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''You are the blonde lieutenant that took my niece!'' The woman yelled at Matt, angry. Matt was just walking in and he took his distance.
''I am sorry, I think we need to talk.'' Matt said, trying to calm her down but instead the woman suddenly jolted his way and hit him in the face, trying pushing him down and the other man ran to the Genevieve's aunt, grabbing her by his arms and pulling her back.
Matt laid his hand on his eyebrow for a second because of the hit and panted and he knew he had not been doing anything against the woman fighting him but he did not want to hurt the woman, he knew that he would only make it worse for Genevieve and he did not want to fight.
Cruz and Kelly were holding the aunt back, whom was angry and yelling and trying to free herself from the strong arms of the two firefighters that were holding her.
''You have my niece! Why do you have that dirty slut! She is not yours!''
''You hurt her, you have nothing to say about her now that you hurt her this bad, you never should have been her guardian!'' Matt suddenly burst out, angry she had done this to this young girl.
The aunt got even more angry now and Matt realized that this had been wrong.
''Listen to me, if you keep fighting me, you will be in even more trouble. I just want to help you and your niece. I can help you, I promise.'' Matt said, trying to calm the woman down but she was still trying to fight her way to Matt, probably to hurt him but Matt just kept standing there, trying to keep calming her down. He did not want to fight her.
Suddenly the aunt freed herself and ran Matt's away again, pulling a pocket knife from her jacket and holding it out to Matt. Matt just got his hand in the way in time before it could hit him in the torso and it cut his hand, but he grabbed her by the shoulders then, pushing her down when the door to the common room burst open.
''Chicago PD, drop the knife!''
It was just Antonio but Matt sighed relieved when Antonio came walking their way, holding out his pistol and the aunt dropped the knife and Antonio cuffed her hands.
''You are under arrest for the abuse of a minor and attacking this lieutenant.'' Antonio said and Matt crawled up with some help from Kelly.
''Are you all right?'' Kelly asked concerned.
''I am fine.'' Matt said, brushed the dust off his shirt and looked as Antonio pushed Genevieve's aunt to the ground, the woman still resisting arrest. Finally Antonio got hold of the aunt and took her outside with some help from Cruz while Kelly helped Matt off, looking concerned at his hand.
''Matt, your hand.'' Gabby said concerned as she was walking his way, looking at his hand which was bleeding.
''It is fine.'' He said but she grabbed his hand and put a gauze and bandage over it.''
''I am fine.'' He insisted as he pulled his hand back.
''Matt you are still bleeding at your eyebrow.'' Gabby said concerned.
''it is nothing.'' He assured her and slowly they walked to the office. Gabby walked away from him as he was looking as Genevieve was still peacefully asleep in the bed, luckily she had not seen and heard much of her aunt being here and they were very happy about that, knew that it would probably upset her really bad if she knew.
''Here…'' Gabby said as she put the gauze against his eyebrow and Matt pushed it down on his eyebrow as well, cursing because it was bleeding.
His hand was hurting as well but he was just happy that Genevieve was still asleep. He did not want to make here even more upset.
Suddenly Genevieve woke up and concerned she looked at Matt and Gabby and they walked into the office to tell her what happened.
''Matthew, are you injured?'' She asked worried but Matt shook his head.
''I will be fine.''
''Your aunt was here…she has been arrested for abusing you and starting a fight with Matt.'' Gabby said, calm and Matt was happy that she was talking, Gabby was just so much calmer than him and was better at telling these kind of things.
Genevieve's lip started to shake and Matt laid his hand on her shoulder.
''Don't cry, it will be alright, I promise.''
''I am so sorry that she hurt you.'' Genevieve said and Matt felt bad that the girl was feeling guilty.
''Don't worry, I am not really hurt. I will be fine.'' Matt said then and he tried to make Genevieve feel better but she seemed so sad.
