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"Wha...WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU JUST SAY?!" Jack Gibson hissed, seconds after Andy Herrera informed him that she'd been
spending her off-shift nights at Battalion Chief Robert Sullivan's home: they're both Lieutenant's making him technically their boss'
boss.
"Keep your voice down !" she hissed in response. "I thought about not telling you, and you just proved my point!"
{klaxon} 'Aid 19, Engine 19...smoke reported at Big John's Bowling Alley - 6625 Buena Serra Avenue'...
The two ex-lovers hurry into their 'turn-outs' and climb into the engine they had been 'pulling maintenance' on, pulling out
of the vehicle bay with the siren blaring. Andy tries to concentrate on her driving while Jack peppers her with questions:
"You're sleeping with Sullivan!?"
"YES, JACK!-GET OUTTA THE FUCKNG WAY, PUTA MADRE!"
"Ands, and...please tell me you're pulling my dick...about you rolling in the hay our boss' boss!"
Her hands tight on the wheel, Andy muttered, "There's more..."
"MORE?! What's that mean?!"
"I...I MARRIED SULLIVAN"...
"This shit gets BETTER AND BETTER!", he groaned. "You panicked , RIGHT? When your dad got sick again?"
"Jack, I married Sullivan because I love him. Yes, we wanted my dad to be able to see his daughter get married, but
we couldn't have known...that he'd go down shortly after. Can we drop it-it's NOT YOUR BUSINESS!"
As she spoke those words, they 'rolled up' to the scene...even as they assessed the exterior, Gibson wouldn't let it go -
at least until she took a stand: "We're AT A SCENE-can we concentrate on the people who need our help, whatta you
say? FUCK, Gibson!" Jack's terse nod signalled his agreement (at least for the moment)...
Inside, it's clear that they will need Ladder 19 as well, which Andy called for after evacuating a small group of children
from the 'party room' to the rear of the bowling alley; they end up in a storage room for old or inoperable equipment.
Jack searched for a way out while Herrera kept the children calm. There's no fire exit, and Gibson started to panic; Andy
quickly recognized this and had no choice but to leave the children to get HIM to calm down...she took the time to notify
Acting Captain Jimenez of their location: "CAPTAIN...we're at the rear northwest of the structure...request sledgehammers
to break through the exterior structure wall - Gibson and I are trapped with 10 children, all under tender age...smoke is
getting heavier-please expedite!"
She turned to Gibson and said, "Breath with me, Jack, c'mon: IN...OUT...that's right...you gotta calm down!" Lowering her
voice, she added, "The kids are getting scared."
When that didn't work, she tried another tack: "You might be right-I might have rushed into marrying Sullivan, but I swear
to you that I'm in love with him too...I AM, Jack...WE LOVE EACH OTHER."
Gibson got control of himself right before Dean Miller and Travis Montgomery breached the wall. Once all of the children
are attended to by A19 and A23 (it and E23 had been summoned by Captain Jimenez based on the estimated number of
persons needing medical and the size of the blaze)...once the Captain declared the fire 'out', Andy took the wheel once
again and started the drive back to the station.
Her fellow Lieutenant started to say "So..."
"SO...WHAT, Gibson?! WHAT! Goddamn!"
"Just..we gotta start annulment proceedings RIGHT AWAY...as in ASAP !"
"Please listen to me, ok? I'm not annulling my marriage, because I don't regret it. I understand that you don't want to
hear that Robert and I are in love, but we are. And yes, when YOU asked me to marry you, I said I didn't want to marry
you or anyone else, and at the time I meant it, but I hadn't met Sullivan then. Now I'm gonna ask a favor..."
"What?" he asks grudgingly, sounding pissed off.
"Keep this between us for now, please? You loved me once..."
"Make that STILL", he interrupted.
"OK. Keep this to yourself until he and I figure out our next move, HR-wise. OK?"
"Yeah...Yeah, OK?"
At a stoplight, she turned her head to smile at him. "Gracias, Cariño ."
He smiled back, understanding that she meant the last part as a term of fondness...the type assigned to an 'ex'...
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Dr. Carina DeLuca's back-to-back deliveries leave her bone-tired and more than ready to log some time on the very
comfortable sofa in her office. Tiredly, she checks her phone before shutting her eyes, which pop open wide at the
THREE MISSED CALLS she spots on the device screen. She re-dialed, and the first thing Maya Bishop said on answering
was "ARIZONA ROBBINS-WHO IS SHE?!"
