Something's gotta give

The crash

It felt like they were sitting at the docks for days yet it had only been a couple of hours. Gabby started to yawn which severide took as a hint that it was time for them to go home.

"I guess we better start going now" severide stated mournfully. He got up and held his hand out for gabby to reach and pulled her up to her feet.
"If this was our first date I'd love to see how you can top it on our second one" Dawson smiled.
"Oh so we're going on a second date? I thought it was just a one time thing!" Severide winked earning a playful nudge from gabby.
"Keep this up and it will be" She chuckled.
"Nah, you like me too much" he said pulling her in for a slow sweet kiss.

They intertwined their fingers and carried on kissing until suddenly severide grabbed gabby by her waist, picked her up and threw her into the sea. She screamed and went under the water. When she didn't come back up for a few seconds Kelly started to get worried.
"Gabby? This isn't funny, come on" he said nervously. She still didn't come to the surface. Kelly panicked and quickly jumped in the water to try and find her.
"Gotcha!" Gabby yelled jumping on his back.
"My God Gabby you scared me!" He sounded annoyed but relieved she was okay.
"Sorry, but now we're even" She smirked.
"Sure know how to pick em don't i" he remarked.
"You have great taste" She beamed while trying to keep herself afloat.

Kelly reached his hand out to move Gabby's wet hair from her face and they looked into each other's eyes for a moment.
"You're beautiful" he said roaming his eyes all over Gabby's features.
"And you're sappy" She blushed.
"Hey! What are you two doing!" A security guard yelled at them from the docks shining his flashlight at them.
Kelly and gabby started laughing and quickly got out of the water and ran to Kelly's car.

"Well that was eventful" Kelly laughed out of breath.
"We should definitely do that again some time" Gabby replied wringing the water out of her hair. They both got in the car and started to drive back to Kelly's place. Their shift at the fire house started at 8 and it was already 2am. They figured they could get a few hours sleep and carpool to the station. They stopped at a red light a few minutes away from severide's house.
"So what should we tell everyone when they see us together?" Gabby asked.
"Whatever you want, i wont force you to say or do anything you're not ready to" Kelly smiled and placed his hand on her thigh.
The light turned green and as soon as the car started moving gabby saw a truck accelerating toward her side at the intersection disregarding the traffic lights and hit them at full speed. The car flipped multiple times and landed in a ditch and everything went black....

-the firehouse, 9am-
Gabby and severide had been late to work for over an hour and neither of them have called in yet. Casey has been trying to call both of them but their phones keep going to voicemail.
"Hey Boden, have severide or Dawson told you they weren't coming in today?" He ask's the chief in his office.
"No, they haven't. Are they still not in?" He replies cautiously.
"Their phones keep going to voice mail. They could be together but i don't know why they aren't picking up" Casey says nervously.
"I'm sure they're fine, if they're together they could just be running late with their phones switched off" boden tried to reason with Casey as well as himself. Its not like either of them to be late without telling someone.
"Ambulance 61, truck 81 car crash" dispatch called out.

The firehouse rushed into their vehicles and sped to the site. Casey got out of the truck first and yelled out instructions to the others. The scene looked bad. Real bad.
"How are you doing in there? Can you hear me?" Casey yells the usual protocol to the person in the car. He cant quite see their face.
"C... casey?" A whimper calls out.
"Dawson!" Casey yells shocked. Otis runs up to him informing him there's another victim a few feet away from the crash site.
"Oh my God, is that Dawson?!" Otis asks gingerly.
"Is severide okay? He was the one driving" was the next thing gabby said.
"He must be the other victim" otis whispers to casey.
"Is he okay?" Gabby asks again, more desperate.
"He's fine Gabby, just worry about yourself for now okay" casey interjects. By the look on Otis' face he could tell that severide wasn't okay but he didn't want to worry Dawson. Not until they got to the hospital.