4. Mills and Dawson have a steamy anatomy lesson
While Severide, Casey, and Otis all captured audiences’ attention in one way or another, Peter Mills (Charlie Barnett) was the secret steamy king of Seasons 1 through 3.
Mills is deeply into Dawson, even if she’s torn between two interests. While any sort of long-lasting relationship between the two characters is doomed — the ship name everyone knows is “Dawsey,” not “Mawson,” after all — the energy and connection between them is undeniable. In Season 1’s “God Has Spoken,” the pair turn an anatomy study session into a lesson on chemistry.
The steamy moment starts out innocently enough, with Mills encouraging Dawson not to give up on her dreams of going to med school, after she admits that sometimes she can’t remember the names of all the bones in the body. Mills gives her a pop quiz, and gets her flustered somewhere between the sternum and the coastal margin. The resulting make-out session is a fantasy straight out of study hall — and the steam factor passes with flying colors.
3. Dawson and Casey’s big kiss
After a rough relationship rollercoaster in Season 1, “Chicago Fire’s” Dawson and Casey finally get their acts together — and viewers hot under the collar — in Season 2’s “Rhymes With Shout.” This episode packs in a lot of “Chicago P.D.” crossover, as well as a whole lot of PDA. (Even though most of the kissing happens indoors, we’re counting it as PDA because it technically starts in a doorway.)
The episode begins with Casey timidly inviting Dawson to hang out one-on-one. Dawson, hesitant because of everything that happened in Season 1, politely passes. But by the episode’s end, she’s resolved to go see Casey. She gets dressed up, puts lipstick on, and opens the door — where she’s shocked to discover Casey is on her doorstep already, staring at her with desperate longing. Of course, Dawson stares back with a hunger to match.
The two finally break their tension, not with words, but with a powerful kiss that never seems to end. Dawson is so caught up in Casey, that she doesn’t even take the keys out of her hand when she grabs his neck. Casey kisses Dawson’s lipstick right off her mouth, and the episode ends with a very steamy new beginning.
2. Severide and Kidd’s big bar kiss
There are so many steamy moments between Stella Kidd (Miranda Rae Mayo) and Severide, they could fill their own list. But we have two here that really take the cake. The first comes in “The Chance to Forgive.” Kidd and Severide have a history together, sure, but it’s the intense friendship they’ve developed since Kidd joined the Firehouse that has both of them frustrated.
For Kidd, it’s because Severide is never straight with her about his feelings. For Severide, it’s because he can’t handle or articulate just how deeply he feels for Kidd. After trying (and failing) to get Severide to open up about whatever’s going on between them, as well as the many traumas they endure both personally and professionally, Kidd focuses on doing bar inventory at Molly’s. But Severide shows up to throw a very steamy wrench in her plans.
Severide asks Kidd to grab a bite, but turns to leave when she can’t. Kidd says she knows “communication isn’t your first language,” but gently demands some answers. She gets them in the form of Severide laying a deep kiss on her. The two make out passionately in the middle of the closed bar — and then right on top of it.
1. Stellaride in the cabin of redemption
Despite their deep connection and scorching attraction, Kidd and Severide don’t always see eye to eye. Especially when either of them is in full-on angst mode, however deservedly so. By Seasons 6 and 7 of “Chicago Fire,” Severide has seen his share of loss — and when his dad, Benny, dies, he definitely blames himself for it. Which, you know, puts a bit of a damper on the romantic side of life.
Kidd and Severide generally give each other some space, but reconnect when they work on one of Benny’s old arson cases in Season 7’s “I’m Not Leaving You.” Still, Kidd is concerned about how withdrawn Severide is when he isn’t obsessively trying to solve his dead dad’s old cases. When she loses track of him at Molly’s, she immediately leaves her shift to find Severide up at the cabin.
Severide has been doing more reflecting than angsting, however, and he vows to be the kind of man she deserves. Making a genuine promise to be a better person acts as an instant aphrodisiac, and the two share a powerful kiss. Their reunion goes from deeply connected to sky-high steamy when they move the action into the cabin. Kidd and Severide are out of the frying pan and into the fire now, literally — as “Stellaride” is reborn in flames.
