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I'm really sorry I haven't updated this story in so long. I had writers block and the ideas for my other story have been flowing more easily so I've been updating it more frequently. I hope posting this chapter will get more ideas coming to me, hope you enjoy it.

Abbey's POV

I woke up to a dead silence. I hated being alone in here. It was five thirty and the sun wasn't up yet. I contemplated closing my eyes for an extra ten minutes but figured I'd be gone for longer than that so I removed the covers from my body and headed in the shower. I was up early so I let the hot water run down my body and took an extra long one. Once I was out, I wrapped a towel around my body and proceeded in getting dressed. As soon as I had my underwear on, the doorbell rang. I looked at my alarm clock and wondered who could be here so early in the morning. I put on my robe and went down the stairs to see who it was. I smiled as soon as I saw who it was through the peep hole. Even with his back towards the door I knew who it was.

"Can't stay away from this place?" I smirked.

"With this kind of greeting, I don't want to leave." I let him come in and closed the door behind him.

"What are you doing here so early? I thought we were meeting at the diner." He pulled me flush to him and kissed me.

"The boys wanted to see you, they're waiting in the car. I thought we could all have breakfast together."

"Matt." I protested. "You should have taken them inside with you."

"And miss this?" He pulled on the string of my robe, opening it and revealing me in my underwear. Except there was nothing special there. When it was a shift day, it was all about the comfort of a sports bra and plain panties.

"Not missing much." I tried to pull the string of my robe back but not succeeding.

"Let me help you get dressed." He teased seductively.

"If I let you help me, we are going to be late. Just give me five minutes and I'll be ready." I gave an extra tug on it and managed to remove it from his grasp. "You can either behave OR I kick you out." I giggled going back upstairs to finish getting dressed. As promised, I was down five minutes later in my navy blue CFD uniform. "I'm ready, the boys have waited long enough."

"Ride with us?"

"Matt, I don't want it to be weird at the house if we come in together. I mean we haven't officially told everyone we're dating." I put my coat on.

"If you don't feel comfortable, we can take two cars."

"Thank you." We got out and I locked the door before making our way seperately to my moms diner. As soon as the boys were out of the car, they ran up to me and gave me a hug. "Hey guys."

"We missed you." They both said.

"Awww, I missed you too. Come on, I'll make you whatever you want." We filed into the diner and the boys and Matt sat in front of the counter as I made my way behind it grabbing an apron. "Ok so what will it be?"

"I'll have banana and chocolate pancakes." Griffin asked.

"And I'll take chocolate and peanut butter waffles." Ben Asked grinning wildly.

"Coming right up." Matt didn't even have to tell me what he wanted but I figured I'd do our breakfast after the boys were served. My mom came to the front when I put the plates in front of the boys.

"Hey mom, can I make you something to eat?"

"No I'm good thank you. Hello Matthew." She smiled at Matt. "Hey guys." She leaned on the counter in front of them. "How is the food." The both nodded their heads on the account that their mouths were full.

"Good morning Michelle." Matt took a sip of his coffee while I started making our breakfast. I did french toast with bacon and eggs.

"So mom, do we have enough?" Matt looked at me but I didn't even try to explain myself.

"Yes we do." She poured herself a cup of coffee for herself and leaned against the counter.

"Enough for what?" Matt tried to make me say it.

"A surprise. Now eat up if we don't want to be late." I put the plate in front of him and sat down next to him with mine. "Can you make the phone call then?" I put a piece of bread in my mouth.

"Will do as soon as you're gone."

"Thanks mom." I kept eating as Matt looked at me with furrowed brows. "I'm not telling." I laughed. We finished eating and Matt left to bring the boys to school while I went in a bit early to the firehouse. When I got there, a few of the guys were there and I hoped that I would find Boden in his office.

I walked up next to Connie and made sure no one was around. "Hey Connie, I have a huge favor to ask you."

"What can I do for you honey?"

"Ok so this week, we're going to have a new stove delivered. Would you mind signing for it if we're on call?"

"It would be my pleasure but where did we get the money for that? I didn't approve anything for the purpose."

"Yeah about that. I'd like to tell you about it in chief Boden's office if you don't mind, away from prying ears." She got up and we made the short walk to the office.

"Chief, can I have a word?" I asked permission and waited just outside his office.

"Come on in Abbey. What can i do for you?"

"Actually I have a confession to make. I did something for the house."

"Something tells me I wont like this." Chief sat behind his desk and removed his glasses.

"Well one part of it you will and the other one you wont. As you know, we've had trouble with the stove for quite some time now and lieutenant Casey told me we don't get funding for those types of things from the city."

