The Future of Dawsey

Chapter 9 (Next Shift)

Chapter 9 Part 1 (Next Shift)

They all walk back in the firehouse after the call. "Hey Dawson! Nice call for a pregnant lady!" Hermann joked. "Thanks Hermann" Dawson said smiling. "But seriously, I'm really happy for you guys. My kids are the brightest shining light in my life." "Thanks Hermann." Dawson and Casey said smiling. Casey gave Hermann a hug. Later Dawson was rooting around her locker for her shower kit. When she found a shirt that looked too big to be hers. Then she realized what it was. She walked into the lounge "Brett!" Dawson said nodding her head towards the locker room. "Wasup?" Brett said walking in after Dawson. "Guess what I just found at the bottom of my locker." Dawson said going to pick the shirt back up. "Oh my god! It's the shirt!" "Yeah." Dawson said tears springing to her eyes. "See I told you it would be right by the next time you saw this shirt everything would be better than it was! I mean now you and Casey are having a baby and you seem to have worked it out with Casey!" "Yeah it is definitely better than when I first put the shirt in my locker." Dawson said giving Brett a little half smile. "What? What is it? What's wrong?" "Nothing, it's nothing" Dawson said waving Brett off. "No don't give me that! What is it? What's wrong? The only girls in the station we gotta stick together remember?" "Okay...Casey and I are at a better standing than we were but it's still kind of complicated. We've thought of ways to help resolve it. Like, for instance we have decided to take separate cars to work to better get into the Lieutenant and Candidate mindsets and we have decided that we should talk about work each day while we're at home and try to resolve any issues we may have had which is better. When I became a firefighter in the first place we made a promise that we wouldn't let our relationship get in the way of work, and we didn't keep that promise that's actually why I moved out in the first place. So, now that's what we're trying to do we're trying to figure out a way to fix that. But so far that's all we've come up with. Sometimes when I'm home I'm worried that." Dawson lowers her voice. "That maybe I made a mistake moving back in. You know, because we haven't actually solved the issue that was the reason I moved out in the first know what I mean? I'm just worried that we're gonna end up back at the same place we were to begin with." "Whoa. Yeah that sounds like you're still at a pretty difficult place right now. Can I ask why you moved back in in the first place?" "I moved back in after I told Casey I was pregnant. I told him that one of the conditions for me moving back in was we had to solve our lieutenant/candidate issue so the night before I moved back in we came up with all the ideas I told you about. The problem is though none of them are really permanent solutions...and I'm not really sure what do about it."

Chapter 9 Part 2 (Next Shift)

(It’s a few days later, Casey and Dawson are still using the solutions that they came up with on the night she moved back in and are still trying to figure out their situation. Brett and Dawson have continued to grow closer talking about everything just like Dawson and Shay used to.)

They were both gabbing on Brett's bed in the sleeping area. "Okay so Cruz and I were hanging out at my apartment drinking wine and talking and I start talking with my hands and I'm going crazy moving my hands all around and all of a sudden I hit my wine glass with my hands and I spilled it ALL over my carpet! Cruz started laughing his head off while I'm trying to clean it up! Just the look on his face Dawson I couldn't stop laughing. Plus it was a dark carpet anyway you can't even see the stain." Dawson and Brett are laughing their heads off when the alarm rang. TRUCK 81 AMBULANCE 61 SQUAD 3 Storage Unit Butler Street.