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Sometimes I really miss Brettsey and find myself hoping they show up for a visit. Stella is due right around their 2-year anniversary, and it’s hard to imagine they wouldn’t show up for their best friends having a baby. There would be a chance to see more of these little moments between them and find out if they’ve grown their family since leaving.

But then I remember how poorly written they were in 10x22 and how much they retconned to create drama and make a break up make sense. Neither of them are on the show anymore, so it would likely just be a brief cameo without much of their own storyline, but I don’t trust the writers one bit. I’m happy to live off of what we already have and fanfic.

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Remember when they framed 11x18 around the idea that Casey’s time in Oregon was wrapping up and he might return to Chicago soon? Then in the ep they had Matt talking about Ben going off to college soon. But suddenly in S12 Sylvie decided to move to Oregon and there’s no mention of why Matt had to stay despite both boys being in college.

I’m suddenly wondering if it was simply because the writers (mainly Andrea) were too lazy to come up with a reason for Sylvie to leave 51 but stay in Chicago. The fact that they’ve written about characters possibly having to leave 51 multiple times due to promotions in just the last couple of seasons (Boden, Stella, Cruz, Hermann, Mouch) but couldn’t possibly see this obvious storyline for Sylvie’s exit is randomly pissing me off this morning 😩

are we…setting the stage for a comeback in the future?

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I’m still low key a little annoyed that we had so many Brettsey kisses in 12x06 but the angles weren’t great, especially at their wedding. Why didn’t they use this one in the ep? 😭

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In her Meet Us at Molly’s interview, Kara said their names were Bert (Burt?) and Betty 😂

What do you think Sylvie’s parents are called

I don’t know, but I really wished they would have showed them at least once when Sylvie was there. Like they could have surprised her at the firehouse and met everyone especially Matt!

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My response got super long, so I’ll put it below the cut, but I think it’s important to remember the context of what Brettseys went through as viewers in real time. It was actually a bit cathartic to write this 😭

They had such an incredible build up and an equally strong payoff in 9x16 when they got together, just for the life to be sucked out of them when Jesse left 5 episodes later. We obviously lost a lot of people then because it’s rare for actors to return and even more rare for a character that is still on a show to end up with a character that’s not.

Then, for 7 months, those of us that stayed watched warily hoping that they kept them together long distance for a reason. We finally let ourselves get excited again because we were going to see Brettsey together on screen at the Stellaride wedding, just for the show to give them less than 1 minute of screen time and a 30 second conversation that threw out their commitment from 10x05 and made it seem like Matt had decided he was never returning because he was so happy in Portland.

Another 4 month wait for the breakup that we knew was inevitable but tried to convince ourselves we might avoid because there’s no way they’d break up off screen when they just had Jesse there for an episode, but of course they did. Now we’re watching from a distance to see where things go, trying not to have any hope despite Sylvie saying “maybe someday” to Matt and Kara saying Sylvie felt like she had to end it “at least for now.”

We’d at least get to see Sylvie struggling and missing Matt so that we could properly mourn losing them, right, after all their build up and her saying things like “it’s always been you” and “when you know, you know” to him? Nope, she gets to be sad for one episode before Hawkins tries to set her up with blank wall (Dylan) and Derek writes her saying that she’s fine because she’s stronger now (I’m still mad about how terrible that writing was).

Then we get 4 of episodes of her being a glorified extra before they force a dating storyline on her less than two months after the breakup (it was supposed to be like 6 months show time, but they didn’t make that super clear), despite how obvious it was that she wasn’t ready. Two months later, after seeing no chemistry and no attempt to develop her and Dylan, we’re relieved because they end it because she wasn’t ready and wonder if they’re actually gonna show her realize that she can’t move on from the love of her life.

The show has a one month break and we let ourselves have a little hope, all for it to get crushed in 11x13 when they have Severide tell Sylvie she has to move on, and it felt like Andrea (who wrote the episode and is the showrunner) telling us it’s over and it’s time to move on. This was the point where I finally lost hope and was able to fully disengage from the show. I unfollowed Brettsey accounts on Twitter and deleted the tumblr app from my phone because it was just too painful.

About a month later, we randomly get news that Jesse would be returning for 11x18 and after a brief bit of excitement, most of us jumped to absolute terror after realizing that it was likely their final closure episode, like what Dawsey got in s8. If it wasn’t for Jesse basically giving us the plot in all his interviews the day before the episode aired, I think hardly any of us would have watched live (a fair amount of people still waited to watch the episode until hearing about how it went).

