Erin walked into Molly's, her eyes scanning for Kelly Severide. They stopped when he was spotted at the bar talking to Shay.
She walked up to Kelly, putting a hand on his back to grab his attention. "Hey, I'm sorry, I know it's late."
"Yeah, no problem." Kelly replied, taking a sip of his beer.
"Hey, Shay."
"Hey, how's it going?" The two girls said acknowledging each other.
"Good, thanks. Hey, I'm going to go say 'hi' to everyone and then I'll be back." Erin smiled to the pair as she walked away.
Kelly eyed her as she walked away and then looked back towards Shay who was wiggling her eyebrows at him, making Kelly laugh. "What?"
"So you and the detective huh?" Kelly laughed. "Have you slept together? I bet she's amazing in bed. Come on Kel, give me some details here!" Shay was begging, she always needed to know everything going on in Kelly's life.
"Come on Shay.."
"Kellyyy." Shay was pleading now.
"She's good, alright?"
"Mhmm." Shay smirked. "I knew it, I knew I saw something with you two. I think she could be good for you Kel."
"Yeah..me too." Kelly replied almost in a whisper as he turned to get a glance at Erin.

"Look who finally showed up!" Ruzek shouted as Erin walked over to the table that her unit was huddled around.
"Hey, what took you so long?" Antonio questioned giving her a side hug.
"Had some paperwork I wanted to finish up."
"Can I get you something to drink? A beer?" Ruzek asked.
"Uh, no I actually just came over to say a quick hello, thank you though."
"Oh come on! A round of shots then." Ruzek walked off, not taking no for answer.
Erin was set next to Jay in her usual spot. "Hanging out with the fireman tonight?" He asked, glass of whiskey close to his lips, not looking at Erin.
"Yeah. You jealous?" She asked, only joking around.
"No." She looked at him with a smile, she knew he was lying but Ruzek returned with the shots before she had the chance to pry anymore.
"Alright, here we go." Ruzek said handing around the glasses.
Antonio raised his arm with the drink in it, "I wanna make this one to us, for all being here and for always having each others backs."
"To us!" Everyone cheered, clinking glasses and downing their drink.
A few shots in and a lot of laughs later… Only Erin, Jay, Ruzek, and Kim were left sitting at the table. Antonia, Olinski, and Atwater headed out around the second round of shots.
Kim quietly spoke to Erin, "Hey, aren't you supposed to be with Kelly?"
"Shit." Erin said, quickly jumping out of her seat and grabbing her things, stumbling a little bit but only from the quickness, not because she was trashed. Erin knew how to handle her alcohol well, she was only a little buzzed.
Jay's head was looking down at his drink but his eyes followed Erin's leaving body. "I'm heading out." He said not really wanting to have the view of Erin with the fireman for the rest of his night.
"See ya," Kim said.
"I'll catch ya later man." Ruzek spoke after swallowing another gulp of his drink.

