CS= carol spears F=father at the church
Kelly's pov: Once I showed up at the cheif house and showed him all the proof he told me to hand over the files to Hubble as soon as possible and he will see me next shift. So I made copy's of them and sent them over and then went home to go over what I had and look for any details that my father wrote down In his notebook. The next day on shift I meet in cheif office with him and Matt to go over the stuff I had and to catch Matt up to speed.
K= Benny was obsessed with this one arsonist from back in the day he called him his white whale. The guy was responsible for at least eight tires between 2002 and 2004 killing two people, injuring another six they never got in ID on the suspect I'm going to scription came from one of the burn victims who got a pussy look at 8:30 Ishmael about 6 feet two bills ( he showed a sketch of the guy to Matt) then all of a sudden the fire stop Trail went cold until now
MC= what makes you think he's responsible for the salon fire
CB= identical timing device same kind of kitchen timer Jury-rigged in the exact same way
K= and he always disabled the electric meter during a break in
MC= how do you explain the 15 year gap
K= I can't but the notes in Benny's book tell me that this is the same guy
CB= could be a copycat
K= except that a lot of the details weren't publicized
MC= why don't you give OFI the notebook along with the case files
K= I wanted to make a copy of it first thumb through it see if I can figure this guy out I'll take a copy to Hubble today
CB= Messenger it and stay out of Hubble's hair it's about time OFI handle this you got a job here to do ( he hold out a yellow envelope for him to put the papers in) come on
(Kelly leaves the office)
MC= what do you think
CB= i'll be curious to hear what Hubble makes of it all
Stella's pov: i'm still deciding if I should check in on Kelly now that I've heard that he might think the salon fire might be connected to an old case that his dad worked years ago not know anything to do with his dad makes him not think straight but for now I'm just gonna focus on work and try not to worry about Kelly too much is it before you give me a moment so I'm in the bunk room with the girls
SB= how are you already this tired
EF= guys I had a late night just want to get a few Z's before the first bell's
( Stella starts jumping on the bed Emily's on)
S= don't be boring come have donuts with us ( they laugh)
EF= Okay
MC= morning
SB= hi ( Brett starts coughing very uncontrollably)
S= good morning
MC= you okay
S= Will get her some water she's... she's fine
SB= yeah
( Matt walks away)
EF= what was that
SB= I... I don't know I started to say hi and I swallowed my spit we are or something getting a little stressed out when I see Casey. Olivia said Casey and I were meant for each other that is ridiculous right
EF= no not really
SB= OK well I'm sure Casey doesn't feel that way he was married to my best friend. I dated her brother
S= so? That's ancient history
EF= Forget the Dawson stuff for a minute how do you feel about Casey
SB= well that's the thing I don't I don't know
S= coughing fit says ya do
EF=good night
( they bells go off)
Truck 81 and ambulance 61 get a call and when we arrive someone said someone got hurt because there was a Roman candle war where he lost some figures so all of truck 81 to find the missing fingers. Luckily I found them pretty fast we got the guy and his fingers load in the ambulance and they went off to med and we headed back to the firehouse when we pulled in we saw the Chaplin for the first time in a while
M= hey Chaplin
CPS= hey guys
M= hey pal
CPS= how are you man
M= good
CPS= good
S= good to see you Chaplin
O= yeah it's been a while too long for sure
CPS= my apologies
I walked away from him to start my duties when Matt and him start to talk
MC= hey
CPS= thank you for setting me straight it's been nice checking in on everyone
MC= no need to thank me Chaplin
CPS= only folks I haven't seen are Foster and Sylvie
MC= they're dropping a victim at med
CPS= ah
MC= could be a while
CPS= OK well I'll catch em another time
MC= sure
CPS= excuse me
I was listen in on casey Conversation with the Chaplin and I started thinking back to what Brett was saying earlier about how her friend thinks that Casey and her are meant to be once the chaplain walked away I thought for a second maybe I should ask Casey what he thinks but once he saw I was looking at him I change my mind
MC= what
S= nothing.... just that arson at the hair salon do you think severide right that's it's connected to the old Benny's case
MC= I'm not sure
S= okay
Matt walked away I hope it isn't connected because his mind is already been messed with enough this year and I think he was finally moving past his dad death but then this stuff comes up and it's having him Focus on something beside his career and he need to not worry about the past anymore and focus on his job.
