I'm so happy to have had such a positive response to my first one shot, and the idea of the challenge itself. I got a lot of one-word challenges, and I'll be writing them in the order which they were received. The first one-shot is for Goldistic, and the word is Smoothie. Enjoy!
Disclaimer; still don't own anything...
Matt shot up in bed, he was startled awake by a loud noise, the sound of broken glass and the soft "damn" that followed. Getting out of bed, throwing on his slippers and walking downstairs he found Gabby; she was kneeling on the kitchen floor picking up shattered pieces of what used to be a vase. He quickly made his way to her side, guiding her to stand up and step away from the mess.
"Come on baby, you don't even have anything on your feet; let me take care of this. I don't want you to get cut."
Reluctantly she backed away, letting him takeover. She'd felt foolish, she looked at the clock, reminding her that she should feel foolish. It was the middle of the night, and she had just woken him up out of a deep sleep; and for what? Because she had a stupid craving. By the time he had finished picking up the broken glass, and looked back toward her she was leaning against the kitchen doorway, biting her lip and fighting back tears. Walking over and wrapping his arms around her waist, he kissed the single tear making it's way down her face, before pulling back to catch her eye.
"Baby...what's wrong?" She shrugged and looked back down. "Hey, don't do that. What has you so upset?"
"I just feel bad." She spoke so lowly he barely heard her. "I had a craving and it's after three in the morning, so I didn't want to wake you. I tried to make it myself, but of course I failed and I still woke you up. So not only did I break something but it was for nothing, because you still had to get up because of me."
Matt leaned back, his hands moving from their place around her waist, his right hand moving to just below her chin, bringing it up leaving her no choice but to look at him. After which he moved to gently grip her arms.
"You don't have to feel bad baby." When there was no response he brought her in closer to his toned chest.
"Hey, baby I want you to wake me. I want to be a part of every little moment, I mean it." Matt leaned back, placing his hand on her slightly curved belly, which kept their growing child safe.
"Every craving, every bout of morning sickness, all the kicks, the doctors appointments...everything. I promise you, Gabby. Me being woken up at night because you have a craving is nothing compared to everything you're doing to keep our child safe; to make me a daddy, to make us parents. So you don't need to feel bad, okay?"
Slowly she nodded, before wrapping her arms around his torso and tilting her head up to meet his lips with her own. They both pulled back, when the need for air became too much., the corners of his mouth began to twitch and she could tell he was trying his hardest not to smile.
"What are you smiling at?"
"It's just you broke a vase...What were you craving? Flowers?" They both laughed, and she burried her head in his chest, while he wrapped his arms tighter around her shoulders.
"Seriously though, do you still want what you were craving? Because I could make whatever it was?"
"You sure it's not too much?" She bit her lip out of shyness, his eyes moved to stare at her bottom lip for a moment, before catching it between his own.
"It's never too much... What were you craving?"
"A smoothie...it's how I broke the vase; I was reaching up for the blender and I dropped the vase that was next to it."
Matt smiled at her; since he was a bit taller than her, he was able to reach the blender on the top shelf without a problem. "Strawberry and Banana?"
"Sound's perfect, you're the best."
"No, I think you take that award hands down."
Twenty minutes and two smoothies later, both Matt and Gabby were back underneath the warm covers of Matt's bed. He held her closely to his toned chest, placing a kiss on her shoulder before pulling her closer.
"Are you still awake?" He soft whisper broke the silence.
"Yeah.."
"I was thinking, the cravings will probably become more and more frequent; um so maybe we should consider making these sleepovers more of a permanent thing."
Although he tried to hide his nerves, she could hear his voice shake. Gabby turned around in his arms, and tilted her head to look up at him. "Are you suggesting we move in together?"
"I just, it makes sense doesn't it? I love you, I don't want to be apart from you. When the baby comes, it's just going to be twice as hard. I don't want to miss anything, during the pregnacy or after."
"Matt, you don't need to try and convince me. I love you, more than I ever thought possible. I want us to live together."
"Really?"
"Yes. I love you Matt, I love the little life we created together; and he or she deserves to have both parents around all the time, just as much as I think we deserve to have one another around."
Matt moved down the bed, to make himself level with Gabby's baby bump. He kissed it gently three times, "I love you, peanut." He then moved up to Gabby's lips. "I love you, baby."
"I love you too, Matt."
"It's a good thing you'll be around on a permanent basis...I see a lot of smoothie cravings in the near future."
Matt chuckled before pulling Gabby close to him again, "I wouldn't have it any other way."
Well, there it is...Smoothie! Hope you liked it! Please review and keep sending in those words! :D What did everyone think about the crossover episode? I loved it! When they found Gabby! Goodness I cried! Also Erin and Severide! :o) The little girls :( it was all so amazing!