"Bella, I would like nothing more than to talk to you about this but" - she yawns elaborately-"I completed only now two
consecutive deliveries: very difficult...I hoped to sleep for a few hours: what is wrong? Is it urgent?"
"NO. No, I'll call you in a few hours. My shift ends at 8 am tomorrow."
"Thank you, my love. I promise to answer all of your questions. Ciao."
(---updated June 14 2022---)
Andy debated whether to tell Robert about what was said inside the bowling alley storeroom since she is almost positive
that at least a few of Station 23's firefighters heard part of what was said while breaching the far wall. By the time he
arrived home, she has decided what to do. They drink wine after she served their dinner and relax in the living room
listening to music when she brought it up.
"I told Gibson about us today."
"Alright...how did that come up exactly?" he asked, puzzled.
"Welll"...she stammered, then regained her composure. "We were cleaning and polishing the engine, re-stocking, and
he asked about where I have been the past week: you know that we were roommates-I told you about that *
(he knows exactly what she means)...and he just kept...DIGGING, and I lost my temper, and I blurted out that we're
married..."
His eyes remain solidly on hers, and he said softly, "Go on."
"...OKAY...on the way to the bowling alley fire, he won't let it go: 'WE have to annul this right away'; 'This can't stay like
this' and I told him that would not be happening: YES, it was quick, but we've been in love for it seems like forever, and
THANK GOD we get there, and he has to try to focus on the job, but it's like he CAN'T, until I cursed him." She quickly
skimmed over Gibson's panic attack and what she said to him to calm down**, then moved on to the ride home. "I don't
feel that I was firm enough in making it 'full-stop' clear that I'm staying married to you because there's NOTHING I WANT
MORE...because there ISN'T." She set down her wineglass and took his face in her hands: when he flinched, she tightened
her grip and whispered, "I love you with all my heart-with ALL OF ME...my soul, my being. My body, my body, my heart:
believe me: I'M YOURS."
(Te quiero con toda mi alma, y mi ser. A TI solamente pertenece mi cuerpo, mi corazon, MI TODO... creeme SOY TUYO
He accepts her kiss and deepens it. His questing lips and his hands stroking her rounded hips tell her all that she needs to
to know...THAT EVERYTHING WILL BE ALRIGHT...
[Forty minutes later]: "OooooDIOS! F-FUCK, Baby; AHH! Come on, Baby...give me that cum-GIMME IT!" Andy whimpers clutching at
Robert's shoulders with her fingers and the backs of his thighs with her heels: when he drives IN, she lifts her butt to follow him on
the OUT-STROKE: [Girl when I break you off...I promise that you won't wanna get off; If you're horny, let's do it, ride it, my pony-my
saddle's waitin', come and jump on it...If you're horny, let's do it, ride it, my pony: My saddle's waitin', come and jump on it-Let's DO
IT...RIDE IT, My Pony; my saddle is WAITING...}
"The last I heard you didn't want a baby, WHAT ABOUT THAT...HUH?! You're MINE-only MINE...NO ONE ELSE'S!"
¿¡Me dijiste que no quierias bebe...ASI ES...EHH?! Eres MIA-solo MIA...DE NADIE MAS ?!"
"YES, YES! Whatever you say, Baby! AhhhMYGOD! Y-YOURS...ONLY YOURS...only ever yours!" Andy shouts.
Sullivan hammers into her more vigourously; hilting and unhilting deeply...their tongues battle like twisty snakes and
and their combined frothy fluids, splatter onto the sheets of the bed...[If we're gonna get nasty baby; First we'll show and tell
Till I reach your ponytail...Lurk all over and through you baby-Until we reach the stream...You'll be on my jockey team...]
"I want your baby; I NEED IT: FUUUUUCK...!" and she erupted: HARD AND REPEATEDLY...Robert's eruption is half a minute
later. "Lo hicimos, Papi ...we made our baby...didn't we?"
"I think...it felt like we did," he gasped in response. 'I think....WE DID."
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Spanish Translation by dwalk1_2002
Puta Madre-Asshole/Son of a Bitch/Motherfucker
Cariño-Sweety/Honey (in this case, fondness, not romantic)
Te quiero con toda mi alma, y mi ser. A TI solamente pertenece my cuerpo, mi corazon, MI TODO: SOY TUYO
I love you with all my of my soul all of my self. Body, heart, and soul: BELIEVE ME: EVERYTHING I HAVE is yours.
SI, SI! Lo que tu dices, Cariño! AhhhDIOS MIO! TUYO...SOLO TUYO para siempre!!"