Despite the plot of 11x18 making it pretty obvious (IMO) that they were going to get back together eventually, we were all still pretty scared to get excited after everything that had happened and the fact that they said it was only for one episode. I thought maybe 11x18 just set the stage for a Doug and Carol (ER) type reunion whenever Kara decided to leave the show (or it ended).

I don’t think it was until we saw the 11x22 promo that was 100% focused on Brettsey and included what very much looked like a proposal that we let ourselves actually get excited. Then we actually get a proposal, but they made it a cliffhanger going into a writers strike and eventually a double strike also including the actors.

We ended up having to wait almost 8 months just to not get to see her say yes to the proposal. Of course we were elated that she said yes, but it was a huge let down to not get to see it.

We found out in 12x01 that the wedding was a month and a half away and were able to get excited because it was pretty clear we were gonna get to see it on screen. The episode comes and it was nearly perfect and we actually somehow got our happy ending.

After a 3 season build up, we only got to enjoy them being together for 5 episodes before having it all ripped away, and really only for like 2 episodes before we started to get his exit storyline and the anxiety that came with it. Then we were on an emotional rollercoaster for more than 2 years that finally resulted in a happy ending.

We love them and are ecstatic to have gotten a happy ending, but we’re emotionally exhausted and too tired to do much more than just enjoy it. I think for most of us, we also stopped watching the show, so it’s pretty similar to what happens when a show ends where you still see content for a while, but it fades away because there’s nothing new to talk about.

Why are there hardly any Brettsey fans on here anymore

I think a lot of people left when brettsey when long distance/broke up and I guess they didn’t return when they got back together lol

But during the season 8&9 time there was a lot more on here

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Say my name and everything just stops

Small scrap sections from a longer work that will never be finished. It acknowledges the shift from “Casey” to “Matt”

1. Late season 6:

It’s kind of like Matt’s engaged in some sort of really serious game of hide and seek, but one person is not really hiding, and the other is somewhat seeking, but also not really.

His marriage has become this game of avoidance where they just keep passing each other. They pass in the halls of the firehouse. They pass in their own home, from room to room. Even in a confined car, it feels like they’re just passing.

He and Gabby are so off kilter. Everything feels unbalanced and it’s driving him crazy. This isn’t the marriage he envisioned, and he doesn’t know how to go back.

He’s well aware they’ve always had problems. They’ve never been perfect, but he had been able to fix it. Usually, that involved him complying and going along with his very independent wife, but he’d done it.

This time, he can’t comply so they’re stuck in this holding pattern while he waits (and also avoids her) for her to do the compromising.

He can’t go along with her plan to have a child, basically without him. She pretty much implied she was going to get pregnant with or without his help which stung. He can’t give her a baby if it means having to raise their child without his wife. That guilt will kill him, so he refuses.

His refusal didn’t kill her plan. Like always, Gabby Dawson found a way around and wants a baby…wants to endure a risky pregnancy and possibly carry some other guy’s child if he won’t do it.

His own wife won’t budge and he’s not going the extra mile to solve this, so they are just passing by.

When he arrives home to the condo, he freezes in his doorway. He was expecting his wife, probably perched on a stool ready to pick another battle. He’s ready for it, but it’s not Gabby in his kitchen.

Brett’s standing at his island, wearing a faded apron he vaguely remembers was gifted to Gabby as a wedding present, mixing bowl and a big wooden spoon in hand.

Her hair is piled up on her head, chocolate smeared on the corner of her mouth, and he assumes Antonio fucked her over again. She’s probably eating her feelings and drinking wine with her best friend, but that’s not the case.

She looks up from her chocolate concoction, blue eyes widening like a cartoon. “Matt, hi. Sorry, I didn’t think you’d be home so soon.”

He stops dead in his tracks, but not because Brett has apparently broken into his home. He pauses because she called him Matt which she doesn’t do.

It’s not like he has a problem with it, but pretty much everyone at 51 calls him Casey. It’s just become this thing so when Sylvie Brett says it so casually, in his damn kitchen while his marriage crumbles somewhere else…it strikes him.

He’s not even sure she’s ever called him his name before. She might’ve in the past, but it never registered.

