Stella Kidd

Stella Severide (née Kidd; formerly Smith) is one of the main characters in NBC's Chicago Fire and a guest star on Chicago P.D. and Med. She is portrayed by , who also portrayed Talia Sandoval-Mendoza on .
== Biography ==
Stella was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, she is an only child her parents died when she was young and was raised by her uncle and aunt. She wasn't close with her parents and her uncle.
After her parents died she started consuming alcohol and drugs and got married to Grant Smith, an abusive and violent man who abused her physically and mentally.
== Season 4 ==
Stella had known Gabriela Dawson and Kelly Severide from the academy and transferred from a firehouse in Auburn. When news of her transfer first reached 51 it was met with much derision as Borelli, by then a popular figure with the crew of 81, had left his candidate position to join Brett at Ambulance 61 due to manpower changes. 
Her first appearance is in "Bad For the Soul". When Kidd first arrives at the firehouse, Gabby acts as if they have problems, but it is revealed that they are old friends. She tells the house that she is recently divorced and is enjoying the single life. She goes out whenever she wants, eats at nice restaurants and whenever she's lonely she sleeps with her ex, something he is apparently fine with.
While writing her name on her new locker, Kidd asks Dawson whose locker it was before hers as it smells like cologne. Dawson tells her that it used to belong to one of Kelly Severide's old friends, Scott Rice, which didn't end well. At the mention of Severide's name, Kidd acts suspiciously shy and "blushy", but they are interrupted by Severide, cutting the conversation in half. Severide then apologizes for "the most embarrassing night of his career", since he didn't know she was married and showed up with a six-pack at her back door. Her husband went crazy and actually wanted to press charges against Severide. 
Grant shows up at the firehouse looking for Stella, saying he misses her. She then goes to the Turnout Gear room with him to administer him a B-12 shot.
In "What Happened to Courtney", Herrmann is looking for entertainment for his daughter Annabelle's eighth birthday party as the guy he contracted is double-booked. Kidd tells him she knows a guy: her ex-husband is trying to start over and just needs a chance—he will also do it for free. Herrmann accepts the offer and Grant takes the gig with one condition: Kidd has to give him another chance. Kidd says she still cares for him, but he has to show her that he is growing up and changing in order for her to pursue a relationship with him again. However, when the party comes he never shows up, leaving Stella to come up with a last minute entertainment plan, Molly's Jr. Later on, Stella meets Grant at his place, where he is playing music. Stella gives him the house key and tells him that it is over as he missed the party after she backed him up with people she did not want to disappoint.
Mouch invites Stella to his wedding. She will be at a table with Trudy's friends and Severide and so tells Severide to bring his "A-game". His answer is that that's all he's got, to which Kidd asks if breaking and entering is his "A-game". That's when the house realizes there's an awkward story between the two.
During the after wedding party at Molly's, the guys are all together and ask for the real story. Stella tells them that one night after a tactical training course at the academy, Severide showed up with a six-pack after using the key under the mat to get into the house. She convinced Grant to not call the police. The following day, Severide tells her he owes her a big favor.
Herrmann and Kidd get into a discussion about who's the best manager. Stella states that she ran the best pub in Milwaukee for two and a half years. Dawson then proposes they settle things by doing the "Bar Olympics": two contestants, 10 events, winner takes all. Kidd wins, but instead of the money, she wants to help them manage Molly's. One of the changes she introduces to the bar are artisanal ice cubes, giant perfectly clear ice cubes that require a special machine to make, so they can charge more per drink and sell more cocktails than beer. After she convinces them to buy the machine, 51 is called to a fire at Molly's that apparently started because of said machine. Feeling awful about what happened, she decides to fix the damage herself. She and Severide flirt throughout the season, and he shows up at Molly's to help her, as it is clear she can't do it alone. Kidd tells Severide she doesn't understand why, when she was married he broke into her house with flowers and champagne, but when she is finally single he keeps a distance. The two kiss and start a romance. When she is leaving the house and getting into her car, she notices a paper on her car. It's an invitation from Grant for his band's show. Grant later shows up at the firehouse to give her her favorite sandwich and tell her about the gig, saying she is the inspiration and the reason why everything is happening.
She confides in Severide that Grant is using again and that she is worried about him. Grant shows up at Molly's as she and Severide walk in together, causing Grant to fight with Kidd once again. A while later, Grant texts Kidd. She tries to call him back and realizes he is on something. Worried that something might have happened to him, she locates his phone and the team find an overdosing Grant. At the hospital, Stella tells him that he needs help to get clean. Grant insists she is all he needs, but she is done and Grant shouts at her to leave. Kidd leaves, worried, but Dr. Charles calms her down, telling her they will do their part to help him. However, some time later, Dr. Charles discovers Grant is missing from his hospital bed.
In "Superhero", Kidd and Severide are shown kissing and getting into bed together as Grant sits in the dark, with a knife in his hand.
== Season 5 ==
Stella finds out in "The Hose or the Animal" that Grant had been in her apartment unbeknownst to her and Kelly. However, she does not know where he went afterwards or if he is still following her. Severide is very protective and alert after she makes him aware of this. The premiere ends with Grant cornering Stella outside of Molly's, verbally harassing her and threatening her with the knife he had stolen from her apartment. Severide shows up and disarms Grant in order to protect Stella. Grant is injured by Severide in the process, but survives. Stella is later told in "A Real Wake-Up Call" that she could press charges onto Grant for attempted murder, but decides not to do so. Afterward, Stella has Grant voluntarily committed into a psychiatric facility so he can get help for his issues with addiction and mental health. 
