Matt was sitting at a desk in a spare room, staring down at his bloody hands. Gabby was leaning up against the wall with her arms crossed and tears still streaming down her face. She looked up at him.

"Matt. Please. I can't do this anymore. You have been ignoring me since you got here!" She pleaded.

He looked up just as a tear ran down his face. She saw this and make her way over to him and sat on his lap facing him. She whipped the tear from his face and slowly brought her forehead to his.

"Whatever happened in there, you need to tell me. It's the only way you are going to get over the trauma." Her voice was so quiet, it made his heart beat quicker.

He wanted to tell her. He wanted to tell her more than anything. It was ripping him apart from the inside out but he couldn't find the words, every time he even thought about telling her all he could see was the look in Brett's eye the first time she looked at him after she was raped. Gabby pulled away and looked at him with a slightly angry look.

"Look. I get that you had a traumatic experience. But Matt you gotta remember that you were the one that went there. No one made you go there and i was the one that told you not to!" Her voice was raising. "How dare you leave me and your son with just a note explaining that 'You wanted me to know how much you loved me and Jamie.' Come on. If you really loved us - your family - you would never have gone and risked your life when the cops had everything under control!" She stood up and walked to the other side of the room before turning to face him. "You always said that you wanted to have a kid, now that you have one, you seem like you're too busy risking your life and trying to 'save the day' than to care about how your son would feel not growing up with a father." She was crying so hard but not tears of sadness like she was earlier. They were tears of pure anger. She was fuming for the way that Matt acted and was holding herself back from slapping him. She began to walk towards the door when he spoke. His voice was husky, not like is always was. The love and the passion and the happiness was still a distant memory but tiredness, sadness, despair and frustration were heard loud and clear.

"Can i see him?" He said quietly but anger was singing in his voice. "Can i see my son?"

Gabby laughed. "Are you kidding me right now? No seriously is this some sick joke?"

Matt stood up, sending the chair flying. "I want to see my son!" He roared. "I went to save Brett for you, Gabby. You know that i love you and Jamie more than anything, but i went to go and save her for you. She is your partner and it kills me to even think about how you would feel if anything would have happened to her-"

Gabby cut him off. "If anything happened to her?! You think i wouldn't care if anything happened to you! Well, that really shows who you think i am then. Matt-"

"If you wonder why i wasn't saying anything to you it was because every time i was going to say something about what happened i would see the look in Sylvie's eyes the first time she looked at me after she came round after being raped and beaten!..." Matt shouted. "...Or...Or how it felt to be practically jump started by a car battery. Brett and i were tortured and i apologise that it was hard for me to tell you what happened in the first place. Look at me... I am covered in blood and i am cut to shreds!" He was crying but rage was pumping through his body as every tear rolled down his face. "The only thing that kept me alive in that warehouse was the hope that i was going to come home to you and Jamie. Then, when i did finally come home, broken and bruised, i just get told that i am a terrible father that doesn't care about his son."

"I'm sorry but i didn't really want to tell our son, when he was older, why he was never going to see his father ever again." She paused, her voice quietning. "I can't do this..."

She turned and opened the door, Matt's voice desperately calling after her before the door slammed shut. She began to walk down the hallway whipping her tears quickly from her face, just as Antonio walked into the room. She stopped and stared at him, her mouth open a little.

"Gabby?" He asked as he began to make his way quickly over to her. "What...What's going on?..." He pulled Gabby closer as she began to sob loudly into his shoulder.

"I...I...I couldn't do it anymore." She murmured. "All the lies, he...he..."

"Hey, it's ok." He said as he stroked her hair lovingly. "It's ok!"

She pulled away and whipped her face quickly. "I'm gunna go home. I need to go and pick Jamie up from Kim's." She said beginning to walk towards the door.

"Gabby."

She turned to face him.

"Is this the end?"

She just looked at him and walked out of the room towards the stairs.

Gabby pulled up to Burgess's house, got out and walked up to her door.

"Gabby! Hey!" Kim said excitedly as she opened the door and hugged her.

"Hi" She replied quietly.

"Everything ok, did they find Matt and Sylvie?"

"Err... Yeah, Brett's at the hospital and Matt is back at the district. Anyway, how has he been?" Gabby asked trying to change the subject off Matt.

"He has been fine. I don't know, yesterday and today he was really quiet. It was just as if he knew something was wrong." Burgess said leading Gabby into the living room where Jamie was sitting on the floor with a police car in his hand.

Gabby walked up to him, crouched down in front of him and picked him up. She smiled then looked at the car in his hand.

"What is this?" She laughed, taking the police car gently out of Jamie's small hands.

"Well, it's the best toy he will ever have!" Kim joked.

"Hmmm, we'll see about that!" she said before lightly tickling his tummy making him laugh, Gabby and Kim laughing with him. "He is just like his father.." she blurted out. Then covering her mouth in shock with her free hand. "Well, we better be going. I bet Ruzek will be home soon and we wouldn't want to ruin your fun!"

"Oh, no no! You're both always welcome, all three of you in fact."

Gabby smiled. "Thanks again for doing this."

"Of course! Jamie has to be the best baby i have looked after. He is always so happy, he hasn't cried once when he has been here."

"Yeah, he is good!" Gabby replied, lightly kissing her son on the head. "Well, we will leave you to it. See you soon."

"Yeah, and as i said, just give me a call the next time you need him looked after."

"Thank you!" Gabby called as she walked down the path.

She heard the door close behind her as she finished strapping Jamie into his seat and walking round to the driver's side door. When she was in the car, she started the engine and pulled away. She looked in the mirror at Jamie, who was looking at her with a smile. "You mean the world to me you know. Mummy loves you!"