He’s only really Matt to his wife and his sister. Although, his wife does use his last name when she’s pissed (which has been happening often).

She finishes swirling the brown batter in one of the big glass bowls Gabby chose. “I know I shouldn’t have used my emergency key, but I wanted to make Gabby her favorite brownies just to…I don’t know, cheer her up. I should’ve asked first.”

He shakes his head, sets his keys on the hook and adverts his gaze because he’s pretty sure he makes her nervous. Brett can’t see him as anybody other than 51’s Captain which he gets. He just doesn’t want her to think he’s so uptight he’d dress her down for being a great friend.

“No, it’s fine. I’m just passing through anyway,” he explains. “I’ll be out of your hair in like ten minutes.”

“It’s your place,” Brett replies. “If someone should leave it should be me.”

He figures Gabby would rather have her friend here instead of him anyway.

“Seriously, I’m heading out the door anyway. Stay. Finish the brownies.”

She smiles a little, sweeping a loose strand of long blonde hair away from her face. “Thanks, Casey.”

Casey.

Everything shifts right back to normal where he’s just Casey, Brett’s just Brett. He’s in his home. The one he shares with someone who shares practically nothing with him and Brett’s doing what she does best; being good to her people.

It’s one thing he has always appreciated about the paramedic. She’s good. She’s good to her patients. She’s good to 51. She’s extraordinarily good to his wife.

He passes her by, ready to change from his construction job and head to Molly’s. He stops in the doorway, observing a flustered Brett as she tries to perfect the homemade frosting. She tastes it with her finger and groans when it’s not good enough.

He knows from Gabby that she’s still a little heartbroken over Antonio and a bit raw from certain ambo calls, yet she’s here…supporting Gabby with sugar and chocolate.

“Brett.”

She startles again, almost as if she’s afraid he’s changed his mind and is mad she’s here. “Uh, yeah?”

“You’re a good friend. She’s lucky to have you,” he says.

Her blue eyes look a little misty in his kitchen lighting. “She’s lucky to have you too.”

He doesn’t think his own wife believes that, but he’s grateful for the words anyway.

The oven timer dings behind her, and she struggles to pull out batch one of her brownie mission. He contemplates offering to help, but his life is currently burning to the ground, so he doesn’t have time to salvage some brownies.

Some things are better left unsalvageable anyway.

2. Early season 7:

He’s on his third or fourth beer at Molly’s. He knows drinking won’t numb the fact he wasn’t good enough for his wife, but it does help a little.

The stool next to his squeaks obnoxiously loud and he hears a quiet gasp. Pink painted nails clamp on the counter and Brett has nearly fallen off the stool.

He wants to laugh, but she looks partially embarrassed…or maybe more ashamed

“I’m sorry, Casey.”

He raises an eyebrow, dumbfounded. She has nothing to apologize for. The last shift had gone well, and he doesn’t even remember scolding her for anything. Hell, he’s not even sure he talked to her at all at the station.

“Sorry?”

“I shouldn’t have blamed you for Gabby leaving,” she mutters, pulling at the edge of her sweater sleeve.

That’s a conversation they had weeks ago. He’s completely forgotten about it. She had been blindsided and upset which he absolutely understood. God knows he felt all that with her, so he really didn’t think too much about her minor lash out

“Brett…”

“I was just hurt I guess,” she admits. “And if I felt hurt…I can’t imagine how hurt you were. It was selfish and dumb.

Sylvie Brett and selfish don’t fit in the same sentence. She’s too kind even to her own detriment.

Still, it feels good to have someone recognize how hurt he is. Yes, they all care and pity him, but no one acknowledges how much Gabby hurt him. It might not have been intentional but her constant rejection about what he wants and needs fucking hurts.

“Brett, it’s fine,” he replies. “I get it. I do and honestly, she was always going to chase bigger things. She was always going to leave, and I was always going to stay.”

It sums up majority of his relationship. Gabby was always leaving in some way. She’d leave to pursue a new career, leaving him to stay and deal with the fallout. She’d leave to adopt a child and again, he stayed and followed. She was always leaving him and somehow, he just kept staying.

Brett frowns, looking into her glass. He watches her stir the blue-ish margarita with a toothpick umbrella. “Well, for what it’s worth, I’m glad you stayed.”

