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Gabby

This couldn't be true. It just couldn't. Gabby stared at the plastic sticks in her hands and felt her heart break. This was a bad dream, right? She would wake up every moment and this wouldn't be true. It was just a really, really bad dream.

"Gabby?" Carol's voice came from the bathroom door. "What is it?"

Gabby didn't say anything. She just handed Carol the plastic sticks and walked over to her bed where she fell down and cried like a baby. What the hell had she done?! She felt a hand on her back, stroking her until she had no more tears left. "Feeling better now?"

"Nope" Gabby looked at Carol, her face was puffy from crying. "I feel like an idiot."

"Welcome to the club. Membership is free." Carol hugged her. "We'll work it out together. Everything will be fine."

"Really? How?" Gabby rolled her eyes. "I left my husband, because we had a huge fight over having a baby and now I'm alone in Puerto Rico. Pregnant and alone and oh, right, this pregnancy could kill me." She started sobbing against Carol's shoulder.

"What did the doctor in Chicago say? Why exactly could a pregnancy be fatal for you?"

"Because I have an aneurysm in my stomach on an artery. There's a 10% risk I might die. Matt told me, he would never take this risk, because he didn't want to lose me." Matt. Thinking of him made her cry even harder. She would never admit it to anyone else but she needed him so badly right now. She would have done anything to be in his arms. But it was too late. She was alone. Pregnant and alone. Well done, Gabby Dawson.

"Oh Gabby, I'm so sorry." Carol could see how miserable her friend was. "You know what? Let's take you to the station right now. There's an examination room and we can run a blood test." She looked at her watch. "You wouldn't be able to sleep right now, would you?"

"No way and brilliant idea. But since when are you a doctor? There's no doctor at night shift."

"Don't worry, I'll take care of that problem. Get your things, I'll drive." Gabby got into her bedroom to grab her things while Carol dialed a number on her phone.

"Carter? Where are you? I have an emergency and I need the best doctor I know. See you at the station?" She waited for his answer. "Great" Carol hung up the phone and looked at Gabby who was waiting for her. "Let's go."

Matt

"Captain, what happened at Molly's last night?!" Cruz asked Matt who was reading the paper in his office.

"That Kayla was a pain in the ass." Matt didn't look up from his paper. "She seemed desperate for attention."

"Well ,she came back into the bar and told us you left her standing alone on the street."

"That's not true" Matt looked up. "She basically jumped me and I walked away."

"Yeah" Cruz chuckled. "I figured something like that must have happened. Told them you would never do something like that without having a really good reason."

"I hope Chloe isn't mad at you"

"No, she isn't. She actually was a little bit embarrassed, because she brought Kayla. She thought you might like that kind of distraction" Cruz laughed. "That's why she chose her for the double date."

"Tell her there's no reason to be embarrassed. It wasn't a big deal, Kayla and I just wanted different things."

"Will do" Cruz left and Matt tried to focus on his paper again but his eyes found the picture of Gabby that was still on his desk. She looked so happy in her turn out gear with that giant smile on her face. He felt the urge to call her and grabbed his phone but then he remembered. She had changed her number. He couldn't call her even if he wanted to. Matt sighed. He missed her like crazy and he would never love anyone like he still loved her. He needed distraction. He got up and walked into the common room where the crew of truck 81 was hanging out. "Truck 81, meet you on the apron in 2 minutes. We're doing drills."

Mouch and Herrmann were complaining but everyone got up and followed him. "What kind of drills are we doing?" Otis asked.

"Pipe drill. Raise the aerial."

"The aerial?!" Mouch rolled his eyes. "I climbed a 23 story building last shift. That was more than enough training."

"Looks like the date didn't went well" Herrmann whispered back. "He has to blow of some serious steam."

"Mouch! Herrmann! I can hear you. Zip it and come over here!" Matt yelled. Herrmann was right. He had to blow of some steam but not related to the date. They continued doing drills for the next hour until everyone was sweat-soaked. When they wanted to take a shower, the bells went off. "Great" Stella rolled her eyes. "The warm up is done, time for the real work out." Everyone got into the truck and they drove off with lights and sirens.

Gabby

She walked into the examination room where Carter was already waiting for them. "Hey Gabby, I won't ask you how you are, because I can see you're miserable. Mind telling me what it is?"

"I'm pregnant." Tears were rolling down her cheeks. "And the doctor back in Chicago told me there's an aneurysm in my stomach that could rupture and kill me if I get pregnant."

"I'm sorry to hear that." Carter gently rubbed her shoulder. "Let's take a look, all right?"

