So, I didn't get a lot of feedback, but let's see where this goes, I guess.

Episode 121

Severide goes to a hearing about Tara. Casey meets Hallie for coffee, during which she reveals her status as single. Casey tells her about Curtis; meanwhile, Voight has pulled the necessary strings to be sprung from jail. The station undergoes mandatory sexual harassment training. Boden tells Casey about Voight, who contacts Gaby for the favor she owes him. The firefighters are having a rough time being serious about their training. Antonio talks to Casey about Voight and tells him to watch his back, he also tells Gaby that he'll take care of Voight for her. Hadley pulls a prank on Mills in front of their sensitivity trainer and Boden transfers Hadley to another house. Severide meets with Tara. Molly's opens and Casey and Hallie hook up.

Emily is in absolute astonishment when she hears the news about Severide and Tara and knew right away, that no one would have given her the time of day if she had just flat out said she didn't like Tara. Emily won't talk to anyone at the firehouse about it, but she's worried about the situation between them. She talks to Alexxis and Seth and some other people at the studio, but those two families are not in cahoots with each other.

As with Clarice, Emily is weary and intimidated by Hallie's return; she was friends with the woman- good friends- and Hallie was her pediatrician (though she wasn't a pediatrician) and a confidant for Emily. But with a lot of people in her life, things went sideways. It was okay when she and Casey broke-up, because that happens, but when she left, it felt like Clarice all over again, and Shay when she went downhill, and her parents when they died, and Antonio when he distanced himself. She has been trying to avoid Hallie, but staying away from her uncle Matt proved to be more difficult than she may have thought it would be.

When Emily receives word that the firehouse, most of the people working in it, are required to do mandatory sexual harassment training because of Kelly's situation, she is astonished. But, because it is all men in the firehouse, and two- or three- women, she can see where the conversations they have and some of the jokes they crack, would cause them to need this sensitivity training. Furthermore, when she hears word about Voight and his out from jail, her worries and fears triple to Casey, her brother, and her sister.

Shay approaches her one day to ask how she's doing and if she's been okay. She tells Shay that she's fine, to which the blond she considers a sister replies and says she's been worried about her behavior. The conversation ends and Shay reassures Emily that she's there if the preteen needs her. When Emily leaves to use the bathroom, Shay takes her phone, and a wild guess to get in it, and finds the number for Alexxis, repeating it to herself, locking the phone, putting it back and running to find a place to write it down. When she is alone, she calls the number and asks if Alexxis would be willing to meet with her to talk about their struggling friend.

Voight Calls Gaby

They are walking into the firehouse next shift, when Gaby's cell phone rings.

"Hold on baby" she says to Emily.

The younger girl comes to a stop just in front of her sister and exaggeratedly spins on her heel to face her. Gaby is patting herself looking for her phone; its ring time is running down when she finds it in a pocket of her bag. She catches herself before immediately sliding her finger across the screen to answer it. Her face went white and she froze. Emily looked up at her, her face shocking. Basil whined.

Emily grabbed her phone and stared at the name on the screen

"Why is he calling you?"

"I don't know. Don't worry about it" she tried for a smile.

"Fine. Don't tell me" she spat and stalked away.

Gaby opened her mouth to say something- to reprimand her for talking to her that way- but the words didn't make it to her tongue before Emily was already out of sight.

Inability to take sensitivity training seriously

Maybe it was her fault that she joined her family for sensitivity training. Maybe she did because that's where all of her favorite people were. No matter the reason or whose fault it was, she still did- she joined them, and regretted it one hundred percent.

"When and how did you all get so crudely insensitive?" she interjected, ceasing their laughing.

"Emmy!" Hermann bellowed, "We're just joking!" he tried to explain, still high from laughing.

"Come on, Em" he tried, reaching for her arm and wrapping a hand around it.

"NO!" she demanded, yanking her arm away and clutching it too her chest protectively.

Severide leaned forward in his chair, his hands clasping together on the table. He knits his brows almost to think this reaction is personal. But he refuses to believe that- that this reaction is one she's having because this has happened to her before… this harassment. It has to be something else.

"This stuff" she waves her arms, "This insensitive bullshit you guys are joking about right now, actually happens." The men are shocked by her language.

"There are girls on the sidewalks, young ones, who get wolf whistles from men three times their age. There are girls, who get a hand to the backside, sometimes by people they know, when they aren't even of pubescent age."

Kelly is standing now, her thoughts, her sentences, they disturb him. The only thing he can tell himself to make him feel better is saying that this isn't about her- that this is someone that she knows or a seminar she had at school or the studio.

"This is awful. People are targeted. People have no way of getting out of some situations. People, girls, young girls, get hammered and harassed at school because they're shorts are mid-thigh length. Could there be no other vice that you guys can pick up if that's what you need to drop this one? There are girls whose fathers do this to them- tell them they look nice and pull them close. You have no idea what you're demonstrating to people by acting in such a way."

Definitely someone else. But who?