A/N: Thank you for all the feedback in the comments and Twitter. I hope you enjoy Chapter 2. Whit, Taye, Heather, Jamie, Theresa there is a special nickname in this one from all our chats and ranting during S3. Thanks, Em

Chapter 2:

The drive to the doctors office was rather quiet. We were both lost in our own thoughts, when Kelly's cell phone range. He reached over and grabbed it out of the cup holder and shook his head as he looked at the caller ID. He turned his phone and I read Matt Casey out loud. "Are you going to answer that?" With a sympathetic look, Kelly said "I should since I can never get him on the phone when I call him." Putting on my best smile, I reach for his arm "Don't worry about me, but please don't mention I'm here and where we are going." He smiled and I heard him say, "Hello! Yeah I am on my way to an appointment but I should be back to the apartment in about an hour or two, oh it's nothing, if you must know, I have a dentist appointment. I don't think I will be back by them, You want to meet at Molly's tonight? I think she is working tonight." I knew they were talking about me so I shook my head yes. "It won't be a problem just bring her with then. She needs to be around your friends. You keep ignoring all of us from 51 and they are starting to get upset man. Yes they are, fine we can talk more tonight. I'll be there around 7 for sure, Okay see you then, bye." After Kelly hit end on his phone and set it back in the cup holder and I smiled and said "Perfect I can hopefully talk to Matt tonight about my big secret.."

I walked into the OBGYNs office and went up to the desk, got a stack of forms and a clipboard to fill out and I went and sat down next to Kelly and got to work filing out the forms. A few minutes later my name was called and I stood up. Kelly then looked at me with questioning eyes wondering if he should go with me or wait out here. I could tell he was nervous and didn't know what I wanted so I grabbed his hand and told him "You're coming into that room with me because you're not getting off that easy you are my new Shay remember?" He chuckled and kept on walking with me. The nurse handed me a gown and asked me to change into that and said the doctor would be in in a few minutes. Kelly automatically turned around as I started to undress and put the ugly gown on and sat up on the table. "You can turn around now, not like you haven't seen me basically naked before when I change at the firehouse or when we were living together with Matt." I watch his stare at a poster on the wall as he stammers out "I know Gabs, but I feel like I am violating the bro code or something." "Seriously Kelly I don't belong to Matt anymore, no bro code is being broken." I laughed at him as there was a knock on the door, and I heard "Hi Gabby, I'm Andrea Larson, I'll be one of the OBs that will be seeing you throughout your pregnancy." She then turned to Kelly and said, I am assuming you are the father? Kelly turned a shade of red while not knowing how to answer, I took charge and informed her this was my best friend Kelly Severide and that, the father and I are no longer together. I managed to get through saying that out loud while trying to hold back the tears that started to form out of no where. I looked at Kelly drawing strength from him to keep my voice from cracking and not breakdown. He gave me a reassuring smile as I started talking with Dr. Larson about my pregnancy. First thing we decided was to get an ultrasound done right away since I didn't have an exact date of my last period, so we can have an exact due date and get some pictures of my baby. After hearing it said out loud the words 'my baby' made it more real and I was excited to see him or her for the first time and hear the heartbeat.

