Hi how are you?
Thanks so much for all the support of the previous chapter:
-Ms Isabella: Thanks for not killing me XD. I hope that you like this chapter
-country-chick-20: I love it Casey, I am not going to kill him so don't worry or maybe I do? (evil laugh) You will see it...
-jscat2: here you have the second chapter, I will try to have the next as soon as I can becuase I don't want to let you with that end during one week...
-M. Louise E: Yeah! Matt is going to need a lot of help from his family and friends. Take care you too!
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I hope that you like it this one also. What will happen Will Gabby arrive on time to save Casey?...
I will try to have the next one as soon as possible, I will try to have it for at least on Sunday morning or maybe early evening on sunday. Besides, I want to say you that during the next week I will not be able to write any new chapter because my family is coming to visit me! So, sorry but i will not be able to write anything.
Finally tonight there is a new episode of "chicago Fire" after two weeks (Well in reality for me will be in two days more =/). Yesterday I saw the episode 2x16. And I think that this second season is even better than the firts one. What is goign to happen with Jones? how will react Casey after Gabby told Jones what her father want to do?... I can't wail to watch it =)
Chapter 3: Encouragement
Feeling more relax than after her discussion with Matt, Gabby decided to return to his house. She went upstairs and entered again in the master room. Matt was lying face up in his bed with his eyes closed. She smiled thinking that maybe after rest a few more hour, a warn shower and a good dinner, he will feel a little bit better.
She went to his wardrobe and she grabbed a blanket for tucking him. When she tucked him, she saw that Matt's right hand was squeezing something strongly.
"What is this?"And she tried to open his hand. It was a bottle of pills for sleeping. However, there was something strange in the bottle. The purchase date was yesterday and it was completely empty now "Matt! What do you do?" she said scary while she tried to wake up him. Rapidly, she called an ambulance. "Come on Matt you have to resist. The ambulance will arrive in five minutes" she said crying
Gabby brought her face to his nose to see if he was still breathing but she wasn't sure, so she tried to find his pulse. But he didn't have it. He was suffering a cardiac arrest and his lungs stopped of breath.
Gabby opened his mouth and began to compress on his chest. "One, two, three". She stopped of doing compressions and covered his nose with one hand while the other she held his chin firmly. Without hesitation she pressed her mouth against his to give her breath. But he still did not breathe. "Come on Matt" her tears fell down her cheeks and she compressed again in his chest "one, two, three" and one more time she give him her breath. She repeated the procedure two more times. The last time that she separated her face from him, he began to cough violently with tears in his eyes. "Matt. The ambulance is coming. You have to resist and don't sleep".
But he wasn't able to stay awake longer so he closed his eyes immersing in a secret place full of silence. A place where the only thing you could do was wait.
Few minutes later an ambulance arrived to the house. Gabby explained to the EMT what happened and which pills he might have taken. Without loss any second they put him an IV because he was dehydrated and an oxygen mask and carried him to the nearest hospital.
Gabby did not separate of him in any moment always holding his hand. When they arrived to the hospital some doctors were waiting there.
"What do we have?" a doctor shouted as soon as the ambulance's gates were opened and the EMT pulled the gurney out.
"Man 29 years old. Possible attempt of suicide with barbiturates. He had a cardiac arrest some minutes ago. His pulse is weak and his vitals are stables" one of the EMT said while the gurney advanced.
"Ok. I want him in Trauma 1"
"I am sorry ma'am but you cannot pass" a nursery said to Gabby
"I am his friend" she said shocked because in that moment was when she realized what Matt tried to do. He tried to kill himself with those pills. He her best friend that until yesterday when he were in the firehouse seemed well were now laid in a bed with the only desire of die. What were you thinking Matt?
With trembling hands she took her cell of her jeans and called to Shay with the hope that her friend could go to the hospital because in that moment she couldn't be alone. She need her friend more that in any other time in all her life.
"Shay?" she said crying
"sweetie, what happen?"
"It's Matt. He tried to kill himself half an hour ago" she said shakily
"He tried what?" she said completely shocked "In what hospital are you?"
"What happen?" Severide said approaching to Shay
"Lakeshore" Gabby said
"Kelly and I are on our way to there, alright? Honey, take it easy he is going to be fine" she hung up the call and stared at Kelly trying to find the right words to tell him that some minutes ago his best friend had tried to kill himself.
"What is going on Shay?" he said "How is in the hospital?"
"We have to go to the hospital. Matt" she doubt between tell him the true or not.
"Matt what?"
"he has tried to kill himself"
"Are you kidding me? Is this a joke? Because it not funny" he said annoyed
"Kelly, it is not a joke. Matt is in Lakeshore in this moment and Gabby need both of us there" she said seriously
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It had been ten minutes after the ambulance arrived at the hospital. No doctor had left the trauma one to inform her who Matt was. After called Shay, she called also to chief Boden to let him know that she and Matt will not go to the next shift so he need to cover both absences. She didn't explain to him why Matt was in the hospital, however he insisted in going to the hospital.
She felt so useless in that moment. Maybe if she didn't leaves the house when he asked her for forgiveness and not to leave, he didn't have taken the bottle of pills and he will continue alive and not in a hospital bed. I should be there for him like he was for me each time that I need him.
"Gabby" Shay ran to her friend and hugged her "How is he?"
"I don't know. They took him to trauma one ten minutes ago. Nobody say me anything"
"Don't worry. I going to go to the desk and ask who his doctor is. Kelly please stay with her"
"Sure" despite of being in the hospital; he still could not believe that his best friend, which he considered as his own brother, had attempted suicide.