"That is correct." He leaned forward and looked at me more closely.

"You know that Peter and I work at our parents diner as well when we're not on shift here." I let him digest one information at a time because the next part he wouldn't like it very much.

"Yes I know about your second job. What does it have to do with our stove situation?"

"Well. Peter and I started putting some of our tips aside since I first had troubles with it when I started here. And my mom told me today that we had enough to buy a new one so I gave her the go ahead to order it. I asked Connie to sign for it if ever we weren't in the house when it came." He kept looking at me and it was starting to be a bit uncomfortable. "How mad are you?" I tried to break the tension in the room.

"Well I'm not happy that you and Peter are taking your hard earned cash to buy us a new stove but I also know that a donation for that would be a long shot. So the next time you feel the need to be that generous, I'd like it if you'd come to me first though."

"Understood." I got up to leave the office.

"Thank you." I turned around when he spoke. "The guys will be very happy too."

"It's my pleasure. This house is home." I smiled at him and left to go to the common room to join the others. I took a seat next to Mouch on the couch. "Anything good on television Randy? Pouch came to sit between us and I absentmindly scratched her ear.

"No, just the news. How is Peter?"

"Better but he has some physical therapy in front of him. Dawson is helping him out with that."

"So Dawson and Mills huh?" I think he was trying to see how I would react.

"Yup." I tried not to give too much. It wasn't my place to talk about their relationship. "All I know is that Dawson took some time off to help him so he can come back to work faster."

"Good for them. And what about you?" He looked at me over the rim of his glasses.

"What about me?" I wasn't about to confess to anything in front of anyone.

"Anyone special for you?"

"Who's up for some breakfast?" I asked loudly standing up. Everyone cheered and I went to get something ready. While I was cooking, Matt came up to pour himself a cup of coffee and just offered me a smile that I returned. Today would be our first real shift as a couple and I knew I didn't want the whole house to know about us and make a big deal about it. Once everything was done, I put everything in front of the stove and people started lining up to grab a plate before a call would come in. I made my way towards my bunk but was pulled into an office and the door closed behind me.

"Matt." I giggled looking around to see that he had drawn the blinds.

"Is everything ok?" I leaned against his door.

"Yeah why?" I didn't think I had given him a reason to be worried.

"I saw you in Boden's office. Did he mention anything about us?"

"Oh, no. I didn't get a lecture no."

"Ok. I just don't want you to be surprised if he does."

I hoped that talk would never come but that was wishfull thinking on my part. I smiled at Matt and just as I was about to leave his office, the overhead system went off.

Ambulance 44, child in distress, 66th Belmont street.

"That's me, I'll catch you later." I quickly kissed him and left his office to join Brett at the rig. She was already sitting in the passenger side. "Let's go." I took my spot behind the wheel and we were off. We got on scene and it was a little girl that got hit by a car while riding her bike.

"Hi sweetie, what's your name?" I tried to get a sense of her mental state as her mother came running from the back yard.

"Jessica." She cried. "My legs hurt." I put the c collar on her and we placed her on the back board.

"Oh my God." The mother shrieked. "Baby girl, oh my baby girl." she was starting to be histerical.

"Mam, you need to let us do our job." I tried to calm her down. She managed to breath in and out a little and let us do our job.

"It's going to be ok Jessica. My name is Sylvie and my partner's name is Abbey."

"We're going to take good care of you ok?" I looked the little girl in the eyes and she nodded, tears still falling down her cheeks. We loaded her on the gurney and into the ambo, letting her mother ride in the front. We made our way to chicago Med and I quickly bandaged the cuts she had on her legs. They weren't very deep and with just a once over and a change of bandages she would probably be discharged quickly. We got in the ambulance bay at Chicago Med and quickly got her inside. They guided us to trauma 1 and as soon as we transfered her from the gurney to the bed, we went to finish filing the paperwork.

Peter's POV

I stepped out of bed and pain shot though my bad leg as I put my feet on the ground. Gabby was already awake because her side of the bed was cold. I clumsily managed to get dressed and went to join her in the kitchen. She looked hot in her knitted sweater and underwear. I walked to her as quiet as possible and wrapped my arms around her waist.

"Something smells great." I moved her hair from her neck and kissed it.

"That would be the eggs with tomatos and chives." She kept making the omelet without missing a beat.

"No, I think it's you." I kissed her neck again.

She inhaled and exhaled slowly, trying to get her breathing under control. "You need to keep your hands from me if you don't want to be late for PT."

"We can have our own version of PT right here."