Kelly smiled as he saw Erin approaching. "Hey, want something to drink?"
"Uh yeah..I'll just take whatevers on tap."
Erin turned her attention to the other man sitting at the table when Kelly walked away to get her a drink. "Hi, I don't think we've met before, Erin Lindsay." She said extending her arm out for a handshake.
"Clarke, I used to work with Severide on squad up until I switched houses." Clarke took a second before speaking again. "So you're Severide's new girl?"
Erin just nodded, not really sure what to say. They haven't really established what they were and she knew Kelly was a known ladies man but has he been talking about her?
"Thanks." Erin said as Kelly put the beer down in front of her and took his seat next to her. Finally she thought I really needed that beer.
"Oh yeah Clarke, this is Erin Lindsay, forgot you two haven't met yet."
"Yeah, we uh, did the introduction when you left." Clarke let out a laugh. "But detective huh?"
"Yeah, up at the 21st district." She replied.
"You work for Voight then."
"You another Chicago firefighter that has beef for him?"
"No, uh, actually they worked out a case for me awhile back." Erin nodded. "Well I actually have shift in the morning unlike this one so I'm gonna head out. It was nice meeting you." Clarke shook her hand again and headed out.
"You too."
"Good seeing you again man, ill catch ya around." Clarke nodded in response. Then Kelly turned his body to face Erin. "So you were having a good time over there." Kelly stated, nodding his head at the table the intelligence unit was once set at.
Erin looked at where he was pointing and then looked back. "Yeah, we had a tough case this week so everyone just needed to let lose."
"And how are you feeling?" He smirked.
"Good."
Kelly laughed, "Didn't know a little thing like you could hold her alcohol so well."
Erin looked down, nodding her head and smiling. She knew why she could hold her alcohol so well, that's what happens when you start drinking so young, she thought, but he didn't need to know all of that yet. "Yeah."
Kelly put a finger under her chin, lifting it up, "You uh-" wanna get out of here. Is what he was going to say until he was interrupted by a very drunk Shay standing up on the bar.
"I just want to say!" Shay was screaming out as she struggled trying to stand up. Once she got up she started again. Everyone that was left, at almost 2am, was starring at her. "I just want to say that I love you all so much. And thank you for supporting Molly's and being here tonight. We all love you." Shay was tearing by the end and Kelly knew that was his queue to take the girl home.
Kelly turned his attention back to Erin, "I'm sorry…I have to-"
"Yeah go ahead, I get it." Erin cut him off knowing exactly what he was talking about. They both stood up, Erin grabbing her stuff and Kelly placing some money on the table. "I could go with you if you'd like?" Erin felt bad, she came here for Kelly and pretty much blew him off the whole night, every time she was off doing something she never paid any attention to the time.
"Yeah." Kelly smiled. "I'd like that."

"Kelly! How'd your date go with that detective!?" Shay questioned, leaning on Kelly as they started walking away from the bar. Getting a whiff of her breath he was questioning how he could even understand a word she was saying right now.
"Shay, she's right there." Kelly pointed out as they were walking closer to Erin, not really wanting to say more.
"Ohhh." Shay put a smirk on her face.

They were outside now, walking along the streets to their cars. "How's he in bed?" Shay quietly said to Erin.
"Shay!"
"What! I know you're amazing but I just want to make sure she knows that too. You're really hot by the way." Shay added in the last part looking back at Erin. Erin just started laughing, not able to hold it in anymore as Kelly moaned in annoyance. Shay was always up in everybody's business and not afraid to say anything but it only got worse when she had a few drinks in her.
"So I'll just meet you at your place?" Erin said, reaching her car and walking to the drivers side.
"Yeah."
"Oh she's coming back to our place?" Shay questioned with a grin and wiggled her eyebrows a bit.
Erin smiled, holding in any laughs and comments she had as she stepped into her car.

"She is passed out." Kelly stated walking down the stairs, heading towards the kitchen to grab a few beers while Erin set on the couch.
"That's good." Erin said with a slight smile.
"You alright?" Kelly questioned, now sitting down handing her a beer.
"Yeah I'm fine."
"So tell me something about yourself Erin Lindsay."
"Well, what do you want to know?" She questioned, leaning back and relaxing. She has never been the person to just start talking about anything. If you asked her a question, she would answer your specific question and just that. Kelly laughed, he wasn't quite sure what to ask this girl. He felt that there was so much to learn. "What turned you into such a ladies man?" She questioned, turning her heads toward him.
He just starred at her before saying, "What makes you think I wasn't always one?"
"I see the way you act towards people you care about-Shay, your sister. You'd do anything for them. You have a heart Kelly Severide. And anyone with a heart once wanted more than to just sleep with a random girl every night. And here we are, talking, you haven't made one move on me all night. I mean we have already slept together so I would have assumed put a few drinks in me and head home for something more but I'm sitting on your couch instead."
Kelly let out a sigh, she was right. Damn this girl was good. He felt that he had only just met her and she already saw right through his facade. All he knew was that she was definitely a damn good detective.
"Her name was Rene. We were engaged until I found out that she cheated on me so I left her. There has only been one person since her that I let myself care about. Rene number two." Kelly laughed slightly, thinking about what are the odds, the two people he loved had the same name, he should have seen the heartbreak coming. "She left for Spain because of her job. I almost went with her but I couldn't bring myself to do it. She came back a few months later claiming she was pregnant with my baby." Kelly took a glance at Erin. "I believed her, I was so excited. But then I found out it wasn't really mine."
Erin placed her hand on Kelly's leg, but he didn't move a muscle. "I'm so sorry Kelly." She said giving him a sympathetic look. She took in a deep breath and stared forward. "I had a rough childhood. When I was 14 I fell in love with this guy. He took care of me, I had a place to live, food. I thought he loved me too. Turns out he was only using me. When I was 16 I finally realized all of the terrible things and I left him." She turned back towards Kelly, no emotion in her face. She was rubbing his leg with her thumb. "The world's a cruel place and I believe we all have broken pieces inside of us."
Kelly wasn't really sure what to say, so he just asked her a question that he's been wanting to know. "You and Voight. I heard that you'd be the first one out there to protect him if something happened. Why? Why do you seem to care for him when everyone else I know hates the man?"
"He saved my life. As simple as that."

