"Sooooo, why'd you choose contracting?" Gabby asked, already knowing the answer. She was stood in the middle of a warehouse watching her fiance drill a screw into a plank of wood; sweat was running down his neck but she couldn't help but smile.

"Why do you choose to be so annoying?" He replied with a beaming smile as he turned around to face her, his arms outstretched and the drill now off but still in his hand.

"Touché." she laughed as she walked lazily a little distance from him before turning back and continuing to watch him work. "Can I get you a drink?" She asked, now so bored she felt as if her brain was going to explode.

Matt stood up a little quickly, which put her on edge a little, and made his way over to her. The look on his face wasn't very clear and she didn't know what it meant so she braced herself for all the different outcomes that he could give her. "Gabby, look. I know you're bored but you are the one that said you wanted to come." He stopped to take a breath and placed his gloved hands on his hips. "I would have been happy to come alone - like all the other times."

Giving a cheeky smile, Gabby walked towards him and placed her arms around his stomach, her hands going through the gaps in his arms where he still had his hands on his hips. She felt him sigh and roll his eyes. "But I wanted to be here," she started in an overly flirty tone as she rested her chin on his chest and looked up to him. She watched a smile slowly slide onto his face. "I didn't want to think that you'd be all here alone."

"God you're hard work." he exclaimed finally as he copied her and pulled her towards him until her body was pressed against his. It was nice that she had come to spend time with him while he did his extra job, the company was nice for a change. However, the fact that she was constantly asking him questions was a side of her that he had never seen before.

As part of his new Alderman duties, Matt had been asked to go and check out a warehouse in his ward to make sure it was within the right limits of the state. However, on first inspection, there where some parts of the building that needed a bit of work due to the age of the structure. So, being the man that he was, Matt offered his services (out of the line of his Alderman work) to come and bring the last minor details back to the way that they should have been so it passed the test.

Gabby knew that Matt would be gone a pretty long time when he told her what job he had offered to do. She had already been left at home alone with Louie while he went to public meetings as well as board dinners and other 'fancy alderman stuff' as she liked to call it, and with Louie staying over with Antonio for the night - she had nothing to do. That was the reason why she had tagged along. She wanted to be able to spend more time with him - just the two of them. No doubt, she loved the time that she had with both her boys, but like hell did she miss the odd occasion that her and Matt had a moment to themselves.

"Ahhh, Alderman Casey. Its so nice of you to…Oh-" the owner of the building stopped, now realizing the situation, as he rounded the corner from the break room out into the main floor of the warehouse. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to intrude."

"Oh no, you weren't." Matt replied as he took a step away from Gabby and tried to make his voice sound as normal as possible. "We where just having a-"

"Conversation!" Gabby jumped in feeling slightly uncomfortable with the situation she had been put in so suddenly. Then at a second thought, she wasn't sure if it was the situation she ha been put in that made her uncomfortable, or the man she had just been introduced to. She had always been a big believer that if Matt felt comfortable in a situation then everything would be fine, and she was just overreacting. However - today was one of those days that she went against that belief.

The man continued to walk towards them - a smile on his face but that wasn't what Gabby was looking at. She was fixated on his lack of ability to dress himself and Matt caught on that she was staring at him. "Gabby!" He hissed, trying not to move his mouth so that the man couldn't tell he was trying to get her attention. "Gabby!" he tried again unsuccessfully.

"Matt," The man continued as he reached them, Matt's attention dragged away from Gabby and now he was staring at the man himself. He was unable to find what she was looking at so harshly and decided to try and make things more normal by looking like he was interested. "I really appreciate you coming to do this out of your own time. I can imagine that being a firefighter doesn't leave you with the most spare time!"

"You're right there Mac," Matt replied with a false smile and a laugh, "But anything for the people of my ward."He told truthfully. "I became the alderman for a reason."

Mac held out his hand and Matt shook it. "And a good one you are at that! Well, I better let you and miss here get back to work. Let me know if you need anything!" he called over his shoulder as he exited the way he came.

Matt instantly turned to Gabby and gave her a harsh look. He wasn't annoyed at her for anything, he was just so confused at why she was acting so far out of the ordinary. "What's wrong with you today?" he demanded trying to keep his voice quiet enough so that they didn't draw attention to themselves from the other men that where working about the warehouse around them.

"Nothings wrong!" she exclaimed as she tried to turn and walk away from him.

Before he had a chance to grab onto her shoulder to stop her from walking away, a huge thud came pulsing thought the floor. Matt and Gabby both dropped to their knees, their arms covering their heads to protect them. The sound of an explosion was heard on the far side of the warehouse and that was enough to make Matt's protective instinct fly into overdrive. Getting up as fast as he could from the floor, he sped over to his fiance and dragged her to her feet. She was still in shock and didn't react straight away. As they ran across the wide floor of the warehouse, small explosions sounding like they where getting closer with every step they took, shaking the ground beneath their feet. Matt guarded Gabby with his body until they came across the door that opened into the break room. Reaching and turning the handle, it quickly became obvious that it was locked. With annoyed but desperate huff, Matt's body reacted without him thinking - all of his fire academy teachers voices clouding his judgment, but he knew the only way that was efficient enough to save them from whatever was happening around them. He turned and slammed the base of his foot against the weak wood of the door. It instantly gave way and they ran in together, Matt's hand pulling Gabby so that she was forced into the safety before him. As soon as they where in, Matt closed the door and pressed himself against it to make sure that nothing else could come in. Now slowly trying to catch his breath back, he lifted his eyes from the floor and watched Gabby look round at him, a look of pure fear written across her face.

"What the hell was that?" she panted out of breath, as her scared eyes meet his.

"I have no idea…"