We moved to a different room, Kelly carrying my purse and my clothes for me as I was trying to keep the back of the gown closed and not have my butt hang out as we walked down the hallway to the ultrasound room. Kelly took a seat next to the ultra sound machine while I sat on the table. 15 minutes later the ultra sound tech came in and introduced herself as Sarah and asked if we had any questions or if I have had one before. I shook my head and said "no, but I was an EMT so I know all about them." I covered up with the blanket and pulled the gown all the way up as Sarah put some gel on my tummy. I jump as as it was cold and Kelly stood up quickly reaching for me in a panic "Are you okay Gabs?" "Yes it just a little chilly and I wasn't ready for it." I look at the screen as Sarah starts moving the wand around my tummy taking measurements and printing off pictures. She then stops and shows me the baby, " From the way the baby is measuring, your due date is August 21st, which means you are four months along." I was was in shock and turned to look at Kelly reaching for his hand. "I'm a fire fighter and have been going into burning buildings not knowing I was pregnant. Is everything looking okay?" Fresh tears are running down my face as I am hoping the baby is okay. "Gabby, relax from what I can see everything looks perfect. The heart beat is strong, do you want to hear it?" She turned up the sound and heard the rapid sound of thump thump thump. With more tears in my eye I looked at Kelly and gave his hand a quick squeeze since we was still holding my hand.. He looked at me as said "Oh my gosh Gabby that is amazing to hear and see that little guy. I have never seen or heard such a beautiful sound." With a faux shocked look I turn to him and said "How do you know it's a boy Kelly" not being able to control my laughter now. "I don't but that is what I am hoping for. Squad 3 will need someone to take over as lieutenant for me when I retire. I looked at him with a grin and said " well, you never know he or she could want to be a truckie like their mom and dad." As we were going back and forth arguing if my baby was going to be on squad or truck, Sarah handed an envelope of pictures to Kelly as I wiped off the gel from my tummy. "Schedule your next appointment for 4 weeks out to meet with your Dr. Larson and we will also do another ultra sound at that time and then we can find out if you will have a boy or a girl." I thanked her and stood up and got dressed quickly after she left the room. I got my shoes on I grabbed my purse, grabbed Kelly's hand and dragged him out of the room to the receptionist and scheduled my next appointment. Making sure that Kelly would be able to come with me again.

We drove back to the firehouse so I could get my car. It was rather quiet just listening to the radio both lost in our own thoughts. As we pulled up in front of the firehouse, I went to unbuckle my seatbelt and turned to Kelly. "Thank you! I needed a friend today and you were perfect." With that he reached over and pulled me into a hug. "Congrats and thanks for having me go with you. I had a great time. I am meeting with my realtor about the townhouse at 3:00pm. I want to talk to Boden to see how we handle you being pregnant and get you off truck without letting Pridgett know who's your baby daddy. We will have lots to talk about hopefully when I get to Molly's tonight. You look exhausted! Please go home and get some sleep." Kelly gave me a quick kiss on the check before I reached for the door handle got out and walked to my car and drove away toward Sylvie's apartment.

The rest of the day day flew by. I went home and fell right into bed and slept the day away. I couldn't believe it was already 3pm when my alarm starting going off waking me up from a deep sleep. I had to be at the bar by 5:00pm to start my shift, and finally found the effort to get out of my warm bed and made it to the bathroom to take a shower and got ready. Knowing Matt was possibly going to show up, I made sure to wear something sexy and low cut that showed off my cleavage and took my time applying my make up. I even made a point to apply a nice coat of my fire red lipstick I wore on the night we finally hooked up. I left my hair long and in curls the way I knew Matt loved my hair when we would go out on a date. Part of me wanted to make him jealous and realize what he was missing and part of me wanted to feel beautiful, knowing that I wouldn't be feeling that way in a few months. I took one last look in the mirror and smiled, I felt proud at how I looked, rubbed my tummy and started talking to my baby for the first time out loud. "I am doing all this to talk to your daddy and let him know about you. I am so excited to feel you grow within me. Your daddy has wanted a family for as long as I can remember, I hope he is as excited about you as I am." Feeling my nerves start to surface, I took one more look in the mirror, rubbed my tummy for good luck and mumbled to myself "It's now or never" and left for Molly's.

I walked into the bar a little bit before 5:00pm and walked behind the bar and started talking to Hermann. With it being early the bar was fairly quiet except for a few regulars. Hermann asked how my doctors appointment went and I told him about it. Proudly pulling the ultra sound pictures out of my purse and showing off my baby. I also told him about moving in with Kelly and about Matt supposed to be coming to Molly's tonight with Beth. "I am hoping I can talk to him for a few minutes without Beth around. I really want to tell him about the baby as soon as possible. With the way everyone at 51 can keep a secret I am sure the news will get to him fast and I want this news to come from me. I want to be the one to tell him." Hermann grabbed my in a shoulder hug and reminded me "Everyone knows that is your news to share with Casey, I am sure if you explain that to everyone they will understand respect your wishes. If not, Severide and I will have them run drills and it won't be the fun ones I put you through." Hermann said with a chuckle. I gave him a thankful smile just as a couple walked up to the bar and we started taking orders and mixing drinks. Soon the bar started filling up with more and more people from the the Intelligence Unit, Chicago Med and of course Firehouse 51 keeping Hermann and I busy behind the bar.

