Group chat interlude part deux. Brought to you by a writer who needed some way to bridge to the next episode and decided to take the easy way out. At least it's a funny way out with this family, right?

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Red and Blue Should Make Purple

Olivia: OK

Olivia: Bone to pick with the Austin crew

Matt: Owen probably did it

Matt: Not us

Frank: Way to throw your chief under the bus

Owen: The last ridiculous thing I did was get on a plane with an exploding engine

Owen: Nothing since then

Nolan: Sylvie?

Sylvie: Can confirm

Owen: That hurt Price

Nolan: Tough

Kelly: Someone's being short

Elliot: We're all being short in New York right now

Elliot: Comes with putting a crime boss like Wheatley on trial

Sylvie: That's finally happening?

Nolan: Assuming he doesn't fire his representation

Nolan: Again

Frank: Twenty bucks says he will when he learns you're now prosecuting

Nolan: No bet

Frank: Your loss

Nolan: Yeah

Nolan: I would've lost twenty bucks to you

Frank: Where's the problem

Elliot: In Austin apparently

Sylvie: Right

Sylvie: What did one of us do

Olivia: Why did I have to hear this from Peter

Olivia: Who heard it from Jay

Olivia: Who heard it from the rest of 51

Kelly: Oh

Kelly: That

Olivia: Yes that

Olivia: Pelham is about to be terminated?!

Elliot: What

Nolan: Jason Pelham?

Frank: How do I know that name?

Kelly: My successor on Squad 3 in Chicago

Sylvie: One of their treasure hunting partners too

Sylvie: He and Grainger are very similar to Matt and Kelly

Frank: That's how I know it

Frank: Why's he about to be terminated?

Matt: Because another DDC has a grudge the size of Texas against him

Matt: And convinced a firefighter injured on one of their calls to submit a report claiming Pelham's orders led her to getting injured

Kelly: Which is bullshit based on what Cruz Tony and Capp say

Kelly: Since he was working with them the entire time

Sylvie: I recognized the name of the firefighter injured

Sylvie: She helped Kidd occasionally with her program

Matt: We don't speak of her

Sylvie: How am I the adult right now

Frank: Is it bad I want to meet her

Nolan: Depends on what that would lead to you doing

Frank: Oh it would be civil

Frank: Ish

Elliot: I volunteer to supervise

Olivia: No

Nolan: No

Owen: And Liv and Nolan currently hold the New York braincells

Elliot: That hurts because it's true

Olivia: Back to Pelham

Kelly: No official statements from 51 backed up the firefighter's account

Kelly: But no one could officially contradict her either

Elliot: That doesn't sound like enough to recommend termination

Matt: That's because we didn't mention why Pelham was in the floater pool for so long

Frank: Guessing it was bad

Matt: He sacrificed his career to cover for his commanding officer at the time

Owen: He punched his captain

Elliot: He what

Olivia: How is that covering for his commanding officer?

Sylvie: When everything for his captain was going down the drain

Sylvie: And Pelham caught him stealing at the scene of a fire

Nolan: So he took the dishonor while giving his captain a clean way out of the department

Kelly: Basically

Frank: Brave man

Frank: The captain never spoke up about it?

Kelly: Not until Seager talked to him

Kelly: Something tells me Kilbourne wouldn't be very open to listening

Olivia: Now I want to chat with Kilbourne

Matt: I wouldn't stop you

Kelly: ^

Kelly: 51's already been through enough turnovers in the past year or so

Kelly: If Pelham goes I know Grainger will too

Kelly: Then they're down two officers again

Elliot: And Owen can't have a chat with this DDC?

Owen: What makes you think that would be a civil chat?

Elliot: Oh I know it wouldn't be civil

Elliot: That's why I'm asking

Olivia: Elliot

Frank: I volunteer to supervise

Nolan: You two are not allowed to plot together

Sylvie: Depends on if that plotting's end result is in our favor

Frank: Point to Sylvie

Kelly: We get it

Kelly: Sylvie is everyone's favorite

Owen: I can hear the exasperation

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Sisters in Blue

Olivia: So the 2-7 is definitely in attendance for the Wheatley trial?

Kate: We definitely are

Kate: No matter if Price tries to argue we don't need to be there

Kate: Yeah he isn't prosecuting one of our cases

Kate: I know Wheatley's reputation

Kate: We're there in case something goes south

Ayanna: Cosgrove probably would've been there anyway

Kate: He definitely would've been there anyway

Olivia: How's the whiplash treating you

Kate: Honestly as long as Frank doesn't try to cut out any throats I'll take it

Kate: Even if I have no idea what the hell he and Price are now

Ayanna: I rarely interacted with your team and I knew their reputation for fighting

Ayanna: And I had whiplash seeing them practically attached in Austin

Ayanna: That's how far their reputation spread

Kate: Great

Kate: They have a reputation

Olivia: Had a reputation apparently

Kate: Apparently they're getting a new one

Ayanna: What is their deal now?

Kate: What makes you think I know?

Ayanna: I'm not suicidal enough to ask them directly

Olivia: Don't ask me

Kate: Whatever it is

Kate: I know Lily's favorite person aside from Frank is Price

Olivia: There are the Dardens though

Kate: Fine

Kate: Favorite adult

Kate: Lily was the one to cheer him up after the Larson verdict

Ayanna: Sounds like the Cosgroves have Price wrapped around their fingers

Olivia: That might be more accurate than you realize

Ayanna: Group chats?

