Disclaimer: I own nothing except my imagination, Abbey, Andrew, Chase and Logan.
a/n: Thank you to everyone who left a review on the previous chapter and welcome to the new followers, hope you like the twins had a bad start at CFD academy. Can the boys keep their nose clean and make their parents proud or will Logan's temper get them in even more trouble? Enjoy this latest chapter.
It had been a few days since the incident between the Casey twins and Logan Patterson and Abbey was happy that it had become quiet on that front, no more bad words coming from chief Thomas's mouth. She was stuffing her bags, it was eight in the morning and shift was ending.
"Ready to head home?" Matt closed the door to his office as she made it to him.
"Yeah, I'm exhausted. Did you hear from Chase and Logan? They were supposed to call when they left home."
"No but I'm sure they're fine. They'll be twenty one at the end of the week baby, you have to stop babying them." He teased.
"Matt Casey, stop making fun of me." She slapped him on the arm as they walked out to her truck.
"And you, stop worrying." He held her shoulders as they stood in front of each other.
"And you should worry a little bit more." She shoved him as she made her way to the drivers side.
"Hey, I worry. Let's just be happy that thing with Patterson is over." He changed the subject a bit.
"Yeah, let's be thankful for that one." She sighed as they drove off towards their house.
"Keep your nose clean today Logan." Chase warned his brother.
"Have I done anything lately that's gotten the attention on us?" He looked his brother straight in the eyes as they were getting dressed in the locker room. "Huh?"
"Let's just keep it that way, please."
"Let's go." Logan didn't even bother answering the real issue as he walked out of the locker room, Chasing sighing deeply.
"Can't keep that brother of yours in check Casey?" Chase looked up to see Jordan standing against the doorframe, a satisfied smirk on his face knowing he was getting under Logan's skin.
"Get out of here before I'm the one who isn't in check." Chase growled. He was angry at himself for even befriending him in the first place. He stood up and walked past Patterson, their shoulders knocking together.
"Alright. Here's today's drill. There's a fire on the second floor with a victim inside and you have to get the victim out through the ladder that's sitting on the window ledge. They all geared up and headed outside where the sky started darkening, rain threatening to pour down on them.
The first up was Logan and then Patterson, Borelli, Manson and Smith before it was Chase's turn. By the time he suited up and went up the two levels and secured the victim, it was started raining heavily. He made as if he was breaking the glass, taking the victim in his arms and going across the ledge. He was secure and his grip on the ladder was firm but about a quarted down the ladder, his foot gave way and he fell sevral feet before he landed with a loud thump.
Abbey and Matt had gone to bed as soon as they had gotten home, Andrew having breakfast with his girlfriend Amanda. Matt watched as Abbey fell asleep first, her constant worrying on top of the heavy shift they had been on for the past twenty four hours taking its tole on his wife. He was thankful for her every day and she had given him the best gift in the world, his own family, all three boys making him proud. He snuggled close to her and fell asleep not longer after.
Abbey's body was jerking slightly but not enough to wake Matt up, her eyes dancing slowly behind her eyelids. The images flashing through her mind were getting from bad to worst, her jerking intensifying until it violently pulled her from her sleep, effectively waking Matt up in the process.
"Abbey, baby, what's wrong?" Her breathing was ragged and her eyes bloodshot. "Abbey?" He repeated, finally getting her attention but no response. She scrambled out of the bed, leaving a mess out of the sheets her hands frantically searching for something. Matt quickly got out of bed, starting to panic from getting no response from Abbey. He followed her down to the kitchen after she had made of mess of their room, still not finding what she was looking for.
"Where's my phone?" She finally questionned Matt, looking through her purse, throwing it down to the ground.
"Tell me what's wrong Abbey, you're freaking me out." He had never really seen her in this state of mind before and he was a little bit scared.
"Something happened to one of the boys, I can feel it." She kept moving around in the house in search of her phone that she found on the kitchen counter where she always put it when they made it home from shift. She scrambled with her passcode, throwing it against the counter in frustration. "Damn phone." She cursed. Matt held onto her shaking hand and unlocked her phone with ease, seeing a message from Logan.
Hey mom, I don't want you to freak out but something happened to Chase at the academy and we're at Lakeshore. I'm staying with him but it looks bad, meet us there. Logan's voice rang through the house, Abbey starting to panic.
"We have to go Matt." She grabbed her keys that were next to where her cell had previously been and pulled away from him, walking towards the front of the house.
"You're not driving like this Abbey." Matt caught up with her a few seconds later. He wasn't going to let her drive in the condition she was in or in that weather but she didn't object either giving him the keys. They drove to the hospital as fast as they could in the weather that had gotten worst. As soon as the car came to a halt, Abbey stepped out of it and ran as fast as she could inside the building and to the ER.
