Thank you so much for all the response on the first chapter. I am so excited that you all seem to be interested in this new story and I hope this second chapter won't disappoint you after the first one.


Matt tried to get up, his bones and muscles hurting as there were people walking his way. Scared he jumped up, falling over again as he heard his stomach rumble, slowly walked to the broken window and looked as two man walked towards the house where he had been staying for the last few weeks.

He looked at the two men, not sure about what to do and looked as they came closer. His legs were shaking as he was so scared because it could be one of Jack Nesbitt's men. He tried to hide but they had already seen.

''Police, show yourself!'' They said then and Matt looked again, looked at the uniforms now.

He walked towards the policemen. They had their pistol up on him, yelled him to raise up his hands. He walked closer and closer. He just wanted to be safe.

''SHOW US YOUR HANDS!'' They yelled again and Matt just managed to spread his arms. His arms started to shake then, just like his whole body.

''help me…'' He just mumbled before was almost at the police officers and collapsed against him, the two men grabbing him just in time.

''We found him. We found the missing person….'' He heard them say in the radio as they helped him lay down on the ground, Matt passing out barely a second later.

Gabby ran into the police station, almost panicked and she just wanted to see Matt. He was here and he would finally come home and if Antonio had told her to come here, he had to be here too, which means he was alive.

''Where is he!?'' She asked panicked as Antonio came walking her way. Somehow she had expected he would be waiting for her here but now she didn't see him anywhere. ''He isn't dead isn't he!?''

''He is alive, he is alive…'' Antonio said then and she calmed down then, suddenly pushing her brother aside and running to the office, expecting to find him there.

''Where is he?'' She asked worried.

''Calm down.'' Antonio said as he pushed Gabby down on a chair and handed his sister some water. ''He is in Joliet.''

Gabby gulped down the water, looked at her brother then.

''Joliet?''

''The police department of Joliet, just outside of Chicago, found him in an empty house there. The house has been empty for Several years then and he was sleeping there with only a blanket. The police there arrested him and I went there…he was in the police station, but he is in the hospital now. we brought him to a hospital after he collapsed a second time.'' Antonio said.

''Oh…'' She just said.

''He is doing better than when we found him. He was malnourished and dehydrated when we found it. But they make sure in the hospital there that he will be okay. He will be fine Gabby…I just…you know that he is the prime suspect, right?'' He said then and he laid his arm around his sister. He knew that Matt and his sister were not together anymore but they still worked together and finding Matt like this after four weeks. Softly Gabby started to weep, thinking about Matt.

''I am pregnant, Antonio. I am pregnant and Matt is the dad…and I just need to see him.'' She said then. She suddenly burst that out and Antonio looked at her a bit shocked.

''I am 9 weeks pregnant now and…and I just want to tell Matt…and I just want him to be fine.'' She said then as she looked at her brother and tears started to fill her eyes. ''I want to make up with him and start the family with him and just be happy.'' She said then.

He nodded and got up then.

''I uhm…I am happy for you.'' He said then and she nodded then, not sure how to feel about all of this but all she wanted to know that he would be okay. With all that he had gotten into, she just wanted him to be okay. For Matt, for her and for their baby.

Gabby walked after her brother to the car and they sat down. Nerves were going through her body as she just wanted to see how Matt was doing, but she knew that Joliet was still just under an hour away.

Antonio and she didn't talk much during the ride.

''How far along are you?'' He finally broke the silence as they were almost in Joliet.

''9 weeks.'' She said softly as she was holding her necklace that she had gotten from him in his hands. She had always kept it even after their break up.

''Oh…that is…good…'' He said then. Gabby knew that he was probably worried as well. She was pregnant and Matt was not doing so well. They were not even together at the moment and she could not blame her brother for not knowing how to react about this all, especially now Matt was their prime suspect.

''I just want you know to know that Matt is not talking. He is not saying anything at all.'' Antonio said then. ''I just want you to know because you are my sister…and I know you are expecting an emotional reunion with Matt, with tears and happiness but it won't be like that.''

It hurt him to tell his sister that because it was like he was crushing her hope on her reunion with Matt but also knew that he had to prepare her for that.

Gabby nodded slowly and he parked the car and they got out. She was scared as she and Antonio walked inside to the room where Matt was. There was a lot of police waiting by the door, keeping guard as Matt was still the prime suspect in their case. But all she wanted to do was see him. She wanted to see them after all these weeks of missing him.

Gabby laid her hand in front of her mouth as tears filled her eyes and looked at Matt, laying in the bed in the room, almost hidden behind all the policemen.

''Oh…Matt!'' She yelled then as she tried to keep from crying. He was sitting up in the bed, held up by all the pillows. There was a plate of food in front of him, but he was looking away from it and just looking at ground. She wished that he would just pick up the food and eat something as he was so thin. Nothing seemed left of the man she had seen only 4 weeks ago, he was so thin and his hair was brittle. Finally he looked up and she was shocked when she saw how tired he seemed and the dark circles around his eyes.

Slowly she walked closed to the bed. There was a tube in his nose and he was on some IVs and although Antonio had said that he would be fine, she was still so worried about him. Especially when she saw how lost he looked.

When his eyes finally met hers, he bit his lip and shook his head, looking down then as he was sobbing.


NOTE: Is Matt going to be okay now that he isn't talking and he is still the prime suspect in the case? Will Gabby be okay and will she finally be able to tell him or will he still have to wait with that.

Thank you so much for reading, I hope that you enjoyed this chapter just as much as the previous chapter. Please do tell me again what you think by leaving a review and hopefully I will see you again next chapter.