Title: Christmas Baby; Chapter Four (Special Moments)
Summary: It is Christmas Eve and a baby gets dropped off at Station fifty-one. How do Matt and Kelly handle it? How do the rest feel. Who falls in love with the baby? Does the little baby find a home?
Disclaimers: The show is property of Dick Wolfe, and NBC. I don't own anything. Just borrowing the characters to practice my writing. Only thing I own is Season 1 DVDs and they are getting well worn. LOL
A/N: Happy New Year! I hope everyone has a Happy and Safe new Year. Thank you for reading this. Please do leave a review. Just to let me know how I'm doing. Thank you for reading.
The Christmas dinner is now cooking in the oven and on the stove. Soon to be ready. The police are now at firehouse fifty-one. Standing watch and waiting. Mattea is asleep in Matt's office. Katie is taking a little nap in her brother's office.
Chris Herrmann is looking forward to seeing his family come to the firehouse and visiting. They would be there when dinner is ready. He also asked his wife Cindy to bring some baby care items over for Mattea since, Kelly, Leslie, and Matt would need to use the things to care for the baby.
The table is getting set with plates, silverware, glasses, and a Christmas center piece of beautiful flowers. The dinner is soon ready for everyone to come and eat. The Herrmann family steps into the firehouse to see Chris Herrmann who sees them and goes running to them. "Hey Cindy! Hey Children! Merry Christmas!" Chris yells hugging everybody in his family. Chris helps Cindy get the baby things from the car for the three who are caring for the baby. Chris sets the things in Kelly's office. Some used baby clothes, diapers, baby wipes, baby formula, and some stuffed animals for Mattea to enjoy.
Matt is in his office with the baby. He picks her up out of the car seat and places her on the bed. "Hey sweet girl. Are you awake? How are you doing?" Matt says, talking to Mattea whom is awake and looking up at him. Almost smiling. Matt took his phone out to record her and what she is doing to show someone later on. "Hey look up here sweetie." Matt says holding his phone to record her. Her little arms move and her little head cocked just listening to his voice.
"Hey Matt, Cindy is here and all the children. The stuff they're letting us use is in my office." Kelly steps into Matt's office. "Yeah okay." Matt says as he puts his phone away. He picks up Mattea and places her back into the car seat to be carried out to the common room. Both Kelly and Matt step into the common room and hugs are shared all around and the baby gets to meet more people.
"CHRISTMAS DINNER IS READY EVERYONE!" Ingrid Mills shouts. Everyone gathers around the table. Chief Boden steps up to the table to carve the Christmas Turkey. "Okay everyone what shall we call this bird?" Chief Boden asks everyone. As one everyone shouts; "GAIL MCLEOD!" Chief Boden laughs as he nods his head in agreement and cuts into the turkey.
Grace is said over the meal and everyone fills their plates with food. Everyone digs in. Everyone looks over at the Mills family and says thank you. Everyone is having a good time with their family and friends and friends that are family. Everyone thankful for the special moment shared with one another. A good year, with good and bad moments.
The alarm tone sounds and everyone stops to listen. Truck eighty-one…Squad three…Engine fifty-one…Ambulance sixty-one…Outside fire at a home….Everyone quickly hurries to their Trucks.
The fire trucks pull out of the hangers with sirens wailing. Ingrid and Elise Mills start to clean up the huge mess. Katie helps also. Cindy is watching the children and she is keeping and eye on Mattea. Pouch is having a good time playing with all the children.
It takes awhile but all the dishes are clean and put away along with the pots and pans. The leftover food is put in the refrigerator to be enjoyed at a later date. Dessert is set on the counter for when everyone gets back.
Finally the fire trucks pull into the hanger after the call they went on. Thankfully no one was hurt, but the fire did go out of control for a bit and part of the house caught on fire but was put out, and the family is safe and got out before the firefighters got on scene.
Everyone takes off their turnout gear and hangs it up and has their in house uniform on. Everyone heads to the locker room to clean up. It doesn't take Matt Casey long to clean up and go check on Mattea. The baby is starting to wake as Matt kneels down in front of her and picks her up out of the car seat. He checks her diaper and it needs changed. He grabs a clean diaper, and baby wipes. He lays her on the floor and changes her. Mattea is starting to cry not liking the cool air chilling her.
Matt finishes as Kelly sees and goes up with a blanket in his hand and picks the baby up off of the cold floor. He wraps her up in the blanket snuggly and holds her. Mattea calms down content for the moment. Matt stands up and puts the wipes away and throws the dirty diaper in the trash. He washes his hands and makes a bottle up for Mattea. After the bottle is made up he hands it to Kelly who takes the bottle and gives it to the baby who goes to town on drinking the formula. Her little tummy empty.
"Hey Kelly may I borrow your apartment keys? I want to drop off the baby things so we don't have to later." Matt says. "My keys are in my locker." Kelly says, lifting the baby to his shoulder to burp her. "Okay thanks." Matt says, grabbing all the baby things from Kelly's office and putting them out in his truck. He then goes to get Kelly's keys.
