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

A/n: Thank you to everyone who left a review on the last chapter, making the count to 600 something. Also, I want to welcome all the new followers, I hope you guys like it so far. So after they had fun at the fair, Valentina called Matt daddy, making Luis lash out a bit so Matt and Gabby get to have a little chat with them. Hope you guys enjoy it.


Matt had asked Shay to stay with the kids today because he wanted to head over to Gabby's house so they could talk with the boys about what had happened the day before at the fair. Shay knocked on the door around ten.

"Thanks Shay, you're a life savour."

"You know I love spending time with my favourite girls." She picked up a giggling Emma. "Gabby called me last night."

"How was she?"

"She's taking it pretty hard."

"I told her I'd talk to them with her if she wanted."

"That's good. You're a good man Matt Casey." She smiled at him.

"I try. Thanks again." He kissed her cheek.

"Get out of here." He kissed both his girls before walking out the door, heading towards Gabby's place. He knocked a few times and waited for her to come open the door.

"Hey." He smiled at her as she held Valentina who held her arms out for him and he took her from Gabby. "Where are the boys?" He kissed her.

"In their room, playing. We didn't have to do this today." It was their last day off before shift and she was pretty sure Matt wanted to spend some time with the girls instead of being here.

"Hey, it's fine. I got something in this too. I get to spend a little bit more time with my girl."

"Well you're spoiling your girl then. How are the girls?"

"They're with Shay at home. I'm pretty sure there will be nails and toes painted by the time I get back home."

"It's good that they have a feminine presence for these things."

"Well they're in luck because they have the best three." He was thankful for his sister and Shay and now Gabby because he didn't know what he'd do if he didn't have them. He walked into the house and he played with Valentina on the ground. She was having fun building a tower of blocks and then throwing it to the ground so she could build it all over again. Gabby came to sit with them a few minutes before she started rubbing her eyes, signaling it was nap time. Matt took the opportunity to head towards the boys room so he could talk with them. He knocked on the door and immediately opened the door to find them playing with legos on the ground.1

"Can I come play with your guys?" He sat down with them and built a small car before he put it down and took a deep breath before talking to them. "Do you guys mind if we talk a little?

"Are we in trouble?" Filippe asked.

"No."

"It's about the fair isn't it?" Luis asked the question even though he knew the answer.

"Yeah Buddy."

"Is mom mad at me?"

"Oh baby I'm not mad at you but it was not very nice to say that to your sister." Gabby came into the room once she was sure Valentina was sound asleep.

"Valentina is still small and she doesn't understand things the way you do so it might happen that she says things like she did yesterday again." Matt said. It was no use getting upset because they had gone through something big and they were all still adjusting but he knew that they understood.

"Tina doesn't remember daddy like the two of you do so she doesn't understand that it hurts you so we have to be a little bit more patient with her."

"Ok mom. But do we have to call Matt daddy too?" Gabby and Matt looked at each other, remembering how they had already talked about this with them before but it was important for them to understand that their relationship wasn't going to change anything for them.

"I would never ask the two of you to call me dad, ever." Matt smiled at them.

"But you know what? Matt is going to be here a lot because he loves all of us. That ok with you guys?" Gabby asked her sons.

"Yeah that's ok." They smiled back at their mother.

"Alright, who wants to build a firehouse?" Matt changed the subject, winking at Gabby. The boys were overly excited and Gabby watched her boys play with her boyfriend, a huge grin on her face. Matt stayed a little while longer after they were done with their build and when Valentina woke up from her nap, he kissed her goodbye and Gabby walked him to the door.

"Thanks for doing this." She smiled up at Matt as he held her in his arms.

"I love you babe and our kids are the most important thing so I'll be here, always."

"I like the sound of that." She leaned on her toes and kissed him. "I love you too." They shared one last kiss before Matt went to spend the rest of the day with Grace, Emma and Shay, pizza being on the menu for dinner time.


"Alright Violet, it's just you and me tonight. What do you want to do?" He asked her as he picked her up from school. Christie had a parent/teacher conference and Kelly had offered to stay with Violet. He figured that they could do some bonding while it was just the two of them.