For the first time in a long time, her words soothe the crippling ache Gabby left behind. It doesn’t completely fix everything, but it feels good to know that he didn’t make the wrong decision by not following her.

At least according to Brett.

“Yeah?”

She nods, a smile passing over her face. Lately he hasn’t seen Brett very happy so it’s good to see a glimmer of their past.

“Honestly, I just can’t imagine what 51 would be like without you, Matt.”

He’s struck by the fact she’s using his name again. It’s odd because he’s been so used to Casey for so long and every once in a while, Brett calls him Matt.

There’s something interesting about the way she says it. The syllables just roll off her (now blue) tongue differently in a way he’s never heard. It feels like two different voices and sounds absolutely nothing like it does on shift, surrounded by firefighters and in between blaring bells.

Wow, maybe he’s had a little too much to drink tonight.

He nudges her arm lightly, thanking her for her kindness. He’s surprised she’s giving it to him of all people, but he appreciates it, nonetheless.

Prior, Brett has always been connected to him through association. She was Gabby’s best friend. She was Gabby’s ambo partner. She was Gabby’s brother’s girlfriend.

She’s never been anything to him, but now with Gabby long gone…he thinks maybe Brett won’t be such a stranger anymore.

“God, do you imagine if you left, and Severide became a captain or something?” She asks through a snort.

He has to admit that’s a funny picture. “You’d all be dead because he was too busy making out with Kidd.”

Brett laughs a little too hard at his pitiful joke. He starts to think she might’ve had a few drinks herself. “Oh you are so right, Casey!”

He’s too caught up in the allure of her contagious laugh to analyze the name shift. He’s heard this laugh way too much from his living room or the common room on shift, but this is the first time he’s really taken by it

Sylvie Brett has a wildly adorable laugh. Who knew?

3. 7x08

He starts to appreciate new things he hasn’t had the chance to while married. For one, he has complete freedom of his own life. Every decision is his. Plus, he has more time to spend with 51 and he surprisingly enjoys fishing with Boden of all people.

However, his newest discovery happens to be drunk Sylvie Brett. Brett’s incredibly charming on any day but mix her with alcohol and she somehow becomes more and more dorky.

He has to say he greatly appreciates drunk Brett because it’s hilarious. She can’t hold her liquor and each sentence come out in mangled fragments, but it’s not annoying. Not at all. He actually quite likes Brett when she drinks.

She’s absolutely drunk after Foster pumped her full of alcohol. He’s had the front row seat to her nose scrunch, big doe eyes and flailing hand which had turned his crappy night around.

He’s not even thinking about Naomi or what it could’ve been if he had pretended to be ready.

He had planned to go home a little early but decided to stick around to observe Brett. She’s very drunk and he’s concerned about how she’s going to get home.

Foster left hours ago. Kidd ditched too, probably to make up and make out with Severide. He expected Cruz would take her back, but he disappeared with Chloe and hasn’t returned. Even Otis has vanished.

He makes conversation with Hermann and waits for someone to get her home safely.

At some point during the night, he loses track of her just as Hermann closes. He took his eyes off to help the older man move a shipment of beer and now, she’s gone.

Shit. He hopes she’s not inebriated enough to think she can drive. Although, he’s not sure a taxi or ride share is better when she’s this out of it.

Men are assholes.

Matt hurries out the door, hoping to catch her before she disappears in some sketchy car.

Luckily, he doesn’t have to look far because Brett’s sitting on the bottom step, chin in hand and phone clutched in the other.

She tilts her head up, grinning. “Hey, Casey.”

“Hi. What are you doing out here?”

She points her turned off phone in his face. “Waiting for a cab. I’m just a teeny tiny bit drunk.”

Yeah, just a teeny tiny bit…

Again, he doesn’t want her getting in a car like this where someone could easily try something.

“I’ll drive you home,” he offers, reaching for her hand. He pulls her up, braces her stumbling with his chest and holds one hand on her arm to keep her grounded.

“No. No. You should be calling cute reporter,” she slurs, eyelids drooping lower and lower. She pokes his chest with one slender finger. “Go and make your move, Casey. Girls don’t like waiting.”

Naomi is not his concern at the moment. She’s just a girl he casually kinda sorta dated and Brett’s…well, she’s Brett. She’s an essential part of 51 and far more important than some possible girlfriend.