In "Some Make It, Some Don't", Kelly makes Stella his emergency contact when he donates his bone marrow to Anna Turner. 
== Season 6 ==
After Stella gets evicted from her apartment in "It Wasn't Enough", she moves in with Kelly. Stella expresses clear jealousy when Kelly gets involved with Hope Jacquinot, and Kelly does the same when Stella becomes involved with Zach Torbett. 
In "The Chance to Forgive", Stella and Otis are trapped inside a burning house, trying to avoid being shot by loaded guns that are firing due to the heat. Kelly is clearly worried about Stella and, against Boden's orders, runs inside to help her and Otis out of the house. 
When Stella finds out about Kelly's first marriage to Brittany Baker in "Where I Want To Be", she temporarily doubts the stability of their relationship as a result of Kelly's past promiscuity. Ultimately she moves out of the loft and into the apartment above Herrmann's garage, in an effort to bring more normalcy in their relationship without the added pressure of living together. Kelly supports this, telling her that it doesn't matter where she lives because he wants to be wherever she is. When Renée Royce returns to Chicago in "The Unrivaled Standard", Stella is very suspicious of her motives with Kelly.
== Season 7 ==
In "Going To War", the firehouse respond to a still and box alarm fire at a high rise apartment complex, and Kidd is left severely injured. She and Herrmann were extinguishing part of the fire to help Severide and a child out, who were both waiting inside a room and running out of time. Kidd ran out of oxygen, but didn't tell Herrmann, and as a result, ran out of air and collapsed. She is sent to Chicago Med, where she deteriorated. Connor tells them that to save her, they would have to remove her lung, though Severide disagreed as she would no longer be a firefighter, and asked them to find another way. With some help, Connor is persuaded and tries a different surgery, which saves her life without the lung removal. She recovers quickly and is back to work soon.
== Season 8 ==
In "Infection, Part I", Kelly expresses the desire to spend the rest of his life with Stella, even mentioning kids and grandkids.
During "I'll Cover You", Stella and Wendy Seager open the program "Girls on Fire".
== Season 9 ==
In "Rattle Second City", Wallace Boden encourages Stella to take the Lieutenant's exam. 
During "Don't Hang Up", Ritter tells Stella that she has a call from an unknown person. The person is a girl who says she needs her help but the call ends quickly. When the girl calls back, she reveals to Stella and Severide that she is being held captive by gangsters who took her and her brother to a secluded house. The girl will not reveal her name but says she took a burner phone in the house and because she had previously come to the Girls on Fire program, says she called Stella because of her teachings. Stella is alarmed by this and brings in Kylie who does not recall all the names of the girls but wants to help after hearing the situation. 
In "What Comes Next", Stella takes the lieutenant's exam and eventually passes and becomes a lieutenant. After she takes her exam, Severide reveals to Casey that he wants to propose to her.
During a fire in "A White-Knuckle Panic" Stella follows Kelly further into the burning building where their way out is eventually blocked and they try to break down a window but fail. In another attempt to get out they both find another window and start breaking the glass. While they are breaking the glass Kelly all of a sudden stops and proposes to Stella. Stella's answer is yes. 
In "No Survivors" Kelly and Stella reveal to the house that they are engaged. 
== Season 10 ==
In "The Right Thing", Stella goes out of town to set up Girls on Fire programs nationwide. However, when she begins failing to communicate throughout this trip, Kelly worries about the future of their relationship. She returns at the end of "Winterfest". In "Back with a Bang", Kelly confronts her asking why she stopped calling or writing him, he thought something had happened to her or that she had cheated on him with another man, clearly showing discomfort and tension in the relationship and Kelly's distrust of Stella.
In "Fire Cop" Stella become the permanent lieutenant of Firehouse 51.
During "The Magnificent City of Chicago", Stella and Kelly get married in a tour boat because their wedding venue wasn't available.
== Season 11 ==
In the midst of their honeymoon in "Hold On Tight", Kidd and Severide realize that they had been followed to the cabin. They narrowly avoid being shot by their attackers before Detective Pryma and other officers show up.
In "Nemesis" and "Something for the Pain", Kidd, Carver and Pryma find themselves trapped in an RPG accident putting their lives in danger.
In "Damage Control", it is revealed that Severide was offered a spot in a world-class arson investigation course in Alabama, which he had accepted and left Chicago to attend. However, in "Change of Plans", Stella finds out through Cruz that Kelly left Alabama to work an ATF case without her knowledge. This leads Stelka to be unsure about the future of her marriage, and in "Red Waterfall", she decides to leave Chicago to bring her husband back.
== Season 12 ==
After a six month time jump, it is revealed in "Barely Gone" that Kidd brought Severide back to Chicago.
In "Trapped", Severide is asked to investigate an arson in Arizona. Stella is hesitant to let him do it at first but, after a conversation with Cruz, she realizes it's the best and only way to work through their issues, and tells Kelly to go. After being in Arizona, Kelly returns in "Port in the Storm". 
In "Inside Man", Truck 81 gets stolen with Severide inside, this leads Firehouse 51 to be worried about Stella. Kidd leads the charge to find her husband, clearly worried for his safety and willing to do whatever it takes to get him 
back. 
In "Never Say Goodbye", Kelly tells Stella that he wants them to start having children. Stella is clearly shocked by this, but the conversation gets cut off by the notification of Wallace Boden's promotion to Deputy Commissioner.
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