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Mom "don't you think you're watching too much of that show?? You really like crimes that much?"

Me "yes, it's definitely the crimes"

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him in casual clothes <3

#< husband 3

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DON'T BLAME ME || 1 || Jay Halstead / Thea Rhodes

Synopsis: Theodosia Rhodes, the youngest daughter of a big-time Chicago CEO, needs a husband of her own choice before her father makes that decision for her. Jason Halstead, newly-made Intelligence detective, needs a wife to inherit his portion of his mother's inheritance.

Warnings: Mentions of arson, kidnapping, murder, rape; allusion to childhood trauma, suicide, cancer-related death; descriptions of vehicular accidents including, but not limited to, car-on-car collision, car-on-truck, train; outright familial/parental pressure; portrayal of misogyny and misandry. Read ahead at your own risk.

THEODOSIA

My phone buzzed against the bar shelf, as I slid two Long Island ice teas. The constant vibrantions from my pocket annoyed me, so lately I kept a box under the bar for employees to leave their phones if they wanted.

"Should probably answer that," Matt chided from my right. Despite the crowd in Molly's, he could still hear my phone on vibrate. Granted, we were trained to hear the littlest things.

Kelly laughed beside him. "I can guarantee it's the old man or the sister."

"More likely my sister," I snorted, pulling out another bear for them. "Less talk about my familial pressure for marriage and more drinking, boys."

"You don't need our money, you're richer than the entire department," Kelly frowns.

"I do need to pay my employees though, and I'd rather use the money made from this place than my allowance." Considering I own Molly's and not Cornelius. "I might own a department store but Molly's isn't in cahoots with Dolan Rhodes, and I'd rather keep it that way."

Kelly raised his beer in agreement, before I set off to serve other customers. I tend to the usual, everyday regulars that I only ever see in the bar and not at my full-time job, then head over to the officers and detectives sitting at the very end of my bar.

"Good evening, Lieutenant," Antonio nodded once politely, earning a light smack from me. "You might work with my sister, but I'm not getting kicked out for pissing off the bartender."

I snickered, "you have a lot more than getting kicked out to worry about, Antonio. I know all your dirty little secrets. Everyone bullshits to the bartender."

"Just the usual, Rhodes," Atwater laughed between him and Ruzek. I grabbed the men their usual drinks, moving on to cleaning the glasses in the sink.

Ruzek, amidst his friends' conversation, looked at me over his bottle. "My sister's finished med school, and I know your old man donates to Chicago Med."

"And you want me to put in a good word for her?" I nodded over his head. "Which one is she?"

"She doesn't drink, knowing the risks as a doctor and all."

I smiled. "Like her already. I'll put in a good word, as long as you bring her next time. We got a stock of non-alcoholics out back for when we have shift the next day."

Ruzek thanked me and returned to conversation with his co-workers. I heard my name called, following the voice to Gabby Dawson, one of the best paramedics I know and a damn good barkeep.

"You've met Severide's sister," Gabby waved a hand at Brooklyn Severide.

"How could I not when I babysit her niece?"

Brooklyn raised her glass to me, "my niece's mother, you mean."

"You got a kid?" One detective Jay Halstead asked me.

That particular detective that seduced one of my greatest friends, a non-blood sister, and lied to her for the sake of undercover work. He then proceed to let Molly's get set on fire, the one bar owned and worked by firefighters, and broke up with her in the end. I still wanted to kick his ass for that.

Mostly for Gabby, but also for Molly's. My poor baby.

I raised my head a little. "Best friend's kid, lost her mom. I try to be the mother she deserves." To say I'm still a little apprehensive of the detective would be an understatement.

"And you are," Brooklyn held my arm in her hand, before going back to her drink. "Best damn woman in the world, this one."

I see what's happening.

"Fire lieutenant, great with kids, animals and the elderly. Great with cops too. Did I mention she scaled a two story house to get a cat out of a tree because the truck ladder was stuck?" Brooklyn, a little tipsy already, latched onto Halstead's wrist.

He laughed. For such a dick, the laugh was cute. Really brought out a young side to him. Too bad he's a liar. "About a million times, Brooke. You tried to scout her off to Atwater this morning."

"You did?" I deadpanned. In the near decade I'd known her, Brooklyn had been trying to set me up with men—and women when I came out to her—left and right. I was too good for her brother, apparently. I doubted she realised her brother was also like a brother to me.

It just so happened that his daughter looks more like me with her gorgeous brown hair and brown eyes, and likes to call me Mommy whenever her dad brings her over.

"He's a handsome man, Rho, and he'd take good care of you." Brooklyn excused, turning back to Halstead. "Did I mention benefits? Also she's rich, so that's its own benefit."

