summary: Casey saves an 11 year old girl on a call but will she stay in Dawson's mind?
Spoilers: none
Warnings: none
I DON'T OWN CHICAGO FIRE OR ANY OF THE CHARACTERS.
"Fire department, call out!" Casey shouted in a burning house
"help" murmured a faint voice Casey immediately went to the place he thought he'd heard the voice.
"over here!" he called as he found a girl with part of her bedroom ceiling on top of her. "Severide, Herrmann here quick!" Severide and Herrmann came over as quickly as possible. Casey pointed to the bit of ceiling that was trapping the girls, who was now unconscious, legs from moving under her bed covers by this point her bed had already collapsed onto the floor. Severide paced over to the other side and tucked his Crowbar under the piece of ceiling Herrmann did the same.
"on three," Severide called "one- two- three." they both managed to lift up the ceiling enough for Casey to snatch her from under the ceiling.
"Casey, Severide!" a familiar Boden voice came through the radio, "clear out now!" Severide looked directly at Casey who's reaction was just a simple nod, "copy that chief." Severide replied. By this point they had cleared the girls bedroom and had already made their way downstairs before Casey ran out the door with the unconscious girl straight to Dawson and Brett who took her into the rig and rapidly drove off.
3 hours later
"hey Dawson how's that girl and her parents?" Casey questioned, "the girl has a name it's Melissa, Melissa Riley. Doctors said she is sure to pull through but..." Dawson hesitated "Her parents..." Casey said reminding her of what to say "um.. Their both dead they were dead long before they even got to the hospital." "how old was she?" Casey asked, "she said she was eleven I feel a bit sorry for her both parents gone before you could even say goodbye must be heart breaking." Casey nodded and Dawson walked off as Brett was calling her to help restock the ambo.
The end of shift.
"Gabby d'you wanna grab a bite to eat?" Casey asked "depends who's paying." she chuckled. "I'll pay." he laughed back "lets go." they walked out, hand-in-hand with Gabby snuggled up to Matt as the harsh winter was vastly approaching. Gabby looked up to Matt who looked down at her and smiled before saying "actually I've changed my mind." Gabby snapped back with "what do you mean?" he smiled and halted before unlocking and getting into his pick-up truck. He sat down and got the engine running and switched the heaters on as Gabby Walked round to get in via the passenger-side door and sitting down. "Why don't we go to med now and visit ... is it Melissa?" Gabby smiled "yeah lets do that," she began "lets scratch our meal and go see her, what a lovely idea." she said as Matt drove off the opposite way to their apartment toward med. it was a relatively quick ride around to med it wasn't too far from the firehouse, they listened to the radio before Taylor Swift's song shake it off came on and Gabby started singing along and turned it up and Matt just stood their giggling to himself. Gabby immediately turned it down as they pulled into the car park before getting out and joining Matt going through the front doors of Med.
"Gabby, Matt!" they heard a voice and turned to see who it was "Will hey!" Gabby replied as Matt smiled at him "what brings you two here?" he asks "we're looking for a girl, Melissa Riley, do you know where she might be?" Gabby responds "yeah, follow me." Will said before leading them towards the children's paediatric department where they were greeted by one of the nurses "Hey Dr. Holstead, what brings you up here?" she asked "ah, I'm showing them to a patient, Melissa Riley do you know where she might be?" Will said as the woman smiled "ah yes," she began "Melissa, right this way." she said leading them to a room with a girl staring at nothing.
"hey princess." Gabby said softly "who are you?" she questioned "I'm Matt and this is my wife Gabby we were the people that rescued you." Matt chipped in "so how're you doing sweetie?" Gabby asked, "alright I suppose" she spoke gently back. "why are you here?" she asked politely. Gabby hesitated and looked at Matt. "we're here because we always end up seeing the victims we remember and to be honest it's very rare we remember them so... count yourself lucky!" Melissa giggled as did Gabby "well I mean where do you think I'll go?" she questioned "no one will want me because I'm not a baby and all anyone ever wants are babies or really young kids." Gabby smiled "I'm sure someone will... I'm sure of it." Gabby smiled, and Melissa smiled back just before one of the nurses walked in "hi Melissa we are going to give you your morning medication." she said before turning to Gabby and Matt "it can get a little overcrowded in here it's probably best for you two to leave now." she smiled "we were just leaving." Matt said, "bye Melissa hopefully we will see you soon." Gabby said before turning on her heel to walk towards Matt who'd already walked out of the room. Melissa smiled at them.
when they got home
"hey I feel really sorry for her" Gabby said to Matt "me too." Matt said back in sympathy, "I mean I don't want her to be left on the bottom of a pile until she's eighteen." Gabby said in her badass way. "mm-hmm" Matt returned "why don't we do it?" Gabby asked with a massive smile on her face.
