#spacesquidfic

Casey stumbles back as the woman tackles him, kissing him right on the lips.

“What-,” He starts before he’s interrupted by the woman trying to take his shirt off.

“Hey! Stop!” He yells, trying to get her off.

“Ma’am! Ma’am!” Boden yells, trying to pull her off the Lieutenant.

It takes Boden, Severide and Herrmann to pull her off Casey, who’s bright red with black lipstick stains all over his face. Herrmann takes her over to the ambulance and Boden goes to talk to the news crew who got the whole thing on film. Severide stalks over, pushing Casey against the truck. Casey lets out a squeak as Severide kisses him and after a second starts kissing him back. He can feel everyone's eyes on him and Severide steps away when someone clears their throat and Casey flushes red, looking down.

“It’s about time!” Herrmann exclaims, slapping their backs. Shay smirks at Severide and he in turn looks to Casey.

“I’ll pick you up at seven,” he says.

“What for?” Casey asks, frowning in confusion.

“Guess.”

~~~

“Cindy! Can you grab that?!?” Herrmann yells as the doorbell rings.

“Annabelle! Luke! Quit it!” He shouts as he sees the two kids fighting over the remote.

“Cindy!” He shouts again, trying to simultaneously change Kenny and get Annabelle and Luke to calm down.

“I’m busy, Christopher!” His wife yells down.

Herrmann growls as Kenny starts peeing down his shirt.

“Daddy! Luke hit me!” Annabelle cries, running over.

“Luke! Quit it! Annabelle, go play!” Herrman yells, quickly putting Kenny in a new diaper and running to answer the door with has rung for the third time.

“What?!?” He snaps, yanking open the door. He sees Dawson and Otis standing there, looking shocked.

“You look like shit,” Dawson says.

"Fire department! Call out!" Casey yells before pausing to listen for a response.

"Casey! Get down!" Someone shouts and Casey drops without without a second thought. From this angle, he could see under the table where a little boy was sobbing before his small body is engulfed in flames. The boy screams and Casey freezes, not able to do much else but think "Oh god, he's dead."

"Lieutenant!" Herrmann calls, his heart stopping when Casey doesn't move. Casey doesn't react even as Herrmann taps him on the shoulder.

"Lieutenant? We have to go. The buildings unstable," Herrmann says, tugging his lieutenant to his feet and dragging him out. Casey's practically useless, stumbling along with no real idea where he is or what's happening. His mind keeps replaying the boys final moments, that horrible scream torturing him over and over. He doesn't react when Herrmann leads him out into the cool autumn air. He doesn't react when Boden heads over, asking what happened. He doesn't react when Severide leads him to the ambulance. He doesn't even react when he's loaded up on a gurney and sent into a hospital room.

The next few days pass in a blue with Casey laying in the hospital room, being fed trough a tube. It's been five days after the fire when he finally speaks, startling Kelly who was dozing off in the chair beside him.