"Hey Kelly I'm heading out now." Matt says, heading out to his truck and getting in. he lets his truck warm up in the cold before pulling away. First he heads to the hospital to visit someone. Unknown to him someone is following him.
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Matt pulls in at Lakeshore Hospital and parks in the visitor parking and locks his truck as he heads in. He stops at the front desk to find out where Julia Reynolds is. The person at the front desk tells him and he heads up.
He steps off of the elevator and heads to the room he was told and stops as the Police Officer stops him at the door. "Hi I'm Matt Casey from Firehouse fifty-one." Matt says. The Officer checks his paper work and nods his head as he finds Matt's Name on the list.
Matt steps into the hospital room. "Hello Julia. How are you?" Matt asks the young woman laying in the hospital bed. Julia looks up at Matt and smiles. "Hi. I'm sore but the doctors have me on some good stuff. My parents and sister are at their hotel room. The Police Officer Antonio Dawson stopped by to let me know what is going on." Julia says looking at Matt.
Matt brings his phone out and finds the recording he did of Mattea and hands it to Julia to watch. Tears start to run down her face as she sees her little baby girl. Julia grabs a tissue and wipes her eyes. She watches the recording one more time and smiles. She hands the phone back to Matt.
Matt takes his phone back and puts it in his pocket. "I just wanted to wish you a Merry Christmas and I just wanted to show you how Mattea is. She is in good hands all around." Matt says. "Thank you." Julia says. "I can send it to your phone so you may have it." Matt says. Julia nods her heads as she grabs piece of paper and a pen and copies her cell phone number down for Matt. Matt takes his phone out again and sends the recording to her phone. He then programs her number into his phone and puts it away.
"I better get going. Merry Christmas. I'm glad you are alright." Matt smiles at Julia. She smiles back as he leaves. Matt heads toward the elevators and pushes the down button. He steps onto the elevator and he heads down and heads for his truck and gets in. He heads for Kelly and Leslie's apartment to drop off the baby care items.
He parks his truck and gets out. He takes the keys out and goes to unlock the door. He grabs the things and makes a few trips to take the things in. Glad that he doesn't have to do it later. He locks the door again when he is finished and pockets the keys.
Matt walks down the walkway toward his truck that sits at the curb. It is going toward late afternoon as the sun is heading toward the western horizon. Out of the corner of his eye, Matt sees a shiny object glinting in the sunlight.
He is suddenly grabbed, around his throat. Matt feels himself being dragged by one person. He kicks back with his foot and hit's the person's knee. He feels himself fall to the ground. He hears cursing coming from the person from the pain in his knee.
Matt gets to his feet to face the person, he feels air whoosh out of himself as he is kicked in the stomach, bend in half he makes a grab for the person and feels stinging pain in his arms. The shiny object is a knife and it is sharp and deadly. The person kicks Matt's legs right from under him. Matt lands hard on the cold unforgiving ground. The person kneels down beside him. "I want my baby back!" a voice rasps, as he kicks Matt in his stomach without remorse numerous times.
Matt feels himself being picked up by the person. Matt screams out as his head is slammed violently into his truck and his body shoved toward it. Dizzily he turns toward the person. He hears people coming from somewhere.
Matt makes another grab for the person but again is shoved back against his truck. He falls to the cold ground which didn't get any softer after the first time. Sharp deadly blows land on his stomach and on his sides. He tries to crawl away, to get to his feet. He feels pain explode in the back of his head and he stops moving. The person having used a crowbar to the back of Matt's head.
The crowd of people getting closer. The person, whom is Nathan runs for it. Leaving Matt where he is. Matt slowly moves and leans against the bottom of his truck for support. His head is swimming, as he digs his phone out from his pocket. Matt squints his eyes trying to see the front of his phone, he instead goes from memory and pushes number one on the speed dial.
Kelly Severide answers his phone after seeing that it is Matt. "Casey where are you?" Kelly is concerned for his friend, his little "brother." Matt's vision is getting worse, his head swimming, nausea making his stomach roll. "Your apartment. Outside. Please help me, Kel…" Matt's voice fades out as his eyes close and blackness overtakes him and he knows nothing more.
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Kelly's face drains of all color as Matt stops talking. "Kelly what's wrong?" Leslie Shay asks coming upon her roommate whom looked like a ghost. Kelly doesn't answer, he heads into the common room and grabs the first aide kit and takes Shay's hand in his and goes out to his car and unlocks it. He gets in and Shay follows suit.
Luckily there are no cops watching along the road, for any speeders because Kelly Severide is speeding faster then Vin Diesel in, The Fast and The Furious movies. Leslie looks over at Kelly as she figures out that he is taking them to their apartment. Kelly sees Matt's truck and pulls in front of it. He sees a couple of people kneeling down to check on Matt, as he gets out of the car to go over to him.
A/N: Happy New Year everyone. I hope you like this update. Mrhahahaha….(Evil laughter) Please review and let me know what you think. Did I do good or bad? Review please. My muse sort of took over on the ending. The other draft I didn't like from what I did very early this morning.