Title: Christmas Baby; Chapter Five (Brotherly Love)
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: Hi how is everyone? I'm happy Chicago Fire is back! YES! To long of a wait! Thank you all for liking this. I'm glad. :D To the two guests who reviewed Thank you. I don't know if you're the same guest or not but I am working on this. :D I'm not forgetting it. Anyway please do leave a review so I know your thoughts please. How am I doing?
"Did anyone see who did this?" Kelly asks the two people. "All we saw is someone running away and then we saw this young man here. Is he going to be okay?" The older man asks looking at Kelly. "It's all good." Kelly says hoping he is telling the truth.
Leslie kneels down next to Matt who is still out cold. He doesn't look so good. Who would look good after being beat up. Kelly thanks the two people as they walk away. Matt hasn't even moved.
Leslie stands up and goes to unlock the apartment door. Kelly carefully lifts Matt to his feet slowly as not to hurt him further. He then lifts him into a fireman's carry and takes Matt into the apartment.
Kelly lays Matt onto the couch in the living room. Leslie Shay checks Matt out and does first aide where she can. His cuts on his arms are cleaned and bandaged. The nasty looking bump on his head is checked. Leslie lifts up Matt's lieutenant shirt and gasps at the bruising on his stomach. She softly swears. Matt got the crap beat out of him.
Kelly has a dark look on his face. Nathan had better be praying that Kelly doesn't get a hold of him before the cops do. Kelly stands up from where he was sitting on the arm of the couch watching Shay taking care of Matt. Kelly gives Antonio a call and gives him a heads up to what is happening. He then calls Chief Boden and tells him that he and Matt won't be in for the rest of shift because Matt is in a bad way.
Leslie Shay finishes up the first aide on Matt and stands up. She looks at Kelly. "Stay with him until he wakes up. He could have a concussion. I'm a little worried he hasn't woken up yet. Call me if you need me to come back." Leslie Shay says as Kelly hands the car keys to his roommate and she turns to leave.
Kelly finds a blanket and covers Matt with it. He goes in search of a basin and sets it on the floor next to the couch just in case Matt was in need of it later. Kelly goes to change out of his work clothes and puts on jeans and a warm long sleeved shirt.
Kelly settles down in and arm chair close to the couch and turns on the TV. with the remote. He is not leaving Matt's side until he wakes up. He prays that Matt wakes up soon.
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Matt Casey groans as he opens his eyes. The light hurts his eyes and he closes them tightly. The nausea making his stomach roll. Matt sits up and the room spins dizzily around him. He closes his eyes tightly. He is going to be sick.
Someone hands him a basin as he vomits into it violently. His ribs screaming at him as he is throwing up. After he is finished being sick the basin is taken away. He hears a flush of a toilet in the distance. Matt lays back down his hands covering his face. He curses a blue streak at the way he feels. "Good thing there are no children present." Kelly Severide says to Matt.
Matt tries to think back to what happened. His mind is slow and sluggish. His head is pounding from a headache. He removes his hands from his face and looks up at Kelly, hoping his friend and brother can help shed some light onto what happened.
"Can you remember anything?" Kelly looks at Matt with worry. "I was hoping you could tell me. My head is pounding and I can't focus." Matt says closing his eyes, because the light is bothering him.
"You have a concussion. Just take it slow and easy. Don't force anything." Kelly tells Matt. "Yeah okay." Matt says. He takes a deep breath and sits back up. "I was heading for my truck and I was grabbed by Nathan from behind. He told me he wants his baby back. I think he wanted to take me somewhere but I fought back. I wasn't going with him. I really didn't hurt him much but you can see his result on me. I'm one big bruise and my head, hard as ever." Matt says, looking at Kelly.
Matt shoots his pitiful puppy dog face at Kelly. Kelly cringes at his look, because he knows he will give into whatever Matt wants when he uses it. "I want to go back to the firehouse. I miss Mattea." Matt whines at Kelly. "You're hurt and I already called the Chief to tell him we wouldn't be coming back in." Kelly replies. "I want to go back. I know I'm not fine but I just want to hang out there." Matt says. Kelly shot Matt a look of total surprise at what he just admitted.
"Don't look so shocked. I just want to hang out at the firehouse and you can also keep your eyes on me there just as well here, and so can everyone else." Matt pleads looking at Kelly with his sad eyes.
Kelly lets out a sigh and picks up the phone to call Chief Boden. "Yes!" Matt smiles as Kelly hangs up. "Lets go." Kelly looks at Matt and smiles. Both leave the apartment and head to Matt's truck. Matt hands his keys over to Kelly to drive. Slowly Matt gets into his truck on the passenger side and shuts the door and buckles up as Kelly does the same thing and starts the truck and pulls away once traffic is clear.
