Disclaimer: I do not own any of the CF characters!

Note: This story is a sequel to the one-shot 'Little Lindsey' and will be multi-chaptered, but not really long.

This story takes a place about 10 weeks after the one-shot. Lindsey is 6 weeks old and Griffin has summer break and is staying Chicago with Matt and Gab.


A cry woke Matthew up and he rolled on his side.

''I can go out of the bed, sweetie.'' Gabriela offered, waking up as well.

''No, Griffin is probably awake as well.'' Matthew stood up, shuffling to the closet. For the past few weeks, he hadn't slept for more than three hours straight. poor Lindsey had stomach cramps all night long and since there was also an heat wave hitting Chicago, nobody in the Casey resident caught a lot of sleep at night. He slipped a pair of sweatpants on and a t-shirt and made his way to the baby's room.

''Shhh...shhh...daddy is here.''

Carefully Matt lifted little Lindsey out of the crib, cradling the crying baby in his arms. The little girl stopped crying and looked up to her daddy with her big blue eyes.

''Does Lindsey cry a lot?'' Griffin leaned against the doorpost, rubbing through his eyes.

''About two times a night.''

Matt held Lindsey a little tighter as he walked down the stairs and Griffin followed him;

''Did you even sleep the past six weeks?''

''Good question, I am not even sure myself.'' He answered. ''But it doesn't matter, Daddy loves you.'' He mumbled to Lindsey as they sat down at the kitchen table and he was still rocking the baby.

The little girl was silent now, sucking on her pacifier as she was sleeping again, peacefully this time.

''Why do you go downstairs?'' Griffin asked he also sat down on a chair.

''When she cries she usually cries for a while, so I take her downstairs so Gabby can sleep.''

Griffin nodded; ''Ben cried a lot too, I remember dad also had to get out of bed at night a lot.''

Matthew nodded, suddenly looking down as Lindsey's pacifier fell out of her mouth and she started to cry again. He stood up and looked at Griffin; ''Can you hold her for a while? I need to clean the pacifier.''

''Sure.''

Griffin held the little girl a little awkward.

''You need to support her head.''

''Oh.''

Griffin shifted the baby in his arms a bit and slowly the girl became quiet, looking at him.

''Hey Lindsey, so you like the pink crib? I did my best to paint it for you.''

Matt walked back to Griffin and Lindsey with the clean pacifier and gently put it back in her mouth and the baby closed her eyes again, falling asleep in Griffin's arms.

''Come, let's get her back to bed. Maybe she will sleep this time.''

The guys walked above, Lindsey asleep now.

A few minutes later Matt laid down back in bed next to Gabriela, whom was reading a book in the dim light of the light on her nightstand, moving to her side as she was still awake and he laid his arm around her. She laid the book aside and cuddled up with him, although it was kinda too hot for that, she still wanted to lay close to him.

''I feel sorry for you, you are always going out to comfort Lindsey.''

''Don't worry sweetie. It is okay.''

''Griffin also back to bed?''

''Yeah, he couldn't have picked a worse time to come to Chicago with the heat and our crying angel.''

''I wish Lindsey could sleep better, I feel sorry she keeps waking up.''

''I know.''

Matthew kissed his wife on her forehead, looking at the alarm on the other side on her nightstand, where the red dot for the alarm was flickering and he knew that if Lindsey didn't wake him before morning, that thing would.


''Morning!''

Gabriela was waiting for him the kitchen.

''You could have stayed in bed! You should have, you don't have to go to work!''

''Neither should you, you are exhausted.''

''I promised to take Griffin to the station today and I have a shift.''

Gabriela handed him a cup of milk; ''I called chief Winters and explained the situation here, you can stay at home for this shift and sleep. Take a nap with Lindsey next to you in bed, so you don't have to get out all the time and get some quality sleeping time.''

''What do you have planned for today?''

''Well, Heather and her fiancé and Ben are also on their way to here, they could be here any moment. I am taking them to the pier today, let the boys have some fun the attractions. Just sleep today, okay?''

Matt finally nodded; ''I will join you with Lindsey later.''

The doorbell rang and surprised they looked up.

''Already?'' Matt said surprised and he walked upstairs in his pajamas while Gabriela answered the door. He walked into Griffin near Lindsey's room; ''She was crying again, I tried to comfort her but she kept crying.''