"Can we go to the mall?" She looked at him hopefully.

"The mall?" He almost choked. "One thing he hated was shopping and doing it with a twelve year old, he didn't know what he had to expect.

"Please?" She looked at him with her best pleading eyes.

"Sure." She had her mother's eyes and with that pout, he almost chuckled.

"Thanks." The drive to the mall was filled with Violet's account of how her day went at school and the good grades she couldn't wait to show her mom. When they got there, the mall wasn't too full, no doubt because it was so close to the end of school but Kelly figured it was the best time to do it.

"So where to first?" She looked down at her as she looked in the mall, nowhere in particular.

"Actually." She started sheepishly looking at Kelly as they started walking. "I just wanted to buy myself some bracelets and something else."

"What something else?" He wasn't sure if he was liking where this was going.

"Well I wanted to get a Blackhawks jersey and mom says it's too expensive but I've been saving up all the money I get from doing chores and maybe I don't have enough but can we go look?" She asked hopefully.

"Alright. Let's go for the bracelets first and then we can go see what kind of money we're talking about."

"Thanks Kelly."

"Don't thank me just yet." They made it a kids accessories store and Violet started looking around for something she might like, Kelly looking around, looking rather uncomfortable about being there.

"Your daughter is looking for you." Kelly snapped back to reality when a store clerk talked to him.

"What?" He wasn't sure if he had heard her right.

"Your daughter is looking for you." She repeated, pointing in Violet's direction.

"She's ah, she isn't my daughter." He simply said before making his way towards her. "Did you find what you were looking for?" She had all different kinds of bracelets in her hands.

"Kind of but I'm not sure which ones I want."

"How much money were you planning on spending in here?" Maybe if she had an idea of that it could help her make a choice."

"I mostly wanted to keep my money for the jersey."

"Than maybe you can choose a couple of them that you really like." He pointed to the bracelets in her hands. "And then we can go look look for that jersey." He offered.

"Ok." She put a few back where she took them and then went to pay for the ones she had kept. Kelly noticed all the bills she had in her wallet and wondered how much money he did have. They made their way out of the store under the eyes of the clerk and went in direction of the sporting goods store that was on the second floor.

"So. I saw you had a lot of money in there." He pointed to her wallet. "How much did you save up?"

"I knew it would be expensive so I saved up every penny I got from mom. I have a little bit more than a hundred dollars."

"Alright, let's go see what they have." He turned her around and guided her by the shoulders towards the Hawks jerseys. The junior jerseys were in a seperate section and so he took a red one that seemed like her size and put it on her to see if it fits. "It looks great." He smiled at her.

"How much is it?" She tried getting a look at the price tag but couldn't, Kelly looking for her. "How much Kelly? Do I have enough money for it?"

"Sorry kid." She wasn't missing all that much but her happy look that dropped from her face broke his heart. She had put aside every penny that she received from her hard work and she couldn't get what she wanted.

"I'll save some more then." She started to remove the jersey and looked at the price on the tag, disappointed that she wasn't missing all that much money to get what she wanted.

"Maybe we can do something about that." Kelly smiled at her, taking the shirt from her hands.

"What are you doing Kelly?" She followed him until he found a clerk.

"What name do you want to have on it?" The shirt was blank in the back. Violet simply looked on the ground and blushed, not saying a word. "What's wrong?" He was sensing something was bothering her and the clerk gave them a few extra minutes alone.

"I want to put the name Casey on it." She finally dared to look up at him.

"Have you talked to your mom about this?" He knew it was something deeper than just putting a name on a hockey jersey.

"No. I'm scared of what she'll think."

"Maybe uncle Matt can help you out if you want to talk about it first." He suggested. He hadn't had the best childhood with Benny moving from one wife to another but he couldn't imagine how it could be to feel lost like that. She simply nodded her head, not quite sure what was on her mind.

"Maybe we can come back for the shirt when I get more money?" She asked hopefully.

"How about I make a deal with you?" Her eyes found a new spark. "I know you don't have enough money to buy the jersey but since you managed to save all that money, I'll flip the bill for the rest of it."

"No Kelly. I can't. Mom would be so mad."