"Okay" Gabby laid down on the examination bed and lifted her shirt. "That enough or do you want to do a vaginal ultrasound?"

"No, not yet. I want to take a quick look on the baby and see if everything is alright. Then we'll take a longer look on that aneurysm of yours." He took the ultrasound transducer and Carol put some gel on her belly. A few seconds later the sound of a heartbeat felt the room. "Is that?" Gabby didn't finish her sentence.

"Yep" Carter took a closer look on the ultrasound monitor. Looks like you're about 6 weeks pregnant."

"But I left Chicago 4 weeks ago and…" Gabby stopped and laughed. "Yeah, I forgot it counts form the day of my last period."

"Exactly. Everything looks pretty good. Baby is in the right place but I want to run some blood tests. Carol can you draw blood, please?"

"Yes, Dr. Carter" Carol laughed. "Just like back in the good old times."

"So everything is okay with the baby?" Gabby took a deep breath. "But what about the aneurysm?"

Carter moved the ultrasound transducer a little bit. "Where did you say it's supposed to be?"

Gabby explained once again but Carter didn't see anything. "Yes, there it is." Carter took a closer look, then he looked at Carol. "Could you come over here, please?" Carol, who had just finished drawing Gabby's blood, put away the samples and walked over to him.

"Look at that, does that look like an aneurysm to you?"

"Honestly? Yes. Why do you ask?"

"I've seen a case like this before, and if I'm right it's not an aneurysm but we need to run some more tests to be sure. Is there an MRI available here?" He looked at Gabby.

"Yes, in the Princess Hospital. It's a private clinic."

Carter looked at his watch. "Well, this is no emergency but I'll call them now and try to make an appointment."

"you can use the telephone in my office."

Carter left the room and Gabby looked at Carol. "I'm afraid."

"I know." Carol took Gabby's hand. "But I wasn't kidding when I said Carter is the best doctor I know. I'm sure everything will be fine." She waited a moment before she continued to speak. "Gabby, I know you left everything behind, but this is really tough on you. Don't you think you should call somebody?"

"No!" Gabby got up and got dressed again. "Not yet."

The door opened and Carter walked back into the room. "You have an appointment for a MRI tomorrow at 10 am."

Gabby was impressed. "Usually there's a long waiting list, how did you…"

"Doesn't matter." He cut her short. "I'll see you tomorrow at the hospital. Go home and try to get some sleep. Maybe Carol can keep you some company? I don't think you should be alone right now."

"Absolutely" Carol agreed with him. "I'll take you home and make a quick stop at my place to get some things."

"You don't have to do that" Gabby didn't want to make a lot of fuss.

"Yes I have" Carol put an arm around her shoulders. "You need a friend right now."

"Thank you, Carol and you too, Carter."

"No problem." Carter answered. "I need you on your feet, because I want to build a hospital with you." He winked and Gabby laughed. "That's right. Let's go home"

Matt

He jumped out of the truck and looked at the two story building that was completely on fire. A woman came running his way. "My husband is in there, you have to get him out." She was crying.

"Is anybody else in there?" Matt asked.

"No, no, just him. Please, get him out!" She tried to run back in to the burning building but Matt grabbed her arm. "Ma'am, please stay here with the paramedics. Brett, Foster, come over here and take a look at her" He yelled in direction of the ambo. As soon as the two paramedics arrived, he looked at Chief Boden. "Chief, this doesn't look like anybody should go in there." The smoke that came out of the building was turning black and sparks came flying out of the roof. "It's an oven."

"I agree." Boden reached for his radio. "Engine 51, open up the water cannons. Squad 3, Truck 81, no one goes into the building until the fire is out."

Boden looked over to the paramedics and then back at Matt. "Did she tell you where her husband was?"

"No, Chief. Shall I ask her?"

Boden shook his head. "Not yet. We can't get him out. Let's hope he'll make it."

Matt could hear by the sound of his voice that he didn't really believe in his own words. When engine opened the water cannons, the woman in the ambo started screaming. "No! What are you doing? You are going to kill him! You'll kill him! You have to get him out!" She wanted to run in direction of the house again but this time Severide stopped her. He didn't say anything, just took her in his arms and let her cry on his shoulder. When she calmed down a little bit he handed her back to Brett. "Give her some valium and drive her to the hospital. She doesn't need to see this."

"I'm not sure, if that's a good idea." Brett looked at him. "She needs closure. I'll give her something but we'll stay here. I already called for a second ambo. They should be here any minute and will take the burn victim"

Severide looked at Matt. "You agree with this?"

