Title: Christmas Baby; Chapter Eight (The Rescue)
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: So glad you're still with me. This winter has been long! I can't upload the chapters to the story since I have no internet because of the Ice Storm in my area since February 5, 2014. So please forgive me. I didn't forget about you. I'm still working on both of my stories here. :D So glad you like either one or both of them. 1. One Month and 2. Christmas Baby Please do let me know how I'm doing please and leave a review. :D Yeah! I'm back! :D
In the warehouse Matt Casey is coming to. He leaves out a groan. "Hey Matt are you okay?" Katie asks. "W-where are we?" Matt stutters as he slowly opens his eyes to see where he is. He smells gasoline all around them and sees incendiary devices that are set and ready to go. Oh crap! We are in trouble. We need to get out of here! Matt thought as he tugs his arms and finds that he is tied to something.
"We are in a old warehouse that Nathan used for his drug making and making sure it got out onto the street." Katie says hearing Matt groan again. "Are you okay?" Katie is concerned for Matt. "My head is killing me." Matt squeezes his eyes shut.
"Hey Mr. Fireman. Soon I won't have to worry about you anymore!" Nathan snidely comments. "Please let Katie go. She has nothing to do with this." Matt pleads looking up toward Nathan. "She is a witness now and I don't let witnesses live. It sort of messes with my plans if I do. I just want my baby back." Nathan sneers bending at his knees and looking Matt in his eyes. "You don't deserve to have your baby. You are and unfit parent." Matt spits out.
Matt grunts in pain as Nathan takes Matt's head and slams it back into the beam he is tied to. Not wanting to hear the truth. "Lets just see who has the last laugh Mr. Fireman." Nathan stands hoping everyone is soon ready. He walks away from his two hostages.
Matt shuts his eyes as the room starts to spin. "Matt please stay awake. I don't want to deal with this alone." Katie is terrified. "I'm fine. How do we get out of here?" Matt tugs on his rope and it refuses to budge. "I can't move the rope either." Katie barely can move her arms.
Both Matt and Katie have horrified expressions on their face as the gang is getting close to setting the warehouse on fire. Katie sniffles as she quietly cries. "It's going to be okay." Matt whispers to Katie. He tugs on his ropes in vain trying to get free. Matt sighs in frustration. Matt prays help is on the way.
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Jeff Clarke runs back to his car and pops his trunk and grabs his gear which he has inside for one of those times he doesn't want to get caught with his pants down. He just doesn't have and air tank. He puts his gear on and shuts the trunk. He places his helmet on his head after he puts on his face covering that goes on under his mask for what protection it does offer, and turns to go back.
He sees smoke now rising in the sky. The anti has been upped. Jeff smells the smoke that is in the air now. He hears sirens in the distance and prays that it is backup to get the fire under control. He moves closer and sees Nathan and his gang move away. Some of them are trapped in the fire having been surprised at how fast the fire started, to get out of the way quickly enough.
Jeff Clarke heads into the raging fire, as the police move in and capture the gang. There is some gunfire but Jeff focuses on the job at hand ignoring the activity that is going on outside for the moment. He needs to find Katie and Matt before it is to late. "FIRE DEPARTMENT! CALL OUT!" Jeff shouts out hoping someone would hear. He hears faint shouting and goes in that direction, praying it is the two that he needs to find.
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Katie and Matt, scream out as they hear the blessed sound of help soon coming. Both of them are starting to cough from the smoke. They can't cover their faces since their arms are tied. "HELP US! OVER HERE!" both shout to be heard. Both jump in surprise as Jeff Clarke comes upon them. He sees that they are tied to a large beam. He pulls out a knife to sever the rope. "Don't move." Jeff warns them as he cuts the ropes off. He puts the knife away and helps pull the ropes away.
"Take Katie." Matt coughs out. "Follow me." Jeff says taking Katie beside him. Matt and Katie both pull the upper part of their shirts over their face to try to stop the smoke. It does help somewhat. The smoke is dark and thick. The flames are not in their area yet but soon would be if they all didn't hurry. Jeff hears chatter on the radio. The cavalry is here. Help has arrived. Jeff hears Severide's voice calling to him.
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Kelly Severide, rushed to the firehouse after Jeff called and had everyone head out toward the warehouse. He put his gear on to help out. He wanted to be there to help his sister, Katie and Matt his little brother. Also to give a hand to, Jeff Clarke.
When the fire trucks pulled up the fire is just starting to get handle on the warehouse. Raging all around. The firefighters spread out to battle the blaze. Some head to the roof to vent. They shoot water onto the fire. Kelly sees two firefighters go in to search for, Matt, Jeff, and Katie.
