Chapter 1

I know, here I am writing a new story when I have some unfinished, but I read a book last week - Something borrowed - and I just had this idea. I had to write it when I still have inspiration for that, so I hope you enjoy this chapter and leave a review, please!

"Hi..." said Otis when he saw Severide in the locker room. Within 10 minutes they had to be in the conference room with Chief Boden to receive the instructs of the day, but before that he needed to tell who he had seen the day before.

"Hi..." Severide replied as he slipped his bag into the cabinet.

Otis thought for another few seconds whether or not he should tell who he had seen yesterday near his apartment. Certainly, the presence of this person in their lives was significant, especially for the lieutenant of the truck.

"Do you have a minute?" Otis decided to take the risk and talk to Severide.

"What is it this time?" he said annoyingly. "I'm not going into that competition you're planning at Molly's."

"It's not that." Otis locked his cabinet before taking a look around, no one else needed to know what he was going to say, at least not now.

"Okay, go ahead..." Severide locked his locker. Otis got closer to Severide and dropped the bomb:

"I saw Gabby yesterday ..." After speaking he was even more relieved and waited for Severide's reaction.

"What did you just tell me?" Severide was surprised.

"I saw-" Otis began.

"Don't..." Severide looked around, other people didn't need to know that, not now. "Are you sure it was her?" he said almost whispering it.

"Yes... I was inside my car in front my building when I saw her across the street..."

Severide just shook his head, wondering what that might mean: What was Gabby doing in Chicago?

"Did you tell anyone else about this, does Cruz know it?" Severide asked.

"No, I wouldn't tell anyone, but the question is-" Otis said apprehensively.

"What?"

"Calm down... when I saw her, she was taking some boxes out of a moving truck ..."

"Damn..." Severide ran a hand over his head. "That's bad... I don't think Casey knows that."

"Are you going to tell him?" Otis was worried about his lieutenant's reaction.

"I could, she has been gone for 3 years now, he can't still be so angry... I think…" Severide implied.

"But they haven't broken up in good terms... we all saw his reaction... and it was the worst possible..."

"Yes, you're right..." Severide thought for a few seconds. "Let's wait a few more days... maybe he'll find out by himself or maybe she told him she was coming back, nobody knows." Severide shrugged.

"I don't believe he knows, he's been in a good mood these days, and we know when he's not..."

"You're right."

"Look ... you've already agreed with me twice in this conversation, I think I've already won my day," Otis said playfully, but Severide wasn't impressed.

"Let's go… Chief Boden will send a troop to us if we don't go now".

Meanwhile...

"... Yes ... No ... Antonio said he was coming to help me, but I think it's impossible, you know how busy he is..." Gabby was talking to her mother on the phone.

"There are many things to organize... I might well anticipate our flight-" Camila said. Gabby's parents were on vacation in Mexico, Gabby presented them with this trip for their 30-year anniversary.

"No way, you're already helping me a lot by taking care of Guadalupe..." Gabby said as she looked at the mess that was in her apartment. She hired a company to set up cabinets in the kitchen and bathroom, and assemble some furniture she had brought from Seattle.

"You know it's a pleasure to take care of her and she's not a little girl anymore, you know, she's a big girl, she told me yesterday..."

"Oh my god, she's only five years, imagine her when a teenager..." Gabby sighed.

"Life, unfortunately, was very cruel to her, you know, losing her mother so soon..." Camila spoke thinking about everything Guadalupe had lived already.

Gabby got sad when she heard her mother.

"So it's a good thing she has you, now she's going to have a chance to be happy, right?"

"Right... I don't think it was a good idea sending her with you and dad... you had to be having fun and not caring for a child-"

"We've already discussed this, haven't we?" Gabby's parents insisted that Guadalupe should go with them, it would be a kind of early birthday present, her birthday would only be next month.

"Yes, sorry... I miss her so much..."

"Soon she'll be with you, don't worry... she misses you too..."

"Is she still asleep?" Gabby asked as she took out old medicine books from one of her boxes.

"No, she and your father are in the hotel pool... they are two little fish before I wake up they were already gone," Camila replied with a smile.

"They are having the time of their life..." Gabby smiled too.

"Yeah..." they were silent until "have you talked to Casey yet?"

"No, but I intend to do it today... I'd rather he knew from me... we didn't break up in the best way, however..."

"I know... although it's going to be all right, believe me!" her mother tried to give her a shot of enthusiasm.

Gabby heard knocks on the door.

"Ok ... I have to hang up, the crew I hired just got here."

"Alright, I love you, call if anything happens."

"I will, I love you, I'm sending a lot of hugs and kisses to my two little fishes." They laughed and turn off their phones.

A few hours later

When Gabby was approaching Matt's office at the firehouse, he was coming in her direction.

"Casey-"

"I have nothing to talk to you! Leave!" He said angrily, then he entered his office and closed the door on her face.

Gabby was speechless.

Next day - at morning in Gabby's apartment

Gabby was laying half naked on her bed, there was a thin sheet covering her lower back. She was sleeping. Matt was watching her. For Matt, she was the most beautiful woman he'd ever seen. He used to say that to her every morning, as usual, she had fought him at that, because her hair wasn't on point, or because she had a gob of saliva trailing from her mouth. He didn't care, she was his girl, his fiancée, after two years together, he asked her to marry him, but like a big wave, he was crashed against the shore. She did that with him. She left him.

Carefully he got up from the bed, put his boxer on, grabbed his pants and t-shirt on the floor. He took one more look at her and this time he left her.

Casey turned on his phone and saw multiple calls from one person, Heather. So he called her back.

"Baby, where are you? I called you a dozen times…"

"I'm sorry, my battery died… and I was with the guys, we had breakfast together…" he was already lying, what comes next, he thought.

"You are coming to home, I mean my house?"

"I-I have a construction job today, I didn't tell you that?" he tried to seem confused to her, she needed to buy his second lie, he didn't have any condition to see her in that moment.

"You didn't… I think we see each other tonight?"

"I call you, ok?"

"Ok…", something wasn't right, but she decided not to push him, "… I love you!"

"I love you too!"

He was in so much trouble!

Note: I imagine you have some questions, and I will answer them in the next chapter. I will explain what happened at the firehouse when Matt and Gabby for the first time after her incoming in Chicago and then the scene in her apartment.

The name Heather sounds familiar to you?

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