Aiden sat shaking in front of the tv, looking as the news reported about the fire downtown. He looked as the news filmed the firemen running into the building when he heard a loud yawn from the kitchen and Matt came walking into the room, with a bowl of cereal and handed it to Aiden as his attention was suddenly drawn to the TV. He sat down next to Aiden and put the sound a little louder.

''Three firefighters have gone missing in the collapsed building.''

Aiden looked up at Matt, tears in his eyes and Matt laid his arm around Aiden. ''They are going to be found, I am sure.'' He said to Aiden as he looked back at the TV. Everytime one of his fellow firefighters got hurt or was in danger, it hurt him.

''Did you ever get hurt on the job?'' Aiden asked fearful and Matt nodded.

''Twice...one time when you and Lauren were really young and once before you were born.''

Aiden almost started to cry and Matt hugged him. ''But I am still here and i promise I will never let something happen to me. It's a dangerous job, but I always make sure that I got home and we all try our best to get home every shift.''

Aiden nodded, slowly. He did not seem really convinced but his dad hugged him again and he wanted to believe his dad would be fine every time he went to the dangerous job. He had always known his dad's job was dangerous but he had never though about it like this. He knew his dad could het hurt but somehow he had always banned those thoughts from his mind.

"what happened? " he asked then as he looked at his father and Matt looked back at the TV as he thought of a way to describe both of his accidents on the job.

"Both times, the building collapsed while we were still getting the people out. The first time a beam fell and it hit me. " Matt bow his head and moved his hair aside a little bit and showed Aiden the thin red scar.

"the other time I broke my femur. My upper leg. Can you remember when I Walked on crutches? " matt asked, being open to his son as he knew Aiden had to know the dangers of the job but at the same time he was also scared to scare the boy even more.

"did you ever lose somebody in a fire? " Aiden asked and Matt looked to floor.

"we lost a lot of good men in the job." matt said, gloomy and Aiden was scared he hurt his dad by asking. Maybe he was pulling open a lot of nasty memories his dad had wanted to forgot about.

"I lost my best friend Andy on the job. He was the father of ben and griffin in florida. He died in a fire. " matt said and Aiden nodded, sad his father had lost his best friend in the job and when they had visited them in florida Aiden had found out their father was not there but he never had guessed their father had been a firefighter. It only made him more scared but he also felt even more respect for the danger his father was facing every shift and it frightened him.

"I also lost Hallie in a fire. " matt mumbled then and Aiden looked at him again but his dad seemed thinking about something far away in his mind.

"who was Hallie?" Lauren suddenly asked as she entered the room as she had heard her dad say a female name.

"I... Another time. " matt said as he stood up and left the living room. Not wanting to recall the night she had passed. The night she was killed.

That night, after the awful news the firefighters hadn't survived the collapse aiden could not fall asleep as he was crying and thought about their families as well as his own dad.

Once it could be his family losing their father.

When he fell asleep it meant nothing good.

Aiden turned around in bed. Sweating, trembling.

His dad was running from the flames and Aiden saw him getting closer but when Matt was almost there the flames suddenly intensified and swallowed Matt up. Suddenly his dad was gone in the flames. Aiden cried, yelled. Wanted his dad to answer but his dad was gone. Gone in the flames.

Aiden woke up, his heart beating hard in his chest as he jumped out of bed and ran down the stairs, trying to catch up with his dad before he could go to shift.

"I t want you to go. " he cried then and Matt turned around, surprised.

"What is wrong?" matt asked worried and Aiden started to sob.

"I am afraid something will happen to you at work. I don't want you to go. " he sobbed then and Matt hugged him, feeling bad the boy was so worried after yesterday.

"I promise... " matt sighed then as he realised Aiden would be hurt if he got hurt and he broke his promise.

"I promise you that I will try my best to get home every shift safely. That's all I can promise you. "he said as he looked Aiden in the eyes and the boy started to nod and hugged his dad.

"good luck on saving people. You are my hero. Not like batman, but my real hero. " the boy whispered as he held his dad tightly, hoping that one day he could step in his dad's footsteps. He wanted to be a hero too.

NOTE: short kinda sad chapter. Matt will tell the twins more about Hallie later. But will Aiden really become a firefighter?

I am so so so sorry the capitals are messed up in this chapter. Today I spend the whole day away from home to get the key to my new apartment. That's also why the chapter is so short because I had to write it all in my phone. I really hope you don't mind. My phone has it's own ways with capitals: not doing them when it should.

Thank you so much and please leave a review with what you though of this chapter and what you wanna see next :)