A\N: Here it is the sequel to "Uncharted Territories". Throughout this story the characters are going to go through a lot and some of the children are going to go through complete transformations in terms of who they are. I really want this to be a coming-of-age story for all the children but mostly Violet. I'm planning for this story to span over three years in my brainstorming but we'll see what happens. A huge thank you to my beta-refer and friend who helped me with the title and who edited this chapter for me.

Disclaimer: I do not own Chicago Fire, Chicago PD, NBC or Global

Spoilers: None

Warnings: None

Chapter One

"Daddy?" Violet looked up at her birth father and then back at Matt; still trying to figure out what to do. So she began to cry and moved and turn into Matt.

"I'm so sorry sweetie I-" Jim began.

"Don't you dare!" Matt stepped in front of Violet gently pushing her out of his view, "You have no right coming here let alone talking to her!"

"I'm her father!"

Although he was fuming with anger, Matt turned to look at Violet, "Go get Aunt Gabby alright."

"Okay," She nodded and left.

Turing back to Jim Matt raised his voice, "What do you want?" He sneered.

"I just want to see my daughter."

"The daughter you abandoned? The daughter who you left without both parents when your little fling caused her mother's car to crash and-"

"That was an accident!"

"It wouldn't have happened if you'd been able to keep it in your pants!"

"Matt," Gabby was suddenly beside him and squeezing her hands.

Matt took her non-verbal skills and sighed, "Look you gave up custody and no court is going to make me let you see her. So you're not getting anywhere near her alright?"

"We'll just see about that," He turned and in one swift moment he was walking away again.

"Matt," Gabby turned tentatively to him.

"He's never going to get anywhere near her!" He yelled and slammed the door before walking back into the kitchen. He immediately went over to Violet who was sitting at the table and staring off into space, "Violet-"

"No!" She surprised him by standing up, "You lied! He's sorry! He said he's sorry," She sobbed, "He loves me!"

"Sweetheart," Matt tried to find the right words to explain what had just happened to the girl; nothing came to mind.

"I hate you!" She screamed, "I hate all of you!" She ran out of the room.

Hearing footsteps running up the stairs and then a slamming door Matt and Gabby both perceived she had gone to her bedroom.

"This is a mess. First thing Monday morning I'm going to call the lawyers," Matt spoke aloud, "Make sure he doesn't get anywhere near her."

"Matt," Gabby resumed feeding Javier and Rafael, "Calm down and lets talk about this."

"Talk? There's nothing to talk about Gabby. He can't be a part of her life!"

"I agree what he did was awful but he did apologized and for what its worth he sounded sincere. We should give him a chance to explain why he wants to see her again. It might help her to see her father. We can still have custody but maybe we can work out visiting rights.

"No. Not after what he did to her; I need a drive, " And with that he left and stormed out of the house.

Diego walked by where Eva was doing her homework, he stopped behind her and saw in fact she wasn't working on homework she was busy drawing hearts in her notebook. Taking a great opportunity he snatched it away from her.

"Eva's in love, Eva's in love!"

"Diego!" She shot up a deep shade of red on her checks, "Give it back!"

"Come and get it!" He ran around the kitchen with it.

"Hey!" Laura took it away from her son and handed it back to Eva "No running in the house and near the stove…" She sighed, "Diego you're so much like Antonio."

Diego smiled at the last part of his mother's comment, "Is Eva even allowed to date?"

"That's none of your business," Laura scolded.

"It's okay Mom, Diego's just in-love," Eva piped up.

"WHAT?" Diego turned on his older sister, "I am not!"

"You like Violet's best friend Annabelle."

"Ewe! No I don't. I don't like her, not even as a friend."

"You pull her hair and bug her all the time, you like her."

"No, she's gross and I-" Diego didn't know what else to say so he pushed his sister.

"Okay! That's enough, both of you!" Laura once again turned away from the stove where she was making dinner. "Go to different rooms."

Eva left the kitchen.

