Matt was sitting at his desk in his office at Firehouse 51. The shift had been relatively quiet with Ambulance 61 being called out more times then truck and squad which was mainly due to it being college freshers week in Chicago.
His phone started buzzing in his pocket and as he took it out, he missed whoever it was. It was an unknown caller and Matt presumed if it was important, whoever it was would call back. As he scrolled through his phone, Matt came across texts from Gabby. After that evening they had shared together when she returned for her charity fundraiser, they had kept in contact for a while. There was nothing substantial in the conversations they had over text but he soon realised that he needed to hear from her otherwise he's get a bad feeling in his stomach. Most days he'd simply send a 'good morning' text. After over a year of no contact between the two, Matt loved seeing texts pop up on his phone from her. It had been a couple of days since he last heard from her and the feeling in his stomach that something was wrong.
Matt didn't have time to dwell too long on not hearing from Gabby as the bells rang out around the house. He threw his phone on the desk and grabbed his radio. Truck, Squad and Ambulance were all called to major accident with multiple cars piled into a truck on the highway.
They arrived back at the firehouse a few hours later, everyone's mood subdued. They weren't able to save a father that had been crushed from the impact of the crash. He had ensured his family had gotten out of the car and for that, Matt believed he was a hero.
Matt slumped into his desk once again to tackle the reports that he had let pile up. He picked up his phone that he had thrown there hours before to find he had 10 missed calls from an unknown number and one from Antonio. He hadn't heard from Gabby's brother in over a year. He also head a voicemail and clicked to listen to it. He put the phone to his ear and exhaled as the message started.
"Matt, hey, I know we haven't talked in awhile, but somethings happened to Gabby" Matt's heart sank. "She's in Chicago Med, just thought you should know. Don't know what's happening between the two of you, but I think she'd want you to be here. Its not looking good Matt".
The phone stayed at Matt's ear as his mind raced. Something has happened to Gabby and she's in Chicago? He thought she was still in Puerto Rico. What happened to her. His mind and heart was racing. There was a knock on the door and Matt turned to find Severide looking at him. The tears in his eyes were evident to his best friend.
"What's happened Casey?" Severide asked, worried about what has happened to cause this reaction in Matt.
"Gabby is in hospital" was all Matt was able to get out before walking past Kelly.
Matt raced out of his office. He had to be at Med. He quickly walked to Boden's office, ignoring the calls of concern from Kidd and Brett in the common room.
"Chief, Gabby is in hospital. I need to get to Med" Matt said as he walked into the Chief's office.
"I have just gotten off the phone for relief to replace you. Antonio called me while you were out on that last call" Chief said as Matt exhaled.
"Did he give you any information on Gabby's condition? All he said in the voicemail to me was that its not looking good" Matt pleaded.
"No he didn't, but you need to get over there" Boden said as he pulled into a hug.
Matt drove as quickly as possible as he could to get to the hospital. He abandoned his truck somewhere in the multi-level car park. He can worry about that later. The only thing on his mind, only person was Gabby, His Gabby.
Matt walked into the emergency department of Chicago Med hospital and was thankful to see Maggie at the desk
"Maggie -" Matt started to say.
"ICU, Level 3 Casey" She said as she looked at him with sad eyes.
The sadness in her eyes just made him worry more. What happened to the love of his life for her to be in ICU.
As Matt made his way down the ICU corridor, he saw Antonio talking to a nurse. Pearl, who Matt vaguely remembered from Gabby's charity fundraiser was standing next to her.
"Antonio!" Matt called out "What's happened? Where's Gabby?"
"Matt we need to talk. Gabby had an aneurism which burst yesterday -" Antonio started. "Hang on, aneurism? What do you mean aneurism?" Matt said.
"She was pregnant Matt"