A\N: Thank you so much to everyone who has been reading and reviewing this story, it means so much to me. This chapter is much shorter then previous ones and I'm not sure how good it is as I'm still having writer's block for this story. Also, as my beta reader is currently busy is un-edited so any mistakes are mine.
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Chapter 9
Two Weeks Later:
"Need any help?" Gabby asked Matt, she was leaning on the door to the would be the nursery watching him work. He was measuring the walls to see if there was room for another shelf. They'd gotten so many toys that he'd already built was already filled.
Turing to look at her he shook his head and sighed. "No. You need to be resting. Go have a nap or watch TV." He knew she hated resting and not doing anything, but he was afraid that if she didn't something bad would happen to her out their unborn daughter.
"Matt! I've been home from the hospital for two days, and you're already making me wish I was back there. You're doing everything, I know you're tired, you have to go on shift tomorrow morning, at least let me do something!" She knew and understood that she needed to be on bed rest but she didn't want him to get sick either. The last thing she wanted as for him to get injured n the job because he was doing too much work at home.
"Alright, alright." "You can put some of the clothes in the drawers and closet if you want. You mentioned something about separating them by months."
"Yeah, I think that'll be easier considering she already has so many clothes. I'm sure she'll get even more at the baby shower on Friday." She walked further into the room and picked up some of the bags of clothes. She sat down in the rocking chair in the corner of the room and began organizing.
"Yeah I bet she will too." Matt nodded his head in agreement, "How's the rocking chair feel?" That had been the first thin he'd finished making.
"Comfy." She grinned. "Which is good because I'll be spending a lot of nights in here with her when she's born." She rubbed her abdomen affectionately, "I think she knows we're talking about her. She's moving around like crazy."
"Yeah." Matt pulled himself up off the floor and walked over to her. He bent down slightly and lifted up her shirt placing a hand on her bare abdomen, "Hey baby girl." He began caressing the bare skin. "It's Daddy." When he felt sharp kicks at his hand his heart swelled with happiness and his eyes became watery, "Mommy and Daddy love you so much Celina and we can't wait to meet you. I met you're going to be as beautiful as your mother." He pressed a soft kiss to where the kicks had been.
Seeing Matt talk to their unborn daughter made Gabby's heart swell, she always knew he'd be an excellent father but seeing it just made it all the more real. She was starting to wish that she was allowed to participate in activities of a sexual nature, but until her stiches came out she couldn't, and even then having sex wasn't really not dong anything strenuous.
"Kiss me." She reached down and cupped Matt's face in her hands.
Matt complied and stood up leaning in to kiss her on the lips, pulling back he caressed her face, "I love you Gabby. I'm never going to be able to thank you enough for giving me the greatest gift in the world," He kissed her again and rested both of his hands over her abdomen.
"You're going to be the best father in the world. You already are." She told him.
"And you're going to be the bets mother in the world." He told her confidently. "Don't ever doubt your abilities Gabby."
"Thanks." After talking to her mother she was feeling a little better about having the baby. Still though, she worried especially since she was now considered high-risk, if one more ting went wrong, no matter how small it could be dangerous for the baby.
"The nursery should be finished before the baby shower on Friday," Matt told her as he got back to working on finishing setting up the crib. "Severide and I did most of it yesterday."
"Yeah," Gabby continued to organize the outfits by months, "Are you sure you don't want to stay for the baby shower?"
Looking up at her he smiled, "I will if you want me to, you know that. I can always go to another game with Severide, your father, Antonio and Diego. I'm sure they'd understand." He wasn't sure though. He knew Severide would tease him relentlessly about it and he was sure Antonio would find it amusing as well. He didn't care though, if it made Gabby happy then that was a good enough reason to stay.
"No. Go to the game. That way we can talk about you." She smirked. "We can't talk about you when you're here."
"Oh yeah? What would you say?"
Gabby wasn't about to give him what he wanted, "Oh you know the usual."
"I think there's room for another shelf." He decided, "We can put some of the things on the book shelf for now. I'm sure some of the toys we can put away until Celina's older too." He saw the piles of clothes she was making, "I knew we had a lot of clothes but this many." He shook his head, "And I think I'm tired of seeing so much pink."
"Yeah," Gabby, who was never a girly girl growing up had tried to buy baby clothes in other colours, but the majority of the clothes were pink, with the next most popular colours purple and red, "Lots of red fire fighter tops and onsies though," She held up an example of one that said 'future firefighter.'
"And I'm sure will get more on Friday. My guys are planning something big but I can't get them to say what, I think squad's in on it to," He huffed, "As long as its not het own fire truck It'll be fine. I want t make her one when she's one or two."
"They know you pretty well babe I'm sure they wouldn't do that," Gabby assured him. She stood up an rubbed her back, "I think I will lay down for a bit, my back is really hurting me."
Matt walked up to her and rubbed his hands up an down her arms, "Do you want a nice relaxing bath? I can run you one? Help you in and out of the tub, I know that's hard for you."
"That sounds perfect babe," She kissed him, "You sure you don't need to do any more work in here?"
"I can finish it later. I really only need to put things away. Then you can show the room off to everyone on Friday. Nobody's seen it completed yet."
"Sounds good. Remind me to get Laura and Shay each something. They've planned it all, Shay did all of the party planning and invited everyone and Laura's making all of food and getting all of the supplies."
"If you're feeling up to it we can go shopping tomorrow, if not I'll go and you can tell me what to get them.
"No, no I need to go. I was going to go before I was in the hospital but now…"
"Ssh," Matt soothed her, "It's alright. Lets just get you into a nice warm bath."
Gabby nodded her head, "I love you Matt."
"I love you too Gabby," He led her out of the nursery and towards the washroom.
TBC
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