Kelly grabs his radio and talks into it. "Hey Clarke where are you?" "We're in the middle of the warehouse coming out. The smoke is getting really thick. We had to get down to the ground. I have my gear on but I don't have and air tank." Jeff replies letting Kelly know how desperate the situation is. There are two firefighters searching already or Kelly would have headed in but two in and two out. "We're already heading for you. Just hang on and keep moving one step at a time." Kelly replies back into the radio.
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Inside the warehouse the three are slowly making their way toward the outside. All are on the floor, crawling. Coughing out the smoke that is getting into their lungs. Jeff Clarke starts to slow down. Without notice Matt is slowly being left behind in the inferno. With his head already swimming from the two blows he received and now the thick black smoke being inhaled and coughed out. He collapsed to the floor being left behind.
Katie happens to look behind her and doesn't see Matt. "Wait! I can't see Matt!" Katie yells toward Jeff. He turns and doesn't see the lieutenant. He swears. The flames are slowly making there way toward them. A bad situation getting worse. The smoke finally get to Jeff and Katie as they both stop moving.
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The two firefighters that are searching find two of the three. They take whom they find and head out for the others to find the one left. Katie and Jeff are coughing as fresh air now surrounds them as they made it outside with help. The two are loaded onto two ambulances and taken to the hospital to be checked out for how bad the smoke inhalation is. "We couldn't find Lieutenant Casey we have to go back in." a fellow firefighter says. "I'll go." Kelly says putting his mask on and heading in with another.
"CASEY WHERE ARE YOU?!" Kelly yells out. There is a very faint yelling and they head in that direction. Kelly finally sees someone collapsed on the floor. It is Matt. The two firefighters haul Matt to his feet and they head out. Matt is also loaded into and ambulance and taken to the hospital to be checked out for smoke inhalation since he is unresponsive and to be checked out for other injuries.
Kelly Severide gets on the ambulance with Matt to get to the hospital. The others could handle the fire. His sister, Matt and Jeff needed him. Sirens blare as the ambulance heads to Lakeshore Hospital. The Paramedic puts and oxygen mask on Matt and checks out some injuries that are seen.
Matt's eyes open and he sees Kelly. "Hey we're heading to the hospital." Kelly tells Matt. He nods his head and winces in pain. Kelly grabs Matt's hand and squeezes. Matt squeezes back. His hand goes limp as his eyes close again.
The ambulance pulls into and toward the hospital emergency room doors. Matt is unloaded from the ambulance and taken in. Doctors surround Matt and take over pushing his gurney inside to be checked out.
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Back at the warehouse and scene of the fire. It is controlled chaos. Some of the gang members that were trapped in the fire are rescued and some don't make it out. Others are captured and placed under arrest.
The Intelligence Unit has Nathan under surveillance. He makes and escape and they follow him. They have enough evidence to place him under arrest and placed in jail for a very long time. Also some of the gang members part of his drug operation are beginning to talk.
Nathan heads back to his headquarters. He has another hostage as police surround him ready to grab him and take him in for his many crimes. The stand off is long. Nathan isn't giving up without a fight.
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At the hospital Jeff Clarke, Katie Nolan, and Matt Casey are admitted to the hospital for overnight observation. All three have smoke inhalation and are being treated. The doctors also help Matt with his other injuries he subtained from the previous day. Matt does have a head injury from the new hits to the head one from a gang member at his house and the other from Nathan at the warehouse. So his mild concussion is moved up to a level two concussion.
Leslie Shay comes rushing into the hospital room where all her friends are. "Nathan has Gabriela! That is whom he has!" Leslie says in shock. Joe Cruz and Brian "Otis" Zvoneuek rush into the room also. Mattea is with them in the carrier.
Everyone just looks at Leslie Shay in shock. All are saying prayers for Gabriela Dawson. Hoping that the standoff would end well. Everyone could guess how Antonio is reacting to the situation. Nathan is in very big trouble. He has a long line waiting for him.
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Gabriela Dawson, slowly opens her eyes slowly, wincing in pain. She has a headache from being pistol-whipped a small cut on the side of her forehead with a drop of blood dripping down to the floor. She can't talk because she has a gag tied around her mouth. Her hands and feet are tied to a chair. She sees Nathan sitting at his desk, his hands steepled under his chin watching her.
The last thing she remembers is being at the warehouse. She picked up some overtime and was working the scene when she headed back to the ambulance to grab a medic-bag, then she saw movement and felt a great pain and nothing more. Gabby takes a deep breath through her nose to get her bearings and not to panic. She silently says a prayer for the safety of all trapped in this situation until it ends safely. She hopes.