He nodded. "It's probably the best."

"Fire is out!" Chief yelled into the radio. "Casey, Severide do a primary search."

"Copy that, Chief" Severide spoke into his radio. Matt looked at Stella. "Kidd, you're with me." They put their masks on and followed Severide and Capp into the building. "Severide, Kidd and I will take the first floor."

"Copy that. Capp and I will go upstairs." They made their way through the building.

"Fire Department, call out!" Kidd was yelling but she didn't get an answer. Neither did Capp and Severide. Matt sensed that this wouldn't turn out well. He looked into the kitchen and saw a pair of shoes under the table. "Kidd! I think I got something." Stella followed him into the kitchen. When they put the table aside they saw the heavily burned body of a man. Matt checked for a pulse but there was none. He reached for his radio. "Capp, Severide, we found the victim in the kitchen. Mouch, Herrmann, bring a body bag." Capp and Severide came down the stairs and entered the kitchen. "Wow" Was all Capp said. "This looks bad." Severide took a look around and his eyes found Matt's. "You see that too?" He pointed at the oven and the wall above it.

"Yep. Looks like something in the oven caught fire."

"Captain, here's the body bag. You want us to put him in there?"

Matt nodded. "I don't want his wife to see him like this. Not now. Not like this." They put the body in the bag and carried him outside, where the second ambo was already waiting. When the wife saw them she started sobbing uncontrollably. "Oh my God, Jake. No…no…no!" She escaped from Brett's grip and started screaming at Matt and Kelly. "Why didn't you get him out? You should have done your job but instead you killed him. You killed him!"

"Ma'am, you need to go back into the ambulance and calm down." Chief Boden came up next to them. "When we arrived, the fire was out of control and most likely your husband was already dead. There's nothing we could have done." He took the sobbing woman back into the ambo and the rest of the crew started to pack things up. When they arrived back at the firehouse, Matt walked next to Cruz on the apparatus floor. "Cruz, can I ask you something?"

"Of course, Captain." Cruz sat down at the squad table.

"Last year, when I was caught in the factory fire…Dawson…how did she…did she behave like.."

"Like that woman on the scene?" Cruz shook his head. "No, after you said goodbye she basically shut down. She didn't scream or anything. She just stood there and looked at the fire." He put his hands on his face. "I'll never forget that look on her face. I probably shouldn't tell you, but it came to my mind that if you had died in that fire, it would have killed Dawson."

"Thanks for telling me, Cruz." Matt went into the firehouse and straight into his office, where he fell down on his bed, looking at the photo on the nightstand of him and Gabby at the barbecue last year. Mouch had taken the picture and when he gave it to him he had said, that he'd never seen two people so in love. And now it was all gone. That poor woman from the fire had reminded him of Gabby, when she had desperately told him to get out of the burning factory. Gabby. He missed her every single second. She was all he could think of and somehow he had a strong feeling that something was wrong. But he couldn't tell what it was and it drove him crazy that he couldn't reach her. Matt sighed and took his phone out of his pocket. He checked his voicemail. No messages from Gabby.

Gabby

To say her night had been bad would have been an understatement. Gabby had cried herself to sleep and she woke up crying. She couldn't believe what she had done to Matt and to herself. As if the mess she created by leaving wasn't already enough. Now she had to cope with a pregnancy. Carol had heard Gabby crying and came walking into the bedroom. "Morning, Gabby. I hope you got at least some hours of sleep?"

"Yeah, it's okay." Gabby sat up in her bed and rubbed her face with her hands. When her feet touched the ground a wave of nausea hit her and she ran into the bathroom to empty her stomach.

"Welcome to the joys of pregnancy" Carol said dryly. "It's all sunshine and roses, without the sunshine and the roses."

"Haha" Gabby managed to say while she got up and reached for her tooth brush. "I'll take a quick shower. When do we have to leave?"

"In about an hour." Carol left the bathroom and sat down on the couch in the living room. She felt sorry for Gabby, because she knew from her own experience that being pregnant and alone wasn't a good combination. Sooner or later Gabby would have to call her husband, but Carol had a hunch that her stubborn friend would wait far too long to make that call. She definitely needed a little push, or maybe a big one.

"Ready to go" Gabby entered the living room.

"No, you need to eat breakfast first." Carol pointed to the kitchen table where she had prepared a cup of tea and some fruit salad with yoghurt.

"I don't think I can eat anything right now." Gabby refused. "I still feel sick."

"It'll go away after eating breakfast. Trust me."

