Disclaimer: I own nothing except my imagination and the kids names.

a/n: Alright so as promised, here is a new chapter on my day off (well three if you count my two other updates). I want to thank everyone who reviewed last chapter and I'd also like to welcome all the new readers on board and I hope you like what you're seeing so far. so this story is called Family Chaos and it wouldn't be fair to have it without it so here's a little chapter on chaos in a classroom, I hope you like it.


The days after having the Dawsons over, things had gotten back to the way they were in the Casey household. Matt returned on shift with the rest of 51 and the girls were at school, then going to Christie's for dinner and bed, she would bring them to school the following morning. The shift started pretty quiet but it quickly became heavy with calls and barely any time to catch their breaths. After coming back from a call at an elementary school, some people dropping their bodies on a couch or a chair and others heading for the shower. Matt splashed from water on his face, clearny having no time for a shower since he had to get that report done. He hated having paperwork pile up so he took a habit of doing it as soon as they got back from a call. Only after it was written up and handed back to Boden that he headed back to his office for his things and a well deserved shower. He barely got the time to sit down in his chair at the head of the table that he phone rang. He looked at it and scrunched his eyebrows as he saw it was the school calling.

"This is Matt Casey." I am sorry to bother you at work Mr Casey but it seems that the girls have gotten into a scuffle in class. I know that it's not ideal since you are on shift but we would need you to come down as soon as you can so we can straighten this all out. "Just left me clear it with my chief and I'll be on my way." He hung up and hung his head. It was the first time that Matt had gotten anything remotely negative about the girls since starting kindergarten and it had to be something big as a first offence. He got up and ignored everyone's glances and headed into the back and into chief's office.

"What can I do for you Casey?"

"Do you think that Herrmann can be acting lieutenant?"

"What's going on?" Matt closed the door behind him so they could have this conversation in private. It's not that he didn't want the rest of the house to know because they would eventually but he wanted to get to the bottom of this first before talking about it with everybody else.

"The girls got into a fight at school."

"Is everything ok?"

"I have no idea. They want me to come down and straighten everything out, it shouldn't take long."

"That's fine, just keep your radio on."

"Thank you chief." Matt walked out of chief's office and headed straight for his truck. He wanted to resolve this quickly before having to finish shift and really deal with it at home.


Gabby's day had started messy. She woke up later than what she was used to and struggled to wake all three kids, specially the twins who were unwilling to participate. She finally managed to get them ready and fed and to school and daycare without too much tardiness and drove quickly to work without getting into trouble on the roads. She huffed as she made it to the peds department, she hated being late.

"Sorry I'm late girls." She sat at her work station and started looking over her patient files.

"How many times do I have to tell you Gabby to just call me when you're running late?"

"I know Nat but I HATE being late and the boys just didn't want to cooperate this morning." She scribbled down some notes on post-it's to make it easier for her to remember her patients conditions and particular diets without having to go though all the paperwork.

"So how did the dinner with your parents go?" Jenny inquired next to her. She had told them everything about what led up to that dinner and how she was afraid that it would turn out into one big interrogation.

"It was actually good. The kids all had fun together and my dad didn't chew Matt's head off so it was good." She smiled at them.

"What about the L word? That come out?" Lindsay laughed, making Gabby blush.

"He didn't!" Nathalie exclaimed from where she was perched atop the nurse's station.

"Actually, I said it first." Everyone clapped and laughed just as Gabby's phone started vibrating on the desk, the school's number flashing on her screen. "What now? This is Gabby Dawson." I'm sorry to bother you miss Dawson but Filippe and Luis got into a little fight and I was wondering if you could come so we could straighten everything out. "I'm at work right now. Just let me make arrangements to free myself and I'll be there as soon as I can." She hung up her phone and placed it roughly back on the desk, all three nurses looking at her. "You've got to be kidding me." She growled.

"What's going on Gabby?" Nat was the head nurse so she needed to know about it.

"The boys got into a fight at school and they want me to come straighten it out." She huffed. "Would it be ok if I skipped lunch hour later and take that hour now to go take care of this?"

"Just get out of here and fix it, I'll hold down the fort for you."

"Have I told you recently that you are the best boss EVER?" She grinned.

"Stop sucking up and get out of here." Nat chuckled.

"Thanks, I'll owe you one big time." She got up and headed back to the locker room to grab her purse and headed out to go see what had happened. She thanked god that the school was close to the hospital and she parked it and walked inside, almost bumping into someone as she approached the principal's office.