Jamie just kept smiling.

Matt was sitting back at the desk with his head in his hands when Antonio walked in. He sat opposite him and placed and placed a cup of coffee in front of him.

"Thanks." He said taking a big mouthful of the warm, bitter liquid.

"Gabby is just over reacting. She has had a lot on her plate at the moment."

"Oh i totally understand! She has had to deal with Jason, Me being taken, Then having a baby and now all this." Matt slowly ran his finger around the rim of his mug. "I just feel really guilty that's all. I shouldn't have spoken to her like that, that's all."

"I'm sure that she feels the same way to. She loves you and i know that for a fact. You just need to give her a bit of space that's all."

"Yeah, but i need to talk to her. About Jamie..."

Kelly was standing next to Danny at the entrance to the CFD Paramedic academy.

"You ready to do this?" He asked as he wrapped his arm around her waist.

"I'm more than ready!" She said as she leaned up and lightly kissed him on the lips.

"You know, i know two incredible paramedics and i'm sure they will help you with your exam revision and any questions."

"Yeah, thanks kelly. Oh my i better get going!" She said looking up from her watch and began to walk towards the door.

"I love you!" Kelly called from across the courtyard.

Danny turned around and smiled. "I love you to!"

When She entered the building she was instantly overwhelmed with the building. She was standing in a huge room. The wall to her right was covered in photos, awards and badges of what she guessed was either the fallen or the people that had graduated from her and gone on to achieve amazing things. She glanced over to the left and she saw a huge wooden desk swarmed with people in grey training shirts and white smart shirts with black ties. She took a deep breath and made her way towards the direction of the desk. Sitting at the desk was a grey haired older woman in a smart shirt, black tie and the now familiar red badge of the CFD.

"Can i help you?" The woman asked as she moved her glasses to the tip of her nose and put her pen down lightly on the small stack of case files in front of her.

Danny walked up to the desk. "Hi, errrr...I'm Danny Santiago. I am here to begin my training as a paramedic."

The woman smiled and turned to her computer just to the right of her. She looked at the screen and began frantically tapping at the keyboard. A few seconds later she turned back to Danny.

"Welcome to the CFD." She started as she reached down behind the desk and pulled out a pair of pants and a grey 'Candidate' t-shirt. "I take it that you have a pair of work boots. The changing rooms are over there. If you look at the main board over there..." She pointed to the electrical drill board in the corner of the room. "... All the theory classrooms and practical drill halls will be put up there with the room name, Time of class, directions and Chief. Here is your time table and you will need to get changed and then go to the welcome meeting in the main drill hall in ten minutes."

Danny picked up the clothes and shoved them into her duffel bag. "Thank you!" She said over her shoulder as she walked towards the changing rooms. She could feel the excitement bubbling up inside her, the atmosphere of the whole building sent good chills up her spine. She was ready for any challenge that the academy threw at her and was ready to show the world that she was worth more than it thought.

Brett was laying in a hospital bed reading the weekly paramedic's magazine that Cruz had brought her when he came to visit with Boden and Herrmann when Severide walked in.

"Hey you!" he said making her look up and smile a sheepish smile. "How ya doing?"

"I have been better..." She admitted. Her voice was husky and clearly still sore after the dramas of the three weeks before.

"I brought you these!" He said happily as he pulled out a big bunch of flowers from behind him.

"Awww Kelly you shouldn't have!"

"Oh, come on really? It is the least i could have done!" He said leaning down and hugging her. "I heard what happened" He paused "Sylvie, i'm sorry..."

"Kelly, what happened, happened and nothing can change that. One thing i am grateful of is that Matt came. If he didn't come..." She took a deep breath then exhaled. "... Jeff would have killed me."

"Matt knows he did the right thing coming for you..."

"Yeah, i just feel really guilty about what happened to him. How is he?"

Kelly looked at his hands.

"Severide. Is Matt ok? I mean he has Gabby and everything right?" Her voice was filling with worry.

"Matt and Gabby have had an argument." He paused and looked up. "It's serious. Matt should be at home now but i'm not sure what he and Gabby have got planned for the future..."

"What?! So Matt and Gabby aren't together anymore?" She asked desperately.

"No." He replied bluntly.

"This is all my fault..."

Gabby was sitting on the sofa watching her son crawly quickly towards her.

"God you're growing up quickly!" she said as she picked him up and placed him on her lap.

"Mummy!" He said happily with his arms stretched out.

Gabby's jaw dropped then she couldn't stop smiling. "Oh you're a clever boy!" She said excitedly. "Your daddy would be so proud..." She whispered as she kissed him lightly on the head while he casually carried on trying to say basic words he had heard his parents say.

"Daddy!" Jamie said pointing to a figure standing in the doorway. Gabby looked round and to her surprise Matt was staring down in disbelief as he heard his son say his name.

"Daddy, Daddy, Daddy!" Jamie chanted as he stretched his arms out for Matt to come and pick him up.

"Did you miss me?" He asked with a little laugh.

Jamie nodded his head.

"He is just like you. Quick to learn anything..." Gabby said quietly with a small smile.

Matt looked up and smiled a sheepish smile back at her before looking back down at Jamie.

"Sweetie. You're going to have to say goodnight to daddy because it's your bedtime..."

Jamie leant up and kissed Matt on the cheek, making a really exaggerated kiss sound that made him laugh quietly.

"Night Night Daddy!" He said as he wrapped his arms around Matt's neck.

After Gabby came out of his room after putting him to sleep, Matt was standing looking at a picture of the three of them. When she walked in he looked up and gently placed the photo in the same place as it was before he picked it up.

"Gabby... Look i want appologize..."

"Matt. We need to talk..."