Chapter 3
This week was rough, Jesse' interviews let me down, that's the reason I dragged myself to write this chapter or any of my stories. I'm not feeling inspired to write... I forced myself to finish this chapter because I had the plot on my mind... Here your update. Please, share your thought with me and inspire me... It's a long chapter, which I don't like I prefer to write a short one, this one is like 2 in 1 : )
Thank you for reading and sticking with me.
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The next day after Gabby and Matt's encounter, he felt quite ready to share the news with Brett. He knew he couldn't take long to tell her, soon their mutual friends would see Gabby walking around Chicago, showing her belly. Besides, he needed to figure out a way to tell Firehouse 51.
He went to her apartment and they talked about it or we would say they argue over it. And as he expected she didn't hide her frustration from him.
Flashback
"You can't be serious. How she could keep it from you for so long?" Brett was exasperated; Matt never had witnessed her like that.
"She had her reasons, Brett... and I'm not discussing them with you..." he pointed out sternly.
"Why not, Matt? We are together..." she questioned him across the kitchen counter, while Matt was leaning against the door frame, arms crossed over his chest.
"Yes... we are, but there are things that don't concern you... The main thing is she's pregnant with my child, that's it...You'll have to accept that".
"Okay, if you think a relationship works that way..." she sighed and turned around; he stared at her back for a full minute before saying something.
Matt took a deep breath.
"Things are complicated right now and won't get easier for a while, so if you don't want to continue our relationship, it's your choice..." Brett turned back abruptly.
"You want to break up with me?" she furrowed her eyebrows.
"I'm not saying that, but there is a baby coming, he needs me, providing for him will be in my list of priorities..." he uncrossed his arms, then walked in her direction
"I'll by your side all the way..."
When Matt got before her, she was looking down at the ground.
"... Although, you two getting close might mixing things up..." she raised her head, "... I need to know where we stand in our relationship..." she demanded from him.
"Nothing changes between us..."
"... I wasn't expecting to be a dad, I am still ecstatic... Everything is happening so fast, in two months he will be in my arms... So I'm not gonna force you into anything, Brett. However, Gabby and the baby will always be in my life..." he rested his hands over her shoulders.
She held his forearm gently.
"There is still one thing I need to tell you..."
She stared at him attentively waiting for him...
"... I invited her to live with me..."
"I'm sorry?" Brett swallowed hard. "What are you saying... Gabby is gonna live with you?" she blinked a few times.
"Yeah, It's a high-risk pregnancy-" she cut in his comment.
"Then she should be at the hospital, not in your apartment..." she uttered shamelessly.
Matt tilted his head, feeling uneasy after her words and she noticed it.
"She will, if the doctor thinks it's necessary, until there, I want her with me... I didn't have a chance to help her to go through this since the beginning. You may not get the right idea about this... but It's not the right time to be jealous or selfish..."
"Look, I'm sorry if it came across in the wrong way-" she tried to explain herself. "Please, don't get me wrong, but for one second don't you think this baby is not yours?"
"It's mine, Sylvie..." he spoke firmly and walked back to the door frame and leaning against it. "What I am doing it's the minimum as a father... I need her to trust me again-" Matt cut himself out.
"Trust you?" Brett scoffed.
Matt bit down his lip, he had said too much.
"She left you, not the other way around... I mean, she didn't even say goodbye to me..." she thought over how Gabby had left the first time so quickly.
"Let's focus on the matter... I'm gonna meet her again after the next shift, she hasn't decided if she will live with me... Besides, I intend to tell her about us... I'll take her to my apartment-"
"I'll go with you", she interjected.
"No, you won't" Brett's eyes widened, "... it's better if I do this alone... Maybe later, we can set up a conversation between you too..."
"You are just postponing it, Matt... How long we are supposed to live in the shadows about our feeling for each other trying not to hurt her... She will overcome it some time and down the road we can live around each other for the sake of this child, right?"
She moved forward, putting herself before him.
"I'm in this for the long haul, I know it will be hard, but she needs to hear it from both of us".
Matt put his hands on his hips.
