Matt and Kelly slowly made their way through the burned apartment. With Gabby and the kids asleep at the firehouse, they decided to go look if there were any personal belongings to be salvaged.
It was not easy to walk through the apartment that had been his home for such a long time and that was gone now.
The firehouse had immediately moved beds to the conference room, trying to make it a place for the to stay for the night.
Even though he and Gabby had tried to explain to the triplets what was going on and why they couldn't go home, they seemed to think Matt – as a firefighter – could still fix up the building.
Cindy Herrmann had come by, bringing in as many clothes as she could that would be okay for the triplets and had brought some for Gabby as well and Kelly had gone home with Matt to get some clothes for him as well.
The only problem they had was baby April. There was no place she could sleep now and there was no stuff for her, but they were trying to manage. They had to get through this, as a family.
Matt looked around the living room and knelt down then, found the toy car in on the floor. It was dirty and slightly burned on one sight, but it was not too bad and hopefully they could clean it, as he would be heart broken when they lost it.
Honestly, all he wanted not was to sit down and get angry, but he knew he had to pull through to find the stuff that would be good for the kids and for Gabby.
Kelly looked around, feeling so bad for his friend.
They made their way through the apartment, picking up as much as they could salvage as Matt didn't want to leave stuff behind. It was really important that he wanted to get as much for his family.
After a an hour, they grabbed everything together and left back tot he firehouse and Matt walked to the shower, only took the car with him.
In the shower, tears finally rolled down his cheek and as much as he did not want to cry, he was so upset. He was upset this had happened to his family and after a few minutes he pulled himself together again. On the ground by his feet was the little toy car and he picked it up and held it under the water, trying to get the filth and the char from the fire off.
As the car was almost closed and he had changed into a change of clothes from the firehouse he walked to the conference room where his family was staying. After the call at the zoo they had left and gone to the firehouse, getting more information while they were trying to get everything better for them.
Walking back into the conference room, Gabby was sitting on the edge of a bed, looking tired and rocking April.
He walked past the bed Aaron was asleep in and put the clean but slightly burned car on his bed, hoping that it would bring a bit of comfort for the boy.
''Hey, we managed to get some stuff. We are going back tomorrow one more time, but most of the stuff is torched.'' He said softly as he took April from her.
''What did you bring?'' She asked softly, hoping there was a still some personal stuff with them.
''Some toys from the triplets. Not much, but at least some of their stuff. I got the picture albums from the safe, I brought our laptop, Otis is going to see if he can get out pictures from the hard drive...hopefully.'' He said softly.
''Anything more?''
''Some of Aprils stuff. Kelly is cleaning it all right now.'' She nodded slowly.
''Come on, get some sleep.'' He said and he kissed her on her forehead and pulled the blanket over her as she laid down. With April in his arms he left them all to sleep and walked to the common room.
Kelly and Cruz were trying to clean what they could.
''Thanks so much you all, you have been so helpful.'' He said to all of them.
''Well, the neighbours have been as well. We went to talk to them if they had any clothes for little April and they had some baby stuff and some toys for the triplets as well.
''Thanks guys.'' He said. Even though he wished that they would not beg for stuff with other people, he knew it was necessary as his family needed the things and it was nice all of them wanted to help out.
Soon he walked to bed as well and wrapped his arms around Gabby. Neither of them were able to sleep but with as she laid there, Matt holding her in his arms, she hoped it would really be okay soon.
They had breakfast with the firehouse the net morning and finally got some good news.
''Me and Cindy...we have a one bedroom flat above our own house. We would like to give it to you as an option so that you can at least stay there until you have something better. We know it might be small but it is really something we want to offer you. Kenny and Sophia will share their bedroom so the triplets have their own bedroom on our floor. Again it small bu-''
''It is perfect, thank you so much.'' Gabby said with tears in her eyes as she hugged Herrmann.
''My family is cleaning the room right now.'' Herrmann said then. ''Hopefully you will already be able to move in today.''
''Thank you so much.'' Matt said as well as it was so meaningful that all of the really tried to help them out.
Later that afternoon, with everybody helping fix it up as Matt and Gabby were trying to salvage some more stuff but the whole firehouse helping out was so good.
Finally they gave up, knew as hard as it was, they had to move on.
They walked up the stairs to the small apartment. There was a small kitchen and even though it was all one room, it was still spacious. There was a bed for them as well as a small crib in the corner for April.
''It might not be a palace, but it will hopefully do.'' Herrmann said humble.
''It is perfect, really.'' Matt said with a smile and Christopher left them then to get settled. The kids walked to their own bedroom with him to see that and Matt and Gabby started unpacking the tiny bit of stuff they still had.
It was amazing how the whole firehouse was helping them out, in these time of need.
Gabby laid little April in the crib and tugged her in, so many small plushies and blankets gathered together by everyone trying to help the and soon she was asleep.
Matt was still going around, trying to get everything packed away when Gabby suddenly took his hand and pulled him down beside her and he sat down, smiling at he rand kissing her then.
''It's going to be okay.'' He promised her then. Even though he was not really sure about all of it yet, he really just hoped that it would be okay.
''I know, we will get through this as a family.'' She said as her thumb caressed over his hand.
''I am just happy all of us are okay and that we were to there.'' He said as he pulled her into a hug she started to cry in against his neck, but just so happy that he was holding her in his arms and tried to comfort her, but also just letting her cry and letting it out.
As long as they were still together as an family, they would get through this.
NOTE: So things are far from okay for the family but at least they have people backing them up. How will they move on from this now?
Thank you so much for reading, so many people left what they thought about last chapter that I wanted this update to come quick! So I hope you liked it and please do let me know what you think! It helps!