Gabby looked at the clock and noticed it was 6:45pm when the door opened and Kelly walked in. She saw him searched the bar for looking for herself and Hermann. She waved him over and he spotted them talking with Capp and Otis at the bar and walked over to them. " Hey guys! How is everything going?" Capp and Otis were doing a round of shots and laughing saying how its going to be a great night. He looked at Otis and said, "Do you mind watching the bar for a little bit so Gabby and Hermann have a quick break so I can talk to them quick." "About what?" He almost yelled. " Lieutenant stuff Otis, it doesn't concern you." With annoyance evident in his voice he spits out " Since when did Gabby become a Lieutenant?" With authority Kelly looked at Otis, "Please can you please just watch the bar quick." " Fine… But make it quick. I want to have a good time tonight." He yelled to their backs as the trio started to walk away from him.

Hermann Kelly and I walked outside to the sidewalk so we could have a place to talk without everyone listening and still being quiet. Once we were standing on outside away from the door, Kelly starts with "I stopped and talked with Boden today after I dropped Gabby off after her doctors appointment. He is working with headquarters to see if he can move Connie to 2nd watch so Gabby can stay on with our shift and do Connie's job for the remainder of her pregnancy. He said he will call me back tonight and let me know for sure. He also agrees that we can't let it get out that Casey is the father as long as Pridgett is in the firehouse." I sighed and reached for my non visible baby bump which didn't go unnoticed by Kelly and Hermann. "But everyone will know I was with Casey 4 months ago Kelly, everyone will guess it's his." Kelly puts his hands on shoulders and looks me in the eyes and said with a straight face dead serious voice. "Once you tell the house, you will explain the whole no reason to speculate if it's Caseys or not and just be honest, it will help avoid the gossiping. We are a family at 51 and everyone has the same feelings for Pridgett and will have your back. Hermann and I will also let them know If anyone of them decides to eat stupid for breakfast and start running their mouth about Casey, the baby and you they will be doing worse drills than what we teach at the academy! I will promise you that Hermann and I will control our men!"

We started making small talk about the rest of our days, prolonging going back inside to relieve Otis from working the bar, just to piss off Otis. I looked across the street and see a familiar truck pull up to the curb and Casey and Beth get out and start walking toward Molly's. She grabs his hand and snuggles into his side as they approach the door. I stopped talking a minute ago and Hermann and Kelly stop and follow were my eyes are looking and they stopped talking as well. We are just standing there as Matt and Beth approach us, Kelly steps closer to me and puts a reassuring hand on the small of my back. I notice Beth's smirk at me as they stop by us and I hear Matts voice for the first time in months, "Hi Kelly, Hermann" he looks at me and pauses as he notices Kelly's hand on my back and says "Hi Gabby, how have you been?" I lean more into Kelly's reassuring hand on my back and smile " Doing great thanks for asking." I say shyly. Matt is staring at me, taking me all in, just as I am doing the same to him. I catch slight movement to Matts left as Beth snuggles even closer to him making her point really clear that Matt is her man and to back off. Not knowing where my boldness came from, but her possessive move was making me angry and take a couple steps closer to Matt and touch his arm that Beth isn't hanging onto and leaned in closer to his face and whispered "The rest of 51 are inside, I told them you might be stopping by." Leaving him with a sweet smile that I only ever give to him, which I know he knows.. That earned me a hand on my arm with a slight rub from Matt and a glare from Beth. I hear Kelly and Hermann chuckle and I smirk back at them as Beth is grabbing Matt's arm practically dragging him inside of Molly's.

After the door shuts to Molly's I look at Hermann and Kelly and say "Game on Bitch! It's not that I want to get back together with Matt, but I want to still at least be friends with him. We will be raising a child together and since I know it's Matt dream to be a dad, I know I hold the upper hand and Beth is going to get knocked down a few pegs. Well at least I am hoping that. I never thought that Matt would choose a women over his job either. With her acting the way she did I knew she is going to make it impossible for me to get him alone. My God you guys, Kelly has a hard time getting any time with his best friend how would his ex fiancée stand a chance?" They pull me into a group hug and give me a reassuring chat that I will be able to kick Beth's ass as we walk into Molly's together.