"We are gonna do what I'm saying, it will be just me and Gabby and I want you to respect that".
Her eyes roamed his face for a few seconds, then she shook her head slightly.
The air got thick around them.
Matt kissed her forehead and pulled her to him; she wrapped her arms around his waist.
"I don't want to lose you..." she murmured.
"Everything is gonna be okay..." he replied, though internally he didn't feel it.
End of the flashback
"What time are you two meeting?" Brett asked Matt again; the first she asked they were starting their shift. The shift had ended and both were standing in the middle of the parking lot beside Firehouse 51.
Matt was getting in his car when Brett approached him, he sighed heavily as he heard her voice coming from behind him. He put his bag inside his truck and turned around to look at her.
"I'm sorry... It's just... I don't know... I think I should go with you..." she said nervously.
Matt narrowed his eyes at her.
"We both own Dawson an explanation... and when the baby gets here I'll be around him as well... because... I'm your girlfriend... right?" she gave him a tight smile.
Matt dragged a hand over his mouth.
"I see you later, okay", he kissed her on the cheek and got into his car. She watched him leaving as Foster was passing by her.
"Hey..." Foster tried to get her attention.
"Hi..." Brett responded weakly.
They started to walk towards their cars.
"You are okay?" Foster felt something was wrong with Brett.
"No, I'm a mess..." she ran a hand over her face. "... You have a minute?"
"Of course, we can talk in my car if you want..." Foster suggested.
They got into Foster's car.
"Tell me, you and Matt had an argument..."
Foster's side was against her seat and Brett was sitting straight, looking the other way.
When she didn't respond.
"What is it? It's Gabby?" she sensed could be it.
Her head whipped around.
"How do you know?" she was surprised like Foster had read her mind.
"You don't need to be a prophet to guess... The last time I saw you like this, you said you caught Matt checking up on her on the social media..." she answered honestly.
Brett clasped her hands together in her lap.
"Yeah... I remember that... I think she will be a ghost in our lives forever" feeling upset, "... mainly because now she is pregnant" she revealed.
"What? Are you kidding me?" Foster queried lifting her eyebrow.
"No, it's not a joke, ... she is six months pregnant... when he went to that Fundraiser, they got together... and it happened..." she completed unenthusiastic.
"I have seconds thoughts if the child is his..." Foster confessed.
"Yeah, me too. I even shared my thought with Matt, but he brushed it off... he is convinced that the child is his... The other way, she would never hurt Matt that way. This child is his..."
"If you say so..." Foster shrugged.
"There is more..."
Foster waited patiently for her to continue.
"Keep going..." Foster nudged her.
"They are seeing each other this morning because Matt has invited her to live with him at least until the baby was born and he's telling her about us..."
"No way she will agree to live with him knowing you two are together... unless-" Foster trailed off.
"Unless what...?"
"She intends to have him back and living with him will make it easier for her".
Brett closed her eyes briefly.
"What do I do? I can't have that... I love him, Emily... we've done a lot of progress trying to navigate through our past with Gabby...".
"You have to put yourself out there, my friend".
"I like Gabby, I really like her, but she had her chance... You know... I'm perfectly fine with them getting closer, however, Gabby will see me beside Matt. I truly believe we can face this as a couple..."
"That's my girl!" Foster cheered her up.
"Matt turned me down when I suggested that I should go with him..."
"It is not good... Remember the last time you let them be..." Foster tilted her head.
"... I pushed him to her... She got pregnant... I need to be there... by his side..."
"... Go ahead, show her you won't back off..."
Brett reached for Foster's hand and squeezed it as they smiled at each other.
15 minutes later
"... the next appointment is on Friday... Do you want to go with me?" Gabby asked shyly.
"I'd love to... never asked you... you know the gender?" his arms were folded over the table.
"I wanted to... but I've always thought we could do that together one day, so I declined every time the doctor questioned if I was ready to know if it was a boy or a girl..." she looked around before her eyes met his again.
He smiled softly at her. He would be happy with either one, though a little girl with Gabby's features would be lovely, he had seen a lot of photos of her as a kid, she was adorable, always smiling...