''Come on, let's go home….'' Gabby said then and finally Genevieve nodded. Matt laid his hand on her shoulder for a second but she walked away with Gabby. Hopefully everything would be alright.
The other men looked a bit strange at him as he came walking back and Boden looked at him.
''You should go home.''
''No, I am fine.'' Matt insisted and he realized that he needed some time to process all of this and maybe it was good to do it at his family he trusted the most, the family at the firehouse.
''This girl needs a family…and me and Gabby are going to provide that to her.'' He said then, firmly and happy he looked as the other man showed their signs of support. She was not just getting Gabby and Matt as family, but also a big family at the firehouse
At home, Gabby sat on the edge of the couch, pulling the blanket over Genevieve.
''Don't worry, you are safe here.'' Gabby said and Genevieve fell asleep. Gabby said there for a bit longer and looked over the girl, hoping her life would change for the better now.
Early in the morning, Matt came back from shift and looked surprised as Genevieve was not on the couch but walked around then, seeing her sitting on the balcony then.
''Genevieve?'' Matt said softly as he walked outside and walked to the girl sitting outside on the balcony.
''Matt.'' She said softly as she looked at him, looking away then,
''What is wrong? I mean, I know what is wrong, are you angry with me?'' Matt asked as he sat down close to her.
''No, I am not angry with you. I am angry with myself.'' She said then. He looked side and she was looking at the view, but he felt bad when he could see the pain in her eyes, probably from all the memories that were still haunting her, even now she knew everything would be better.
''There is no need to be angry with yourself.''
''I am angry with myself because I let you get hurt.''
Matt felt bad that she was feeling so angry with herself.
''Don't be angry about that, I am not even really hurt. I am a firefighter, it's been much worse….just a year ago they almost lost me when I sustained a head injury. I am all good now, although I still have to be careful with the damage to my skull…but this cut in my hand? Nothing.'' He said and carefully she let go of something that looked a tiny bit like a smile.
''I will make us breakfast.'' Matt said as he got up and suddenly she grabbed his wrist.
''Can we talk just a bit more?''
''Sure…'' Matt said, not sure what she wanted to tell him.
''My mom killed my dad too. She killed him because he wanted to take the last drugs they had for sale at the time. Little did he know she had a bit more. When he was drugged out, she injected more and that is how he overdosed.'' She suddenly said and Matt felt his heart breaking. It was horrible she had to deal with this. He sat down again and looked at her.
''I am sorry to hear that.''
''I know, everybody is but nobody actually understands. But I know that you understand.'' She mumbled then.
''I do and you know you can always talk to me about these things if you need to get something of your chest.'' Matt said and she nodded with a small smile, grateful that he could be some sort of comfort for her.
''Why did your mom kill your da- I am sorry, maybe it is too painful.''
''no it is fine. My dad abused my mom, my sister and me and after their divorce, she heard he was talking shit about me and that's why she killed him.'' Matt said. It was painful but he knew she deserved to know after she had opened up.
Gabby was on the phone with Antonio in the bedroom.
''What choices do we have?'' She asked.
''I am not sure, we will need the judge to decide that.''
''Antonio, please don't let this girl end up in the system again. Me and Matt…we…''
''Gabby, don't make any rushed decisions.'' Antonio said as he knew his sister was a bit hasty with decisions. Especially with important decisions like these.
''No, we are sure Antonio.''
''Sure about what?'' Antonio asked a bit fearful.
''Me and Matt are sure that we want to be her guardians.''
NOTE: Things seem to be looking up a bit more now but will it be that easy to become her guardians? How will Genevieve respond to the new family and will they grow closer or fall apart and what will the aunt do? Will she let go that easily?
So yeah, this chapter was not going to come up yet but hey I couldn't keep myself from writing this chapter, so I hope you forgive me for updating it earlier! I bet you wanted to know what was going to happen with the aunt! Thank you so much for reading and please tell me what you think about this chapter! Hope to see you again next chapter!