We walk over to the bar, Hermann goes to the other end of the bar to relive Otis as I go to the beer cooler to grab Kelly his favorite beer without asking him what he wanted and handed it to him. He sits on a bar stool and I ask if he has news about that townhouse. I look across the bar and notice Matt watching Kelly and I. He turns away and goes back to his conversation with Cruz, Otis, Capp, and Tony as soon as I make eye contact with him. Beth also keeps giving me death glares too. I tell Kelly to watch Beth and he turns and watches the table for a few minutes and once he catches Beth watching us he blows her a kiss. She turns in a huff and wraps her arm around Matt and grabs his butt. I rolled my eyes and turn to Kelly so… "What about the house?" All of a sudden a big smile spreads across his face, "My offer was accepted and they want a quick closing date. The family that is selling it has already moved out of state leaving it empty. The agents are hoping to close as soon as we can get a closing date set up. I told my agent the sooner the better and it was decided to shoot for a week from today so we would have all next weekend to move in. Which is perfect since we are off shift too on Saturday and Sunday. I will have to take Friday off which is no big deal to sign all the paperwork and get the keys." I am getting really exciting listening to Kelly talk about his big news.

"That is a huge relief Kelly! I can't wait. Thanks again for all you are doing. You are a girls best friend you know." I lean over the bar and give him a kiss on the cheek just as I pull away I see Matt watching me and shakes his head. I giggle and Sev goes "what?" Matt just saw me and shook his head when I kissed your cheek. "I think we are making him jealous!" " Good! He needs to be, he let go of a great girl and he needs to know what he is missing." "I don't want to come between you guys though either Kelly. Your friendship is important and I don't want to be the cause of ruining that." " You won't Gabs, he is doing that all on his own with his stupid thinking these days. He has pushed us all away from the day he met Beth. It was suppose to be a one night stand you know that. He was trying to forget you. He was so confused after the way you guys were with baby grace that day at the firehouse. It made him question why he was letting you go because of a job. I told him go and have fun, take your mind off it and then Beth shows up and you know the rest. I am so sorry gabby, I feel like it's my fault he is with her in the first place. I encouraged him to go out and have fun, I really regret that now. If I knew you were pregnant I would have never interfered. I hope you know that." I saw the regret in Kelly's eyes and reached over and put my hands on his as he we peeling the label off his beer bottle. "I do Kelly, and it isn't your fault. We were putting us on hold at that point, he was free to do what he wanted. He's a grown man and made his choice. It wasn't me, I see that now. I just miss my best friend, that is what I was worried about when we started dating in the first place, is us not working out and I loose my best friend." Kelly pulled one hand away from mine and reached over and grabbed them again, "I totally get that gabby, you two were inseparable for so long, it must be so hard on you. When are you going to talk to him?" With a deep sigh, "Soon, I am hoping that Beth will walk away so I can approach him." I look over and keep seeing Matt watch Kelly and I. "I am going to go over there, I will try and get him to come to the bar to get another beer soon, so hopefully you can catch him by himself. We will tag team him." That sounds like a plan to me. With that Kelly grabs his almost empty beer and heads to join everyone from 51 at their table.