"What happen?" Boden said behind them.
"Matt has taken a bottle of pills" Gabby said shocked
"How are you Kelly?" Boden asked to him knowing that both lieutenants were best friends since both entered in the firehouse fifty-one as candidates.
"I can't believe it. How could he do something like that?. He was always the strongest of all of us. I mean, when a firefighter has died or we have had a difficult call, he has always been the shoulder to let off steam"
"Maybe Matt is more fragile than we thought"
"Guys. The doctor is ready for speak with us" Shay said
All of them walked down the long hallway to talk to the doctor. When they arrived where he was, the gate of the trauma room one were opened and a gurney with an unconscious Matt walked past them. Matt was wearing a hospital gown, an IV, a heart monitor and the most impacting of all, a breathing tube in his mouth. The gurney continued moving down the hallway until it disappeared in one of the corners.
"How is he?" Chief Boden asked. In that moment he was the only one who could think or talk after see how Matt was.
"In this moment he is stabilized. He is being move to be the ICU when you arrived. We called his family and they are coming. We are going to make him a gastric lavage. In one hour I will be able to say you something more. I am sorry" and he walked in the same direction of the gurney.
Some minutes after his mother, Nancy, his sister, Christine and his brother in law, Jim, arrived to the hospital.
"Gabriela?" Nancy asked "What happen? They called us some minutes ago but they didn't explain us what happen?
"Mrs. Casey I am Chief Boden your son's chief" he said introducing himself
"I know how you are, Matt told me about you"
"I am so sorry, but Casey, sorry Matt tried to kill himself taking a bottle of pills one hour ago"
"What?" Christine asked completely shocked "Why did he do something like that?"
His mother started to cry disconsolately. Gabby could not resist, she approached to her and hugged her tightly. After she spent fifteen years in jail she is recovering finally her son and her daughter, but now she was losing again one of them. Life was so unfair sometimes.
"Doctor said that in one hour he will explain more about how he is. They are doing to him a gastric lavage right now" Kelly said. "Chief, I think that maybe we should call to rest of the family of the fifty-one"
"You are right. I think that in that moment we should be all together like the family that we are"
"I can't understand how he did this" Christine said crying but she wasn't able of continuing talking
"Yesterday, after he finished his shift, he was in our house fixing some kitchen cabinets" Jim said "He looked fine. He even stayed with us for lunch and in the afternoon he played with Violet, our daughter"
"Yesterday I shouted to him because he took some unnecessary risk and send him home. Maybe if he stayed in the firehouse he didn't do this"
"I when today to his house four hours ago I think" she said confused because since she arrive to the hospital the time seemed to run at a different speed to speed of the outside world "He was a mess, he looked like he didn't sleep in days and he was depressed"
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Time continued passing. After called Herrmann and Otis they called to the others guys and said them that Casey was in the hospital. Half an hour before, not only the truck's crew was there, but also the squad's crew, even Vargas was there for his lieutenant because without his and Kelly help he will not be live in that moment. All of them were always a family that support one to each other without matter what happen.
All of them were waiting in front of the ICU room where Matt was. There was a deep silence in the hallway, nobody know what to say or what to do. For them it was really difficult to assimilate that his lieutenant had tried to kill himself. Apart of her mother and sister, Gabby was really bad. She blamed herself of his situation. Her eyes were irritated because during the last hours she didn't stop of crying.
Finally the room's door was opened and two doctors appeared one of them was the one that had already spoken with them before. They were surprised to see that there were a lot of people waiting to know how their young lieutenant was.
"Hello I am doctor Nivans and this is my college Stone a psychologist. We are treating Mr. Casey" he explained
"in this moment he is stable" she said
"The next hour is going to be the more critical. He took a lot of pills. With the gastric lavage we were able to eliminate part of those pills" he made a little pause before continuing with the worse part "However, the other part it has been assimilated by his organism. Now, he hope that the medication that we gave him can block the barbiturates"
"Do you think he will recover?" Gabby asked not really sure if she wanted to heard his answered
"We can't know what it is going to happen" Dr. Stone responded with sincerity
"What happened in other cases that you treated before?" Christine asked
"It is not the same. Depend of the body of the person, how many pills he took, and his reaction" she paused not sure if she should say what she was thinking "His desire of living. Sometimes, stimuli are everything"
"We do not want to deceive you, but if an hour has not woken up, time will run against him" Dr. Nivans said
"Can we stay with him?" Herrmann asked
"Yes but only one person. I am sorry" and they re-entered to the room.
All of them were in silent. All of them wanted to enter in that room and stay near to his friend, but according with the doctor only one person can enter. But the question now was how is going to enter in that room?
"Gabby" Nancy said "you are the one that should enter in that room"
"she?" some of them asked shocked
"Why I should I there and not you or Christine maybe?"
"You heard the doctor" Christine said "stimuli are important for him in this moment and I don't know what kind of stimuli are you for my brother, but for him you are his encouragement"
"Alright I will enter" she said decisively
"Please bring him back" Kelly said
"I will try" she said with decision
Hi
I am sorry for end the chapter here. I will try to have the next one as soon as I can like I said above. Tomorrow I will start writting a new chapter of my other fic "Let her go" that now Matt is waking up ^^ what will happen with Hallie and Gabby?
Thanks so much for read it.
See you in the next chapter and take care,
Namine Redfield