Munchkin
Chicago 2020
Kelly Severide was talking to Herrmann and Casey laughing while eating lunch, it had a been a relatively slow day and everything in the house was slowly becoming normal again. Herrmann was telling a story about his and Cindys date the other night, about how some poor soul choked on his food and a doctor in the restaurant had to preformed an emergency tracheotomy. It was never a dull moment with the engine Lieutenant, always having some crazy story. Kelly didn’t know if half the stuff he even said was true but it was still all in good fun, they always say laughter is the best medicine.
They talked about a few more random things when his phone rang. When he saw who was calling a huge smile appeared on his face, “Munchkin.” His smile immediately fell when he heard the heartbreaking sob come out of his brothers mouth, “Evan, what’s wrong?”
That had gotten Herrmann’s and even Casey’s, who had been trying and failing to subtlety stare at Brett the whole time, attention. He never called his little brother Evan. “Kelly...is it to late to come home?”
“Never.” After a few more words and him assuring Evan that he would take care of everything, they hung up.
“Kelly, what happened?” Shay asked.
“That asshole team of his that’s what.” Kelly grunted out.
“What did he say?” Casey asked.
“Not much, just that they were transferring him to another house and that he wanted to come home.” He didn’t need to say anymore for them to understand where he was going.
Casey just nodded his head and stood up, “let’s go talk to Boden.”
It didn’t take much convincing in fact it took none. Boden knew the type of firefighter Evan was and he knew be would fit in at 51 seamlessly. Losing Otis had been hard on everyone and all three of them knew that Evan was just the person 51 needed.
“Chief if it’s ok with you l like to take the next couple of shifts off and go get him. He’s not in too great of a place right now and he’s going to need all the support he can get.”
“Of course Kelly, I’ll handle everything and get it all sorted. Go get our boy.” The rest of the shift went by fast and before he knew it he was on a plane heading towards LA.