“She’ll be there in the morning. I’m concerned you won’t be if I don’t get you home myself,” he explains. “You’re drunk, Brett and I don’t trust some taxi driver so let’s go.”

She sticks her bottom lip out. “Fine. Fine. Fine. Lead the way, Captain.”

He steers her by the shoulders so she can’t fall flat on her face towards his truck. When he gets the door open, Brett needs a boost into the seat.

He watches one of the best paramedics he knows fumble with a seatbelt for five minutes, amused. Eventually he gives in to her frustration and does it for her.

Super talkative drunk Sylvie seems to have left for the night. As he navigates down the streets of Chicago, she’s quiet and pressed against the passenger window.

He pulls up in front of the place she shares with Otis and Cruz ten minutes later. He turns his truck off, unlocks the door for Sylvie to jump (or probably fall) out. She doesn’t make a move though, and when he looks over, she’s sleeping against her seatbelt.

He should’ve seen this coming. She drank a lot so of course the alcohol would knock her out.

“Brett?” He asks.

She snores a little in response and he can’t help but chuckle. He stays in the driver side for a few more minutes, thinking of the best way to get her inside.

While thinking, he observes her drunken sleep. Her hair is a mess, tangled against the window. She has mascara rings all around her eyes and cheeks and she’s even drooling a little.

He admires her unkept look. He’s always liked how she’s fearlessly herself and just doesn’t care if it’s well received or not.

It’s a very admirable quality.

Her neck is gonna hurt like hell if she stays in that position much longer. He climbs out his truck and goes to her side. He eases the door open, managing to keep her from tipping out with a hand against her head.

“Brett,” he says, shaking her shoulder a little. “Brett, come on. Wake up.”

She’s dead asleep, nestling further into the hand keeping her head from lolling. He can’t stand all night like this with her face in his palm.

Fine. He’ll carry her in. He undoes her seatbelt and when it clicks, she startles.

The sudden panic vanishes the second she realizes it’s him. She smiles sleepily. “Matt.”

Matt. Not Casey. All evening he’s been Casey aside from when she full named him earlier. Now that she’s drunk and tired, he’s Matt again.

He wonders if it’s purely accidental or if she consciously chooses when to change it up.

“How’d you get here so fast?” She asks, looking around the sidewalk.

“You fell asleep,” he explains. “Come on. Let me get you to your apartment. Can you walk?”

She nods and stumbles out of her seat. He braces her fall, laughing at how ridiculously uncoordinated she is after some tequila.

“Hey! Are you laughing at me?”

He helps her inside the apartment building, pointing her in the direction of the elevator.

“I’ve never seen you like this. It’s wildly entertaining.”

“Well, at least I didn’t accept a proposal this time,” she yawns, leaning her head into his shoulder as they wait for the right floor.

“What?” He asks.

She shrugs as the doors slide open. “A green card thing. I was drunk…didn’t marry him. Long story.”

Sounds like it. They make it to her door, Brett halfway asleep on him. He fishes her key out of her purse and then let’s them inside.

“Casey, hi?” Cruz greets from the kitchen. His eyebrows raise when he sees Brett. “Oh man, I completely forgot.”

He knows Cruz was too focused on his new girlfriend to look out for her, but still. She’s his room dog or whatever they call each other. He shouldn’t have left her alone.

“She needs to go to bed,” he explains, doing his best to pass her off to Cruz. She doesn’t want to leave his side for whatever drunken reason so they both have to get her into her bed.

Once she’s buried under a thousand blankets, he turns to Cruz. “Make sure she drinks a lot of water tomorrow because that hangover is gonna be brutal.”

Cruz laughs. “Drunk Brett might be fun, but hungover Brett is not.”

He can imagine. She’ll definitely be miserable tomorrow.

When he goes to leave, Cruz stops him. “Thank Casey.”

“Yep.”

It’s not like he was going to leave her anyway. He’s just glad she’s home safe.

4. Post 8x09

That night he and Gabby hadn’t just passed by but went straight through. They fell right into familiarity and slept together. She was his wife. She knew him better than anyone. Well, he’s starting to think there’s someone else who understands him better, but he’s not gonna go there.

The night is good, but just not as good as he remembered. He expected that cosmic pull (or whatever) but if anything, something is pushing him further and further from what he thought was his future.