She just swatted my arm. "Get your mind out of the gutter, our personnal PT will just have to wait." She put the omelet in a plate and turned in my arms. "Time to eat." We ate in comfortable silence and she did the dishes before going to get dressed. We made the short drive to Chicago Med. When we got there, I came face to face with Abbey, leaning against the counter, finishing up some paperwork.

"Morning." I walked up to her a kissed her cheek.

"Good morning to you too. Here for your PT?" She looked up every now and then from her board.

"Yes, Gabby wouldn't let me do PT at home." I wiggled my brows.

"TMI Pete, come on." She wined, closing her eyes shut, making me laugh.

"I have an appointment with Dr Treiber in a few minutes to see the healing progress and then I have PT with Mark for an hour." I updated her as Gabby arrived next to us.

"Morning Abbey." She smiled at her.

"Morning Gabs." Abbey smiled at her. I was glad the bad blood between the two had gone away. "Don't let him slack off so he can come back sooner, you don't want him sulking at home." She laughed.

"Very funny, ha ha."

"I'll keep that in mind, thanks. Come on Peter, we better get going if you don't wnt to be late." Both girls smiled in a silent goodbye.

"Oh and Pete, project 51 is a go. It should be delivered by end of shift tomorrow."

"That's perfect, keep me posted."

"Will do. Call me when you get out of here. Everyone at 51 will be happy to have an update."

"Ok, talk to you later." I kissed her cheek and we were on our way.

Abbey's POV

After Peter was gone to PT with Gabby, I finished filling up the paperwork and handed it to the nurse so she could put it in the patient file.

"I'm all done here, are you ready to go?" Brett asked me.

"Yep, all done, let's go."

"How is Peter doing?" She asked as we got into the ambo to head back to the station.

"He seems to be doing good, he had an appointment for PT, he'll keep me updated with his progress."

"So what is project 51?" She finally asked.

"You heard that huh?" I started driving.

"Yes now spill, I promise I won't tell, scouts honour." She did the hand movement, making me laugh.

"Well when I first started at 51, I was put of cooking duty with Mills but that stupid stove was giving me so much trouble that I started a money jar at the diner. Peter and I would put half of our tips in there so we could order a new stove for the house. Sooo, my mom ordered one through the diner contacts and we should get it soon."

"Oh my God that is so cool. Does Boden know?"

"Yeah, I knew he wouldn't be happy when I told him the news."

"Is he mad at you?"

"Well not mad per say. He said he didn't like that Peter and I used the cash we earned to buy a new stove but he's happy because he knows that we don't get funding for that kind of stuff and that donations for commercial stoves don't fall from the sky."

"That's so sweet of you. Oh and by the way, congrats on you and Casey." I turned beet red at her comment.

"How did you know?" I stammered a little.

"I might have seen you being pulled in his office where the blinds were pulled." She giggled.

"OH MY GOD! I didn't even think anyone was in the hallway."

"Don't worry, I won't blab about it."

"I mean, we're not hiding it but we want to be professionnal and not cause any awkwardness in the house."

"I get that, but I think you and Casey will be able to do that just fine."

"Thanks Sylvie." I smiled at her as we got in 51's front driveway. "I'm really glad you're my PIC." I backed up the rig on the apparatus floor.

"Thanks." She simply said as we got off. She put an arm around my shoulder and we laughed walking towards the doors.

"Hey Mitchell." Severide's voice got me out of moment I had with Brett.

"What's up lieutenant?" He had a look in his eye but I didn't understand what it is.

"Chief wants to see you in his office." He simply said, going back to his card game.

"Thanks." Brett and I split up and I headed to Boden's office but when I got to the closed door, Boden was talking with Casey so I waited for him to tell me to come in. "You wanted to see me chief?" I closed the door and stayed standing. Casey didn't look my way at all.

"Have a seat." His face wasn't mad but it meant business.

"Did I do something wrong?" I didn't know what to expect at all.

"No, but I wanted to have a word with you regarding your personnal relationship with lieutenant Casey." Matt had told me it was coming but I wasn't quite prepared for it. I nodded and let him continue.

"Sir?" I really didn't know how to react in this situation. One wrong word could get me in trouble.

"You can relax Abbey. This came to my attention when Peter was in the hospital after the warehouse fire. Now I don't have any problems with in house relationships as long as you can both keep it professional. Casey informed me that it won't be a problem in this case. Can i expect the same from you?"

"Yes chief, sir."

"Good. Now, if the situation should change and I don't see what I like, this will be a totally other conversation. Do I make myself clear?" There was no arguing point here. Chief Boden was always firm but fair.

"Yes sir." Matt said.

"Crystal clear sir." I added.

"Alright you two cazy kids, get out of my office." He smiled broadly this time. We got up and exited his office. We both walked out and I was about to make my way towrds the bunks to calm my raging heart when Casey gestured towards his office. He let me walk in first and he closed the door behind us.

