Ashes

a little taste

Tony backs the squad into the garage as boden heads to the passenger side to talk to kelly.

"So how is your neck?" boden asks, "100%" kelly says, "you'd tell me if it wasn't, right?" boden asks, "wouldn't be here if it wasn't" kelly muses, carter gets out the rig and leans against it waiting for kelly to climb out, "meet you in the office?" kelly asks, "meet you there" carter confirms as she puts her coat in the coat room and heads for the office finding kelly waiting in his desk chair, kelly holds his arms out motioning for carter to join him, "please don't let me fall" carter instructs, "yes lieutenant" kelly teases as he makes hands for carter to head into his embrace, carter shakes her head and walks into kelly's awaiting arms, the man pulls her closer burying his head in her hair as he rocks them gently, "you can't let him intimidate you" carter warns, "I know" kelly shrugs, in the evening the two sit next to each other in the garage as kelly messes with his scba when whaley walks by, "so um why are you and carter so cosy" whaley asks, kelly looks up but doesn't answer, "I'm curious" whaley clarifies, "I apologized, I offered to put it past us, If that's not something that you're up for and you'd rather keep it frosty till you leave, I can do that too" kelly says, "what are you apologizing for? for dumping her two days before the wedding or for what happened after?" whaley asks, "you're not in full possession of all the facts here, Eric" kelly says, "then enlighten me, Kelly" whaley encourages, kelly stays silent, "that's what I thought, you were a coward then, and you're a coward now" whaley remarks, "kelly is twice the man you'll ever be whaley" carter interjects as kelly gets up dropping his scba walking up to whaley, "before this goes any further South, why don't you walk away?" kelly warns, "or what?" whaley asks, an older woman walks into the garage carrying a pie, "excuse me? Is Matthew Casey here?" the woman
asks causing kelly to move away from whaley, "yeah, he's right this way" kelly says leading the woman to wait in front of the doors to the corridor as he and carter head to find matt learning the woman is his ex convict mother who murdered his father.

Shay and Carter walk into the locker room to talk to kelly finding the man at his locker.

"Hey" shay greets, "hey, hey you" kelly greets both women, "why don't you tell whaley what happened?" shay asks, "what difference would it make?" kelly asks, "he'd get off your ass, for one" shay says, "look, if I was gonna say anything, I would have said something then" kelly explains, "maybe he needs to know" carter suggests, "you think I'm in a big hurry to revisit the whole thing? It's over, It's done, he can say what he wants, I don't care" kelly insists as he heads towards the shower carter follows and sits on one of the chairs outside the shower.

Carter watches as kelly finally loses it with whaley.

"So then just tell me what happened!" whaley demands, "we've already been through this!" kelly argues, "you haven't told me a damn thing!" whaley explains, "how is this your business?" kelly asks, "how is this my business?" whaley asks, "yes! how is it your business?" kelly asks, "It wasn't just Renee's life you screwed up! It was our whole family!" whaley shouts, "look! I moved on with my life, okay? maybe you should too" kelly grabs carters hand and heads towards the exit, "tell me, how do you move on from seeing your sister's car wrapped around a telephone pole, huh?" whaley asks, "come on" kelly warns, "yeah, yeah, yeah, your boy here, the great Kelly Severide, after he dumps my sister, she goes out drinking, ends up in a coma for three months, where was Kelly? never heard from him he was too busy hooking up with Carter Strand" whaley explains, carter lets go of kelly's hand and moves to stand next to shay, "do it" shay instructs, "your sister hooked up with an ex-boyfriend before the wedding" carter begins, "carter" kelly warns, "no, he needs to know this, Kelly found out about it, so he called off the wedding, and he didn't say anything because your entire family was in the hospital after Renee hit that pole, he didn't wanna dump more grief on you guys, so he took the hit, that's what happened, all right? so lay off" carter finishes, "don't start something when you don't know the real truth" shay warns as boden takes the two men into his office, carter follows and waits outside, whaley exits first and heads for the common room, kelly heads out a moment later spotting his girlfriend waiting for him, "shay wants us to meet her at the hospital after shift" carter says as they head back to the squad table.

Kelly sits in a chair in the hospital waiting room with carter beside him as his thumb hovers over his ex fiancés contact.

"Just call her kelly fix the bad blood between you both" carter prompts causing kelly to press the call button only to move his phone away from his ear a moment later, "she's changed her number" kelly reveals, "you tried" carter muses leaning her head on his shoulder as shay walks into the waiting room, "hey" shay greets as she walks further in stopping in front of the couple, "it's a boy" shay announces, "all right!" kelly says, "come on" shay prompts as the couple stand up and follow her to the room, "oh, god, he's healthy, beautiful, adorable cheeks, he can't wait to meet you both" shay explains, "yeah?" kelly asks, "really" carter asks, "yeah, sorry about encouraging carter to do that back at the firehouse" shay says, "no, you're not" kelly corrects as the trio head into the room walking up to the bed to admire the baby boy, "that's amazing" kelly says looking at the baby, "he's beautiful" carter coos, the tension in the room becoming icy as clarice's husband/former husband enters to see his son before leaving moments later, "wow, father of the year right there" kelly remarks, "he couldn't even be bothered to appreciate clarice's effort to ensure he knows he's a part of this little ones life" carter adds, a well dressed man enters the room, "Clarice Carthage and Leslie Shay" the man asks, "yes" shay confirms, "you've been served in the case of Daniel Schwartz versus Clarice Carthage" the man hands each woman a manilla envelope, "what is it?" kelly asks, "petition for full custody" shay clarifies, "son of a bitch" carter remarks as she and kelly lean against a cabinet when the nurse brings the baby back in, "he's all cleaned up, daddy" the nurse says holding the baby out to kelly, "oh, no, I'm not the, I'm not the, I'm" kelly tries to explain as the nurse hands him the baby, "hey, little guy, hey, buds" kelly greets looking down at the baby briefly before looking up again, "daddy" shay teases quietly, "not yet aunt shay maybe in the future" carter retorts, "hey, bud" kelly resumes talking to the baby before passing him to carter admiring the two especially how besotted carter looks.

happy wednesday guys! life is getting more hectic for me so if I forget to update please forgive me I have a lot going on.