Hey, guys thanks for the reviews and follows. To answer namine redfield's question yes there will be Dawsey but not for quite a while…sorry about that but I just wanted son Kelly and Casey friendship, I just feel like Kelly and Boden are right for this situation. Anyway on with the new chapter! Hope you enjoy this new update.

'After my mom was out of the way Callum had lost his punching bag and there was no-one left to protect me from him, so he moved on to hitting me instead. He would always hit me below the collar bone, you know, nothing anyone would ever be able to see in passing. At the start of it all he would just be knocking me around every few days when he was drunk. But then he lost his new job just after my mom's first month in the hospital was over and everything started to go downhill from there, the beatings got worse, more frequent. Suddenly he had moved on from what he was like before to beating me daily and all the money we got from government benefits immediately were spent on booze and sometimes drugs if he was really down. There was never any food in the house, just beer and that was when he started using his belt. Sorry, I just need to stop for a minute, I just need to go get some water, I'll be back in a minute.'

Once Casey had left the room his team along with Boden and Severide started talking amongst themselves about the situation they had found themselves, and their lieutenant, stuck in.

'I'm gonna kill him, who the hell does he think he is, torturing my best friend,' said Kelly 'That son of a bitch is going to pay for what he did to him.'

'I'm with you there,' agreed Cruz as the rest of the fire-fighters nodded 'We've just got to figure out what we are going to do with him.'

'No, wait, we are not doing this.' Said Boden, his statement making the room fall silent.

'What, do you want to let Callum run around the fire station and the rest of the city hurting Matt even more than he already has? What's wrong with you?' snapped Kelly to Boden.

'No,' said Boden angrily 'that's exactly what I don't want. And that's why we should do this legally. If we do then we can get him sent down for life, the evidence that we have against him is rock solid.'

'You know what, maybe he's right,' said Kelly as Cruz and the rest of the guys looked at him incredulously 'I mean as much as I would like to kick the shit out of the guy, that would get us sent down and there's no way that we could protect Matt from Callum from in there he'd just end up being alone with him again.'

'Okay, should we tell Matt when he gets back?' asked Mouch.

'No, no not yet,' replied Kelly 'We need to let him finish, we have to let him tell us everything, as much as we might not want to hear about what he has to say. We have to listen to him, because if we don't let him get it all out then he's just going to think that we don't care about him and he'll shut down then there will be no way to get him to talk to the cops of about it…any of it.'

'Okay,' agreed Otis 'but since when did you become an expert on all of these things? Are you a psychologist now or what?'

'It doesn't matter Otis,' snapped Kelly 'All that matters right now is listening to what Matt has to say and showing him that we care so that hopefully we can get him to talk to the cops and get Callum arrested for all of this and sent down, that way he will never be able to hurt him again.' Finished Severide, not wanting to have to delve into the psychology of his statement when all he wanted to focus on was getting his best friend to open up and stop hurting.

Just then Matthew re-entered the room to continue revealing his past to his friends with a beaten down look on his face.

'Are you ready to keep going or do you need some more time?' asked Kelly in a concerned tone.

'Ready as I'll ever be.' Relied Matt, his voice still shaking, 'Okay, so, like I said he started using his belt when I turned six, I still get nightmares about it today. I've just had to learn to not scream when I get them, if I did when I was a kid it would wake up Callum and he would come in to my room and he would hit me until I passed out; he always said that when he did that I would never wake up screaming, I would only fall asleep screaming. After the first time he used his belt he decided it was his best way of punishing me and the older I got the worse the beatings became. After my mom went to prison and my dad was dead, my sister was in college on the other side of the country and he wouldn't let me go live with her, said she was to young to take responsibility for me and so he got full custody of me and there was no one left to protect me. He used to disappear for days at a time, I never knew where he was and he would just leave me there alone with no money and there was never any food in the house so I would have to go get food out of other people's garbage. Sometimes this nice old lady who lived next door to me, she would let me in her house and cook me dinner, it was hard for her to let me go back home after that but I just told her that it would only be till I could finish high school, it took everything I had to convince her not to call children's services but I knew that if she did that things would just get worse.'

'What do you mean?' asked Kelly.

'Um…well I don't know if I can…' said Matt glancing around at the rest of his colleagues, dreading the thought of having to explain his past to all of them at once.

'How about we take this into my office, get us some more privacy?' said Boden realising what Matt had been frightened off by.

Kelly, Boden and Casey made their was to the chief's office through the sea of worried looks and hushed conversations from the other fire-fighters. Kelly sat beside Matt on the couch in the room whilst the chief settled himself on the chair opposite to his two lieutenants.

'It's okay, you can carry on now…'