She's trying to set me up with this dickwad.

"I'm not that urgent for a wife," Halstead shook his head at Brooklyn, keeping his arm out under his partner's hand.

Kelly called across the room to me, "Mom, baby's calling for you!" That got me there in two seconds. Elizabeth Severide was the cutest little girl in existence, and she would be gorgeous as she got older. The Italian in her would bring that out in her.

She was in every way her dad's daughter, from the smile down to the attitude. The Severide siblings were already a lot to deal with, and to pile on a mini-version of Kelly? I couldn't say no to Elli's little face though.

Elizabeth lost her mother when she was born, and the moment Kelly met his baby girl, I had been with him and encouraged him to at least see her before deciding to let her maternal grandparents take her. He'd asked me an important name to me, in which I said his name or Matt's. They were the closest to brothers I had since Connor went overseas.

When it came down to girls names, it had to be my mother's. I lost her when I was ten, to depression, but she was still my mother, down to the looks and personality. So he'd named her Elizabeth Leslie, after my mother and his best friend, Shay.

Shay was ecstatic her best friend's kid was named after her, and it happened that her middle name was Elizabeth. More often times than not, she'd call Elli by her middle name because she liked it so much.

"Hi, Mommy!" Elli waved at me over FaceTime through Kelly's phone. She was at the Herrmanns', while I worked and Kelly hung out until it was time for him to head home. "What are you doing?"

"I'm working, Reginetta." I smiled, taking the phone from her dad. She loved the little nickname I called her, since I'd promised her mother's parents I'd teach her Italian. Being privately tutored in a language of my choice helped them agree to let Kelly keep her. "Are you in bed?"

"Cindy said I can stay up until Daddy comes pick up!"

She was the cutest little 4-year-old ever.

"Well Daddy will be home with Christopher soon. Christopher is almost finished working." I took the beer from his hands.

Elli took her eyes off me for a second, looking over the phone. "Lee Henry said you have to marry soon. Do I get a new daddy?"

"No, your daddy will still be your daddy. I can't replace him."

"But Cindy said you're not marrying Daddy."

I nodded. "That's right. I'm marrying a different man, because my daddy tells me to."

"Do you not love Daddy anymore?"

Oh sweet baby. "I love your Daddy as much as I love you, Reginetta. But your Daddy isn't the man for me. He'll marry a good woman who will love you just as much as we do."

"But I don't want another Mommy, or another Daddy!" She cried, tears falling over her chubby cheeks. "Only you and Daddy!"

"It's okay, baby, you won't see my husband unless your Daddy is okay with it, and only if you want to. He'll just be Mommy's husband."

She nodded, little sniffles leaving her nose as Cindy helped her wipe her tears. "Principessa, your Daddy and I will never introduce you to a man or a woman if you don't want to meet them. Besides, you'll probably be much older when we ask about it."

"Daddy said I'll see you o-morrow at the Big House."

My house looked like a downsized version of the firehouse, so she called my house "Mommy's House" and 51 the "Big House". It worked just as well with her calling Chief Boden the "Big Man".

"That's great! Now you get ready for Daddy to come get you, and I'll see you tomorrow, little one." I hung up and gave Kelly a look to find Herrmann. He did just that, taking his phone and leaving a kiss to the side of my head beforehand.

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Closing up was as easy as cleaning a pig's back. And that was an understatement, given that I know how to clean a pig while they're running around.

With everything locked up in the bar, and the front door locked, I headed out the back where I expected Brooklyn to be. We were planning to finish off Europe trip plans before we passed out, but her car was nowhere to be seen.

"Antonio said she was too drunk to stay any longer, so he took her home." Halstead's voice carried over the small parking lot reserved for Molly's employees and family. He wasn't family; not to the bar owner. "I called Severide, he said I could park here. His sister's best friend and all. You wouldn't mind, according to him."

Brooklyn was too drunk my ass. I served her all her drinks, and when I wasn't, Gabby was. I knew how much she had.

Little shit trying to set me up.

"I'm sure you know just as well as me, but I'm fully aware she's trying to set us up, and I know you're hating it just as much as you hate me."

"I don't hate you." Now you're a freaking liar, Theodosia. "Just, despise you more than the average person."

He laughed, genuinely, while he moved around his truck to open the passenger door for me. "I think there's people that would argue with that. Unlike you, I was a screwed up kid."

"And how would you know what I was like?" I asked, and he shut the door before I even got an answer. Sitting in his car in silence was peaceful, and somehow comforting. An old smell that was awfully familiar ran over my skin.