There was a disconnect and when he left, it felt like closure. Gabby’s so happy in Puerto Rico. He’s genuinely glad she’s doing so well for herself, even without him. Plus, he’s happy too in Chicago with 51. His future is here.

Gabby leaves the voicemail about how she always has an opening for him, and the bitterness resurfaces. It’s a nice gesture, but it proves how things will only ever progress if he makes the life changes. They can have another night together if he goes to Puerto Rico.

He has no plans to do that.

Someone knocks on his door at a quarter to eleven. His best guess is Severide forgot his key and he and Kidd got in a fight.

They fight and make up a little too much.

He hauls himself off the couch and opens the door. He expects Severide in the door with a permanent frown and a string of curses. What he doesn’t expect is Brett in his doorway, mini dress on and perfectly applied make up.

She looks amazing. He’s always thought Brett was a cute girl. It’s a fact, but he’s starting to think she’s more than just cute. She’s shockingly hot.

“Hi,” she greets.

Did he black out and ask her on a date something? She’s clearly dressed for the occasion. God knows he’s thought about making a move, but he has no memory of doing it.

Even if he somehow lost his mind and did plan a date, he wouldn’t choose such a late time.

He must look as confused as he feels because she chuckles.

“Sorry. I know it’s late.” She looks down at her tight red dress and then back at him. “I had a date. I don’t usually wear this kinda stuff.”

So, someone else asked her out? He doesn’t remember hearing about anyone new. To his knowledge, Ryan was the last.

“You look…fancy,” he compliments. Other more expressive words are on the tip of his tongue, but he settles for fancy. It’s probably best he doesn’t tell her she looks hot in that dress.

“Late dinner. Completely disastrous dessert. Anyway, I’m not here to talk about my failed attempts at romance.”

He’s not sure why he’s relieved the date didn’t go well. He’ll analyze that later.

“Why are you here?”

He’s still confused about the events that have led to her stunning appearance at his place.

“I was at dinner, and I just couldn’t stop thinking about you, Matt,” she says so casually as if that’s not a completely loaded confession.

She can’t stand there in a tight red dress and roll his name off her lips like this and expect nothing. She was thinking about him? She was actively thinking about him when she was with a date?

“You…couldn’t stop thinking about me? “

Her eyes widen and she covers her face. “Oh my god. That came out wrong. I don’t mean…geez, I keep doing this.”

His racing heart slows a little because he misinterpreted her words. He thought this was heading in another direction. He thought he wasn’t crazy thinking something might be happening between them.

She brings her hand back down to her side. “I was worried because I know Gabby left today and I wanted to make sure you’re okay.”

Oh.

“I’m fine,” he dismisses. “Really, Brett.”

She eyes him like she doesn’t believe a word he’s saying. In hindsight, he didn’t sound very convincing.

“I worry no one checks on you,” she continues. “You’re this steady presence at 51 for everyone else and I just couldn’t stomach the thought of you all alone here blaming yourself.”

He leans in his doorway. Now that’s he is closer, he can smell her addictive perfume. It somehow smells like Christmas and fruit.

“Blaming myself?”

She sinks her teeth into her bottom lip. “For not feeling like enough. I can’t pretend to know what went down with Gabby, but I do like to think I know you. I know that she unintentionally hurt you by leaving and now she left again.”

“Brett…”

She edges a little closer and his heart rate quickens again. He’s half convinced she can see his neck pulse thumping from where she’s at.

“If I’m crossing a line here, let me know, but I don’t like the thought of you sitting here thinking you somehow failed,” she rambles.

He swallows, breathing in deep because she’s definitely doing something new to him. She’s not touching or anything, just hovering a few inches and God, he wants to kiss her.

Huh, that’s new.

“You didn’t fail and truthfully, I love me some Gabby, but she was wrong to make you feel like you’re…I don’t know, nothing?”

There’s a lingering question behind that confession. She’s not sure she’s reading his feelings right, but she’s nailing it. Somehow, she’s articulated everything he’s felt better than he could.

“You’re not nothing, Matt. If you ask anyone at 51, if you ask me…you’re pretty much everything there is.”

He’s shell shocked which doesn’t happen often. He’s good at reacting. He’s trained to be ready for anything, but he wasn’t ready for this.

For her.

She’s healing parts of him he didn’t even know were broken with her kindness and consideration. She didn’t have to leave a date to ease his pain, but she did.

