Hey there! As I said yesterday, I will update the 6th chapter now and let you enjoy it.

I had a few reviews for the last one, about Matt seeing Hallie (that it wasn't a good new) etc...

But you will have answer with this chapter.

Time to enjoy ^_~

CHAPTER 6 : reunion

"Hallie? What is this joke?"

Hallie leaned her head to her side and crossed her arms.

"You're not happy to see me?"

Matt was speechless. He couldn't talk nor make a sound. This made Hallie laugh.

"You should see the head you have!"

Matt didn't understand what was happening. He frowned.

"You didn't answer... What is this joke?!"

He looked around him. He liked this place but he knew something was wrong. Hallie tried to explain to him.

"What's the last thing you remember?"

Totally lost, Matt closed his eyes and tried to remember. He could see flames, smell the smoke, see Kelly's face, totally frightened.

"The explosion..."

"Good! You remember!"

He shook his head.

"I still didn't understand... I... I'm dead?"

With this word, Matt shivered.

"Not yet. You are hallucinating because of the oxygen. The pure oxygen you are breathing made you think about the sea. And here you are!"

"But... Why are you here? I'm lost now..." he said, passing his hands in his hair and closing his eyes.

"Because I'm dead. And you miss me."

Matt reopened his eyes and locked them on Hallie's.

"I think deep down, you wanted so much to tell me you will be a dad. Tell me you are happy with Gabby, happy to becoming a dad."

Matt lowered his gaze and nodded slightly.

"I think you're right."

Matt came next to her, took her hand and passed a hand on her face, on her cheek. Hallie closed her eyes while he was touching her face.

"Matt, I'm not real. I'm in your head, don't forget it."

"I want... All this thing didn't happen. You didn't die in this fire..."

Matt almost collapsed on the sand, crying. Hallie watched him with sadness and kneed near him.

"Matt... If we lived with a lot of 'and if', we will change the world. But we can't, the past is the past. You have to live with it. He is you, he made you be yourself now, and if there didn't have been what happened, you wouldn't be with Gabby, you wouldn't have had the chance to be a father, you wouldn't have had all these stories."

Matt looked at her with tears on his eyes.

"I can't live with the fact... You aren't here anymore..."

"Then... Think I'm here with you, watching you every day. Encouraging you every day, seeing you smile, seeing you enjoy your life, enjoy Gabby, this baby. You need to hang on to that. Do this for me Matt."

Hallie took his head on her hands and smiled, then wiped the tears on his cheeks. After several seconds, he finally nodded.

"You're right... I will enjoy Gabby... This baby... My life..."

Matt frowned. The birds had stopped singing, there was no more waves dancing on the sea and the sand, the sand had become cold and hard as stone, the face and the body of Hallie faded, the sun disappeared. Panicking, he fell backward, collapsed to the ground on his back...

For his part, Severide was totally shocked. A few seconds earlier, the oxygen tank was out of use, but some time before, Matt had stopped breathing. He gasped, full of fear, he threw himself on Matt's chest, desperately trying CPR while Hermann was trying to blow air into his lungs. Ten seconds, twenty seconds, one minute... Nothing had changed. Matt didn't move, still not breathing, gaving no sign of life.

"Come on Matt, come on! MATT!"

Pressing his chest rhythmically, he felt tears rising to his eyes. By desperation because he was failing to revive his brother but also by pain. Pain that was lacerating his stomach and his left broken arm. Hermann had already ceased his job and looked at Severide who was trying everything to bring Matt to the lanf of living.

"Hermann, this is Ferraris. You copy?"

Hermann didn't answer, in shock.

"Hermann!"

Hermann startled and grabbed his radio with a shaking hand.

"Yeah.. I'm here."

"Hermann? What is it?"

Hermann was open-mouthed, but no sound came on his lips. He was looking at Severide, still counting and cursing a lifeless Matt.

"Matt! Damnit Matt, come on! Matt! DAMN PLEASE!"

He was a desperate cry. He couldn't held his tears anymore, he couldn't anymore.

"What is happening with Matt? HERMANN!" Gabby screamed on the radio.

But Hermann couldn't speak anymore. His radio was on but he didn't say nothing. He heard Gabby and Ferraris screaming on it, but he didn't care. He joigned Severide et began his work again. He blew two big breaths into Matt's mouth and waited for the countdown of Severide.