Kelly's pov: even though Boden told me to send my stuff over via messenger I didn't listen and decided to take my guys out with And drive to the ofi office to hand that deliver the stuff to Hubble.
K= Captain Hubble
AH= severide
K= here's that copy of my father's notebook
AH= oh you could've just sent it over
K= I have a few pages stuff you should take a look at Benny had an interesting theory about the arsonist's motive
AH= Great I'll check it out
K= he thought the guy was targeting centers of the community neighborhood gathering places there's a coffee shop, Rec center, A couple lunch counters
AH= yeah I have the case files
K= he thought the arsonist motivation was strong antisocial tendencies
AH= Severide I said I have a work right now though I have to get to the forensic lab thank you for this ( she starts to walk away)
K= you think I'm wrong
AH= I didn't say that but there's still a lot to figure out and I'm not betting on my chips on Benny's theory until I determine that these cases are connected
K= Hubble this guy strikes in waves there'll be two or three more fires in rapid succession if you don't get in front of this someone's going to get killed
AH= Lieutenant I don't need a lecture
Once Hubble Walked away I went outside and got in the truck and told my guys to stop and gas up so that boden doesn't think I left for no reason or figure out where I went so we gas the squad up and headed back to the firehouse and of course when we pulled in boden was waiting for us
CZ= hey cheif
CB= Cruz.... ( he looked toward Kelly) Quick word.... we seem to have a miscommunication when I told you to leave hubble that wasn't a suggestion it was an order
K= I understood that
CB= and you went over there anyways
K= it was important
CB= gentlemen can we have a moment
CZ= yeah yeah sure thing chief
( the squad guys left)
K= chief there's a deadly arsonist out there and we have a body of evidence that could help us track him down
CB= us?
K= i'm supposed to sit on my hands when I have knowledge that could help
CB= severide I know you have a lot to contribute to this case I also know your judgment gets clouded in situations involving your father
K= so I couldn't possibly remain objective
CB= remember who you're talking to
K= I thought I was talking to a friend who had my back not a battalion chief that is gonna ignore facts and chose sides based on rank
CB= go home
K= cheif
CB= I'm putting you on medical until you clear your head you come back when you're ready to do your job
After the cheif said that I went inside and saw my guys told them what's going on and then made the Cruz the one in charge. I went to the locker room and started got change out of my work clothes and then Matt came in to check on me
K= If it wasn't for me hubble would still be investigating this as insurance fraud but because it ties back to a job anywhere I want thinks I've lost all perspective
MC= not everybody back you up on this and I'm not the only one
K= thanks
MC= what now
K= Cruz is Active squad Lieutenant
MC= no I mean with you what are you gonna to do
K= I don't now but I sure as hell not going on the walls I'll keep you updated
I left work and decide to go to the salon to see if I can see if any of the neighbors saw or heard anything that night that might help me
K= niya hey here can I help
SO= Lieutenant hi
K= call me Kelly
SO= okay
K= got a little uh volunteer army around here huh
SO= yes neighborhood insisted on helping I about cried
K= that's nice you're gonna be able to rebuild
SO= I gotta try... has your investigator friend learned anything about who did this
K= she's working some leads I just came by to see if you could remember any more details that could help bike was there any suspicious activity around here prior to the fire
SO= nothing I can think of
( Kelly sees the guy from the other night)
K= how come your neighbor over there isn't pitching in
SO= Gavin Harkey is not really the charitable type
K= yeah he barged into are arson investigation all excited to sue somebody over damages to his apartment
SO= what damage he is in the back side of the building his place wasn't touched
K= what do you know about him
SO= not a lot new to the building just got out of prison
K= really for what
SO= vehicular manslaughter I heard drunk driving served a pretty long stretch
K= 15 years?
