The Future of Dawsey

Chapter 17 (Next Shift)

Chapter 17 Part 1(Next Shift)

Brett and Dawson walked into the station. "Morning Dawson, Brett." Casey said nodding at them. "Morning Lieutenant." They both said. Brett and Dawson go to put their things away and change. Brett and Dawson were in the locker room putting their things away, when Casey walked in. "Hey Dawson can I talk to you for a second?" Casey said motioning towards the door of the locker room. Dawson looked back at Brett before answering brief look of worry on her face. "Yeah sure." Gabby said following him out of the locker room. "Let's go in my office." Casey said opening the door of his office. "Okay?" Dawson said becoming worried. "Sit down." He said pointing to the bed. Dawson sat down a quizzical look on her face. "So um the doctor cleared you for work?” Casey said. "Yeah he did." Dawson said getting more nervous as time went on. "Are you sure you're okay though? You don't want to take a break or something? You can have another day off if you'd like? You know to rest or something." Casey said looking concerned. Dawson sighed "Casey I'm fine the doctor cleared me for work. I'm fine and Leslie is perfectly fine. The doctor said I was fine for work." Dawson said looking at Casey seriously. "I know he cleared you but...still there are a lot of inherent risks." Casey said wringing his hands. Dawson sighed again and then they both looked at each other for a few seconds. "Casey I'm fine, Leslie is fine, I've been cleared for work I know that there are still inherent risks but we knew this from the beginning." The alarm sounded TRUCK 81 AMBULANCE 61 SQUAD 3 APARTMENT FIRE MAYOR'S AVENUE. Everyone ran off.

Chapter 17 Part 2 (Next Shift)

As they were all getting on the fire truck Casey looked back at Dawson for a second, then continued to get on the truck. 'What was that?' Dawson thought. When they got on the truck, Casey had a concerned look on his face while sitting in the seat. Then as he was sitting there he kept looking back at Dawson. He looked back at her over and over he only stopped when Dawson gave him a strange look. 'What is he doing?' Dawson wondered. 'He's probably just worried he'll be fine when we get to the scene. At least I hope so' Dawson thought getting worried.

They all arrived on scene and Casey started to shout out orders. He got to Dawson last and gave her one more look before giving her orders. Dawson didn't let her thoughts about Casey's behavior during the call cloud her mind while she was trying to work. She knew she had to block it out because she had to concentrate.

On the way back to the station Casey kept looking back at Dawson in the truck. When they got back to the station. Casey stopped Dawson as she walking back into the house. "Dawson...you okay?" Casey asked. Dawson gave him a weak smile. "I'm fine Casey...I mean Lieutenant." Then Casey walked away. Dawson stood there and stared at home watching him walk off. Brett noticed Dawson just standing there and walked up to her. "Hey Dawson you okay?" Dawson turned around to face Brett. "Yeah...I'm fine." Dawson said giving her a weak smile. Brett gave her a look. "Come on Dawson what's wrong? Spill girl." Brett said to Dawson. "Okay...Casey kept giving me the weirdest looks on the truck. Also when he was giving me my orders he was very hesitant to give me any and he keeps asking me if I'm okay. I mean I know that he's worried and I get that... but the whole reason we're taking a break is so we could figure out our whole work situation out...but our deal was we were going to be just Lieutenant and Candidate at work I mean the whole reason I moved out the first time was because we couldn't figure things out but now it's actually gotten worse even worse then when I moved out the first time. I understand that he's concerned but this is getting bad."