"Come on Matt, come on! Come on, come on, COME ON!"

Still with the CPR, his eyes were waterfalls now, tears were spreading on Matt's shirt and on his own hands.

"Please Matt... COME BACK!"

On the other side of the slab, Tony and Gabby heard everything. They exchanged a look of terror and despair. They both understood what was happening. No need to say a word. Ferraris took the K12 and attacked the slab to break it while Gabby activated another beacon to help them find them from the large air pocket. She prayed for them to revive Matt as soon as possible.

Outside, the situation was tensed. The firefighters made a small hole, but only a camera could pass trough this hole.

"I'll send a camera with a micro. If they are smart, they stayed where they activated the beacon."

"If they are smart? What does that mean uh? Because it's a candidate and a woman they're not capable of thinking correctly?!" Boden exploded.

"No, I... I didn't say that. I just wanted to say... That's what I would do..."

Boden inhaled deeply.

"Listen to me. I know you had an argument with my squad, but they are MY men, and they are also YOUR brothers. So keep your hatred out of this situation and get them out of this hell! Otherwise I will do my best to fuck your career up! I promise."

Vermulen knew perfectly what he was thinking about. He swallowed his saliva and nodded slightly. His heart was beating a mile a minute. All the firefighters looked at him forcefully, as to say 'do sommething or you will regret this'. He took the camera and guided it through the tiny hole. Boden grabbed his radio.

"Dawson, Borelli, report."

"Chief? It's you?"

"Damn Borelli... How is it inside?"

"Uh... There are at least three fires on one of the galleries, lot of smoke but manageable for now."

"You found one?"

"Uh, yeah. Ferraris. Gabby and him left the pocket to the gallery. He knows where the others are. He is in contact with him, but the signal is low."

"How are they?"

"Uh... Ferraris is badly burned on his back. According to him hermann and Severide are pretty good despite the situation, but Casey is under a... collapsing slab. I don't know much."

Boden felt a little relieved. His four men were alive, this was the most important thing.

"And you have newsfrom them?"

"Gabby said to me to wait for you to help the rescue and take refuge under some stable rubble in case something happened when you were digging. The signal is too weak to reach the three Musketeers, we have to go to the bottom of the gallery to talk to them by radio."

"The... Three Musketeers?"

"Oh, sorry! Ferraris called them like this sooner."

"Don't be sorry Borelli. In fact... It's appropriate."

Borelli smiled a little while Vermulen was looking at the screen.

"So? Vermulen?"

"Your candidate is in a big air pocket. They are very smart. There is enough space for five or six men to go down and organize the rescue from there."

"So we can keep going?"

Vermulen took the time to thnik about it.

"We.. Have to be careful. A big air pocket means a lot of problems, of instability. We have to be quick, but careful."

Boden shook his head up to down and took the radio on.

"Borelli? This will take time to come where you are. There is a high risk of collapsing. We have to work carefully. Okay?"

"Okay. Chief? Do you have some medical stuff outside? If I understood Ferraris well, there are a lot of injuries and I don't think two trousers will be sufficient before you would come."

"There are four ambo standing by on scene. But we can't bring some material down."

"And by where Gabby and I came down?"

Boden and Vermulen looked at each other. The idea wasn't bad, it was the total opposite. Vermulent nodded, meaning it could work.

"Alright, meet us on the entry of the hole. We will give you the necessary."

"Understood."

Gabby and Ferraris were continuing to dig the slab with difficulty. The disc was beginning to wear out and there was no more disk. She had a big knot in her stomach, the fear won. The fear of losing the beloved. The radio of Hermann was still continuing to update them about the situation. Despite the K12, she could hear Kelly screaming and crying on the radio. Severide was desperately continuing his work, massaging stronger. He felt Matt's chest rise and fall under his weight, but he didn't care. He just wanted to bring Matt to life. Hermann passed two fingers on his carotid, and waited a few seconds. Pulse and breathing still didn't come back. They were out of breath when they heard a huge noise. Hermann looked briefly around him but saw nothing. Then he looked through the hole, by which Severide and he came down and saw Gabby's face totally full of dust and eyes bulging out, his mouth open.

"MATT!"

So I hope you liked and you will let me some reviews as well ^_^

The next is called "stop breathing..."