''Go downstairs, your family is here!'' Matt said with a smile and he walked into the room, lifting the little girl crying out of the crib and he walked to his own room, sitting down with her on the edge of the bed.

''Shhh...daddy is here.'' He laid the girl on one arm, gently rubbing over her stomach with his other hand. Slowly the crying stopped and he laid her down, getting dressed within a matter of minutes, walking downstairs with her because although he didn't want to wake her, she needed her feeding.

''Ooooh look at your little girl.'' Heather smiled as she approached them. James also introduced himself, but kept standing near the dinner table.

Lindsey opened her eyes and looked at Heather while she slowly started to laugh.

''Can I hold her?'' Matthew nodded and handed Heather Lindsey. Heather held Lindsey and Matthew looked Heather, whom was also seemingly pregnant.

''boy, girl?'' He smiled.

''Another boy.'' She smiled and she looked at Lindsey again while Matt walked to the cupboard to get her bottle of milk ready.

''Actually, we are not here because we want to see Chicago.'' James started and Heather also nodded; ''Griffin called us about the problems you have with sleeping and we actually want to offer looking after Lindsey for a few days. We booked you guys hotel.''

Gabriela smiled; ''That is really sweet but we really can't accept that. It is too much.''

''Nothing is too much after Matt helping me out a few years back. I insist.'' Heather nodded.


Two hours later Matt dropped their bags in the hotel room.

''We have lake view.'' Gabriela smiled as she walked to the window, looking over the small beach and the lake.

''I never knew we had beaches like this just out of Chicago.'' Matthew admitted as he joined her and looked over lake Michigan.

''What is wrong?'' He said worried as he saw Gabriela crying and he embraced her, wiping her tears away.

''Sweetie, what is wrong?''

''It feels bad to leave Lindsey behind - I mean I know she is safe with Heather and James, I wouldn't trust anybody else with her...but I miss her already! What if she still can't sleep, or the cramps get worse?'' Mat's wife cried in his arms.

''Gabby, Lindsey is going to be fine with Heather and James.'' He kissed her on the forehead.

''I know, I know. The motherly feelings took over me for a second.'' She dried her tears.

''Do you want to go to bed?'' She asked him, knowing he was exhausted.

''Yeah, but I don't need to sleep right away.'' He winked and he started to get undress himself, as did Gabriela and he kissed her, leading her to the bed and he kept kisisng her, caressing her upper body as they laid down under the sheets and he pulled her in his arms, smelling her hair. He closed his eyes and thought about the weeks they hadt spent intimate because the moments they had in bed were spent in tries of sleeping.

''It is strange being with the two of us again.'' He stated and Gabriela turned around so she was facing him.

''I know, but I wouldn't want it any other way.'' She kissed him on his nose and he bend forward, kissing her and french kissed her as they finally got intimate again.


Heather looked at Griffin and Ben enjoying themselves at the shooting game at the pier and the sat down near a bench, the buggy next to Heather.

''The Casey's looked so exhausted.''

heather said and James nodded and she let go of the buggy as she was afraid to awaken Lindsey, whom was finally asleep.

''I know, I hope it goes better with our little one.''

''She can't help it. She has stomach cramps.''

''So..about the name. I really like Dave.'' James said, looking at her showing belly.

''You know I want to name him Andrew.''

James looked at her; ''But sweetie, I know you want to name him after your deceased husband, but you also know I really dislike that name for our son.''

Heather let go of his hand; ''But we talked about this no.''

''I know, but I really don't like the name.''

Heather heard a cry and she reached out for the buggy. Afraid she looked aside at the kid on the other bench crying and she panicked as she could see the other bench, because the buggy was missing.


Note: uh-oh, where is Lindsey?

I hope you like this storyline. The next chapter should be up soon.

In case people are wondering, my other multichaptered stories will be updated soon; Never break a promise very soon and Nothing lasts forever as soon as I receive it back from a Beta!

Thank you for reading! I hope the hotel room part was okay for T, because I am not really sure what is appropriate and what not becaus eit seems to differ in a lot of T fics. Well, I hope you like the idea of this sequel, please leave a review if you can and want!