"Chase Casey. Where can I find him?" She asked the nurse at the main desk, her pateince quite thin. The woman didn't answer her but instead started tapping on her keyboard, clearly not fast enough for Abbey, to who Matt had finally caught up to. "Where is Chase Casey, I'm his mother." She snapped, this time recieving a small smile from the woman. She hadn't meant to be so snappy but she her heart was pumping faster without the knowledge of her son's whereabouts.
"He's in room five." She pointed behind her, both Matt and Abbey thanking her before they walked around the counter only to be greeted by Logan.
"Mom, dad." Abbey englufed him in a tight hug before pulling away and looking at him from top to bottom.
"Are you ok? What happened?"
"We were doing drills and it started raining and he fell." Matt patted him on the shoulder, glad he was fine while Abbey smiled at him but pulled away to see her second born son. She pulled the blue sheet aside and found him in a bed, IV's hooked to his arm and a tube down his throat.
"Oh my god." Abbey's voice was barely above a whisper but Matt was at her side instantly.
"He's going to be ok, keep positive thoughts." He whispered to her ear, his hands rubbing her arms. "Logan, can go ask the nurse for the doctor please or at least if she has an update." Matt was surprisingly calm, the strength Abbey needed right now.
"On it dad." If you looked closely, you could see that Logan was scared but that he was desperately trying to keep it together. It was a proven fact that twins were connected together on another level and with Chase being hurt, Logan felt it all the way to his core. He returned moments later with a nurse who checked Chase's vitals before giving his parents an update.
"Your son suffered a nast fall from ten feet up, the weight of the practice dummy on top of him." Abbey gasped but let the nurse continue. "We X-rayed his back to have a better idea of what we're dealing with but the good news is that there is no fractured bones, just some internal contusions and most probably some real physical marks."
"Why was he intubated then?" Abbey had the medical jargon to be able to ask these questions, the rational side slightly taking over.
"Your son has suffered a nasty shock and he was having trouble breathing so we thought it was best to give him a little help with it to give his body a better chance to heal."
"Thank you." The nurses smiled at Matt and walked past Logan and pated his shoulder. About ten minutes later, someone came to take Chase to a room, the three family members following behind. In all the comotion, no one had contacted Andrew to tell him what was going on. As soon as Chase was settled comfortably and that the beeping of the machines became their surrounding sounds, Abbey's phone rang, its loud noise interrupting the beeping sound. She looked at the ID and cursed under her breath, Andrew's name and picture flashing across her screen.
"Andy." Mom, where are you? I've been trying to call you for the past half an hour and dad isn't picking up his phone either. Is everything ok? "We're at Lakeshore with the twins, Chase took a nasty fall." I'll be right there ma. "Be careful on the road Andrew, I love you." She hung up the phone to give her son a chance to drive safely. It took about twenty minutes before Andrew appeared, Matt waiting for him in the hallway.
"Dad. What happened? How is he?" Andrew tried to look over his father's shoulder and into Chase's room but the fact that they were practically the same hight prevented him from doing so.
"He fell ten feet off a ladder while doing drills. They intubated him to give his body a chance to heal but nothing is broken, just lots of internal and external bruising." Matt didn't want to hide anything from his son considering he was a firefighter too, knowing what the risks were.
"Can I see him?"
"Sure, your mom and Logan are there too."
"She must be freaking out. No way she let's him go through CFD training after that."
"Don't worry about that son, I'll talk to her. Go be with your brother." Andrew nodded and walked around his father and into his brother's room, finding his mom slumped on a chair, no doubt the sleep she was in was very light.
Matt made a few phone calls regarding the next shift, Kelly agreeing to step in as chief if Chase's condition didn't get better. Next call was to chief Thomas to have more information but unfortunately, he didn't have anymore information than what they were given by the nurse, chief Thomas glad nothing was broken. Matt returned to his family, praying that Chase would be strong enough to be extubated so he could wake up on his own. He left shortly after to go get some coffees with Andrew and some food for lunch. He knew no one would really be hungry but he also knew that they'd at least have to take a few bites.
It was late in the evening when the doctor came by to check on Chase. He looked over his chart and checked his vitals to make sure everything was ok.
"You're son had strong enough vitals that I think we should be good to extubate him, let him breathe on his own."
"How quickly will he wake up?" Logan questionned, clearly worried for his older brother.
"That will be up to him." A nurse came in to help the doc remove the tube, making sure Chase was hooked to his IV's.
"Thank you doc." Matt nodded and the the doc smiled back at him.
"You guys should go back home, get some sleep. I'll stay here with Chase."
"You need to come home too baby, get some rest." Abbey settled her head against Matt's torso as he was standing behind her.
"Someone needs to be here when he wakes up. Plus both you and Andrew picked up an extra shift tomorrow and Logan still has the academy in the morning."
"Why don't you stay with mom. I'll give Logan a ride home." Andrew suggested, Matt nodding. He needed to be there for Abbey a little bit longer in hope that Chase would wake up while he was there.
Both Andrew and Logan left, giving both their parents a hug before leaving them alone. "Hey, are you ok?" Matt pulled her up by the hand and held on to her.
