Chapter 2
Eddie was the first to notice the person in full firefighter gear in the fire house. She seemed distraught and was screaming for someone? Concussion maybe. She was definitely confused, that much he was certain.
Eddie decided to approach this carefully.
“Can I help you ma’am?”
“I’m looking for Severide.” She replied calmly.
“I’m sorry, but there’s no one with that name at this station.” Right? He didn’t know anyone with the name Severide, that he could recall.
“Yes there is, his name is Evan Severide.” She glared at him. She looked mad. Was she high? Does she think she’s a firefighter looking for a son or something?
“Once again ma’am, no one here has that name, would you like me to try find him.”
“Uhh,” The woman seemed to be thinking.
“Buckley. Evan Buckley.” She said with slight triumph.
Evan Buckley, Eddie thought. Why the fuck was she looking for Buckley?
“Where is Evan Buckley?” She said with a stern voice.
If she wants to associate herself with the traitor he wasn’t going to help her. Although a small part of him wanted to help her, he’s been... off lately.
“Don’t know, Don’t care.” He replied coldly and walked towards the stairs, leaving the stranger to look for him herself.
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Buckley had finally emerged from who knows where. Eddie kinda felt bad for Buck he may have been a traitor but he didn’t think he deserved this. He had emerged and he had a sling on his shoulder and he was clearly injured and Bobby was screaming at him.
“WHAT WERE YOU DOING?! WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN THESE PAST FEW HOURS!?! GET BACK TO YOUR CHORES
Eddie was quietly observing Buck from his place on the couch. He was slowly inching towards Tylenol someone had left on the counter. Eddie frowned.
“Get away from the pills Lieutenant,” The woman had returned and growled towards Buckley.
She than turned towards Bobby “What kind of Captain are you?” She asked rhetorically. “Your a disappointment. One of your fire fighters is AFRIAD of you. He’s clearly injured and you want him to go back to doing chores?” Bobby looked a little guilty. “As far as I know, he’s been mistreated here. He’s been bullied. As I know for a fact he isn’t allowed in calls. So how the hell did he have a dislocated arm! Not to mention the fact there are so many violations of this place, which I will be mentioning to LAFD.” She took a deep breath.
“Don’t expect Severide back.” She said pointing towards Buck. “He’s not coming back. Not now, not ever, unless he chooses to on his own free will.”
She shakes her head and says softer to Buck. “Go grab you stuff from your locker Sev. We’re leaving.”
Everyone just looked at her questioning when her and Buck walked towards the locker room, no doubt to collect his belongings. Part of Eddie wanted to go down there, get his friend back-his love back. But he was stubborn. He never was good at speaking about his feelings.
Part of him knew it was too late. So he just sulked on the couch, glaring at the wall. Hoping to come across as he always did these days. Angry. Hurt.
He spared a glance towards the rest on the 118. Hen was crying, Chim was unreadable and Bobby looked....shocked?
The 118 sat there just thinking of how badly they messed up.
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Shay has told Evan to meet her in his car, she would take care of his locker. It take very long, she had it cleaned out within 5 minutes. Thank god for that because she really did not want to be in that station any longer than necessary.
On her way out she was being ignored by everyone which was not a bad thing in her mind. She’s also pretty sure they are scared of her. Shay scoffed to herself silently. If they really think that she’s scary, they haven’t seen the rest of the 51.
She was almost home free of that place when she ran into Maddie. Maddie, who would know exactly why Shay was here.
There was no way in HELL Maddie was going to be forgiven for this. It was guaranteed Maddie knew about this. If she did a better job at being a sister, maybe they wouldn’t be here. Sure there would be issues, but they wouldn’t be this bad.
Evan has Kelly as well, but Kelly was doing his best, he lived in a different city for Gods state. He was dealing with his own issues. At least Kelly tried more. He called more, as much as Evan would allow. Evan has pushed Kelly and his old team in Chicago away, as well her herself after.... well, she wasn’t ready to talk about that.
They still, all at least tried more then Maddie. Maddie hadn’t talked to her brother since before the lawsuit. A lawsuit that was well within Evan’s rights.
The two crossed paths. They stopped in front of each other, both with glares on their faces, having a silent conversation with their eyes.
‘Why are you here.’
‘We both know why I’m here.’
‘He doesn’t need you. He has me, he has this station.’
‘Excuse me?’ Shay raised one eyebrow.
“You heard me.” She replied aloud.
“What do you mean he has you!” Shay burst, “You know exactly what he’s been through and YOU were meant to be there for him! He hadn’t heard from you since before this whole mess! YOU had an agreement with Kelly that YOU would look after him in LA! YOU don’t look like you went through with that, LOOK WHERE WE ARE MADDIE!”
Shay took a breath, she was kinda getting exhausted from screaming at everyone, but they needed to be put in there place, and at the moment she didn’t give a fuck if she said anything about Evan she shouldn’t. Maddie was going to tell them anyway. “You know he has issues! If YOU were there you would know that he was-IS struggling. If any of you cared you would know he’s high off his ass right now!”
With that she began to continue her walk out of the station. She took a few steps then turned around. “You wanna know why he’s high right now?” Shay said in a deadly calm voice. “Kelly’s in the hospital, oh and don’t even think about coming.”
Shay didn’t wait for Maddie to reply. She walked out of the station without looking back.