I continued to work the bar and soon I see Kelly look over at the bar and point to me, while talking to Matt. Matt shakes his head like he is saying no. I hear Kelly yell "Come on Matt you owe us all a round, you have been gone from 51 and we never get to see you buddy! Go ask Gabby to get a round for our table please." I see Matt get up and start walking toward the bar and am thinking this is my shot to talk to Matt, but then I notice he has a little shadow following him. I don't think he even knows Beth is following him. I look to Kelly and grimace and Kelly lets out a laugh. Matt walks up to the bar and says Hi Gabs, can you get everyone a round on me. Why don't you Come…." and he stops talking as Beth walks up and sits next to him putting her hands all over him " I thought I would give you a hand carrying everything back to the table." Matt looks to me then back to Beth "Umm thanks that is nice of you to help" he says in a quiet tone. Matt turns to me "Can you come over and do a shot with all of us. It's been fun hanging out with everyone again, I miss this." He grabs my hand for added bonus. I see love in his eyes and I feel like he is saying he misses me. Maybe that is wishful thinking. I glance over to Beth and notice she has steam rolling off her and is starting to talk in a high pitch voice like Kelly described and I let out a chuckle. "I can't, we are pretty busy and I need to stay at the bar." He stares at me with his piercing blue eyes "Please come on over for a few and hang out. Hermann will hold down the bar won't you Hermann?" he asks as Hermann never taking his eyes off me. "Okay, but I don't want to do a shot, I'll drink a water." Hoping I am not giving anything away, but Matt looks at me funny and I know he's confused, he knows me so well and never turn down a shot. "Okay if that is what you want. Is everything okay?" Crap my mind was screaming ask him to talk privately but then I blurt out " Yes everything is great. Just not feeling up to drinking and plus I don't have a ride home anymore, you use to be my sober cab remember." just to irritate Beth more. She turns and in her snotty tone I hear "Are you getting us our drinks or we going to take a trip down memory lane?" "Beth" Casey says in a warning tone. I quickly jump in to avoid a lovers quarrel at the bar. "Hermann help me get these drinks I shout, we will bring everything over in a few. Go back and join everyone again. Sound good?" With a nod and smile from Matt and a glare from Beth they walk back to everyone and I let out the breath I was holding and start working on getting the drinks ready.

Hermann and I have all the drinks ready and I grab a bottle of water and walk over to everyone at the table. "Hey guys, here are your drinks and don't forget to thank Matt for these." I purposely lean in between Matt and Beth to start setting the drinks on the table. Beth makes a comment that I can't hear but I can almost imagine what it was. I keep brushing into Matt a I notice he keeps brushing into me almost on purpose. I lean over to hand Kelly his beer and grab onto Matts shoulder while doing that. I start to whisper in Matts ear that a I needed to talk to him I'm private when of course I am interrupted by the high pitch voice of Beth. I never got out what I was trying to say and Matt just looks and me and half smiles. I take the tray and set it on the empty table behind us and walk up and stand by Kelly. He offers his seat to me, but I decline saying I will be going back to the bar in a few minutes. Being the gentleman that he is he insists "Come on Gabs take load off you look tired." I admit I am tired and sit for a few minutes enjoying everyone's company.

Matt and Kelly start a side conversation while I start talking with Otis about a call we went on last week. I hear Kelly start telling Matt that he was house shopping with a realtor and found a townhouse he put an offer on and it was accepted. Matt looked a little bit sad knowing that he was loosing his best friend as a roommate. But he was excited for Kelly to start putting down roots and hopefully settle down. Matt asked to see pictures so Kelly pulled up the house on his phone. He was impressed with it and I made the mistake of jumping into the conversation saying how excited I was to move in with Kelly. Matt looked from me to Kelly and back to me again and that's when his jealousy started to show to everyone at the table "Oh, I didn't realize you guys were that close." I started to get annoyed because here he was in my bar with his new girlfriend flirting with me in front of her, then he gets jealous in front of everyone. Talk about a double standard. Annoyance laced in my next words to him "We are just friends Matt, I need a place to live, I've been living with Sylive since I moved out of our apartment and that was only temporary. I need a place to live, Kelly offered and I accepted. Plus it shouldn't matter to you anyway." In normal Matt fashion I saw him get angry, but he was trying to hide it in front of Beth. Secretly I was glad he was jealous of Kelly and I thinking that we were dating or friend with benefits, because at this point who knows what he was thinking exactly, but whatever it was he was jealous plan and simple. "With that I said I better go relieve Hermann; he has a line 3 deep at the bar. Have fun rest of the night guys." I heard Beth say something and Matt was trying to calm her down as I walked away from the table with a smile on my face.