"I'll be ok when our son wakes up." She mumbled into his chest.
"He'll be fine, I promise." Matt pulled her down with him on a chair, both of them snuggling together as they watched their son's still form. Matt left after another couple of hours, resigned to the fact that Chase wasn't waking up just yet and that he had shift in the morning.
Abbey fell asleep, the sky had turned into a deep shade of blue, only a few stars visible from the window of Chase's room. She was still in the clearly not so comfortable chair, her neck at a weird angle. A loud beeping woke her up, the clock against the wall telling her it was one in the morning as a soft glow filtered through the glass window from the hallway. She pressed on the help button and a nurse quickly came, the monitors beeping from the nurse's station.
"What's going on? Is he waking up?" Abbey stood from her chair, trying to make sense of the nurse's movements.
"Yes he is." Abbey sat on the side of his bed, his hand in hers.
"Come on baby, open your eyes. Listen to my voice." His hand twitched in hers. "That's it Chase, move it again." He moved it again, Abbey laughing as he did and his eyes slowly fluttered open. "Welcome back son." She kissed his forehead.
"Mom?" He croaked, his voice hoarse from having the tube down there for sevral hours.
"I'm here baby." She ran her fingers through his sandy blonde hair.
"What happened?"
"You fell off a ladder at the academy but you're fine now. Nothing's broken." The nurse made sure he was all good and left the mom have a little moment with her son. She took her cell out and dialed Matt's number, not wanting to wake up the whole house. Hey, is everything ok? Is Chase ok? Abbey could hear the concern in Matt's voice, something telling her that his insides were screaming at him that something was wrong. "He's ok, he's awake." She smiled down at Chase who was trying to get comfortable in the bed. Thank God. Tell him I'll be by before shift and the boys will probably want to come with me. "Alright. I'll see you in a few hours, I love you." I love you too. Abbey hung up the phone and put it on the little table next to Chase's bed. "Dad says that he'll be by before he goes on shift later."
"Is Logan ok?"
"Logan is fine. He was worried about you, we all were."
"Are you ok mom?" That boy was so more in tune with his mother than he realized. She chuckled and kissed his forehead.
"I'm fine now. Get some sleep so we can find out when we can get you back home.
"You should go home mom, I'm fine."
"You're not getting rid of me that easily. I'll stay right here." She sat back down in her chair and waited for Chase to fall asleep before she did, so happy that he was going to fine.
Abbey woke up, hearing voices in Chase's room. When she opened her eyes, Matt was sitting on the side of the bed, Andrew and Logan at the foot of the bed and they were all laughing.
"Morning." She stood up from the chair, all four of her boys looking at her.
"Morning mom." They only had a few more minutes together before both Matt and Logan had to leave, Andrew would be staying with them for a little while longer.
Chase was discharged after a few more days in the hospital. His body was still sore but he would make a full recovery. In the following days, Abbey and the girls got Molly's prepared for the twin's twenty first birthday that they would celebrate low key at the bar that had become a third home to all of them. They hadn't closed down the bar for the occasion but the whole house was there as well as all the now grown up kids. Chase and Logan were the last to turn legal and part os that made Abbey sad.
"I can't believe they're twenty one. Where did time go?" She was standing next to Matt, his arm around her waist.
"Away." He chuckled, taking a pull of his beer.
"Alright, where are the birthday boys?"
"Flirting over there." He pointed in the direction they were both standing, a girl on each side of them at the table they were sharing.
"I swear Kelly Severide is rubbing off on them." She sighed and then laughed.
"And who says that's a bad thing?" Kelly appeared on Matt's other side, signaling for Herrmann to give him another beer.
"Tell me again with who you're in a relationship with now?" Abbey countered, both Matt and Kelly looking at each other before starting laughing.
All three turned around at the comotion that could be heard behind them. "What the hell?" Kelly cursed under his breath.
"I don't think so." Matt kissed Abbey and headed towards the boys, hell bent on preventing this from getting out of hand. Both Kelly and himself made it to the boys as Chase tried to keep Logan away from Jordan Patterson while Andrew was keeping Patterson from throwing a punch at Logan. "What's going on here?" All three Casey kids looked at their father but in that small window, Patterson managed to get away from Andrew and lunged straight at Logan, throwing the first punch, Logan stumbeling slightly. He was quick on his feet and countered, hell bent on not letting Jordan Patterson win. They exchanged punches until Adam and Antonio stopped them, finally keeping them appart. Antonio gave Matt just one look and Matt nodded. Both Jordan and Logan were taken away by the officers, each in a car and both at the station. Matt only hoped that it would serve as a lesson to both boys.
a/n: So Chase had a close call at the academy but he's fine now but what will this accident mean for his academy training? And alright, so the rivalry between Logan and Jordan seems to be escalating really quick. Is this latest stunt going to stop both of them from becomming firefighters or will the lesson Matt is trying to teach them work?
I really hope that you guys liked this chapter and please take a few minutes to review. I always love reading what you guys think of it. - Sarra