Naia's POV

I stayed up until Gabby and Sylvie got back from taking the victim to the hospital.

"Is he okay?" I asked, immediately getting up as they walked into the room.

"He was stable when we got him there," Sylvie told me and placed a hand on my shoulder, "What made you walk out to the app floor it the middle of the night?"

I shrugged, "I don't really know. I had a nightmare and then my feet just started taking me around the firehouse, eventually leading me there and then I saw him just laying there. What happened to him anyway?"

Gabby nodded, "GSW to the abdomen, he's in surgery now. It was a good thing you found him when you did or his future would look very different."

"It was a fluke," I rubbed my eyes, starting to become sleepy again.

"Why don't you go back to sleep," Matt suggested, "Gabby and Brett are back now, it's time for everyone to get some shut-eye."

Suppressing a yawn, I agreed and laid back down on the couch. I brought my hands up to my face. They smelled like soap since Stella took me to wash them before we had our hot chocolate.

"Goodnight Naia," Gabby said and kissed me on the top of my head. Everyone followed her lead and wished me goodnight before shutting off the light in the room.

The darkness loomed around me and I tugged the blanket over my head as if that was somehow protecting me from an invisible monster. I couldn't close my eyes without seeing that man drenched in his own blood.

It was like Jane all over again.

Slowly, I got up and dragged the blanket off of the couch and grabbed all the pillows I could carry. Making my way in the corner of the room, I laid partially on the blanket and partially on one of the pillows. I groped around in the darkness and managed to find another pillow I had brought and slid it under my head before wrapping any extra blanket I had around my body.

Hesitantly, I closed my eyes and let the sleepiness take over.

"Naia?"

I opened one eye, confused as to where I was. My back hurt from sleeping on the hard floor and I let out a groan as I tried to get up.

"Why are you sleeping on the floor?" Gabby asked, rushing over to the corner I had huddled myself in.

I shrugged, "It felt safer." That was an honest answer.

"You know, you could have come and slept with me, I wouldn't have minded," Gabby said, pulling me up.

"I felt bad disturbing you again," I admitted and wrapped the blanket around me. It got cold at night in February and maybe an extra blanket would have helped with that.

"You're not disturbing me when you do that," Gabby told me and I nodded before yawning.

"Sorry, I'm exhausted," I sighed and flopped down in a chair, the blanket still wrapped around me.

Gabby smiled and took a seat next to me, "You want something to eat?"

"Naw, I'll just wait until everyone else wakes," I closed my eyes and laid my torso on the table, the blanket snuggly still around me. "I just wanna go back to sleep."

"You could get maybe half an hour in," Gabby suggested and I tiredly stumbled over to the couch where I practically fell, tripping over the blanket I was dragging around.

Chuckling, Gabby came over and heaved the rest of the blanket over my body. I tried to smile at her but I was far too tired to do that and instead just let out a content sigh.

"Did you know that almonds are apart of the peach family?" I mumbled, my eyes closed. Gabby just laughed and tucked the blanket tighter around me before walking away, leaving me to rest.

The sound of pots and pans clanking and the scraping of forks against plates woke me up and I opened one eye to see everyone sitting around the table eating breakfast.

"Any news on that guy from last night?" Stella asked.

Gabby shook her head, "No, nothing yet. Maybe we'll drop by for a visit later on."

Turning onto my back, I rubbed my eyes before sitting up.

"Morning Munchkin!" Matt gave me a noogie as he walked by.

"Good morning," I replied and stood up to get some breakfast. Jimmy handed me a plate and I smiled briefly at him before scooping some scrambled eggs onto the plate and grabbing a slice of toast.

Shay grinned at me as I took a seat at the table, "You look like you had quite the night."

I chuckled, "Yeah, you could say that."

"It's crazy how the stars just seemed to align last night, in the favour of that man too," Herrmann said, shaking his head.

Matt nodded, "That's for sure."

I just shrugged, "I'm not sure what made me do it. Any of it really."

"You know, I didn't know that almonds were apart of the peach family," Stella teased, pointing her fork at me.

"Give me a break, I was half asleep and going crazy," I groaned and took a bite of the toast. "It just kind of came out of my mouth without me thinking it over."

Matt laughed, "Is the fact at least true?"

I shrugged and shovelled a mouthful of scrambled eggs down my throat. I waited until I swallowed before speaking because you know, proper manners.

"Maybe it is, as I said, I was half asleep when I said that."

"So tell me about the man again," Nate said as we walked out of the building. The bell had just rung and I was relieved to be let out of school.

"I already told you, like a million times," I protested, getting a little bit tired of retelling this story over and over again to the same person. "I couldn't fall back asleep after having a nightmare and I just started wandering around the firehouse. I went to the apparatus floor and looked out the window and bam, there he was. Apparently he was shot in the abdomen."

Nate shook his head, "It's crazy how things just seemed to work out."

I sighed, "Yeah, you can say that again."