Halstead shut the driver's door after he sat down. "One, you're the most popular woman in Chicago. Two, you did everything your dad told you to, even if it was clear you didn't enjoy it. Like modelling."

That was the bane of my long existence. I hated it, and thanked whoever had been listening to my prayers that I'd found firefighting and loved it. It was the first decision I made about my career life, and the first decision I made the moment I turned 18.

Connor had wanted to leave America, start his adult life in another country while he studied medicine, but I dug my roots into the ground of the Chicago Fire Department and fought my way through the academy on my own. I made sure the brass didn't accept any money from my old man so I knew I could accomplish something in my own right.

And it wouldn't bite me in the ass later on either. I'd found myself a real family, one where Boden was a better father than my actual one.

"Brooke always talks so highly of you," Halstead mentioned, his eyes on the road.

For as long as I've known Kelly, I've known Brooklyn. Sweet girl, only a year younger than me. I was almost directly in the middle of the Severides, with Kelly three years my senior. Kelly had been my guide right out of the academy, and when Boden wasn't mentoring me, Kelly was taking me over the basics of rescue firefighting. He'd been candidate for a few months before Matt had arrived, then he was bumped up to rescue squad about a month before I appeared.

Matt and Kelly, being a couple years older, wanted me to get close to Brooklyn, since we were closer in age and women. I was 22, and Brooklyn 21, when Kelly took us out drinking for her 21st. Unbeknownst to Brooklyn—or Kelly—one of the guys over at Firehouse 38 had preyed his eyes on the fresh 21-year-old in the bar.

I'd beaten the shit out of him, and Boden had to convince the patrol sergeant in charge not to charge me. That I was a dedicated firefighter that was just shy of 3 weeks from moving up to search squad, and that I didn't need a stained record when the lieutenants were already riding my ass.

I've had Brooklyn glued to my hip at bars since then. She was always great company, and much more of a pleasure to be around than Kelly when she was drunk. A giggly, playful sort.

She looked up to like the older sister she didn't have, and admired that I put my foot down to my father. Something she wishes she could do.

"Yeah, well, Benny and my father aren't all that different. One's just rich and the other one is god knows where." It was true, for the most part. I knew where Benny was, or where he should've been. And I knew he was coming up to Chicago to see his granddaughter.

Halstead agreed. "She said he's a better grandfather than a father."

"Most shit dads tend to be better with other people's kids. Benny's been great to me, but that's just to get on Kelly's good side. Be nice to your granddaughter's mother figure and you get your son happy."

He didn't say anything to that, but I didn't expect him to. As much as I knew about him, which wasn't much since he'd only been Brooklyn's partner for less than a month, but he didn't have all that good a relationship with his dad either. That's mostly why he and Brooklyn were so close as far as I was concerned.

"About that wife thing," Halstead glanced in his rearview mirror. "I need a wife to get my inheritance from my mother. It's been 10 years, and her will lawyer said if neither my brother nor I claim any of the money, it'll just go to my father. She wanted Will and I to have anything she did, since Dad didn't see her right to the end."

Well shit. Here I was being a bitch about him earlier and bitching to Otis about Brooklyn trying to set me up to marry him, and he needs a wife to keep money from his horrid father.

"She mentioned your dad's been on you to marry men twice your age and you're hating it."

"Hating is an understatement. I could pick any one of them out in a line up against my dad and I wouldn't be able to tell you the difference."

Halstead paused, looking at me before he continued. "She suggested I marry you purely to get your dad off your ass and my inheritance from my dad."

"How long do you have?"

"A week. My mom died 10 years ago on Friday."

A husband—a detective husband at that—would get my father to back off. He could get the inheritance he's keeping from his father, and I'd get to live my life in peace from an unwanted marriage.

"Okay, you have a deal."

#chicago fire #one chicago #chicago pd #one chicago oc #jay halstead #theodosia rhodes

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DONT CALL ME KID DONT CALL ME BABY LOOK AT THIS GODFORSAKEN MESS THAT YOU MADE ME

#taylor swift #illicit affairs #folklore #i could listen to this on repeat everyday all day

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my boyfriend no longer exists, everybody🧍‍♀️

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considering there's no relations between Chicago Fire and Chicago Med, I've made a Rhodes firefighter.

kind of mooching of my idea for kitty, but she's a search fire squad lieutenant, pretty much the counterpart of Kelly.

but instead of dogs and horses like kitty, she's only got like top of the line gas masks and the best equipment for searching.

and since she's Connor Rhodes' sister, she's obviously hot.