She knew he’d need to hear it before he even did.

She’s standing in his door in a strapless dress that pushes up her boobs saying things he’s never heard from anyone. He’s not leering at her, of course, but he’s human. He spares a few glances since she’s so close.

He’s also only been Matt tonight. She hasn’t called him Casey once. Somehow, he’s hearing his first name from her more than ever and he quite appreciates the change.

Matt brings his hand to her bare arm, brushing his palm down her skin. “Thank you, Sylvie.”

He knows he should pull his hand away from her soft skin. A normal shoulder squeeze is one thing, but this lingering grip is another. He traces his thumb around a freckle on her forearm.

Her skin erupts in little goose bumps and he figures she’s probably freezing her ass off in that dress. “Do you wanna come in? I can get you a sweatshirt or something.”

She looks at her heels before gently easing out of his grip. When she replies, she looks anywhere other than at him. “No, that’s okay. I better go home before Foster goes on a manhunt for the guy who took me out. I told her I’d be home by now.”

Right. It’s probably best she doesn’t cross the threshold. He’s afraid of what he’ll do with a few beers in his system and her looking like that.

She’s sweet, kind and so empathetic while he’s just a mess.

“Yeah, good call. Foster with a pitchfork and torch is a scary thought,” he comments.

She laughs, wrinkling her nose. “You make a very good point.” She swipes some hair away from her face. “I’ll see you on shift, Casey.”

Casey again. It feels like the shift is definitely intentional. She’s creating distance.

He nods, moving all the way back into his apartment. “On shift.”

She waves and he unapologetically watches her walk down the hall. Once she turns the corner, he shuts the door.

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She’s writing an original story and posting on Substack! Here’s the link to subscribe: https://logana.substack.com/

Does anyone know if @alittlextrathatway aka angellwrites on AO3 is on hiatus from writing as I LOVE their fics big time so so much and hope they write more soon 💜💜💜

I’m not sure 🤷‍♀️

yes some of the best fics, cruel sometimes is one of my absolute favorites

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It’s wild to me that they went through the effort of casting her parents, settled on having crew members play them, and then the only reason we knew they were there for the wedding was because of Kara mentioning it in an interview with MUAM, and Wolf Entertainment later posting a pic with them (https://x.com/wolfent/status/1766524428840489097?s=46&t=oTBzZeUqh3t8ER-XPR4Spw).

They should have had Sylvie’s parents there for her wedding and her dad walk her down the aisle! We could’ve seen emotional Matt seeing her walk down the aisle to him

Yeah that would have been good

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Sylvie Brett + all dressed up

Requested by anonymous

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It’s from 11x18. It’s the record for quickest to put all the gear on.

In season 11 of ChiFire what is the record that Matt holds in the firehouse 51?

i have no clue, sorry anon!

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Sylvie looking at Matt

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I just had to block a Brettsey for the first time on here 🙃. I have no problem having an honest discussion about serious things on here, but what I’m not going to do is put up with people trying to justify hate and calling it differences of opinion.

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As a Sylvie stan, I too will forever be bothered that she was never fully given the recognition she deserved in her professional career. When she became PIC, it felt like it was pushed to the back burner because she was partnered with Gabby once again and they had the focus on Gabby until she left. In Sylvie's last two season of the show they did her dirty by focusing on her love life (ugh Dylan) when they could have been focusing on Paramedicine. Sylvie deserved better with her job storylines before she left.

I was so annoyed at how little recognition Sylvie got when she made PIC, and even more so once they brought Gabby back to Ambo and acted like she was PIC despite Sylvie still having the bars on her uniform. In that episode in season 5 where the DDC got pissed at Boden and assigned “everyone besides the officers” out to other houses, Gabby was the one that stayed. It’s a minor detail, but both Gabby and Mills wore a white shirt under their dress blues to signify their officer status, but in the 8 years that Sylvie was PIC, he shirt was always black. And more recently, they made a huge deal about Violet getting “promoted” to PIC when Sylvie left, but in Sylvie’s first episode as PIC in season 4, not a single line of dialogue referenced her promotion. I could go on and on and on.

Starting after 10x09 when paramedicine was fully funded, they wrote Sylvie just like they write Ritter, as a tertiary character that is only there to serve other character’s storylines and gets their own one or two isolated episodes a season.