"Diego why won't you rake the leafs outside its one of your chores to do every week this month remember,"

On the first day of every month Laura, Antonio and Diego and Eva sat down and discussed what chores they could do for the upcoming month, something's like cleaning rooms, and doing dishes or Eva cooking dinner remained the same but some things changed and with Laura now seven months pregnant both children, at the insistence of their father had more responsibilities to do.

"Okay fine," He huffed and walked out of the room and into the coatroom; the words Eva said still replaying in his mind. He didn't like Annabelle, at least he was pretty sure he didn't, then again Eva was thirteen and in high school, as much as he hated to admit it she was smart; plus she definitely knew more about romance then he did.

"I don't like her," He repeated once more as he entered the garage and retrieved a rake to begin cleaning up all of the falling leaves. It took him nearly an hour to complete both the front yard and most of the backyard, by the time he got back into the house and into the kitchen Eva was setting the table for dinner.

"All finished?" Laura asked.

"Yeah." Diego responded as he slouched into a chair.

"Don't groan," She chided, "It's going to do you well to learn how to work hard."

"Right now I'm tired. And I still want to work on my science project."

"If that electric whatever of yours gets anywhere near my room-"

"It's an electric current," Diego interrupted his older sister."

"Whatever," She flipped her hair.

Diego mimicked her.

"Ugh," She groaned and hit his head.

"Okay, both of you, I'm not in the mood." Laura warned.

"Here Mom," Eva jumped in and took out the dish from the oven, "You just go and sit down."

Laura watched her daughter and smiled proudly, "Very grown-up Eva thank you."

"I'm just helping," She shrugged as if it was no big deal, the truth was though she had a crush on this guy in her grade and he had asked her out next Saturday, now she just had to get her parents permission, her mother wouldn't be that hard; it was her father she was worried about. She'd talk to him on Monday after school.

Matt didn't know why but he ended up passing Shay and Severide's apartment on his drive, when he stopped and pulled up to the curb he realized grabbing a beer with his best friend was what he needed. He put money in the meter and made his way towards the building, after texting Severide he was buzzed up.

"Hey man," Severide greeted him at the door, "What's up?"

"Violet's father just showed up at our house," He replied angrily, "He wants to be a part of her life. I told him he couldn't be and he threatened me. He said he'd make sure he was."

Severide obviously hadn't been expecting that and he seemed a little taken aback by the statement. He was about to say something when Shay walked towards them.

"Did I hear you correctly? Violet's father is back?

"Yeah," Matt huffed out, "And to make matters even worse Violet thinks Gabby and I are the bad guys. She told us we lied to her about him."

Shay shook her head, she was well aware of the progress Violet had been making; she was worried, as were Matt and Gabby that she'd become more withdrawn again.

"When I get my hands on him I-"

"Kelly," Leslie glared at her bets friend, "That's not going to help any, that goes for both of you," She looked between both men, "Is Gabby at home?" She asked Matt changing the subject.

"Yeah, I kind of stormed out after we had an argument."

"Okay so go back and talk to her." She saw Matt was about to respond so she elaborated, "You two need to lean on each other. You know Violet better then she does, just like Violet needed you when she was in the hospital she needs you now. Gabby needs you too and so do Javier and Rafael."

"Yeah, I guess you're right," Matt rubbed a hand over his face, "Things were finally starting to look up too…"

Shay and Severide shared a look between them, and Shay smiled at him and she spoke up, "We have some good news, we're finally going to have that baby we've been wanting for awhile."

That brought a smile to Matt's face, "That's great. Really, I'm so happy for both of you," He went to hug Shay, "Does Gabby know?"

"No, not yet."

"She'll go nuts, be prepared to go baby shopping every day until the baby's born."

Shay smiled, "Yeah I think I'll call her."

"Good."

"Now you go home and be with your family, you and Kelly can go out for drinks tonight maybe."

Severide looked at Casey, "I think she's even more bossy now."

"Hey!" She stepped forward and slapped him over the head.

"Owe," He rubbed his head, "That actually hurt."

"Oh poor you," She quipped in return.

Laughing Matt waved to his friends and made his way back towards his car and home.

TBC

A\N: So what did you think? Please review and let me know.