Casey's POV
"Ms. Dawson." The female doctor walks in the small exam room." I'm Dr. Warren." She extends her hand out.
"Call me Gabby please." She responds dropping her hands from my cheeks extending one to meet the doctors." This is Matt." Gabby nods her head in my direction.
"Nice to meet you." Dr. Warren extends her hand to me as I shake her hand with a quick nod.
"So Gabby how have you been feeling?" She asks moving Gabby to lay on her back standing on the opposite side of exam table from where I sat." Don't mind my hands are really cold." She chuckles as she lifts Gabby's shirt.
"Good, great." Gabby smiles genuinely her beautiful smile that mesmerized me." Ooh they are." She chuckles as Dr. Warren's hands made contact to her skin.
"So do you have any preferences?" The Doc asked Gabby with a sly smile as she continued to feel around her abdomen, which to my amazement had a slight roundness to it.
"A girl." Gabby whispered as she glanced over to me and all I envisioned was a little girl that replicated her mother.
"She will be remarkably beautiful." I whisper taking Gabby's hand in my own. Gabby looked over to me with her amazing smile as a single tear fell." One lucky baby." I say wiping her tear with my thumb.
"Well." Dr. Warren pulls Gabby's shirt back down." Everything seems good so far. Erin will be your ultrasound tech today and she should be in very shortly so we can have a look." She says moving to the sink washing her hands." Sit tight we will be back in a few minutes." And with that she leaves.
Gabby lays on the table her one hand behind her head the other clenched in mine. I squeeze it to get her to look at me." Are you scared?" I whisper brushing a strand of her hair away that fell over her eye.
"Sometimes." She answers shifting her body to face me slightly." I don't want to be alone."
"Your not alone." I smile." I'm here, and I'm going to be here every step of the way for you."
Gabby's eyes lit up as a small smile spread across her face." Really, you would do that for me?"
"Of course." I lean up kissing her forehead." Your my best friend."
Gabby studied my face for a minute as her smile faded, as if what I said just hurt her feelings." I can't ask that of you." She says cold shifting her body a little further away.
"Is there something..." I start to say but I'm cut off by the knock on the door as the two women enter the room now. They speak to Gabby asking her a few more questions that my mind can't focus on, all I can do is study Gabby's sudden body language change.
The room goes dark from the lights being turned off. I watch as the girl lifts Gabby's shirt once again apply some gel to her rounded abdomen. The monitor comes to life seconds after the want is placed on Gabby's stomach, and the only sound in the room is the soft wimpers from Gabby's cries of joy. I don't realise I'm tearing as well until Gabby reaches up wiping my tears away from my cheeks.
"Everything looks perfect." The ultrasound tech speaks." You are measuring about 14 almost 15 weeks. That should bring your due date to just around Christmas." She smiles to myself then Gabby.
"Some gift." I mutter causing all the women to chuckle.
"Amazing right." Gabby whispers squeezing my hand that is still holding hers causing me to meet her tear filled eyes again. That is when the most amazing sound I have ever heard filled the room. The sound of a heart beat rang through my ears swirled around my head and warmed my entire body. The next thing in my mind I see is my head resting on Gabby's chest our bare skin touching as she stroked my hair laying silent in my bed. The dimly lit room our soft breathing and the beating of Gabby's heart was all that could be heard. It felt so real. It felt so right, natural.
Gabby finishes up her appointment as my mind keeps replaying this vision in my head. "Thank you for allowing me to come with you today." I tell her as he walk out to my truck.
"I should be thanking you." She nudges my arm with her elbow as she smiled up at me." It was nice sharing this with you." Gabby stops next to my truck pulling out the sonogram pictures she just got." Would you like to have one?" She seperates them handing me one.
"It is amazing to see." I smile taking the picture from her hands looking at it.
Gabby places her hand on my cheek now." You will have a special place in this babies life." She says sincere.
"I'm honored." I whisper back as we stand there holding each others gaze for longer then we should.
Gabby steps away first dropping her hand from my cheek moving to open the car door, but I beat her to it. I wait til she's in before I close the door, then move quickly around to the drivers side getting in. I dig in my jacket pocket for my keys before I turn to ask Gabby if she would like to get some lunch. Before I could even get the words out she scoots across the seat closer to me." Damn it why can't you remember." Her voice sounding frustrated just as she places her lips on mine with a feeling of urgency.
Gabby's soft lips moved against mine and within seconds mine responded moving in sync with their own urgency." Gabby." I mutter in between breaths causing her to back away her eyes wide her emotions showing, it was pure rejection.
"I'm sorry." She whispers moving aa far away from me as possible.
"Stop saying your sorry." I snap reaching over puliing her back over to my side." I just want to do this right." I mumble against her lips as I motion with my eyes for her to see we are in my car in a public parking lot.
Gabby backs away ever so slightly from my lips and mutters." Hallie." And the look on her face only flashes before my eyes, to when I saw it the last time.
'Well that was interesting' I say to her as I pull myself out of her warmth, grabbing my pants pulling then up. The look on her face as she fixes her tank top is the same look she is giving me right now. The rest of the memory plays in my head all the way up to the part of me walking out like a coward I was, the coward I am.
"Matt?" Gabby whispers searching my eyes as they must look blank to her." Are you..."
"I remember." I blurt out cutting her off." I remember that night of the explosion."
"Oh." Was all Gabby choked out next.