Erin and Kelly continued talking for a few hours until Erin fell asleep on Kelly mid-sentence. He couldn't blame her though, it was around 4:30 in the morning and he drifted off right after her.

At around 7:30am Kelly's internal clock went off not allowing him to sleep any longer. He's always been a morning person, with his job and always liking to get a run in and not waste away the day.
Kelly woke up with a stiff arm, remembering that he fell asleep with Erin on the couch. Not wanting to wake her, knowing the time and the fact she had only been asleep a few hours, he reached for the TV remote.
When he turned on the TV Erin's head popped up. "Sorry, I didn't mean to wake you, didn't think the TV was this loud." Erin looked around confused, she was trying to figure out where she was in her foggy sleep state. "You okay?" Kelly asked with a slight laugh looking at her facial expression.
"Yeah. What time is it?"
"About 7:30."
"Ugh!" Erin moaned. Picking up a pillow, she put it over her head and fell down on Kelly's lap. She then moved the pillow under her head and soon fell back asleep, knowing it was Saturday so she had no work unless Voight called everyone in. Although she did not actually mean to fall back to sleep, it was still early and she got little sleep.
Kelly leaned over to look at her, seeing that she fell back to sleep he pulled the blanket from behind him and laid it on her, gently rubbing her with his thumb as he watched the morning news.

Kelly dosed off a little bit, with his head hanging over the back of the couch. He was quickly awoken with the sound of Shay coming down the stairs. He careful slide his body out from under Erin, he didn't want to wake her but he could no longer sit there.
"Couldn't sleep in either?"
Shay jumped at the sound of Kelly's voice, "Shit Kelly! Where the hell did you come from?" Kelly tilted his head at the couch and Shay smirked. "And no, downside to drinking is not sleeping in and this killer headache." Shay placed her elbows on the counter, leaning down and rubbing her forehead with her hands. Kelly walked over with a glass of water and some aspirin. "Thanks." She took it from him and then set down on a barstool. "So you and Erin?"
"Stop it Shay. Nothing happened. Thanks to you we just talked all night. We didn't even kiss last night, alright?" Shay nodded. "But I really do think I have you to thank for that. We told each other a lot last night; more than I ever imagined. If I didn't have to drag your drunk ass home last night I think there would have been little words exchanged and I would have been gone by the end of breakfast."
"You're welcome."

A little while later Erin woke up to some voices talking. She quickly grabbed all of her stuff and walked into the kitchen to say her goodbyes. "Hey, uh sorry." Erin said in her raspy voice, sorry for interrupting their conversation. "But I should probably go."
"No, stay. I have nothing to get done today, I'll make you some breakfast." Kelly smiled.
"You sure?"
"Seriously. Stay. Thanks to his sister appearing this guy actually knows how to cook." The two smiled and Erin put her stuff down and took a seat.

Coming Up: Erin confronts Kelly about what their relationship really is.

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