"Okay" Gabby gave in. "Guess eating healthy can't be wrong." She ate her breakfast and afterwards the two women prepared to leave for the hospital.

Carol parked her car in the garage that belonged to the clinic and they went inside. Carter was already waiting for them. "Good morning, Ladies" He greeted them. "Please follow me"

"Since when do you work here?" Carol asked and pointed at his lab coat.

"Oh, I don't." Carter shrugged. "But extern doctors can use their MRI, so I told them I worked for FEMA. I hope that's okay." He looked at Gabby.

"Of course" Gabby managed to smile. "Technically it's the truth. They don't need to know that you're not here as a doctor."

"Thought you would say that. But now let's get you into that MRI machine and have a look at whatever that is in your stomach." They walked into the MRI room and after she got dressed in a hospital gown, Gabby laid down on the machine.

"Alright, you know the process?"

Gabby nodded. "Yeah I do, I won't move and no, I'm not claustrophobic."

"Great" Carter smiled. "Carol and I will be in the room next door. Just relax."

Gabby did as she was told and after 15 Minutes her friends came back into the room.

"You did great, Gabby." Carter said as he got her out of the MRI. "You can get dressed now and come to the examination room. Sixth door on the left."

"Will do"

Five minutes later Gabby opened the door to the examination room, where Carter was looking at a computer screen that was placed on a desk. "So?" Gabby asked. "What is it?"

"Come over here and have a look." He pointed at a small spot on the screen. "I totally understand why the doctor in Chicago thought it's an aneurysm. It really looks like one on the first sight but in fact it's not. It's just scar tissue from the ectopic pregnancy. It's harmless."

Gabby couldn't believe what she had just heard. "But how could they be so wrong?"

"It's really difficult to see and because it's on the aorta, they assumed it's an aneurysm. I had a similar case a few years ago. It's really hard to see the difference but in your case I'm a hundred percent sure."

"Really?" Gabby was shocked. That meant she and Matt had fought over nothing. She had left for nothing. Everything seemed completely senseless right now. She had ruined her marriage, because she wanted her own kids so badly, she was willing to die for it. And now it turned out there was never as risk?! "I'm so stupid."

"Nah, I wouldn't say that." Gabby turned around and saw Carol standing in the doorframe. "You panicked. Everyone would have done that in your situation."

"I ruined my marriage over something that didn't even exist!" Gabby couldn't help but started to cry again. "And now I'm pregnant and alone, because of my own stupidity."

"You are not alone." Carol took her in her arms. "We are here for you. Every step on the way. You still have a hospital to plan and I'm sure you'll do one hell of a job."

"Right. The hospital." Gabby looked at Carter. "We are supposed to meet the other investors for lunch right?"

He nodded. "Right. But there's still plenty of time for you to get ready."

"My presentation is ready and I told my assistant to book the conference room and get some finger food. We should be fine." Concentrating on work was a good thing. So she didn't have to think about everything else.

"Great" Carter shook her hand. "See you in a few hours. I'm sure Carol will give you a ride?"

"Of course" Carol answered. "Let's go" They walked along the hallway towards the elevators and Gabby pushed the button to call an elevator. Carol looked at her and decided that there would never be the right time to bring this up so she could do it now. "Gabby, don't you think you should make a call?"

"No, why?" Gabby looked down. She didn't want to think about that right now.

"Because he deserves to know and because you are miserable and heartbroken and sad." Carol reached for her phone. "You can take my phone if you don't want him to know your new number but for God's sake, Gabby, call him. Don't make the same mistake I did. Don't' go through this alone."

Gabby didn't answer. The elevator arrived and they got in. She pressed the button for the garage.

"Gabby?!" Carol tried again. "Did you listen to me? Don't do this to yourself and to him."

"Do what?" Gabby asked sharply.

"Be too stubborn and proud to make things right. Trust me, I've been there and done that. It was the worst time of my life."

"I can't." Gabby looked at her. "I screwed up, our marriage is ruined and I don't want him to come back to me because he feels sorry for me. I'll do this alone. I'm strong, I can do it."

"Did you even listen to yourself?!" Carol got angry. "Why the hell would he feel sorry for you?! From what you told me, I would say he loves you. Maybe he will be happy about this, did you consider that option?!"

"No!" Gabby shook her head. "I can't consider that because I can't risk getting my heart broken again. That would kill me."

"So you'll just do nothing and raise your baby alone?"

"I don't know yet. I need some time to think." The elevator doors opened and the entered the garage and walked towards Carol's car.