes up" he said as Andy was stood posed to fight a very one sided boxing match. "Ofcourse we are the Travis defence squad, here to serve." She couldn't help but smile at their talk. "thank you Andy, really" he looked at her, a slight lost puppy dog look on his face. "I guess I should thank you too because walking in on you guys wrestling those little tongues of yours while stripping those damn shirts in the locker-room was all I needed to realize I'm absolutely not into that guy." She paused, thinking she might need to lighten the mood to get them through this awkward phase. "Did my eyes deceive me or did I spot his tie on the ground?" She probed, giggling a little. Andy, please don't make me say it" His head tilted showing he wanted nothing more than this conversation to end.
"So no messy love triangle?" She repeated, just making sure they were on the right page. "No Andy, bro's before ho's, right?" They both started laughing. "I really am sorry Andy I didn't want to get involved in your love life." "I mean we both didn't expect that he was queer and chasing us both Travis it's okay, really" He gave her a genuine hug and a soft, understanding smile. "You know to be honest, it helped me too I realized something.. my head is still very much stuck on someone else" "Please tell me it is who I think it is" the soft smile turning bigger with ever second. "Trav you already know" she confirmed, turning to walk away. "I ship it!" he yelled after her. Nearly finishing this interaction, Andy thought she'd tease Trav with just one more question... "Hey, Trav, are his, you know... skills as good as his kissing?" She raised her eyebrows "Andy come on!" He started blushing "I'm sorry I had to ask!"