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Chapter Nine

"Brett, baby please wake up? Just wake up, please. I'm so sorry you were upset; I didn't want that. I told Gabby that I wanted to be you and our babies, not her. I don't want to be with her, Brett. I want to be with you. I love you. Please, wake up. Just wake up and let me see those beautiful eyes of yours. Please." Pleaded Casey as he sat by Brett's bed at Chicago Med holding her hand waiting for her to wake up.

Everyone was extremely worried about Brett, she had been asleep for two days now. All the doctors said nothing was wrong with her or the babies, she just worked herself up so much from stress and worry that she put herself in a self-induced 'sleep coma'. The doctors claimed it was actually good for her body as it helped her get the rest she needs, but Casey was beside himself with worry.

He just wanted her to wake up, look at him with those beautiful big, round eyes, and kiss him. That's all he wanted. He just wanted her to wake up.

'Please God, let her wake up. Please.' Prayed Casey one last time before he felt his body finally betray him and wander off into the unwelcome land of sleep. Casey hated the idea of sleep for the past two days, as it would take him away from her. But this time he was in no condition to put up a fight; his body was beaten down, hurt, and exhausted.

Casey drifted off into one of the worst sleeps of his life. He just kept replaying the last two days over and over again. There was no escaping. Only this time he was right back at the apartment complex, where this all began.

"Chief, I think me, my team, and squad should go into the remaining floors and clear anyone left while Herman and his guys get the hoses set up." Called Casey as he and Boden met right in the middle of the scene to come up with a plan of attack.

Boden nodded his head in agreeance to Casey's plan, "That's fine, Casey. Just be careful, it looks like it could collapse at any second."

Casey nodded his head before gearing up and telling everyone else of the plan. The whole building was already up in flames, so at this point, it was a rescue mission for more than half of the apartment residents who were still unaccounted for.

"Let's go!" Yelled Casey as he got in front of everyone and prepared to lead them into the only clear entrance. Casey quickly spared a glance at Brett and was happily surprised to find her already looking at him. 'At least she's looking at me now.' Thought Casey as he started to lead everyone into the already more than half engulfed building.

"Hey, Casey we're moving the last two people out now." Called Stella Kidd over her radio.

"Okay, Kidd. Severide and I are making our way out now. Have Herman go ahead and get into position."

"Got it, Captain."

Both Casey and Severide we almost out of the building when they heard Boden yell over the radio, "Everyone, evacuate! Evacuate! Severide and Casey get out now! Move!"

They were too late. Part of the building had already collapsed right where they were. Casey and Severide both fell to the floor before being covered with various parts of rubble and concrete.

"Casey!" Yelled Severide not a whole minute later. "Casey, answer me!"

Casey quickly shook his head and called out, "I'm good."

Severide quickly let out a breath and picked up his radio, "We're both good, Chief. We're gonna need help getting out though."

Boden quickly radioed back over, "Okay, hold tight. I'm gonna send Kidd, Cruz, and Mouch back in."

"Okay," Answered Severide as he put his radio back and tried to help Casey stand up.

"Stop!" Yelled Casey as he grunted through immense pain.

"What? What's wrong?" Asked a worried Severide as he began to look Casey up and down for injuries.

"My leg. I must have fallen on it weird or something, it's killing me. I'm not sure how well I can move out of here."

"Okay, don't move. I'll radio Boden and tell him to have Brett and Foster ready."

Casey nodded and began trying to sit up on the floor.

"Hey, Chief we might have to have Brett and Foster come in with a backboard. Casey banged up his leg."

Minutes seemed to pass before they heard anything.

"Chief, you there?" Asked Severide.

"Umm, yeah Severide I'm here. I sent Kidd in with a backboard. You all will have to get Casey out on your own, and we'll have ambulance fourteen take a look at Casey when you all get him out. Foster and ambulance fifty took Brett to Med a couple of minutes ago."

"Casey." Called out Brett with a hoarse voice. "Casey."

Casey's eyes immediately flew open at hearing his perfect angle call his name.

"Brett?" Asked Casey as he quickly sat up from the uncomfortable hospital chair.

"Where am I? What happened?" Asked Brett as she quizzically looked around the bare hospital room.

Casey smiled feeling tears start to fill his eyes, "You're awake. Oh, Brett, I was so worried about you and the babies when I found out that you passed out on the scene."

Brett immediately sat up, "The babies? What's wrong with the babies?"

Casey scooted closer to her, "Nothings wrong with the babies. You passed out from stress. The doctors said you have been in a self-induced 'sleep coma' for two days."

"Two days?"

"Yeah, it's been two days since the fire, Brett. God, I was so worried."

Tears immediately started to fall down Brett's beautiful face, "I'm sorry,"

Casey shook his head, "Hey, no. Don't be sorry. You couldn't help it. I'm just glad you're awake now."

