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''You have to talk with Gabby about this.'' Kelly said advancing towards Matt, his friend instantly backing away - his gaze still on the red patch in his hand.

''It's probably nothing Kelly, doctor said it was just a mild chest infection.'' Matt said crossing the room and finally washing his hands.

''Matt, you have to do back to the doctor. This is not just a chest infection! When you have a chest infection you - don't - bleed!'' Kelly tried to talk some sense into his friend. ''And you definitely need to tell Gabby. She is your wife now and she deserves to know!''

''It is probably nothing and I don't want to worry her about nothing!'' Matt said then his voice raising out of frustration and some fear. He dried his hands off and turned round to look at his friend. ''I will go to the doctor again, but please don't tell Gabby.'' His final words sounding like a desperate plead.

''I can't just not tell Gabby.''

''Kelly, please, as my friend I ask you not to tell her. I will tell her and go to the doctor, okay?'' Matt asked his friend then.

"Matt - you know i.." Kelly began, bringing the room out of an eerie silence.

"Hey you know what," Matt started as he headed for the door after forcefully checking his watch. "Do what you like, after all - she isn't married to you. So, if you do decide tell her i'm sure that she will never believe you. Kelly, we all know what you're like - ruining people's relationships is kinda your thing so if your gunna be an ass - please go somewhere else to break hearts because i'm actually kinda happy with mine being in one piece..." Matt finished, his voice as high as his temper as he stormed out of the bathroom and into his office, the glass of the door shaking as it made impact.

"So what's up with Casey?" Brett asked as she came and sat next to Gabby in the common room.

Looking up from her magazine and taking her coffee mug away from her mouth, she took a breath as she tried to choose her words. "What do you mean?" Gabby started as she tried to push herself up from the table. "He was fine the last time i saw him."

Following Gabby over the coffee machine Brett continued the conversation. "I was on my bunk, you know writing that run from, and i heard him and Kelly having a pretty heated discussion."

"Oh yeah?" Gabby replied as she raised her eyebrows.

"Yeah, it sounded pretty bad Gabby."
"Hey, Sylvie look - he's a big boy now. Like he grew a pair to ask me to marry him so we gotta give him the credit right?" She giggled as she looked down at her watch. "I mean he has some alderman thing to do after shift and we can leave in like two minutes - he's probably on his way out now." As if she had predicted the future, as both girls looked round Matt was walking forcefully out of the firehouse. His bag slung over his shoulder and his phone pressed on his ear. "You see?"

"Fine, i guess i was just worrying that something was going on between them." Brett said as she followed Gabby down the corridor towards the locker room.

"They're just marking their territory Sylvie." Gabby replied as she pulled open her locker and took out her coat and bag. "That what men do because they're animals. You should have seen Casey's apartment before we moved in together. I mean sometimes i think i'm his personal slave."

As he come home, Gabby was just finishing up on making dinner.

''Oooh I am starving.'' He smiled a she walked in, kissing her on her cheek.

''Well, dinner is ready in 5 minutes.'' She promised, the pumpkin and spinach lasagna in the oven for another 5 minutes. He walked to the fridge, grabbing a some filtered water before sitting down by the table.

''Pff, I am so ready for a day of nothing tomorrow.'' He admitted, tired from shift and alderman duties.

''I did make the meal you really like, so that should cheer you up.'' Gabby smiled, putting a bowl of salad on the table.

''Oh, I can't wait.'' Matt smiled.

''Didn't your doctor said I had to spoil you.'' She said as she kissed him on his temple, going to get the lasagna out of the oven, putting it on the table.

''Feeling really spoiled.'' He smiled then, coughing a bit, but luckily this time it wasn't much.

''You okay?'' Gabby asked concerned as she was scooping some salad on both of their plates.

''Yeah, yeah.'' he sighed, drinking some water. ''Stupid infection.''

"Sounds like manflu to me." she giggled making him roll his eyes with one of his signature half smiles.

They had dinner together, Matt being so grateful that she was cooking his favourite dish for him. It was so sweet and he cleaned up the table.

''You should take some rest.''

''Hmm, I am fine.'' he promised her, giving her a kiss on her forehead as he was washing off the plates.

She wrapped her arms around him and looked over his shoulder.

''Want to watch a movie later?''

''Yeah, yeah i'd love that.'' He smiled, turning his head and pecking her on the lips as he was finishing up washing off.

They settled on the couch together and as the movie was getting started, he laid his arm around her.

''You should have told me earlier you weren't feeling well, that you were going to a doctor'' She said as she crawled against him.

''Well, you would've just blamed it on the manflu like you did earlier.'' He joked as he took her hand, his fingers around the ring that was on her finger. The wedding band that he hoped would stay there forever.

''Haha, to be fair you always really overact it when you feel sick.'' She laughed, laying against his chest.

''It that okay?''

''Yeah.'' he said, wrapping his arms around her. They watched the rest of the movie but settling for bed early then, as they were both tired from shift.

As they were getting undressed to go to bed, she thought about what Sylvie had said. SHe knew it was probably none of her business but she did want to bring it up.

''Matt?''

''Hmm?'' He asked turning around as he was grabbing a shirt to put on in bed from the wardrobe.

''Sylvie said you and Kelly got in a fight today. Want to talk about it?''

''Not really.'' He said as he pulled the shirt over his head.

''Oh''

''It was nothing.'' He promised as he laid down in bed.

''If you say so.'' She said as she laid down in bed as well.

They curled up in bed together, Matt after taking some more paracetamol and tried to fall asleep. Gabby was already asleep in his arms when he still couldn't fall asleep. It took a long while, mostly because he was thinking about his talk with Kelly.

Waking up in the middle of the night, Matt woke up with a throbbing pain in his chest again. Gabby was still fast asleep. He tried to roll over, softly to fall back asleep again when he suddenly felt his pillow being slightly damped.

A bit confused he sat up on the edge of the bed, careful so he didn't wake up Gabby and he grabbed his phone from the nightstand.

He switched on the flashlight and looked as his pillow then. The white pillow cover was covered with a thin layer of blood in a small patch roughly in the same space as his mouth would have been - he felt his heart start to race.

Worried he got up and looked at it, Gabby still asleep. He thought about waking up but he was so nervous. Instead he pulled his pillow over the bed, sliding the pillowcase off and as quietly as he could, grabber another one from the cabinet, putting the clean one around it and putting it back on the bed.

Gabby stirred a bit in the bed but fell back asleep then. Nervous he walked out of the bedroom, towards the kitchen.

Worried he was going to hear her, he walked to the small balcony they had, carefully closing the door. Quick he dialed Kelly's number.

Even though it was the middle of the night, his friend did take the call, sounding very sleepily.

''What? Coming to yell at me again?''

''Kelly….'' Matt stammered, not sure what to say. His mind racing so much that he was struggling to find the right tone of voice and the right words.

Kelly was quiet then, as he could hear the doubt and fear in his friend's voice. He knew that that point that all the things that had happened earlier on in the shift didn't matter - that right now he needed to be there because he knew that he was the one person Matt could turn to at that moment in time. He was desperate and Kelly was scared for him. He was scared because he knew Matt - possibly better than Gabby did in this way - and he would never phone in the middle or the night.

''Kelly, you were right, you were right okay and i'm sorry. I'm sorry for everything i said but you were right, this is really bad.'' Matt stammered, scared for what was going to come.

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