With the creation of Lieutenant Rhodes, I thought like "what if there were more crossover relationships?" And decided that Lt Rhodes is dating Jay. So now I've created a Severide detective for Will and a Ruzek doctor for Capp.

Capp's a funny guy, he should have a wife. Eventually.

Each of the couples are gonna have troupes, because I love books and I love the tropes I've decided for them.

Lt Rhodes + Jay = marriage of convenience

Det. Severide + Will = brother's best friend/best friend's brother

Dr. Ruzek + Capp = charge's mother/child's babysitter

And yes, I've already made collages for my girls.

Theodosia "Thea" Rhodes

(Jenna Dewan)

Brooklyn "Brooke" Severide

(Monica Barbaro)

Lillian "Lily" Ruzek

(Blake Lively)

#one chicago ocs #one chicago oc #one chicago #chicago fire #chicago pd #chicago med #jay halstead #will halstead #harold capp #i almost said tony instead of capp #then i almost said tony sapranno

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i don't think anyone liked Pridgen when he was around.

especially mounted search squad 1.

In the span of a shift, they watch their captain go from being best friends with the lieutenants, to being Pridgen's little pet.

He knew that Captain Halstead was like a wild horse, hard to tame until you find a way that makes her respect you. Of course, he found out how Boden managed to settle the wild card that is Katherine Halstead.

He found that when he praised her for the smallest thing, she was essentially bowing at his feet like a puppy. And so, that's what he did. He used the praise to classically condition the captain to do this bidding.

Casey speaks up to Pridgen and tells him to treat the firefighters of 51 with some respect? Halstead tells him off, reminding him that Pridgen is their chief, even if for a few or so shifts, and that the house needs to respect him.

Of course, she's wrong, but he's the only one that's outwardly praised her for almost a year and she started to feel like 51 was no longer appreciating her contributions to the firehouse.

Upon bringing up these concerns with Pridgen, he tells her that she's too soft on them all and she and Boden have been too lenient on everyone's attitudes. So, she starts being more strict and the search squad gets to deal with the brunt of this.

The search squad start going to or calling Boden, asking him when he thinks he'll be back, and tells him Pridgen's turned their beloved captain into a drill sergeant. When they aren't training with the horses, their mucking out stalls or cleaning tack. When they're not doing that, they're training the dogs and the dogs are trained, they're bathing the dogs and horses.

Jacob is the first to actually say anything, given that the squad and squad 3 are sure that once Kitty makes chief anywhere, Jacob will be made a lieutenant. And they all know Boden will listen to his concerns—he's the captain's best friend, there HAS to be something wrong when he goes to Boden.

When Boden can't get through to Kitty, who dismisses that he's on furlough so he should be worrying more about his wife and son than her and 51, Kelly and Matt call in the big guns. The two people that could fight with Kitty to the end of time.

Will's a little apprehensive at first. An angry Kitty is not a Kitty you want to mess with. He's the oldest—he knows. He advises 51 against it, and against getting Jay involved, knowing his detective brother could make things worse and would do whatever it took to put their little sister down a few pegs.

Jay, as much as he loves his little sister, hates that what he's hearing is that she's turning into their father.

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so we remember my partner deciding that Will is a serial killer, right?

we're in season 12, and he just laughed at a (obv fake) video of a woman getting hit. he then rewinded the episode a bit to watch it again.

I think we know what this means...

#criminal minds #criminals minds vs partner #part 2

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so, you see...kitty and mouse are idiots in love...

(tw; swearing)

HANG ON

THIS

THIS IS LITERALLY THEM!!

For months, while working together, Kitty would sit on Mouse's desk and the two of them would make googly at each other.

The entire Intelligence Unit knew it, the entire Firehouse 51 knew it, the entire hospital of Chicago Med knew that Katherine "Kitty" Halstead and Gregory "Mouse" Gerwitz were in love.

Well, maybe not Jay and Will.

You see, these two had been away from their baby sister for so long, they didn't remember what her being in love looked like.

So all her slight giggling, her legs swinging, beat red face just look like she was being fuckin' weird, in the eyes of her older brothers.

It took Erin pointing out the fact that every time Squad 1 is at the 21st, Kitty always goes to Mouse and his desk without fail, for Jay to realise "hang on, my best friend and little sister have been flirting with each other the entire time!"

He's a little more stressed that Will is upon realisation because, in the middle of a life-or-death situation, Jay made Mouse promise to protect Kitty with his life if Jay wasn't around to do it.

And clearly, Mouse took that if literally.

So Jay's just realising his sister and best friend are likely sleeping together when—a guy trying to kill his girlfriend, then his apparent aunt reveals that he's actually the Halstead siblings' uncle?!