The Dylan storyline in S11 was terrible from the start, but I’m more confused by it than anything. They put no effort or time into trying to develop that relationship, and there was no chemistry between the actors. I think they kind of knew when Jesse left that they were going to write her off sooner rather than later, and wanted to say they “tried” to have Sylvie move on but it just didn’t work. I kind of think the initial plan was to use him to show she wasn’t ready and end that storyline with the “break up” in 11x12, then they only brought him back to delay the Brettsey reunion.

I’m also so confused by how they had Matt say that Ben would be off to college next year in season 11, but then Sylvie moved to Oregon even though the boys were both in college and adults. Andrea even said in the Meet Us At Molly’s interview at the end of S12 when asked about Ben that the actor wasn’t available for the wedding, so they used an extra but he didn’t look anything like him, so they decided “Ben was busy at college, maybe he had exams or something.” Here’s the full clip of her talking about it:

My dream storyline to write out Sylvie was Matt moving back to Chicago because the boys were both in college, and then Sylvie getting promoted to ambulance commander so that she had to leave 51. That would put them back in Chicago but off screen, which I thought would have been perfect. I ended up being okay with her moving to Oregon because it highlighted just how much she loved him that she was willing to leave Chicago behind, but I was so frustrated that there wasn’t any sort of career recognition or advancement even discussed.

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Hi

I know you said you were not going to say anything else about this topic but I only just saw your posts and wanted to add my ten cents to the discussion as I love reading your posts and so hope this is okay and I apologise for how long it is. It is in no way transphobic or hateful either btw.

Basically seeing how he openly retweeted that post was very odd to me as he has never been one to talk or post on politics, especially controversial topics as he knows how touchy what his parents politics are like, and just anyone has to look at the likes of JKR for example to see that promoting such a thing is career suicide basically.

But that is what stood out to me. That while his costar did it privately, and under her married name with all the understanding that her posts would remain private too and that she had the right to privacy like we all do, that he did this so openly. It was obviously after the wedding episode had aired and he doesn’t have anything else left in his career.

That’s why it stood out to me. That it feels as if he doesn’t care about his career anymore and that he almost doesn’t want his career back? But it was risky also in the fact that his wife could’ve easily lost her new job if it had blown up as she works with children and neurology/neuroscience and the post was about children and doctors.

I don’t know what he was thinking but it came across to me as someone angry? But not just about the topic of the tweet, but it felt like frustration or discontent as it was just so out of character for him to do so openly. Maybe he isn’t enjoying life in Boston or not acting as much as he hoped he would?

Anyway I’m happy to see you back even if it just talking about Brettsey as I’m happy to do that too.

Hi again anon, I don’t mind talking about what he did, I just don’t care to talk about an actor’s personal life, especially one that I lost respect for. I was a little caught off guard that he retweeted it, but I wasn’t all too surprised that he agreed with it because he’s been liking things like that on Twitter for years. I’m not sure if it’ll impact his ability to land jobs, I doubt it simply because 1) he’s super well known and 2) no one outside of the fandom really talked about it. I think if he wanted to work, he’d land a job pretty easily. He filmed that Disney plus show in summer of 2022, so I don’t think he’s done acting just because he left CF. I also don’t think that his wife could lose her job either, she wasn’t the one that posted it.

I think it’s a bit different from JK Rowling because she made comments consistently on camera and the videos always went viral. There weren’t any journalists that commented or wrote stories about his retweet or liked tweets, or Kara’s FB posts for that matter. Tbh I don’t think it was something he even thought twice about before or after he retweeted it, which makes it that much more callous.

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What is the thing or post that Jesse has apparently made or posted about that is transphobic?

So part of the reason why I’ve disengaged from CF a bit quicker than I expected is because of Jesse retweeting a transphobic post. It’s the most recent tweet on his Twitter page, if you want to see it. To be fully honest, it actually bothers me more than the stuff on Kara’s Facebook because of how hateful, callous, and dangerous it is. I’m convinced Kara thought her FB was private since it has her married name, she interacted with family, and FB’s privacy settings are far more complicated than twitter’s, but Jesse knew he was sharing that publicly to his hundreds of thousands of followers and very rarely posts, so it wasn’t just a careless retweet.

All that to say, I still love Brettsey, but I’m not a fan of the actors and I’m not going to answer all the other asks in my inbox about Jesse’s personal life.