Following last Wednesday’s Chicago Fire Season 11 premiere, Violet and paramedic

field chief Hawkins are officially back on and more couple-y than ever. The pair no longer

have to worry about Emma blackmailing them about their secret romance now that

she’s gone. And since Hawkins has been transferred, he and Violet have officially taken their relationship public, as witnessed by the full-on PDA display at Molly’s in last week’s episode. But the couple will be exchanging last season’s big relationship challenges for new ones, which may be smaller but are no less important. “Now it’s like sweet and normal problems, like he has commitments [and] he can’t make time to see her because he has to be somewhere else,” Hanako Greensmith, who plays Violet, told TVLine during a recent #OneChicago Day press junket. “But that’s kind of what’s wonderful is seeing normalcy within a relationship and seeing how they flourish in that way, too, because they’ve had so many challenges. What is it like to be together without the challenge now?”

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While “it may be difficult” for Gallo to let Violet go, there’s also an upside, the actor notes: “He’s available to see if there’s anyone else out there that might spur his interest, and maybe that is exciting, maybe it gets him into trouble,” Rosende teases. (Co-showrunner Andrea Newman did tell TVLine that Gallo is “going to move on by having a hell of a lot of fun.”) And will Ritter, the third half of Gallo and Violet’s friend threesome, finally get a new love interest, too? “Things do be going down in the firehouse and outside. We just got to wait and see which way it goes,” Daniel Kyri, who portrays the firefighter, says with a smile. “But I think there’s some exciting stuff on the horizon for him in terms of like love and dating and flirtation. There are some fun moments that we’ve actually had the opportunity to film that we’ll be seeing this season, too. So I’m pretty excited.”