"I'm ready when you are ready..." he proposed.
"Then we will find out on Friday".
Gabby took a sip of her juice. They went quiet for a few seconds, while Matt was enjoying his coffee.
"Matt... I thought over our last conversation and maybe we should not mix things up... you know... this kid is a huge thing, but living together..." she trailed off.
"My apartment is nearby the hospital, if an emergency comes up, we'll get there in time... another thing, you can save money for a couple of months..."
"Actually, my aunt offered her house to me, I mean, she has an office and she'll make into a bedroom for me..." Her aunt Carmen has lived with her husband and her three sons -teenagers.
"Are you sure? My apartment is big enough for two people live easily... I have a spare bedroom, pretty comfortable... You're gonna feel home..."
Gabby shifted in her seat... Home... They had had a home together in the past and everything had burned out literally.
Matt felt she got tense after his words.
"I want to help the best way I can... I feel I missed a lot of your pregnancy, so I want to make up for the last time..."
"It's my fault it happened..." she confessed sincerely.
"Let not dwell on it, okay?" It got him angry and sad.
Gabby moved her eyes up, over his shoulders trying to figure out if she was seeing things straight.
"What is it?" Matt turned around to check what got her attention.
"...Brett is here...", Gabby exclaimed.
"Brett?" Matt's eyes widened
"What a coincidence" Gabby stated.
Brett was clearly looking for someone.
"Please, give me a minute" Matt stood up and went in Brett's direction.
They stayed close to the main entrance. For a minute Gabby saw a little agitation between them. Then she saw Brett taking Matt's hand in hers and let it go quickly. She looked at Gabby, then returned her attention to Matt.
"You told her about us, Matt?"
"Sylvie, I'm asking you calmly, please let me handle this, okay?"
"We are in this together or not, Matt?"
They didn't see when Gabby positioned herself close to them.
"What's happening here?"
"Gabby... I... "
"Nothing is happening" Matt added.
"The other waitress from the table beside ours... just told me that it is a long time she hadn't seen you two here..." there is a lump on Gabby's throat. "... that she always thought of you two as a lovely couple..."
"Gabby, I... I can explain... Look..." Matt's voice was trembling.
"How long have you two been dating..." tears rolled down her face.
Brett ran a hand through her hair nervously.
"Don't say! I don't want to hear a damn thing from you two..." she said through clenched her teeth.
The three standing next to the entrance were unsurprisingly getting attention from the other customers.
"We fell in love... We never planned to-"
"Brett, stop it" he insisted.
Gabby turned her back to them and Matt followed her steps, she was going back to their table, when she felt lightheaded. She put her hand over her belly and the other on the table to keep her from fall.
Matt put his hands on her waist from behind.
"Let me help you".
"I'm fine, don't touch me..." she pulled away from him.
"Sit down, please".
Gabby closed her eyes for a few seconds, Matt was standing in front of her...
"I'll call 911..." he pulled out his phone.
Gabby feeling slightly better, then she grabbed her bag and started to make her way to leave the coffee shop. Matt left some dollars on the table.
"You can't drive, Gabby... not like this". Matt's phone was in his hand.
She didn't reply, she kept going, her steps were unstable; Brett was already waiting outside.
"I'll drive you home... Gabby... listen to me..."
In her way out, Gabby saw a policeman coming in her direction, when he was passing her, she grabbed his wrist.
"Sir... that is man stalking me..." she turned her head to look at Matt walking behind her.
The policeman stared at Matt and he stood tight. Brett saw the whole scene astonished.
"I want to get to my car and he's following me..." she mumbled, her tongue was heavy.
"Gabby, don't do that..." Matt tried to reason with her.
"What's your name, Sir?"
"Matthew Casey..." the policeman wrote down his name.
"I'm not feeling okay..." she said. "I just want to get in my car..." she took a deep breath.
"You can go, Mrs..."
"Dawson..." she responded.
"You can go, I'll take care of it for you..." the policeman talked to her.
"Thank you..." she murmured.
She tried to make her way as fast as she could, not turning back to check what would happen to Matt.
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