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a/n: Thank you to everyone who reviewed my last chapter and welcome to the new readers and followers. I'm sorry this chapter has taken so much time to write but life has a terrible way of ringing in 2016 and it hasn't been easy for me to sit down and actually get sme writing done. Enjoy.
Matt and Gabby have been living in a state of bliss since Gabby accepted the key to his house. She would surprise him on Friday's when he finished at eight, picking up the girls from school and getting all the kids to do their homework and getting them to eat dinner, putting them in some pj's and in front of a movie before getting dinner ready for them on the stove at low until he made it home and showered, giving them some alone time.
The kids had been weirded out the first time it had happened, not used to someone else having access to the house before.
"Gabby?" Grace had questionned her as soon as they had stepped foot through the door.
"Yeah sweetie?" The girls knew what they needed to do while Gabby undressed the boys and Valentina.
"How come you have a key to come into the house?" Gabby had been taken aback a little bit, expecting Matt to have already had the talk with the girls.
"Well daddy gave it to me."
"Does that mean you're going to be living with us?" Emma questionned next.
"No. It means that I can help daddy a little bit when he's on shift with you guys so you don't always have to go at your aunt Christie's house for the night."
"Can we have a slumber party then mom?" Filippe asked.
"Please mom." Luis gave Gabby his best pouty face, the girls teaming up with them.
"I don't see why not but you all have to listen to me are we understood?"
"YES!" They all screamed making Gabby laugh and a slumber party they had.
The front door opened and closed and Gabby smiled at herself in the kitchen. She had seen all five kids asleep in the living room a few minutes before.
"Smells great in here babe." Matt placed his hands on Gabby's hip, dropping a few open mouth kisses on her neck.
"Thanks. How was shift?"
"Crazy. It was one call after another. I'm glad to be home."
"I'm just glad you're back safely." She turned around in his arms and wrapped her arms around her neck, leaning up on her toes to kiss him.
"You know I'm always careful out there. How was it with the girls?"
"It's always great Matt, stop worrying about it." She smiled.
"You know I always worry, it's five kids to deal with."
"And I worry every time you get on that truck."
"I promise I'll always do everything in my power to come back to you and the kids after a shift." Gabby closed her eyes and took a deep breath.
"I'll hold you up to that." She leaned up on her tip toes and pressed her lips to his, giving him another pec. "Dinner will be ready as soon as you're out of the shower.
"I'll hurry then." He kissed her again before heading upstairs for a hot shower and a change of clothes. He came back down dressed in clean jeans and a t-shirt while Gabby was already putting everything on the table.
"Hey, hey, let me help you."
"Just sit down, you've had a long day."
"And so have you." He countered.
"Nah, it was a quiet day." She handed him a beer as he sat down.
"Good then. You staying the night?"
"What? You got a hot date with someone else?" She teased him.
"Stick around and I'll show you hot." He got up and gave her a crushing kiss, taking her breath away.
"I can't wait." She whispered. They ate with light conversation and did the dishes together before turning in. The kids were all sleeping in a pile of pillows and blankets in the living room. She stopped at the very bottom of the stairs and looks behind her towards the living room where the kids were, Matt placing his hands on her hips. "I could get used to this." She smiled.
"So could I." Gabby looked back up towards the stairs and they went up, Matt kissing her neck as they went and a hot night they had as promised.
Gabby and Matt spent the week end together with the kids, watching movies and playing games, enjoying some family time before they both had to go back on shift the following Monday. The following weeks were mostly the same with them spending as much time together as possible.
Matt was on shift once morning, sitting at his desk, staring at the new pictures he had framed up. On top of the one with his daughters and the one with Gabby, he had added one of all five kids laughing and another one of all seven of them on an outing at the city fair.
"You win the lottery on that one." Matt looked up to find Severide leaning against the door frame of his office with asmile of his own.
"I know. She's amazing and she's so good with the girls. I don't even know I got that lucky." He smiled back at him.
"Well you deserved to be happy and it's you're time so just enjoy it." They were interrupted by the overhead paging system. They looked up, listening to the kind of call they would have
Truck 81, Squad 3, engine 51, Ambulance 61, Battallion chief 25, traffic incident downtown.
Matt stood up and both Lieutenants made their way to their respective vehicles. The drive across the bridge was quick and from the smoke that was coming on the left, firehouse 51 parked and all hands were on deck. 61 checked on people with minor injuries while the guys from Truck and Squad prepared for the rescue of a bus full of people, Boden calling for medic back-up to assist the girls. Straight ladders were set against the side of the bus while Squad worked on opening the side door. Herrmann, Cruz, Severide and Casey went inside the bus to rescue the passengers, Otis and Mouch on the receiving end of the first victims that were capable of getting out of the bus by themselves.
"What's the status on the door?" Boden asked Squad that were clearly having trouble with it.
"Still working on it chief." Capp grunted.
Casey and Severide were the last ones inside the bus, smoke thickening as they worked on victims that were more banged up from the crash.
"Casey, we got to get out of here soon, the smoke is too thick."
"I know Sev." He kept working on the victim he was with. The woman was pretty banged up, a gash to her forehead that was pretty deep. He pressed on the wound to stop the bleeding but it was bleeding pretty heavily and he needed to hurry up to get her to the paramedics for some treatment.
"Come on Casey, we have to get out of here." Severide insisted as he lifted the victim he was with to the window to hand him over to Cruz that was waiting on the other side, the front door of the bus still nowhere to be opened, the guys from Squad having given up on that.
Severide waited at the bottom of the ladder, waiting for Casey to bring his victim over to him so they could pack up and get the hell out of there but a blast propelled him on his back, a cloud of black smoke coming out of the bus. Severide grunted as he tried to get up from the ground, something pinning his leg.
"Help." He yelled, Capp and Tony coming to help him remove what was blocking his leg. "Where's Casey?" He looked around, not seeing him anywhere.
"Casey, report." Boden called into his radio, getting no answer. "Casey, report." He called again, only getting static this time.
a/n: Oops, I did it again! But I'm not really sorry about it hihi. I decided to write this as a two part because otherwise it would have been too long. I really hope that you enjoyed it and hopefully I'll be able to write the second part soon. Don't forget, please take a few minutes to review before you go, I always love to read your thoughts. - Sarra