A couple hours later I was exhausted and ready to call it a night, but the bar was still hopping so I had to stay on. I told Hermann I would be back because I had to run to the ladies room and be back in a few minutes. I walked out of the stall to the sink and started washing my hands looking at my reflection in the mirror when I heard the other toilet flush and the door opened up. I was in the middle of putting on a fresh coat of fire red lipstick when I notice Beth standing there staring at me. With venom in my voice I look directly at her "Can I help you?" " Stay away from Matt, he is with me now, you weren't woman enough to keep him, you let him go, I came and had to pick up the pieces of his heart. I love him, we are going to get married and start a family. Stay the hell away from us or else!" " Or else what Beth? Seriously are you that scared he is going to leave you that you have to threaten me and take him away from all of his friends and family at 51?" She glares at me with her hands balled into a fist at her sides "I am not doing that, he is choosing me over all of 51 especially you!" she spats at me. I smirk at her which irritates her even more and she goes to grab my wrist. I twist my hand away "Touch me again I will knock you on your ass. If you don't believe, try me. You can ask anyone out there that I will and can do it. I am a firefighter remember that. If I choose to talk to Matt, I will and also remember when Boden comes back from his sabbatical, your ass hole of an ex-husband will be leaving firehouse 51 and Casey is scheduled to come back to working there on our shift." That through her off her game as she stopped and stared at me with her mouth open not knowing what to say. "What let me guess, you didn't know that was the plan did you? He never told you that….nice relationship you have there, great communication. Keep in mind, that I will be with him for 24 hour shifts without you around, I hope that helps you sleep at night you crazy bitch!" With that I put my lipstick into my jeans pocket flip my hair and walk out the door of the ladies room.

I ran into Hermann in the hallway, he looked worried. "What was taking you so long? I know you ladies take your time in the powder room, but damn Dawson that was too long." I was just about to start telling him why when the door to the ladies room opens up and out came Beth. She try's to sneak past us without looking at us. After she past us "Now you know what was taking me so long." I then proceeded to give him the short version of our conversation. He laughs and pats me on the back and says "Good job kid, good job."

Kelly and Matt are taking at the table when I walk back to the bar and I hear my name mentioned. I Ignore it because I know Kelly will tell me later. Just as I look away I catch Beth latching on to Matt yet again and whispers in his ear. I can see she said something to upset him as he turns to her and all I hear is Beth yelling throwing a toddle temper tantrum "I want to go home now, let's go!" She's reaching for her coat and putting it on and Matt trys to stop her from putting it on, "Wait I want to stay. If you want to go home take my truck home and I will catch a ride from one of the guys." By this time she is starting to get all eyes on their group of people from everyone in the bar. I can tell everyone is embarrassed being there and for Casey having to deal with her behavior. They all start getting up and walking toward the bar to give them space to talk in semi private in the middle of a bar. Next thing the bar hears her squawk out "Why didn't you tell me you were going back to 51. I thought you were staying at Logan square! She is now putting on a full blown show for everyone in the bar starting to cry uncontrollably. ""Beth lets talk about this at home, there is no reason to ruin the night because of this. It's no big deal." That was the wrong thing to say is mumbled from someone at the bar. "What do you mean it's no big deal? You will be working with her." She turns and points directly to me. I hold my hands up in surrender. "As you so nicely pointed out to me in the ladies room a little bit ago, Matt is your man, why are you worried about who is working with? Are you that insecure?" Everyone try's not to laugh but it's hard and everyone is turning around trying to avoid their fight. With a foot stomp from Beth and more tears we all see Matt pushing Beth out the door of Molly's and he turns to everyone "Thanks for the fun evening. Sorry she had to ruin it. Let's do this again soon." Then he's out the door and gone..

Everyone is going back to chatting and finishing up the last of their drinks when Kelly's phone rings. He looks at me and Hermann and mouths 'it's Boden'. He takes the call and walks in the back of the bar where it's more quiet. A few minutes later he comes back with a smile on his face and pulled Hermann and I to the back office. "It's all worked out. You will be starting in Connie's position on our next shift. Connie was a little upset with having to move to a different shift at first until she found out it was for you. She said she was super excited for you and would do that in a heartbeat for you. Boden will meet you, me and Hermann at the beginning of next shift and Chief Tiberg will also be there so we can talk with Chief Pridgett explaining the rules of FMLA and being a pregnant fire fighter. Your candidacy will be put on hold until you return after your maternity leave. Your spot at 51 will be yours when you come back as well. After the meeting with the Chiefs we will have a house meeting to explain what will be happening with you. In the mean time we will get a new candidate to take your spot until you come back. His name is Jimmy and he comes from a family of firefighters and from what I have heard he's not bad on the eyes so you can have some eye candy to look at too. Win Win right?" With a quick slap to his chest from me "Kelly I will be fat pregnant and single not sure a young candidate will be ready to see me in that way. But hey it won't hurt for me to look right?" I said with a cheeky smile.

