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Chapter 7

Brett was having breakfast sat on her kitchen while she was reading the paper when she heard someone shuffling from the hallway. She rose her eyes from the paper and said "Good morning"

"Morning" Gabby said entering in the kitchen "Thanks again for let me crash here. I don't want to go to my parent's house. They love Matt and as soon as I tell them what is going on between us, they are going to give me a hard time. And, I don't want that right now" she explained

Brett smiled her grateful of being able of helping her "All that you need. Are you going to go to 51 today?" Sylvie asked her while Gabby served a cup of coffee for herself "You shouldn't drink coffee"

"Dammit. Yeah. I completely forget you little guy" she said rubbing the slight bulge of her stomach "Do you have hot chocolate?"

"Second wardrobe on your left" Gabby took the powdered chocolate and put some of it and some milk in a cup "Thanks"

"So, are you going to go to 51, today?" she repeated her question

"Not sure. I am going to go to the quarter. I need to speak with someone"

"Did you tell Herrmann what is going on?" Gabby shook her head "and what about chief Boden?"

"I can't right now. He is dealing with his born baby who is still in the NICU" She gave a small sip of her hot chocolate "I can't tell him that I am waiting a baby"

"Everyone is asking where you are. I am sure that Severide is a little angry"

"I need time. As soon as somebody knows about the baby, Matt will know it. I told Hermann that I wasn't feeling well, which is true" she said referring to the hormones and the morning sickness that she suffered yesterday and again that morning "Maybe in a few days I will come back but, I can't face Casey right now. He hurts me so much with his words"

"Okay. I think that he is going to be on leave during the next couple of shifts" Brett grabbed her bag "I have to go if not I am going to arrive late. If you need something, whatever, give me a call"

"Thanks. Really, thanks you so much"

"What are friends for?" She said smiling and walked out of the house.

/

One hour after having breakfast, Gabby was sat on a chair in front of an office waiting to enter. Her knees were shaking, a sign that she was really nervous. Finally, after five long minutes, the door was opened and a young man walked out. He greeted her and, she gave him a light smile.

"Dawson?"

"Chaplin" Gabby said and got up of the chair "good to see you"

"Yeah. Me too. You know, the other day I was only joking" he said laughing. He was referring to when he went to the firehouse and he complained that the people stopped of going to his office when they had climbed out of the deepest valley in which they were. "Is everything alright?" The old man asked worried because Gabby's smile disappeared. Gabby shook her head and her eyes started to fill with tears. "Gabby" he said holding her by her arms "come in. I am free the next hour so, we can speak if you want"

"It would be great" she entered in the office and sat on the couch. Chaplin went to grab her glass of water for her "Thanks" she said taking the glass and sipped a little bit of the water.

Chaplin took a chair and sat in front of her "Talk to me. Tell me what your problem is"

"it is a big one" she took a deep breath "Nobody except the guys of 51 know it. I am dating with Lieutenant Casey, my Lieutenant. And, I am engaged with him. Only Severide and Brett know the last part"

"Whoa. That is nothing new" he said smiling and Gabby gave him a curious look "I saw the way in which he looked you the other day when truck 81 showed up in the Good shepherd soup kitchen. The light on his eyes tell me that he has strong feeling for you as well as you have for him"

"Yeah. Well the problem is that he is not treating me like other candidate. It is like if I have a special treatment and I don't want it"

"Have you spoken with him about it?"

"That is the problem. Every time that I try to speak with him about it, he shuts me down. There other day I was on Molly's speaking with Peter Mills about that. And, Matt misunderstood what happened. Mills was trying to comfort me like Shay used to do. Nothing happened between us. But, when Matt saw his hand above mine, he walked out and never came back home. I think that our relationship is over. Besides, some days ago I found out that I am carrying his child. I am confused. I don't know what to do" she said crying

"Well" Chaplin said trying to regroup all the information that she gave him "Does he know about the baby?"

"No"

"You should tell him. How do you think that he is going to react when he notices the bulge of your belly?"

"Angry"

"Exactly, he is going to be angry, like anyone would be in his situation. So, my advice is that you should tell him"

"I know but, he is a good man, very upright" she smiled because that was something that she loves about him. He always does what is right no matter the possible consequences that it could have "When he finds out that I am pregnant he will want to do what is right. And, in that situation is that we get married. But. I am sure that what I am going to say could sound a little jealousy but, I don't want that we get married because of the baby. I want that we get married because he loves me and he wants spend the rest of his life with me"

"So, if I understand you properly, you want to make it up with him first, and later tell him about the baby"

"Yeah"

"Well I hear that he is still on the hospital, why not you come by and speak with him"

"No. I tried to give the first step during the last couple of days and he didn't want to hear me. Now, it is his turn to give it. He thinks that I am having an affair with Mills"

"Does he think that because of what Hallie did?"

