Recovery.

A/N: Hi Guys this is my first Chicago Fire Fanfic, but not my first ever go at writing Ive been on hiatus for a few years now and have lost all trail of thought for my other stories so I've ended them please give this one a chance, I plan to cover everything that's happened or happening in Season 2 but if I overtake them I will have to adlib. This story is about Matt becomming a father figure his friends two kids hopefully we'll see how he copes with dealing with teenagers with the help of friends, will eventually be a Casey/Dawson story but also a Casey/Severide story due to their Bromance.

Enjoy.

Chapter 1: Life starts again

Mathew Casey was waiting at the arrivals gate of Chicago Airport he had been fishing, which was a break he welcomed after the terrible couple of months he had with Hallie's death and he was struggling with his grief but fishing had solved allot of that.

Towards the end of week he got the phone call it was a police officer from Brazil, Casey's best friend from high school Adam Johnson had died of Pancreatic Cancer his two kids had no other family, their mother died giving birth to their second child. Mathew Casey was destined to be their legal guardian. Casey and Adam had lost track over the years well since he moved to Brazil to continue his work as a Civil Engineer but he was the kids godfather so he felt he had a duty and he certainly didn't want them to be flown back to the states to be put into care.

All of his thoughts and worries escaped him as the two kids walked through the Arrivals Gate.

"Uncle Matt!" They both yelled and Chloe, who was the older one of the two at 16 ran into his arms, she was of medium height and had grown a couple of inches since Matt last saw them 2 years ago she had her mother's dark brown hair but her father's athletic build. Matt realised that was going to be a problem when two other kids walked through the gate and whistled at her, causing her brother to give them the two fingered salute and told them to keep on walking. Her brother who was only just 15 had the same good looks and hair colour, Matt had never realised how much alike they looked.

"Sorry I couldn't make the funeral guys I just could get a flight to Brazil." Matt said once he had finished the embrace. The kids had stayed out in until the end of the following week to have the funeral with their fathers small amount of friends and as he had paid the rent until the end of the month it suited them and enabled Matt to get in touch with Dawson to explain to the appropriate people in Spanish that the kids were coming to live with him.

"That's okay Uncle Matt we know what happened with Hallie and that." Adam replied a little too sharply then had to add "Sorry Matt I didn't mean for it to come out like that."

"Its Ok I'm not going to break down in tears and cry every time someone mentions her name, I just need to get back to some sense of normallity, speaking of which im on shift in an hour and its going to take me that long to get from here to 51 as it is without stopping off to drop you kids at home so you're going to have to come with me today." Matt replied.

"That's cool" Chloe said and Adam nodded in agreement. " Its been ages since we've seen anyone anyway so it'll be nice to catch up with them again."

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The journey back to the fire house was uneventful they made small talk for the first 15minutes of the journey and then the two kids fell asleep. Matt parked the car in a space outside the firehouse and gently shook Chloe awake.

As they walked up to the roller doors the middle one opened and they walked inside, the kids took a look around the familiar firehouse and saw that nothing much had changed, they were snapped out of their familiar memories by the pager going off.

"FIREFIGHTER BACK IN THE HOUSE AND HES GOT KIDS." The familiar voice of Kelly Severide came over pager and the man himself walked out into the Garage space and embraced Casey in a hug and then moved onto Chloe and Adam. "Its good to see you guys again" He said to the two kids, "Feeling better now Matt?"

"Yeah much better thanks Severide." Matt replied by this time the rest of the guys where in the garage hugging the kids and then Chief Boden arrived with Mills by his side.

"Chloe, Adam. This is Peter Mills our newest candidate, Mills these are Chloe and Adam my friends children. " Casey introduced Mills to Chloe and Adam who both said hi before following the rest of the guys into the kitchen so Matt could get changed into his work uniform.

"Lieutenant?" Matt turned round to see Gabriella Dawson, "I'm sorry to hear about your friend, after what happened with Hallie this must be a tough time for you and the kids, What I'm trying to say if that if you need a hand with them you only have to ask and I'll be here for you."

"Thanks Gabby, I might just have to take you up on that I can handle talks with Adam after all I was a teenage boy once, but I might need you and Shay to help out with Chloe because that'll just be like the blind leading the blind." Matt laughed, and Gabby laughed along with him.

"Good to have you back Matt I've missed you." Gabby said softly, Matt nodded his thanks and went to change into his work gear.

It was only ten minutes later that the alarm went off. "Engine 51, Truck 81, Squad 3, Ambulance 61, Battalion 25. House Fire." All the men sprung into action.

"Hey guys coming with us?" Shouted Severide. They just got seated in the truck when it started rolling out the door.

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