Kelly and Hermann start talking about work and other stuff. Then subject of Matt and Beth come up and what happened tonight. Kelly was the first one to speak up "Was it me or was he still into Gabby? I mean the way he kept looking at her, which by the way Gabs you looked hot tonight. I am assuming you did that on purpose right?" I smile and as innocently as I can, "What no, I look this good all the time." Which I earned a good laugh for both of them. Hermann agreed with Kelly " I was totally thinking the same thing, every time I would look over his eyes were on you all night long. Beth was getting pretty upset too. I feel bad for Matt tonight, he is in the dog house for sure." "Guys he did it to himself. I don't feel sorry for him. Hey Kelly lets run over to the apartment and say you needed to grab something and grab a overnight bag and come have a sleep over with me and Sylvie? Give Matt a little bit more to be jealous of and Beth a little bit more to be pissed off about." Wiping down the bar Hermann looks at us "Gabby you are evil but I love it." Looking to Kelly "Should we?" Kelly stands up from the bar stool grabs my hand " I can't believe I am about to do this but yes lets do that." Putting my coat on while Kelly does the same with a flip of my hair "Forget your bro code and lets go." He tosses me the keys and tells me I need to drive. Hermann yells to our backs " I want a video of this please send me something." We giggle and run out into the cold Chicago night.

We drive the short drive to Matt and Kelly's apartment. On the way we joke about calling Beth a bar slut. That is the new nickname we came up for her because we heard from Hermann and Otis that before she sunk her hooks into Matt she was going home with different fire fighters police officers and doctors for a couple weeks prior to hooking up with Matt. As we pull up and park we notice the lights are on in the living room and kitchen. Kelly looks over at me "Are you sure Gabs? I look at him with disbelief because he was questioning me yet again. "Hell yes I am sure. After that bitch cornered me in my bar, in the bathroom and threatened me, yes I am ready to play dirty and be a mean ex fiancé."

We walk into the apartment hallway and we hear loud voices coming from with in. "Beth baby please listen to me. This happened before anything serious became of us. I am going back to 51 after your ex is gone. I left because he was making my life a living hell and fucking up my career I worked hard to get to where I am. I wasn't going to let a girl I'm sleeping with ruin that. Boden and I felt it was best that I do a temporary leave of absence form 51 and work at Logan square while another fire fighter was out on short term disability. It worked out for all of us involved. If I stayed there we wouldn't be together still." More screaming was heard by Beth "Yeah sure how the hell do you know that Matt. Do you know that your ex attacked me in the bathroom tonight. She started going after me calling me a bitch and that I ruined what you had and I needed to get out of your life. Do you know how shitty I felt when I kept seeing you look at her. Hello you are with me, not her. We stopped and I almost barged right in when she was saying I attacked her but Kelly pulled me back and indicating we need to wait. I was getting more upset the longer we listened to all of her lies. He knew my temper would get me in trouble if I went in right now, thank god he was being level headed for me. We waited another few minutes until her yelling stopped. Then Kelly took out his keys and opened up the door.

What I saw I wasn't ready to see. I saw Matt sitting on my couch with Beth straddling his lap kissing. Her shirt unbuttoned and half hanging off her shoulders. I stopped and gave a little Yelp and they stopped and looked at Kelly and I. Matt basically threw bar slut off of his lap and got up and stammering wiping a hand over his mouth "Gabby Kelly what are you doing here?" With raised eyebrows "I live here remember. I came to grab my overnight bag, I figured you would need some space after the show you guys put on at Molly's." Flustered running his hand through his hair "Ahhh thanks for thinking about that I really appreciate it." Beth was sitting on the couch with a smirk on her face and starting to button up her shirt. She then had the audacity to open her mouth. "Did you come here to apologize to me for the way you threatened and treated me in the ladies room tonight Gabriella?" My blood was boiling as Kelly reached for me to try and calm me down and to ensure I didn't attack the bar slut. "Umm first off you don't ever call me Gabriella that is reserved for special people in my life like Matt and Kelly. Never for you to say again you got me." Shaking my finger at her "Secondly you came after me and went to grab my wrist and told me to stay away from Matt again throwing your insecurities out for the world to see. Now I think it will best if you stay out of my bar, Matt you are more than welcome to come into Molly's but don't ever bring your new girlfriend into it again. She is not welcome and Hermann and Otis will all agree." Matt just sits there taking in what has been said between Beth and I. After a moment of silence "Okay, I totally understand." Beth gets pissed and goes into the bedroom and slams the door.

