8. Hawkins and Violet’s black-tie kiss
There are two things the gala in “Show of Force” is good for: Putting Chief Kilbourne in his place, and kissing. Severide and Kidd get a good smooch going in a hotel conference room overlooking the sparkling city at night — but that kiss is but a burnt Pop Tart compared to the smoke show first kiss between “Hawkami.”
Paramedic Violet Mikami (Hanako Greensmith) and Paramedic Field Chief Evan Hawkins (Jimmy Nicholas) share an attraction when they first meet, which kicks into high gear after they save a newborn baby together. But both Violet and Hawkins have reservations about taking their attraction to the next level due to their professional hierarchy — as if following HR protocol ever stopped any couple on “Chicago Fire” before.
Hawkins even goes so far as to say that he and Violet need to keep their distance from one another. That lasts until the night of Violet’s award gala. Once the coast is clear of the crooked Chief Kilbourne and the smooching “Stellaride,” Violet and Hawkins can’t keep their hands — or mouths — off of each other. While we pity whoever had to Windex away evidence of their up-against-the-windows tryst the next day, we cheer for Hawkami’s commitment to steaminess.
7. Hawkins and Gallo’s treadmill tryst
Perhaps you love the on-again, off-again dynamic of “Chicago Fire” paramedic Violet Hawkins and firefighter Blake Gallo (Alberto Rosende), perhaps you hate it. However viewers feel about “Hawko” or “Gallkami” (just workshopping ship names here), these two always feel some sort of way about each other — and it’s usually both lusty and competitive.
They’re never more thirsty for each other or obnoxiously competitive than in Season 8’s “Where We End Up.” Their respective teams have to spend the night in one station, and there’s only one bed — pardon us, treadmill — to be had. That’s right — the pair shift from trying to out-workout one another to trying to hook up with one another in a matter of moments, right there in the station gym.
Violet and Gallo are in fine form sassing each other and then locking the doors so they can take full advantage of the facilities with one another. The end result is a super steamy moment that means both of these players take home a win — and hopefully take some disinfectant to that equipment. They bring all new meaning to the phrase “working up a sweat.”
6. A crossover kiss between April and Severide
Lieutenant Kelly Severide has history with plenty of his present-day love interests, but no roots run quite as deep as they do with Nurse April Sexton (Yaya DaCosta). April and Severide enjoyed a chaste relationship back when they were both teens — and both feel the need to make up for a little lost time together before April heads on her post-grenade-attack trip around the world in Season 3’s “You Know Where to Find Me.”
After first taking a pass on dinner with Severide to pack, April changes her mind — and her outfit — then shows up at Severide’s door. Severide is already taken by surprise by this sight for sore eyes, but he goes into the steam stratosphere when April tells him how she used to fake being scared of lightning around him because she was curious how close she could get to him.
The two scratch an old itch with a hot kiss that leads to a striptease and so much more. It’s rare that Severide gets to meet his match in most of his romantic exploits — Stella Kidd notwithstanding — so it’s extra hot to watch him with someone who knows him to the bone, and can really give him a run for his romantically-charged money. While the relationship doesn’t blossom into anything more lasting, maybe that’s for the best — we’re not sure Severide could keep up with this firecracker, however much he might want to.
5. Severide and Nikki hook up in a supply closet
Before “Stellaride” was ride or die, Lieutenant Kelly Severide kept his dance card full — and by dance card, we mean “hook up in the gear closet at work” card. Season 1’s “Professional Courtesy” puts Severide’s professionalism to the test. While he definitely fails, he wins in the steamy smooch department. His kissing partner in crime is Nikki Rutkowski (Meghann Fahy), a beautiful new payroll clerk at the Firehouse — and the daughter of a friend of Chief Boden’s.
Boden (Eamonn Walker) doesn’t want Severide to get up to any funny business with the new hire, and Nikki’s dad doesn’t want her fraternizing with any firefighters. Of course, this means that by the episode’s end, Severide and Nikki have made out in a gear closet during working hours at least twice.
While Severide initially tries to keep his distance, Nikki works on closing the gap between them. Nikki clearly has a thing for firefighters, and Severide has a thing for women who have a thing for him. He is helpless to resist Nikki, and the two hook up mere steps away from their crew. All hail the sound-absorbing qualities of a closet full of flame-resistant fabric, even while Nikki and Severide’s chemistry does its best to burn it all down.
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