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Gabby felt so nervous as she and Matt walked down to their apartment. Well, the apartment that had always been their home together and where he had been living after their breakup. Where she had spent the last few weeks alone.
She could see Matt's knuckled turn white as he was holding his bag as she opened the door.
''Come on, let's get inside.'' She said then and she laid her arm on his back and took him inside with her. She brought his bag to the bedroom with the stuff that she had gotten him when she had come to visit him in the hospital. He looked around a bit and looked at the new floor then.
''Come, I thought that you wanted to take a shower.'' She said then and finally he nodded and she just let him do what he wanted because it was his home and she wanted him to feel at ease and he joined her then. She smiled and pulled him closer a she sat down on the couch and she laid against him. Although he did not really hold her, she was just happy laying against him. She was just glad that he wanted to be with her because of their earlier break up. But now it seemed all good and she wanted to pull him through.
''Hey, what do you want to eat?'' She asked as she got up as it was time for dinner.
He shrugged.
''What do you want?'' She asked as she just wanted to give him what he wanted, hoping that he would eat enough.
He shrugged again and walked away then and Gabby turned around and walked to the kitche. She knew that maybe he just needed some time to adjust to it and hopefully to start talking again. She just needed him to talk to know what he wanted because she didn't want to upset him. A bit bummed out she called for some takeout food, did not feel like she should push it onto him and she was just glad that he was home, although she wished I would have been different. Mostly because she had imagined him being home different. Maybe she had been a bit naïve, thinking he would come home and that everything would be fine.
Matt sat on the couch, he wished that he could get out of this room where all the bad stuff had started, but knew that this was his home. He just wanted to be safe and not be in this place with all of the bad memories.
Gabby sat down beside him again but he was too anxious to keep sitting here and he got up, Gabby looking a bit surprised as he jumped up and wandered around the house. She followed him slowly as he walked to the extra room. It had been the room that Kelly had been sleeping in when he had stayed here and now it was mostly just a room where all their mess was stacked up in boxes. He looked as Gabby had unpacked some of the boxes as there had been stuff that she had left here after breaking up with him but now it was mostly empty.
She stood beside him and grabbed his hand with both of her hands. Her chin was on his shoulder.
''We can start changing this room into a nursery…soon.'' She said softly and he turned his head her way, pinching her hand and nodding then.
Finally Gabby felt a bit better, knew that he was trying. It was just not easy now but she still kept believing that it would get better. Tomorrow he was going back to the hospital, to his psychiatrist and hoped that he could finally talk more about what happened.
He was still so tired after the whole day and very soon they went to bed together. She cuddled up with him and she felt so much safer now that she held him.
Matt tried to wake up, but Jack Nesbitt was right there again, Matt just wanted to get away but knew that there was no getting away from him. His men would just capture him again.
''What do you know about my operations, why were you talking to that cop?'' Jack asked as he walked closer to Matt. The men had just taken him here.
''Katja…'' Matt just said, trying not to think about what happened to her.
''She is not of your concern anymore….'' Jack just said. ''But I am sure you don't want to follow her into death…so you should talk to me.''
Gabby woke up, surprised Matt was not holding her hand anymore and she sat up, Matt missing from the bed and worried she got up. She was so scared that he would be gone again after disappearing once. Even if it was not Nesbitt, what would he disappear again?
She saw him sitting on the ground then, sitting on the spot where she had found Katja. He was shaking a bit and she knew that he also knew that that was the place where Katja was killed and she wanted to know what happened but knew that Matt couldn't tell her. He wouldn't tell her because it was still too hard on him
Slowly Gabby sat beside him and looked as he was looking on the floor, his chin was on his arms, which were resting on his knees as he looked at the floor.
''hey, it is cold out here, let's go back to bed.'' She said softly as she sat down beside him, caressing him over his back and he looked at her. She was worried that he did not want to come back to bed with her but finally he did get up and walked back to bed with her. She grabbed his hand and helped him get up and he walked back to bed with her. In bed she wrapped her arms around him, hoping that he would allow that but he did and she held him close, hoping that he would not get up again. She needed him to feel okay and although she knew it would take a while, she just wanted him to sleep at least, hoping that he would feel better. She was still worried when she was holding him, because he felt so tin and bony but she knew that his body was not the biggest problem. But then she kissed him again on the back of his head and felt and heard that he was asleep and finally she closed her eyes again and fell asleep, still feeling grateful that she got to hold him in her arms after all.
NOTE: Matt is home but he does not seem to be doing so well. Gabby is bit upset that he still does not talk to her and she just wishes that he did but also knows that it is hard on him. But he was happy when they talked about the nursery, so will the baby bring them closer together and get him to talk after all and open up and let him get better?
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