After a minute of silence and Matt staring at the closed door that was just slammed, he turned and looked at me. " Did you really attack her Gabby? That isn't you what the hell is wrong with you." I stop and put my hands in the air "Seriously Matt you know me, that isn't who I am. I speak the truth even if it might hurt but I wouldn't do that no matter how much you hurt me by moving on." I stopped dead in my tracks when that came out and I layed my heart out for him to see. "Sorry I shouldn't have said that. Kelly grab your bag if you staying and I will be in the car." Turning on my heal and walk to the door, I hear "Gabby wait Matt calls after me lets talk about this. With my back to him, I shake my head " no I can't." Tears are flowing and I hear Kelly start yelling at Matt as I walk out the door.

"What the fuck is your problem Matt. You have known gabby for what 8 years, you were best friends with her for how many of them, dated her and knows her better than she knows herself and you accuse her of doing that. You are to pussy whipped to see what you are missing out on right now. You are pushing your friends away for Beth, who obviously doesn't want you back at 51 where you belong. I hope she is worth it because you are going to be sorry when you finally wake up and smell the roses and realize what you have lost and for an easy lay from a crazy obsessive bitch. Have a good rest of your night and I hope to see you back at 51 and Molly's again soon. But gabby. Is right don't bring Beth around, it isn't good for anyone involved."

The next thing Kelly heard stopped him in his tracks. "Are you sleeping with her?" Kelly saw red and walked up and got right in Matts face. "That is the only thing you can think of is that I would stoop that low and go after my best friends ex fiancé. Who do you think I am. I sleep around and I am known for my 1 night stands, but I would never ever do that. Gabby and I are friends, she called me her knew Shay. Did you ever stop and think that she lost her 2 best friends all in 1 year. You and Shay both are gone from her life. The 2 people she counted on for everything are no longer there. Someone has to pickup the pieces of her broken heart and I will be that person. I will never sleep with Gabby. You really have changed Matt and I don't even know who you are. But just so you know if I ever did sleep with her, it wouldn't be any business of yours you gave up on her when she was going through hell. You left her with a broken heart and kept throwing that in her face. I saw the way you looked at her tonight, you still have feelings for her it's obvious to all of us, hell even Hermann caught on and commented on it. But don't try having our cake and eating it two. Gabby doesn't deserve that and honestly neither does Beth. You know I am not a fan of Beth's this has been brewing for a long time. I hope we can remain friends over this, but if not I'm sorry I hope you come to your sense and see how you are pushing your family away." With that being said, Kelly turned and left and went out to the car and found gabby crying with her hands covering her eyes.

I held Gabby's hand as I drove to Sylvie's apartment. By the time we got there she had fallen asleep. I go to the apartment and open the front door so its ajar and walk back and scoop up Gabby into my arms and carry her into her bedroom. Sylvie see us takes a look at Gabby tear streaked face and mouths what happened. " I'll be back out shortly to tell you all about it." Gabby stirs and she is laid on her bed and looks up at Kelly. "Thank you. Are you going to sleep in here with me or on the couch?" I am not sure, Sylvie is home and asked what happened. I am going to fill her in on everything okay." Kelly tucks her in under the covers and goes to kiss the top of her head. " You're the best, I don't care what Capp says about you." She cracks a joke to lighten the mood. "Ha ha. I will be back soon to check on you. Get some sleep."

I hear Kelly go out in the living room and talk to Sylvie about our whole evening. I listen and doze off when I hear Sylvie upset about how Matt treated me at the apartment. I felt the mattress dip down and Kelly laid down next me. He whispered "Goodnight Gabs" then rolled over to face the wall leaving plenty of space between us.