Firehouse 51 ended Chicago Fire season 13 on a good note. Sam Carver and Violet Mikami finally reconciled, while Christopher Herrmann gave up his promotion for Mouch McHolland. Elsewhere, Chief Dom Pascal was finally worthy replacement for Wallace Boden’s. The show left its biggest news, however, in its very final moments.

Years after their wedding and an almost-separation on the heels of Severide ghosting his wife for no justified reason, the pair finally started moving forward towards the next step in their marriage in Chicago Fire season 13. The year ended with the revelation that they were expecting their first kid following an adoption attempt that didn’t go anywhere.

Chicago Fire Season 14 Takes Back Severide & Kidd’s Pregnancy

Knowing that Kelly and Severide were having their first kid, there was a lot of excitement coming into Chicago Fire season 14. Sadly, all that excitement dissipates in “Kicking Doors Down’s” first minute. It’s revealed that, apparently, Kidd has never been pregnant. The test she took was a false positive.Regardless, however, the news is disappointing for both, but perhaps, more than anything, it’s a major let-down for those who have been rooting for the couple since they first started dating. The issue here is that there’s really no narrative need for this whole pregnancy bait and switch. It was totally unnecessary for Chicago Fire to drop that pregnancy news if they had no intention of following it through.

Ultimately, this whole pregnancy back and forth feels like it’s nothing more than an attempt to cover up the possibility that the writers have no idea about what else to do with Severide and Kidd. Their adoption storyline has been done in One Chicago before, and from the looks of it, that won’t deter NBC from recycling it yet again.