"Matt, what are you doing here? Aren't you supposed to be on shift?" She questionned as he steadied her.

"Got a phonecall. Something about the girls getting into a fight. What are you doing here?" Realisation settled into her as he said those words.

"The same thing. This day could not get any worst."

"It'll be ok, let's just go see what happened." They just weren't prepared from what they saw in front of them. All four kids were sitting next to each other with Miss Alice between them and two other boys on the other side of her.

"What happened?" Matt questioned his daughters just as the principals office door opened.

"Are Mr Casey and Miss Dawson arrived yet?" The scretary looking at miss Alice, clearly not seeing both Matt and Gabby standing there.

"We're here." Gabby made her presence known and the woman smiled at them.

"Mrs Peterson will see you now and I'll stay with all six kids." The secretary announced, Miss Alice geting up from her seat and followed the couple in. They all took a seat in front of the principal's desk and all hoped that it wasn't as bad as their minds were thinking.

"First of all, I'm sorry I had to pull the two of you from your work but I felt we needed to talk about this."

"It's alright, I just want to know what happened so it won't happen again." Matt turned down his radio that was emitting a call that wasn't for him.

"Well I'm sorry to tell you that it might happen again and there's not much we can do about it except keep talking with the kids." She continued.

"What happened exactly?" Gabby asked the question both she and Matt had on their minds.

"Well we were doing an activity where the kids were playing with block to teach them to be organized and work on their concentration skills and the next thing I know, Nathan is telling Grace about not having a mommy so I went and intervened because he wasn't being nice. But one thing led to another and Luis came to Grace's defence only to have James tell him that his father wasn't even around either and it just escalated." She looked down at the floor, clearly not comfortable telling this story. "I'm really sorry." She looked up at both parents, red claiming her cheeks out of embarrassment.

"It's ok." Gabby smiled at her. "The kids love you and you're doing a great job with them."

"Thank you miss Dawson."

"Call me Gabby." They both smiled at each other.

"I know that it's not an easy situation and we talk a lot to the kids about how different they are and the twins have gotten very close to each other and I'm happy that they have each other's back but what they did wasn't ok." Matt said. He understood completely what was happening here because he had been in their shoes when he was younger after his father was shot but they needed to deal with this.

"What you maybe don't know is that Matt and I are seeing each other and I know it's a difficult situation." Gabby added to the conversation. "We'll have a good long discussion with all four of them." She promised.

"Alright. We will also keep an eye on our end to make sure it won't happen again. Alice, do you mind going to get th two sets of twins please?" Alice smiled at the principal and went to get the kids.

Both sets went to their respective parent and settled into their sides, the principal having the final say. "I know it's not easy and your friends are not always nice about it but I don't tolerate fighting in the classrooms." She started, all four kids nodding, giving the principal their full attention because they knew they were in trouble. "When someone says not so nice things to you, I want you to go talk to Miss Alice about it and she will take care of it, so I make myself clear?"

"Yes ma'am." all four kids said it together, knowing what respect for their elders meant.

"Alright so I'll let you four get back to class and thank you for coming." She stood up and shook both Matt and Gabby's hand.

"Thank you for letting us know, we'll have a good talk withthem about it too." Matt promised and took the kids and turned to leave, the secretary returning.

"Nathan and James's parents just arrived." She informed the principal.

"You can make them come in please." The parents crossed paths as Miss Alice took all four kids back to class while the last two were being talked to in the principal's office.

Matt and Gabby walked hand in hand towards the exit when they were forced to seperate to go back to their respective cars. "Matt, we need to sit down with the kids and talk to them about this, about us, where we stand."

"I know baby and we will. This is a new situation for all of us so it will take a few adjustments but we'll work it out like we always do." He smiled at her and leaned down to kiss her.

"Alright. Now get back to work and stay safe."

"I will. I'll talk to you later, I love you."

"I love you too." They kissed one last time before they parted and went back to work.

This was a new situation for all parties involved and if they wanted to have it work, they needed to bring the kids on it and that was a discussion that would come soon enough.


a/n: Alright so we all know that kids are mean and I know it's not an easy situation to be in to have a parent not present(for whatever reason) but kids don't always understand that and I wanted the kids to have this little fight with other classmates because ultimately, it will for Matt and Gabby to talk with their kids about their own relationship and what that will mean to all seven of them.

I really hope you liked it and please take a few minutes to review and tell me what you thought about it. - Sarra