Carter sits on the couch watching shay's latest fling devon shake the coffee pot trying to stifle her laughter.
"This thing's broke" devon announces, "what? hey, that's not helping" kelly warns as he pulls the woman's hand away just as carter walks over and otis enters the room, "what's going on?" otis asks, "someone doesn't know how to make coffee" kelly explains, "or use a coffee pot" carter adds as shay heads down the stairs, "guys, does anybody have any advil on them?" shay asks, "there's a thing called a cabinet for a reason shay there's probably some in the medicine one" carter says, devon pulls out the coffee, "man, you got to have something better than munter's brown roast" devon remarks, "yeah, we got Starbucks" kelly retorts, "where?" devon asks, "about two blocks down on the north side of the street" kelly explains, "I'm going running, you coming babe?" kelly asks, "I'll come halfway then I'm going home" carter says as she grabs her jacket and follows kelly out, the two get to kelly's car and a woman stands waiting, "Kelly?" the woman asks, "yeah?" kelly asks, "I don't know if you remember, I'm Beth, Benny's wife" the woman explains, "yeah, yeah, of course" kelly confirms, "I know Benny's been hanging out with you, and he won't return my phone calls, the boys miss him, they need to see their father" the woman explains, "I'm a little confused, he told me he was going back to Kenosha every weekend" kelly says, "he hasn't been home in months, look, I'm sorry to dump all this on you" the woman apologises, "no, it's, it's, it's, I'll, I'll talk to him" kelly says, "thank you" the woman says, "you know what, I'm gonna go to work early get a head start on the admin day, think you could use this run to clear your head" carter instructs, "okay, thanks" kelly says, carter presses a kiss to the man's temple and heads inside.
Carter walks into the common room with matt, the two having had a phone call from lasky in headquarters.
"Good morning lieutenants" cruz greets, "that was lasky down at headquarters, It looks like mcleod is making her final decision today about which house she's gonna close next" matt explains, "and?" mills asks, "he thinks it's between us and Firehouse 17" carter reveals, "oh, man, this has got to be weighing pretty heavy on the chief" cruz muses, "It is, mcleod was in his office this morning I saw her in there, then she harassed me to get on with doing admin" carter explains, "I just wanted to remind everyone, today is election day for the union presidency, polls will be open all evening starting at 5:00 pm, so I urge you all to exercise your right to vote, unless you plan on voting for Greg Sullivan, in which case, forget what I just said" mouch announces, "you've got everyone here at 51's vote mouch" carter assures, shay walks into the common room as carter sits down with a coffee, "has anyone seen severide?" shay asks, "no" matt answers, "nope" cruz responds, "so messed up, I had to take the bus here" shay says as she sits down and steals carters coffee before the woman can even take a sip, "hey!" carter protests, "I'll buy you starbucks" shay says, "deal, you could've called me I would've left to come and give you a ride in" carter shrugs, "after the text you sent about mcleod being on your back, I thought you'd have been doing admin" shay explains, "no, if she wanted it done that badly then she should've left me alone" carter muses as she gets up and heads to her office.
A few hours later shay knocks the door.
"Hey, Kelly's still not here" shay reveals, "he hasn't called me or text me, he was going to ofi to speak to benny but he'd have been here by now" carter explains, "maybe one of your men know" shay suggests, the two walk down the hallway together spotting clarke, "hey, clarke, have you seen severide?" shay asks, "chief said he had some family business and to cover for him cause carters not on duty today" clarke explains, "mcleod wanted me, severide and casey to do admin work and do full length reports and stuff about the house, fires we've done recently, the crew and more so I volunteered to do it this way chief is missing one lieutenant instead of three" carter explains, clarke nods and the two women walk away and carter heads to the apparatus floor.
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