"Are you ok?" He asked as I sat on his bed.

I lifted my shaking hand. "I thought I was in so much trouble when Severide told me Boden wanted to see me." He sat down next to me and steadied my hand.

"It's ok. Boden is happy for us. Do you think you can handle it?" His tone was sweet and full of concern.

"It'll be easier to handle once everyone knows and we don't sneek around. Brett knows by the way. She saw you pull me in here earlier." I smiled trying to calm my nerves.

"Good, I'm glad you have a PIC that is a frien too."

"Yeah, I like her. I think I'll learn a lot with her." He just smiled at me. I knew he wanted to kiss me but the blinds weren't hiding us from view this time.

"Come on, let's go back out there before someone suspects anything." He smiled at me and we both left, making sure the coast was clear. As we got to the common room, a man walked in with a giant box on a buggie.

"I have a delivery for Abigail Mitchell." All eyes were instantly on me

"That's me." I walked forward and went to him.

"I need you to sign here." He handed me an electric machine and I signed my name. "I also have as an instruction to take the old one back with me."

"Yes, thank you, over here." I motioned for him to follow me towards the old stove. Both Kelly and Matt came forward to help us remove the old one and help put on the new one in. No one had said a word yet and were probably waiting for the delivery man to leave before speaking up. Once everything was plugged properly, the man left with the old one, leaving us amongst ourselves again.

"What is this?" Asked Herrmann.

"It's a new stove." I was stating the obvious.

"I know it's a stove Abigail." Herrmann made sure to emphasize my full name. "But how did we get a new one?"

"I might have had something to do with that." I replied sheepishly as Matt laughed.

"Keeping secret now are we?" Mouch said from the couch.

"Maybe." I stayed vague in my answers to make them suffer a bit more.

"Finally i'll be able to cook more." Cruz clapped his hands together from the table.

"No way Cruz. You and Otis better let the professionals do the work." I pointed at him, making everyone laugh.

Everybody went back to what they were doing. Herrmann came up to me while I was removing the rest of the protective plastics on the stove.

"Abbey, tell me the truth. Where did this stove come from?" I looked around, making sure no one would hear.

"Peter and I put some money aside from our tips and mom baught it through the diner's business contacts." I whispered to him.

"Abigail Mitchell." He all but yelled my name out loud.

"Keep it down Christopher." I shushed him.

"And chief let you get away with that?"

"He didn't know up until this morning. Peter and I were the only ones who knew besides Ingrid and my mom. It's no big deal." I brushed it away.

"You're a good kid." He said sincerely. "You're father would be proud."

"Thanks Chris." I genuinely smiled at him before he went back to what he was doing before. Matt got up and headed to the bunk area. Soon after my phone dinged. Come see me in my office. It simply said. I was done with the stove so I casually made my way to the bunk area and saw that the blinds to Casey's office were closed. I knocked and let myself in, making sure no on saw me.

"Why didn't you tell me." He simply said as I closed the door.

"I didn't want to make a big deal out of it. That piece of junk did it's time." I just shrugged.

"You're sneeky." He grinned.

"If you play your cards right, I can be sneeky a little bit longer." I straddled his hips on the bed and started kissing him. He placed both hands on my hips and kissed me back.

"This is not very professional." He said against my lips.

"Is this more professional Lieutenant Casey?" I used his official title before kissing him again.

He moaned in response and pulled me closer. We made out for a few minutes before air became an issue. "I better get going. Meet me at my place after shift lieutenant? We can finish what we started here." I winked before leaving, not giving him time to answer. My phone dinged again once I made it back to the common room. ABSOLUTELY. I laughed at the bold letters as I sat down on the couch to watch some tv.

Matt's POV

Abbey left my office, leaving me all flushed but with our relationship being so new and that no one in the house knew about us really but Brett and chief, I'm not sure getting caught in my office with her was the best way to come out to everyone. I answered her question by text and as I put my phone on my desk there was a knock on my door.

"Come in." I called to whoever was behind the door.

"We need to talk." It was Severide

TBC..

a/n: Finally, this chapter is over. So Boden made his speech about their relationship. This moment had to come and I think it's especially relevant since it's a superior going out with a lowed rank, even if they don't serve for teh same company.

Next up, we'll see Matt and Kelly have their talk and the Darden kids will be back in the story only to leave again but I decided to change it up from what we saw on tv.

I hope you liked this chapter (even if it took me FOREVER to update) and that you'll leave a review, specially since I'm having some writing issues with it, it might jog my imagination. I'll try to to take so long to update again.