"How do you know about Hallie?" She asked chocked since according to Severide nobody know it

"He was sat on that couch after her death for a month. I helped him to get over her death"

"Yeah. I think that it is because of Hallie"

"Gabby, you should understand him. He loves you so much, you are really important for him"

"If I am such as important for him, why he called me whore?"

"Gabby. The truth is that you are not being jealous. I understand your situation but, I think that you are being a little coward"

"What?" she said getting up off the couch angry with him "I am just trying to do what is right for the baby" she said placing her hands on her flat stomach "I doubt that he or she wants a mom and a dad that are always fighting all the time and don't love to each other"

"That is a good point. However, I think that what you are doing to Matt is not right. He has made you so much pain with his attitude. However, he has right to know that you are expecting his baby. Besides, I am sure that if you don't want to give the first step in make it up your relationship is because you are frightened of finding out that maybe he don't want the baby or being with you, right?"

She took a deep breath and nodded "Yeah. One part of me thinks that. I guess that I am frightened of having to carry this baby by my own, because he doubts of the baby's paternity"

"Do you want that I speak with him?"

"No" she said immediately "Don't tell him anything"

"Gabby..."

"Please Chaplin"

" Alright. Don't worry I am not going to tell him nothing about the baby. You have my word"

"Thanks. I just need time to clean my mind"

"Alright. If you need something whatever the door of my office is open" she nodded and they shared a quick hug.

"Thanks for letting me speak with you. I am feeling a little better now"

"Anything you need Gabby"

He saw her left the room and immediately he started to think how he could help them. They were make one to each other.

/

Later that day, after lunch time, Matt was lying down on his bed zapping through the channels of the TV trying to find something that keep him distracted. Severide wasn't there since he was on shift and early that morning, his mother and sister came by to visit him. He was upset that Gabby didn't show up in the last two days. He wanted to speak with her, he wanted to say her how sorry he was for what he said to her.

He let the remote on the nightstand and was thinking that maybe he could give a walk through the hallway when he heard a knock on the door.

"Come in" he said and smiled when he saw that Chaplain Orlovsky entered in the room. The old man had something in his right hand that put it above the bed

"Chaplin" He said really happy of seeing him

"I heard that you were sick with flu and, I decided to come by and say hi" he took a plastic chair and put it close to the bed "How are you?"

"I am feeling better. Maybe this afternoon I will come back home"

"Good to hear it" he took the wooden box that he brought with him and asked "Do you want to play?" he opened the box, which contained a chess set.

Matt laughed and said "It has been years since the last time that I played chess" Chaplin gave him the black pieces and he started to put them on the chessboard "When I was young, I used to play with my dad. He was really good"

"It is a good board game. You can learn a lot" he made the opening move moving one of his pawns

"Yeah"

They played in silence for a while, just concentrated on the game.

"You know my father used to say that "Life is like a game of Chess, changing with each move". What do you think?"

Matt took some time to think about what Chaplin had said "It is true but, I don't see so many similarities"

"No?" he asked shocked like if it was something obvious "You have an objective" he said pointing to the king piece "and, for reach to that objective, you have to move the chess pieces. Life is the same. You have an objective and you take your own decisions"

"This is just a game. Life is real"

"I am not agreeing with you. In order to win in this board game, you have to take decision. You have to decide what you want to do and how to do it. In this case is make checkmate before the other one. For example, when I was young I wanted to be a firefighter so, I trained and study so hard to become one and, I was a firefighter"

"Why are we talking about life?" Matt asked annoyed because he felt like if Chaplin were analyzing him "We are playing chess"

"You shouldn't have let that piece on that side" he said referring to his queen "she was protecting the king. Without her the king is un-protected"

"I am not so sure" he moved his bishop piece

"Check. I told you shouldn't have let down your queen. She is really important. Maybe you should get it back"

"How? It is too late" Matt said.

"I am sure that you will find a way of doing it but, is not going to be on this game kiddo" he moved a piece and said "Checkmate"

"What?" he asked surprise and saw that Chaplin was right. He had lost.

"Do you understand now?"

"What do I have to understand? There is something that you want to say me, Chaplin?"

"No. If I were you I would analyzed every move that I have been doing and make some changes"

"What do you mean? It is just a game. Each game is different. I am not going to learn nothing"

"I wish I would have more time but, I have to go" he put all the chess pieces inside of the wooden box

"No way. I want to play again"

"No. Maybe other day" he shrugged and said "Sorry"

"Hold on" Matt said "What do you mean by I should analyze my moves?" he asked giving him a reflective look

"Like I said Chess is like life. Luckily, the game of your life is not over. See you"

Matt saw him left the room with a puzzled look on his face. There was something strange in Chaplin's behavior. Why he showed up for playing chess? And why he said what he said before leaving? Was he trying to give him a message? It was really strange.