"How about you let me deal with your mom?" He smiled at her and she nodded. He signaled the clerk who came back and Violet gave her the money she had and Kelly paid for the rest of it. Violet held happily onto the bag that contained her jersey as they left the store.

"What are we having for dinner?" She asked.

"Do you have some homework to do?"

"Not for tomorrow."

"Alright. How about pizza?"

"That's fine." She smiled at him.

"Pizza it is then." They walked out of the mall and drove close by for the pizza.

"Where are you taking me?" She looked around and didn't recognize the place.

"Best pizza in Chicago. Come on." He killed the engine and they stepped outside. They walked into the building and Kelly nudged her shoulder. "Put a smile on your face, it'll be fun." Violet chuckled at his enthusiasm and they went farther inside, all the couloured lights of the arcade games pulling her in. They had fun together for another hour before they returned back home. It was a little bit over seven and Christie was back from the school.

"How did parent/teacher go?" Kelly kissed her.

"Not bad. How was your evening?" She was glad to see a smile on her daughter's face.

"We went shopping and had pizza for dinner at the arcade." Violet said excitedly.

"Oh shopping huh? What did you get?" She smiled and looked at Kelly with a smirk before looking back at Violet who exchanged a look with him. "Uh oh, I'm not sure i'm going to like that."

"I got some bracelets and a Blackhawks jersey." She waited for her mom's lecture that didn't take long.

"Violet. I told you it was too expensive." She sighed. "So what? You waited to be with Kelly so he could buy it for you?"

"But mom. I saved all my pocket money to buy it."

"And she didn't wait to be with me to buy it. I gave her the option of what to do and she told me what she wanted and I said we'd go see about the prices. I'm the one who offered to pay the rest. It really wasn't a big deal Chris."

"Can you give us a minute sweetie?" Violet sighed and left her mom alone with Kelly. Christie waited for Violet to be out of earshot before she spoke with Kelly. "You should have run it by me Kelly."

"You're right and I'm sorry but you should have seen her Chris. She had all her money put in her wallet, saved up just for that." He closed his eyes, thinking if he should tell her about the name problem. "I wanted to do something for her too and I asked her what name she wanted to put on the back of it. She wants to put the Casey name on it." Christie didn't know what to say to that so Kelly simply continued. "She's afraid of telling you about it."

"I didn't know she felt that way about her last name."

"Maybe you should have a talk with her." He pulled her to him and she pressed her forehead to his chest.

"I'm not prepared for this." She mumbled into his shirt. "I don't know what's the best answer here."

"Like I said, you should talk to her. She'll be able to tell you how she feels. I think it's a decision you guys have to take together." She finally looked up at him. "Call me later with an update." He leaned down to kiss her.

"I will. Thanks again for staying with her."

"Anytime. We had fun." He smiled at her.

"And thanks for telling me about this. I'll go talk to her." They kissed and Kelly let himself out of the house. She leaned against her counter and closed her eyes, taking a few breathes. "Someone give me strength for this." She whispered to no one before she made her way up the stairs to Violet's room and knocked softly. Only when she heard a reply did she open the door to find her daughter sitting up in bed with a book. "Can we talk?"

"Is Kelly gone?" She set aside her book and sat next to her mother on the bed.

"Yeah, it's just the two of us."

"You shouldn't be mad at him mom."

"That isn't why I'm here. Kelly told me about the name. Why haven't you come to me about it?"

"I didn't know what you'd say."

"I want you to be able to come to me with stuff like that."

"I don't want to have his name anymore mom. Everyone at school knows what he did and I don't want to hear it anymore."

"Changing your name won't change that Vi but whatever you decide, me and uncle Matt would love for you to be a Casey." She smiled at her daughter as she pulled her in for a hug.

This was all still new for the mother daughter, even if it had happened a while ago but knowing that they had each other would only make things easier as time passed.


a/n: Alright so I wanted to write a little bit of bonding between Kelly and Violet because I don't want to just put him and Christie together and let that fizzle out but it opened a totally different can of worms with Violet. I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter and please take a few minutes to review it, I love reading what you guys think - Sarra