SO= you'd have to ask him
I decide to go talks to him
K= be right back
SO= okay
K= hey buddy mind if I ask you a few questions
SN= why
K= see if you know anything about this fire
SN= Nope
K= this A big joke to you somebody's livelihood is in the ruins another's in a wheelchair
SN= yeah well uh life's a Real kick in the nuts isnt
K= hey
SN= huh
K= ( he grab him and push him against the building) hey hey come here you're gonna answer some questions all right
SN= you ain't the cops get off of me
RV= hey whats's the problem here
SO= kelly what's going on
( the neighbor left)
once he left I called hubble told her about gavin and then I called Matt and ask him if he could run by the OFI office to see where Hubble is with the neighbor and make sure she got my message he agree so I went to keep looking in my fathers notebook
Matt pov: kelly called and asked me to go see what Hubble pulled up on the suspect he found so I did after shift since didn't have anything to do plus I though I could ty and help catch this guy so maybe kelly can be himself again
MC= captain Hubble can I bother you for a moment
AH= oh come on in Casey
MC= what's this the salon fire
AH= I've got my entire staff working on this case all hands on deck. what can I do for you
MC= there's a guy who lives above the salon Gavin Harkey OFI ought to consider him a person of interest
AH= how long have you been running errands for severide
MC= he'd have come by himself but uh he though you might take out a restraining order
AH= well we interviewed all the neighbors in the building and none of them raised a red flag
MC= Harkey matches the physical description given by one of the victims of benny's white whale
AH= so do half the men in Chicago it's a pretty vogue description
MC= but Harkey also severed a prison sentence that nearly accounts for the whole time the arsonist was dormant
AH= ah here it gavin Harkey oh this is the guy that barged in on us while we were combing the fireground he's the first one that alerted us to the power outage if he's the arsonist why is aiding in our investigation
MC= I dont know I wasn't there
AH= severide was there
MC= well maybe he's seeing something you aren't. are you telling me you don't think there's a chance he's right
after that I left and went home after a little bit kelly come home and ask if I wanted to go to molly's to have a beer I said yes and we left he Brought his father's notebook with him once we arrived we got our beers and I started to catch him up on what Hubble said
MC= she assured me someone from OFI will follow up with Harkey
K= someone but not her she should drop everything and drag the guy in for questionings right now
MC= Agreed but it's an interesting detail she brought up Harkey tipping you guys about the power outage
K= she is missing the whole po... ( he open up the notebook) here "this arsonist is playing cat and mouse with us he wants us to figure out he get inside these buildings the closer he is getting caught the bigger the thrill' Hubble would know that if she bothered to read Benny's notes
MC= well let's just see what happens maybe I got through to her ( he saw a look on kelly face) what
K= nothing it's just the link flair felt tip pen my dad always used one used to always keep one in his breast pocket or tucked behind his ear... you know my whole life I've been trying to prove that I'm better than benny and with this stuff can't hold a candle to him
right after the older firefighter left the bar I saw kelly leave to so just stayed Molly's to hang out with the rest of the firehouse. the next day on shift I am going over some paperwork when I heard someone knocking on my door and I seen it was stella
S= is he coming back to work
MC= he's trying to track down a victim from one of the original fires the only person who ever got a look at the arsonist
S= he's not letting this go is he
MC= benny interview this woman half a dozen times so he obviously thought she was important
S= mm
MC= maybe you should reach out to him
S= I already tried that
MC= try again I have a feeling you're the one he needs right now
S= mm
Stella walks away I think what will help Kelly is having stella be by his side because when he was with Stella he was the happiest he has been since I knew him and that is what matters.
Stella pov; ever since I saw the chief and kelly argue last shift I been worried even more about kelly because anything that has to do with is father mess with his head. so when he didn't show up again I went to ask matt where he was was and he said kelly was tracking down a witness from one of the case and then told me I should reach out and I wasn't sure if I should but then told me that he thinks I am the one kelly needs right now so I went to my phone and sent a quick text to kelly to let him know I am here if he needs me and then I went to the kitchen until the next call came in
kelly pov: I next day I figured out where the witness lived so before I headed to her house I stopped by the salon to see if gavin is around and. he was so I took a picture of him and left and drove other house to see what else she could tell me. luckily I didn't have to knockoff her door she was getting something out of trunk so I walked over and I hope I don't scare her but I did
K= excuse me mrs. spears.. I'm sorry um I'm looking for carol spears I'm lieutenant kelly severide with the CFD
CS= are you related to benny severide (kelly shook his head yes and then the invited him inside he grabbed the box for her and credit inside) this is awfully sweet of you benny brought you up right
K= ah I'm not sure about that... where do you want it
CS=on the table is fine thank you so much
K= sure..... the reason I'm here I'm looking into a case that my father was working on when he was with the office of fire investigation your case the guy who torched the coffee shop I think he's still active I think he's setting more fires
CS=oh
K= look I know this isn't easy for you and I know that my father grilled you over and over but can you just walk me through what you saw that day. the man you saw
CS= um it was that donut heaven on California. I had wash my hands and when I went down the little hallway to the bathroom there was this man doing something. he didn't seem to work there but I didn't think anything of it then I was in the bathroom for a minute and there was this popping I came out and the whole place was on fire.