/

A few hours later, Severide showed up in the hospital together with the Squad 3 guys for giving him a lift to his house. Matt was grabbing all his stuff when the Lieutenant Squad entered in the room.

"You ready to go home?"

"Yeah" Severide grabbed his duffel bag and they walked to the squad truck and Tony drove them to the house.

When they arrived to the house, Matt gave thanks to tony and jumped out of the truck with Severide behind him "Has Gabby gone to work today?" he asked while they were climbing up the stairs

"No. Nobody know where she is"

"Okay" he said sad

"Are you going to be fine by your own?" Severide asked concerned "You know, I can have Capp being the lieutenant during the rest of the shift"

"No I am going to be fine" He promised "I am going to have supper, see some TV and then, I will go to bed"

"Severide, we have a call" Capp said through the radio

"Alright, give me a call if you need something. See you tomorrow after shift" he said running down the stairs

"See you. Be safe"

Matt took a deep breath and opened the main door of the house being sure that it was going to be hard being in the house without Gabby, without hearing her moving around the house or singing while she cooks. He placed his bag on the couch and walked to the bathroom for taking a really needed shower.

He walked to the wardrobe for taking a fresh towel when something on the floor caught his attention. He kneeled and took the small object. It looked like a thermometer but, he never saw it before. What it could be?

He let the thermometer on the counter of the bathroom, didn't paying more attention to it and, took a quick shower. After that, he prepared for himself something for dinner.

After having dinner and watched a match of the Blackhawks, he was feeling really tired and all that he wanted was to crash on his bed and sleep. He walked to the garbage for throwing the rest of his dinner when he saw again the thermometer. But, it couldn't be the same one. The one that he saw was on the bathroom, so, how could it be that now it was on the garbage? he took it and walked to the bathroom for taking the other one.

"What is that?" he asked looking them closely. "Oh my God. This can't be true" he said when he realized what he had in his hand. It was a pregnancy test and both of them were indicating the same thing. So, logically there was only one possibility. Pregnant or not pregnant. "Oh my God"

His first thought was why Gabby didn't say anything about that to him? Angry, he stared to walk around the living room and, after a few minutes, the answer came to his mind. How will she say to him that she was carrying his child if he hasn't wanted to hear or speak with her in the last couple of days? He was sure that if she would have told him, he would have freaked out and did something really stupid that he was going to lament later.

He thought calling her but; he rejected his idea thinking that it would be really pathetic say sorry to her by a phone call and ask her about the baby. He was a jerk with her and she deserved something better

He sat on the couch and buried his face on his hand, he screwed up because he didn't want trust in Gabby when she told him that nothing happened between her and Mills. He couldn't understand why he reacts in that way with her. It was like if something inside of him took the control of all his actions in order to protect him for not suffering like he suffered after finding out that Hallie was cheating him.

It was true that Hallie actions made to him so much pain, however, Gabby wasn't Hallie. They were completely opposite and different; they didn't have anything in common. So, why he reacts in that way? Maybe, it was because seeing her in Mill's hands made him angry. She was his girl and nobody else's. She was the women that he had loved in secret since she joined to 51 some years ago. She was the women of his life and now, it was probable that he lost her because he wasn't able of trusting on her. He was confused; he didn't know what to do and, he was scared of losing her and the baby.

He started to cry holding the pregnancy test when Chaplin's words came to his mind "Life is like a game of Chess, changing with each move. You should analyze your moves"

As in the game of chess, he took his decisions in haste and he wasn't being sensible and fair with Gabby. She had tried to explain him what had happened that night, but he never wanted to hear. He knew that had most of the blame in this situation because his pain didn't let him to listen to her. And now he was willing to sit down for talking with her, she was the one who was ignoring him. It was ironic.

Finally he could understand what Chaplin tried to say him that evening. It wasn't too late; he was still in time for making it up to her but, how?

After some minutes of thinking, the perfect solution came to his mind. He was going to give her the best Christmas present that she is going to receive in her life. However, the time was running against him. Only two weeks left for Christmas Eve, which mean, that He will need to work hard if he wants that his plan work.

He erased his tears and with determination, he walked to his laptop ready to work in her present. He wasn't going to give up to her and the baby. Not without a fight.

I hope that you like this new chapter and let me a review whit your opinion and what do you think that could be Gabby's present.

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Namine Redfield