Olivia: So many group chats

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Keeping Up With Your Dumbasses

TK: So Wheatley is definitely likely to fire his representation again

TK: Isn't he

Nolan: At this point I'm just creating plans for any lawyer he hires

Nolan: I know I'm facing someone

Nolan: Difficulty level is to be determined

Buck: You make it sound like a videogame

Carlos: Sounds like he's rolling dice in a DnD game

Sylvie: That's a pretty accurate description of a courtroom actually

Sylvie: At least it was in Chicago

Nolan: Trust me

Nolan: It's accurate

Frank: And that may now make my daughter be interested in being an attorney

Frank: Thanks guys

Kelly: That's just politics in general

Kelly: It's a patience game

Matt: Some of us are better at it than others

TK: That feels like a call-out

Matt: The chief, actually

TK: Oh

TK: Yeah

TK: The softball game

Kelly: He got so lucky O'Brien decided he had enough of the rivalry

Nolan: What happened to the prick who insulted my sister again?

Sylvie: Fired

Nolan: Thank God

Frank: How bad was he when everything blew up in Chicago?

Matt: Define "bad"

Buck: Chief was impressed

Eddie: I was scared

Kelly: If I wasn't head over heels for his sister I'd say it was hot

Matt: It's genetic

Matt: Pretty sure you can say it

Sylvie: He can say it

Sylvie: Nolan is awesome

Buck: Never knew you would let your brother be your boyfriends' hall pass

Nolan: Buckley

TK: Whoopsie

Carlos: Oh damn

Nolan: Never call me that again

Buck: Yes sir

Eddie: Dumbass

Sylvie: That's me and Nolan

Eddie: Fine

Eddie: Dumbassest

Frank: I can hear the disappointment from here

Buck: I'm a little scared now

Matt: You should be

Matt: He's terrifying when he wants to be

Carlos: So that's genetic too

Sylvie: Point to Carlos

Frank: Great

Frank: I'm losing my favorite cop status

Carlos: I'll be the favorite officer

Carlos: You can be the favorite detective

Frank: I see why Carlos is the sane one here

Eddie: I'd be offended if that wasn't completely true

Buck: One word Eds

TK: Minefield

Matt: Minefield

Kelly: Minefield

Buck: Minefield

Buck: What the fuck guys

Eddie: We're never gonna hear the end of that are we

Sylvie: Better than getting shot

Nolan: Let's not joke about that

TK: And this is why we don't discuss it

TK: Because we know not to piss off the attorney who could probably skin us alive

Nolan: And this is why you are not the Dumbassest

Buck: Why the hell am I being picked on

Frank: Why the hell is he making it easy

Nolan: Makes my job easier then

Buck: I don't want both of you on my ass!

Eddie: Dios mío Evan

Eddie: Stop giving them openings

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Boss Squad

Murder Boss: I saw all the work your crew did Severide

Murder Boss: You have amazing firefighters

Murder Boss: But why does Buckley make it so damn easy

Squad Boss: Because he's the resident Dumbassest

Court Boss: I've been in this family too long

Court Boss: Because that just explains everything

Medic Boss: You should've seen us in our early days

Murder Boss: And that somehow scares me

Ladder Boss: Buck and TK in the early days was a little scary

Ladder Boss: Back when they had the record for scariest incidents on the job

Medic Boss: I think I hold that record now

Court Boss: I do not want to know

Court Boss: Frank

Court Boss: I can see you typing

Murder Boss: I'm a detective Nolan

Murder Boss: I get thrown a bone and away I go

Medic Boss: Isn't that exactly what Jack did during the Nicole Bell fiasco

Murder Boss: That's exactly what he did

Court Boss: Of course it was Jack

Medic Boss: But I'll tell you whatever you want to know about disastrous calls

Medic Boss: You buy the drinks at Forlini's

Murder Boss: Deal

Squad Boss: So you're gonna saddle us with your daughter

Murder Boss: Or I could hand her off to Nolan

Court Boss: You say that like it would be a chore

Court Boss: It would be harder separating her from the Dardens

Court Boss: How much longer do I have to hide that a chunk of you are coming again

Ladder Boss: We're scheduled to get there right before the trial starts

Ladder Boss: I think Owen, TK and Carlos are meant to get there for the arraignment

Medic Boss: How have Benson and Stabler not thought to ask if we're coming

Court Boss: Because yours truly know how to keep our mouths shut

Murder Boss: ^

Medic Boss: And how long did I hide that it was Kidd and her words that made me leave?

Squad Boss: I really don't want to give you any points for that

Medic Boss: I rest my case

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Nolan: If Kidd ever reappears

Nolan: I expect you to be my impulse control

Frank: Me?

Frank: I'd kill her so you wouldn't have to

Frank: I would just need you to be my alibi

Nolan: Done

Nolan: My knight in shining armor

Frank: One does one's humble best

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Nolan: I might be in a bit of trouble

Sylvie: Does this trouble happen to go by the name Frank Cosgrove?

Nolan: And I have made a mistake

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Guess what Sylvie's reaction in the gif is to XD Before anyone asks, yes, I know exactly when these two lovestruck dumbasses get together, and based on where we are episode-wise, that'll start chugging along soon.

Also, two things I would like to get from people:

1. Any fun names for a 2-7 group chat? They need one, and a name.

2. Opinions on Carlos remaining in New York to see the 2-7 in action for "Fault Lines?" Yay or nay?

Next time, it's off to New York - "People Vs Richard Wheatley" is up!

graphic by marvelity