It was a typical day for Captain Andy Herera, she woke up, had her coffee, took a shower, made breakfast for her kids, dropped them off at school and now she's looking through yesterday's incident report, she had 10 minutes before line up.
On the other side of the bunk, there was Lt. Maya Bishop, she had the worse shift of her life, she sprained her ankle on call, and she and her wife were just not getting along, she slept at the station 4 nights in a row, she's overworking herself, and running too much, to her wife's dismay.
That's when she heard her captain shout for line up, that same captain had screamed at her 2 nights ago about running too much. Maya Bishop was married to her captain. She had been laying in Andy's bunk cuddling her pillow instead of her wife all because of a petty fight that turned into a large black hole over her marriage.
"Alright, team! Today we're all cleaning, until we get a call, we're scrubbing, mopping and whipping, am I understood"
"Yes Captain" Station 19 says in union
Andy takes one glance at her wife and says "Bishop! Come see me in my office"
"Lucky Bishop," Says Jack as everyone chuckles
"Gibson, the toilets need some scrubbing," Andy says
"Yes Captain," he says embarrassed
"Ma'am?" Says Maya as Andy opens the door and lets her in.
Andy and Maya have always maintained a professional stance at work. They both address each other according to ranks. It has never bothered either one of them until today
"You do not have to taunt me now Maya"
"I'm not, I've always called you ma'am"
"Maya, you haven't been home for 4 nights, the kids keep asking me where's momma, and I can't keep single parenting the girls on my own"
"I've been here, working andy"
"Maya honey, what's going on with you… please, baby, talk to me" Andy begs as she sits down and pulls Maya onto her lap, just as she would soothe the girls when they were babies.
"Andy, please not here okay, I promise we will talk tonight after the kids have gone to bed" Maya says as she lays her head on her wife's shoulder and clings onto her for dear life. Sobs racks her body and Andy holds on tight to her while kissing her forehead.
"You promise?" Andy says as she kisses her temple
"Yes" Maya whispers
"Okay then, you are going home"
"What…why? Andy I-"
"I am your captain and you have been working 4 shifts in a row, go home Lt.Bishop"
"Andy please I'm fi-"
"Don't even finish that sentence, I am also your wife and you need to eat something and sleep, theres some leftovers in the fridge heat it up and shower then sleep, ill grad dinner after getting the girls and come home, we can talk after. We are all having dinner as a family, Do I make myself clear?"
"Yes Dear" Maya grinned at her bossy wife and leaned over to kiss her and got up to leave.
"I love you, Maya"
"I love you too Andy"
