Fic: Stunned Silence

[lasairfhiona.livejournal.com]

Chicago Fire
pov: Kelly Severide
rating: G
a/n: In memory of/a tribute too the fallen firefighters
word count: 153

Kelly Severide sat with the rest of the house watching the news coverage of the wildfires and the deaths of the nineteen hotshots in the flare up. Like the rest of them, he sat in stunned silence. He didn't have any words to express what he was feeling at the loss of their brothers.

They had all lost friends in fires, Darden was the most recent loss in their house. He couldn't imagine being the sole survivor of the crew. The guilt of not being there with his men. The guilt of still being alive and feeling relieved about it.

He was squad. He'd never wanted to be anything else but squad, but as he heard more and more about the young men. He knew being squad was like being a member of truck to the hotshots and the respect he now had for them and what they did, outshone almost everything else.

Comments

[kaige68.livejournal.com]

This is heavy and so beautifully done.
Thank you.

[lasairfhiona.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Being a first responder too, although no where in the league those lost souls were. It hits our community anyway, and was the subject of conversation with my SAR friends during a lol in our mission Monday morning.

The words just came like they always seem to in cases like that.