Ok so I don't usually write chapters this short, but I am testing the waters a bit with this fic. I had have some ideas running through my head recently and I wanted to get them down.

This is totally an AU story but I DO try to keep the characters as much in character as possible, I do try to write them as they are in the show. This is my first Chicago Fire fic, I usually write Fringe fics but Chicago Fire has become my new obsession :D, that and I love Jesse Spencer!

Let me know what you guys think and if you like it I will continue! Mistakes are my own!

Chapter 1 – Some Time Out

Gabby, Shay, Laura and Cindy each lay on their own flat deck chair, allowing their bodies to take in as much of the beautiful sun light as humanly possible. "Gabby, I cannot tell you now beautiful this place is. Thank you so much for inviting us, we really needed the get away." Cindy turned her head to the girl next to her, smiling. Each of the fire fighters and EMT's at Fire House 51 had been granted a weeks worth of leave to be taken whenever they saw fit in thanks for the year they had all had. So naturally Gabby had invited Shay, Kelly, Matt, Herrman, his wife Cindy to her Aunt and Uncles holiday house in the country, away from the city, the sounds and more importantly, the kids. Antonio and his wife Laura had also made the trip with them, making it a very full house and a very fun week away. They had been there for only two days already but each of them were becoming closer in their friendships than ever before.

"Your more than welcome Cindy, I'm just happy you guys could make it, I mean this place goes to waste without someone in it most of the year." Dawson smiled, they had positioned themselves by the lake at the back of the house, each in their bikinis, the hot sun glaring down on them. "This was such a good idea, I mean our boys are off doing whatever it is they are doing and the kids are home! We can finally have some times to ourselves." Cindy laughed but it was Shay who opened her mouth next, "Our boys? Other than the fact that I am gay and technequally Kelly is my boy, Dawson is the only one who doesn't have a boy." Shay knew she was stirring the pot now and she was doing it on purpose.

"Well now I think we have to fix that!" Laura laughed and sat up looked at Gabby who had also say at, knowing full well where this conversation was going, but decided to play dumb, "I have no idea what you are talking about," she said before rolling onto her stomach to try and hide her face. "Oh come on!" Shay leaned over and slapped Gabby on the ass, "You are so into Casey it's not funny! Why don't you just admit it?!" Laura and Cindy started to laugh at the antics of the two friends, they both could see Gabby had a very big thing for Matt and they could also see that Matt had a very big thing for Gabby, so they both knew the rest of this week was going to be fun.

Laying back down after trying to attacked Shay for hitting her, Gabby signed, "I told you, I zigged, he zagged, it wasn't meant to be." As the words fell from her mouth, she remembered the pain she felt when he had kiss her cheek, telling her in no words that he didn't want anything with her other than friendship. "Oh don't give me that crap! You cannot believe it's not meant to be and if you do you are insane!" Shay leaned for Gabby's behind again but this time Gabby saw it coming and grabbed her hand before she had a chance to hit her, the four woman laughing as the two girls fought to gain control over the other.

Matt had never been one to accept anything for free and so when he had spoken to Gabby's Uncle about the deck that needed fixing at the back of the house, the house they were going to be staying in for free for the next week, he had jumped at the offer to help out. It wasn't that the family could not afford to get it fixed, quite the contrary, it was just not something that was on their top priority list and so Matt had offered to take up the job, which would only take him a few hours with Kelly's help, plus it helped take his mind off knowing that Gabby was not far from him, doing god knows what with the girls.

"So tell me man, what is going on between you and Dawson?" Kelly spoke as he brought his beer to his lips, his feet stretched out in front of him as he watched Matt hammering some nails into the deck before passing him a beer. Matt looked up suddenly from his work, reaching for the beer and rubbing his hand across his sweaty forehead. "What are you talking about?" He tried to sound innocent, but he knew he could not fool Severide. "Oh don't give me that, I have seen the way you have been looking at her…" Matt took a swig of his beer and looked away. It was true, he was pinning for Gabby but he would never let her know that, he had already messed it up with her once and he wasn't about to do it again.

"I don't know man. I mean she is amazing, but I already messed up once with her so I don't think she is willing to try again." Matt scoffed at Kelly's confused face; he had forgotten that they weren't speaking to each other at the time of the Christmas party he attended. "Well I went with her to her Aunt's Christmas party last year and, I mean I told her I wasn't going to go if it was just friends, that I would go if it was a date. We had lots of fun, and she looked gorgeous in her dress but when she leaned into kiss me, I guess I panicked a bit, and I … kissed her on the cheek."

Matt mumbled the last part because he knew Kelly would give him shit for it, which he did. "Oh what!? Man you are so stupid sometimes! Why would you do that!?" Kelly couldn't believe it, kissing a girl on the cheek as they lean into kiss your lips is the universal sign of 'I just want to be friends and nothing more'. "I don't know! Ok, I was dealing with some stuff with my mum and my sister and I guess I didn't think it was far to start something with her when I didn't know if I was in the right frame of mind. I never said it was a smart thing to do, did I?" Matt watched Kelly sigh, before speaking again, "So what happened afterwards?"

Matt thought for a second, he could lie and say she was fine and they went back to normal but that wasn't true, she had been hurt, he knew that and it almost killed him to know that it was him that had hurt her, "We weren't on the best terms for a while, I could tell by the way she would look at me, or not look at me, the way she look away when I came into the room or when I looked her way, she was hurt, and it was my fault. Then she started dating Mills and Hallie and I started up again." Matt shrugged, he had played out that whole situation in his head a millions times, small details changing each time to show that he actually had the balls to tell her how he felt, but in the end it would always end the same. Gabby looking at him with pain in her eyes.

"Well, maybe you need to rectify that. I mean she isn't with Mills anymore, and she has been there for you with everything that has been going on, maybe that was her way of telling you she still wants you. Just being there to help you out when you needed it, staying in your life without pushing herself on you." Matt thought for a second about what his best friend had said before nodding, sculling his beer and moving back finishing the deck they were working on.

Any thoughts? :D