"Casey…"

"What? Is something wrong? Are you hurting?" Worriedly asked Casey as he was already trying to reach the call button for a nurse.

Brett quickly shook her head trying to assure him she was fine, "No. I'm just so sorry for how I acted to you. I should have just heard you out instead of going off on you, ignoring you, and running off. I should have…"

"Brett, stop. That's over and done with. All that matters is that we are all here and you and the babies are okay."

"But…"

"No. Stop, okay? It doesn't matter. All that matters is that I love you and these babies more than anything in this world."

Brett smiled as tears began to gently slide off her face, "Matt, I can't lose you. I love you so much and you mean the world to me."

Casey slowly leaned into where there was no more than an inch separating them, "You aren't losing me. I want you, Sylvie. Gabby lost me the minute she chose to go. You've been my rock since she left. And I love you more than I ever thought I could. God, I love you so much it hurts."

"Me too." Replied Brett before she leaned in and captured Casey in the most amazing kiss either of them had ever had.

"Ouch," Yelled Casey as he immediately pulled back from the kiss and sat upright in the chair.

Brett loudly asked, "What? What's wrong?"

"It's okay. It's just my leg. I'm not used to having to keep it completely still in this cast just yet."

Brett looked down from the bed for the first time since she woke up after he said that.

"Casey, what happened to your leg? Why are you in a cast?" Quickly rambled off Brett as she tried to get off of the bed to examine him.

"Hey, hey no. You stay put. The doctor hasn't been in to check you yet. I'm fine, Brett. Really. I just fractured it in three places when the building collapsed and Severide and I jumped to the ground."

Brett gasped as everything came flooding back to her, "That's when I passed out. Isn't it?"

"Yeah, Chief said right after he radioed to evacuate, you yelled my name out then fell to the ground. Luckily, Foster caught you before you hit the ground too hard."

"I'm sorry." Whispered Brett.

"Hey, what did I say about that? Quit apologizing for something you couldn't help." Said Casey before he leaned in and swiftly kissed Brett on the lips.

Both were interrupted by Doctor Will Halstead coming in the room, "Hey, it's good to see you up Sylvie. How do you feel?"

"I'm good. Hungry and surprisingly a little tired." Replied Brett with a laugh.

"Well, that's completely normal. Overall, I'm not too worried about anything, you should be able to get out of here tomorrow. We've been monitoring your vitals as well as all of the babies since you were brought in and nothing is too concerning. Although, your blood pressure for the time was really high, so I'm going to suggest you take things slow with some time off now then when you go back I would like you to be off of active duty completely."

"What!?" Called out Brett as she was finally understanding what Will had just said. Casey reached across the chair, he was currently sitting in, and grabbed Brett's soft, silk-like hand and kissed it.

"Listen, I know I'm not your doctor, but Dr. Lindsay will be out of the country for the next month, so that officially makes you my patient until she gets back, and I owe her a big favor, so it would be great if you could just cooperate for me" Grinned Will.

"Okay…" Whispered Brett.

"It's really the best thing for you and the babies at this point."

"Okay, I'll do anything as long as it means my babies are healthy and safe."

Will smiled looking at the two sweet people obviously deeply in love, "Good. I'll be back tomorrow to check-in and go over a few things before I let you out of here, but for now, I'll send someone in with food for the two of you."

"Thanks, Will." Called out Casey as he slowly tried to stand up.

"No problem, man. Take care of that leg, will ya?" Said Will as he walked out of the room and into the hallway to stop and talk to the nurse at the nurses' station.

Casey walked to the edge of Brett's bed and sat down on the closest vacant spot "Hey, you okay? I know you're not happy about being off of active paramedic duty."

"Yeah, as long as it means the babies are good. I'm okay with it."

Casey nodded, "Good. Well, it looks like we're both going to be off for a while. When I came in two days ago Will said I need at least four weeks off for my leg to completely heal."

"Well, at least that gives us time to be together and get everything we'll need for these three."

"Yeah," Agreed Casey just as Nurse Wattkins walked in wheeling a cart of cafeteria food for the both of them.

Both were so hungry and happy they sat there in complete silence just eating and enjoying each other's silent company. Not too long after that though, Brett was tired and ready to go back to sleep. Only this time, she only wanted a couple of hours of sleep and not two days' worth.

"Snuggle with me?" She asked.

Casey smiled, nodded his head, and replied, "Sure," before he took his one shoe off and climbed into the bed to where he was one his back with his bad leg propped up and his arms around Brett.

"I love you, Matt."

"I love you too." Replied Casey before he shut his eyes, and this time, he fell into a peaceful relaxed sleep.

Whewww! This was a long one for us. Please let us know what you all thought, we are dying to know. Thanks for reading! -PurpleNewYorkCity/MSlugAntZ and one-chicago-obsessed