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Kelly pulls up to the firehouse and parks the truck. He gets out and heads inside. Matt is slowly following his right arm around his ribs at the soreness he is feeling. Kelly waits for him at the door and holds it open once Matt gets closer. Both head to the common room. Matt sees Peter Mills holding Mattea.
"Hand over Mattea please. I miss her." Matt goes over to Peter who hands her over to his lieutenant. She is fed and has on a fresh diaper. Matt sees a baby blanket for the baby and wraps her up in it and heads to his office for the throw blanket he keeps there. He heads back out to the couch and sits on the other end, opposite of Mouch who never moves from that spot unless the alarm tone sounds.
Matt places the baby onto his right shoulder and covers up. He closes his eyes and pats the baby on her back. The baby seems to enjoy this as her eyes close. Matt places her onto his stomach as he leans back on the couch and places his feet up onto the coffee table. He continues patting her back gently.
Matt closes his eyes, content to be where he was for the moment. Kelly could tell that the light is bothering Matt because of the pinched expression on his face. Kelly turns off the overhead lights near the couch. Mouch who is reading the paper looks up at Kelly. Kelly glares at Mouch until he gets up to move. Mouch sits down at the table to finish reading the paper.
Matt opens his eyes and sees that Mouch moved. He takes his feet off of the coffee table and toes his shoes off and puts his legs on the couch. Kelly sees what Matt is trying to do and goes to his office to grab his pillow and goes over to the couch and places it behind Matt.
Matt smiles at Kelly as he lays down. He moves the baby upward toward his chest still patting her back. Kelly takes the blanket and covers Matt with it making sure that it doesn't completely cover the baby. Matt leaves out a contented sigh as he relaxes with the baby. He closes his eyes against the light in the room. His head is pounding but he can live with it. He missed little Mattea and right now holding her, made the pain he is feeling lessen a lot.
Everyone moved over to the table to leave Matt to rest because everyone can tell he is in pain. Now Kelly isn't the only one watching out for Matt. He now has backup of everyone.
After awhile there are snores coming from the couch. Kelly snickers as he records the cute scene in front of him onto his phone. He sneaks away after he is finished recording.
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The rest of shift is quiet and uneventful. Everyone starts to pack up their gear and makes the beds with fresh sheets. They all change into regular clothing. Kelly goes over to Matt to wake him up and so he can put his things away.
Matt opens his eyes as someone takes Mattea from him as she starts to cry. Matt sits up and looks over at Kelly. He still has a slight headache and the light still bothers him. "What is your name?" Kelly asks looking at Matt. "Matt Casey. Today is Christmas. There is a baby here at fifty-one. You are Kelly Severide Squad Lieutenant and I'm Truck Lieutenant." Matt answers knowing the drill for head injuries.
Kelly is satisfied as Matt slowly gets to his feet and grabs his blanket from the couch and Kelly's pillow that he was using. He heads back the hall and goes to his office and makes up the bed and puts his throw blanket back where he keeps it. He puts Kelly's pillow back on the bed and heads back out to the common room.
Matt heads to the locker room and changes and grabs what he needs to stay with Kelly and Leslie. He puts on his coat, hat, and gloves and heads outside. Mattea is in her borrowed car seat already buckled in.
Leslie sits in the back seat of Kelly's car since Matt is riding with them, no shape to drive himself. Kelly puts his bag in the trunk of the car with everyone else's bags and gets into the driver's side and starts the car.
Kelly pulls out when it is clear to go. At the apartment all of them get out of the car. Leslie takes Mattea into the apartment and Kelly gets the stuff from the car. Matt helps with what Kelly allows him to help with.
Matt slowly heads over to the sofa and sits down. He is holding his ribs. Leslie sees this and goes over to Matt. "Hey you okay?" Leslie asks in concern. "No. My ribs really hurt." Matt replies taking in a slow deep breath. "May I check?" Leslie asks looking at Matt. He nods his head as Leslie slowly feels around his chest and his back. "Nothing seems to be broken. I'll wrap them up for you." Leslie says going to get a bandage. Matt waits for Leslie to come back.
Leslie goes back over to Matt as he takes off his shirt with Leslie's help. She starts to wrap the bandage around Matt. Kelly comes into the room holding Mattea in his arms. The baby is awake and looking around.
Leslie helps Matt get his shirt back on. "How does that feel?" Leslie asks. "It feels better. Thank you." Matt says still in pain but it is more tolerable to deal with. Kelly hands Mattea to Leslie and leads Matt to the bedroom he would being using for the time being.
"Hey Matt I'll be checking on you through the night. Just to make sure your concussion doesn't get worse." Kelly says to Matt. "Okay Thank you." Matt says not looking forward to the long night. The two men head down with Leslie and the baby.