And Kitty's having a crisis that their mother lied to her about everything, and Jay's completely forgotten that his best friend and sister are likely (but not actually) sleeping together.

THIS is when they actually start sleeping together, after her maternal uncle is dead and they've both suffered a life-or-death situation where she killed her own uncle to save his life.

And Mouse, in his sweet guilty heart, confesses to Jay he's had feelings for Kitty for a while but never initiated anything because 1. that's his bestie's little sister and 2. he figured Kitty didn't reciprocate anything.

Jay asks Kitty about her and Mouse sleeping together, and why she never told him she like his best friend. She ALSO didn't think he reciprocated her feelings.

#so he calls them both idiots and makes them both promise to at least tell him when he's gonna be an uncle #will literally couldn't care less because he knows about the promise and he knows mouse makes kitty happy #she literally ran to him like the next day and gossiped about how amazing mouse was in bed to will in the middle of his shift #will was dying inside because she was going in extreme detail too #“who am i meant to tell? mom? she's dead.” “KITTY—” #poor guy us trying to make sure his co-workers and patients dont hear about his sister's personal life poor thing #chicago fire #one chicago #chicago pd #chicago med #one chicago oc #halstead sister #jay halstead #halstead sister au #will halstead #kitty halstead

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kitty originally planned to go to college at the University of Illinois (Chicago's campus), but after her mother's death and after being saved by a certain firefighter, she decided to become a firefighter.

she was going to study forensic science at UIC, because she briefly took an online forensics program in high school and adored it. because of her (albeit little) knowledge about forensics, kelly tended to ask her for some help around arsons.

while she knew her mother wouldn't have been too happy with it, kitty was happy for jay to become a cop (then detective) because then her little knowledge of forensics wouldn't go to waste when jay would ask for her input on something to do with her job.

later on into her career, mouse encouraged kitty to try for the course at UIC again, but she felt that she was set in her career and that even if she could've been better in a forensics career, firefighting was her purpose and she wouldn't give up her career even for her old dreams.

#chicago fire #one chicago #chicago pd #one chicago oc #halstead sister #jay halstead #halstead sister au #kelly severide #greg gerwitz #kitty halstead

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my Jemily heart continues to cry, so I made up OCs as their children that fall in love. so I get Jemily 😈

#criminal minds fanfic #criminal minds #criminal minds ocs

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Kitty: Casey and Severide are fighting again.

Boden: *quietly* I told you to leave them alone, stop making them fight with each other.

Kitty:

Kitty: *whispering* I like drama.

#chicago fire #one chicago #chicago pd #chicago med #one chicago oc #halstead sister #halstead sister au #kelly severide #matt casey #sometimes she likes the petty drama #other times shes wringing their necks bc their fighting puts everyones lives at risk

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Boden's still chief based at 51, so he has a "you remind me of your parents" moment when he sees Leslie (stellaride's daughter) bickering with Greg (upstead's son) like Stella and Kelly did.

someone in intelligence might, I haven't decided 👀

I'm writing a upstead son x stellaride daughter fanfic for fun.

Kinda like how upstead met but instead stellaride's daughter is ordering upstead's son around because she's a fire captain and he's a detective, until they recognise each other from when they were little.

#chicago fire #one chicago #chicago pd #one chicago oc #upstead son x stellaride daughter

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I'm writing a upstead son x stellaride daughter fanfic for fun.

Kinda like how upstead met but instead stellaride's daughter is ordering upstead's son around because she's a fire captain and he's a detective, until they recognise each other from when they were little.

#chicago fire #one chicago #chicago pd #one chicago oc #upstead son x stellaride daughter #they're both named after their dads' best friends #and yes they have siblings named after their grandfathers

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FOR EXAMPLE:

"poor guy, you've traumatised him." "he shouldn't have made eye contact."

and then pick two characters.

I half-ass wanna make a post with criminal minds as quotes from my best friends and I. it'd be hilarious imo.

#criminal minds #quotes #incorrect quotes

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I half-ass wanna make a post with criminal minds as quotes from my best friends and I. it'd be hilarious imo.

#criminal minds #quotes #incorrect quotes

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best thing is though, my boyfriend can fully understand him and we're Australian, so our accents are just as thick as Will's, which I have pointed out, but my boyfriend still thinks he's a serial killer.

BREAKING NEWS

I got my boyfriend obsessed with Criminal Minds, and he hates Will. Not like most, who often hate Will in favour of Jemily. No. You know why he hates Will?

His accent makes him sound like a serial killer.

Me: He's from New Orleans, babe.

Him: "I'm gonna kill my son and wife!"

He is very dramatic.