K= that man do you remember what he looks like
CS= I'll never forget him
( kelly pulls out his phone to show her the picture of gavin to see if he is the guy)
K= add 15 years to your memory of him. are we in the ballpark
CS= I think so.. yeah that's him
K= okay excuse me one moment
I walk away and call Hubble " hi this is lieutenant severide I need to speak with captain Hubble it's urgent... no I don't need you to take a message I need to talk to her right now like I said its extremely urgent" while I am waiting the person to answer me the spot I am at has a mirror and I can see that carol is looking though my stuff
K= that's privileged information
CS= oh my apologies would you like a cup of coffee lieutenant
K= sure
CS= I'll put a pot on
" yeah she can call me back"
once I saw carol looking though my stuff I started to think something was up so since she isn't back in the room yet I look around and saw somethings that look like it could be used in a arson and then I decide to look in the box that I carried in earlier and once I open it I notice a timing device and then I realized that she is the arsonist and not a victim so I try and go look for her and when I do she runs out her door and drives away in her car.so I decide to call matt to update him and he was shocked too and then he told me to hold because he was going to the chief office
CB= what's wrong
MC= hang on I'm with boden now say that again ( matt putts kelly on speaker)
K= carol spears isn't a victim she is the arsonist. I though benny believed her story but I was wrong the reason why he kept coming back to her is because something wasn't adding up
CB= severide where is she now
K= well she took off but the real problem is I think she planted a device to started the next fire she's gonna burn down a church
general pov: casey, boden and kelly figured out what church she might of put the timing device and Casey and boden go and grab the rest of the firehouse and tell them what going on and head out as soon as possible and ge to the church pretty fast
MC= look like we're not too late
CB= assuming we're in the right place
when they all got inside the church they notice a lot of people so boden all asked them to leave very calmly so they don't think anything is up and so nobody gets hurt. and while everyone is helping move everyone outside matt decided to call kelly
MC= severide were do we start looking
K= she likes to hide the device in a back room or is there a basement
MC= hold on ( he walks over to the pastor and ask him) father how do we get into the basement
F= the door on the left
( matt gets to the basement and then talks into his phone again)
MC= hey any idea's what she might have planted
K= her signature timer was gas cans it's a low tech high yield incendiary device
MC= I don't see anything
K= keep looking try the Northeast corner
MC= hang on I smell gas... I got it ( into his radio) chief is everyone out
CB= almost why you find something
MC= yeah its about to blow I need a hose line to the basement and an extingusher right now
H= 51 is on the way
Herman ran as fast as he could with the extinguisher to the basement while matt tries to get the gate open when the gas cans are
MC= come on come on clear the building
H= Casey!!
MC= Herman Herman down here
H= hang on Casey I'm right here
MC= come on
matt finally gets the door opened and herman gets in the place in puts the fire out before it was too late. after they were done they did their normal overhaul and went back toward the firehouse when they pulled up they see that kelly is there and Stella decide to get out first and said something to him
S= look at you putting out fires over the phone
K= benny put us on the 1-yard line I'm the one who let her go
S= well before you go off chasing her down a couple things....
AH= severide
K= now she wants to talk to me
S= go
kelly's pov I am happy that nobody got hurt this time but wish I didn't let her go. when I was talking with Stella Hubble decide she wanted to talk to me now so I went with her to her office and we went over the more details before we called her team in to go over the new information with them and then right before we started to go over them with her team the chief and matt stoped by and then we got started on telling everyone the information
AH= female arsonist are less common but more likely to stuffer from personalty disorder and they're almost always single when carol spears got married that relationship provided enough emotional stability to pacify her fire starting compulsion for 15 years three mouths ago that marriage collapsed and now there's nothing holding her back
CB= and she's in the wind so what's our play
AH= lieutenant severide you want to tell us what we're up against
K= carol spears isn't driven by revenge or greed she's in it for the chaos so the fact that we're on to her, won't slow her down one bit. it'll probably make things worse so whatever we do we better move fast
Authors note: I love that matt said that to Stella thank you matt Casey. am I the only one didn't see that coming where carol was the arsonist. I love the little bit of sass kelly had at the end when Hubble finally wanted to talk to kelly. Also do you like Brett and Casey together or do you think they work better as friends